History Fridge / DanganRonpa

* Chapter 5's execution or at least the "Bad Ending" version of it is called "Detention." As in, a punishment you give to a bad student. And what is the nature of the execution? Being crushed to death by a huge block. What else does a student fear, besides being put in detention by her teacher? Being ''grounded'' by her parents! Monokuma sadistically made a child's fears of being "grounded" real, by crushing Kyoko ''into the ground''!

** It goes beyond that. Kyoko went through the game with a calm and collected presence no matter what happened. Always looking ahead without fear or hesitation. So what does Monokuma do? Puts her on a slowly moving conveyor belt facing ''away'' from a very loud, constantly moving crusher. Notice how at first she seems to be her usual unshaking self, until you keep hearing the crusher, and seeing the screen vibrate with each crush, as it gets closer and closer but she can't turn around to see it. Watch how her expression changes from [[EmotionlessGirl stoic]], [[NotSoStoic to worried]], [[OhCrap to terrified]] and finally to [[FaceDeathWithDignity quiet acceptance.]] The entire thing was meant [[BreakTheHaughty to finally break Kyoko's composure]].

* When Makoto's strapped into it, the whole thing doesn't fit him nearly as well...which is probably why it doesn't actually kill him at all.

** There's more to it! If you look at the board on which the execution name is written, it clearly states that the date of Detention is April 1st - that is, April Fool's day, a day on which people pull tricks on each other. This would point towards the fact that this execution was just devised to fool students into thinking that Makoto was guilty through this trick, when the guilty part is actually Junko.

** To add to that, its stated in later material that Jin Kirigiri was inadvertently responsible for letting Junko get away with everything due to his love for talent. His death literally has him being shot into the stars and then forcibly pulled back to earth.

* Even the possible executions manage to [[DeathByIrony drip with cruel irony]]
** Maizono is forced to utilize every one of the skills she sacrificed so much for in making her idol career, only for the points counter to get smashed so she can be mangled. As if to imply the fragility of fame...

** Yamada finally gets to be a part of the anime worlds he loves so dearly, and the realistic outcome of a giant robot fight kills him.
** Ishimaru, who places the value of effort above all else, is suddenly (and satirically) handed his ultimate goal: an inauguration as prime minister, through no effort of his own. One imagines he would absolutely despise every second of it.
** (Different troper for this and the rest of the unused here) Sakura was known as the strongest human on Earth and with her honorable nature would have preferred to die having been defeated by a worthy foe. Instead? Monokuma calls upon an alien invasion to do her in and when it looked like she was going to make it out alive crushed her with a final [[ZergRush gang attack]] disgracing her.
** For Asahina, she was known for her [[BigEater loves of donuts]] and is a fierce competitor when it comes to sports. So it would be fitting to have the biggest eater of them all to be devoured by one of the hungriest, and naturally competitive predators in the deep blue: sharks.
*** Also, magicians frequently perform feats that are merely elaborate tricks. Asahina was known to be one of the more kind-hearted and idealistic students, believing they could all make it out together.. By making her 'disappear', it was Junko's way of saying her positive outlook she always tries to bring is nothing more than an 'illusion'.
** Hagakure often boasts about his predictions, which he claims have an accuracy of 30%. So his end forces him to prove it by giving him a 1/3 of choosing death and when he finally gets it right (not choosing the door that will kill him) he dies anyway. As if to say how little his predictions affect others, right or wrong, in the grand scheme of things.
** Fukawa is head over heels about Togami and constantly thinks of him as his 'White Knight' no matter how much he tells her otherwise. So of course, her execution rolls it (and her) flat to show just how paper-thin her relationship with him actually is.
** Togami's final moments have him, The proud, pristine, perfect heir of the Togami Corporation who possessed a high status in life and disliked those who were not on his standing being treated worse than hobo before finally [[DyingAlone dying alone]] in the snow. Basically, a living example of 'pride goeth before a fall', and how despite his status his fate was exactly akin to the very person he detested: a commoner.
*** Another interpretation is that it references what happens to the Togami siblings (all 108 of them to be precise) after they are cast out of the family. Stripped away of their status, name, and reduced to basically nothing. Something a certain affluent progeny tried to avoid at all costs.
** Finally we have Naegi who basically has him trapped in a confined area and dodge spears until the inevitable happens, proving that despite being the Ultimate Lucky Student, his luck really is no good after all.
*** In Naegi's case it was also probably a reference to Pop-up Pirate, with the goal to stab the pirate and send him out of the barrel through sheer guesswork and ''luck''. The fact that Makoto couldn't escape and never gets out means that even when he makes a lucky guess, it's all worthless in the end.

