Junko Enoshima

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## Entertainingly Detestable

### Alias

Ultimate Fashionista
Ultimate Analyst
True Ultimate Despair
Ryoko Otonashi
Big Sis Junko (by Monaca Towa)

### Powers / Skills

Manipulation
High intelligence
Intimidation
Charisma
Superhuman analysis
Technology expertise
Despair inducement
Skill with various weapons
Fashion sense
Control over Monokuma

### Goals

Plunge the entire world into despair.
Turn Class 77-B into Ultimate Despair (both temporarily succeeded; both ultimately failed).

### Most Entertaining Features

Having a cool/cute design.
Being very laughably evil with several funny moments.
Her outrageous intelligence

### Most Detestable Traits

Having a "for the evulz" motivation that leads to self-sabotage.

### Type of ED

Sadomasochistic Mastermind

**Junko Enoshima** is the main antagonist of the *Danganronpa* franchise.

## Her Qualities

### What Makes Her Entertaining?

* Though it doesn't detract from her heinousness, Junko has a multitude of comedic moments that easily make her one of the most entertaining characters to watch. She is incredibly hammy and always puts on a big, cartoonishly theatric show of her crimes while acting like a movie star. She also frequently experiences mood-swings where she flips between multiple over-the-top personalities, all of which are hilarious, sometimes within the same sentence. Junko obviously loves her work.
* For the majority of *Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc*, she was able to keep her true identity hidden behind the robotic avatar of Monokuma up until the game's final trial. She had her twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba disguised as her and join the group of students she was tormenting in order to keep the coverup working. Behind the scenes, Junko worked as the mastermind behind a ludicrously complex plan that even a room full of teen prodigies struggled to untangle.
* While not truly honorable, she takes having her plans foiled and getting killed by the heroes surprisingly well, not just accepting death but gleefully embracing it. As a despair-obsessed sadomasochist, Junko is overjoyed by the immense feeling of hopelessness as she executes herself. This subverts the villainous breakdown she had earlier.
* As shown in *Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair*, before her death, Junko created an AI copy of herself that would carry on her work after death.
* She is charismatic. She was able to build a cult around herself in the form of Ultimate Despair through a mix of brainwashing and genuinely convincing them.
* She is good at manipualting people. She was able to manipulate the Warriors of Hope into being her footsoldiers. She was also able to manipulate Izuru Kamukura, the Ultimate Hope himself, into serving her agenda by having him join a killing game.

### What Makes Her Detestable?

* She has committed a litany of incredibly heinous crimes, such as:
	+ Causing a cataclysmic event called "the Worst, Most Despair-Inducing Incident in the History of Mankind."
	+ Frequently abusing her sister Mukuro Ikusaba, not merely in spite of but *because* of Mukuro's love for her.
	+ Forcing several high-schoolers to participate in her sadistic killing-games. Should the players lose the games, they will be painfully executed.
	+ Performing a lobotomy on Chisa Yukizome.
	+ Torturing Chiaki Nanami to death while Chikai's classmates in Class 77-B watched.
	+ Killing her sister Mukuro.
	+ Forcing many of her classmates in Class 78th to kill each other.
	+ Driving Sakura Ogami to the point of suicide.
* Her motive effectively boils down to "for the evulz," as she is obsessed with the concept of despair and commits the worst atrocities purely for the sake of spreading the feeling. Her obsession leads her to wholeheartedly enjoy inflicting pain on others and driving them to the depths of despair for her own twisted amusement.
* She is incredibly arrogant, egotistical, and full of herself.
* Ironically, her own sadomasochistic love for despair sets her plans back, as she often did stupid things like killing her allies just for an emotional rush.

## Trivia

* Junko Enoshima is the current icon for the spoilers template.
* In a 2015 interview with the Spanish-language news site *Koi-Nya*, Kazutaka Kodaka claimed that in designing Junko, he wanted to "create a really cute character who was evil. Also that she had the idea that absolute evil is something desirable and pleasant. As bad as she is, she is so powerful and charming that she draws you in."

## Notes

1. ↑ "El desarrollador Kazutaka Kodaka habla sobre la creación de Danganronpa." *Koi-Nya* (in Spanish). March 14, 2015. Archived.

## External Links

* Junko Enoshima on the Villains Wiki
* Junko Enoshima on the Pure Evil Wiki
* Junko Enoshima on the Danganronpa Wiki