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* UnreliableExpositor: She claims the [[spoiler:Death Devil]] will end the world and KillAllHumans, but given Fami hates and fears her, and is a master of manipulation and deception, it's not clear whether or not she's telling the truth.

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* UnreliableExpositor: She claims the [[spoiler:Death Devil]] will end the world and KillAllHumans, but given Fami hates and fears her, [[spoiler:her]], and is a master of manipulation and deception, it's not clear whether or not implied that she's not telling the truth.




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!! Guilly / Guillotine Devil
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->''"Gyohnee!"''

An animalistic devil with the head of a bird and a literal guillotine for a torso, representing the fear of guillotines. Fami summons it via a Devil Totem to assist her, Asa and Yoru in taking care of Public Safety while intending on breaking out Chainsaw Man.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: The Guillotine Devil spares some humans that Fami sicks it on, despite her orders to kill them. Since Guilly doesn't talk, we're left to guess if it's one of the rare devils that likes humans or it's just a restriction from Fami's summoning.
* AmbiguousGender: Considering it has a ''bird head'' and Fami hasn't revealed its gender yet, assuming it has one.
* BroughtDownToBadass: Fami notes that it's weaker when she summons it than if it had showed up on its own without being contracted with her, not that this causes any problems for it whatsoever.
* CapeWings: Its large wings rest on its sides like a cape that goes down to the floor.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: When Fami, one of the Four Horsemen who even the Falling Devil bows to, tries to insist it kill the Public Safety security staff in her way instead of just disarming them, it just shrieks at her.
* FeatheredFiend: Its upper half resembles a monstrous pigeon cradling a guillotine, with the lower body of a semi-humanoid skeleton.
* NoIndoorVoice: It repeatedly screeches "Gyohnee!" at the top of its lungs.
-->'''Fami''': Shut up, Guilly.
* TheNudifier: Instead of cutting the Public Safety guards to shreds, it just dices up their weapons and their clothing. Fortunately, this is enough to convince the guards to surrender.
* PokemonSpeak: It doesn't say anything intelligent, only shrieking "Gyohnee!" constantly, to Fami's chagrin.
* StealthPun: While its head is more akin to a corvid or pigeon, its constant annoying shrieking can also bring to mind seagulls. Making it, in other words, a ''gull''otine.
* ThouShaltNotKill: It instantly slices up the guards' weapons and clothing without killing them, seemingly intentionally, as Fami reprimands it for not ending them like she ordered it to.
-->'''Fami''': I ''told'' you to ''kill them all.''
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* UnreliableExpositor: She claims the [[spoiler:Death Devil]] will end the world and KillAllHumans, but given Fami hates and fears her, and is a master of manipulation and deception, it's not clear whether or not she's telling the truth.

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He believes that God will forgive him and the other weapon humans for killing people because weapons were made to kill.



* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He believes that God will forgive him and the other weapon humans for killing people because weapons were made to kill.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: He believes that God will forgive him and the other weapon humans for killing people because weapons were made to kill.

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* JabbaTableManners: In Chapter 163, Fami eats a whole plate of spaghetti very sloppily, picking up pasta with her bare hands and shoveling them in her mouth, smearing her face with sauce.
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->''"These flames are your punishment."''

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** He is creepily obsessed with Chainsaw Man, with Denji wanting nothing to do with him within about a minute of meeting Barem. He's also willing to go to extreme lengths make Chainsaw Man come out such as killing Asa or massacring Public Safety Devil Hunters. [[spoiler:It also becomes clear that he has inherited Makima's worship of the violence and chaos Chainsaw Man can cause over anything else about him.]]

