Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School)

IMPORTANT NOTE: This article will ONLY focus on her version from Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School.

Junko Enoshima is the main antagonist of the Danganronpa franchise, but this doesn't save her from being entirely flanderized in some parts of the series.

As of Danganronpa 3, her character has become a bland, one-dimensional villain.

Why She Sucks Now

 * 1) In this series, she's changed from a complex antagonist with a detailed motivation to an incompetent, one-note "I'm going to destroy civilization because I'm evil!" Generic Doomsday Villain. Some examples include:
 * 2) * Brainwashing people such as Mikan Tsumiki and Chisa Yukizome into becoming her minions.
 * 3) * Using her older sister Mukuro Ikusaba as part of her plans for world domination.
 * 4) * Torturing Chiaki Nanami to death in order to turn Class 77-B into Ultimate Despairs (see WSS #5.1).
 * 5) She has been entirely flanderized, her personality having changed from a cynical teenager who wants to "corrupt" the world because she's bored to a one-dimensional villain whose plans only succeed through sheer luck and the heroes' incompetence.
 * 6) Junko Enoshima's voice can get irritating after a while, to the point where you'll want to cut off your ears rather than listen to her talking for another second. Due to the fact that the English dub gives her an extremely obnoxious and stereotypical Valley Girl voice.
 * 7) IDIOT Ball: It's shown that she realized Makoto Naegi was a threat before the Killing Game even started, but instead of killing him, she kept him alive because of her despair fetish even after Mukuro told her to have Makoto killed first.
 * 8) In some episodes, she is incredibly unlikable and intolerable to the extent that it makes Professor Pester look like the Joker in comparison.
 * 9) * She solidifies herself as a "complete monster" in episode 10 of the Despair Arc, where she, Mikan and Chisa lure Chiaki Nanami into a maze filled with booby traps where she is slowly tortured to death, with Junko personally delivering the killing blow by impaling Chiaki with a bunch of spears (as mentioned in WSSN #1.3). To add insult to injury, Chiaki's execution goes on for almost the whole episode and is shown in graphic detail.
 * 10) She's also homophobic, as she publicly humiliated Juzo Sakakura because he was in love with Kyosuke Munakata.
 * 11) She blackmails people into doing what she wants, pretty much knows what her opponents' weak spots are and uses them to her advantage (like with Sakakura as mentioned above), which is rather uncanny and makes her look like a joke in general.
 * 12) * Speaking of blackmail, her worst and most prominent example was when she forced Ryota Mitarai to create the Despair Video to brainwash Chisa and the other students against his will. The series makes it abundantly clear how badly he was affected by this and that it ultimately led to him going along with Kazuo Tengan's evil plan of brainwashing everyone on Earth into committing suicide.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Her character design in this series is rather nice to look at.
 * 2) Her appearance in Danganronpa: The Animation is far better, as her original personality is intact.
 * 3) At least she isn't as bad as some of the other characters in the Danganronpa franchise (e.g., Hifumi Yamada, Hiyoko Saionji, Kazuo Tengan, Ryota Mitarai, Angie Yonaga, Tsumugi Shirogane).

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