** Also, Celeste was the only one who actually planned her killings. The major complications in the first two cases occurred through circumstances out of the culprit's control--Sayaka pre-framed Makoto and Byakuya tampered with the crime scene. Maybe most high school students just aren't that good at plotting murder.

* [[FridgeBrilliance Fridge]] NightmareRetardant? In Chapter 6 we find the cold storage where all the mutilated corpses of the victims are stored.. which must include that tub of Mondo butter.

* During trial 5, you have a chance to throw Kyoko under the bus or bluff for her. Should you point out her contradiction, you get the bad ending. If you bluff, Makoto is nearly executed but you get the good ending. It might seem like unfortunate implications at first but if you think about it, what is Makoto's Ultimate title?
* On the bad ending; Makoto, Byakuya, Yasuhiro and Aoi are all shown being alive and with children, with Toko being the only one who is shown as passed away. On an initial playthrough, this may just seem like an arbitrary choice... until you get to chapter 6, where it's revealed that Genocide Jill ''actually remembers'' the circumstances of The World's Most Despair-inducing Incident in the History of Mankind. So what would the best way to keep that secret from being revealed to the surviving students? Murdering Toko, and thereby killing Jill at the same time, thus preserving the secret!

*** This is unlikely, though, due to Japanese funerary tradition - a framed black and white photo adorned with ribbons, such as those in the game and that which Byakuya is holding, is displayed at funerals and home shrines.

*** Dwelling further into the previous idea, it is possible the picture simbolized the death of Toko, but not Jill.
* Despite being a serial murderer, Genocide Jill never murders anyone, despite the others' fear of her - because she knew about the current state of the world and didn't actually want to leave the school.

** A related bit of fridge horror is addressed in Genocide Jill's free time events - why Genocide Jill didn't kill Byakuya (or anyone else, for that matter) during the two-year time gap. She mentions that Byakuya is the first person she's fallen for who she hasn't had an urge to kill, and that she'd give up killing if she could be with him.
** Also, after the cast discovers Chihiro was a boy, Jill exclaims that she "should have killed him first." This comes after arguing that she wouldn't have killed anyone while trapped in the ClosedCircle of the school. It seems with the reveal that she was actually wishing she'd killed Chihiro during the "normal" time at Hope's Peak.

