Archive of Our Own ^beta

Chapter Text

Hello!

Now, you may be wondering, what is this "fic"?

It's not as much of a "fic" as it is a list/analysis I made out of boredom and decided to write down.

This list is far more in detail than the other one I made though.

In each list, I'll go over a game and its executions, including cause of death, name, who it's for, and the symbolism and theming behind it.

Statuses:

COMPLETE (means it's fully complete. May have something added occasionally but very rarely)

SEMI-COMPLETE (Not fully complete but the main basis like execution explanations and the subjects have been added)

WIP (Work in progress)

"COMPLETE (for now)" (Fully complete for now, as more executions may be added over time. Usually for fangan series that are still in development)

LIST:
Trigger Happy Havoc: COMPLETE

Goodbye Despair: COMPLETE

Killing Harmony: COMPLETE

Another Despair Academy: COMPLETE

Moon of Hope and Sun of Despair: COMPLETE

Despair Time: COMPLETE (for now, anyway)

Desperate Heart: COMPLETE

Infectious Devotion: COMPLETE

Dead or Lie: COMPLETE Dead or Lie - Chapter 1 - Crestfallen_Vanity - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

Eden's Garden: COMPLETE

TheAfter: COMPLETE (for now)

LIVe or Die: COMPLETE

Survivor's Guilt: COMPLETE (For now) (Chapter 5 not released yet, descriptions need tuning up)

Blowback: COMPLETE

Tetro Pink: COMPLETE

Mauve: COMPLETE

JayJayronpa: COMPLETE (for now, unknown if next chapter will feature an execution)

Antebellum: LOCKDOWN: COMPLETE (For now)

Rocky Restarts: COMPLETE

Lapse: COMPLETE

Global Heartbeat: COMPLETE (sorta) Danganronpa: Global Heartbeat - Chapter 1 - HadesDreamer - Dangan Ronpa Series [Archive of Our Own]

Deception Examination: COMPLETE (For now)

Salvation’s Fears: COMPLETE (For now)

A New Despair: SEMI-COMPLETE (Need extra stuff on one description) Turbo Danganronpa X: A New Despair - Chapter 1 - WhoaDoctorFreeman - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

A Despair-Filled Fantasy: SEMI-COMPLETE (Same as above) Hyper Danganronpa XX: A Despair Filled Fantasy - Chapter 1 - WhoaDoctorFreeman - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

I Told You, I'm Psychic!: SEMI-COMPLETE I Told You, I'm Psychic! - Chapter 1 - MaizonosMyGirl - Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

I'd Trade my life for Yours: COMPLETE I'd Trade My Life for Yours - Chapter 1 - grayimperia - Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]

Class Swap - Hope's Peak Academy: COMPLETE Danganronpa Class Swap - Hope's Peak Academy - Chapter 1 - Heroman3003 - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

Three-Point Shot: COMPLETE Three-Point Shot - Chapter 1 - RandomRex6 - New Dangan Ronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing [Archive of Our Own]

Reboot Restart Relocate: COMPLETE Reboot Restart Relocate - Chapter 1 - mister_m00 - Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc [Archive of Our Own]

Project Rewrite: COMPLETE Project Rewrite - Chapter 1 - sophie_enoshima - Super Dangan Ronpa 2 [Archive of Our Own]

Re:Birth Voices: WIP (Some executions have no info, currently looking for info on the chapter 3 execution)

SINGLEFILE: COMPLETE (for now)

Fate's Return: COMPLETE (for now)

Tetro Blue: COMPLETE (for now)

Danganronpa 69: There’s MORE goddamn hope!?: WIP DanganRonpa 69: There’s MORE goddamn hope!? - Chapter 1 - lennardd - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

Minus: COMPLETE

Disclaimer:

All written fanfics, such as the canon rewrites like "I Told You, I'm Psychic!" and other ones such as "Global Heartbeat", were added with the creator/author's permission.

WARNING! THIS LIST CONTAINS A LOT OF SPOILERS FOR DIFFERENT GAMES AND FANGANS, SO PROCEED WITH CAUTION!

WARNING! THE EXECUTIONS CONTAIN SEXUAL ASSAULT, MENTIONS OF RAPE, FORCE-FEEDING, DRUG ABUSE, AND MORE. PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

Chapter Text

Used/In-game executions:

Execution: Blast Off!

Subject: Jin Kirigiri

Cause of death: Incinerated.

Explanation: Jin is tied to a chair and blindfolded, with him being unable to escape. Monokuma hits a button and a giant rocket appears behind Jin and traps him inside. The rocket blasts off into space, and crashes down into the classroom. The rocket opens up, showing that Jin is nothing more than a skeleton, having been incinerated when the rocket reentered Earth's atmosphere.

Theming/Facts:

There's a whole lot of symbolism behind Jin's execution, but it is implied that "Reach for the Stars", lyrics that play in some characters executions, is meant to reference Jin, as he was innocent, and anybody who has "Reach for the Stars" in their execution theme are killers who killed by accident or not on purpose. "Reach for the Stars" referencing Jin's space-themed execution.

Jin Kirigiri's execution could be a symbol of the Academy's fall. Since Jin was the headmaster of Hope's Peak at the time, he went down with the academy. Hope's Peak Academy was a symbol of hope, which could be the rocket blasting off, and the end of Hope's Peak was the despair Junko made, the fall of the rocket. In the end, the Academy was a skeleton of what it used to be.

The reason that he is blasted to the moon and in other games the rocket is seen on the moon, is because of Jin's wife. Her full name is unknown, but in Danganronpa Kirigiri, her maiden name is revealed to be Uzuchi, which means a "rabbit hammer". In Japanese culture, there is a well-known story about a rabbit hammering mochi in the moon, and thus her maiden name could be a reference to her husband's space-related execution.

It symbolizes the great things that Jin wants Hope’s Peak’s Students to reach as Ultimates, or “reaching for the stars,” but he crashes down because Junko ruined the world and causes the best of the best to commit murder and cause despair, ruining the point and purpose of Hope’s Peak Academy and the entire premise of Ultimates.

Execution: The One Thousand Blows

Subject: Leon Kuwata, Ultimate Baseball Star

Cause of death: Stoned to death with baseballs.

Explanation: Leon is dragged to a large baseball diamond area, and is chained to a large metal post. A large machine gun filled with baseballs is aimed at him, and slowly starts firing baseballs at him one at a time. The machine gun suddenly starts shooting hundreds of balls all at once, and start hitting Leon at high speeds, with Monokuma throwing a few extra at him for extra measure. The camera pans in close to Leon's face one final time as he opens his eyes and a deluge of balls strike against his face, killing him.

Theming/Facts:

The first theme is Leon's thoughts on his own talent, admitting he hates baseball and wishes to become a musician instead. His execution? Baseball-themed.

Just before he dies, he opens his eyes one last time before dying. People speculate that, since Hifumi remembered the memories he had before the killing game after being hit in the head, the same thing happened to Leon, meaning he died remembering everything that happened before.

The very first baseball shot at him hits him in the same area of the body where the knife is found in Sayaka's body.

The Japanese title of Leon's execution, "Senbon Nokku", references a Japanese training method where players are forced to catch balls until they quite literally collapse from exhaustion. Leon mentions how he also specifically hates practice, also including that he had the talent for baseball naturally with absolutely no need of preparation or training.

Leon's shirt has a skull with a blood spatter effect on it, foreshadowing his death as the balls all seem to hit him in the head near the end.

Execution: The Cage of Death

Subject: Mondo Owada, Ultimate Biker Gang Leader

Cause of death: Death by G-force/Body reduced into butter/Liquified alive. (I can't even really explain what even happens to bro in this)

Explanation: Mondo is stuck on a motorcycle, hands tied behind his back and unable to get off. Monokuma (who has a yellow version of Mondo's hairstyle) drives the motorcycle into a nearby motorcycle cage (making sure to jump off before it goes inside), with Mondo being stuck on the motorcycle as it starts spinning around inside the cage. The cage is suddenly electrified and the bike is moving faster and faster, making Mondo dizzy. The sheer electricity from the cage amps up so high that it becomes blinding, and when the light dies down, we see the bike is empty. Behind the cage is a large machine that empties a tub full of "Mondo Butter", which Monokuma eats with some pancakes.

Theming/Facts:

Mondo wants to maintain his sense of being strong. His execution turned him into butter, which basically means he turned 'soft'.

The execution is based on a story about a little boy who walks in the forest, and is confronted by four tigers. The boy had very nice clothes, and the tigers each wanted his clothes, in exchange for his life. He gave the tigers his clothes, but once they had them, they argued amongst themselves over who was better dressed. In their jealousy of one another, they would chase each other around a tree, until they'd gone so fast, they melted into butter, which the boy would then bring to his mother for her to make pancakes with. This fits due to Mondo being jealous of his brother Daiya, leading to the motorcycle race that ended up taking Daiya's life.

Monokuma is supposed to represent Mondo, since he is the smaller one with the lighter hair, and Mondo is supposed to be Daiya, the older brother killed by the younger one. Mondo’s death was reminiscent of his brother Daiya’s, likely to make him despair over guilt of Daiya’s death.

When Monokuma ejects, he leaves Mondo to his fate in the execution, echoing how Daiya died due to Mondo's recklessness.

Execution: The Burning of the Versailles Witch

Subject: Celestia Ludenberg, or Taeko Yasuhiro, Ultimate Gambler.

Cause of death: Run over by firetruck.

Explanation: Celeste is stuck on a stage, with a crowd of Monokumas watching her execution. An executioner Monokuma takes out a torch and sets the brush underneath Celeste on fire, the fire spreads, with the camera zooming in on Celeste, showing she is smiling. She turns her head as she spots a firetruck zooming towards the stage, and a ramp pops up to cause the firetruck to go through the air and hit Celeste, destroying the stage. The execution ends with a little Monokuma firefighter putting out the last fire in the area.

Theming/Facts:

Celestia's whole personality is pretending to be someone more fancy and powerful than she actually feels she is. Her execution reflects that. It starts off completely different, with a witch burning, but ends with her being hit by a firetruck, something modern and normal.

Dying by being hit by an automobile is one of the most common ways to die, something Celeste wouldn't've had liked as she wanted to die a very uncommon death like the others.

The camera zooms into Celestia's face as the fire surrounds her, showing she is smiling. It is hinted at that every time Celestia is lying, she smiles, meaning in a way she could be 'lying to herself' that she isn't scared of her execution.

The fire truck ramming into her could also be an allusion to "getting hit by reality".

The fact her execution takes place on a stage, representing the 'performance' she put on her whole life by taking up the persona of Celestia Ludenberg and not accepting herself for who she actually is.

The fire truck has a logo of Hope’s Peak on the front of it, essentially alluding to how Hope’s Peak is “the death of her”.

The giant rabbit that lays on top of the stage in the execution is a reference to Celestia's beta design, which involved a small rabbit plush identical to it.

Execution: Excavator Destroyer

Subject: Alter Ego.

Cause of death: Crushed by excavator. (survived anyway)

Explanation: Alter Ego is in a construction type area, with Monokuma in an excavator. Monokuma proceeds to smash Alter Ego repeatedly with the excavator until Alter Ego is nothing more than a ball of metal, with Monokuma branding it with his signature eye scar before driving away.

Theming/Facts:

Alter Ego was destroyed in a construction site, hinting towards the idea that Alter Ego's existence isn't 'complete' or 'constructed' in the eyes of the mastermind. Chihiro's death was supposed to leave the others in despair, so the fact that something lives on about him that would ignite hope in the cast is something that needs to be "fixed".

Elements of this execution could be slight references to a game called "Taiko Drum Master", a rhythm game franchise which has high-difficulty levels that involve the player to mash the buttons. The high-speed button mashing possibly alluding to the high-speed Monokuma smashes the laptop with. The characteristic "note" markers that the players must follow in that game are circular and adorned with the game's mascot's facial features, much like how the ball Alter Ego gets turned into has Monokuma's eye scar on it.

Alter Ego's execution is that his whole story is about whether or not he's "real" or not. By the end, Makoto and the others mostly view Alter Ego as a true friend. Monokuma turns Alter Ego into a ball of scrap, reinforcing the idea that he was just a soulless machine all along.

Execution: After-School Lesson.

Subjects: Makoto Naegi, Ultimate Lucky Student, and Kyoko Kirigiri, Ultimate Detective.

Cause of death: Crushed flat (Makoto survives in his version, Kyoko dies in hers).

Explanation: Makoto/Kyoko is in a chair being 'taught' by Monokuma about conception and birth, the chair they are in is on a conveyor belt that slowly moves towards a crusher, with Makoto/Kyoko being visibly nervous as they move towards it. In Kyoko's case, she closes her eyes and the crusher kills her. In Makoto's case, Alter Ego comes back to stop the execution, and he falls down a garbage chute.

Theming/Facts:

In Makoto's case, the execution reflects his average and normal personality and existence amongst his peers. Compared to them, Makoto is just an average schoolboy, something his execution reflects.

In Kyoko's case, we only know her as the "Ultimate ???", and have no idea of her detective talent. In this case, she could be seen as 'average' like Makoto in this case, since her execution doesn't at all hint towards her talent.

The teaching of birth and conception is a joke about this being their execution and that they're going to die, which can be seen as the opposite of birth.

Another reason Makoto and Kyoko’s death were both school-themed was because they were, in Monokuma's point of view, troublemakers. Unlike the other executions they weren’t being executed for killing anyone but because Monokuma wanted to punish them for getting too close to solving the mystery of the school and for ruining their “school lives.”

Execution: The Ultimate Punishment.

Subject: Junko Enoshima, Ultimate Analyst, Ultimate Fashionista and Ultimate Despair.

Cause of death: Crushed flat.

Explanation: Junko is in a classroom as the camera pans out, showing all the different sets of all the different executions being set back up. Junko is first put through Leon's execution, with her being pelted by baseballs, then Mondo's, as she gets dizzy on a motorcycle in a cage. In Celeste's, she is simply breathing calmly in the fire and seemingly gets crushed by the firetruck falling on her, in Alter Ego's, she is repeatedly hit by an excavator but is seemingly unfazed, and in Jin's she is trapped in a rocket that blasts into space and crashes down into the classroom. Finally ending in Makoto/Kyoko's execution where she is crushed.

Theming/Facts:

All the executions mashed into one reflect how the killing game is all Junko's fault, thus meaning the deaths that occur could also be pinned as all her fault.

Speculation about how Junko keeps surviving each execution is guessed that her surviving but 'dying' in each mini-execution could be representing her different alters dying off.

Just before being crushed, Junko looks up before being crushed. It's debatable, but some speculate that Junko was confused before dying, wondering why the crushing hadn't already killed her. Thus giving Junko a taste of her own medicine; she died in confusion rather than despair, which is what she wanted and worshiped a majority of her life.

Unused executions:

Execution: Final Performance.

Subject: Sayaka Maizono, Ultimate Pop Sensation.

Cause of death: Chopped in half by giant bear trap.

Explanation: Sayaka is on a stage with a thermometer next to her, with her being told to fill it up by singing and appeasing the audience. Sayaka does so, with the Monokuma crowd cheering for her and the thermometer filling up. Just before it reaches the top, meaning Sayaka can survive, Monokuma appears and smashes the thermometer with a mallet, causing it to register as her 'failing' due to the thermometer emptying out, and the giant bear trap underneath her activates and chops her in half.

Theming/Facts:

Sayaka dies only because Monokuma destroys the meter she is trying to fill up to survive her execution. This could represent how public opinion on her in the killing game probably would've been; she's highly regarded and trusted until her murder is uncovered by Makoto.

It could also be seen that since she sings with the idea that she could survive her execution, that Monokuma gave her hope that she could survive, only to rig this and rob the hope of surviving from her.

Sayaka being killed by a giant bear trap is ironic because the mascot of the killing game, Monokuma, is a bear.

Execution: Super Fujisaki Bros.

Subject: Chihiro Fujisaki, Ultimate Programmer.

Cause of death: Killed by Monokuma minions.

Explanation: Chihiro is stuck in a video game themed around the old arcade Super Mario Bros. game. Chihiro starts running away to the goal when a bunch of Monokuma-style enemies appear and chase him, however, the game is badly made, meaning Chihiro loses lives in various unfair ways, with Chihiro dying by being touched by a Monokuma enemy.

Theming/Facts:

The game is mentioned to be faultily programmed, meaning that the hope Chihiro could have towards surviving his execution would be for naught.

Chihiro being the Ultimate Programmer, playing a video game that was obviously programmed badly, is showing irony.

Chihiro pretends to be the opposite gender because he faced a lot of problems and he wanted to avoid them...or in other words, he ran away from the things he is afraid of. He essentially runs away from the Monokuma's like he runs away from the fact that he is actually a male.

Execution: Prime Minister Ishimaru's Inaugural Parade.

Subject: Kiyotaka Ishimaru, Ultimate Moral Compass.

Cause of death: Shot through the heart.

Explanation: Kiyotaka is stuck on a parade float with a sea of Monokumas congratulating him as though he won a presidential election. Later on, the parade goes from cheering Monokumas to protesting ones, eventually throwing stuff at him to injure him. The execution ends with Kiyotaka shot through the heart by a sniper Monokuma.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around his grandfather having become prime minister of Japan and getting in a huge scandal, his execution being themed around presidency.

Considering Kiyotaka being executed would mean he either broke a rule or committed murder, his execution involving being seen as a role model would be especially degrading and humiliating, since it's technically mocking him.

His execution is themed around presidential assassination. Yea yea, let the JFK jokes roll around.

Execution: Great Monster Invasion

Subject: Hifumi Yamada, Ultimate Fanfic Writer.

Cause of death: Blasted by giant laser.

Explanation: Hifumi is in a giant battlefield. A gigantic Buko comes flying to the place, where an enormous Monokuma is rioting at. Both start fighting. Hifumi, who is stuck between them, is being hit from both sides. At the end, he dies when being hit by "kill beams" from both simultaneously.

Theming/Facts:

"Buko" (or "Princess Piggles" as she is known by others) is Hifumi's favorite character and the only reason why he started writing fanfics. He was so obsessed with her that she once appeared in his dreams, and that was the day where Hifumi realized that only 2D girl would listen to him. So basically we can say that Hifumi really loves Buko. She is his hero...And to be killed by her (hit by ‘certain kill’ beams from BOTH), is probably the worst thing that could happen to him.

Execution: The Deciding Match of the Entire Galaxy

Subject: Sakura Ogami, Ultimate Martial Artist.

Cause of death: Crushed and/or suffocated under the weight of a bunch of Monokumas.

Explanation: Sakura is in an open field at night, with a UFO appearing and dropping down a bunch of alien-themed Monokumas, with Sakura beating them all with ease when they attempt to fight her. However, more UFO's keep appearing over time, with more alien Monokumas appearing. Eventually, it becomes too much and Sakura is dogpiled upon, with her suffocating under the weight of the many Monokumas.

Theming/Facts:

Referencing how Sakura has one opponent she never beat, being her boyfriend Kenshiro. This execution basically makes fun of her for not truly being 'the strongest human alive'.

Because Sakura isn't the strongest person and her boyfriend is, because her boyfriend died (or in other words: "got an illness") he gave her the title if the Ultimate Martial Artist. Now, it's important that she loses because then, she disappoints her (probably) dead boyfriend. The guy who trusted her and gave her the title. She had to hold this title because the last thing she wanted to do is disappoint the person she cares the most about.

Execution: First Kiss Prank

Subject: Toko Fukawa, Ultimate Writing Prodigy.

Cause of death: Crushed by steamroller.

Explanation: Toko is in a dark place with almost no light aside from the one shining on herself, with her seeing a steamroller being driven towards her by Monokuma. Toko runs away, but then sees a figure that looks like Byakuya in the distance. She runs towards him, only to see it's a robot made to look like Byakuya, with it pushing her into the path of the steamroller as it crushes her.

Theming/Facts:

Referencing her past of being picked on and pranked by the first boy she had a crush on, who pranked her and thus started her very self-deprecating ideals.

Being crushed has multiple meanings, as in literally, and as in being crushed emotionally, which is what people can feel when rejected by someone they love. Since this execution involves a fake version of Byakuya pushing Toko away, 'rejecting' her, and getting her crushed by the steamroller, it fits.

Toko has a fear of the dark, hence her execution involving the dark.

The description mentions she's crushed "paper-thin", with paper being used to write stuff on, fitting her talent.

Execution: The Water Illusion Show

Subject: Aoi Asahina, Ultimate Swimming Pro.

Cause of death: Eaten by sharks.

Explanation: Aoi is trapped in a large pool, unable to get out, with Monokuma dressed as a magician in front of a window into the pool. Monokuma waves the wand and curtains go over the window, when the window is opened, Aoi is now suddenly surrounded by sharks. Monokuma waves his wand again and the curtains cover the window again, with the curtains opening again. Aoi is now gone, with the water colored with blood.

Theming/Facts:

Aoi’s defining Ultimate talent is her swimming ability, but in her execution, that talent is rendered useless. She’s trapped in water, where she should be at her strongest, but her skill can’t really save her from the execution.

The “magic show” presentation emphasizes deception and misdirection. Aoi's death isn’t shown directly, only suggested with blood in the water. This reflects how despair often hides the truth, forcing others to imagine the horror. And as any good horror fan knows, being left to imagine what happened is much worse than being shown what actually happened.

Execution: Human Disqualification

Subject: Byakuya Togami, Ultimate Affluent Progeny.

Cause of death: Hypothermia.

Explanation: Byakuya is trapped in a place that is made to look like Hell, with him being stuck in a trash can and being pelted with rocks by Monokumas dressed as school children, as Byakuya is a 'dirty hobo'. Byakuya hides in the trash can until the pelting rocks seem to stop, and he gets out. Only to end up in a freezing cold place. Unable to do anything, he slowly freezes to death.

Theming/Facts:

Byakuya's name means "arctic night", hence the death involving freezing.

The execution also makes fun of Byakuya's disdain for poor people, by treating and mocking him like one.

Togami once said that he and his siblings all had to compete to become head of the family, and that those who lost became outcasts. This execution tells what his life would be like if he had lost.

When he gets stuck in the cold is the moment where he could use someone. He, Byakuya Togami, the Ultimate Affluent Progeny, really needs help, and in the end he doesn't get any, much like how he would behave. He wouldn't like help at all because he believes he can do things himself, but he's put into a scenario where having someone help him is the only way for him to survive.

Execution: Quiz Time! (I heard there's a chance of 30%!)

Subject: Yasuhiro Hagakure, Ultimate Clairvoyant.

Cause of death: Eaten alive.

Explanation: Yasuhiro is on a Japanese game show with three doors in the room. With him having to pick one. One of the doors is certain death, while the other two will lead to safety. Yasuhiro picks one of the doors, but it suddenly grows arms and legs and runs away off set. The second door he picks also does the same, with him being forced to pick the final door. The final door reveals a giant mouth that grabs Yasuhiro with its tongue and eats him alive.

Theming/Facts:

Yasuhiro's prediction accuracy rate is 30%, hence the title in the start.

Yasuhiro is wrong a lot of the time. His 30% chance is really really not good. So in his execution, when he has to choose, he chooses the wrong one two times. That was probably to show him that he never had/has a right answer. To show him how useless he is with his 30%

It can also be seen that Yasuhiro guessed right two times in a row- 66.6% allowing him to live for a couple of seconds longer. It was probably a lucky guess though. All of it is meaningless as his fate cannot be changed. Death. Monokuma wanted to show him the futility of his talent.