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** He is creepily obsessed with Chainsaw Man, with Denji wanting nothing to do with him within about a minute of meeting Barem. He's also willing to go to extreme lengths make Chainsaw Man come out such as killing Asa or massacring Public Safety Devil Hunters. [[spoiler:It also becomes clear that [[spoiler:It's zigzagged in the end, however. For all of Barem's talk of being a "Chainsaw Man" fan, he has inherited '''hates''' Denji. His enthusiasm for "Chainsaw Man" is, at most, Makima's worship fascination of the violence and chaos Chainsaw Man can cause over anything else about Pochita rubbing off on him.]]


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* ManipulativeBastard: In chapter 132, Haruka gets angry at Fami for turning him into a laughingstock on television. Barem approaches Haruka behind and feeds him some honeyed words about how the boy is necessary to create a world without evil. While that stated endgoal isn't exactly ''incorrect'', Barem is later shown to be lying by admission to an absurd degree while stroking the boy's ego and satisfying his need for importance.
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->''"We'll be seeing you, Chainsaw Man! Enjoy your normal life while you can!"''

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->''"We'll be seeing you, Chainsaw Man! Enjoy ->''"These flames are your normal life while you can!"''
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* AscendedExtra: Just like Sugo, Barem was effectively an unnamed mook who shows up in the climax of Part 1, but plays a more prominent role in Part 2.

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* AscendedExtra: Just like Sugo, Barem was effectively an unnamed mook a glorified {{Mook}} in Part 1 who shows up in the climax of Part 1, but plays twice as a more prominent role nameless hybrid fighting for Makima. When he returns in Part 2.2, however, he's a major antagonist and has a huge impact on Denji's development.



* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Zigzagged. [[spoiler:Although Barem is a genuine believer in Makima's goals and wants to bring them to fruition, it's clear that what he does to Denji is just as much motivated by a desire for vengeance.]]



* XanatosSpeedChess: In chapter 155, [[spoiler:he attempts to shoot Nayuta, only to find that his gun is out of ammo. Rather than giving up, Barem immediately turns the situation around to his advantage by aiming the gun at his head and pretending to be mind-controlled by Nayuta to rile up the mob against her. It works. Nayuta, scared out of her wits, desperately pleads in her defense, but the mob isn't hearing it.]]



* AscendedExtra: A minor, then-unnamed antagonist from the final arc of Part 1, he reappears in Part 2 as the hybrid spokesman of the Chainsaw Man Church.

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* AscendedExtra: A minor, then-unnamed antagonist from Just like Barem, Sugo was a glorified {{Mook}} in Part 1 who shows up twice as a nameless hybrid fighting for Makima. When he returns in Part 2, however, he has a far more notable role in the final arc of story as a MirrorCharacter to Denji, having almost the exact same motivations and circumstances as Denji did in Part 1, he reappears in Part 2 as the hybrid spokesman of the Chainsaw Man Church.except viewed from an outsider-looking-in perspective.

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** Her ultimate plan is this. [[spoiler:Fami takes advantage of the public's love for Chainsaw Man to form the Chainsaw Man Church, roping hundreds of thousands of unknowing teens into contracts with the Fire Devil to transform them into "what they desire", i.e. Chainsaw Man fascimiles. This would cause a wave of hysteria and fear of Chainsaw Man. Along with Asa and Yoru being the figureheads of the church as well as the anxiety over a possible war, both the Chainsaw and War Devil will be empowered enough to be able to take on the Great King of Terror: the Death Devil.]]

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** Her ultimate plan is this. [[spoiler:Fami takes advantage of the public's love for Chainsaw Man to form the Chainsaw Man Church, roping hundreds of thousands of unknowing teens into contracts with the Fire Devil to transform them into "what they desire", i.e. Chainsaw Man fascimiles. This would cause a wave of hysteria and fear of Chainsaw Man. Along with Asa and Yoru being the figureheads of the church as well as the anxiety over a possible war, both the Chainsaw and War Devil will be empowered enough to be able to take on the Great King of Terror: the Death Devil.]]



* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]]; [[spoiler:Fami spends several arcs antagonizing Asa and Yoru (initially making it seem as though she will be Part 2's BigBad like her sister Control was for Part 1), but for the purpose of preparing them to save the world from her eldest sister Death. However, Fami is ''not'' GoodAllAlong, because her motives are still selfish and she's not trying to limit the collateral damage in the slightest. As if to drive the point home, the very next chapter highlights that 2000 civilians in Tokyo alone were killed by Fami bringing Falling to Earth, with additional accidents happening the world over because of the disruptions in gravity, ''and'' she later has the Fire Devil mutate over 350,000 people worldwide into Chainsaw Man copies. She is a very interesting example of a DiscOneFinalBoss in that she is nowhere close to being defeated, but both the readers and characters (including Fami herself) already know there is a bigger threat than her on the horizon.]]



* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:After more aggressive methods fail to bring Asa and Yoru into the fold, Fami convinces them to join the Chainsaw Man Church with the half-truth that the Chainsaw Man who saved Asa and the one that ate Yoru are different people. But Fami's ''actual'' plan was to turn them into wanted fugitives... which they don't mind because it scored them a huge power boost.]]

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* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:After more aggressive methods fail to bring Asa and Yoru into the fold, Fami convinces them to join the Chainsaw Man Church with the half-truth that the Chainsaw Man who saved Asa and the one that ate Yoru are different people. But Fami's ''actual'' plan was to turn them into wanted fugitives... which they don't mind because it scored give them a huge power boost.boost to defeat the Death Devil.]]



* GreaterScopeVillain: For ''at least'' four major arcs now, since she has yet to be directly confronted.
** Since the [[spoiler:Fire]] Devil is presumably either [[TheDragon her direct subordinate]] or [[BigBadDuumvirate her partner,]] she serves as this for the opening arc which it heavily influences.
** She uses the returned [[ArcVillain Eternity Devil]] to trap Asa and Denji in an aquarium along with several others, wanting Asa to create a particularly powerful weapon using Denji's spinal cord. She even yanks Yoru away from the scene with zero effort.
** [[spoiler:She's the one behind Falling's emergence, using her to portal Asa and Yoru to Hell where a Devil will swallow them whole, since they would have survived and the Prophecy of Nostradamus would have been averted.]]
** [[spoiler:She is the secret true leader of the Chainsaw Man Church, though she does not take the stage directly when its members go into attack mode, preferring to let Barem lead the Hybrids, the elderly man lead everyone else, and the Fire Devil be the cause of the main event.]]
** [[spoiler:Interestingly enough, she is doing all of this to prevent the rise of the BigBad, the unseen Great King of Terror... her own ''sister,'' Death.]]
* TheHeavy: She and the [[spoiler:Fire]] Devil have their fingers in almost ''all'' of the proverbial pies throughout Part 2, the Academy Saga. [[spoiler:The true BigBad, Death, is actually her ''enemy.'']]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Fami's goals are often kept from the audience even as we watch her plans unfurl. Her reasons for "saving" Yuko or trapping Asa and Denji with the Eternity Devil in hopes of getting Asa to turn Denji into a weapon for instance does not get explained for multiple arcs. And even when she finally explains her overall goal is [[spoiler:preventing the apocalypse predicted by Nostradamus so she can [[EnlightenedSelfInterest preserve and continue to enjoy human cuisine]]]], how exactly she expects Asa and Yoru to help her with this, or what any of it has to do with her involvement in the Chainsaw Man church, is once again left unexplained for multiple arcs.
* HiddenInPlainSight: She's a member of the student council and the Devil Hunter Club, lingering in the background of the group until revealing herself to Asa.

