History NightmareFuel / Danganronpa

* The bad ending that you get after Kyoko's execution may not seem so bad at first glance, but FridgeHorror kicks in when you consider this: While the remaining students (Byakuya, Makoto, Yasuhiro, Aoi and Touko) have stopped killing each other -- they still ''never leave the school'' [[GildedCage and have grown to adulthood totally isolated from the rest of the world.]] Worse still is the fact that there are ''three children'' in their group shot, the implication being that Aoi had a child with both Makoto and Yasuhiro. And the five remaining kids are going to grow old and die, still just the five of them, and their children will be subjected to the same destiny, lonely forever...
* Monokuma revealing to the kids that they're here... ''forever''.

* The bad ending that you get after Kyoko's execution may not seem so bad at first glance, but FridgeHorror kicks in when you consider this: While the remaining students (Byakuya, Makoto, Yasuhiro and Aoi, and Touko was with them but she died a while ago) have stopped killing each other -- they still ''never leave the school'' [[GildedCage and have grown to adulthood totally isolated from the rest of the world.]] Worse still is the [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse mystery]] behind Touko's death and the fact that there are ''three children'' in their group shot. Considering that Aoi is the only girl remaining, that means she gave birth to all three of them (probably; it's never stated ''when'' Touko died). And the four remaining kids are going to grow old and die, still just the four of them, and their children will be subjected to the same destiny, lonely forever...

* Hell, the fact that one high-school aged girl, armed with nothing but her charisma and sheer sadism, managed to nearly cause ''the end of the world''.

*** [[http://chihirofujicutie.tumblr.com/post/72730444202/punishment-rocket-pages-from-the-reload-book If the relevant pages in the Reload book]] and the implications made by the early trailer are anything to go by, this was originally ''Leon's'' execution. Also, in other illustrations the rocket doubles as an iron maiden.

*** Now, thanks to the Reload book, final!Leon's [[http://chihirofujicutie.tumblr.com/post/72827241889/million-fungoes-page-from-the-reload-artbook beaten corpse is unobscured by shadows as well!]]

* Also, related to the above... [[http://yuunishinoya.tumblr.com/post/43435675650/dangan-ronpa-vfb-execution-translations Here]] is a post that includes the plans for [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the whole cast's executions]]. Among them are: Aoi's ("Water Show Illusion", in which she's trapped [[DrowningPit inside a water tank]] and EatenAlive [[FedToTheBeast by sharks]]), Byakuya's ("Human ★ Disqualification", where a hobo-looking Byakuya is thrown into a place that looks like Hell and first gets stoned by Monokuma, then ends up DyingAlone [[SnowMeansDeath in the snow]]) and Toko's ("First Prank Kiss", with her crushed to death by a roller after Monokuma mocks her MadLove for Byakuya via making her believe he'd kiss her)... ''Wow.''

** Sayaka's execution would've had Monokuma placed her on a stage, promising a perfect idol singing performance, complete with a meter to "score" her. Being the Ultimate Pop Sensation, she naturally would've done well. However, just the meter reaches full, [[{{Jerkass}} Monokuma]] would've destroyed it. This would've triggered the '''failure'' condition and caused a giant beartrap-looking contraption to slam shut, presumably ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisecting her.]]'' And this could've happened if she successfully killed Leon. So in this scenario, Makoto would've had to personally expose his closest friend's crime, including her lying and trying to frame him, before watching her die.

** Sayaka's execution would've had Monokuma placed her on a stage, promising a perfect idol singing performance, complete with a meter to "score" her. Being the Ultimate Pop Sensation, she naturally would've done well. However, just the meter reaches full, [[Jerkass Monokuma]] would've destroyed it. This would've triggered the '''failure'' condition and caused a giant beartrap-looking contraption to slam shut, presumably ''[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisecting her.]]'' And this could've happened if she successfully killed Leon. So in this scenario, Makoto would've had to personally expose his closest friend's crime, including her lying and trying to frame him, before watching her die.

** Byakuya's execution would've had Monokuma drop him into a trash can in a place that looks like hell. It's here that Monokuma, dressed as an elementary schooler, would then start viciously stoning him. Byakuya would've managed to escape, but he'd then end up in a [[SnowMeansDeath snowy wasteland.]] It's here that he would've died from his injuries and the bitter cold.

* The English lyrics of the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruz4PXSYZKo Monokuma Ondo"]] song. It doesn't start off too bad, talking about how the world is a just place and how it's easy to see through people's emotions. Then it all gets creepier as it starts talking about happily devouring each other as multiple Monokuma's rise to center screen to dance in happiness while confetti rains down around them and a giant Monokuma statue. Jesus Christ.