Chapter Text

Used/In-game Executions

Execution: Deep Fried Teruteru

Subject: Teruteru Hanamura, Ultimate Cook/Chef.

Cause of death: Deep fried alive.

Explanation: Teruteru is stuck on a beach tied to a metal post, with Monokuma in a helicopter over the water. Monokuma fires a bunch of missiles at Teruteru, covering him in egg wash, and then another, larger missile, which explodes and covers Teruteru in flour. Monokuma then flies off, revealing the metal post Teruteru is stuck on is connected to a chain to the helicopter Monokuma is flying. Monokuma flies the helicopter over a volcano, where he drops Teruteru in the lava, effectively deep-frying him alive.

Theming/Facts:

Teruteru explains that he despises fast food, deep fried foods being commonly seen as fast food.

"Reach for the stars" only plays for killers who didn't kill on purpose or killed for no fault of their own. Teruteru, while fully intending to kill someone, killed the wrong person, hence meaning he didn't mean to kill his victim on purpose.

It could be possibly referring to the "throwing a virgin in a volcano", as a stereotypical sacrifice used in shows. Like, he's a pervert, often talking about sex, and it would be ironic to consider that Monokuma was also trying to call him a virgin. (This one was said as a comment by @garcia5085 on a YT analysis video)

In the Japanese translation of the execution's name, it's referencing a deep fried pork cutlet dish, which could be seen as Monokuma calling Teruteru a 'pig', also supported by how there's a little drawing of Teruteru as a pig on the title card of his execution.

The reason Monokuma chose that dish is in large part because Teruteru vehemently denied his more home-classic origins, both in his way of speaking and in trying to make fancier foods. Turning him into a simple, easy-to-find dish references his origins and that in death he won't have any dignity.

Execution: One Woman Army

Subject: Peko Pekoyama, Ultimate Swordswoman

Cause of death: Bludgeoned to death.

Explanation: Peko is in a strange battlefield by the sea, with Fuyuhiko watching from the sidelines as she is surrounded by an army of Monokuma samurai's. Monokuma, using a type of voodoo doll, starts controlling Peko, forcing her to attack the samurai's. Eventually, Fuyuhiko rushes in but is slashed across the eye by Peko being controlled by Monokuma. She lets down her sword and hugs Fuyuhiko, letting herself be bludgeoned to death.

Theming/Facts:

In the end, she uses herself as a shield to protect Fuyuhiko from death, meaning she dies as a tool for her 'master'.

Being used and moved around like a puppet could be referenced as being a 'tool', as she sees herself.

Her views on herself being a 'tool' also hurt Fuyuhiko, which is reflected through her being forced to slash at Fuyuhiko and hurt him literally.

The execution's Japanese title, "Abarenbo Shojo", is a reference to a Japanese drama series called "Abarenbo Shogun", which follows a shogun travelling the lands under a fake identity. The series logo and the title card to Peko's execution look very similar. Peko also shares similarities with the protagonist of the series, Tokuda Shinnosuke. Both of them are described as invincible sword wielders, and both hide their identities during an event in the story (Peko hid her identity as the Kuzuryu clan's hitwoman to protect Fuyuhiko, and Shinnosuke, a shogun, hid his identity to wander a capital freely.)

Execution: Bye-Bye Ouchies!

Subject: Mikan Tsumiki, Ultimate Nurse.

Cause of death: Launched into space.

Explanation: Mikan is stuck on a hospital bed, with Monokuma appearing, dressed as a doctor and holding a giant syringe filled with glowing green liquid. He runs up to Mikan, but instead of injecting her, the walls collapse around them, with a giant arm-shaped rocket dropping down with Mikan falling on top of it, Monokuma injects the rocket with the syringe, fueling it and causing it to blast off into space, all while Mikan is still on it.

Theming/Facts:

Some people speculate the weird execution is actually a drug trip Mikan goes on due to being injected by whatever Monokuma had in the syringe, and the execution is really just what she sees. This is not confirmed.

Mikan has a fear of giant objects, hence why there's a GIANT syringe, she's stuck on a GIANT rocket, and launched in the biggest thing known to mankind, space.

Mikan was first introduced in Rocketpunch Market, and the rocket she was launched into space with was shaped like an arm. Hence, "Rocket Punch".

"Reach for the stars" only plays for killers who didn't kill on purpose or killed for no fault of their own. Mikan was under the influence of the Despair Disease, which means she would not have killed had she not been infected with it.

Mikan was just launched into space never to be seen again because she feels as if nobody would care if she just randomly disappeared.

Her title card in the Japanese version is said to be written in a very childlike way, to represent the immense amount of childhood trauma Mikan has.

Execution: Stampede!

Subject: Gundham Tanaka, Ultimate Animal Breeder.

Cause of death: Trampled by animals.

Explanation: Gundham is in a savannah with a bunch of animals stampeding towards him, with him taking his Dark Devas of Destruction (his pet hamsters) and putting them somewhere safe away from the execution, as he faces the stampede alone. He creates a circle to use magic, seemingly attempting to use it to protect himself. However, the magic circle fails, and Gundham is trampled by the stampede. The Devas appear one last time before Gundham truly dies, with a bunch of animals with angel wings bringing his body up to the sky.

Theming/Facts:

Gundham gets dragged to heaven in his execution, going directly against his wishes of going to hell.

The lyrics sung at the start of his execution, when translated into English, include "God rest his soul", again going against Gundham's wishes of damnation.

The execution references the Lion King. I'm not even gonna say too much about this because I'm sure you all know about it. It's also referenced in his execution theme, which is called "The Last High King".

Execution: Please Insert Coin

Subject: Chiaki Nanami, Ultimate Gamer.

Cause of death: Crushed by Tetris block.

Explanation: Chiaki is in a large warehouse with a bunch of Monomi's surrounding her. Monokuma appears in a giant military tank, aiming it at them all. Monokuma shoots at the nearby Monomi's as he slowly inches towards Chiaki, but Chiaki notices an exit behind her, grabs one of the Monomi's and runs away, into a hallway where a giant machine made to look like Pac-Man chases them. Eventually, they end up in another room that they become trapped in, with large Tetris blocks dropping down from above. Monomi is crushed, and over time, Chiaki is left trapped and is eventually crushed by a block, with the blocks all exploding.

Theming/Facts:

The hope of escaping/surviving the execution is again used here, in the case that Chiaki attempts to escape.

Tetris is what kills her because she admits Tetris is the only game she isn't good at.

"Reach for the stars" only plays for killers who didn't kill on purpose or killed for no fault of their own. Chiaki accidentally killed her victim without even realizing she did.

At the start of Chiaki's execution, it is referencing the game Space Invaders. In the Danganronpa 3 anime, she talks to Hajime about how it was a total classic and talked about how much she loved the game.

One cool thing about Chiaki’s execution that is how each game that tried killing her are technically endless games. In other words, games she can never beat.

Chiaki's execution is actually foreshadowed earlier in the game, when she tells Hajime she had a dream where she was crushed in a game of Tetris.

Unused Executions:

Execution: Scratch De Hinata

Subject: Hajime Hinata, Ultimate ???

Cause of death: Scratched away.

Explanation: Hajime is stuck in a factory when he is crushed by a printing press, but is still alive despite now being crushed flat onto a lottery ticket. Monokuma appears with a giant Monocoin and starts scratching Hajime away until nothing is left. The ticket says 'Try Again!" on it, so Monokuma frustratedly crumples the ticket up and into the trash it goes.

Theming/Facts:

His execution involves him being pressed into a lottery ticket and scratched away, a very unique, kooky and nonsensical execution for one of the most logical and grounded characters in the cast.

The ticket he gets pressed onto ends up being a worthless ticket, going off of him being 'worthless' compared to the other characters.

Execution: Underground Travels

Subject: Kazuichi Souda, Ultimate Mechanic

Cause of death: Engulfed in lava.

Explanation: Kazuichi is stuck in a classroom when a giant rocket appears behind him, the rocket captures him inside, and at first, it seems as though it will blast off into the air, but it suddenly turns upside down and drills into the Earth, eventually reaching lava. Kazuichi and the drill machine are eventually destroyed when the lava engulfs them.

Theming/Facts:

His execution is themed around "Blast Off!" from THH, being the first execution in the entire series. This reflects the fact that Kazuichi is canonically the person who built all the executions for the first killing game.

This execution ties into not only Kazuichi's mechanic talent, but also his fear and inability to be in machines. He states during the story that he has motion sickness and couldn't drive half the things he builds.

Execution: Real Photo

Subject: Mahiru Koizumi, Ultimate Photographer

Cause of death: Strangled.

Explanation: Mahiru is in strange, haunted-looking ruins, when she finds a strange photo album with her name on it that shows pictures of her only moments ago. She looks ahead to see pictures of her being strangled to death, and suddenly, rope is tied around her throat by ghostly hands behind her, as the string is tightened and Mahiru is strangled to death.

Theming/Facts:

It is said that she would see the way she dies in photos in a photo album, effectively meaning she gets to know how she's going to die but cannot do anything to prevent it. That's some despair for you.

I guess Mahiru's execution was supposed to be a reference to those "taking pictures of ghosts that haunt and eventually kill you" urban legends.

Execution: Princess Sonia

Subject: Sonia Nevermind, Ultimate Princess

Cause of death: Poisoned.

Explanation: Sonia is made into a Snow White puppet by Monokuma. As the plot of the usual Snow White story continues, Sonia is forced to eat the poisoned apple, and unlike the actual story, she does not wake up again. The execution ends with Monokuma, dressed as the Evil Stepmother, living happily ever after.

Theming/Facts:

The execution is themed around how Sonia wants to be seen as more than just a princess, with her execution making her nothing more than a princess. It's themed around the Snow White fairytale, but it doesn't feature anything specifically pertaining to Sonia's personality or interests.

Sonia adores serial killers and bizarre trivia, showing she doesn’t want to be defined by her role as “princess” (heck, she even tells Hajime to see her as a classmate rather than royalty when they first meet). Her execution forces her into possibly the most stereotypical fairytale role imaginable; a helpless, poisoned princess, and that's exactly what she doesn’t want to be.

Poison represents betrayal and treachery, themes Sonia herself admired in dark folklore and criminal stories. It’s a fittingly ironic method of dying since she’s fascinated by killers, but becomes a victim of dying to one of the oldest known methods of murder.

Execution: Best Battle

Subject: Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu, Ultimate Yakuza

Cause of death: Bled out.

Explanation: Fuyuhiko is in a noir film type area, with Monokuma dressed as a mobster. A shootout happens, with Fuyuhiko noticing a figure similar to Peko in the distance. Monokuma is seen waddling over to the area Peko seems to be, and seeing this, Fuyuhiko runs through the gunfight to Peko, and makes it to her, only to have 'her' turn around and reveal it was just a robot, and it shoots him. Fuyuhiko dies with a bashful smile upon his face as he bleeds out.

Theming/Facts:

Fuyuhiko dying over what turns out to be a Peko-lookalike robot reflects that he would do anything for Peko, in the end, he dies over a robot rather than the real thing.

The mobster-movie setting reflects both Fuyuhiko’s yakuza background and the tragic archetypes of noir protagonists. In classic noir, loyalty and love often lead to betrayal and death, just like Fuyuhiko’s devotion to Peko does here.

In the game, Peko calls herself Fuyuhiko’s tool, not his equal, but Fuyuhiko wants to treat her as a person. The robot Peko in his execution is the ultimate mockery of that conflict: the fake Peko is an empty “tool” that kills him instead of serving him.

Execution: Rope Master

Subject: Nagito Komaeda, Ultimate Lucky Student

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Nagito is standing on a platform that resembles a circus's flying trapeze. Countless ropes are hanged onto the platform. Monokuma begins to cut off the ropes one by one with a machine, but none of the ropes are actually connected to anything. Frustrated, he punches the cutting machine and accidentally sets the platform on fire. Monokuma escapes, but Nagito, with no ropes or any other way to escape, dies.

Theming/Facts:

Nagito's execution taking place in a circus trapeze could be meant to insult Nagito, as circuses are usually attributed with foolishness and insanity.

Now, this one isn't technically a DR2 character, but I dunno where else I could put him, so here:

Execution: Black White

Subject: Yasuke Matsuda, Ultimate Neurologist

Cause of death: Blown up.

Explanation: Yasuke is tied to a gurney being brought into a large hospital set by doctor Monokuma's. Yasuke is then forced into a chair with a large drill-like machine behind him, with the drill aimed towards his head. The Monokuma’s mess with the machine, only for it to blow up, destroying the entirety of the hospital. A small poster floats down from the explosion, with a warning that Monokuma is a fake doctor.

Theming/Facts:

Rather than the drill killing him cleanly, the entire hospital blows up. This symbolizes how Yasuke’s attempt to control Junko through neurology backfired catastrophically; his research didn’t just fail, it led to destruction on a global scale.

The drill to his head specifically references his work with Junko’s brain in the novel.

The hospital’s explosion reflects how his personal world collapsed once Junko betrayed him. Yasuke dedicated everything to her, but his loyalty ensured not only his death but the downfall of society itself.

The execution’s name plays on multiple meanings: Monokuma’s black-and-white motif. The contrast between truth and lies (Junko fed him lies while he searched for truth in her brain). And the “all-or-nothing” outcome of his work; no gray morality, only total despair.

Now, it has come to my attention as I saw online somewhere that even though these unused executions fan made from some doujin, Spike Chunsoft themselves approved them or something along those lines.

Chapter Text

Used/In-game Executions

Execution: Der Flowhwalzer

Subject: Kaede Akamatsu, Ultimate Pianist

Cause of death: Hanged.

Explanation: Kaede is dropped upon a giant piano, with her being trapped with a noose so that when she is on her tippy-toes, she can breathe. Monokuma forces his underlings (Monotaro, Monodam, Monophanie, Monosuke and Monokid) to lift the ropes, lifting Kaede up and strangling her temporarily before dropping her on a key to play a note each time, giving her a few seconds of breathing before hanging her again and again. Eventually, Kaede gets a bunch of stuff thrown at her by the Monokuma audience as the music she is being used to play speeds up, giving her less time to breathe, this going on until she is finally hung, with the giant piano cover falling and crushing her body into mincemeat.

Theming/Facts:

Kaede, being a master pianist, is being used to play Der Flowhwalzer, a beginner-level piano song, which may I add is also being played horrendously.

Kaede is never touching the black piano keys even though Der Flowhwalzer involves the usage of black keys a bunch, hinting at how she isn't the real "blackened" (killer) of the case.

People say that Kaede's execution took over 7 hours, but it did not. This is misinformation! The clock in the background goes haywire and thus cannot be trusted.

Kaede just wants to make people happy and see the smiles on their faces with her piano playing. In true Monokuma fashion, he makes the crowd boo and jeer at Kaede as she is hanged, the total opposite of what she loves to see and hear during a performance.

Execution: Strand of Agony

Subject: Kirumi Tojo, Ultimate Maid

Cause of death: Fell to death.

Explanation: Kirumi is running from a massive mob of protestors, and she finds herself surrounded. Eventually a small thorny vine drops down, and she begins to climb it to escape, puncturing her hands and legs as she climbs. Eventually, a bunch of saw blades block her path, but she keeps climbing, despite her being soaked in blood. Eventually, Kirumi makes it to the top, with light from the outside pouring in, however, it is revealed to just be a kids drawing taped to a blocked off ceiling, which she saw as real due to blood loss delirium. The thread snaps, and Kirumi falls to her death.

Theming/Facts:

Many see her execution as an allegory for how no matter how much struggle one may put into a better future, it only leads to despair, as the masses (the people watching and encouraging the killing game on the outside) are unwilling to change their behavior.

This execution directly references the tale The Spider's Thread, wherein a criminal, having spared a spider in life, is offered the thread as a way of climbing from Hell up to Heaven. In the tale, the thread breaks when the criminal reveals he only cares about his own possible salvation, rather than other people who begin climbing up the thread as well. In comparison, in this execution, Kirumi's chance at salvation is revealed to be fake, as she revealed she only cared about keeping herself alive rather than letting everyone else live.

Execution: Cultural Melting Pot

Subject: Korekiyo Shinguji, Ultimate Anthropologist

Cause of death: Boiled alive. Exorcized.

Explanation: Korekiyo is tied up in a Japanese dojo type room, with Monophanie and Monotaro spinning him around to make him dizzy. Eventually, the rope holding him up is cut and the floor opens up underneath him. He falls into a large pot with a fire underneath, which is fed wood until it starts boiling the water, effectively boiling Korekiyo alive. Korekiyo's spirit then flies up into the sky, where his sister greets him, though before they can embrace each other, Monokuma appears out of nowhere and tosses salt upon him, burning his ghost. Korekiyo's sister suddenly joins in on this, effectively causing Korekiyo's soul to be exorcized from existence.

Theming/Facts:

At the end of the execution, we see Korekiyo’s sister seemingly form a friendship with Monokuma. This is greatly unfortunate for Korekiyo, who wanted to kill one hundred good people (specifically girls) so his sister wasn’t alone.

Salt is used to ward off evil spirits, hence why it is used to exorcise Korekiyo.

Execution: Wild West Insecticide

Subject: Gonta Gokuhara, Ultimate Entomologist

Cause of death: Impaled and burned alive.

Explanation: Gonta is tied up to a wooden post in a place made to look like the wild west, with Monokuma dressed as a cowboy. Monokuma shoots robotic wasps at Gonta, stinging him and causing swelling. Monophanie has a giant wasp monster burst out of her, and attack Monotaro, killing them both. It then flies and impales Gonta, and the execution ends with Monokuma setting both the insect on Gonta on fire and Gonta himself, burning them to death.

Theming/Facts:

Gonta, a guy who wants to be a gentleman, has his execution take place in the Wild West, a time and place associated with lawlessness and foul behavior.

Gonta is killed by insects, the one thing he loves most.

His execution theme sings "down at the bottom of the sea", as a kind of reverse to "reach for the stars". "Reach for the stars" only plays for killers who didn't kill on purpose or killed for no fault of their own, and "bottom of the sea" is a representation of the polar opposite of that, as Gonta believes himself irredeemable for what he did.

Execution: Blast Off! Second Ignition

Subject: Kaito Momota, Ultimate Astronaut

Cause of death: His disease.

Explanation: Kaito is in a classroom, with Monokuma slamming a button and Kaito being put in a giant rocket. It lifts off the ground a bit, but turns upside down and drills into the ground, Kaito coughing all the way. The rocket (somehow) drills through the Earth and goes out the other side, and flies off into space. Before the execution can kill him, Kaito coughs up blood and dies, his disease finally killing him.

Theming/Facts:

Kaito is the only killer to have died on their own terms in the canon danganronpa games.

When "Blast Off" as an execution is used on Jin Kirigiri all the way back in DR1, it establishes Monokuma as being in complete control, Jin is bound and struggling, and he’s killed in a way that’s so needlessly elaborate for no other reason than to demonstrate that Monokuma is extremely powerful, and able to do whatever it wants. Conversely, when it’s used on Kaito, the result demonstrates Monokuma losing control, not having unmatched power. Kaito isn’t bound in any way, but he doesn’t struggle. When the execution hits its apex, what should’ve been the moment of maximum despair, Kaito denies it. By succumbing to his illness at that moment, what was meant to be torture became a gift. He was already dying, Monokuma unintentionally made Kaito’s dream a reality by having the dying Ultimate Astronaut make it to outer space, and showed that for all Monokuma was capable of, the students were master of their own fate and Monokuma couldn’t force them to give in to despair.

Execution: Ultimate Annihilation

Subjects: K1-B0, Ultimate Robot, and Tsumugi Shirogane, Ultimate Cosplayer.

Causes of death: Crushed by falling rock (Tsumugi), Exploded (K1-B0).

Explanation: Kiibo, in his weaponized form, destroys the main area around the killing game, decimating the dome and eventually the academy itself. Tsumugi waves goodbye with a somewhat empty look on her face before she is crushed by debris falling on top of her. Kiibo, meanwhile, activates a self-destruct sequence and flies into the glass of the dome, causing it to be destroyed, and allowing the survivors to escape.

Theming/Facts:

Tsumugi dying by being crushed and being the first to die represents how she was in the killing game... Nothing more than a background character no one at all cares about. She dies like a random bystander would in a movie or show. Representing that even though she's the mastermind, we all know she's unimportant and won't win in the end anyway.

Tsumugi's death reflects Junko's death; both got crushed.

Unused Executions:

Execution: Abracadabra

Subject: Himiko Yumeno, Ultimate Magician

Cause of death: Drowning.

Explanation: Himiko is trapped in a glass water tank that she is trapped inside, and it slowly fills with water. Eventually, it submerges Himiko, who eventually drowns after it is shown that there is truly no escape from inside.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around a simple escape trick, but rigged so Himiko is unable to escape unless she has actual magic. Forces her to confront the fact she truly doesn't have magic in her final moments.

Being trapped in a glass container means the audience can see her struggle and failure clearly. There’s no mystery and no illusion for her to hide behind, just raw reality. This strips away the veil of “magic” she hides behind.

Execution: 15-0

Subject: Ryoma Hoshi, Ultimate Tennis Pro

Cause of death: Stoned to death with metal balls.

Explanation: Ryoma is on a tennis court, and he is having metal balls being launched at him, eventually, over time, the balls begin to hit parts of his body and he is eventually bludgeoned to death with them being shot at him..

Theming/Facts:

Ryoma ruined his life by being arrested for killing the mafia that killed his family with a metal ball.

"15-0" could represent Ryoma being 'against the 15 other students'.

WARNING! MENTION OF SA IN THIS

Execution: Fighting Girl

Subject: Tenko Chabashira, Ultimate Aikido Master

Cause of death: Beaten to death.

Explanation: Tenko is forced to fight a bunch of what looks like men, and she fights them off fairly easy, however, she is quickly overpowered by the amount of men that appear as they grope her and beat her to death.

Theming/Facts:

The fact that Tenko gets SA'd in this execution basically reflects on her hatred of men, and taking it to an extreme by having her fight them and then get overpowered by the sheer amount of them that appear.

Execution: Garbage Collection Day

Subject: K1-B0, Ultimate Robot

Cause of death: Crushed by trash compactor.

Explanation: Kiibo is thrown into a giant trash compactor, with him being stuck and trying to get out, as he is almost able to get out, the trash compactor crushes everything in it violently, and Kiibo, whose head was sticking out of the trash compactor, has his head pop off and fall to the ground, a single tear falling from his eye (oil? who knows).

Theming/Facts:

It's one of the laws of robotics that a defunct robot that cannot follow the laws of robotics is considered 'trash', hence why Kiibo is killed by a trash compactor in his execution.

Kiibo constantly struggles with being seen as less than human. His execution reduces him to literal trash, not a person with thoughts and feelings, but scrap metal to be disposed of.

Execution: Oma Kokichi

Subject: Kokichi Oma, Ultimate Supreme Leader

Cause of death: Unknown, but implied to be electrocution.

Explanation: Kokichi is connected to both an electric chair and a lie detector, and he is given papers with questions on them, with Kokichi getting electrocuted every time he says something that gets detected as a lie. It is not exactly known how he would die as the explanation for his death is very vague.

Theming/Facts:

The execution plays off of Kokichi's tendency to lie, as he is electrocuted multiple times due to lying on the lie detector.

