Fanfic / A Devil Amongst Worms

Cover Art by Kee

Dreams Shattered. Defeated. Eaten.
Makima wakes up in an unfamiliar city in the midst of a storm.

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A Devil Amongst Worms is a fanfic by Dellian. It is a crossover between Chainsaw Man and Worm.

After her defeat at the end of Chainsaw Man Part I, Makima through the intervention of a mysterious figure, arrives in Brockton Bay at the time of Leviathan's assault. From there, things start to change dramatically. Earth-Bet has a new ruler in the works now.

This fanfic can also be read here on FanFiction.Net and here on Archive of Our Own.

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A Devil Amongst Worms contains examples of:

• Adaptational Sexuality: While her canon sexuality is unknown, it seems that Bakuda is either a lesbian, bisexual, or pansexual here, although as detailed under Ambiguously Gay, whether that's her original orientation or not is unknown when regarding Makima.
• Admiring the Abomination: Makima certainly has this reaction when she sees the entities during Lung's Trigger Event. She called the sight marvelous and plans to do some Cape experiments.
• An Arm and a Leg:
  • Legend loses both of his legs in a fight against Leviathan.
  • Armsmaster later loses an arm to the same Endbringer, like in canon.
• Ambiguously Gay: Alice, otherwise known as Bakuda, is shown to be both romantically and sexually attracted to Makima, to the point she almost outright propositions Makima for sex, later states that her desired reward for planting the bombs to undermine the PRT is to go out on a date with her, and is very interested in watching Makima get dressed. What makes it ambiguous is that since said scene occurs after she's been brought in by Makima, it's left unclear whether her attraction is part of her original personality, if it's a result of being affected by Makima's Compelling Voice, or even a case of If It's You, It's Okay or Single-Target Sexuality.
• And I Must Scream: Leviathan's ultimate fate, as not only is he trapped on Mercury with no way off, the fact that he can only sense things through water combined with the fact that Mercury and space, in general, have virtually no water, means he's effectively trapped forever while also being completely blind, deaf, etc.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: People around the globe celebrate Leviathan's demise, praising Makima for taking him out. Director Armstrong is described as being on the verge of singing and dancing at hearing the news in his meeting.
• Asshole Victim:
  • While the verbal and physical beatdown that Lung receives from Makima is utterly horrifying, considering the fact that he's a confirmed rapist who runs a forced prostitution ring, which often preys on underage girls, it's hard to feel much sympathy for him.
  • Ditto for Emma, as while being reduced to Ludicrous Gibs while cowering alone in fear in your bedroom is definitely an awful fate, considering that she was a sadistic Smug Snake who betrayed her best friend Taylor, and went on a one-year-and-half long bullying campaign against her, including defiling the last memento of her deceased mother, and is also known to have bullied a disabled girl, many readers would probably cheer at her death at Makima's hands.
• Bad Future: In one of the Simurgh's visions, we see a description of one three years from the present, where the entire world has come completely under Makima's control. The results are... unsettling, to say the least.
• Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Makima is the one to permanently defeat Leviathan and drive most of the villains out of Brockton Bay, not that the people of Earth-Bet realize Makima's true nature as a Hope Crusher.
• Bastardly Speech: Makima gives two separate ones: first to the Wards and Undersiders at the shelter and then to Alexandria and Eidolon on the battlefield. They both consist of the valor of humanity being able to defeat Leviathan that wouldn't be too dissimilar to a superhero saying it, despite not having faith in them and is only saying it for her own purposes.
• The Beastmaster: Makima tells Dragon she can control lesser beings, leaving out that she can control anyone she deems lesser than her, giving her a Master ranking, and leading them to conclude that she can only control animals.
• Body Horror: Makima's first fight with Leviathan ends with her taking a backhand that breaks every bone in her body, completely pulverizes her organs, and leaves most of her brain outside her skull.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Some of the PRT mooks that Makima killed before freeing Lung, soiled themselves in fear before dying.
• Calling Your Attacks: Much like in her home series, Makima says "bang" while using her Finger Gun. Legend notes she's not the only one to do that on Earth-Bet e.g. Mouse Protector.