* In ''If'', the rather graphic description of Makoto being stabbed by a Gungnir Spear can be this, considering how fond the the player would probably be of him from the first game. Just when you think it can't get much worse, Monokuma (who you know is Junko) being his (her) bastard self and making all sorts of sexually-charged assumptions of what Mukuro will do to an unconscious and dying Makoto to try and distract her (compared to the outlandish commentary he would make in-game, these are more flat-out allusions to rape, due to Junko's knowledge her sister's interest in him). Oh, and let's add in Syo's commentary about it too, the murderer who got her "bloodstain fever" upon seeing the bloody scene for good measure.

*** Another thing that makes this execution even worse. It's implied this was the execution the Mastermind intended for ''Naegi'' had he failed to defeat her.

** The Masked Would-Be Assailant (actually Mukuro's body): found in the garden, and gets her face blown off when Syo tries to unmask her.

** Chapter 3's execution, aka "The Burning of the Versailles Witch". It's Taeko "Celestia Ludenberg" Yasuhiro, the Ultimate Gambler. She's all set to be ''[[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]]'', a slow and agonizing death that would give anyone nightmares at the thought of it. Only, this ''is'' the dramatic kind of death Celeste ''wants''...so Monokuma intentionally pulls a bait-and-switch and sends a firetruck to put out the fire. Except the firetruck ''rams her to death''! The only mercy you're granted is that you're not actually forced to watch Celeste being crushed, since the camera at that point is from Celeste's point-of-view so you only see the truck and hear the sound effect.

* Also, related to the above... [[http://yuunishinoya.tumblr.com/post/43435675650/dangan-ronpa-vfb-execution-translations Here]] is a post that includes the plans for [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the whole cast's executions]]. Among them are: Aoi's ("Water Show Illusion", in which she's trapped [[DrowningPit inside a water tank]] and EatenAlive [[FedToTheBeast by sharks]]), Byakuya's ("Human ★ Disqualification", where a hobo-looking Byakuya is thrown into a place that looks like Hell and first gets stoned by Monokuma, then ends up DyingAlone [[SnowMeansDeath in the snow]]) and Toko's ("First Prank Kiss", with her crushed to death by a roller after Monokuma mocks her MadLove for Byakuya via making her believe he'd kiss her)...''Wow.''

* Monokuma revealing to the kids that they're here...''forever''.

* In Chapter 6's trial, Junko's initial appearance is shocking enough...but then she starts ''rapidly changing personalities'', each one freakier than the last. The really cutesy one and the one where she covers her own face with Monokuma and speaks through him are particularly jarring. And then, once you reach the final discussion, she assumes a completely neutral, blank expression, and tells them of what has happened to the world and that defeating her and leaving the school means certain death. This, combined with the horrified expressions on the students' faces, is probably the scariest that Junko gets to be.

** The first execution we see in the game, aka "The Space Journey". The victim starts off tied up and blindfolded, struggling as he tries to free himself, only to be shown ''screaming'' as he is put into the small space shuttle. It's sent into space up toward an incredibly creepy-looking sun and moon, then falls back down to the earth again, upon which the shuttle opens to show only his bones left, and then there's the shot of Monokuma just laughing... The fact that we don't know who it is initially dampens it somewhat, but it gets worse to watch it again upon knowing who it was: the headmaster, aka Kirigiri's father.

** Chapter 1's execution, aka "Million Fungoes". Leon Kuwata, the Super High-School Level Baseball Player, is the first culprit. You first see a chain close around Leon's throat while he reaches out for help, and then it starts dragging him very quickly along the ground while he's desperately clawing at the chain the whole time. It takes him past a door that ominously closes, only it turns out the chain is dragging him to a batting cage. Leon isn't even given a fighting chance; after the chain drags him to the signpost inside the batting cage, ''more'' chains appear encircling around just the right places on his body so he can't move his arms. Now why would Monokuma not want Leon moving his arms? So he can't raise his hands to defend himself when the pitching machine ''beats Leon to death by shooting baseballs at him!'' It doesn't even have the mercy of killing Leon right after the machine starts; you have to watch the machine moving up and down Leon's body from shoulders to toes and back again, while the music track conveniently plays the "wo-wo-wo-wo" voices part of the song during that part, and then one final shot of Leon looking scared out of his mind right before dozens of baseballs hit him in the face and ''that'' finally kills him. And when the machine finally stops firing, you have to watch the baseballs just slowly rolling away, covered in blood, as Leon's mangled crushed corpse hangs there limply. Also, his silhouette in the ball-rolling shot looks like his feet are off the ground, so it's possible the chain around his neck was strangling him throughout just to top things off.