** Ch. 5's courtroom is eye-searing, being colored with a clashing checkerboard of hot pink and puke green. Considering that the Ch. 5 murder was staged, it only makes sense that there'd be something "off" about its corresponding courtroom.
* The manga did a lot of AlternateCharacterInterpretation that does good to sympathize both Leon and Celeste, and they're making a lot of sense that there was no way for Makoto to know how Leon was getting the screwdrivers ''not'' to hunt and kill Sayaka, but to calm her down (in vain), and compounding that, Leon has troubles in spitting out that fact it's the reason why he did that due to panic, or the fact that regardless of what he tells, he's screwed either way. Likewise, Celeste only keeps things for herself, tell mostly lies or plagiarized stories to others, and there was no way Makoto could realize what she was like when she was Taeko and how she was suffering due to her unremarkableness and must keep the charade of Celestia Ludenberg at all cost, leading to become really greedy and commit the double-murder. While that wouldn't absolve them from murder, all of it could still be happening in canon, and the canon series being in Makoto's POV prevents us to realize them right off bat.
* In the final Class Trial it seems that Junko is copying some of the surviving students' personalities. When she is in her "princess" personality, with a CoolCrown to boot, it's similar to Byakuya's (Ultimate Affluent Progeny) arrogant personality, her punk persona is similar to Genocider's loud and aggressive personality (don't forget the tongue), when she puts on glasses and becomes [[MrExposition Ms. Exposition]], her tone and how she says it is similar to Kyoko's analytic personality, then followed by Aoi's cutesy personality (when she talks about donuts and proteins), and afterward has Toko's depressing personality.
** The ones that doesn't fit are her "[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio Brando"]] personality, her Monokuma personality, and her final one, a blank, emotionless one; plus her VillainousBreakdown expressions. Now, the first two are respectively something that could scare [[ConspiracyTheorist Yasuhiro]], and (obviously) [[DiscOneFinalBoss Monokuma]]; but the third one is used ''in response to'' Makoto declaring that nobody will fall into Despair. This is when Junko [[LetsGetDangerous ''stops'' playing charade and assumes a truly "Despair" persona]]: it's Hope vs. Despair, and she's going against the Ultimate Hope. The blank Ultimate Despair persona may very well be the true self. It's the equivalent of TheJoker dropping all humor and theatricality in his behavior and showing the emptiness and raw, hateful malevolence that's always been at the core of this sick, sick person.

* In chapter 6, when photographs are given out containing all students but the ones that they were given too the reason that they aren't in them is that they were the ones taking the photos.

* Celeste said that if she's reincarnated she'd be MarieAntoinette... and it actually held more than 'ending up getting executed again'. Celeste have been trying to invoke the image of MarieAntoinette even throughout her life, starting from her extravagant life and dream, as well as doing horrible things that would cause her to be hated and vilified by those around her (as seen by Aoi in the game), and decided to FaceDeathWithDignity. And it even goes ''meta'': when Celeste's reasoning was first revealed, a lot of fans would accuse her as a shallow murdering bitch like how Antoinette got all those... degrading insults. However, as time passed, with Monokuma doing ''a lot'' more despicable things and other interpretations of Celeste (the manga, especially) were revealed, opinions on Celeste has softened up, kind of like how the more recent discoveries that Antoinette wasn't as much as a bitch she was accused of, and how [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution her executors also doing worse things than what they accused her for... helped fixing her reputation.]]

* There are actually two hints very early on that Mukuro is posing as Junko Enoshima and assisting her. When the students all first assemble in the gym, Mukuro is the one to point out that the students cellphones are missing. The second hint comes when Sakura tells Mukuro that she doesn't look the same as Junko Enoshima does in the magazines. Mukuro laughs this off and states that the pictures in the magazines are photo shopped, and the issues isn't pressed any further. In retrospect, maybe Junko made the right decision in killing Mukuro because she wasn't a good enough fake.

* According to one of the side-stories, Makoto wasn't actually the initial winner of the lottery, that being a girl who's pass into the Academy was inadvertently destroyed by Makoto's actions, forcing them to redo the lottery. Seems irrelevant until one realizes that this creates a dark CallForward to the Chapter 5 Trial, where something very similar happens between Kyoko and Makoto. And, like before, the trial has to be redone, this time with Makoto winning.
* At first, Toko's sudden infatuation towards Byakuya comes out of nowhere, especially since there had been no hints towards it bar them standing next to each other in crowd scenes. Then I read LightNovel/DanganRonpaZero and it hit me when, at the end '''[SPOILERS FOR DANGAN RONPA ZERO]''' [[spoiler: Junko states her love for Matsuda was so strong that it survived even her losing her memories]]. Who's to say the same thing isn't true for Toko? Better when you realize that its indicated she was in love with him during the students normal time at Hopes Peak.
* Yasuhiro's TohokuRegionalAccent is largely associated with country bumpkins. In one free time event, though Celeste maintains her parents were European, she admits she was raised in Tochigi, another comparatively rural part of Japan. Then her chapters in the manga show her desperation to escape the "mediocrity" of her life as Taeko Yasuhiro by reinventing herself as a glamorous sophisticate. No wonder she dislikes Yasuhiro so much -- even his first name's a reminder of what she's trying to leave behind.
* During the talk between Monokuma and Sakura Oogami about the 16th student. Monokuma joke about not giving his three sizes. At first, it seems like another stupid joke of his. But then, Fridge Brilliance kick in during Case 6, it was Junko Enoshima's and Mukuro Ikusaba's three sizes that put a connection between those two and helped Makoto realize Mukuro is the one who died instead of Junko during her supposedly death.