• Crack Ship: In-Universe, several PHO commenters, upon seeing the footage of Lung coming to Makima's aid against Leviathan, despite having explicitly avoided Endbringer battles in the past, think they might be a couple.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Makima utterly dominates her fight against Lung, despite the latter gaining more power than he had in Kyushu.
• Deal with the Devil: Makima's contracts are essentially this.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Downplayed. Makima states that while she enjoys superhero movies, she has no desire to dress like one, believing that they look ridiculous. Director Rennick muses Makima might be experiencing culture shock on Earth-Bet.
• Devil in Disguise: Makima is quite literally this as in the manga, as she is the Control Devil and a Satanic Archetype who uses her beautiful human appearance to pretend to be one. Especially, as she has defeated an Endbringer leading most of Earth-Bet to view her as humanity's beloved savior.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Makima appears to have killed Emma in chapter 2, to drink her blood and re-kick start her Healing Factor, as opposed to canon, where she's killed by Scion during Gold Morning.
  • Myyrdin dies in the Battle against Leviathan by the Endbringer's hands instead of the Battle against Echidna by the Eidolon clone's hands in canon.
  • Oni Lee dies in a car crash caused by an assassin, which is much quicker and more painless than being turned into Bonesaw's toys in canon.
• Dirty Coward: Makima describes Lung as this, stating that whenever adversity become too great, his will becomes broken along with his power, contemptously noting that he lacks a sliver of courage or a fraction of Denji's valor.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Makima actually manages to take Leviathan out of equation by blasting him into Mercury with no way to come back to Earth.
• Dissonant Serenity: Makima always appears calm and dignified with a serene smile, even when Leviathan is ripping her to pieces. Director Piggot finds this very disturbing even if she has a Healing Factor and Feels No Pain.
• Do You Want to Copulate?: After Makima makes a wistful remark about how easily dogs form attachments, Bakuda suggestively makes a remark that if Makima’s looking for that, she can provide something. While we don’t get to hear exactly what she’s talking about, the fact that it’s accompanied by her unbuttoning her vest makes it pretty clear what she’s going for.
• The Dreaded: Makima is this to Brockton Bay's resident supervillains not long after arriving to Earth-Bet, being known as "The Endslayer".
• Dude, Not Funny!: One commenter calls out another on PHO for making an "disarming" joke about Armsmaster.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Or rather Mercury-Shattering Kaboom is what happens when Makima launches Leviathan into it.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Her superhuman beauty is commented by Shadow Stalker, Tattletale and various women in the PHO threads. May also apply to Bakuda, since as detailed in Ambiguously Gay, her baseline sexuality is currently unclear.
• Evil Is Petty: Makima has Bakuda plant her Tinker bombs all around Brockton Bay and sets them off on live T.V. when Director Piggot was having an interview (killing a lot innocent civilians) all just to undermine the PRT even more just for speaking out against her.
• Evil Redhead: Makima, naturally.
• Evil Tastes Good: Her previous contract with the Japanese Prime Minister in her home world made her innate blood-based regeneration obsolete, so it had been decades since she had last tasted blood. She had almost forgotten how delicious it was until she drinks Emma's bloody remains.
• Evil Versus Evil: While the Simurgh opposes Makima's plans to gain control and create a World of Silence, it does this purely so that it continues to sow conflict and suffering among humanity and ensure it has access to fresh streams of information for the Entities.
• Exact Words:
  • When questioned by Dragon and Watchdog regarding whether she can Master others, Makima states that her powers only work on "lower lifeforms", leading them to assume she can only control animals, completely leaving out the fact that being the "Control Devil" her power applies to anything she considers "lower lifeforms", which includes humans.
  • Makima tells Bakuda that "work peace" would be a consequence of her endgame, leaving out she intends to take over Earth-Bet.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Makima is described one of the most beautiful characters in the story, yet has no qualms murdering, arranging assassinations, threatening teenagers and brainwashing people to serve her own ends. The fact that she's the Control Devil, a sociopathic, megalomaniacal and dangerous being, firmly cements her in this category.
• Failure Hero: Many residents of Brockton Bay see their local Protectorate as this, especially when compared to Makima who turns things around for the better in a matter of days.
• Faux Affably Evil:
  • True to form, Makima puts on the image of a friendly, loving woman making the locals of Earth-Bet believe she's a superhero from another world that wants to help, rather than a literal Devil.