** Chapter 2's execution, aka "Motorcycle Death Cage". This time it's Mondo Oowada, the Super High-School Level Gang Leader, being executed. Mondo is tied to a motorcycle by his arms, with Monokuma driving it. Monokuma drives the motorcycle towards a "motorcycle death cage", but Monokuma ejects from the vehicle before Mondo is taken inside the cage. The reason why becomes obvious: Monokuma then proceeds to do a hula dance that speeds up the cage to absurd extremes, with Mondo having a freaked-out look as his eyes look dizzy, and finally Monokuma speeds up the cage to such ludicrous speeds that Mondo is ''turned into butter'', which Monokuma then puts on his pancakes and ''eats''! This one is mitigated slightly, though, since [[FaceDeathWithDignity Mondo makes no attempt to escape the vehicle he's tied to]], even giving Monokuma a "dude, really?!" look as Monokuma ejects, and you don't actually see Mondo turned into butter, you just see the lone motorcycle left on its side with no occupant.
*** Ishimaru's reaction afterwards is equal parts this and TearJerker. That ''scream'' really hammers in that he just saw ''his best friend horribly executed in front of him''. Trying to imagine things from his perspective is just horrifying.
*** What's especially terrifying is that this type of death is entirely plausible in RealLife. It's possible to exert enough force onto a human body to the point where they're crushed to a pulp (his consistency would be more akin to salsa than butter, though). Granted, Mondo would've died long before being liquified since the immense pressure on his lungs would've caused him to suffocate. That, or death by internal bleeding due to his blood vessels rupturing as well. Either way, it's a horrible way to go.
** Chapter 3's execution, aka "Versailles High Witch Hunt Stake". It's Taeko "Celestia Ludenberg" Yasuhiro, the Super High-School Level Gambler. She's all set to be ''[[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]]'', a slow and agonizing death that would give anyone nightmares at the thought of it. Only, this ''is'' the dramatic kind of death Celes ''wants''...so Monokuma intentionally pulls a bait-and-switch and sends a firetruck to put out the fire. Except the firetruck ''rams her to death''! The only mercy you're granted is that you're not actually forced to watch Celes being crushed, since the camera at that point is from Celes' point-of-view so you only see the truck and hear the sound effect.
** Chapter 4's execution, aka "A Dozer Master". You might wonder how it would be nightmare fuel to use a bulldozer to crush Alter Ego, who can't feel pain, to non-existence. Monokuma manages it; his bulldozer repeatedly strikes Alter Ego's laptop causing damage while Alter Ego looks frightened, and then it speeds up and crushes the laptop into a ball with Monokuma's face on it.
** Chapter 5's execution, aka "Detention". In the bad ending, it's Kyouko Kirigiri being executed. Her hands are pinned underneath the top of a desk so she can't get up from her chair, and she's forced to watch a puppet Monokuma teaching a lesson on the chalkboard about a crushing machine. Only the crushing machine is ''real'', and the chair is on a conveyor belt moving Kirigiri towards it. So Kirigiri has to listen to the huge block repeatedly crashing down behind her, and you see her shoulders heaving slightly and her face turns blue out of horror: Kyouko Kirigiri, the eternal stoic, [[NotSoStoic has finally been broken and made to feel fear.]] Mercifully, the game fades to black at the moment when the huge block actually crushes poor Kirigiri to death, but you can still ''hear it''...
*** If you-as-Naegi choose not to get Kirigiri executed...Naegi himself is slated to go through "Detention". Only that Alter Ego, who managed to survive its "death" via downloading its memory in the main network, saves him at the last moment, and later the living Kirigiri finishes the work. It's still fucking scary.
** Finally, the last execution in the very end: "Super Duper Nasty Torture". Yeah, you don't get to feel sorry for the victim because it's Junko Enoshima aka the BigBad who was behind Monokuma and was to blame for the whole plot in the first place... but still, she '''willingly''' subjects herself to '''''all''''' the formerly mentioned deaths! Plus the "Space Journey" one from the game's beginning (where the victim [all but stated to have been Kirigiri's father aka the ex-Headmaster] is trapped into a small shuttle and shot into space -- and ''brought back'', which destroys his body save for his bones). [[MadeOfIron And she lives through them until "Detention"]], and [[NightmareFetishist enjoys them throughly due to her fetish for despair]], '''smiling madly until almost the very end.''' Meeeep.