* Makoto's DueToTheDead moment near the end of chapter 6's investigation. Kyoko, who [[KickTheDog was just taunted]] [[FingerInTheMail with her dead father's bones]] by the mastermind says Mukuro reaped what she sowed, but then begrudgingly gives in to Makoto's pleas and closes the body storage drawer. Kyoko [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids calls him naive at the time]], but during the trial you find out that Junko [[ForTheEvulz killed her own sister on a whim]] and probably would've found it hilarious to see the corpse left out in the open. One imagines she instead [[EvilCannotComprehendGood must have been seething at Makoto]] [[TurnTheOtherCheek treating his enemy with such respect]]. This serves as an early indication that [[DespairEventHorizon nothing she does]] [[MessianicArchetype will be able to]] [[HopeBringer bring out his despair]].

* You probably wouldn't notice it at first glance, but in School Mode the game is pretty specific about how it places two characters in your list of who to go see.

* Monokuma at the beginning, comments how girls can be killed with sharp objects and boys with blunt ones. Students that are murdered follow this rubric

* Yasuhiro's TohokuRegionalAccent is largely associated with country bumpkins. In one free time event, though Celeste maintains her parents were European, she admits she was raised in Tochigi, another comparatively rural part of Japan. Then her chapters in the manga show her desperation to escape the "mediocrity" of her life as Taeko Yasuhiro by reinventing herself as a glamorous sophisticate. No wonder she dislikes Yasuhiro so much--even his first name's a reminder of what she's trying to leave behind.

* At first I thought it was kind of unnecessary that Genocide Jack refers to herself as "Genocide Jill" after her identity is revealed, since Syo was always just Syo in the Japanese version. But it makes sense - of course she'd prefer a girl's name she picked herself to a guy's name slapped onto her by the media. (And it's made clear to be just a personal preference, because the other students call her Jack half the time anyway.)

* In Case 1, before the murder actually happens, everyone makes a big deal about what bullshit Monokuma is spouting if he actually thinks the students would ever resort to murder. Besides, Makoto thinks, they all seem like such nice people, don't they? (Mondo's bad temper, Toko's paranoia, and Byakuya's jerkass tendencies aside.) Well obviously, a murder ''does'' happen, but that's obvious when it comes to this game. The Fridge Horror kicks in when Monokuma executes Leon Kuwata, the first murderer: everyone crowds around to watch the execution up close! ''Everyone!'' Nobody tries to stop the baseball machine from beating Leon to death, nobody throws up, nobody even averts their eyes. They just...stand there, like members of a lynch mob who aren't actually participating in the lynching. Certainly they all call Monokuma a monster, say this is too cruel, etc., but that's ''after'' the execution is over. While it's happening, they all crowd around outside the batting cage like solemn judges. This is the player's first clue that ''all'' the students are capable of murder, and thus everyone is a suspect in every case.
** Or, more likely, they were too horrified to act. There is such a thing as being shell-shocked, and it was a particularly heinous death.

** Sayaka's friends were never confirmed to have been killed, just kidnapped. Additionally, in AbsoluteDespairGirls, one of her bandmates, Ayaka Haneyama, was confirmed to have at least survived up to the attack on Towa City. Whether or not she survived afterwards is unknown, but at least one of Sayaka's friends was alive and well when she put her plan in motion.

** Actually, someone may have. Alter Ego has already shown that he/she/it can tamper with executions when he/she/it stopped the crusher during the Chapter 5 punishment. Who's to say Alter Ego didn't want to give Junko her the last bit of despair before her demise?