  • Lung, of all people, tries this with Makima, acting grateful for being rescued by her from the PRT when in reality he's trying to gauge whether she's a friend or foe. He soon discards the act after she insults him.
• Feed It with Fire: As a being empowered by the fear of being controlled, Makima is in many ways the exact worst opponent for the Simurgh, seeing as how the Simurgh has basically become synonymous with people being controlled or puppeteered against their will and most of its plans involve controlling people and directing them, pretty much any action taken by the Simurgh only increases Makima's power.
• Feels No Pain: Piggot speculates Makima has a pain blocking power since she doesn't react at all to her otherwise life-threatening injuries.
• Femme Fatale: Makima is both a very attractive woman and the stone-cold leader of the Public Safety Bureau. She certainly has no qualms about using her looks in order to get people to do what she wants, as Bakuda can attest to.
• For the Evulz: When Lung asks Makima why she's waterboarding him in a shallow puddle as he comes up for air, (he's assumes he either attacked her at some point before in the past or killed someone she loved), her response? "I just enjoy killing the country mouse." and that she had never heard him before today and she found this to be good way to pass the time.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: To Earth-Bet, Makima went from some woman that nobody has ever heard of to the most beloved hero of all time for defeating an Endbringer.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Makima ends up doing this near the end of her fight with Leviathan, as a result of the massive amounts of Clothing Damage her outfit's taken earlier. It's caught on camera from Uber and Leet's drone.
• Genius Bruiser:
  • Makima is powerful enough that she can defeat most Parahumans without much difficulty, and is also a brilliant schemer who comes out of nearly every situation so far with the upper hand and enacts elaborate plots to achieve her goals.
  • This also applies to Leviathan and the other Endbringers.
• Giant Wall of Watery Doom: Leviathan summoned more than one of these in its battle in Brockton Bay. Luckily, Makima was able to stop them.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: The ultimate fate of Myrddin.
• Hartman Hips: More than a few PHO commenters have said Makima has a nice backside.
• Healing Factor: Even without her contract, Makima's regeneration is still pretty strong but needs blood to kickstart it. She latter creates new contracts through her employees.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: Implied to have happened to many of the members of Azn Bad Boyz, as many of the early members of the new Bureau of Public Safety are noted to be ex-ABB, with many of them turning over a new leaf in a remarkably short span of time.
• Heel–Face Turn: Defied with Makima our Villain Protagonist has no intention of doing this, despite her villainy not working out for here last time.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Well, not really a hero in this case, but Makima's love for dogs is the same as it was back in Chainsaw Man. When she visits Rachel's dog shelter, in addition to trying to recruit her, she's also there to adopt a dog. Furthermore, she's shown to be exceedingly good with Bitch's dogs, with all three of them quickly coming to like her.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: The PRT and the Protectorate end up becoming this after Leviathan is defeated, as a result of retreating and abandoning Brockton Bay near the end. When combined with their previous issues such as only really patrolling rich neighborhoods and not really doing anything about the gangs, their reputation ends up falling drastically, with Piggot noting that the gangs have been using this to increase their control.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Piggot and the Brockton Bay PRT's habit of not really doing much about the gangs to keep things stable backfires horribly on them, as not only does it contribute to the above mentioned Hero with Bad Publicity issue, it gives a perfect opening for Makima to swoop in and resolve those issues, thus further boosting her PR while further cratering their own.
• Hope Bringer: Director Armstrong sees Makima as this after she takes out an Endbringer. A very big example of Dramatic Irony, considering how in her home series, Makima's very much the Hope Crusher.
• Hope Is Scary: As much as Skitter wants to believe Makima's claim that she can beat Leviathan, she's afraid to do so after being let down so many times in her life.
• Hopeless Boss Fight: Despite Rachel's aggressive demeanor against Makima, the young villainess is fully aware she stands no chance against her in a real one-on-one fight.
• Humanoid Abomination: Makima and the Simurgh are both this as a Devil and Endbringer respectively.
• Hurl It into the Sun: A variant, as while she doesn't throw him into the Sun, Makima's amped-up blasts are able to shoot Leviathan out of Earth's orbit, ultimately leaving him stranded on Mercury.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Leviathan stops holding back during its fight in Brockton Bay.