Execution: Destination Unknown

Subject: Rantaro Amami, Ultimate ??? (Later on revealed as Ultimate Adventurer and Ultimate Survivor)

Cause of death: Drowning.

Explanation: Rantaro is on a giant pirate ship as its captain, with a crew of Monokumas. A rival pirate ship appears and starts attacking Rantaro's boat. The Monokumas all attack, with Rantaro caught in the crossfire. Eventually, both ships begin sinking as the storm surrounding the ships worsens, and Rantaro is lost beneath the waves. The only thing remaining is Monokuma on a little life raft.

Theming/Facts:

The loss of the Monokumas on his ship parallel his hatred for the fact he lost his 12 little sisters around the globe.

When he is the last person left on the boat, it parallels his survivor talent, as he will always be the last person alive no matter what in the situation. This is even broken as well as Monokuma is left alive after Rantaro's death.

Execution: (No known name for this execution)

Subject: Shuichi Saihara, Ultimate Detective

Cause of death: Beaten to death.

Explanation: Shuichi is forced to go through some murder mystery 'escape room' type areas with a timer. In the rooms, there are a bunch of mannequins and they all stand still to stare at Shuichi as he solves the cases. The more rooms he clears, the more mannequins appear, and the more nervous he gets. In the last room, there is a white chalk outline with no body in it this time, all the mannequins are now looking away and there is multiple potential weapons. Shuichi figures out the case here just before he runs out of time, and the final door is unlocked so he can leave. Suddenly the mannequins grab Shuichi and pull him back inside, and the door closes again, with blood leaking from underneath the door. The door then slowly reopens on its own, the mannequins are back standing where they were, and Shuichi is dead and his body is propped on the white chalk outline, and all the weapons from earlier are soaked in blood. 

Theming/Facts:

Shuichi has a fear of being stared at, so the mannequins staring at him reflects that.

Chapter Text

Used/In-game Executions:

Execution: The Volcano Death Shot

Subject: Mitsuhiro Higa, Ultimate Soccer Player

Cause of death: Bludgeoned and burned alive.

Explanation: Mitsuhiro is chained to a giant soccer ball in a giant soccer stadium, and a bunch of Monokumas in soccer clothes start kicking the ball around to each other, beating Mitsuhiro in the process. Eventually, the Monokumas start passing the ball around at extreme speeds that go so fast that it sets Mitsuhiro and themselves on fire, causing everything to go ablaze.

Theming/Facts:

Mitch prided himself on being a star soccer player, but here the thing he loves most, soccer, is turned into his downfall.

Soccer is about camaraderie and passing between teammates, but here the Monokumas team up to “pass him around.” His execution mocks the idea of teamwork by turning it into bullying.

Being chained to the giant soccer ball makes him part of the game. It strips away his humanity and reduces him to nothing more than equipment, a cruel irony since he objectified women in life. (lets not forget he sexually assaulted someone!)

The title fits in because the fiery blaze ties into the destructive power of a volcano: uncontrollable, catastrophic, and consuming everything around it. It mirrors how Mitch’s own selfish actions “erupted” into murder.

His motive came from seeing FIFA HQ destroyed, shattering his identity. The fiery, volcanic nature of his execution ties back to that destruction.

Execution: Dismantling Sports Day

Subject: Ayame Hatano, Ultimate Sprinter

Cause of death: Bisected.

Explanation: Ayame is stuck in a giant wooden contraption made to look like a running Monokuma, with a giant wood chipper behind the contraption following behind. Ayame's contraption starts moving forward, with a spring to jump over any hurdles it meets. Ayame over time sees the finish line, and it turns around to reveal it's a giant blade, which the contraption goes through. We see Ayame and the contraption were sliced in half from the blade. Meanwhile, the wood chipper from earlier comes back, goes through the hurdles, and consumes Ayame, grinding her away to nothing more than mulch.

Theming/Facts:

The execution mocks her Ultimate talent as she isn't even sprinting, it's just a machine carrying her through the course.

The execution takes place as if it’s a twisted version of a school’s undōkai (sports day), a traditional Japanese event where students compete in races and games.

The finish line is made to actually be a finish to more than just the race. It ‘finished’ her life, after all.

The fact that she is bisected can be seen as symbolic of her divided self - Ayame the socially awkward yet kind athlete girl versus Ayame the evil cold-blooded killer she tried to present herself as in the trial so her best friend Akane wouldn’t feel bad for her execution.

Execution: Launchurch

Subject: Kinji Uehara, Ultimate Priest

Cause of death: Launched into space.

Explanation: Kinji is forced to bring a cross to a giant church full of Monokumas. The Monokumas nail Kinji to the cross and place a crown of thorns upon his head, but he reacts with nothing. Eventually, a Monokuma dressed as a roman centurion appears and clicks a remote, and the church walls and ceiling disappear, and the cross rockets up into the sky with Kinji still nailed to it. The cross enters outer space, and crashes back down, and comedically smashes Kinji into the ground headfirst, and the execution ends with a giant gravestone crushing Kinji's body in a graphic manner, the grave reading "Here Lies Kinji Uehara".

Theming/Facts:

His Ultimate talent, "Ultimate Priest" is considered defunct due to him breaking 'thou shalt not kill', and thus committing sin.

His execution being themed around the crucifixion also mocks him, as he is dying in the same way the influential figure of his religion is dying, which means his religion in also being mocked considering he's a murderer.

Being blasted off into the sky could also parallel 'going to heaven', but the fact that it falls back down and comes hurdling to the ground represents Kinji actually 'going to hell', since he's a murderer.

Execution: Satsuki Crisis

Subject: Satsuki Iranami, Ultimate Clown

Cause of death: Impaled with swords and head crushed when slammed into ceiling.

Explanation: Satsuki is stuck in a barrel in a circus tent, and Monokuma throws a sword into the barrel she is in, causing her to bleed. Multiple Monokumas all appear and throw swords into the barrel, and Satsuki is impaled numerous times. Eventually, a spring under Satsuki springs her up into the air, and her head is crushed against the hard ceiling due to the speed she was forced upwards at.

Theming/Facts:

Her execution is based off an execution that people say was meant for Makoto.

Being sealed in a barrel and attacked with swords parodies the classic carnival trick “sword barrel” or “sword box,” where a performer is stuck inside a container while swords are dramatically thrust in without hitting them. In her execution, the trick is rigged to actually kill her.

The spring catapulting her into the ceiling mirrors slapstick humor, clowns are often flung, launched, or hurt in ridiculous ways for laughs.

Satsuki's execution is also based on the toy "Pop-up Pirate", where you stab a barrel with colorful swords until the little pirate guy inside jumps out.

Execution: Runaway Ghost Train

Subject: Mikako Kurokawa, Ultimate Exorcist

Cause of death: Suicide.

Explanation: Mikako is stuck on a giant tractor in a giant cornfield, with a bomb stuck on the tractor she is on counting down. Another tractor on the other side of the cornfield also starts going in Mikako's direction, with both of them set to collide. The tractors move forward and just before they hit each other, the tractors stop, and the 'bomb' hits zero and does not explode. However, the execution has failed due to Mikako having killed herself before it could kill her, as well as a blackout affecting killing game environment.

Theming/Facts:

Had Mikako not killed herself before her execution could kill her, it's implied she was supposed to be scared to death for her execution.

Normally, executions are ultimate punishments where the victim has no say. But Mikako denies Monokuma his spectacle by committing suicide first, reclaiming agency in her final moments.

The execution was set up to scare her to death, a cruel irony since her profession is dealing with ghosts.

The dud bomb shows the futility of the execution. It reflects the idea of fear without substance — much like how ghostly terrors can just be illusions or something. Monokuma wanted her to die in dread, but in the end, the fear that was the intended reaction for the execution fizzled out. After all, Mikako is dead, so it’s not like her corpse is gonna die again or anything, so the usual impact of the execution is missing. We’re just left with the shock that Monokuma would even put a dead body through execution, and even then when you really look back, it could be seen as a lot more petty than anything.

Unused Executions:

Execution: Detention

Subject: Yuki Maeda, Ultimate Lucky Student

Cause of death: Crushed flat.

Explanation: Yuki is in a chair being 'taught' by Monokuma about conception and birth, the chair he is in is on a conveyor belt that slowly moves towards a crusher, with Yuki being visibly nervous as he moves towards it. In the end, the crusher kills him.

Theming/Facts:

His execution is quite literally just the same as Makoto's from THH, but with no one to save him this time around.

Execution: 666 Points out of 10

Subject: Kiyoka Maki, Ultimate Sniper

Cause of death: Blown up.

Explanation: Kiyoka is tied up in a shooting range, with points being painted on her body, such as 10 on her chest and 5 for each limb. Monokuma appears and shoots at Kiyoka, but Kiyoka sees that the bullets are actually all just toy bullets (think a Nerf gun in this case), and they all stick to her body. Monokuma fires hundreds of these bullets onto Kiyoka, and eventually, the screen zooms in to the toy bullets, showing they are actually mini bombs inside. The resulting explosion destroys any trace of Kiyoka, and the point counter says "666" points for victory.

Theming/Facts:

Kiyoka, much like Leon, does not like her talent as a sniper, wanting to travel the world and ditch her talent once she graduates. Her execution? All themed around guns.

Kiyoka boasts that she always scores a '10 out of 10' on anything shooting-related she does. Monokuma scoring 666 points out of 10 mocks her by achieving a score she could never achieve.

Execution: Reverse Trial

Subject: Kakeru Yamaguchi, Ultimate Lawyer

Cause of death: Crushed by a giant gavel.

Explanation: Kakeru is on a strange wooden podium in a dark room, which lights up to reveal a giant courtroom, with a giant Monokuma judge, a Monokuma prosecutor, and more. A numerous amount of defendant Monokumas enter the room, and the prosecutor Monokuma proves them all guilty, with the defendant Monokumas coming in endlessly and the prosecutor Monokuma prosecuting them as guilty, the judge Monokuma slams his gavel down on Kakeru for every guilty verdict, and this continues until there is nothing but a bloody smear left.

Theming/Facts:

The comically large gavel is a reference to Kakeru's own appearance; comically large for what'd you'd expect a lawyer to be.

Kakeru blames himself for his little sister Midori's poor health, thinking he 'took it all away'. He's taking the blame for crimes he didn't commit as a foil to him blaming himself for something that isn't his fault.

Execution: Play! Play! Victory Stadium

Subject: Kizuna Tomori, Ultimate Cheerleader

Cause of death: Electrocuted.

Explanation: Kizuna is stuck in a baseball diamond type location, being stuck with a bunch of cardboard Monokumas dressed to look like cheerleaders. Kizuna is forced to cheer for the Monokuma baseball team playing on the diamond, with the team winning and the scoreboard behind Kizuna lighting up, electrocuting a nearby cardboard cutout to nothing. This continues with all the cardboard cutouts being electrocuted closer and closer to Kizuna, and when Kizuna stops cheering, a Monokuma baseball player hits a 'Home Run' with the ball striking Kizuna's forehead hard, and she is fried alive due to the scoreboard lighting up.

Theming/Facts:

An over-the-top execution for an over-the-top character. Theming fits there.

The baseball striking her in the head before she gets electrocuted is a reference to Leon's execution, around the end of it specifically, where all the balls are flying towards his head.

Execution: Punishment Classroom

Subject: Rei Mekaru, Ultimate Professor

Cause of death: Shot.

Explanation: Rei is in a classroom and is forced to teach a class of rowdy Monokuma children, and a gun filled with chalk bullets is aimed at each Monokuma student. Every time a Monokuma student breaks a rule, a bullet is fired and the Monokuma is killed, and Rei is unable to calm the class down, with each Monokuma being killed. Rei focuses to survive by keeping the students alive, but is distracted by a window showing what appears to be her parents watching her. The chalk gun shoots a bullet that goes through Rei, killing her, and the bullet hits a lone pillar supporting the roof, causing the building to collapse and killing Rei's parents as well.

Theming/Facts:

The Monokuma students in her execution represent the type of people she looks down upon: Slackers who don't fully dedicate themselves to succeeding.

Her losing focus in her execution being her downfall represents how she always stayed focused in her profession.

Rei thinks her parents hate her due to them giving her off to a relative, although they truly do love her. Her seeing them actually wanting her to live would be devastating as her last moments are realizing that they do love her and she really just hated them for no good reason.

Execution: Sally forth! DEATHCRAFT

Subject: Haruhiko Kobashikawa, Ultimate Pilot

Cause of death: Plane crashed into a tower.

Explanation: In an aerial runway above the clouds, Haruhiko is seated in a plane and tied up. Monokuma lights a fire near the back, and the plane takes off. The plane is uncontrolled however and repeatedly smashes into multiple tall towers. In dizziness, Haruhiko opens his eyes only to see the plane is headed straight for a large bell tower, and the plane crashes into it. The only thing that remains are bits of debris that fall down, and the bell now ringing.

Theming/Facts:

Fun fact! Originally, Haruhiko was going to be the killer of chapter 4, but Satsuki kills him instead as the animation for Haruhiko's execution was too much to do.

Execution: Genuine Luxury Golden Box

Subject: Teruya Otori, Ultimate Merchant

Cause of death: Dismembered.

Explanation: Teruya is dragged and eventually disappears in a large setting made to look like an auction. Different Monokuma bidders bid on different boxes, with each box being opened to reveal a dismembered part of Teruya's body.

Theming/Facts:

His execution is... Unique. His death is instant, we don't see it, we just see the dismembered parts of his body get sold off. Unique.

Execution: Operation VENUS

Subject: Kanata Inori, Ultimate Surgeon

Cause of death: Ripped apart with scalpels.

Explanation: Kanata is stuck in an ambulance that Monokuma is driving, with it crashing into a hospital operating room. A bunch of Monokumas lift her into a bed in the operating room, and prepare to operate on her. Curtains cover Kanata and the surgeon Monokumas up, and graphic, gruesome noises and imagery are heard and visible through as silhouettes. Eventually, the curtains open up, showing a weird amalgam of Monokuma and the statue of Venus made out of organs.

Theming/Facts:

A sculpture made out of her innards... Yea, that's messed up.

The ambulance crashing into the hospital around the start of the execution parallels the car accident that took her family's life.

Execution: Please Order a Smile

Subject: Akane Taira, Ultimate Maid

Cause of death: Crushed by chains.

Explanation: Akane is stuck in a maid cafe with chains wrapped around her arms and legs to control her. Monokumas dressed as average customers start to order and the chains bend her limbs in physically impossible directions and angles to serve them all, breaking those limbs in the process. The last Monokuma orders 'a smile', and Akane, with all her limbs broken, forces a pained smile, only for it to be seen as 'unsatisfactory' and the chains wrap around her and crush her.

Theming/Facts:

Akane mentions that people who work in maid cafes are just 'posers', hence her execution taking place in one.

Execution: PRISON BREAK

Subject: Tsurugi Kinjo, Ultimate Police Officer

Cause of death: Blown up.

Explanation: Tsurugi gets handcuffed and arrested for murder with police cars surrounding him. Tsurugi, now locked in a prison cell, finds a map, figures out it's a map for the prison. Deciding he cannot just let himself die in his execution like this, he digs his way out of prison with a spoon, and commits other crimes to help him escape, such as keeping a warden Monokuma hostage and threatening other Monokumas with a gun. Succeeding in breaking out, Tsurugi steals a police car and attempts to drive out only to have the car break and be unable to stop. Tsurugi crashes the car into a Monokuma-shaped police station and explodes.

Theming/Facts:

Tsurugi hates criminals, in the end, he dies as nothing more than a criminal.

The explosion at the end of his execution represents the explosion that took his friend's life when he was younger.

Execution: The Ultimate Punishment

Subject: Utsuro

Cause of death: Crushed flat.

Explanation: Same as Junko's.

Theming/Facts:

As Yuki's execution was Makoto's but reused, Utsuro's is Junko's execution reused, which may sound boring and unoriginal, but that's the point! Utsuro is like Izuru, in the sense that he wants something exciting and interesting to combat his extreme boredom. Having an already used-before execution is perfect because he dies bored and uninterested, already knowing the outcome of what will happen.

In case you are wondering, there is no execution for Yamato Kisaragi, as he was intentionally written without one.

Chapter Text

Execution: Super Makunouching Machine

Subject: Hajime Makunouchi, Ultimate Boxer

Cause of death: Face beaten in.

Explanation: Hajime is stuck in a giant punching bag game machine in a giant boxing ring, with a large Monocrow-masked muscle man approaching and punching the bag, breaking Hajime's sunglasses. The bag is repeatedly punched, with the bag smashing into Hajime's face each time. Eventually, the Monocrow gets so frustrated with such low scores that it starts punching it at insane speeds, effectively causing the bag to smash into Hajime's face at insane strength and speed, eventually smashing his face into nothing more than a meaty mess. His body is then ground up and sewn away to make a small plushie of him.

Theming/Facts:

If we stretch logic a bit… Hajime has spent a lot of time in his life in a hospital, and he dislikes that. So, he is physically restrained (much like rowdier patients would be), he is forced to look at bright lights being shined on him, and his body is ground up by blades, which could represent scalpels for surgery.

Execution: The Emma in the Woods

Subject: Emma Magorobi, Ultimate Actor

Cause of death: Ripped apart.

Explanation: Emma is strapped in a bed in a cabin, with Monocrow, dressed as the Joker, running up to her and slicing around her, causing the entire area around her to shatter, as it was only glass. Emma manages to fall onto a broom that flies into a Hogwarts-spoof castle, crashing through a window and injuring her. She is left in a room full of elevators that have a bunch of Monokuma-style horror movie villains, such as Jason or a bunch of zombies, as they all surround Emma and rip her apart.

Theming/Facts:

Monocrow being dressed as the Joker is a reference to one of Emma's films, "Holly Quinn", which is a joke on Harley Quinn.

The name of her execution is a reference to a movie known as "The Cabin in the Woods".

Execution: Melody Rythym's Final (DEATH) Concert

Subjects: Hibiki Otonokoji, Ultimate Vocalist, and Kanade Otonokoji, Ultimate Guitarist.

Cause of death: Head ripped off (Hibiki), Hanged (Kanade).

Explanation: The twins are in a strange stage-like area, a key on a podium reads "Only 1", with Hibiki getting up to try and escape, with Kanade trying to drag her back in an attempt to stop her from surviving. Hibiki bludgeons the maniacal Kanade over the head to knock her out, and finally reaches the key, but due to Kanade's struggling, the collar around Hibiki, which is connected to Kanade's collar, tugs hard enough to rip Hibiki's head off. Kanade is ecstatic seeing the person she hates so much finally die, only to have Hibiki's headless body be holding the key, qualifying that Kanade is the 'losing' twin and the floor gives out from under her, hanging her to death.

Theming/Facts:

In the end, they died deaths perfect for them. Hibiki, the more innocent of the two, was decapitated, and thus died instantly and painlessly. Kanade, the master manipulator and the psychopath of the two, was hung, and died in pain and slowly.

Only one person can be in control of both lives and even if they were, both twins would die no matter what, showing how they are both connected so much.

Execution: Press Conference

Subject: Nikei Yomiuri, Ultimate Journalist

Cause of death: Fell to death.

Explanation: Due to getting his hand blasted off before his execution, Nikei is stuck in a chair at an area where reporter Monocrows are pestering him to answer questions, and upon seeing an exit, Nikei makes a break for it. Running through a giant Tragedy-ridden city setup, he goes up a stairwell to escape, and a helicopter appears and lowers a ladder to help Nikei escape, however, out of panic, Nikei tries to use his dominant hand, the previously mentioned blasted-off hand, to grab the ladder, and he falls to his death. The end of the execution has a newspaper reading "Ultimate Journalist Nikei Yomiuri murdered!?"

Theming/Facts:

Nikei finally receives recognition by the press, except he’s clearly overwhelmed and ridiculed, essentially, due to his hand. I think the original intention was for Nikei to drown in the power and attention he craved his entire life, but ofc escapes, forcing Monocrow to improvise.

Nikei ascending to the top floor of a skyscraper and falling is a strong metaphor. He’s at the "peak" of his ego, high above everyone else. Also referencing the Tower of Babel device introduced in Chapter 4. (In the Bible, mankind built the tower to unify languages, ascend to heavens, and cement godhood.) With Nikei reaching obscene heights and blind faith in his pride, he makes the fatal mistake of NOT using his non-dominant hand, symbolic for rigidity. And ultimately falls so far until he’s flattened, and in the end he's managed to end up even lower than where he started.

UNUSED EXECUTIONS

Execution: Deep Sea Trip

Subject: Sora, Ultimate ???

Cause of death: Eaten by a shark.

Explanation: Sora is chained to a giant iron ball that is dropped into the ocean, and she is dragged lower and lower into the sea, the execution eventually ending as a giant Mono-shark appears and chomps her in half.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around the end of the first Another fangame, with the ending credits showing a body sinking into the ocean.

Execution: NEW Genuine Luxury Golden Box

Subject: Teruya Otori, Ultimate Merchant

Cause of death: Dismembered alive.

Explanation: Teruya is dragged into a large auction, where multiple boxes are lined around with different Monocrow bidders bidding on the boxes. However, when the boxes open, we see they are empty and that Teruya is still alive, having not been killed. The Monocrow bidders get so angry that they storm the items and rip Teruya apart, and put different pieces of him in each box, now leaving satisfied.

Theming/Facts:

More gruesome version of his original one in which we see him get ripped apart.

Execution: A master is not picky about their brush

Subject: Iroha Nijiue, Ultimate Painter

Cause of death: Head ground away.

Explanation: Iroha is picked up by a giant Monocrow that dips her head in paint, and gently uses her as a paintbrush. However, with a bunch of creative flourish, Iroha is used more roughly, with her head being hit against the wall, and because of her bleeding, she messes up the painting, with the giant Monocrow getting angry and bashing Iroha's head against the painting. Eventually reaching a point where Iroha's head is just gone, ground away against the painting.

Theming/Facts:

Iroha's talent was something she was forced into and not passionate about, and thus she dies in a way where painting is the main focus.

Themed around her abuse, her blood staining the painting she's being used to create and being seen as a screw-up, much like her parents, and resorts to physical harm.

WARNING! Mentions of force-feeding in this one!

Execution: Nine Bomb

Subject: Setsuka Chiebukuro, Ultimate Billiards Player

Cause of death: Choked on billiard balls and blown up.

Explanation: Setsuka's mouth is forced open as she is underneath a hole in a pool table, with Monocrow knocking balls specifically so the balls fall into the hole she is underneath, forcing her to swallow the billiard balls down her throat, choking her. Eventually, the nine ball, which is oddly enough larger and beeping, nears Setsuka, and suddenly explodes, ending her suffering in the blink of an eye.

Theming/Facts:

None as of right now.

WARNING! Mentions of SA/Rape! Please proceed with caution

Execution: Space Travel ANOTHER

Subject: Yuri Kagarin, Ultimate Spaceman

Cause of death: Unknown but that's probably for the best.

Explanation: Yuri is in a classroom and gets trapped in a giant rocket, which blasts off into the sky. However, unlike the OG "Blast Off!" execution, it flies farther into space, eventually crashing into an alien planet. Yuri gets out of the rocket, only to be surrounded by alien-like hairy men, all holding... Sexual, objects, so to speak, Yuri faints as the aliens surround him, and... We're kinda left to imagine the rest.

Theming/Facts:

Yuri dislikes men... His execution being THIS fits.

