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[[WMG: The Worst, Most Despair-Inducing Incident in the History of Mankind was [[spoiler: a form of subliminal brainwashing]].]]

[[WMG: The Worst, Most Despair-Inducing Incident in the History of Mankind was [[spoiler: a form of subliminal brainwashing]].
[[spoiler: We haven't been told anything concrete about the Despairing Incident yet, but we have seen that its effects have caused the collapse of society. However, the mastermind has called SHSL Despair a concept or idea, which has infected the entire world.

With this in mind, it's possible that the mastermind achieved this effect by broadcasting a subliminal BrownNote that killed the "hope" of everyone who witnessed it and turned them into sociopaths. This would also explain how the mastermind plans to destroy the remaining hope in the world by broadcasting the despair game; she's not just showing the last hope of the world killing each other, she's also broadcasting the same subliminal despair brainwashing that caused the Despairing Incident.]]

[[spoiler: There's a blond-haired kid in the ending. She's more delicate than Aoi, and is extremely possessive of Togami.]]

* [[spoiler: Seemingly Jossed in Chapter 5, when Mukuro Ikusaba is confirmed to be the victim by Monobear. However, given the way the trial ended, there's a good chance Monobear could be lying...]]

* [[spoiler:: As of Chapter 6, this is looking to be extremely likely.]]

* [[spoiler: Jossed thanks to chapter 5. The identity of the victim is initially unknown, but Monobear confirms during the trial that it is in fact Mukuro Ikusaba who has died. Since Kirigiri does show up alive, albeit late to the trial, Kirigiri is clearly not Ikusaba.]]

[[spoiler:Monobear set up the crime scene in the 5th chapter to take out Kirigiri once and for all, who's been snooping around. Mukuro Ikusaba is actually either Kirigiri's true identity or the mastermind's identity. The corpse is actually one of Monobear's earlier victims, Junko, placed in there to fool everyone. He set up the arrows in the locker to fool everyone into thinking the wounds caused by spears were arrows, plus the bomb on the corpse to prevent them from seeing its true identity.]]

[[WMG:Kirigiri was framed by Monobear/Mastermind/Mukuro Ikusaba.]]

[[spoiler:[[WMG:Kirigiri was framed by Monobear/Mastermind/Mukuro Ikusaba.]]
Monobear set up the crime scene in the 5th chapter to take out Kirigiri once and for all, who's been snooping around. Mukuro Ikusaba is actually either Kirigiri's true identity or the mastermind's identity. The corpse is actually one of Monobear's earlier victims, Junko, placed in there to fool everyone. He set up the arrows in the locker to fool everyone into thinking the wounds caused by spears were arrows, plus the bomb on the corpse to prevent them from seeing its true identity.]]

[[WMG:Kirigiri was framed by Monobear/Mastermind/Mukuro Ikusaba.]]
Monobear set up the crime scene in the 5th chapter to take out Kirigiri once and for all, who's been snooping around. Mukuro Ikusaba is actually either Kirigiri's true identity or the mastermind's identity. The corpse is actually one of Monobear's earlier victims, Junko, placed in there to fool everyone. He set up the arrows in the locker to fool everyone into thinking the wounds caused by spears were arrows, plus the bomb on the corpse to prevent them from seeing its true identity.

[[WMG:Kirigiri was framed by Monobear/Mastermind/Mukuro Ikusaba.]

The evidence is building up to this. Especially with the [[spoiler: massacre scene]] on the fifth floor.

** Addendum: And then there's what happens to him at the end of chapter 3. [[spoiler:Kyouko tells him of a secret room with files about the academy. When he investigates this room, someone bashes him on the head, knocking him out, and steals the files...but as an indirect result, Naegi ends up walking in on Sakura and Monokuma having a fight and that's how he discovers Sakura is Monokuma's mole.]]

This possibility was brought up in the Something Awful thread by another poster, but it deserves repeating here. Makoto Naegi ends up getting the only dorm room whose bathroom door sometimes gets stuck...but ''because'' the door gets stuck, Makoto is later able to [[spoiler: prove his innocence in a murder that was committed by someone who didn't know the true nature of the door.]]

The reason "the rival" is not called "the murderer"? Because UnreliableNarrator may well rear it's ugly head, causing Naegi to be the murderer all along.

Average in every respect, the boy [[SamusIsAGirl (or maybe girl?)]] who would become Monokuma was jealous of every classmate who excelled in a certain field he/she could never thrive in. Torn apart by desire, proto-Monokuma eventually snapped and tried to murder a Super High School Level student, but ended up being done in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath painfully]] by his/her own mediocrity. Now, he/she makes Super High School Level students kill each other with utter delight, given supernatural powers from an unknown source.

[[WMG: Monokuma is the spirit of a high school student who was dangerously [[{{Envy}} envious]].]]

"[[ConsummateLiar Queen of Liars]]", after all. The whole "[[spoiler:castle full of vampire-cosplaying manservants]]" thing? Just another lie. The fact of the matter was, she just [[spoiler:didn't want to die quietly in a GildedCage -- she wanted to be remembered]]. Pure and simple. And what better way to ensure that than to make up such an utterly ''outrageous'' lie? Especially since [[spoiler:the others had been {{Sympathetic Murderer}}s, making her stand out even more]].

One of her mothers is just the woman married to her father. The other mother is her biological mother (and sister).

That is, the resolution to kill another human being. The photos that Monobear snatches up after every other execution aren't just red herrings - they're actual pictures of the school building, of what's going on outside. The dead students are really just sent back to the "real world." The punishment for being too cowardly is to be stuck in your despair as things grow tenser.

So why lie and claim he did it ForTheEvulz...? Better than admitting he'd gotten tunnel vision and not considered any other suspects than the one who'd literally fallen into his lap that same night. He'd rather come off as a ManipulativeBastard than admit he was ''wrong''.