The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy

The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy or Hope's Peak Academy's biggest, most awful event (希望ヶ峰学園史上最大最悪の事件) is the name given to the very first Mutual Killing game featured in Danganronpa/Zero and Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy - Side: Despair. It was caused by Junko Enoshima. Unlike the other killing games, it is directly hosted by both Junko and Mukuro Ikusaba.

It is not to be confused with The Tragedy, the world-wide event that happened later and which was triggered by The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy.

History
Junko, in her desire to spread despair, forced the Student Council of Hope's Peak Academy into the first known mutual-killing game, which killed all the participants except Izuru Kamukura and the heavily wounded student council president Soshun Murasame. At first, they refused to kill each other, but Junko provided motive for Karen Kisaragi and a few others to kick off the killing spree. Izuru killed off the assumed sole survivor, and a security camera caught him.

Following the Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy, Junko sent out e-mails about Hope's Peak conducting illegal experiments and used the security footage to make it look like Hope's Peak had created a murderer. The events were broadcast to the Reserve Course, greatly upsetting them - in their view, the academy had apparently spent the exorbitant fees they had paid to create "murderers".

The reserve course then rebelled and protested, beginning the Parade, not knowing that they were being led and agitated from the shadows by Junko and her organization, Ultimate Despair. This social unrest soon became a movement that spread outside the academy's walls, with people everywhere protesting against the wealthy and talented. The movement soon engulfed the world, becoming more violent by the day, eventually creating the major event known as The Tragedy.

List of Participants

 * Please be aware that characters with Japanese names in brackets have UNCONFIRMED romanized names. The one exception to this is Karen Kisaragi, whose name was officially translated and can be seen.

Killing Order

 * Please note that many of the deaths occured off screen. Those deaths have been marked as unconfirmed. Also please note that the student council's names have not been matched with a student yet so for the time being, the students are marked as Unknown

Results
The Tragedy of Hope's Peak ended with the Mastermind's victory as the Killing Game went smoothly, resulting in Izuru Kamukura and Soshun Murasame being left as the sole survivors, with the latter being left in critical condition after the events of the game, forcing him to quickly be hospitalized when he was found, while the former was framed as the mastermind, creating the cause célèbre among the Reserve Course and thus spreading despair. The school tried to hide the incident by claiming that the Student Council were suddenly called to an overseas facility to study aboard.

Nonetheless, Junko felt that the forced mutual killing was too psychotic and too stiff, thus missing excitement for her. Furthermore, she determined that a mascot is necessary as well - not even a host dressed in a sort of a cartoon character outfit would do. Therefore, she modified her next planned mutual killing into games in order to make things more dramatic, resulting in the Killing School Life; it was to be hosted by a robotic bear known as Monokuma.

Trivia

 * The room that the Student Council gathered in was possibly Room 5-C. Seen in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, it was the only classroom that was covered in blood, with desks laid astray and body chalk lines drawn all over prior to the events of the game.
 * The Tragedy Of Hope's Peak Academy contains some similarities to Battle Royale; both works involve a defiant student being shot by one of the organizers, and a couple attempting mutual suicide to escape the carnage.
 * This killing game is so far the only one in the history of the franchise to include guns as a possible weapon.