Execution: Dead or Money

Subject: Syobai Hashimoto, Ultimate Broker

Cause of death: Shot repeatedly by a submachine gun.

Explanation: Syobai is tied to a chair faced with two buttons, a green one with money on it and a red one with a heart on it, corresponding to being given money or being spared from execution. Syobai attempts to hit the red button to save himself, but being tied in the chair makes it tough. Eventually, the chair falls over, and part of it hits the green button. Syobai is buried underneath a giant pile of money, which a mobster-style Monocrow takes a submachine gun and shoots it all up, with the money being stained with his blood due to him having been shot underneath.

Theming/Facts:

His obsession with getting money is emphasized in the execution, as he attempts to click the button that saves his life, he accidentally hits the button that gives him money, but takes his life.

It also fits his theming that he truly sees himself as an awful person undeserving of any goodwill from others. His execution shows that he is right that he cannot change the horrible person he is, and that being who he is, he would always choose money over anything.

Execution: Hellfire Emergency

Subject: Shinji Kasai, Ultimate Firefighter

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: A firefighter Monocrow receives an emergency call and heads to the scene of a fire where a child Monocrow is stuck inside the burning building. Shinji is tied to the top of the firetruck's bonnet, his skin glistening from having flammable oil put on him. The firetruck violates the speed limit signs and rushes towards the fire... And right through the entire building itself. Shinji is completely lit up and he burns to death. The background music stops and the scene changes to a funeral for Shinji near the ocean, where his bone meal is intended to be spread out into the sea. The firefighter Monocrow from earlier suddenly comes back, takes the bone meal, and puts it into a fire extinguisher to stop the fire, only to worsen the fire and to collapse the entire building.

Theming/Facts:

He makes it his purpose in life to save others. This execution uses his remains so that he makes a situation worse and kills people.

Execution: The Secret Recipe of Yoruko

Subject: Yoruko Kabuya, Ultimate Hostess

Cause of death: Drowned in alcohol.

Explanation: Yoruko is trapped in a large bottle that slowly fills up with alcohol over time, Yoruko being unable to get out as it fills up. The alcohol eventually starts making her inebriated and she eventually drowns in it, with Monocrow drinking from the bottle with a straw.

Theming/Facts:

Again, Yoruko dislikes her talent, and her death involves alcohol, something relating to her talent.

Execution: Theory of Happiness

Subject: Kokoro Mitsume, Ultimate Psychologist

Cause of death: Unknown, implied to be brain injury.

Explanation: With peaceful music, Kokoro is seen in a wedding dress and is seen having a wedding with someone. The scene changes to show her happily caressing a child in a hospital, having given birth to a child. The scene keeps changing, showing Kokoro working hard so her family can go on vacation, berating her daughter with test scores, and so on. Years go by and the daughter, herself all grown up, marries and moves out. The scene shows a now elderly Kokoro smiling and lying on her husband's lap. The scene suddenly pans out to show this entire sequence is being shown on a display, with wires going into Kokoro's eyes, and blood oozing from her eyes, nose and mouth.

Theming/Facts:

It's implied somewhere that Kokoro quite literally "died of heartbreak".

Kokoro has a mental disorder meaning she is unable to properly express emotion or feel certain emotions. Her quite literally being shown what her life would be like had she not have that disorder is very messed up.

Kokoro quite literally had a child so she could conduct experiments on them to see if she could one day experience emotions, and this child was rightfully taken away. Seeing a life where she actually can live a good life with the child is despair-inducing.

Kokoro is a terrible mother and a terrible lover due to her curiosity overriding any form of humanity she has. This, again, shows her a life she could've led had this curiosity not been so powerful.

Kokoro bleeding from her eyes, nose and mouth in her unused execution is a reference to how Mikako, her daughter, died in DRA1.

Execution: Super Press in the Woods

Subject: Mikado Sannoji, Ultimate Wizard

Cause of death: Mutilated.

Explanation: Behind the tied-up Mikado, a boxing ring, a castle, a wall, a building, and a small wooden house rise up one after the other. The scene changes, and Mikado appears as a human punching bag with his face sticking out of the punching machine. The scene changes, and Mikado appears in the elevator hall where the monsters from Emma's execution tear off his limbs. The scene changes, and Mikado, who became a 'human' paintbrush, has his skull broken from being used against the wall. The scene changes, and the bloody Mikado falls from the top of the building. The scene changes one last time, and now there is a small chunk of meat in the small shack, unrecognizable to the point where you can't tell it was Mikado. The dry air of the nearby mountains in this new scene ignites the wooden house and the flames begin to spread. The flames spread to the rest of the set, and the screen goes dark over the shack covered with flames.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around Junko's execution in which he goes through all the other executions... Except more realistic because by the end of the execution he is nothing more than scraps of viscera.

It's also notable that his execution excludes Hibiki and Kanade's executions, only doing Hajime, Emma, Iroha, and Nikei's, due to their connection to VOID.

It's also mentionable that Iroha's unused execution gets used here as well since she's part of VOID too.

He also was saved by Utsuro from a burning orphanage, represented by the end of the execution having a burning building similar to his orphanage collapse.

Chapter Text

Execution: Thrown to the Wolves

Subject: Min Jeung, Ultimate Student

Cause of death: Torn apart and eaten by wolves.

Explanation: Min is put in a classroom where she is forced to answer questions to survive, the first few questions are simple, but then she is asked a question which has no real answer, which forces her to be unable to answer it, and she is given a penalty, in which one of her arms is broken with a baseball bat. She attempts to answer more questions, but the next question is not answered fast enough, causing her other arm to be sawed off. Min is unable to write and tries to write with the pencil in her mouth, but fails, and is dropped into a room filled with rabid wolves that proceed to rip her apart and eat her alive.

Theming/Facts:

Min's death is basically fitting how a dumb student is viewed as a useless person, especially in Asian countries where like in China, your grade in gaokkao basically dictates the course of your life.

Execution: Thanatophobia

Subject: Ace Markey, Ultimate Jockey

Cause of death: Scared to death.

Explanation: Ace is in a graveyard, having willfully walked into his execution. A large scythe nearly hits him, and he runs off through a door, entering a hospital, themed around "death by disease", he enters another room, nearly being killed by a speeding car, "death by auto accident", this keeps on going, with Ace going through rooms each themed around "death by fire", "death by falling", "death by electrocution", "death by drowning", "death by murder", finally ending with a shooting range that he cannot escape from, with multiple shooters aiming at him firing squad style for "death by execution", however, when the shooters fire the guns, they shoot confetti, but Ace falls to the ground foaming at the mouth, an autopsy report reading "death by fear-induced cardiac arrest".

Theming/Facts:

Themed around Ace's extreme cowardice, as he dies from fright. Had he not been so scared, he would've survived his execution.

His death being largely caused by himself reacting to something so minor is clever. In a way it shows how much Ace constantly dooms himself. which is emphasized even more as the execution also points out his potential high survival rate in the game.

He went through 9 scenarios that were meant to kill him, which is significant as it's likely the number of scenarios is referencing the "cats has 9 lives" myth about how cats are more able to survive fatal situations. Which also fits the term "Scaredy-cat", which one can attribute to Ace.

Chapter Text

Execution: Limited Edition Chase Variant Orion

Subject: Orion Suka, Ultimate Collector.

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Orion is forced into a freezer by a giant Monocam and is frozen alive, and the giant Monocam takes his body and it is thrown into the trash, where it is put on a conveyor belt with spikes set to crush his body. The spikes however do not crush Orion’s body and it continues on the conveyor. Orion’s body is then picked up by a crane similar to a crane game, and it’s eventually dropped into a massive fire.

Theming/Facts:

Orion is frozen to be like a figurine, and then discarded of in the trash as reference to the ending of Toy Story 3.

The crane game crane is notable as crane games often have plushies or other such items that people like to collect, particularly Orion, who's the Ultimate Collector.

Execution: Fizzy’s Final Curtain Call

Subject: Cho Hyun-Sook, Ultimate Puppeteer.

Cause of death: Sawed away and crushed by a giant piano.

Explanation: Similar to that of a magic trick, Cho is put inside a box in a magic show type setting. Multiple swords are thrown at the box, impaling both the box and Cho inside. This keeps on going further and further until Monocam, with a giant sawblade mechanism, saws at Cho violently. Cho is then finally killed by being crushed by a piano Looney Tunes style.

Theming/Facts:

Referencing Cho's past of working at a circus, as magic shows can take place in circuses.

Execution: Execution worthy of a Gemini

Subject: Gaia Amami, Ultimate Twin

Cause of death: Decapitated.

Explanation: Gaia is tied up in an astrology-themed area, and a minotaur head is thrown over her head. Water fills the room up to her ankles as fish bite at her feet. A centaur shoots an arrow into her stomach, and she is then lifted up by crab claws. She is pulled over to a guillotine where her head is cut off and dropped onto the scales of justice, which end up collapsing.

Theming/Facts:

The Gemini star symbol means twins, so the execution is themed around astrological star signs, taurus with the bull head, cancer with the crab claws, pisces with the fish, aquarius with the water, Sagittarius with the centaur and the arrow, Virgo with the maiden, and libra with the scales.

This whole killing game, Gaia has been treated horribly by her twin sister Erena, who even went so far as to treat Gaia as an animal and keep her restrained with a collar. The bull head being put over her face is meant to represent that she's being treated not as a human, but as an animal being put down. This also fits considering Gaia is a synthetic clone and not a real human either.

Execution: Aries Huara in: Seismic Struggle!

Subject: Aries Huara, Ultimate Volcanologist

Cause of death: Engulfed in lava.

Explanation: Aries is tied with rope and hanging from a helicopter that Monocam is flying, and is thrown down into a volcano, but Aries escapes using his gas canister as a jetpack. Being chased down by flaming meteors from the nearby erupting volcano before falling down from his gas canister running out, and upon landing safely, falls beneath tectonic plates. This ignites his flame and causes him to transform similar to what is seen in some of his sprites. Then a stream of lava burns his skin off, cooks the meat on his body, and burns him alive to nothing but a skeleton.

Theming/Facts:

Fits his backstory of being quite literally fused with lava.

Aries’ will to never back down from anything is very present, with the combination of the running away from the start of his execution and rising from the crevice near the end of it.

Execution: Blue Screen of Death: Towa’s System Shutdown

Subject: Towa Sumiko, Ultimate Unlucky Bitizen

Cause of death: Electrocution

Explanation: Towa has her insides wired up to a variety of technology, her consciousness is thrown between them, first into a PC, then a games console, and finally having her files deleted from her consciousness causing her brain to shut down. A small drop of blood (or possibly liquefied brain matter) falls from her mouth, electrocuting her braindead body.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around her love of technology, with it being what kills her.

Execution: V-Day in the Eyes of the Survivors

Subject: Lilia Koizumi, Ultimate Wartime Photographer

Cause of death: Flag impaled through the skull.

Explanation: Akin to the V-Day at the end of the world war, and seen in “no man’s land” between two trenches, gunmen on both sides shoot at Lilia, obviously not doing anything since she’s just a synthetic clone. One throws a grenade and it blows off her legs, but she crawls away still alive, eventually a flag is stabbed through her skull, finally causing her to stop moving. Acapacio, who was watching the execution from afar, finishes the execution off by taking a picture of Lilia's dead body.

Theming/Facts:

The fact that Lilia does not die for a while in her execution represents how the only way she’d stop seeking revenge is if every part of her is torn down, hence why her execution involves multiple parts of her body being destroyed and rendered useless.

Chapter Text

Execution: What if this was my Final Straw

Subject: Bahmin Sankaran, Ultimate Astral Projectionist

Cause of death: Straw grew inside of her body and out of it.

Explanation: Bahmin falls into a cornfield, with her being grabbed by stalks of straw that pull her onto a cross and hold her against it. Crows suddenly appear and peck out Bahmin's eyes, with the straw growing inside them and throughout the insides of her body, eventually filling her body with straw and turning her into a scarecrow. A giant crow appears and grabs the cross that Bahmin's body is stuck on, and carries it off.

Theming/Facts:

Being turned into a human scarecrow represents Bahmin being stuck in the spirit world whenever she uses her talent.

The crows pecking her eyes out represent the unhappy spirits she meets in there.

WARNING! MENTION OF DRUGS AND FORCE-FEEDING IN THIS ONE! Please proceed with caution

Execution: Ending on a High Note

Subject: Emiliano Russi, Ultimate Rakugo Artist

Cause of death: Force-fed drugs until overdose.

Explanation: Emiliano is strapped to a chair with his mouth forced open, a machine with pills dropping them onto a conveyor belt that leads to his mouth, force-feeding the drugs. Emiliano starts hallucinating, ending up in a rubberhose cartoon style world. He is driven to a stage being hailed as a hero, where protestors suddenly appear, with Emiliano falling into a void. He is then strapped to a table, where a nurse injects him with a giant syringe, filling his body until it bursts. Outside the hallucination, we see Emiliano has died from the overdose, foaming at the mouth and bleeding from the eyes.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around his delusions about being a hero, and his hero complex, hence the drug trip starting with him being hailed as a hero.

It also references him having tried to overdose in the past.

Execution: Agerasia's Carousel of Progress

Subject: Yukie Mariya, Ultimate Derby Skater

Cause of death: Ripped in half from the legs up.

Explanation: Yukie is trapped on a track that her roller skates are stuck to, with a bunch of robots surrounding her. Yukie is forced to a challenge where she must shoot at targets like a carnival game, but when she shoots, the targets bend back. Yukie is sent to the second challenge, where she must cut her wrists open to let blood fill up beakers. She succeeds, but not before the robots 'bleed' enough before her. Yukie fails the challenges, and the tracks her skates are stuck to start to widen further and further until they force her into the splits due to her legs being pulled apart, until it reaches a point it rips her in half.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around her abusive childhood in the Agerasia agency, with her doing whatever she can to get more praise so she'd be loved, and her execution reflecting that.

Originally, her execution was more based on roller skating, but it was changed to what it is now.

Execution: The Burning of the Versailles Witch: Second Trial

Subject: Anthea Medus, Ultimate Mythologist

Cause of death: Banished to the spirit world.

Explanation: Anthea is trapped in a kiln-type structure in a savannah, with a large minotaur machine having a giant flamethrower shaped like the male reproductive organ, and the entrance to the kiln shaped like the female reproductive organ. The minotaur runs over Monoflashi due to Monosnappi pushing her underneath it, with the minotaur machine finally 'entering' the kiln, and the fire from the flamethrower effectively evicting Anthea's spirit from the body she possesses. She flies into the air, seeing a large glowing circular orb in the sky. Before Anthea can reach it, Monoflashi's spirit flies into it first, with Anthea being locked out. Anthea's spirit then disappears.

Theming/Facts:

The large egg cell in her execution represents what she wants most: Acceptance. Her being barred from it means even in death she is not accepted by anyone.

The giant flamethrower thing is meant to represent the minotaur, a known figure in mythology.

The... Questionable sexual theming around the execution fits the character, who was quite... Kinky.

Chapter Text

Execution: Mrs. Clean Pest Control

Subject: Chisa Yukizome, Ultimate Housekeeper

Cause of death: Electrocuted.

Explanation: Chisa is shoved into a dirty and dingy room with Monokuma children running rampant, and Chisa is forced to clean it all up. Chisa has insects, such as cockroaches, swarm all over her, biting her, and Chisa continues cleaning as much as she can despite all of this. Eventually, a giant Monokuma appears with a huge electric fly swat, and smashes both the bug swarms and Chisa with it, electrocuting them and frying them all alive.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around her hatred of cockroaches and insects at her time at the orphanage.

Execution: The Greenhouse Defect

Subject: Daisaku Bandai, Ultimate Farmer

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Daisaku is in a giant greenhouse where Monokumas restrain him with straw to restrain him like a scarecrow, and Monokuma turns up the heat. The heat increases until the plants catch fire and the fire starts spreading to Daisaku, burning him. Eventually, Monokuma appears with a hose, and sprays Daisuku, only for the hose to be spraying gasoline, causing an explosion of fire and burning him alive.

Theming/Facts:

He wanted to rebuild his farm due to it being destroyed. We never learned what destroyed it in the first place, but we can only assume that it had burned down.

WARNING! MENTION OF DRUG ADDICTIONS AND OD

Please proceed with caution

Execution: Mörbidly Crüel —DR. KILLGOOD

Subject: Seiko Kimura, Ultimate Pharmacist

Cause of death: Injected with thousands of diseases all at once

Explanation: Seiko is trapped in a giant emergency room, with Monokuma holding a machine gun filled with needles, stabbing one into her causes her fingernails to turn into claws. As Seiko runs away, Monokuma shoots more needles, which all further mutate Seiko until she is more beast and feral than human, and eventually, Seiko reaches the end, and she is distracted by the happy scenery to not notice she is standing upon a trap door, which opens and she falls into a pit full of needles labelled with different diseases all over the world. Seiko dies immediately once they all inject. Monokuma then appears with a slogan saying “Don’t share needles, kids!”

Theming/Facts:

Themed around how she loses control upon using some of the drugs she creates in the anime.

Her execution could be an allegory for drug addictions: She is injected with drugs, and the happy scenery at the end of her execution could be referencing the “high” one can experience, and the death caused by multiple needles injecting diseases into her could be a reference to drug overdoses, which addicts commonly die from. Of course, the more obvious symbolism is addicts dying from sharing needles that have diseases on them, but overdose is also a slight addition you can consider.

Execution: Around the Tragedy in 0 Days: Uncensored Director's Cut

Subject: Koichi Kizakura, Ultimate Talent Scout

Cause of death: Poisoned

Explanation: Koichi is in a movie studio that is filming a mock version of the Tragedy, starting with the Parade Tragedy with a bunch of Monokumas chasing after him. Eventually moving to the Reserve Course killing the main course students (all Monokumas recreating it), which forces Koichi to run. Eventually, he is forced into a large hallway leading to a crusher, representing Junko's execution. However, before he can be pushed towards the crusher, Koichi lets his Forbidden Action kill him and he is poisoned by the bangle, meaning he dies on his own terms instead of by the execution.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around Koichi having seen the horrors of the Tragedy the most compared to the other cast members, by having his execution be themed around the Tragedy and making a mockery of it when it is something very sensitive and serious to Koichi.

Execution: Magical Girl Miracle Girl ☆ Miaya: School Days Edition

Subjects: Miaya Gekkogahara, Ultimate Therapist

Cause of death: Bled to death

Explanation: Miaya is in a therapist's office with a psychiatrist Monokuma behind the desk, with the therapist pressing a button and dropping Miaya into a set that looks like Jabberwock Island, dropping her into the military base area where multiple Monobeasts attack her, being punched, impaled through part of her chest, nearly blown up by grenades, shot repeatedly by a gun, burnt partially, and electrocuted. However, when she is to be impaled through the heart to finish her off, the shot misses, and Miaya is left to bleed to death.

Theming/Facts:

The Monobeasts part of Miaya's execution are a reference to chakras in both colors and names, each of them even attack Miaya in a place where chakras are located in the human body.

Jabberwock Island being the setting for her execution is a reference to her helping cause the creation of the Neo World Program, which the Danganronpa 2 cast had their killing game inside of.

The Monobeasts missing where the heart chakra is located was meant to show that despite everything that's happened, Miaya still remains to have a strong heart that couldn't be corrupted.

Execution: The Ultimate Punishment.

Subject: Junko Enoshima, Ultimate Experiment

Cause of death: Blown up in outer space.

Explanation: Basically her regular execution but now themed with all the different Dead or Lie executions, going through Chisa's, Daisaku's, Seiko's, Koichi's and Miaya's before ending in a custom one, being called "Blast off: Unsafe Edition!" being a variant of Blast Off that ends with the rocket exploding as it reaches space.

Theming/Facts:

Again, all the executions mashed into one reflect how the killing game is all Junko's fault, thus meaning the deaths that occur could also be pinned as all her fault.

Ending things off is an alternate version of "Blast Off!", as a foil to ending Junko's reign of terror once and for all by executing her the same way the first execution victim was executed.

Chapter Text

Used Executions:

Execution: Fiery Furnace of Affliction

Subject: Eva Tsunaka, Ultimate Mathlete

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Eva is stuck on a conveyor belt in a giant furnace, with the conveyor pushing her towards the fire. Eva sees an exit and attempts to run to it, but over time, the conveyor tilts upwards, then transforms into stairs, and then a deluge of math supplies, like protractors, compasses and rulers, fall from the top of the conveyor. Eva ends up tripping forward and being impaled and stabbed by the numerous math appliances, and despite this, she keeps crawling forward while being further impaled and injured. Finally, a mannequin appears and lifts its hand out to Eva, and Eva, seeing it as a final hope to escape, grabs onto it, only for the arm of the mannequin to pop off. Eva then falls into the fire and burns alive.

Theming/Facts:

Once again, a character who dislikes their talent dies to an execution with that talent being referenced. Eva hates her Ultimate talent as she feels she deserves a much more grand sounding talent than “Ultimate Mathlete”, hence why her execution involves math supplies.

Eva said her Ultimate talent was “Ultimate Liar” when she first met everyone else in the cast, and kept that facade up until chapter 1 when her real Ultimate talent was revealed. Her death by fire is a joke on “Liar liar pants on fire”.

Again, this is another execution that is based off of the incinerator scene in Toy Story 3.

The fact her execution has her running constantly on a conveyor is meant to be a pun on the ‘athlete’ part of ‘mathlete’.

Chapter Text

Execution: Totentanz

Subject: Issei Amagaya, Ultimate Stage Actor

Cause of death: Impaled with a chandelier.

Explanation: Monokuma, dressed as the Phantom of the Opera, is on a balcony, with Issei stuck tied to the ground. Monokuma swings his fencing sword and jumps from the balcony, landing on the ground. The chandelier hanging from the ceiling drops down, and impales Issei, killing him. The 'audience' claps as curtains cover the scene, praising Monokuma for his performance.

Theming/Facts:

Issei has an extreme complex over being the most 'beautiful' thing in the world and that attention should be paid solely to him. As irony, Monokuma is the 'star' of the execution more than Issei himself actually is, being more prominent in it than Issei is.

For someone like Issei, whose greatest purpose in life was to attract attention from others, such a mundane punishment that neither caused him any pain nor drew too much attention compared to future executions was probably the worst punishment of all.

To continue with the theme of 'beauty', the term 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' comes into play with Issei being impaled eye-first.

The name of the punishment, "Totentanz," means "Dance of Death," which refers to a view of life and death that suggests, "Even if we belong to different classes and live different lives, one day death will unite us into nothingness, regardless of status or wealth." This, combined with Issei's own previous statement before his execution and his behavior where he saw other people as "nobodies" compared to him, makes it seem like "Amagaya is nothing, after all."

The original source of the punishment, the Opera House In the stage version of The Phantom, the character who had the chandelier dropped on him was an annoying supporting character who refused to step down so the main heroine (in this case, Konoe) could take center stage. In the original novel, that supporting character dies when the chandelier falls on them, meaning the story continues even after their death (their death doesn't matter).

Issei is impaled eye-first. After his execution, even Monokuma straight up says “he lost sight of himself”.

Execution: Ghost Buster

Subject: Dave F. Masuda, Ultimate Onmyoji

Cause of death: Allergic reaction/Anaphylactic shock.

