Alter Ego Junko

For the alternate versions of Alter Ego Junko, see: Junko Enoshima or Ryōko Otonashi.

Alter Ego Junko is the main antagonist featured in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. She is an AI version of Junko Enoshima that was uploaded into and infected the Neo World Program to cause a mutual killing game, the Killing School Trip.

Alter Ego Junko also makes an "appearance" in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, in the form of Shirokuma and Kurokuma, who act as her physical bodies. During the epilogue, her true voice speaks with Izuru Kamukura, until the robots are destroyed by him in order to salvage the hard-drives for the AI.

Appearance
Alter Ego Junko has no true appearance, being a digital consciousness, but when she confronted the survivors of the Killing School Trip, she manifested an avatar resembling Junko's appearance in the climax of the first game. However, this manifestation was many times larger than a normal human, towering over the students even with only her upper body being visible. The avatar also carried a heavily-decorated cell phone, which displayed an image of Junko to interact with the others.

Personality
As her name and appearance suggest, Alter Ego Junko has a perfect copy of Junko Enoshima's personality, including her obsession with despair, her extremely high energy level, her skill at manipulating others, her analyticality, and her tendency to switch between many different personalities at a whim. However, Alter Ego Junko seems to display even more personalities than her human self, and she is well aware of her artificial status, commenting that she still gets bored easily even after her death.

As per her greater plans, her interactions with the survivors of the Killing School Trip are less focused on driving them to despair and more on simply abandoning hope, on the basis that they can't fall to despair if they never try to hope for something better. Ironically, she seems to hold the same viewpoint towards her own obsessions, with her last words being a lament that her final demise will ensure she never has to worry about hope or despair ever again.

Skills and Abilities
Alter Ego Junko has all of the talents and abilities of her human template. As the Overseer of the Neo World Program, she also has a high degree of control over the digital world that the Remnants of Despair were placed in; however, she is also limited by the constraints of the Overseer role. Thus, while she can warp the Neo World Program's environment (such as creating new features like Monokuma Rock and altering existing ones like the Funhouse), she cannot directly harm the students, nor enter Nezumi Castle.

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
Alter Ego Junko manipulates both the Warriors of Hope and the adults of the Towa City in the form of Shirokuma and Kurokuma. In the end, both robots are destroyed by Izuru to salvage their hard-drives for their AI.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
After being captured by the Future Foundation along with other Remnants of Despair, Izuru Kamukura downloads Alter Ego Junko into the Neo World Program, allowing her to take control of it. Once in the game, she started changing the programming surrounding the Graduation, allowing her to create the Killing School Trip. Her ultimate goal was two fold: obtaining as many comatose bodies as possible by making the Remnants "die" in the game world, and luring members of the Future Foundation into the game, where she would trap them.

Chapter 6 - This is the End, Goodbye Academy of Despair
Once Hajime Hinata and the rest of the survivors reached the final trial and the choice to either graduate or live on the island forever, Alter Ego Junko attempted to force them into graduating through an avatar resembling Makoto Naegi. After the survivors realized they were being tricked, Alter Ego Junko revealed her true avatar - a giant version of her human template - and continued attempting to make the survivors graduate.

As the trial carried on, Makoto Naegi, Kyoko Kirigiri, and Byakuya Togami appeared in the game, hoping to help the survivors terminate the corrupted program by activating an eight-person emergency shutdown sequence. Scoffing at the effort, Alter Ego Junko revealed her plan to use the Graduation Ceremony to upload her own AI into the comatose bodies of the "dead" Remnants of Despair, effectively reviving them as copies of herself. Using her analytical talents and multiple new bodies, she planned to take over first the Future Foundation, then the entire world; she planned to constantly overwrite people who entered the Neo World Program with copies of herself, until she was all that was left in the world. This would create what she dubbed "Junkoland". In addition to that, Alter Ego Junko intended to keep the members of the Future Foundation locked in the Neo World Program forever; as the Overseer of the simulation, she was the one that could choose when and if a student could graduate.

Despite the Future Foundation's efforts, Alter Ego Junko infects the remaining survivors with despair over the realization that their memories of their time in the program will be lost unless they graduate, reverting them to their Ultimate Despair personas. However, with the help of Chiaki Nanami, Hajime is able to reach an "awakened" state that enables him to break through the digital villain's words. With this, the eight are able to activate the Forced Shutdown, putting an end to AI Alter Ego Junko for good.

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