* At the end of the game, the chickens in the fifth floor greenhouse most likely suffocated and died when the surviving students left - unless they remembered them and went back to get them, which is unlikely.

* Sayaka's first case of "good intuitions" is telling Makoto that she's not a doll--"I'm very much alive!" Apparently she's that used to people thinking of her as a pretty face, not a person.

* On the fifth floor, there's a classroom that looks like the site of a massacre, something that the students deduce, with Monokuma stating that he did not alter the room. Only problem, LightNovel/DanganRonpaZero infers that the event being referred to happened in the old school building, which the game very clearly ''does not'' take place in. Furthermore, with the revelation that the students locked themselves in, how is a bloody classroom even there? The Steering Committee was willing to commit brainwashing and ''outright murder'' to keep the incident under wraps. Given how the students spent a whole year in the school, why wasn't the room cleaned and why would what was supposed to be a shelter have the site of a massacre there?
** In-universe, Monokuma was lying. Out-of-universe, it's almost certainly a result of careless retcons. Note that Monokuma also says he had nothing to do with that incident, which VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2, LightNovel/DanganRonpaZero, and Anime/DanganRonpa3 collectively establish is an outright lie (it happened ''directly'' because of Junko Enoshima's influence.)

* Why is Kyoko Kirigiri's "ultimate" title treated like a big secret deal? It should have been glaringly obvious to everyone, since she has exactly one thing she's good at and does it with obsessive, monomaniacal focus. Most of the other students are much less singlemindedly devoted to their ultimate ability, so it seems odd that nobody even took a stab at guessing hers whenever it came up. She also says she forgot it herself; couldn't she have at least taken a stab at it when questioned? It's not exactly a difficult deduction to make.
** How do we know the thought didn't cross her mind once or twice? If anything, it was more of a YouNeverAsked situation on both ends: the only one in the group to grill her on being too cryptic was Kiyotaka early into the first chapter because she wasn't acting like a teamplayer, and the rest just left it alone until Byakuya opened the question again for the same reason (Aoi pretty much reflected everyone's opinion on the matter when she mentioned that Kyoko rarely talks about herself; put plainly, no one cares). It only seems obvious because Makoto's the only one who she'll occasionally confide in or trust with certain tasks, while everyone else mostly sees her as that quiet girl who occasionally disappears. Kind of a testament to how little interest the group has in getting to know each other, and how miraculous it was that they decided to unite at all. And being good at solving mysteries is vague enough of an ability to mean any number of talents: Makoto's first guess after getting to know her better is that she might come from a family of assassins

*** Her strange behavior was likely a conscious effort to build up an imaginary threat-level represented by the robot, and with everyone running around like confused, headless chickens during the incident, it was most assuredly working (. It only comes off as obvious to the player because we have the benefit of free-time events, multiple playthroughs and access to the transcript, whereas normal people don't pick up as easily on drastic characterization shifts. As for the ComplexityAddiction, [[http://kamukuranon.tumblr.com/post/56918156800/understanding-celestia-ludenberg-a-really-long a popular fan-interpretation of her character]] porports that she has something of a [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Riddler-like]] compulsion to control and dominate her opponents as a symptom of her low self-esteem/emotional immaturity, and will refuse any easier, more-pragmatic methods if they somehow imply she's unable to defeat someone in a match of wits/cunning. Had the variables like Hifumi's cleaning cloth, Yasuhiro's printing, the bloody wheel and Kiyotaka's broken watch not come up, her evidence against Yasuhiro would've been damning enough that any other interpretations or inconsistencies could've been chalked up to baseless conjecture ("maybe he was stronger than we gave him credit for" she could've said; these kinds of arguments are what she argued with during the trial, and they only stuck out because of how badly the plan had been compromised by that point). Basically, she sized her bets and determined she had a winning hand, structuring things like a game instead of an actual crime.