Explanation: Dave is in a strange place with Japanese architecture. A creature appears, and Dave uses his powers to kill it before it can attack him. However, he panics once he notices a bunch of fangirls appear from a cage the monster had in it. He is then ambushed by the group of fangirls, and he dies from the ensuing allergic reaction. The scene shows a small pixel animation saying "Clear!", zooming out to show that Dave is still alive, with a VR headset strapped to his face, in a hospital room with IV lines hooked up to him, and what ever it is, it negatively impacts his body which results in death, with the nearby heartrate monitor flatlining.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around Dave's strange allergy to contact with women (because yes, he quite literally is allergic to women), he is killed by an allergic reaction by them.

The execution taking place in a simulation is a reference to how supernatural powers and stuff are mostly considered fictional things. Fictional things can happen in a simulation, which means that whether or not Dave actually has supernatural powers in the real world is left unknown (we don't know if he can use that weird beam attack he uses in his execution).

Dave, who has a deep connection to unscientific spirits, meets his end in a hospital, which could be considered a scientific(?) place.

Chapter Text

In-game/Used Executions

Execution: Aggressive Monetization

Subject: Takeshi Kizuna, Ultimate YouTuber

Cause of death: Crushed by a giant golden play button.

Explanation: Takeshi is tied to a pole, and thousands of coins are shot at him, injuring him from the speeds they are shot at. A giant golden play button is then lifted above him and drops down, crushing Takeshi.

Theming/Facts:

Mostly it just symbolizes the fact how aggressive monetization is ruining so many things, like gaming, as well as most online spaces, including Youtube. And in the end it destroys the creators that use these spaces.

Execution: Automatic Laundry

Subject: Katsuya Heyaboshi, Ultimate Cleaner

Cause of death: Shredded.

Explanation: Katsuya is tied to a large wall, with a large brush similar to a carwash spinning all over him. This brush starts causing Katsuya to be unable to breathe due to all the soap and water being splashed against his face. The carwash brush eventually leaves, replaced by a large saw blade that shreds into Katsuya, killing him.

Theming/Facts:

Based off the creator's own words "he's a cleaner, I suppose... I think I was lowkey thinking about how when I was a child and mom took me to an automatic car wash, so we were sitting in the car while those giant rotating brushes were moving against the car and I was scared, lmao"

Execution: Take your Shots

Subject: Rin Fukui, Ultimate Pharmacist

Cause of death: Shot in the head.

Explanation: Rin's body is stuck to a large object made to look like the health cross. A hand with a gun appears and mechanically moves towards each of Rin's limbs, shooting it. This goes on until each limb is shot and the gun points towards Rin's head, firing.

Theming/Facts:

Based off the creator's own words "this is just the dumbest pun 'take your shots' as in injections, but she actually gets shot, and the gun is pressed against various parts of her body like for an injection."

Execution: Rage Quit

Subject: Haruo Miyamoto, Ultimate Hacker

Cause of death: Crushed multiple times.

Explanation: Haruo is tied to a large keyboard that a giant Monokuma is playing some online game with. Monokuma eventually loses the game, and gets enraged, causing him to angrily smash the keyboard in rage, crushing Haruo. The giant Monokuma finally ends the execution by shoving the keyboard right into the PC, killing Haruo.

Theming/Facts:

The game on screen is the final boss of Claw, the same one that Monokuma was ranting about not being able to beat in one of the ch4 Theater segments.

This is the creator's favorite execution in the game.

As said by the creator, "I was thinking of the classic viral video "angry German kid" and we turned it into an execution."

Execution: Sea of Thorns

Subject: Ayaka Higanbana, Ultimate Gardener

Cause of death: Bled to death.

Explanation: Ayaka is grabbed by thorny vines that painfully wrap around her arms and then her legs, and the vines drag her away into a large pool filled with even more vines, and Ayaka is dragged into the pool, killing her as the thorns impale her further as she gets dragged down. Her mutilated body is then tossed back up by the vines out of the pool.

Theming/Facts:

None to go off of right now.

Execution: Classic Crusher

Subject: Ryo Nagisa, Ultimate Detective

Cause of death: Crushed.

Explanation: Ryo is going through the execution of Junko Enoshima, Makoto Naegi, so on and so forth. He is sitting in a chair, willingly letting himself be crushed. Megumi, who is trying to save him, tries to mess up the gears to the crusher, stopping the execution temporarily. Her attempt fails, and Ryo is crushed by the crusher.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around Junko, Makoto and Kyoko's executions of being crushed, since Ryo is the mastermind of the killing game.

We get Ode to Joy as background music  - apart from sounding cool and fitting for a final boss, it was also used in Neon Genesis Evangelion as sort of the theme of Kaworu Nagisa. And guess who Ryo got his last name from.

Megumi trying to stop the execution, briefly succeeding, but then all the options of 'hold on' turn to 'let go' one by one - this shows that there was really no helping Ryo, he was so far gone that he was beyond saving from the start, and letting go is the only choice that Megumi could have made in the end.

Unused Executions

Chapter Text

Used/In-game executions

Execution: Going Digital

Subject: Yumi Senuma, Ultimate Translator

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Yumi is tied up to a pole, and has large books about different languages thrown at her, piling up around her as well as injuring her. The books are then lit on fire, burning Yumi to death in the ensuing bonfire. Yumi's ashes are then taken to a large machine that turns them into a small compact disc for learning different languages.

Theming/Facts:

Symbolizes how just like books are getting replaced by digital versions, humans (especially older ones, like Yumi) are also treated as obsolete and disposable, and their work is becoming automated.

Execution: Always Clean Your Tools

Subject: Rika Iwasaki, Ultimate Tattoo Artist

Cause of death: Boiled alive.

Explanation: Rika is tied to a wall, and has a large tattoo gun brand her forehead for her crimes, such as "GF Killer" as an example. The tattoo gun, as well as Rika, are thrown into a giant autoclave, which activates and boils Rika alive. The autoclave opens up, showing the tools perfectly clean, and Rika's skeleton, also perfectly clean.

Theming/Facts:

Rika's is quite simple. She's getting branded as the 'GF KILLER' for her crimes. And only the physical pain of this finally gets her to realize what is going on around her.

Also her getting 'cleaned' by the machine can be similar to the DR killers trying to 'clean' themselves of their crimes, and destroying themselves in the process.

Execution: Prime Minister Bolesław Shusui's Inaugural Parade

Subject: Bolesław Shusui, Ultimate Politician

Cause of death: Shot.

Explanation: Bolesław is in a large car, and Monokerfie appears with a sniper, attempting to shoot Bolesław as an allusion to the JFK assassination. Bolesław manages to escape, and runs through the crowd after seeing what looks like Alucard. However, it turns out to be another Monokerfie that shoots Bolesław, killing him.

Theming/Facts:

Themed specifically around Kiyotaka's unused execution in THH.

Bolesław has been chasing the shadow of Alucard this whole case, if not most of his life. But that's all that it was - just a shadow, a fake vision - and in the end, it got him killed.

Execution: "Hey Man, Nice Shot"

Subject: Mamoru Fukufuji, Ultimate Hockey Player

Cause of death: Shot in the head. (Corpse executed, blasted off into space.)

Explanation: Mamoru's corpse is tied to a giant hockey puck with two teams of both Monokuma-styled players and Monokerfie-styled players knocking it around, causing his body to be broken and hit repeatedly with each strike of hockey sticks, before one player hits the puck so hard that it flies off into outer space. The Monokerfies then celebrate their victory with a mock Stanley cup.

Theming/Facts:

Mamoru's corpse is blasted off into space, which could be a joke on him "going to heaven" due to the religious aspect of Mamoru's character. Which is especially cruel considering Mamoru was saying he was doomed to go to hell.

The title "Hey Man, Nice Shot" is taken after the title of a song by the band Filter. The lyrics of that song are based on a real story of R. Budd Dwyer, a politician who was convicted of bribery and shot himself during a press conference (to fit in line with Mamoru shooting himself before his execution). The song has also been considered a bad omen by the fans of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team.

The execution itself is a reference to the final game of the 2007 Stanley Cup finals, with the Anaheim Ducks, the team whose old jersey inspired Mamoru's outfit, (represented by Monokerfies) beating the Ottawa Senators (represented by Monokumas) with a score of 6-2. All the goals scored by the Monokerfies are based on those scored by the Ducks, and the names of the goalscorers are referencing the real life scorers from that game: Andy McDonald, Rob Niedermayer, Francois Beauchemin, Travis Moen and Corey Perry.

Mamoru only killed himself because he was scared of his execution and wanted to die with at least some dignity, so Monokerfie specifically has his corpse executed in what he calls a “goofy execution” so as to deny Mamoru dignity even in death.

Unused executions:

Execution: 

Subject: Mako Niwaka, Ultimate Jeweler

Cause of death: Drowned.

Explanation: Mako is put on a thin platform made out of wood or glass, and has multiple items of heavy jewelry put on her body. The weight of it causes the platform underneath her to eventually collapse as too much heavy jewelry is forcibly put on her, and she drowns to death as the jewelry drags her down and kills her.

Theming/Facts:

None to go off of right now.

Chapter Text

Used/In-game executions:

Execution: First Hope Sonata Final Movement

Subject: Seina Datenashi, Ultimate Violinist.

Cause of death: Crushed.

Explanation: Seina is stuck on a chair with Monokuma at a piano, as if on a stage to play an orchestra. Monokuma slams the piano keys hard, causing the floor to collapse, but leaving both him and Seina alive. Monokuma does it again, the floor collapses again, and Monokuma suddenly starts slamming the piano harder and harder and faster and faster, causing him and Seina to fall down and be crushed by the ceiling when they eventually crash to the actual ground floor.

Theming/Facts:

None to go off of right now.

Execution: Exciting Puppet Theater -> Exciting Doll Killer

Subject: Mikihiko Koyasunaga, Ultimate Puppeteer

Cause of death: Shredded.

Explanation: Mikihiko is dressed up like a princess, arms and legs tied with ropes to maneuver them around like a puppet. A large lion prop appears and starts clawing at Mikihiko, and eventually, Mikihiko is dropped down a pit with shredding noises heard from it. At the bottom of the pit, a small machine dings and drops down a small bloodied plushie with Mikihiko's hair on it.

Theming/Facts:

Mikihiko's obsession with having control over things is exploited in that they have no control over even themselves in their execution.

Chapter Text

Execution: Presidential Pardon

Subject: Hitomi Sasaki, Ultimate Student Council President

Cause of death: Impaled through the stomach.

Explanation: Hitomi is stuck in a classroom, sitting at a desk with her arms strapped down to it. She is given a series of documents to apply her signature to, and her limited range of motion makes it so she cannot reach nor write on the documents very well. Each time she fails to produce an acceptably clear signature, a metal pike within the desk extends outwards towards her stomach, an issue that's exacerbated by the increasingly limited time to write. Soon enough, she fails and the pike impales her, and she is left to bleed out.

Theming/Facts:

Her execution is basically an allegory to how no matter how much effort Sasaki puts into something or works on something, she will fail. She tried to help everyone and in the end failed when she murdered somebody. She tried to defend herself in the trial and failed that too. Now, in the end, she tried to survive her execution only to fail and die from her failure.

The desk punishes Hitomi for imperfect signatures. This symbolizes the impossible expectations placed on authority figures: no matter how much effort they put in, a single failure is enough to bring downfall. (even though it's multiple here but you know what I mean)

A real presidential pardon is meant to absolve someone of guilt. The name mocks both her title and her futile attempt to defend herself at trial.

The timer before each document mirrors how leaders are often forced to make quick, pressured decisions. When she can’t keep up, she pays with her life, reflecting the nature of leadership in crisis and how unforgiving it is.

Execution: Prey

Subject: Keizou Harada, Ultimate Zoologist

Cause of death: Hanged.

Explanation: Keizou is left blindfolded for his execution, and is told that if he makes it to the other side of the room he is in, he will be spared from execution (which is clarified to be a false promise and he would still die anyway). The room is filled with multiple common hunting traps, which leads to injury, such as Keizou placing his left foot into a beartrap, getting struck hard in the back of the head by activating a deadfall trap, and eventually tripping over a tripwire and catching his neck in a rabbit snare, hanging him.

Theming/Facts:

Harada hung his victim's body up to mess with the crime scene, hence him being hung for his execution.

Harada being hung by a rabbit snare specifically is ironic given the animal mascot of Tetro, Monomoko, is a rabbit.

The added irony is that all the things injuring Harada are hunting traps, which are used to often hunt and kill animals, considering he loves animals.

Execution: Midas Touch

Subject: Hanano Okazaki, Ultimate Mask Artisan

Cause of death: Face burned with molten gold/suffocated from gold molding onto face.

Explanation: Hanano is strapped to a metal post and has her mask removed. A ceramic cast is put on her head that covers it. A drip affixed to the top of the post begins gradually filling the cast with molten gold, burning Hanano's face off and causing severe internal burning from molten gold entering through her nose and mouth. The cast is finally removed, leaving a golden mask fused to her face.

Theming/Facts:

Okazaki's execution is named after Midas who accidentally turned his daughter into gold and Okazaki's execution was controlled by her mom, who essentially turned her face into gold.

The execution could be a critique on how value is placed on material wealth (like gold) over life. Okazaki, as an individual, is essentially less important than the golden mask left behind. Especially in Yonekura's case (Okazaki's mother), who was upset at how much the gold would cost in the budget for maintaining the killing game.

Before her execution, Okazaki says that she's excited to see what kind of death she'll have, wanting something flashy, befitting of the Phantom Thief of Nagoya. And then her execution just has her sitting still with her face covered up, so she can't even see it.

Execution: Ninth Circle: Full Body Demonic Takeover

Subject: Ran Hama, Ultimate Demonologist

Cause of death: Insides dissolved by acid and burned alive.

Explanation: Ran is strapped to a large circular slat of wood, with a magic circle painted on it. Six IV lines are inserted into Ran (one on the neck, four for each arm and leg, and one in the lower back). The wood is set on fire, and the IV lines, filled with chlorine bleach and sulfuric acid, insert it into his body, causing him extreme pain. One of Ran's wrist restraints breaks, but Ran does not remove the IV lines to survive the execution, letting himself die for what he did.

Theming/Facts:

A battery was used in the crime, hence the usage of sulfuric acid, which is found in batteries.

His execution involves him being surrounded by fire and screaming and writhing in pain, much to fit the idea of Ran looking like a demon in Hell.

In chapter 1, Ran says he "doesn't mess around with fire". And during the interview with one of the scientists before the game, when asked what he believes to be the worst way to die, the first option he says is "burning alive".

The “Full Body Demonic Takeover” part of the execution’s name is a reference to how Hama talks about how his arm is possessed by a demon (the “demon arm”), so his execution is making it seem like it took over his whole body.

Execution: Bonus Round

Subject: Ken Hasegawa, Ultimate Quiz Show Champion

Cause of death: Body twisted apart.

Explanation: Ken has himself strapped to a mechanism shaped like an X, with each limb strapped to each arm of the X. A spinner appears displaying six different possible outcomes for him, four of the outcomes involving his limbs. With each outcome landed upon leading to the mechanism to turn sharply, causing the limb to twist harshly and at increasingly painful angles. The remaining outcomes on the spinner involve answering trivia questions and answering correctly reverses one tick of the mechanism's twisting. Eventually, Ken's limbs are twisted to full rotation, tearing them off entirely and leaving Ken in a state of pain so great he cannot even comprehend anything but it. Eventually, with all limbs torn off, one last question is asked for a "bonus round" and Ken is unable to answer due to the extreme agony, leading to the mechanism on his head twisting violently, killing him.

Theming/Facts:

The execution begins with Ken being strapped to a machine in the shape of an X, this symbolizes how you normally get an X from a judge if you fail to impress them on stage, and Ken being strapped onto one shows how he sees himself as worthless, or a failure.

His limbs are stretched and separated, being held in place by restraints to the machine. As we know, Ken is autistic and autistic people tend to have sensory issues, so for Ken in particular, this would make it very uncomfortable with how they are tugging on his skin in that particular way.

Chapter Text

Execution: Fukuoka Bread

Subject: Kotori Fukuoka, Ultimate Baker

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: A metal chain clasps around Kotori’s neck and drags her through a long hallway, until she is laid down on a large piece of pastry. A moment later a giant Monokuma clone appears and starts to wrap Kotori, then brushing her with egg wash and placing her in a ginormous oven. Over time the oven begins to get hotter, until Kotori is driven into a state of despair, with her eyes swirling to symbolize this. Off-screen Kotori is killed when the oven explodes, producing a single pastry dish; called a 'Kotori Pastry'.

Theming/Facts:

Kotori was originally going to turn into a meat pastry, but that was changed.

Execution: Fashion Tomoe: A Life Role Model (Season Edition)

Subject: Rintaro Tomoe, Ultimate Fashion Model

Cause of death: Decapitated.

Explanation: Rintaro is dressed in an outfit and put on a catwalk with a Monokuma audience. He steps on a tile that lights up and a sharp spike-like object is shot at him, injuring his arm, while multiple other tiles on the floor are lit up. Multiple guns suddenly begin firing spikes at him, injuring him even further, and driving him into a state of despair. He spots a button saying "All-Kill" at the end of the catwalk, and steps forward, only to step on a tile with a skull on it. A larger spike shoots and impales through Rintaro, and suddenly changes his outfit to one with a butterfly motif. Rintaro begins to run forward with a renewed boost of speed, eventually making it to the button, and is about to press it until a large robotic praying mantis appears and cuts off his head. His head is placed into a glass display case and his body is pinned to a board with butterfly wings, and both displays are raised up into the air as if being museum/gallery exhibits.

Theming/Facts:

Tomoe's clothes during the execution had the motifs of larvae (the outfit at the start of the execution) and adult butterflies (from near the end of it).

The button at the end of the execution is clarified to be fake, so even if Tomoe pressed it, nothing would've happened, which again uses the hope of surviving for naught.

It's clarified that his execution got changed 10 times over the course of development.

A pacifier is put in his decapitated head's mouth as a way to show that Tomoe's realization is ridiculous, and in a way, "immature".

Chapter Text

Execution: Brainrot Victim

Subject: Mark, Ultimate Scroller

Cause of death: Face sandpapered off. (how else can I even explain it?)

Explanation: Mark is stuck on a contraption that is made to look like a hand, with him as a ‘finger’ on the hand. Grizzkuma uses this to drag Mark’s face against the screen of a giant cellphone on Tiktok, and eventually starts doing this at insane speeds, which leads to Mark quite literally getting his face sandpapered off.

Theming/Facts:

Mark admitted that his Ultimate talent is one he does not want and that it has no value, and that he doesn’t even really have an Ultimate talent, after all, he does say “who would want to be an Ultimate Scroller?”.

Execution: One Goal to Rule the World

Subject: Jastien, Ultimate Goalkeeper

Cause of death: Soccer ball shot through body.

Explanation: Jastien is chained up at a soccer goal in a soccer stadium, and Grizzkuma is there with a soccer ball. Grizzkuma kicks a ball, and the chains holding Jastien force him to hit the ball, but also drag him into the side of the net and injure him. This happens again with another ball, and another, until Grizzkuma shoots an ungodly amount of balls at insane speeds, breaking his bones. Eventually, Grizzkuma shoots one last soccer ball at a high speed, causing it to fly through Jastien’s body and kill him. Grizzkuma celebrates as a “1-0” appears and the simulated crowd cheers.

Theming/Facts:

Chapter Text

Execution: Saving Throw

Subject: Dracul Tremblay, Ultimate Dungeon Master

Cause of death: Impaled with a sword

Explanation: Dracul is in an open field, with a dragon guarding a house. Dracul is intimidated by the dragon at first, but prepares himself and pulls a sword out of a nearby stone. He engages in a fight with the dragon, and after fighting it, comes out victorious. He makes it over to the house, only to open the door and see his family has been killed, their bodies left dumped in the house. Dracul is left in shock and is then impaled by a sword from the back, and he bleeds out.

Theming/Facts:

Dracul wants to be seen as a hero. In the end, he does *sort of* get this wish of defeating a dragon blocking him from his family.

Dracul loves his family very much. In the end of his execution, he sees that the mastermind has slaughtered them all and strewn the bodies in the room Dracul reaches.

What's even worse is that it's clarified that his family is actually still alive, and the "bodies" are actually mannequins made to look like his family members, and his family is actually alive. meaning he died in despair thinking they were killed.

Dracul was impaled by his own sword, technically meaning his own actions lead to his own downfall.

Chapter Text

Execution: Autumn Senescence

Subject: Autumn Palmer, Ultimate Gardener

Cause of death: Decapitated.

Explanation: Autumn is tied to a bed surrounded by plants. Monokuma slides some pots of bamboo underneath the bed. Within a short amount of time they begin to grow exceptionally fast and sprout through Autumn's body, piercing her torso in multiple places. As Monokuma picks up a pair of shears, Autumn sees the ghost of her mom, who places her hand on her shoulder. Reduced to tears by the pain and the sight of her mom, Autumn is unable to move as Monokuma uses the pair of shears to decapitate Autumn's head, instantly killing her. Her head then falls to the ground.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around Vietnamese bamboo torture.

Unused due to the game getting cancelled

Execution: Correct or Die

Subject: Dennis Wells, Ultimate Game Show Contestant

Cause of death: Run over by a sports car.

Explanation: Dennis is forced to answer trivia questions on a game show hosted by Monokuma. Over time, the questions are asked faster and he must answer faster as well, all the while the Monokuma audience is throwing things at him thinking he's cheating. Eventually, the questions are so fast it's almost impossible to answer, and the last question is a question he struggles to answer (the creator mentions the question would be "are you a terrible person"), and he takes too long to answer it. The stuff the audience throws at him grows more dangerous and he runs away. Monokuma, having planned for this, takes the prize car and drives after Dennis with it, running him over. He dies as the audience continues throwing stuff at him and booing him.

Theming/Facts:

The question "are you a terrible person" is used because Dennis wants to say yes because he killed someone, but also logically thinking about all the things he's done in his life he'd also consider saying no.

Execution: (No known name for his execution.)

Subject: Marcus Ziegler, Ultimate Poet

Cause of death: Burned by acid.

Explanation: Marcus is strapped to a chair with a wax statue of Kim in front of him. A poem would then be read to Marcus. (I cannot remember the poem but I know they had one written) As the poem was read, it would start to rain acid and the statue would start melting. Marcus would be in horrible pain, moving around in the chair, when he accidentally tips over and falls into a puddle of the acid. Half of his face would burn, and he’d die. 

Theming/Facts:

Due to him using a storm as a cover for both of his murders in the killing game, his execution has him die to acid rain.

It's clarified that Marcus attempted to kill Kim in the case, hence why there's a wax statue of her in the execution.

Execution: (No known name for her execution)

Subject: Emily Price, Ultimate Carpenter

Cause of death: Sawed to death.

Explanation: Emily is trapped in a deadly escape room featuring lots of razors, rusty nails, tools, etc. She searches for a key, going through dangerous traps in her search, barely getting out alive (but very hurt!) until she finally manages to find the key. Then, putting the key in the door, she’s forced to make a choice: Escape and get someone killed, or die herself.  The person that she could get killed. It's either herself or her brother. Anyways, Emily’s already feeling extremely guilty from the accidental murder she has committed, so without even hesitating, she’d choose to sacrifice herself. The floor would be pulled out from under her and she’d fall into a pit of spinning blades.

