Nagito Komaeda

"The deeper and darker the despair... the brighter and powerful the hope born from it."

- Nagito as the Servant

Nagito Komaeda (also known as Ultimate Lucky Student, Ultimate Despair, The Servant) is one of the main characters presented in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair and one of the Remnants of Ultimate Despair.

Despite serving as one of the supporting characters in the second game, Nagito became a supporting antagonist in Chapter 1, a major antagonist in Chapter 3, 4 and the true main antagonist (despite being a victim as well) of Chapter 5. He was one of the supporting characters as well as a nigh-antagonist in the prequel, Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy - Side: Despair, until by the finale he became one of the Ultimate Despair members thus a real villain (with delusional intentions).

He was also the secondary antagonist of Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls where he served as the Servant for Warriors of Hope. His Servant persona made a cameo appearance in Side: Future.

Overview
He was once a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77-B. After being brainwashed by Junko Enoshima, Nagito and his classmates succumbed to despair and became part of Ultimate Despair.

After Junko's death, Nagito became the Servant for the Warriors of Hope as well as a member of Remnants of Despair listed by Future Foundation, trying to make Monaca Towa to carry on Junko's legacy. He cut off the left hand of Junko and attached it on his left wrist so that he could claim himself to be a man who conquered the leader of Ultimate Despair. He was later captured by Future Foundation and was sent to Neo World Program.

At first, Nagito got alone well with his classmates in the program. Under Monokuma's effect, however, he became a liar as well as someone with ambiguous morality who interfered class trials frequently, causing great despise of others as the story progressed.

After discovering the horrible truth behind the Neo World Program in Danganronpa 2, Nagito sacrificed himself in order to kill the Remnants of Despair. He set up a "suicide" to cause Chiaki Nanami, the traitor and not a Remnant of Despair, to unknowingly deal the killing blow, and therefore become the blackened. However, the remaining students discovered his plan, and Monokuma executed Chiaki instead.

After his death in the Neo World Program, Nagito fell into a coma on Jabberwock Island, along with his classmates who also "died" on the Killing School Trip. He and the other comatose students were eventually revived. He later appeared as the protagonist in a 30-minutes long OVA called Super Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda and the Destroyer of the World.

In Side: Hope, he and the former member of Ultimate Despair helped Future Foundation in stopping Ryota Mitarai's effort to brainwash the world with his brainwashing Hope Video at the Future Foundation headquarters. With his classmates, Nagito decided to atone for his sins as the former Ultimate Despair and resides in Jabberwock Island.

Trivia

 * According to official files, Nagito was once intended to be a evil version of Naegi Makoto (similiar to Izuru Kamukura), but was later redesigned.