*** No, that's wrong! You search the room in Chapter 6 before Toko arrives there and they're all closed. You later go back there after Monokuma's final incentive and find Toko there with one freezer open (the implication being that Toko opened it, then fainted at what she saw.)
*** I got it! The reason you can't open the freezers is that Makoto doesn't know how.

** Aoi asked Makoto if they could leave under the fear of the room being boobytrapped, which he agreed with (since destroying "school property" is still a punishable offense). They only found out a minute later The Mastermind was totally helpless in that situation. And it's not as if those two would be able to think that far ahead.

** It winds up setting up the fact that Chihiro is a boy when we find him killed with a dumbbell.

** (Different troper for this and the rest of the unused here) For Sakura, she often referred to even in-game as 'The Ogre' due to her size and freakish strength, which despite her calm and gentle personality, shows that most only saw her as a monster not human. So in her end, being forced to fight aliens was a cruel jab at that: What better way to fight a monster with more monsters?

* In Case 4, Alter Ego's execution involves it getting compacted into a metal ball by getting smashed by an excavator's claw., which is bad enough on its own. But Monokuma made it worse by making an offhand comment about not wanting it to go to waste, implying it was originally meant for someone else. Considering the events just prior to the murder, that was supposed to be ''Sakura's'' execution.

** Speaking of which, with the revelation of the mayhem in the outside world, what are the chances that the dojo has ''already'' been destroyed?.

* Even Mukuro's execution is ironic. She was the Ultimate Soldier, who had never received a single wound on the battle field. Her Execution involves being wounded so many times she dies. Also, she was a soldier betrayed by her comrade.
** Doubly so when you consider that it's not uncommon for solders to refer to themselves as brothers-in-arms. Who betrayed Mukuro? Her own ''sister''!

*** Another interpretation is that it references what happens to the Togami siblings (all 104 of them to be precise) after they are cast out of the family. Stripped away of their status, name, and reduced to basically nothing. Something a certain affluent progeny tried to avoid at all costs.

* The reason that Junko's surname is different from her sister, may be that it is a stage name. Junko is also the name of a 'Picturesque island' near Tokyo. It's also quite possible that Mukuro Ikusaba is another code-name. "Mukuro Ikusaba" can translate to "Corpse Warblade;" Mukuro was a highly skilled soldier who worked for the mercenary group Fenrir. The fearsome and cool-sounding "Mukuro Ikusaba" could be an alias or a nickname she went by during her days with Fenrir.

** Hagakure often boasts about his predictions, which he claims have an accuracy of 30%. So his end forces him to prove it by giving him a 1/3 of choosing death and when he finally get's it right (not choosing the door that will kill him) he dies anyway. As if to say how little his predictions affect others, right or wrong, in the grand scheme of things.

** Even the fact that Makoto doesn't have a special Execution is quite suitable when remembers that Makoto had a complex over not being as special as the others
*** A number of alternative/concept executions (for all of the non-executed students) were released in the official fanbook (which can be seen on the Danganronpa wiki), one of which involves Makoto being punctured by spears while locked in a barrel. Technically, this means that all characters have a special execution, but as these didn't appear in the final game, it goes without saying that the concept executions are non-canon.

** For the recognition, it's completely possible that Chihiro is that good of a crossdresser. Either that, or perhaps Chihiro stopped presenting himself as a girl during his time attending Hope's Peak. As for the gender roles being strictly enforced, it's basically been heavily implied, if not outright stated, that Hope's Peak doesn't care who its students are or not. As long as they meet the age requirements and have proper talent, they're allowed into the Main Course. While this may not have avoided as Chihiro's ElectroID (if they even had that back then) from classifying him as male, it may have allowed him to avoid the staff there from questioning the situation of his crossdressing.

** On the other hand... Since we don't know ''when'' Touko Fukawa died, it's not unlikely that her death happened quite recently. Therefore, there's at least the possibility that one of the three children might be hers -- including the boy fathered by Byakuya. Does this mean that she fell victim to ''DeathByChildbirth'', and maybe by giving birth to the child of [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys the guy she either loved or believed that she loved]]? Remember, the infirmary of Hope's Peak isn't much different to the one of a normal school and most likely '''not''' outfitted for childbirth, which can be pretty risky if not supervised.]] Eeeeeeep.