* Also, related to the above... [[http://yuunishinoya.tumblr.com/post/43435675650/dangan-ronpa-vfb-execution-translations Here]] is a post that includes the plans for [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the whole cast's executions]]. Among them are: Aoi's ("Water Show Illusion", in which she's trapped [[DrowningPit inside a water tank]] and EatenAlive [[FedToTheBeast by sharks]]), Togami's ("Human ★ Disqualification", where a hobo-looking Togami is thrown into a place that looks like Hell and first gets stoned by Monokuma, then ends up DyingAlone [[SnowMeansDeath in the snow]]) and Fukawa's ("First Prank Kiss", with her crushed to death by a roller after Monokuma mocks her MadLove for Togami via making her believe he'd kiss her)...''Wow.''
* Any time Enoshima appears while wearing the mask is fairly creepy or unsettling.
* The bad ending that you get after Kirigiri's execution may not seem so bad at first glance, but FridgeHorror kicks in when you consider this: While the remaining students (Togami, Naegi, Hagakure and Aoi, and Touko was with them but she died a while ago) have stopped killing each other -- they still ''never leave the school'' [[GildedCage and have grown to adulthood totally isolated from the rest of the world.]] Worse still is the [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse mystery]] behind Touko's death and the fact that there are ''three children'' in their group shot. Considering that Aoi is the only girl remaining, that means she gave birth to all three of them (probably; it's never stated ''when'' Touko died). And the four remaining kids are going to grow old and die, still just the four of them, and their children will be subjected to the same destiny, lonely forever...

* In Chapter 6's trial, Enoshima's initial appearance is shocking enough...but then she starts ''rapidly changing personalities'', each one freakier than the last. The really cutesy one and the one where she covers her own face with Monokuma and speaks through him are particularly jarring. And then, once you reach the final discussion, she assumes a completely neutral, blank expression, and tells them of what has happened to the world and that defeating her and leaving the school means certain death. This, combined with the horrified expressions on the students' faces, is probably the scariest that Enoshima gets to be.

* Here's [[http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/403/403327/ an article about Distrust]], the earliest known version of Dangan Ronpa. The final game had its nastier moments, but at least the kids were never subjected to things like the blankly-staring decapitated head and severed hand of one of their classmates, left in a plain cardboard box for any one of them to find. The implication seems to be that the victim--possibly Junko--was forcibly shoved into a guillotine...by Kirigiri, Fukawa, Leon, and an unidentified fourth student who might be Hagakure. That's right--at least one route involved a ''gang killing''. And if Leon's beta execution is anything to go by, you could only expose one of them.

** Maizono (Hagakure in the demo): knife to the gut.

** Ishimaru and Yamada: brains bashed in.

* Kirigiri's death in Distrust, or one possible death. Somehow, Kazuo (Leon) got ahold of a bunch of spears and impaled her on every single one.

* In ''If'', the rather graphic description of Naegi being stabbed by a Gungnir Spear can be this, considering how fond the the player would probably be of him from the first game. Just when you think it can't get much worse, Monokuma (who you know is Junko) being his (her) bastard self and making all sorts of sexually-charged assumptions of what Mukuro will do to an unconscious and dying Naegi to try and distract her (compared to the outlandish commentary he would make in-game, these are more flat-out allusions to rape, due to Junko's knowledge her sister's interest in him). Oh, and let's add in Syo's commentary about it too, the murderer who got her "bloodstain fever" upon seeing the bloody scene for good measure.
* Towards the climax of ''If'', the mastermind threatens to reset the game by erasing everyone's memories all over again -- and Mukuro's punishment for turning on her? Getting to play as herself, but with LaserGuidedAmnesia, so that she doesn't remember her talent or being part of SHSL Despair. This way, even if she didn't get killed or become a murderer herself, she'd still eventually discover the AwfulTruth and risk having everyone turn on her...

* Due to the liberty of more animating department, they actually made Celes flipping off angrily in the 3rd chapter look ''a lot more terrifying''. If one pays attention, one can see that the whole thing freaked out even Monokuma.
* Syo can be pretty scary too, in the anime versions of her angry poses, particularly the one where her skirt flies up behind her as she brandishes her scissors at Naegi.

** Chapter 1's execution, aka "Million Fungoes". Leon Kuwata, the Super High-School Level Baseball Player, is the first culprit. You first see a chain close around Leon's throat while he reaches out for help, and then it starts dragging him very quickly along the ground while he's desperately clawing at the chain the whole time. It takes him past a door that ominously closes, only it turns out the chain is dragging him to a batting cage. Leon isn't even given a fighting chance; after the chain drags him to the signpost inside the batting cage, ''more'' chains appear encircling around just the right places on his body so he can't move his arms. Now why would Monokuma not want Leon moving his arms? So he can't raise his hands to defend himself when the pitching machine ''beats Leon to death by shooting baseballs at him!'' It doesn't even have the mercy of killing Leon right after the machine starts; you have to watch the machine moving up and down Leon's body from shoulders to toes and back again, while the music track conveniently plays the "wo-wo-wo-wo" voices part of the song during that part, and then one final shot of Leon looking scared out of his mind right before dozens of baseballs hit him in the face and ''that'' finally kills him. And when the machine finally stops firing you have to watch the baseballs just slowly rolling away, covered in blood, as Leon's mangled crushed corpse hangs there limply. Also, his silhouette in the ball-rolling shot looks like his feet are off the ground, so it's possible the chain around his neck was strangling him throughout just to top things off.