• Ignored Epiphany: Played for Laughs. Makima still wants to get rid of bad movies to create her perfect world, despite it being one of the reasons Denji chose to stop her.
• Inspirational Insult: Inverted, Makima deliberately aggravates Alexandria to make her leave Brockton Bay, so that she will get all the credit for defeating Leviathan, instead of having it be attributed or sharing it with the Triumvirate.
• Internal Reveal: Skitter and Shadow Stalker discover each other's secret identities.
• Is This a Joke?: Director Tagg asks Dragon this after she confirms that Leviathan is currently stranded on the remains of planet Mercury because of Makima.
• Kick the Dog:
  • Makima kills the last PRT guard of the convey, after promising to spare his life.
  • Makima has Bakuda plant her Tinker bombs all around Brockton Bay and sets them off on live T.V. when Director Piggot was having an interview (killing god knows how many) all just to undermine the PRT even more after speaking out against her.
• The Killjoy: Director Tagg is certainly this to his colleagues. Not even the news of Leviathan's defeat can put a smile on his face.
• Lack of Empathy: Lung displays no pity to the PRT agents that were brutally killed by Makima.
• Lady in a Power Suit: Makima becomes the head of the new Bureau of Public Safety and wears an appropriate suit, showing off her status. More than a few people remark she wears it well.
• Long Game: The Simurgh is playing this involving Makima in her plans.
• Ludicrous Gibs: This is Emma Barnes's fate at Makima's hands.
• Madness Mantra: Tattletale's power keeps telling her to trust Makima.
• Manipulative Bitch: Makima true to form here. From making the masses dance her tune as their savior to Alice a.k.a Bakuda, her girlfriend.
• Mook Horror Show: Makima does this to the PRT officers transporting Lung, Bakuda, and Canary.
  Lung eyed the bodies and limbs that littered the floor as blood pooled with the rain. Their owners were killed in a variety of ways. Some were missing heads, and some had no legs. Some were cut in half from head to groin, while others were cut from the waist. A couple was just a puddle of blood, as if a hammer had mashed them to the ground, leaving behind nothing but their bloodied clothing. Lung showed nothing, not even a hint of fear or disgust. In contrast, Canary turned green and rushed to the side to empty whatever remained in her stomach.
• Named by Adaptation:
  • Bakuda is given the first name Alice in this story.
  • Oni Lee's real name here is Takemura.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As detailed under Hoist by His Own Petard, Piggot's policy of pretty much leaving the citizens of the Docks and the more run down areas of the Bay to their fate to placate the gangs ends up basically giftwrapping Makima a large and enthusiastic powerbase after Leviathan's defeat. Furthermore, it gives Makima a perfect opportunity to further cement her reputation as their savior, while painting the PRT and Protectorate as incompetent and apathetic to the needs of the people.
• No Sympathy: When Canary wakes up in a PRT van, she remembers she's going to the Birdcage, a life sentence, and breaks down into tears. Her only company is Lung and Bakuda who display no compassion towards her, with later first telling her to stop crying before changing her mind and telling to keep crying to collect her tears to make a new kind of bomb.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Several of the Protectorate heroes note that Leviathan is acting very differently than usual, as instead of sandbagging like the Endbringers typically do, he completely pulls out all the stops and flat out ignores many attacks that usually at least slow him down, and ignores many of the other capes to focus on Makima. This makes Alexandria very suspicious of the Evil Redhead.
• Oh, Crap!: Rachel has this reaction when Makima reveals she knows the Secret Identity of all her teammates, where they live and who their loved ones are.
• Older Than They Look: Tattletale's power tells her Makima is 23-years-old, but she's much older than that (as old as humanity itself). You wouldn't guess her true age based on her youthful looks alone.
• Outside-Context Problem: Makima is this to the world of Earth-Bet, as a supernatural being with powers and abilities completely disconnected from those stemming from the Entities' Shards. As further evidence of her outside-context status, she's shown to have a severely deleterious effect on Thinkers who try to analyze her, with Tattletale experiencing splitting headaches when she tries, and several other Thinkers tasked with analyzing her experiencing brain hemorrhaging. In the case of the Simurgh, while Makima's not an outright blind spot like Scion, it's shown that she's something of a blur in the timeline, that while capable of being seen, cannot actually be understood by the Humanoid Abomination.