Theming/Facts:

She’d choose to sacrifice herself so her brother could live. She'd choose it so quickly, even, that I think it’d be emphasized that she didn’t even really think of the consequences of her choice.. Very Emily.

Execution: No name for her execution.

Subject: Chinatsu, Ultimate Cashier

Cause of death: Launched into space.

Explanation: Chinatsu would seem almost excited, saying that she can’t wait to see her "Danganronpa Execution". Monokuma berates her, saying that she doesn’t even deserve a proper execution. He tells her that she was the worst person they could have possibly ever hired for the job and that she was only ever causing problems since day 1. He tells her to get in the rocket, which she willingly does, and he just immediately fires the rocket off before she can even get any last words in.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: My Apology

Subject: Marie Lambert, Ultimate Vlogger

Cause of death: Hung.

Explanation: The execution begins with Marie lit up by the blue light of her computer. She is unable to leave the room and the computer seems to be livestreaming her webcam. People in the live chat start begging for Marie to give an apology, and with nothing else to do, she starts writing one out. People in the live chat throw insults at her and about the killing game. The note Marie writes seems very generic at first, she visibly gets more worried and the note gets more personal, with her apologizing to her parents for not being what they had hoped for, apologizing to her victim for accidentally killing them, apologizing to her own audience for not being the "Old Marie", and suddenly a noose tightens around her neck and lifts her up, she struggles and tries to break free, but eventually dies.

Theming/Facts:

Chapter Text

Execution: Extreme Hazard

Subject: Art Campopiano, Ultimate Golfer

Cause of death: Head bashed in.

Explanation: The trial grounds walls slide open, and a golf cart screeches out, drifting over and stopping behind Art, with mechanical arms forcing him into the cart as it drives off. Art is then brought to the execution area which is made to look like a giant version of a sand bunker in a golf course. A giant bear statue holding a golf club rears up its shot and swings, bashing Art in the head.

Theming/Facts:

Art lost his passion for golf long ago, and so his execution would be despair-inducing.

Execution: Horseshoes

Subject: Ashley Westbridge, Ultimate Jockey

Cause of death: Neck snapped.

Explanation: Ashley is chained to a metal post. A set of mechanical arms appear, each wielding horseshoes. The arms start throwing the horseshoes at the post Ashley is tied to, More pitches are tossed but all miss. One last horseshoe is tossed at her at a fast speed and it hits her in the neck and kills her.

Theming/Facts:

Chapter Text

Execution: Pharaoh's Last Rave

Subject: Chatuluka Mustaf, Ultimate DJ

Cause of death: Heart ripped out.

Explanation: Chatuluka is trapped in an Egyptian-styled stadium with a large monochrome crowd. Speakers blast music loud enough to burst his eardrums. As the music keeps playing, a large anubis-like robot moves over to Chatuluka and cuts him open, ripping out his ribcage, and then tearing out his heart, raising it for the crowd, which cheers.

Theming/Facts:

Chatuluka getting his heart ripped out is supposed to represent how what he did was "heartless".

Made to be a mockery of stereotypical mummification processes.

Everything Chatuluka did in his life was to maintain and grow his audience, so his execution is about suffering on a stage for an audience that is cheering for his demise.

He devoted his life to music, and in the end, music aided in his demise near the start, where he loses his eardrums due to music playing too loud. It is also a reference to the fact that he is in this situation because he didn't listen to Uluwehi when he tried to be sympathetic to Chatuluka.

Execution: Atone by Stones

Subject: Ivalu Jensen, Ultimate Exorcist

Cause of death: Stoned and decapitated.

Explanation: Ivalu is chained up in a strange theatre, which has an audience of machines made to look like angels. The Monotrio begins saying bible verses as the angels start throwing stones at Ivalu, injuring her and breaking her bones. Eventually, the chains restricting her wrists start heating up and burning her. Lastly, a machine made to look like God comes down and grabs Ivalu by her pigtails, and using a sword, slices her head off, raising it for the crowd to cheer.

Theming/Facts:

Being thrown at with stones could represent the extensive bullying she suffered as a child.

"The hour I first believed... my chains are gone; I've been set free. My God, my savior, has ransomed me." Ivalu sings these lyrics in the first chapter. And in her execution, she is chained up, and at the end the robot that kills her is made to look like God, which could be a symbolism as the God robot "freed" Ivalu from her chains by killing her.

Execution: Human Season

Subject: Mitch Jones, Ultimate Sport Hunter

Cause of death: Shot with a harpoon.

Explanation: Mitch is dragged to his execution, with Juliet running after him. Mitch finds himself trapped in a forest, with a shot firing and a bullet shooting through his shoulder. Multiple robots made to represent different common animals appear, all holding guns. Mitch runs for his life as the robots chase him down throughout the forest. Meanwhile, Juliet enters the execution area, and runs around to try and find Mitch. Mitch steps into a bear trap and becomes trapped. Finally, the animal robots find Mitch and fire upon him, shooting him mercilessly. To finish him off, one of the robots turns their briefcase into a harpoon, and fires it at Mitch, only for Juliet to get in the way and lose her arm when the harpoon shoots through her, as well as impaling Mitch. Juliet weeps over Mitch's body as she is dragged away, with the robots posing around Mitch's dead body and taking a picture together.

Theming/Facts:

The robots are made to look like animals that are common victims of hunting, such as one looking like a deer, and another like a rabbit. Some also represent animals from Mitch's home country, such as a kangaroo.

Mitch was hunted like an animal, one of those he despised so much.

Execution: Cold Blooded Piroulette

Subject: Francine Dubois, Ultimate Ice Dancer.

Cause of death: Froze to death.

Explanation: Francine is in an ice rink, with artificial rain falling down and freezing near her feet. Francine begins skating to avoid freezing to death, but has a saw slice at her leg. Multiple saws appear and begin cutting parts of the ice rink off, making less room for Francine to skate on. The rain begins to fall down faster and Francine is forced onto only a small pillar to spin on. The freezing rain freezes Francine alive, and her body falls down when the saws cut away the pillar. Her body shatters upon impact with the ground below.

Theming/Facts:

Francine loves dancing in front of a crowd, hence why her execution takes place in an ice rink that's completely empty save for her.

Execution: Lingchi of the Sea

Subject: Zhang Wei, Ultimate Fisherman

Cause of death: Impaled by a swordfish.

Explanation: Zhang is impaled on a fishing hook on a small fishing boat. The Monotrio lower Zhang into the water, causing robotic fish to bite at him, with the Monotrio lifting Zhang back out and ripping the fish, as well as pieces of flesh and muscle, off of his body. This keeps being done until the fish disappear, and a large swordfish appears, swimming up to Zhang and impaling him.

Theming/Facts:

Some say that guilt "eats away" at a person, which could fit with Zhang being eaten away at by robotic fish.

Zhang dislikes being in water, so his execution specifically submerges him in water multiple times.

Execution: The Hole in One

Subject: Giselle Eulberg, Ultimate Golf Pro

Cause of death: Cooked alive.

Explanation: Giselle is trapped inside a large metal ball, with one of the Monotrio holding a remote (it's not a Wii remote trust us here). The remote is swung, causing a massive golf club to smash the giant metal ball Giselle is in, making it go flying and knocking Giselle into the side and injuring her. The ball then goes to such fast speeds that it catches fire, effectively cooking Giselle alive inside. The ball opens up later to reveal nothing more than her bloody cooked skeleton.

Theming/Facts:

Giselle is a confirmed racist, and she is executed in a way that makes her skin come off. This shows irony.

Execution: Footsteps of the Lord

Subject: Joshua Johnson, Ultimate Preacher

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Joshua is dragged into a set made to look like an ancient city, with his neck chained to a pole. Roman-dressed robots are commanded by one of the Monotrio to torture him, starting with Joshua being whipped on his back repeatedly, and a crown of thorns forcibly being put onto his head. A group of the robots also carry a large cross into the center of the square, as well as removing him from the podium and laying him on top of the cross. The machines nail Joshua to the cross with steel nails and a hammer, and the machines then put the cross Joshua's nailed to onto a pile of straw doused in gasoline, which is then set on fire, burning him alive.

Theming/Facts:

While other religious executions we've gone over so far have involved allegories to "going to heaven", being burned alive could be an allusion to Joshua "going to hell" (which is kinda funny considering he isn't executed for a murder here).

Execution: Heartfelt Eulogy

Subject: Juliet Lazenby, Ultimate Poet

Cause of death: Blood drained from body.

Explanation: Juliet is stuck in a large theatre, with a large piece of paper and a giant pen. One of the Monotrio raises a wand and commends the pen to write, all the while, needles attached to the pen inject into Juliet's body, and start draining blood from her body, her blood acting as ink for the pen. This continues until all that is left of Juliet is her shriveled up corpse.

Theming/Facts:

The poem being written in Juliet’s blood is a real poem: "Do not go gentle into that good night".

Chapter Text

Execution: And Action!

Subject: Nina Cameo, Ultimate Director

Cause of death: Cut in half.

Explanation: Nina is put through a trapdoor and falls onto a red carpet leading into a movie cinema. A crowd of paparazzi chases after her, and Nina runs into the cinema. Nina runs into a door labelled "Exit", only for it to change to "On air". Nina runs onto the stage, and ends up stepping into a bear trap, which traps her. The crowd laughs at her as she tries to tear it off, but a giant clapboard suddenly appears around Nina, and even though she jumps to get out of the way, the clapboard still shuts and slices her in half.

Theming/Facts:

There's the obvious ending of the execution with the giant clapboard, which implies either the start of a scene or the ending of it, which killed her. It can be seen as truly "starting" the killing game and also... Y'know, ending her life.

The joke of the execution is that people yell “cut” as they clap the clapboard, and Nina is killed by being cut in half by a clapboard.

Execution: The Remnant of Don Quixote

Subject: Arthur the LXIXth, Ultimate Knight

Cause of death: Ripped apart.

Explanation: Arthur is in dark haunted-looking woods, and brandishes his sword. A legion of monstrous tree beings appear and chase after him as he runs away. Arthur runs out of the woods, and finds himself in a peaceful field. He sees a tower with long hair coming out of a window, and the tree monsters storm out of the woods, chasing after him and forcing Arthur to climb up the hair. He makes it into the window, only for it to be Monoryu who has a giant wig. Monoryu takes some scissors and cuts the hair, causing Arthur to fall and break multiple bones in his body. The tree monsters then rip Arthur apart, tearing off his feet, arms, tearing out his eyes and finally ripping his head off, killing him. His sword goes flying out of the ravaging mob and embeds itself into the earth nearby.

Theming/Facts:

Besides the obvious Rapunzel theming near the end, there’s also the theming of Humpty Dumpty. Arthur “Took a great fall” and “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put him back together again”, due to him having his limbs torn off.

The flowers at the end of his execution are the same flowers from the flower crown Arthur’s mother wore. It essentially means that since both are dead, they are together again now.

The name referenced in the execution's title is Don Quixote, and if you don’t know, the original character with that name is a half-crazy old man that has read books on knights so he goes out in an old suit of armour on a horse pretending to be a knight, causing trouble up and down the land. His world is far from the fictional world of knights and maidens and dragons that he believes that he is in, which exactly fits Arthur, who is a normal person pretending to be a knight, is considered weird by some of the cast, and ends up 'causing trouble' by committing murder.

Execution: I am Fearless, and therefore Weak

Subject: Frankie Instein, Ultimate Mad Scientist

Cause of death: Disemboweled and buried alive.

Explanation: Frankie, due to having killed herself before her execution, has her corpse dragged out into the execution chamber. Monoryu, dressed as a surgeon, cuts Frankie's body open, and brings Frankie back to life. Frankie only has a few seconds of clarity before Monoryu rips her heart out entirely, killing her. Two smaller minions take a defibrillator and shock Frankie with it, bringing her back to life again, only for Monoryu to tear out organs and bones, with them injecting her with syringes filled with drugs as well, and every time she dies, they bring her back to life to torture her further. This keeps on going until a nearby heart rate monitor malfunctions, and Frankie is just entirely empty in the chest and torso areas. Monoryu clumsily looks towards his assistants, and the scene changes to a graveyard, where they bury Frankie's body. The heart rate monitor turns on one last time, showing Frankie is still alive, she opens her eyes weakly as they bury her, leaving her to die. One of the assistants leaves Frankie's glasses on her grave, and her grave reads: "Fate is not an angel, it creeps like a rat".

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Sat on a Gold Mine

Subjects: Milo Topaz, Ultimate Miner and Chester Pawn, Ultimate ???

Cause of death: Engulfed in lava.

Explanation: Chester is tied to a pole behind a large pit of lava, with rail tracks leading up to him. In this mine-themed setting, Milo falls into a large cart that fills with coal, and it starts moving forward. All light is turned off, leaving Milo in the dark. Multiple stalagmites slice at Milo, with one impaling into him and breaking off, staying embedded in his body. Milo looks ahead to see the glow of the lava, and closes his eyes, accepting his fate. He whistles to himself in his final moments, Monoryu, who is in mining gear and has a lever next to him, pushes the lever, which in fact makes Milo go on an opposite track to Chester, sparing Chester's life. Milo falls into the lava and burns alive.

Theming/Facts:

Chester was essentially used as a “pawn” to drive Milo into further despair, making him think he was going to kill him.

Chapter Text

Execution: First Day Detention

Subject: Osomi Isamu, Ultimate Stuntman

Cause of death: None (Survived execution)

Explanation: Osomi is shot at by Monojuke, who shoots vinyl records at Osomi. Osomi is cut repeatedly by these vinyl records, and stumbles backwards. A trapdoor opens up behind him and he stumbles backwards, falling down into it.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Deadly Downhill Dash

Subject: Hideaki Matsui, Ultimate Skier

Cause of death: Hanged.

Explanation: Hideaki is stuck with a chain clasped around his neck on a snowy mountain, and a button is next to it. The chain is slowly pulling Hideaki closer to the slope, and Hideaki has skis attached to his feet. Hideaki skis down the hill, and attempts to hit the button once he hits a ramp, only for his skis to go flying off the ramp. We then see that Hideaki got lifted off of his skis by the chain lifting him up and hanging him. The skis stop at the bottom of the hill and get covered by snow.

Theming/Facts:

Hideaki was very much angry and blamed everyone else for his own actions. He quite literally "died on that hill".

Chapter Text

Execution: The Killing Joke

Subject: Naughty Nick

Cause of death: Crushed by falling stage light.

Explanation: Nick is trapped behind a stage where a giant Monokuma picks him up and uses him as a ventriloquist dummy, the curtain pulling back to reveal a comedy club type setting. Nick reads the situation and starts telling jokes to appease the audience, which works at first until he runs out of "good" jokes and the Monokuma's are now unamused. The main Monokuma hits a button that unleashes termites, which eat off Nick's outer layer and reveal his exoskeleton. Nick begins angrily yelling at Monokuma, who still holds Nick up. Just as Nick finally escapes Monokuma's grip, a stage light falls down and crushes Nick, destroying him.

Theming/Facts:

Nick killed his owner (because remember that Nick is just an AI-filled ventriloquist dummy), and so his execution is making fun of him in the sense that he's basically nothing without her.

Execution: Mansion Run

Subject: Billie "Charlie" Cane, Lil' Ultimate Track Runner

Cause of death: Impaled with a spike.

Explanation: Billie is on a track with multiple Monokuma's around him, as if to start a track race. A shot is fired and the Monokuma's begin running (okay, not really. Most trip over themselves). Billie is left confused by the Monokuma's stumbling over, but behind him is a large monster truck with spiked tires, driven by the real Monokuma. Monokuma drives towards Billie, who runs on the track, which starts to change from an actual track to an obstacle course. Billie runs through some crushing pistons and makes it to the end of the course, watching as the monster truck is crushed behind him. Billie sighs a sigh of relief and exits... Only to end up in a dark room with a spiked ceiling, which falls and impales through Billie's head, killing him instantly and painlessly.

Theming/Facts:

Monster trucks are commonly seen as things young boys like, fitting how Billie is a kid.

Execution: Fuck You! 

(I am not kidding. That's actually what it's called lmao)

Subject: Touketsu Ao, Ultimate Snowboarder

Cause of death: Suicide (Corpse executed, ripped apart by Monokuma)

Explanation: Monokuma simply just rips apart Touketsu's corpse out of anger.

Theming/Facts:

This "execution" is actually a massive hint towards the mastermind. It's a very... Childish thing to do, in hindsight. Much akin to a temper tantrum.

Execution: Monokuma Went Down to Georgia

Subject: Emiko Page, Ultimate Guitarist

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Emiko and Monokuma are on a dark mountain, and both of them start playing the guitars, causing lightning to strike and fire to rise from the ground. Emiko plays, causing the lightning to ease closer to Monokuma. Monokuma plays harder, causing Monokuma-styled spirits to grab at Emiko and hinder her playing. Emiko succeeds in causing Monokuma to explode by a lightning strike hitting him, only for him to rise again wearing devil horns and now being much larger. Monokuma plays the guitar so loud that the fire surrounds Emiko, causing her face to melt off and burning her alive.

Theming/Facts:

It was often considered a while back that heavy metal music was the 'music of the devil', hence why Monokuma turns into a demon at the end of the execution and Emiko is burned alive as an allusion to her 'going to hell' for her love of the music.

The title is a reference to a song called "The Devil went down to Georgia", which also fits the theme.

Chapter Text

Execution: The Fault in Our Cells

Subject: Teppei Natsume, Ultimate Cytologist

Cause of death: Crushed flat.

Explanation: Teppei is chained up in the front of a lecture hall. Multiple Monokuma's are in the room, some sleeping and others with various bored expressions. Teppei is forced to start a lecture, only for purple gas to come out of the vents in the room, which causes Teppei to cough. Multiple Monokuma's start tossing stuff at him, such as papers, food wrappers, pencils, gum, etc. Teppei continues coughing harshly as he is pelted. The ceiling above Teppei suddenly opens up and an incredibly large sculpture of a Mitochondrion falls from above, crushing him underneath.

Theming/Facts:

The name of the execution is a pun on “The fault in ourselves”, which could allude to how Teppei’s fate is all his fault.

Teppei is crushed by the mitochondria because earlier in daily life he deemed it the most overused bit (the whole “powerhouse of the cell” thing), so taking him out with what he considered to be a mockery is ironic.

Execution: Nefarious Nightmare on Kuma Street

Subject: Reika Fujino, Ultimate Culprit

Cause of death: Fell to death.

Explanation: Reika is trapped in a jail cell, with Reika escaping through an air vent. Reika crawls in the vent and ends up falling, coming out of the ventilation system and right into the middle of the break room. Monokuma, Long John Jones and Reika awkwardly stay still until Monokuma waddles over and hits an "ALARM" button on the wall. Multiple Monokuma's wearing police hats fire shots at Reika, who runs away, but not before getting shot in the ankle. Monokuma throws a grenade at Reika, which she just barely dodges the explosion of, going flying from the blast and smashing into a wall that now has a hole in it for her to escape. Reika makes it to the fence and jumps on the other side... Which is a giant cliff. Reika then falls to her death. Monokuma simply looks from a watchtower with binoculars, to only see a cartoonish outline of Reika's body, and a not-so-cartoonish broken corpse inside.

Theming/Facts:

Reika is mostly cut and dry. the only real thing there is she died by falling because that's the most common way that a stereotypical cartoon/disney villain dies and the creator wanted to allude to that.

Execution: Money for Nothing (Death For Free)

Subject: Atsurou Koide, Ultimate Entrepreneur

Cause of death: Torn apart by bullets/Shot.

Explanation: Atsurou is in a fancy office, with various newspapers on the desk, all saying stuff like "Atsurou Koide to file for bankruptcy?" "Multi-millionaire guilty of murder! Loses it all!", etc. A number of Monokuma's dressed up as Repo Men are taking all of the furniture in the room. It's only a few moments later where Atsurou finds himself kicked out the front door, landing in a puddle of mud outside. Atsurou is left walking on the empty streets until Monokuma's dressed as gang members arrive with guns. They fire at Atsurou, who runs into an alleyway. Atsurou takes out a wad of cash and throws it at the gang Monokuma's, who become distracted by the money. Atsurou gets to the roof of a nearby building, and is now trapped. Long John Jones, piloting a helicopter, lowers a ladder for Atsurou, who begins to climb the ladder as the gang Monokuma's fire at him. However, Atsurou falls from the ladder due to an injury he got from one of his victim's, and the helicopter flies away. The gang Monokuma's come back and fire upon Atsurou, turning him to nothing but scraps of viscera. The leader Monokuma takes a cigarette out of the ruined corpse's vest pocket, lights it up, and takes a moment to enjoy the bright sunlight of the city as the sun comes up.

Theming/Facts:

Atsurou is almost mostly cut and dry with how it ties into his talent and actually being an arms dealer and such.

In an ironic twist of fate, Atsurou loses his chance at survival because of an injury he sustained from Sabaku/Unmei. It's a case of karmic justice that Atsurou is essentially killed by Sabaku/Unmei, who technically caused Atsurou to become the killer in the first place.

Atsurou was an orphan who lived on the streets, so his execution had him kicked out and, specifically, left in the streets much like when he was a child.

Execution: Judgement's Cut

Subject: Ayumi Matsuko, Ultimate Iaido Master

Cause of death: Sliced in half/Slashed.

Explanation: Ayumi is in a dojo of some sort, with the dojo's doors across from her sliding open to reveal a large army of katana-wielding Monokuma's, who surround her. Ayumi takes out her blade and, as the army charges towards her, she dispatches of them easily. One of them slash Ayumi's back, and one Monokuma knocks over a torch, causing the dojo to catch fire. Ayumi finishes the last of the Monokuma's off, with a slash on her face now being there. She then notices the real Monokuma, who is garbed in a traditional samurai robe and has a sword of his own. The flames now separate the two of them, and as soon as the flames flicker down, Ayumi lunges at Monokuma... Only for cardboard cutouts of Yobun and Momoka to pop up and make Ayumi stop in her tracks. This is enough for Monokuma to slash Ayumi and kill her.

Theming/Facts:

Using Ayumi's relations to Yobun and Momoka specifically was perfect as it is making fun of how Ayumi is held back by her connections to other people.

The Japanese kanji is directly taken from Final Fantasy 8, and means “Zansetsuken”, which is the summon Odin's attack whenever it chops an enemy in half.

Execution: Turnabout is Fair Play

Subject: Lyle Ayashi, Ultimate Prosecutor

Cause of death: None (Lyle messed up the execution)

Explanation: Lyle is in a courtroom with a gallery of Monokuma's bringing out various execution devices like gallows and electric chair. However, the execution stops, causing Monokuma having to improvise... (See below executions)

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Feline Fine

Subject: Yobun Ai, Ultimate Lion Tamer (Original subject), Lyle Ayashi, Ultimate Prosecutor

Cause of death: Murdered in the killing game prior (Yobun), None (Lyle survived this one too).