*** Ishimaru's reation afterwards is equal parts this and TearJerker. That ''scream'' really hammers in that he just saw ''his best friend horribly executed in front of him''. Trying to imagine things from his perspective is just horrifying.
*** What's especially terrifying is that this type of death is entirely plausable in RealLife. It's possible to exert enough force onto a human body to the point where they're crushed to a pulp (his consistency would be more akin to salsa than butter, though). Granted, Mondo would've died long before being liquified since the immense pressure on his lungs would've caused him to suffocate. That, or death by internal bleeding due to his blood vessels rupturing as well. Either way, it's a horrible way to go.

*** Another thing that makes this execution even worse. It's implied this was the execution the Mastermind intended for ''Naegi'' had he failed to defeat them.

** Chihiro: Dumbbell to the skull; later crucified.
** Ishimaru and Yamada: Brains bashed in.

*** Now, thanks to the reload book, canon!Leon's [[http://chihirofujicutie.tumblr.com/post/72827241889/million-fungoes-page-from-the-reload-artbook beaten corpse is unobscured by shadows as well!]]
*** Even ''Monokuma itself'' looks horrified when it's over.

*** What's especially terrifying is that this type of death is entirely plausable in RealLife. It's possible to exert enough force onto a human body to the point where they're crushed to a pulp (His consistency would be more akin to salsa than butter, though). Granted, Mondo would've died long before being liquified since the immense pressure on his lungs would've caused him to suffocate. That, or death by internal bleeding due to his blood vessels rupturing as well. Either way, it's a horrible way to go.

*** Something that sticks with you is the way she stops smiling ''just'' before the crusher slams down for the last time. You can almost hear her thinking "Wait-"
*** Another thing that makes this execution even worse. It's implied this was the execution intended for ''Naegi'' by the Mastermind had he failed to defeat them.

* In Chapter 6's trial, Enoshima's initial appearance is shocking enough...but then she starts ''changing personalities'', each one freakier than the last. The really cutesy one and the one where she covers her own face with Monokuma and speaks through him are particularly jarring. And then, once you reach the final discussion, she assumes a completely neutral, blank expression, and tells them of what has happened to the world and that defeating her and leaving the school means certain death. This, combined with the horrified expressions on the students' faces, is probably the scariest that Enoshima gets to be.

** The beta's premise (called Distrust) was actually worse. The characters had merely 7 days instead of the indefinite entrapment and it can be assumed that everyone would be killed if a successful murder wasn't committed. The few deaths shown in the proposal were even more brutal, and the same can be assumed of the unknown executions.

** Finally, the last execution in the very end: "Super Duper Nasty Torture". Yeah, you don't get to feel sorry for the victim because it's Junko Enoshima aka the BigBad who was behind Monokuma and was to blame for the whole plot in the first place... but still, she '''willingly''' subjects herself to '''''all''''' the formerly mentioned deaths! Plus the "Space Journey" one from the game's beginning (where the victim [all but stated to have been Kirigiri's father aka the ex-Headmaster] is trapped into a small shuttle and shot into space -- and ''brought back'', which destroys his body save for his bones). [[MadeOfIron And she lives through them until "Detention", and [[NightmareFetishist enjoys them throughly due to her fetish for despair]], '''smiling madly until almost the very end.''' ]] Meeeep.

* Also, related to the above... [[http://yuunishinoya.tumblr.com/post/43435675650/dangan-ronpa-vfb-execution-translations Here]] is a post that includes the plans for [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the whole cast's executions]]. Among them are: Aoi's ("Water Show Illusion", in which she's trapped [[DrowningPit inside a water tank]] and EatenAlive [[FedToTheBeast by sharks]]), Togami's ("Human ★ Disqualification", where a hobo-looking Togami is thrown into a place that looks like Hell and first gets stoned by Monokuma, then ends up DyingAlone [[SnowMeansDeath in the snow]]) and Fukawa's ("First Prank Kiss", with her crushed to death by a roller after Monokuma mocks her MadLove for Togami via making her believe he'd kiss her]])...''Wow.''