** Togami's final moments have him, The proud, pristine heir of the Togami Corporation who possessed a high status in life and disliked those who were not on his standing being treated worse than hobo before finally [[DyingAlone]] in the snow. As if to say even when he had everything he still had nobody in the end. [[LaserGuidedKarma Karma is a female dog after all.]]

** Aoi asked Makoto if they could leave under the fear of the room being boobytrapped, which he agreed with (since destroying "school property" is still a punishable offense). They only found out a minute later The Mastermind was totally helpless in that situation. And it's not as if those two would be able to think that far ahead.
* One of the better ranking items you can give to Junko during free time resembles an army ration. She appreciates it so much because she is actually Mukuro, the ultimate soldier and would most likely be used to living on this kind of food normally.

** Togami's final moments have him, The proud, pristine heir of the Togami Corporation who possessed a high status in life and disliked those who were not on his standing, 'plebians' or 'commoners' as he would put it, be knocked down HARD as he is placed in a place that resembles the slums before getting mocked and assaulted due to, in an ironic twist, looking like a hobo before dying alone in the snow (a fate that is usually reserved for in the media for those who are overly-arrogant or greedy and doesn't care about anyone but themselves and in return no one is there to love them).[[LaserGuidedKarma Karma is a female dog after all.]]

** Hagakure often boasts about his predictions, which he claims have an accuracy of 30%. So his end forces him to prove it by giving him a 1/3 of choosing death before being devoured. This could be mocking him at his over-reliance on his predictions which proved to be a poor substitute for logic and using his actual brain.

** Hagakure often boasts about his predictions, which he claims have an accuracy of 30%. So his end forces him to prove it by giving him a 1/3 of choosing death before being devoured. This could be mocking him at his over-reliance on his predictions than logic and even his own brain.

** (Different troper for this and the rest of the unused here) When it came to Sakura, how do you execute the girl who has been known to be one of the strongest, if not 'the', strongest human alive? Simple! If a human can't get the job down then just send wave after wave of space aliens until she can't hold out any longer and is finally crushed by the weight of it all.

** Hagakure is all about his predictions, which have a thirty percent accuracy, and how off the path they are. His execution, a quiz show in which he has to choose between three doors in which one of them will kill him, is basically a reminder that no matter what path you try to take there is no escape from your fate...which in this case is death.

** Togami's final moments have him the proud heir to the Togami Corp and mocked others not on the same level as him being taken down HARD by being mocked and assaulted as if he was a common homeless man and left alone to die in the cold. [[LaserGuidedKarma Karma is a female dog after all.]]
*** Another interpretation is that it references what happens to the Togami siblings (all 104 of them to be precise) after they are cast out of the family. Stripped away of their status, name and reduced to basically nothing. Something a certain affluent progeny tried to avoid at all costs.

** For Asahina, she was known for her [[BigEater loves of donuts]] and fondness swimming. So it would be fitting to have the biggest eater of them all to be devoured by one of the hungriest, and naturally competitive predators in the deep blue: sharks.
** Hagakure is all about his predictions, which have a thirty percent accuracy, and how off the path they are. His execution is basically a reminder that no matter what path you try to take there is no escape from your fate...which in this case is death.

** Finally we have Naegi who basically has him trapped in a confined area and dodge spears until the inevitable happens, proving even his luck has to run out eventually.

** (Different troper for this and the rest of the unused here) When it came to Sakura, how do you execute the girl who has been known to be one of the strongest, if not 'the', strongest human alive? Simple! If a human can't get the job down then just send wave after wave of space aliens until she can't hold out any longer and is finally crushed by the weight of it all

*** To add to this, When it came to Sakura, how do you execute the girl who has been known to be one of the strongest, if not 'the', strongest human alive? Simple! If a human can't get the job down then just send wave after wave of space aliens until she can't hold out any longer and is finally crushed by the weight of it all