Explanation: Lyle is put in the middle of a circus ring, with Monokuma as a ringleader. Monokuma sends a robot lion at Lyle, intending for Lyle to be mauled to death by it as it jumps through hoops of fire. Lyle uses his music player to hack into the execution again and causes the execution to fail. He even makes the lion go after Monokuma, causing him to improvise again... (See below for the next one)

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Say Good Knight

Subject: Hana Ohara, Ultimate Knight (Original subject), Lyle Ayashi, Ultimate Prosecutor

Cause of death: None (Hana, was never killed), None (Lyle, survived this one yet again)

Explanation: Lyle is in the outskirts of a massive castle. Monokuma's loaded with crossbows appear, aiming at Lyle. Lyle presses the button again, causing most of the Monokuma's to turn around and start firing at their own army. Monokuma improvises YET AGAIN... (See next execution)

Theming/Facts:

This being Hana’s intended execution is meant to be a play on Hana’s past; She’s famous for surviving and defeating multiple Yakuza members who broke into her family home and were to kill her, but she fended them off. This time around, if Hana was the one in the execution, she’d be the intruder being killed by the occupants, considering she’s on the outskirts of a castle with an army from said castle killing her.

Execution: Beware the Black (and White) Spot

Subject: Ryo Takumi, Ultimate Pirate (Original subject), Lyle Ayashi, Ultimate Prosecutor

Cause of death: Died before the killing game (Ryo), None (Lyle survived again)

Explanation: Lyle is now on a ship. From the fog, a Monokuma-themed pirate ship appears. Cannons are lined up to fire at Lyle, but he presses the button again, causing the ship he's on to fire at Monokuma's ship instead... Improvising yet again! (See next execution)

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Blue Screen of Death

Subject: Hatsue Katsumi, Ultimate Hacker (Original subject), Lyle Ayashi, Ultimate Prosecutor

Cause of death: Died before the killing game (Hatsue), Burned alive (Lyle)

Explanation: Lyle is in a strange cyberspace with black and green coloring. A digital message appears saying "Virus Detected! Commencing Deletion!". Multiple blocky Monokuma's appear and are meant to represent antiviruses. The real Monokuma watches from above, but Lyle clicks another button, causing all the Monokuma's to disappear except the real one. Lyle is then brought to a set made to look like Hope's Peak, where a class photo is done with his class. However, multiple characters, such as Hatsue and Ryo, appear in the photo, which Lyle cannot remember at first due to his amnesia. In the end, Lyle lowers his shades one last time once he finally remembers Hatsue, and accepts his fate as he burns alive from the ensuing explosion when the mock Hope's Peak is blown up.

Theming/Facts:

Lyle has a Star Wars reference in his death.

The mock Hope's Peak blowing up is meant to represent the Tragedy and how it ruined Hope's Peak after the THH Killing Game.

His execution is also foreshadowed in the prologue, with the class photo that causes the funhouse to explode.

Execution: Curtain Call

Subject: Itsumi Hisomeru, Ultimate Method Actor

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Itsumi is in a very fancy looking theatre, and he is chained into his position, unable to escape. The Monokuma audience breaks into applause, and then standing ovation, with them tossing roses to congratulate him, but throw a ridiculous amount of roses at Itsumi, with them being thorny and cutting him. Champagne bottles are then tossed at him, injuring him further. Papers meant to be autographed by him start piling at his feet. An "Actor of the Year!" trophy is tossed at his arm and breaks his arm, and more heavy trophies are tossed at him, breaking his bones. Lastly, one singular Monokuma holds a lit match, and the papers at Itsumi's feet are doused in gasoline. Itsumi tries to use one of the trophies to break the chains restraining him, but cannot. Monokuma tosses the match onto the papers, lighting Itsumi on fire and burning him to death.

Theming/Facts:

Roses being tossed at him is meant to signify the appreciation for a show at the end of its performance, as Itsumi's death brings the end of the killing game.

His body is left in a bowing gesture, which one can attribute to an actor doing at the end of their performance.

Itsumi worshipped Junko and wanted to become the next "Ultimate Despair" after her death. As a foil, while Junko enjoyed the despair and her own death, Itsumi actually was scared and didn't want to die, which Monokuma mentions meant he wasn't fit for the role of Ultimate Despair, as a true Ultimate Despair would enjoy the despair of their death.

Chapter Text

Execution: 100 Swords

Subject: Makoto Naegi, Ultimate Lucky Student

Cause of death: Impaled by a sword.

Explanation: Makoto is trapped in a barrel by Monokuma, who starts stabbing swords into the barrel, with one grazing his face. Monokuma shoves multiple other swords into the barrel, and only when Monokuma stabs the final sword in does the barrel stop moving, implying that Makoto got impaled and died.

Theming/Facts:

Being trapped in a barrel reflects Makoto’s powerlessness. Throughout the first game, he often felt “boxed in” by despair, but always found a way out. In the execution, there’s no escape - the barrel he is in could symbolize that he is literally “sealed inside” despair, with no escape.

Being impaled by a sword has symbolic weight; swords are often associated with heroes, knights, or warriors of justice. Makoto, who embodies hope, and is the hero of the first game, dies by a sword.

Execution: Rumors

Subject: Shuichi Saihara, Ultimate Detective

Cause of death: Impaled.

Explanation: Shuichi is put into a dark room, and multiple silhouettes are set up to look like other members of the killing game. The other figures start hurling insults and cruel taunts at Shuichi, and knives are tossed at him for each sentence said. Shuichi is left on his knees until a robot made to look like Kaede goes up to him and stabs him in the chest. Shuichi is almost dead, with Monokuma cutting a rope holding up a giant magnifying glass. The glass falls down and the spiked end falls on Shuichi, killing him.

Theming/Facts:

It's basically "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me", except of course the words actually hurt him.

A robot Kaede delivering the fatal stab is especially symbolic. Kaede was Shuichi’s emotional anchor and the one who believed in him most. Her image betraying him represents losing people’s trust and being destroyed by other people close to him.

As a detective, Shuichi’s role is tied to uncovering the truth, but rumors distort and weaponize it. His execution shows how lies and half-truths (rumors) can destroy reputations and, particularly, lives just as much as real evidence.

Shuichi is a character plagued by self-doubt and insecurity. The taunts externalize his inner monologue; the execution forces him to face the verbalized form of his own anxieties, which ultimately kill him.

Execution: Christmas in Kamukura

Subject: Izuru Kamukura

Cause of death: Drowned.

Explanation: Izuru is nailed to a cross in a Christmas-themed wonderland. A bunch of tinted water begins filling the setting, and eventually going over Izuru's head, leaving him to drown. The screen zooms out to show Izuru is inside of a giant snowglobe.

Theming/Facts:

Christmas is commonly seen as a time of year where people are most excited/happy, which goes against Izuru who views everything as boring.

Snow globes are also considered rather boring by most people, hence why it's involved in his execution.

It could also be seen as symbolism around Christianity, as Izuru is nailed to a cross. Izuru is heralded as the "Ultimate Hope" by Hope's Peak, and Jesus Christ is a symbol of hope, hence why Izuru is nailed to a cross as if he is Jesus.

Execution: Naive Chicken Train

Subject: Kazuichi Souda, Ultimate Mechanic

Cause of death: Fell to death.

Explanation: Kazuichi is tied down in a chair at the front of a train, with Monokuma with a little hat as the conductor. Monokuma presses a button, causing the train to go at ridiculous speeds towards the end of the tracks, which leads down a massive pit. Monokuma, realizing his "mistake", runs away, leaving Kazuichi behind, with Kazuichi trying to break free from his restraints. Kazuichi succeeds, and attempts to leave the train, only to watch Monokuma detach the front car from the rest of the train, leaving Kazuichi to die. The train's front car falls down the pit and Kazuichi falls with it. Monokuma, looking at the edge of the pit, looks to the camera and does a little salute.

Theming/Facts:

Again, Kazuichi has issues with motion sickness, so a moving train being his execution is also pretty cruel.

The title is making fun of Kazuichi himself: He can be considered both naive, and he is very cowardly in the story, hence "chicken".

Execution: Slutty Cyber Slayer

Subject: Miu Iruma, Ultimate Inventor

Cause of death: Electrocuted.

Explanation: Miu is restrained in a chair where a VR headset is attached to her head. She is spawned into a virtual world, where a legion of Monokuma's appear, and she runs off. Once she thinks she's safe, she is surrounded by another crowd of Monokuma's. Monotaro, who views Miu as her "mom", pushes Monokuma away and attempts to rip off the headset to save Miu, only for Monokuma to turn off the safety features on the headset and the many wires electrocute both Monotaro and Monophanie, and also Miu herself, who experiences being decapitated in the virtual world before finally dying of electrocution in the real world.

Theming/Facts:

Miu was the one who knew the most about the Neo World Program in Chapter 4 of V3, hence why her execution takes place in one.

The word “slutty” being used in the execution's name is meant to be a jab at how Miu could sometimes act inappropriate.

Execution: Made in Hinata

Subject: Hajime Hinata, Ultimate ???

Cause of death: Dissolved by acid.

Explanation: Hajime is in the class trial room in a chair when Monokuma, dressed as a member of Hope's Peak's Steering Committee, has Hajime dropped down through a trapdoor, where he falls into a large class container in a factory. Multiple different fruits are in other class vials as well, with acid being poured into each container. The acid dissolves the fruit and turns it into a sort of soft drink/soda/juice, with Hajime getting closer each time. Eventually, Hajime is underneath, and acid is poured on him, dissolving him and turning him into a plain blue liquid, which is branded "Hinata Cider".

Theming/Facts:

The Steering Committee are the people behind Hajime being turned into Izuru, and also for a lot of Hope's Peak's behind-the-scenes corruption, hence why Monokuma dresses up as a member of it.

Hajime being a "normal flavor" of a drink is meant to reference how plain he is compared to the other cast members.

The execution is called “Made in Hinata” referencing him having an artificial talent, kinda like how “Made in China” sometimes means something is of dubious quality.

The executions of "I Told You, I'm Psychic!"

Execution: Dimensional Leaping

Subject: Hifumi Yamada, Ultimate Fanfic Writer

Cause of death: Crushed flat.

Explanation: Hifumi is dropped onto a conveyor belt, and a giant press slams down on the conveyor belt just a few metres ahead of him. The bottom of the press has a decal of a pink-haired anime girl with a bow and wings. The entire conveyer belt is lined with hydraulic presses along the whole length and they keep slamming down. Hifumi is hit by a press from the side that smacks him into the wall, and narrowly avoids getting crushed by it. Unfortunately, as Hifumi reaches the end of the conveyor, the press in front of him slams down and blocks his path, and the presses behind him start slamming down. Hifumi is then crushed by the presses catching up to him.

Theming/Facts:

Hifumi only feels appreciation towards 2D characters, hence why his execution is being crushed, as he technically turned flat, and flat is basically 2D.

The pink-haired anime girl with wings and a bow is meant to be Buko, who is Hifumi's favorite character. Again, he is being killed by his favorite character, in a sense.

Execution: Shock Therapy of the Mangy Mutt

Subject: Genocide Jill, Ultimate Serial Killer (also called Genocide Jack or Genocider Syo, but Jill is what is used in the fic so we'll use that!)

Cause of death: Electrocuted.

Explanation: Jill is in a guidance office, and Monokuma dressed in a nurse's uniform runs over and handcuffs Jill, and then kicks her out into the street. Jill hastily walks down the street, and Monokuma's all in positions made to look like her murder victims are in alleyways that she can see. The windows of the buildings on each side of her open above as Monokuma occupants dump their trash into the alleyway, covering Jill with various garbage, the volume of which increases as she begins to run, eventually being smacked with an entire trash can from above and falling down. Jill attempts to get up as a police car with Monokuma cops appears and they restrain her. She is then forced into the car which goes to high speeds and stops abrubtly, tossing her out the car and making her crash into a wall. The Monokuma cops bring her into the building, into a death row execution chamber, and one of the Monokuma's lift up a lever as Jill is forced into an electric chair. However, the electrocution doesn't come and the Monokuma improvises by lunging at Jill, only for the other Monokuma to notice a disconnected power cable and reconnects it, and the Monokuma and Jill are both electrocuted.

Theming/Facts:

Death by electric chair was a common execution method for criminals, such as serial killers, back in the 1900's, hence Jill being killed via electric chair.

Execution: Last Lap of the Gluttonous Goldfish

Subject: Aoi Asahina, Ultimate Swimming Pro

Cause of death: Crushed by water pressure.

Explanation: A trapdoor opens up underneath Aoi and she falls down, being forcibly changed into a swimsuit and falling into water. A robotic shark appears and charges towards her and Aoi swims away to survive. A second and third shark suddenly appear after Aoi, and suddenly a whirlpool forms in the water. The exhaustion kicks in and Aoi cannot keep swimming, so the sharks slam into her and she is sucked under the water by the whirlpool. The sharks begin crushing Aoi against each other and eventually Aoi and the sharks are sucked into the drain at the bottom of the pool of water. All that's left in the end is a single robot shark flopping around.

Theming/Facts:

Goldfish are often stereotyped to be extremely simple-minded/stupid creatures, so calling Aoi a goldfish is basically calling her stupid.

Execution: From Rags to Riches to Dirty Ditches

Subject: Byakuya Togami, Ultimate Affluent Progeny

Cause of death: Crushed by coins.

Explanation: Byakuya is shoved down a chute that leads to a giant garbage-filled area, and lights turn on. On the other side of the giant room, he can see a button that says "Halt" on it. The area is revealed to be a giant trash compactor that slowly starts enclosing, along with crushers from the ceiling begin slamming down, an incinerator turning on to spew flames and a larger crusher slamming down, and the lights turning red as the compactor turns on. Byakuya runs forward and narrowly avoids being crushed by the crushers, and he also manages to escape the incinerator aiming its flames at him. Byakuya makes it to the second crusher, which he has to walk sideways through, only to end up having his arm getting broken by the crusher. A room above of Byakuya ends up opening up, being a cartoonishly oversized bank vault that's filled to the brim with gold coins that are larger than Byakuya himself. The massive stacks of gold coins fall down on top of Byakuya and he is buried alive and eventually crushed by the weight of all the coins.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: (No name for execution)

Subject: Chihiro Fujisaki, Ultimate Programmer

Cause of death: Eaten alive by Monokumas.

Explanation: Chihiro attempts to kill everyone using the execution button in the trial room, only for the Monokumas to encircle Chihiro and eat them alive.

Theming/Facts:

The executions of "I'd Trade my Life for Yours"

Execution: Detective of Love Whodunnit

Subject: Shuichi Saihara, Ultimate Detective

Cause of death: Shot with an arrow and cooked alive from the inside out.

Explanation: Shuichi is pulled into a room made to look like an old manor with statues of cupid-based Monokuma's spread around. A statue rises up from the ground wielding a revolver, and shoots Shuichi in the leg. Multiple other Monokuma's appear wielding objects known infamously to be murder weapons, such as a pipe, a candlestick, a wrench, a knife, etc. All of them circle Shuichi and attack him in non-fatal places to cause him more pain, with one more reddened statue appearing with a rope. One of the Monokubs ends up grabbing the rope and killing itself with the rope, which postpones Shuichi's execution, but is futile as in the end, one of the pre-existing statues suddenly pulls back its cupid bow and shoots an arrow that hits Shuichi in the chest, and the arrow, which was on fire, sets him on fire from the inside out, killing him.

Theming/Facts:

Shuichi wanted Kaede to live out of his love for her, hence why his execution has love theming in it.

The creator of the execution based Shuichi's death by an arrow on a death from RWBY.

Execution: Wax Angel

Subject: Angie Yonaga, Ultimate Artist

Cause of death: Engulfed in hot wax.

Explanation: Angie is left praying on her execution set, which is set up to represent a stereotypical tropical island. The volcano in the background erupts, and hot wax replacing ash and lava falls down, covering Angie. Angie does not react to this and simply accepts her fate, and is completely encased in hot wax. A hammer comes down, and gently touches Angie's body, causing it to cartoonishly shatter.

Theming/Facts:

It's mentioned that the ashy environment of her execution makes Angie "look like an angel", considering her religious backstory and personality.

Execution: Ages of Invention: Reinventing the Wheel

Subject: Miu Iruma, Ultimate Inventor

Cause of death: Decapitated.

Explanation: Miu is stuck on the ceiling of the class trial area, with it spinning around at high speeds. A projector turns on, saying "The Stone Age", and a hammer made of rock smashes one of the Monokubs. It then reads "The Bronze Age" and a hammer made of bronze is brought down to smash the other Monokub. It changes to "The Iron Age" and the last Monokub is destroyed by an iron hammer, now leaving only Miu left. The screen then changes to "The Execution Age!" and a large axe swings out, going past the remnants of the Monokub's and then stopping when it smashes into Miu's neck, cutting her head off.

Theming/Facts:

The spinning roof is meant to be an allusion to an old-fashioned projector, which actually does have spinning components in it.

Execution: King of Lies: NEW Burning of the Versailles Witch

Subject: Kokichi Ouma, Ultimate Supreme Leader

Cause of death: Poisoned.

Explanation: Much like Celeste's execution, Kokichi is surrounded in a medieval type setting on a stage, with brush underneath him that is set ablaze by an executioner Monokuma. However, the poison he was given before his execution ends up killing him before the fire can, and he dies. His body is left burning by the blaze as the Monokuma crowd all grumble and dissipates out of disappointment.

Theming/Facts:

Considering the execution of V3 in chapter 5 was Kaito getting a callback execution, Kokichi's execution ends up being a callback execution as well.

"King of Lies" is a play of "Queen of Lies" which was what Celeste's gambling moniker was.

Kokichi gets Celeste's execution as both are notable in both games to be notorious liars.

The parallels between this execution and the game's canon Chapter 5 execution. Both were revamped versions of executions from the first game with the culprit dying before the execution can kill them.

Executions from Danganronpa Class Swap - Hope's Peak Academy

Execution: Boss Rush

Subject: Chiaki Nanami, Ultimate Gamer

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Chiaki is trapped in a dark dungeon type place. She is first forced into a green outfit and has to fight a Monokuma-styled mask, which shoots at her, and she beats this boss. She is then put in robotic armor and fights against a Monokuma based off of Mega Man. She beats that and ends up in the "Final Boss", with Chiaki put into medieval armor and fighting against a giant Monokuma-colored dragon. Unfortunately, the dragon breathes fire, and the flames consume Chiaki. Monokuma splashes some water on the burning environment, to show there's nothing but ashes and charred remains.

Theming/Facts:

The different bosses she fights are respectively based off of Majora's Mask from The Legend of Zelda, Mega Man from... Well, Mega Man, and the last one is a reference to... Not sure, exactly.

Execution: Novoselian Revolution

Subject: Sonia Nevermind, Ultimate Princess

Cause of death: Impaled by pitchforks.

Explanation: Sonia is standing in a familiar room, around her, in same arrangement, are large flat cutouts with her family printed on them. Monokuma appears, dressed like a soldier and holding a rifle, and points said rifle in Sonia’s direction and shoots one of the cutouts. He keeps shooting each cutout until only Sonia remains, and she runs away. Sonia runs throughout the castle, avoiding bullets and other military-dressed Monokuma's. Sonia makes it to a door and goes through, only to fall down a pit and be impaled by a mob of Monokuma's wielding pitchforks.

Theming/Facts:

In this version of canon, Sonia's family is actually illegitimate in royalty, and she had fears that her family's illegitimacy in royalty would result in civil war in Novoselic. This is why her execution is themed around revolution.

Execution: One Woman Army (Class Swap Version)

Subject: Peko Pekoyama, Ultimate Swordswoman

Cause of death: Sliced in half/bisected.

Explanation: Peko is in a large colosseum, with Monokuma samurai's surrounding her. Peko slices through the army with relative ease, and sees a figure who looks like Fuyuhiko in the distance. Peko kills all the Monokuma samurai's and Peko reaches out to Fuyuhiko, only to see that it's a cardboard cutout. One last Monokuma samurai who was hiding behind the cutout slashes his katana, cutting both the cutout and Peko herself.

Theming/Facts:

Based off of both her normal execution and Fuyuhiko's own unused execution.

Execution: Crash Test

Subject: Kazuichi Souda, Ultimate Mechanic

Cause of death: Smashed against a wall at high speeds.

Explanation: A huge race track with three cars is located somewhere. Two of the cars have crash test dummies strapped to each cars driver’s seat with seatbelts, but the third has Kazuichi sitting in it, unable to escape. A Monokuma with glasses approaches the track with a checklist with three empty boxes on it. Suddenly a horn sounds and one of the cars the dummies is inside takes off. It begins riding circles, getting faster and faster until a concrete slab rises from the ground right in front of it, causing the car to crash into it. Monokuma checks one of the boxes and moves on to the second car, and despite it slowing down when it gets to the concrete wall, it still crashes violently. Finally, the car Kazuichi is inside goes speeding around the racetrack, and eventually the car manages to stop right in front of the wall. However, sheer momentum causes the seatbelt holding Kazuichi to snap, sending him flying forward, shattering the windshield and colliding with the wall in front of him head-first. His body slowly slides down the concrete wall, leaving behind a bloody trail. Monokuma finally places a checkmark in the final box and closes the notebook that had the checklist, revealing that it’s been titled “Brake Test”.

Theming/Facts:

Once again, Kazuichi's motion sickness is used again here.

Execution: Polished to Perfection

Subject: Hajime Hinata, Ultimate "Vessel"

Cause of death: None. (Execution failed)

Explanation: Hajime is strapped to an operating table, and is stuck on a conveyor belt with a bunch of mannequins on them. Hajime is first put through a machine that cuts his hair back to its normal length (due to him having the hairstyle Izuru had earlier), a school uniform with a crest of Hope’s Peak is then stapled on top of his own. The next machine recolors all of his clothes grey, avoiding the face and hands. Hajime sees a final machine that is a sprayer that sprays acid that melts down all the mannequins ahead of him. However, Monokuma messes up and the sprayer runs out of acid when it's Hajime's turn, and the conveyor, which is automated, tosses Hajime down a garbage shoot.

Theming/Facts:

The execution is a reference to how Hope's Peak Academy's reserve course treats its students. It makes them carbon copies of each other and essentially "melts them down into nothing".

Execution: The Ultimate Punishment

Subject: Chiaki Nanami, Ultimate Despair

Cause of death: Eaten by a robot dragon.

Explanation: Basically going through all of the Class Swap executions and ending in Boss Rush where the dragon eats her instead of burns her alive.

Theming/Facts:

The executions of "Three-Point Shot"

Execution: All Dolled Up

Subject: Tsumugi Shirogane, Ultimate Cosplayer

Cause of death: Cut apart by thin wires.

Explanation: Tsumugi is trapped in a location meant to look like a beauty salon, where Monokuma and the Monokubs forcibly put clothes on her to look like Junko Enoshima in hairstyle and fashion. She is then forced against the wall and is trapped with garrote wire, and is then put in a large box with "Life-Size Mastermind Doll" on it. The wire gets tighter on Tsumugi's body, and starts bleeding, only for Monokuma to end up pulling the wire tight enough that it slices Tsumugi into pieces. He then proceeds to put a sticker on the box that says "Some Assembly Required".

Theming/Facts:

Tsumugi is the mastermind of the V3 killing game, and is the Ultimate Cosplayer, so she's being forced to cosplay Junko Enoshima, the mastermind of the first killing game.

Tsumugi is forced into Junko’s clothes and persona, underscoring that she never truly had her own identity outside of Danganronpa. Even in canon Danganronpa V3, she literally let herself be executed because she saw no point in living a life where Danganronpa no longer exists. Her execution strips away her individuality and forces her into the ultimate role she tried to emulate, by having her die dressed as Junko, meaning she dies as Junko and not as Tsumugi Shirogane.