* Also, related to the above... [[http://yuunishinoya.tumblr.com/post/43435675650/dangan-ronpa-vfb-execution-translations Here]] is a post that includes the plans for [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the whole cast's executions]]. Among them are: Aoi's ("Water Show Illusion", in which she's trapped [[DrowningPit inside a water tank and EatenAlive [[FedToTheBeast by sharks]]), Togami's ("Human ★ Disqualification", where a hobo-looking Togami is thrown into a place that looks like Hell and first gets stoned by Monokuma, then ends up DyingAlone [[SnowMeansDeath in the snow]]) and Fukawa's ("First Prank Kiss", with her crushed to death by a roller after Monokuma mocks her MadLove for Togami via making her believe he'd kiss her]])...''Wow.''

* The executions, all of them. Pure, unleaded nightmare fuel. Have fun trying to sleep at night after you watch one of these. Let's break them down, chapter by chapter:
** The first execution we see in the game, aka "The Space Journey". The victim starts off tied up and blindfolded, struggling as he tries to free himself, only to be shown ''screaming'' as he is put into the small space shuttle. It's sent into space up toward an incredibly creepy-looking sun and moon, then falls back down to the earth again, upon which the shuttle opens to show only his bones left, and then there's the shot of Monobear just laughing... The fact that we don't know who it is initially dampens it somewhat, but it gets worse to watch it again upon knowing who it was: [[spoiler: the headmaster, aka Kirigiri's father.]]
*** [[http://chihirofujicutie.tumblr.com/post/72730444202/punishment-rocket-pages-from-the-reload-book If the relevant pages in the Reload book]] and the implications made by the early trailer are anything to go by, [[spoiler: this was originally ''Leon's'' execution. Also, in other illustrations the rocket doubles as an iron maiden.]]
** Chapter 1's execution aka [[spoiler: "Million Fungoes"]]. [[spoiler: Leon Kuwata, the Super High-School Level Baseball Player, is the first culprit. You first see a chain close around Leon's throat while he reaches out for help, and then it starts dragging him very quickly along the ground while he's desperately clawing at the chain the whole time. It takes him past a door that ominously closes, only it turns out the chain is dragging him to a batting cage. Leon isn't even given a fighting chance; after the chain drags him to the signpost inside the batting cage, ''more'' chains appear encircling around just the right places on his body so he can't move his arms. Now why would Monobear not want Leon moving his arms? So he can't raise his hands to defend himself when the pitching machine ''beats Leon to death by shooting baseballs at him!'' It doesn't even have the mercy of killing Leon right after the machine starts; no, you have to watch the machine moving up and down Leon's body from head to toe and back again, while the music track conveniently plays the "wo-wo-wo-wo" voices part of the song during that part, and then one final shot of Leon having a scared-out-of-his-mind look on his face right before dozens of baseballs hit him in the face and ''that'' finally kills him. And when the machine finally stops firing you have to watch the baseballs just slowly rolling away, covered in blood, as Leon's mangled crushed corpse hangs there limply. Also, his silhouette in the ball-rolling shot looks like his feet are off the ground, so it's possible the chain around his neck was strangling him throughout just to top things off.]]
*** This execution was so brutal that it ended up censored in ''The Animation'' [[spoiler:so as to not show the baseballs hitting Leon or the bloody baseballs rolling away from Leon's dead body afterwards.]]
*** And then we have the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_W_3w_sfoI beta version]]. [[spoiler:Highlights include Kazuo/beta!Leon spewing gallons of red blood and his beaten corpse not being as obscured by the shadows.]]
*** Now, thanks to the reload book, [[spoiler: canon!Leon's [[http://chihirofujicutie.tumblr.com/post/72827241889/million-fungoes-page-from-the-reload-artbook beaten corpse]] is unobscured by shadows as well!]]
*** It's so horrible that ''Monobear itself'' looks horrified when it's over.
** Chapter 2's execution, aka [[spoiler: "Motorcycle Death Cage"]]. [[spoiler: This time it's Mondo Oowada, the Super High-School Level Gang Leader, being executed. Mondo is tied to a motorcycle by his arms, with Monobear driving it. Monobear drives the motorcycle towards a "motorcycle death cage", but Monobear ejects from the vehicle before Mondo is taken inside the cage. The reason why becomes obvious: Monobear then proceeds to do a hula dance that speeds up the cage to absurd extremes, with Mondo having a freaked-out look as his eyes look dizzy, and finally Monobear speeds up the cage to such ludicrous speeds that Mondo is ''turned into butter'', which Monobear then puts on his pancakes and ''eats''! This one is mitigated slightly, though, since [[FaceDeathWithDignity Mondo makes no attempt to escape the vehicle he's tied to]], even giving Monobear a "dude, really?!" look as Monobear ejects, and you don't actually see Mondo turned into butter, you just see the lone motorcycle left on its side with no occupant]].
*** [[spoiler: Ishimaru's]] reation afterwards is equal parts this and TearJerker. [[spoiler: That ''scream'' really hammers in that he just saw ''his best friend horribly executed in front of him''.]] Trying to imagine things from his perspective is just horrifying.
** Chapter 3's execution, aka [[spoiler: "Versailles High Witch Hunt Stake"]]. [[spoiler: It's Taeko "Celestia Ludenberg" Yasuhiro, the Super High-School Level Gambler. She's all set to be ''[[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]]'', a slow and agonizing death that would give anyone nightmares at the thought of it. Only, this ''is'' the dramatic kind of death Celes ''wants''...so Monobear intentionally pulls a bait-and-switch and sends a firetruck to put out the fire. Except the firetruck ''rams her to death''! The only mercy you're granted is that you're not actually forced to watch Celes being crushed, since the camera at that point is from Celes' point-of-view so you only see the truck and hear the sound effect.]]
** Chapter 4's execution, aka [[spoiler: "A Dozer Master"]]. [[spoiler: You might wonder how it would be nightmare fuel to use a bulldozer to crush Alter Ego, who can't feel pain, to non-existence. Monobear manages it; his bulldozer repeatedly strikes Alter Ego's laptop causing damage while Alter Ego looks frightened, and then it speeds up and crushes the laptop into a ball with Monobear's face on it.]]
** Chapter 5's execution, aka [[spoiler: "Detention"]]. [[spoiler: In the bad ending, it's Kyouko Kirigiri being executed. Her hands are pinned underneath the top of a desk so she can't get up from her chair, and she's forced to watch a puppet Monobear teaching a lesson on the chalkboard about a crushing machine. Only the crushing machine is ''real'', and the chair is on a conveyor belt moving Kirigiri towards it. So Kirigiri has to listen to the huge block repeatedly crashing down behind her, and you see her shoulders heaving slightly and her face turns blue out of horror: Kyouko Kirigiri, the eternal stoic, [[NotSoStoic has finally been broken and made to feel fear.]] Mercifully, the game fades to black at the moment when the huge block actually crushes poor Kirigiri to death, but you can still ''hear it''...]]
*** [[spoiler: If you-as-Naegi choose not to get Kirigiri executed...Naegi himself is slated to go through "Detention". Only that Alter Ego, who managed to survive its "death" via downloading its memory in the main network, saves him at the last moment, and later the living Kirigiri finishes the work. It's still fucking scary.]]
** Finally, [[spoiler: the last execution in the very end: "Super Duper Nasty Torture". Yeah, you don't get to feel sorry for the victim because it's Junko Enoshima aka the BigBad who was behind Monobear and was to blame for the whole plot in the first place... but still, she '''willingly''' subjects herself to '''''all''''' the formerly mentioned deaths! Plus the "Space Journey" one from the game's beginning (where the victim [all but stated to have been Kirigiri's father aka the ex-Headmaster] is trapped into a small shuttle and shot into space -- and ''brought back'', which destroys his body save for his bones). [[MadeOfIron And she lives through them]] until "Detention", and [[NightmareFetishist enjoys them throughly due to her fetish for despair]], '''smiling madly until almost the very end.''' ]] Meeeep.
*** [[spoiler: Junko's face just before the execution, as she ''willingly'' reaches out to press the button...]]
*** Something that sticks with you is the way [[spoiler:she stops smiling ''just'' before the crusher slams down for the last time. You can almost hear her thinking "Wait-" And it wouldn't even be her getting upset at dying because it's dying, it'd be her getting upset because it just now hits her that this means there won't be any more despair highs. Jesus, this girl is fucked up!]]
*** [[spoiler:Alternatively, she could have just been wondering what was taking the crusher so long, as it paused a bit longer than usual when she went under it.]]