• Pay Evil unto Evil:
  • In-Universe, after Leviathan's defeat at Makima's hands, when a couple of PHO commenters are somewhat disapproving of Makima tearing Lung in half in the midst of fighting Leviathan, several others dismiss their concerns by stating that Lung ran a forced prostitution ring and as such, deserves No Sympathy, with some even hoping she killed him.
  • When Makima is delivering a Curb-Stomp Battle to Lung before that, the villain asks if she's out for Revenge against him only for the Control Devil to inform him she's never even heard of Lung until not long ago.
  • Makima killing Emma to kick start her Healing Factor can be seen as this.
• Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: When they meet, Makima the Villain Protagonist is soft-spoken, eerily detached and always serene, never raising her voice. Alexandria the Hero Antagonist is abrasive, confrontational and aggressive towards the Control Devil.
• Properly Paranoid: Tagg believes that Makima could be secretly a Supervillain and (correctly) deduces she has some kind of Mind Control power. Most of his colleagues think he's Improperly Paranoid but he's actually closer to realising Makima's true nature than anyone else. He's also first to figure out that Makima has mastered the ABB to attack the PRT in order to get rid of the competition.
• Reformed Criminal: A few former low-ranking ABB members presented themselves as this when they joined Makima's group.
• Running Both Sides: Makima leads the Public Safety Bureau (publicly) and the ABB (in secret) now that she has many its memebers, including all three Parahumans, Mastered.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: When Rachel brings up the "Unwritten Rules" and that she'll be punished for revealing the identities of the Undersiders, Makima retorts that she could get away with it for being the Endslayer and the Undersiders in question are wanted criminals.
• Slave to PR: After the battle with Leviathan and Makima recreating the Bureau of Public Safety and doing much to help get Brockton Bay back on its feet, the PRT become much more aggressive in patrolling the Docks and the more rundown areas of the Bay in the hopes of turning the tide of public sentiment back in their favor. Unfortunately for them, many people can recognize it for what it is, with many noting it's too little, too late.
• Something Only They Would Say: Skitter figures out Shadow Stalker is her bully, Sophia Hess when she refers to the civilians as "prey". Sophia has an Oh, Crap! reaction when she realizes Skitter is Taylor Hebert.
• Spared By Adaptation: Chubster survives the Battle against Leviathan.
• Status Quo Is God: Director Piggot is a firm believer of maintaining this.
• Stealthy Colossus: Leviathan is able to get the jump on Makima, despite his massive size.
• Stress Vomit:
  • Makima almost does this on her arrival to Earth-Bet but manages to keep it down.
  • Played straight with Canary, who pukes her guts out when she sees the gory aftermath of Makima's Mook Horror Show.
• Stunned Silence: The Directors of the PRT have this reaction after they first hear that Makima has defeated Leviathan permanently by lasting him into Mercury.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: More than a few characters comment on how beautiful Makima is including the heterosexual Shadow Stalker, the Asexual Tattletale and the Straight Gay Legend.
• Suicide Mission: The Simurgh is confirmed to have intentionally sent Leviathan to his doom against Makima in order to weaken her by counteracting her boost in power from fear through the adulation and praise she receives as the one who defeated an Endbringer.
• Took a Level in Badass: Makima notes that her power has increased exponentially after arriving on Earth Bet, as a result of the fear of control being far greater on Earth Bet because of the Simurgh.
• Trapped in Another World: Makima did not end up on Earth-Bet by choice. However, she doesn't seem to be in a hurry to get back to her home world anytime soon.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: When Makima delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to Lung and is about to kill him, Lung experiences a second Trigger Event. This was All According to Plan for the Control Devil and wants to create her own personal army of Parahumans via this.
• Uncanny Valley: Several people on Earth Bet have this reaction to Makima. Notably, Alexandria describes her as lacking the sorts of micro-expressions and subtle facial tells that regular people have, describing her changes in expression as being akin to different frames in a film.