The garrote wires could double as imagery of puppet strings, symbolizing how she manipulated the killing game cast. (this one is a bit of a stretch)

Being placed in a “Life-Size Mastermind Doll” box emphasizes how artificial she was. She treated the killing game, and even the participants, like toys.

The salon environment mirrors how she “dressed up” the truth in lies and illusions. A salon could be seen as a place of disguising yourself or changing how you look, aligning with her role as a cosplayer who could always change her outward self.

By being forced to cosplay Junko, the execution underlines that Tsumugi was never really an original mastermind, only a pale imitation of what a more popular one was. She’s punished by being consumed by the identity she tried to embody.

By ending as nothing more than a product in a box, Tsumugi is stripped of her humanity, reflecting how she stripped the killing game participants of theirs.

Execution: Completely Floored

Subject: Tenko Chabashira, Ultimate Aikido Master

Cause of death: Crushed flat.

Explanation: Tenko is in a dojo-type setting, with Monokuma's dressed in martial arts Gi's storming inside. The Monokuma's attack Tenko, but she fights them off fairly easily. The wooden plank on the floor Tenko stands upon suddenly flips upward at a high rate of speed, throwing her into the air, and she lands on some of the metal debris left behind from the defeated Monokuma's. This keeps going with Tenko's bones being broken and her being injured in increasingly grisly manner from being thrown into the air and falling over and over. In the end, one last board pops up and instead goes over top of Tenko, crushing her flat.

Theming/Facts:

The automatons are described to be "intimidating in appearance, but they have no form, no style and no heart". They fight like street thugs, in spite of their attire being of a professional martial artist, which would really go against Tenko, who is an actual martial artist.

Execution: Divinely Inspired

Subject: Angie Yonaga, Ultimate Artist

Cause of death: Electrocuted and engulfed in lava.

Explanation: Angie is at the rim of a large active volcano in the middle of a tropical storm. Angie sees a wax pillar that is slowly melting away from the volcanic heat and the rainfall, and a sword is at her feet. She begins to create a sculpture out of the wax, and creates an image of what she sees Atua like. However, feeling the sculpture is not perfect enough to represent her god, she takes the sword and attempts to put it into the sculpture's hand. Unfortunately, the storm has lightning strike the sword, electrocuting Angie through it. She collapses, and she and her sculpture both fall into the lava, melting away.

Theming/Facts:

Being struck by lightning while creating a false idol echoes biblical and mythological themes of humans being punished for “playing god” or attempting to depict the divine. In many traditions, lightning is seen as the wrath of the gods.

The storm mirrors both the chaos she caused within the group and the destructive power of her single-minded devotion.

The obvious theming of "throwing a virgin in a volcano" is again used here, as it's a stereotypical sacrifice done to appease deities of volcanoes.

By sculpting what she imagines Atua to look like, Angie assumes a kind of blasphemy. Her execution punishes her “hubris” for daring to define divinity through her limited human perception.

Being engulfed by lava can symbolize damnation or hellfire, which is a fitting punishment for someone like Angie whose manipulation under the guise of religion hurt others.

Execution: Molten Slag

Subject: Miu Iruma, Ultimate Inventor

Cause of death: Crushed into a cube.

Explanation: Miu is in a large factory on a conveyor belt. A pile of scrap metal before her is suddenly flattened by an overhead crusher with two more crushers coming from either side, turning the compacted scrap into a cube. Miu is pushed closer and closer until she is crushed by these crushers. Her remains are then dropped into a large container of molten metal and the molten metal is then poured out into a funnel that leads into what appears to be a mold. The mold is in the shape of multiple Monokuma type toys/robots, which march out of the mold.

Theming/Facts:

Miu has wishes to become a mother once she grows older, and so her remains being put into molten metal to make little toys/robots means she's essentially their 'mother'.

Execution: Fool's Mate

Subject: Kokichi Ouma, Ultimate Supreme Leader

Cause of death: Impaled by a sword.

Explanation: Kokichi is locked onto a throne dressed with a crown and vestments and a scepter in his hand. Kokichi notices a sword dangling above him held only by a few cables, and looks ahead to see that Monokuma is across from him, and a large chessboard separates the two with life-size pawns on the board. Kokichi is able to wave the scepter to make his pawns move, and Monokuma moves pieces himself, with the loss of a pawn making the cables on the sword above Kokichi begin to snap. Kokichi manages to beat Monokuma in the game of chess, causing Monokuma to leap up and cut the cables himself with his claws, causing the sword to fall and impale Kokichi.

Theming/Facts:

Kokichi basically has been playing chess mentally with the other killing game participants as the 'pawns'.

The fact that Monokuma lost to Kokichi in the game of chess means that Kokichi essentially has had Monokuma 'defeated' multiple times by outsmarting him, and thus Monokuma has clearly had to go to underhanded/cheap tactics to beat Kokichi.

The executions of "Reboot Restart Relocate"

Execution: Corporal Punishment

Subject: Kiyotaka Ishimaru, Ultimate Moral Compass

Cause of death: Tortured to death.

Explanation: Kiyotaka is inside of a deserted classroom seated at a desk. The door slides open to reveal a Monokuma teacher holding a long ruler with barbed wire wrapped around it. Kiyotaka is then stuck around a pole, his arms trapped onto the pole with handcuffs. The Monokuma teacher than smacks the ruler against Kiyotaka's body, and repeatedly keeps going until Kiyotaka is dead from blood loss and skin loss. Monokuma then puts a small sticker on his cheek, which says "You did a good job!"

Theming/Facts:

Specifically themed around how being hit with a ruler was a common example of old-fashioned punishment in schools.

Execution: Words Cut Deep

Subject: Byakuya Togami, Ultimate Affluent Progeny

Cause of death: Sliced apart.

Explanation: Byakuya is standing alone on a cliff, overlooking the setting sun over the ocean. Behind him, multiple Monokuma’s, all dressed to look like Byakuya's siblings, approach him wielding swords. Each sword has a different word on them, one saying “disappointment” while another says “worthless”, and so on. Syo/Jack/Jill, who is trying to save Byakuya, is tackled by Mukuro who is trying to save her from the execution. Byakuya shifts on his feet and moves to where the Monokumas are at the edge of the cliff, managing to kick some of the bears off down. Behind Byakuya, a larger Monokuma rises with a sword labeled “killer” and moves forward. It sees Mukuro and Syo on the ground and decides to attack them, mistaking the pair for Byakuya. It then makes it to Byakuya, who stopped due to hearing the commotion, and the sibling Monokuma's all dive at Byakuya and slice him apart.

Theming/Facts:

Byakuya is a rude person, so his execution is him getting killed with swords that represent words he would not want to be associated with, like "worthless" and "disappointment".

Execution: Wheel of Misfortune!

Subjects: Yasuhiro Hagakure, Ultimate Clairvoyant and Leon Kuwata, Ultimate Baseball Star

Cause of death: Burned alive (Yasuhiro).

Explanation: At two fancy podiums decorated with glowing fluorescent lights stand Yasuhiro and Leon, with Yasuhiro, infected with despair disease, visibly excited for the execution and Leon clearly scared. A wheel appears alongside a Monokuma game show host, and Yasuhiro forces Leon to spin the wheel. The Monokuma host hands Leon a prize and Leon takes it and walks away. Yasuhiro spins the wheel again, only for the Monokuma host to start smoking a cigarette and trip, causing the cigarette to fall onto Yasuhiro's chest and set him on fire. A small spark appears, and Leon, seeing what's going to happen, dives away just as an explosion of fire happens and Yasuhiro burns alive.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: No Upper Hands! All Right!

Subject: Sakura Ogami, Ultimate Martial Artist

Cause of death: Beaten to death.

Explanation: Sakura stands inside of a dojo. A Monokuma enters the room and the sliding door on the side opens. A figure comes in, being Kenshiro (whether it really is him or a fake is unknown), and Sakura is visibly shocked to see him. Sakura and Kenshiro both fight, leading to Sakura to end up defeated. In an unexpectedly heartwarming scene, she smiles and dies happily as Kenshiro gazes down at her.

Theming/Facts:

In the end, Sakura was unable to defeat Kenshiro, her boyfriend. Sakura being beaten to death by him is meant to represent how she could never beat him.

Execution: Test of Luck

Subject: Makoto Naegi, Ultimate Lucky Student

Cause of death: Impaled by a sword.

Explanation: Makoto is surrounded by dozens of Monomi clones as he kneels on the ground. He swallows thickly as a tank rolls in and starts shooting the outer Monomi's and making its way in.  Makoto notices a door with an exit sign. Makoto grabs two of the Monomis' paws and runs through the door. A black cat passes by as the small group accidentally runs under a ladder, and some Monomi's are killed. The hall gets darker and darker as Makoto and the Monomi's run deeper inside. Makoto is left trapped in a room and swords start being stabbed in the room, and when Makoto scoots up against a wall, a sword shoots out from behind the wall and through his neck, killing him.

Theming/Facts:

Themed around Chiaki's execution in canon DR2.

The executions of "Project Rewrite"

Execution: 'Til the Curtains Fall

Subject: Hiyoko Saionji, Ultimate Traditional Dancer

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Hiyoko is stuck on a stage and has a spotlight shine on her, and she must dance to appease the Monokuma audience. The backdrop, a giant black curtain, catches on fire, but Hiyoko keeps on dancing. Just near the end of the dance, Hiyoko's kimono catches fire and soon she is engulfed in flames, and the burning curtain falls down on top of her as well, and she burns alive.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Doctor, Patient.

Subject: Mikan Tsumiki, Ultimate Nurse

Cause of death: Heart ripped out.

Explanation: Mikan is in a large operating theatre in a hospital-type setting. A series of Monokumas rush in, pushing a stretcher with a sheet on top that's covering a patient, being a Monokuma with glass in its head. Mikan successfully conducts surgery to get the glass out, only to now weirdly have a bleeding wound from her forehead just like the Monokuma just had. She is then instructed to use a defibrillator to bring back to life a dead Monokuma, and she shocks both it and somehow herself. Lastly comes a Monokuma who needs an "emergency heart transplant", Mikan is forced to cut open the Monokuma, and before she dies, she gives Hajime one last sincere smile before turning back to the patient Monokuma and gently taking its heart out, only for her own heart to fall and splat onto the floor, and for her to collapse and die.

Theming/Facts:

Mikan technically had "poured her heart out" for Hajime, so, as Hajime watches the execution, she literally has her heart 'pour out' of her body.

Execution: Race to the Finish

Subject: Akane Owari, Ultimate Gymnast

Cause of death: Blown up by a bazooka.

Explanation: Akane is on a beach and a finish line is made on said beach, with Monokuma standing behind it with a whistle and flag. Multiple obstacles exist in the way to hinder Akane's progress, and the race begins with Akane running forward. Multiple hurdles with spikes on them stand in her way, but she jumps over them. Next up is a rope net, which Akane crawls underneath, being lightly injured by the sand against her skin but otherwise fine. Other obstacles like tires, rope ladders and balance beams are all completed, and makes it to the final obstacle, which is rope bridge that Akane has to cross. Akane makes it across and just before she reaches the finish line, Monokuma tosses the ice cream he was eating down and pulls out a bazooka, and shoots Akane with it, blowing her up only a few moments before she could reach the finish line.

Theming/Facts:

Akane was intended to be killed by a bazooka in canon for breaking a rule, and she only survived that because Nekomaru got in the way. So her execution in this is her being blown up by a bazooka without any interruptions to stop Monokuma.

Chapter Text

Execution: At Midnight

Subject: Nico Himuro, Ultimate Poet

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Monodora places Nico in the setting of the poem "At Twilight", written by Bliss William Carman, and Monodora starts narrating the poem out loud. Nico is running in a forest, with fire erupting behind her, and after a short while, she stops running, with the fire getting quieter and a growl being heard. She starts running again towards a house in the distance. With her getting closer to the house, the sound of the growl gets closer and closer. Nico spots a cabin in the distance and goes inside, thinking she's escaped, but just as Monodora reaches the "brightly burns the fire" part of the poem, Monodora sets the entire cabin on fire with Nico inside, killing Nico by burning her to death.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: The Untalented Show

Subject: Akira Tsuchiya, Ultimate NEET

Cause of death: Fell to death.

Explanation: Akira is shown to be on a stage, his feet strapped to the floor. The camera changes to show a Teacher Monodora (similar to how Monokuma is dressed from After School Lesson) looking gruff and mean on the judging panel, which is directly opposite the stage. A bit of text appears on screen with "Mystery Novel Writing". In the next scene, Akira is shown hastily scribbling in a book on the stage, now sitting in a chair and writing on a desk that's appeared. The book is placed on Monodora's desk. Monodora lifts it up, and begins to read it. Then, the judging panel buzzes red and makes a buzzer sound, with a 0 being displayed on the front of the judging panel. Another portion of text appears on screen, this time "Ventriloquism" and Akira is shown with two Monodora puppets trying to act with them. This also gets a 0. Next is "Weather Forecasting", with him appearing in front of a screen with a pointing stick trying to point at different weather on a map, and he again gets a 0. Finally, "DJing" comes up and a simple DJ booth is now in front of him. He hesitates but holds his hand out to start trying to DJ. However, before he touches it, Monodora's judging panel buzzes with a 0 again. The ground then opens up below him and he falls to his death, breaking his neck on impact.

Theming/Facts:

The fact being a DJ is what the final challenge was is a reference to how his victim was the Ultimate DJ.

Execution: 

Subject: Saiji Rokudou, Ultimate Undertaker

Cause of death: 

Explanation: 

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Weather Madness

Subject: Marin Mizuta, Ultimate Weather Forecastor

Cause of death: Dissolved by acid.

Explanation: Marin is at a news set that’s in the middle of the desert. The sun is bright and bearing down on her while she’s reporting the weather. It’s reporting a lot of sun, and she’s tied down by both ankles to stand there while she reports. Her skin burns a little, but the heat causes the rope to burn. Marin escapes thanks to this, but notices on a report that rain is coming in. She runs off the set, grabbing an umbrella as she goes, heading towards where it’s coming from, but stops. It’s acid rain, and it’s starting to create a flood. It rolls down the mountains, forming into a tsunami heading her way. She falls to her knees, watching the huge acid wave come towards her. Shortly before it hits her, she folds in the umbrella, letting it come. It washes over her, and a boat floats atop the water. A Monodora fisherman pulls up her skull on a fishing line.

Theming/Facts:

Chapter Text

Execution: Ultimate Upgrade!

Subject: The Prisoner

Cause of death: Exploded.

Explanation: The Prisoner is trapped on a table, as Monokuma makes a laser appear and weld off the Prisoner’s head, as he is only a robot. The Prisoner’s head is opened up and wires are inserted into their head, and the scene changes to Monokuma introducing a “Monophone” as if at some sort of presentation, with the Monophone “featuring cutting-edge AI-operating system”. Unfortunately, The Prisoner’s head is overloaded by whatever was in the wires and explodes, and the Monophone explodes in Monokuma’s hand, with the background now including “experimental AI-operating system”.

Theming/Facts:

Chapter Text

Execution: Tale of the Alexandrian Library

Subject: Shiori Kamio, Ultimate Librarian

Cause of death: Burned alive.

Explanation: Shiori is stuck in a library where she is given papers and told to "finish her work!", with a metallic collar around her neck to prevent her from getting up. Shiori sees a paper that says "Shiori Kamio is loved by Athene", and she stamps it with a "rejected" on it. Next up is a paper saying "Shiori Kamio willingly killed Hana Akiyama", and she stamps it with "Approved". A meter next to her begins to show the temperature in the room heating up, and the last paper appears, saying "Shiori Kamio is completely alone in the world". Shiori stamps that paper with "Approved" and the collar around her neck releases, allowing her to get up. She goes to the door, only for it to be locked from the outside, and a small bit of fire falls from the ceiling, as well as causing the room to catch fire, and Shiori burns alive.

Theming/Facts:

The execution is themed around the burning of the Library of Alexandria, hence the title and the usage of fire in this execution.

Execution: 

Subject: 

Cause of death: 

Explanation: 

Theming/Facts:

Chapter Text

Execution: Ring Box

Subject: Nanae Ouno, Ultimate Contortionist

Cause of death: Crushed.

Explanation: Ouno is trapped in a room that slowly begins to have its walls close in on her. When attempts at damaging the walls fail, Ouno is forced to contort her body to fit into the room as it continues closing inward, this continuing until Ouno is crushed and the gore left behind is taken out of the room, and left for the remaining participants to see.

Theming/Facts:

Ouno is killed in a way that could represent how everything closed in on her and she's left in a bad situation. She feels sincerely "trapped" in the killing game, and wants to escape to see her daughter again. Her execution is her being trapped with no way to escape.

Calling the execution "Ring Box" is a reference to her being trapped into a suffocating arranged marriage, as ring boxes are the box you put a wedding ring into.

Execution: 

Subject: 

Cause of death: 

Explanation: 

Theming/Facts:

Chapter Text

Execution: Super Final Level

Subject: Mario, Ultimate Hero (Originating from the Super Mario franchise.)

Cause of death: Crushed flat.

Explanation: Mario is sent to a place made to look like a castle, with lava underneath and multiple platforms to jump across to a pipe to safety. Mario jumps across the platforms, avoiding obstacles such as lava and bullets, and makes it to the other side, only to be kicked back by a giant Monokuma made to look like Bowser. Mario accepts his fate and is crushed by the Monokuma stomping on him.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: The Witch's Demise

Subject: Ashley, Ultimate Witch and Red (Both originating from Warioware franchise.)

Cause of death: Crushed flat.

Explanation: Ashley is in a dark room in a building, when a giant floating book with Monokuma's face on it floats down. Ashley suddenly appears on a broom, which smashes through one of the windows of the building and she flies into the night sky. The magic in the broom fails and Ashley falls down from a great height, thankfully being saved by Red, who manages to pull her up a little to save her from falling to death. Ashley is put onto the ground by Red, who transforms into a little staff for her to use magic to fight back against Monokuma. The giant book from earlier floats behind her and knocks her off the broom she was riding, and she falls down, and she looks to see Red has been shattered. Ashley cries over the shards, injuring her hands, as the book slams down onto her and crushes her.

Theming/Facts:

The characters went into the library and Ashley in particular was really disappointed that there were no spell books there that she could mess with. Hence the involvement of a book.

Witch's are also commonly seen as bad guys in story books, which also fits the usage of a book.

Ashley specifically killed because she wanted to see her friends back outside the killing game. As her execution takes away Red, whom she sees as a friend.

Execution: Torturous Territory

Subject: Kasane Teto, Ultimate Secondary Diva (Originating from UTAU)

Cause of death: Crushed by falling stage parts.

Explanation: Teto is trapped in a chair surrounded by speakers, with Monokuma at a DJ table. Monokuma ups the volume to its maximum setting and blasts the music, which injures Teto's ears. After the music stops playing, the straps holding her down come off, as well as a trapdoor opening underneath her. Teto falls down onto a stage where a crowd is booing and jeering at her, and she sees what looks like Miku in the crowd, closing her eyes in disappointment. Teto is then crushed when the ceiling of the stage collapses on her.

Theming/Facts:

Her secret during the chapter 3 motive was that she injured other members of her idol program through stage 'accidents' she set up, hence why her execution is involving being crushed by a stage ceiling collapsing, which can happen in an accident.

The reference in the title of the execution is to the song 'Teto Territory', since it's one of her iconic songs.

Execution: Mega Bad Time

Subject: Sans, Ultimate Comedian (Originating from Undertale)

Cause of death: Stabbed in the back.

Explanation: Sans is in a place meant to look like Judgment Hall from the Undertale game, with Monokuma wielding a knife and Sans having to fight back. He easily defeats the Monokuma, only for another Monokuma wielding a knife to appear. Sans defeats this Monokuma as well, only for another one to replace it. This goes on and on until Sans becomes too tired to fight back, and Nagito runs forward to try and save Sans. Unfortunately, Monokuma stabs forward, slicing Nagito's arm off and also stabbing Sans in the back. Nagito cries over Sans' as he dies.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Old Yeller's Final Bestseller

Subject: Brian, Ultimate Author (Originating from Family Guy)

Cause of death: Run over by a car.

Explanation: Brian is seated a table in a library. Multiple Monokuma's appear, with the real Monokuma having the other Monokuma's aim shotguns at him and fire. Brian runs off, and eventually ends up in another room that has a wall painted to look like a street. Brian is confused by this until he spots Monokuma in a car driving towards him, intending to run him over. Parappa, looking at Brian, tearfully watches as Brian gives him one last smile and Brian is killed when the car strikes him.

Theming/Facts:

The usage of shotguns is meant to be a homage to the old film "Old Yeller", which has its titular dog character contract rabies and have to be shot and killed. Brian, being a dog, is being shot at like Old Yeller.

Execution: The Ultimate Execution of the Ultimate Control

Subject: Hatsune Miku, Ultimate Virtual Diva (Originating from VOCALOID)

Cause of death: Trapped forever.

Explanation: 

Theming/Facts:

Chapter Text

Execution: Despair Peak Academy Murder Olympics

Subject: Hayato Nomura, Ultimate Javelin Thrower

Cause of death: Impaled with multiple spears.

Explanation: Hayato is chained to a post in a sports arena, and a legion of Monokuma's wielding spears all toss said spears at him, with most missing at first. Soon, the spears begin to impale Hayato and he is killed after an obscene amount of spears are impaled into his body.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Human Pruning

Subject: Yasuri Shigeha, Ultimate Gardener

Cause of death: Dismembered alive.

Explanation: Yasuri is tied to a large tree, and multiple Monokuma's appear and take out chainsaws. They first cut off the leaves of the tree, then proceed to the branches, which cuts off Yasuri's arms. They then finish off the tree and Yasuri, leaving her as nothing more than her lower half still restrained to the giant tree.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Ultimate Grinding Speedrun

(alternatively also called “Super High School Level Grinding Speedrun”)

Subject: Hitori Tokisaki, Ultimate Workshop

Cause of death: Poisoned.

Explanation: Hitori is trapped in a room with a computer in front of him, which says “Collect 1000 medals. Current medals: 0.” Multiple syringes filled with green liquid rise up and will inject into Hitori if he fails. Hitori takes the computer mouse and proceeds to click as much as he can, with a time limit going down at the same time. He eventually makes it to 999 before the interface says he can "only hold up to 999 medals". The needles then inject into him and kill him.

Theming/Facts:

"You can only hold up to 999 medals." It’s a typical message in games indicating the maximum number of collectible items (in this case, medals) a player can possess. This is taken to the point where it robs Hitori of his chance to survive his execution.

Execution: Legend of the Fighting God (1 vs 100)

Subject: Battler Aoyama, Ultimate Brawler

Cause of death: Bled to death.

Explanation: Battler is trapped in a room with Monokuma's dressed in blue uniforms, all of which charge and claw at him to attack. Battler manages to actually beat all these Monokuma's but is left near death. He manages to try and make it to the exit of the execution, only to collapse from blood loss.

Theming/Facts:

Execution: Angel with Red Wings

Subject: Taimatsu Honda, Ultimate Nurse

Cause of death: Blood drained from body.

Explanation: Taimatsu is restrained to a cross with a halo above her head and empty containers shaped like angel wings above her. Lines are injected into her arms and start draining blood from her body, filling the wing-shaped containers up. This eventually goes on until the containers are full and Taimatsu has died from the blood loss.

Theming/Facts:

An obvious thing is that nurses oftentimes extract blood from patients, hence the involvement of blood being drained from Taimatsu's body.