* Also, related to the above... [[http://yuunishinoya.tumblr.com/post/43435675650/dangan-ronpa-vfb-execution-translations Here]] is a post that includes the plans for [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the whole cast's executions]]. Among them are: [[spoiler: Aoi's ("Water Show Illusion", in which she's trapped [[DrowningPit inside a water tank]] and EatenAlive [[FedToTheBeast by sharks]]), Togami's ("Human ★ Disqualification", where a hobo-looking Togami is thrown into a place that looks like Hell and first gets stoned by Monobear, then ends up DyingAlone [[SnowMeansDeath in the snow]]) and Fukawa's ("First Prank Kiss", with her crushed to death by a roller after Monobear mocks her MadLove for Togami via making her believe he'd kiss her]])...''Wow.''
* Any time [[spoiler:Enoshima]] appears while wearing the mask is fairly creepy or unsettling.
* The bad ending [[spoiler: that you get after Kirigiri's execution]] may not seem so bad at first glance, but FridgeHorror kicks in when you consider this: [[spoiler:While the remaining students (Togami, Naegi, Hagakure and Aoi, and Touko was with them but she died a while ago) have stopped killing each other -- they still ''never leave the school'' [[GildedCage and have grown to adulthood totally isolated from the rest of the world.]] Worse still is the [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse mystery]] behind Touko's death and the fact that there are ''three children'' in their group shot. Considering that Aoi is the only girl remaining, that means she gave birth to all three of them (probably; it's never stated ''when'' Touko dies). And the four remaining kids are going to grow old and die, still just the four of them, and their children will be subjected to the same destiny, lonely forever...]]
* Monobear revealing to the kids that they're here...''forever''.

