History Characters / DanganronpaJunkoEnoshima

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Combines it with VillainBall and invokes it. She intentionally leaves Makoto Naegi alive due to his luck being unpredictable rather than killing him by force, leading to him becoming a SpannerInTheWorks in the climax of the Killing School Life where ''his'' optimism towards his classmates ends up being Junko's downfall.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The cast at first believe that an organization or even Hope's Peak Academy itself is the mastermind of the Killing School Life that they are suffering through. In Chapter 6, they identify that the one known as the "Ultimate Fashionista", a student already attending the academy who is ''also'' one of their former classmates, is the real mastermind. By the second game, however, the "organization" part turns out to have been an AccidentalTruth, since Junko led the Ultimate Despair, the ones who wreaked havoc on her behalf under her command.

* CreativeSterility: {{Downplayed|Trope}} (she's clearly creative in her fashion career), but her plans generally rely on someone ''else'' coming up with the super-tech she needs to implement them (Monokuma and Alter Ego Junko are based on Chihiro's AI research, the LaserGuidedAmnesia she uses is from Yasuke, and the {{brainwashing}} is Ryota's creation) and then using her analysis talent to copy it for her own use.

* LightIsNotGood: She is a brightly colored, blonde girl who looks relatively innocent and earned a reputation through her features, but is a psychopathic, nihilistic, and egocentric despot who wants to destroy the world for fun and only sees humans as pawns.

* LightIsNotGood: She is a brightly colored, blonde white girl who looks relatively innocent and earned a reputation through her features, but is a psychopathic, nihilistic, and egocentric despot who wants to destroy the world for fun and only sees humans as pawns.

** Sloth: While she is a schemer, she doesn't get directly involved and has her goons do the work for her (Mukuro, Monaca, all of Class 77-B). She also prefers death because living is a pain for her, and refuses to put the effort into making her life ''worth'' living.

* LackOfEmpathy: Being a person who spreads nothing but despair and sees humans as pawns, Junko is the essential embodiment of apathy, so much so that she can spread it to others alongside her despair by just being herself.

* GenkiGirl: A villainous example. While she is totally an AxCrazy woman, she carries a sense of gleeful energy with her that doesn't seem to be an act. However, this also makes her [[WildCard all the more unpredictable]], as she can shift out of this attitude at any point and suddenly turn to murderous rage.

* TomTheDarkLord: She is a self-centered, egotistical bully and a terrorist who seeks to cause despair for its own sake, and yet has the rather casual MeaningfulName of "Junko Enoshima", which isn't at all threatening nor does it capture the extent of her misdeeds. She uses the casual aspect of her name as part of her fashionista cover.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Red and black are [[HopeCrusher her]] two signature colors. Even her strawberry blonde hair has hints of {{p|sychopink}}ink in it.

* TokenEvilTeammate: In regards to Class 78th, which she used to be classmates with prior to the Tragedy, she ''is'' the BigBad that they have to defeat in the first game. They're unaware she is part of their class due to her removing their memories of Hope's Peak prior to the killing game, which included those that Junko herself was part of. Of course, while Mukuro is also her accomplice, Mukuro is only following Junko's orders, still making Junko the only truly evil classmate.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Of her Ultimate Despair organization, Junko is the most evil, for obvious reasons. As their leader and the one who made Class 77-B into her pawns, she still stands out as the worst of them.

* TheChessmaster: It's initially hard to believe that Junko is one of the smartest characters in the ''Danganronpa'' franchise. Episode 7 of the anime unveils that the Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy, Izuru's participation in it, and the Parade were all part of a three-step plan that was just another cog in her scheme.

* MeaningfulAppearance: Befitting her role as Monokuma's puppeteer, Junko has Monokuma-themed hairclips--one white and one black.
* MoodSwinger: Junko's personality and her voice changes depending on her current mood. She says she gets bored playing the same character all the time. When Kyoko suggested the mastermind was emotionally unstable, she ''wasn't kidding''. After she reveals herself, she can switch from incredibly posh, to totally stoic, to completely resigned, to loud and boisterous, to acting like Monokuma... oh, and Junko can do all of this ''between sentences''.

* NightmareFetishist: Has a fetish for despair, with Kyoko even literally referring to it as "some kind of fetish." This includes ''her own despair'', as when Junko realizes that she's lost and that she's going to die, her face looks almost orgasmic.
* NonActionBigBad: Sort of like an EvilCounterpart to Makoto being the NonActionGuy that he is.

* TheChessmaster: She didn't create the Killing School Trip just to kill off her subordinates all at once and usurp their bodies. She also did it to lure [[ArchEnemy Makoto, Kyoko, and Byakuya]] into the program by using the threat of the Ultimate Despairs' killing game against them, taking advantage of the mortality risk to kick in their "fight or flight" instinct, and she expected them to fight, which they did. This would also serve as her vengeance for [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc them killing her real self beforehand]].
* CrazyPrepared: Since she has all the data about every person who enters the Neo World Program, it makes sense she'd exaggerate this trope.

* TheCorrupter: Junko's ''frighteningly'' good at bringing out the worst in others. This partially leads to Makoto refusing to lay blame on his friends due to his belief they're basically good people who have been placed in a horrible and violent situation.

* TheChessmaster: It's initially hard to believe that Junko is one of the smartest characters in the ''Danganronpa'' franchise. Episode 7 unveils that the Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy, Izuru's participation in it, and the Parade were all part of a three-step plan that was just another cog in her scheme.
* ChewingTheScenery: Subtle is ''not'' in Junko's dictionary.
* CombatSadomasochist: Thanks to her obsession with despair, she enjoys mutilating people as well as getting her ass kicked.
* TheCorrupter:
** This is one of her most terrifying abilities, and it gets even '''''worse''''' after she gets the hang of Ryota's brainwashing techniques.
** Junko specifically tries to invoke this with Kamukura, attempting to woo him over to despair. He does cooperate with her for a time to see if despair is really as interesting as she tries to sell it.

* InstantExpert: Besides allowing her to predict future events, her talent allows her to learn other talents in a short amount of time.

* GenkiGirl: Probably one of the most disturbing examples of this trope in fiction.
* GirlishPigtails: They gives Junko an appearance of false innocence, which plays into how [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse she seems to be nothing more than a famous fashionista]]. If anything, it all subtly hints at how she's a PsychopathicWomanchild of a HopeCrusher.
* GoodIsBoring: Due to her analytical talent, she became bored of the world and grew to love despair because she felt it was unpredictable.

* TheHedonist: Everything she does is about bringing herself pleasure, and she doesn't care who has to suffer for her to get it.

* VillainousLegacy: Even after her defeat and suicide in the first game, she still has several followers and an ArtificialIntelligence program to continue spreading despair. While the villains of ''Future Arc'' aren't her minions, her actions and her ideology pushed them into their sinister plans in the first place.

* DontYouDarePityMe: When she loses, Makoto admits he doesn't want her to die. Junko angrily rebuffs him.

* RedBaron: Her "Ultimate Despair" title, which is her ''real'' title (or much rather her second cover title because she's actually [[AwesomenessByAnalysis the Ultimate Analyst]]), is basically her version of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast considering "Junko Enoshima" sounds relatively innocent, [[SpecialPersonNormalName not that it reflects who she is]].