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 and cunning yet entertaining 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 WSSN #6.1).
 * 5) She has been completely flanderized, her personality having changed from a cynical teenager who wants to "corrupt" the world because she's bored and sees despair as the only exciting thing in life to a one-dimensional villain whose plans only succeed through sheer luck and the heroes' incompetence with none of the original hamminess or threatening presence she had in the first two games and and anime adaptation.
 * 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, especially in the English dub due to the fact that it gives her an extremely obnoxious and stereotypical Valley Girl voice.
 * 7) Speaking of the English dub, some of her dialogue in it ranges from cringeworthy ("Now there's the hope I wanna crush!") to downright laughable (her infamous "KAMUKURA KAMUKURA YAS QUEEN!", although the latter of which can be considered a redeeming quality due to arguably being so nonsensical it comes off as hilarious and its meme status).
 * 8) She's also abusive towards Mukuro and Mikan, often slapping and verbally degrading them. What makes it truly unsettling is that they both seem to enjoy it, the former even taking pleasure in Junko trying to kill her.
 * 9) Idiot Move: 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.
 * 10) In some episodes, she is incredibly unlikable and intolerable to the extent that it makes Professor Pester look like the Joker in comparison.
 * 11) * 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), all the while the rest of her classmates are forced to watch the entire thing through monitors that don't allow them to move or look away. To add insult to injury, Chiaki's execution goes on for almost the whole episode and is shown in graphic detail.
 * 12) She's also homophobic, as she publicly humiliated Juzo Sakakura in front of the Reserve Students because he was in love with Kyosuke Munakata and uses it to blackmail him into telling Munakata that she's innocent, in the exact same episode as the one previously mentioned. And to add salt to the wound, she claims that she "isn't devoid of compassion" as she threatens to kill Munakata.
 * 13) * It's also worth noting that this incident is what drove Juzo to despise Junko to the point that he grew to also hate Makoto for being the one to defeat her, something he was determined to do after what she did to him.
 * 14) She blackmails people into doing what she wants, pretty much knows what her opponents' weak spots are and uses them to her advantage (as shown with Sakakura as mentioned above), which is rather uncanny and makes her look like a joke in general.
 * 15) * Speaking of blackmail, her worst and most prominent example was when she forced Ryota Mitarai to create the Despair Video to brainwash Chisa and Class 77-B into Ultimate Despairs against the his will. And after breaking Ryota during her final conversation with him, she lets him escape Hope's Peak Academy so he can live with the knowledge that his anime will drive his classmates into causing The Tragedy in the name of despair. The series makes it abundantly clear how badly he was affected by being forced to take part in this and that it ultimately led to him going along with Kazuo Tengan's evil plan of brainwashing everyone on Earth into hope.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Her character design in this series is rather nice to look at.
 * 2) Her appearance in Danganronpa: The Animation and the other previous installments are 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, Yuto Kamishiro, Kazuo Tengan, Ryota Mitarai, Angie Yonaga and Tsumugi Shirogane).

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