* In Chapter 6's trial, [[spoiler: Enoshima's initial appearance is shocking enough...but then she starts ''changing personalities'', each one freakier than the last. The really cutesy one and the one where she covers her own face with Monobear and speaks through him are particularly jarring. And then, once you reach the final discussion, she assumes a completely neutral, blank expression, and tells them of what has happened to the world and that defeating her and leaving the school means certain death. This, combined with the horrified expressions on the students' faces, is probably the scariest that Enoshima gets to be.]]

* Here's [[http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/403/403327/ an article about Distrust]], the earliest known version of Dangan Ronpa. The final game had its nastier moments, but at least the kids were never subjected to things like [[spoiler:the blankly-staring decapitated head and severed hand of one of their classmates, left in a plain cardboard box for any one of them to find.]] The implication seems to be that [[spoiler:the victim--possibly Junko--was forcibly shoved into a guillotine...by Kirigiri, Fukawa, Leon, and an unidentified fourth student who might be Hagakure. That's right--at least one route involved a ''gang killing''. And if Leon's beta execution is anything to go by, you could only expose one of them.]]

* In ''If'', the rather graphic description of [[spoiler: Naegi being stabbed by a Gungnir Spear can be this, considering how fond the the player would probably be of him from the first game. Just when you think it can't get much worse, Monobear (who you know is Junko) being his (her) bastard self and making all sorts of sexually-charged assumptions of what Mukuro will do to an unconscious and dying Naegi to try and distract her (compared to the outlandish commentary he would make in-game, these are more flat-out allusions to rape, due to Junko's knowledge her sister's interest in him). Oh, and let's add in Syo's commentary about it too, the murderer who got her "bloodstain fever" upon seeing the bloody scene for good measure.]]
* Towards the climax of ''If'', the mastermind threatens to [[spoiler:reset the game by erasing everyone's memories all over again -- and Mukuro's punishment for turning on her? Getting to play as herself, but with LaserGuidedAmnesia, so that she doesn't remember her talent or being part of SHSL Despair. This way, even if she didn't get killed or become a murderer herself, she'd still eventually discover the AwfulTruth and risk having everyone turn on her...]]

* If you thought [[spoiler: Mukuro-as-Junko's]] death via getting ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice was bad... the anime makes it ''[[UpToEleven much worse]]''. In the original we "only" see [[spoiler: Mukuro-as-Junko's]] torso as they get speared through the chest, but [[http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=e9hef5&s=5 the anime rendition]] shows their whole body and then has them become a '''HumanPincushion''', hit not just through the chest but also ''shoulders, stomach and thighs''. Not to mention ''massively'' [[BloodFromTheMouth bleeding out of the mouth]] and falling to the floor. OWWWWWWWW.
* Due to the liberty of more animating department, they actually made [[spoiler:Celes]] flipping off angrily in the 3rd chapter look ''a lot more terrifying''.
** If one pays attention one can see that the whole thing freaked out even Monokuma.

* The English lyrics of the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruz4PXSYZKo Monokuma Ondo"]] song. It doesn't start off too bad, talking about how the world is a just place and how it's easy to see through people's emotions. Then it all gets creepier as it starts talking about [[spoiler:happily devouring each other as multiple Monokuma's rise to center screen to dance in happiness while confetti rains down around them and a giant Monokuma statue]]. Jesus Christ.

*** [[spoiler: Ishimaru's]] reation afterwards is equal parts this and TearJerker. [[spoiler: That ''scream'' really hammers in that he just saw ''his best friend horribly executed in front of him''.]] Trying to immagine things from his perspective is just horrifying.

** Also instead of Monokuma being the monochrome bear he was, originally he was supposed to be an [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/8e6f61c1fdde5617b7f91cdb7645506f/tumblr_mr53b1ATbr1sp8isko8_1280.jpg sadistic anatomical model]]

** The beta's premise (called Distrust) was actually worse. The characters had merely 7 days instead of the indefinite entrapment and it can be assumed that everyone would be killed if a successful murder wasn't committed. Aside from the greater brutality of some of the deaths, it could likewise be assumed of the executions.