• Undignified Death: At Makima's mercy Lung believes he's going to die powerless, alone, completely naked, drowning in a puddle of his own Stress Vomit at the hands a woman because she felt like it and never heard of him, believing he wasted his life. Not a dignified end for the Dragon of Kyushu. Then, he gets a second trigger and Makima decides to spare his life to make use of him.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Thanks to the Simurgh's machinations massively increasing the fear of control, Makima's power has increased exponentially, to the point that she's capable of holding her own against Leviathan, and defeating him.
• Villain Has a Point: As ruthless and manipulative as Makima is, many of the points she raises are correct. As she states in her conversation with Rachel, the overall culture of heroes and villains on Earth-Bet is utterly dysfunctional and dehumanizing towards people. In particular, she rightly points out just how badly this has screwed over Rachel, pointing out that had she killed her stepmother with her own hands, she wouldn't have been charged with a crime, but because she used a parahuman power to commit the same act, she's hunted down and persecuted for it.
• Villain Protagonist: Makima is the main character of the story, and while she does do a lot of good things that help a lot of people, it's made pretty clear she's not doing this out of any sort of actual benevolence and has no intention of pulling a Heel–Face Turn after her defeat in her home world.
• Villain Respect: Makima is quietly impressed that Tagg not only figured out that she was responsible for the ABB attacks but is willing to risk his own life in his attempt to expose her.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Makima becomes this after defeating Leviathan by sending him to Mercury, quickly becoming the most beloved hero in the world as a result, and receiving enormous donations of money and support from all across the world, with Rachel noting that posters of her placed across pretty much every building in Brockton Bay. This backfires on Makima, as the resulting love and adoration severely weaken her, to the point where she doubts she can defeat another Endbringer.
• Villainous Rescue: Makima does this to the Wards and the Undersiders protecting the shelters by sending Leviathan flying. To them, she pulled a Big Damn Heroes as she took out the Endbringer.
• Villains Want Mercy: Lung (to his personal shame) at one point starts begging for Makima to not kill him while she's waterboarding him.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Director Renick and Armstrong call out Director Tagg and Piggot for wanting to release Makima's PRT threat ratings, including being a Master, despite having no concrete proof she can Mind Control people. Armstrong goes on further saying they need Makima on their side to help rebuild their tarnished reputation, rather than turn her against them.
  • More than a few people, especially the locals of Brockton Bay, call out the heroes that gave up the fight against Leviathan and essentially left them to die. They end up believing Makima is the only true hero out there and throw their lot in with her.
• World of Silence: What happens in the Bad Future witnessed by the Simurgh, where conflict and suffering have been eliminated, but so have all traces of individuality and personality among humanity, with the humans of this new world being described as "biological machines", moving in orderly lines and patterns without a hint of deviation, akin to ants.
• World's Strongest Woman: Makima is regarded as this after defeating Leviathan. It's noted that the only ones on Earth-Bet that have a chance of beating her in a fair fight are Eidolon, Scion, and the remaining Endbringers. Taylor notes she's strong enough to join the Triumvirate if she wanted to.
• Would Hurt a Child: Makima kills Emma, who's a teenager, in order to drink her blood to kick-start her regeneration after having been maimed by Leviathan.
• Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: The Simurgh refrains from attacking Makima alongside Behemoth, despite Makima having been sufficiently weakened that she'd be easy prey for the both of them working together. Justified, in that Makima is shown to provide a veritable treasure trove of new information and concepts that the Simurgh hasn't encountered before and one of its primary functions is to gather and analyze information, thus making her hesitant to destroy Makima and thus depriving it of that information store, especially given that the amount of information she's deriving from Earth Bet has begun to plateau.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: Director Piggot has this opinion on Dragon when it comes to Parahumans in general, due to her professionalism and causing the least amount of trouble for her.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Makima does this to the last PRT guard after he releases the prisoners on the way to the Birdcage.
• You Remind Me of X:
  • In the midst of the battle with Leviathan, Alexandria, in her thoughts, describes Makima's face and expressions as being reminiscent of the Simurgh.
  • While being given a Curb-Stomp Battle by Makima, Lung compares the Hopeless Boss Fight he's in and her calm demeanor to the one he had fighting Leviathan back in Kyushu, as well as Contessa, the woman who triggered him and killed his school friends.

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