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* GreaterScopeVillain: For ''at least'' the first four major arcs now, of Part 2, since she has yet to be directly confronted.
** Since the [[spoiler:Fire]] Devil is presumably either [[TheDragon her direct subordinate]] or [[BigBadDuumvirate her partner,]] she serves as this for the opening arc which it heavily influences.
** She uses the returned [[ArcVillain Eternity Devil]] to trap Asa and Denji in an aquarium along with several others, wanting Asa to create a particularly powerful weapon using Denji's spinal cord. She even yanks Yoru away from the scene with zero effort.
** [[spoiler:She's the one behind Falling's emergence, using her to portal Asa and Yoru to Hell where a Devil will swallow them whole, since they would have survived and the Prophecy of Nostradamus would have been averted.]]
** [[spoiler:She is the secret true leader of the Chainsaw Man Church, though she does not take the stage directly when its members go into attack mode, preferring to let Barem lead the Hybrids, the elderly man lead everyone else, and the Fire Devil be the cause of the main event.]]
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heavuly influenced almost everything that happens. [[spoiler:Interestingly enough, she is doing all of this to prevent the rise of the BigBad, the unseen Great King of Terror... her own ''sister,'' Death.]]
* TheHeavy: She and the [[spoiler:Fire]] Devil have their has her fingers in almost ''all'' of the proverbial pies throughout Part 2, the Academy Saga.2. [[spoiler:The true BigBad, Death, is actually her ''enemy.'']]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: Fami's goals are often kept from the audience even as we watch her plans unfurl. Her reasons for "saving" Yuko or trapping Asa and Denji with the Eternity Devil in hopes of getting Asa to turn Denji into a weapon for instance does not get explained for multiple arcs. And even when she finally explains her overall goal is [[spoiler:preventing the apocalypse predicted by Nostradamus so she can [[EnlightenedSelfInterest preserve and continue to enjoy human cuisine]]]], how exactly she expects Asa and Yoru to help her with this, or what any of it has to do with her involvement in the Chainsaw Man church, is once again left unexplained for multiple arcs.
* HiddenInPlainSight: She's She was a member of the student council and the Devil Hunter Club, lingering in the background of the group until revealing herself to Asa.



* HumbleGoal: She wants to [[spoiler: prevent the apocalypse and an "age of Devils" because that would mean no more pizza or Chinese food.]]

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* HumbleGoal: She wants to [[spoiler: prevent [[spoiler:prevent the apocalypse and an "age of Devils" because that would mean no more pizza or Chinese food.]]



** In chapter 135 she also gets completely distracted from her plan to recruit Asa and Yoru by a loaf of bread.

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** In chapter 135 135, she also gets completely distracted from her plan to recruit Asa and Yoru by a loaf of bread.



* UnwantedAssistance: Fami seems to truly want to help her "little sister" Yoru/Asa, but most of her ideas about "helping" involve mentally corrupting people, carnage, and murder. Notably, once Yoru realizes who Fami really is, she starts trying to ''warn'' Asa to not listen to her before Fami disrupts their mental connection.

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* UnwantedAssistance: Fami seems to truly want to help her "little sister" Yoru/Asa, sister Yoru, but most of her ideas about "helping" involve mentally corrupting people, carnage, and murder. Notably, once Yoru realizes who Fami really is, she starts trying to ''warn'' Asa to not listen to her before Fami disrupts their mental connection.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After [[spoiler:Asa and Fami accidentally breaks him out of Tokyo Devil Detention Center]], Nobana lets everyone know he's only sticking with the party until he can find an exit and make a break for it.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After [[spoiler:Asa and Fami accidentally breaks him out of Tokyo Devil Detention Center]], Nobana lets everyone know he's only sticking with the party until he can find an exit and make a break for it. [[SubvertedTrope Nobana keeps following them after leaving the area]], probably because someone pointed out [[spoiler:his family probably couldn't shield him from the law even if they wanted to]].

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* BrokenPedestal: Downplayed. [[spoiler:After discovering that Denji is Chainsaw Man, Haruka doesn't exactly lose all respect for his idol, but he's clearly shaken up by the realization that the guy who he's put on a pedestal for so long isn't the invincible hero he's built up in his head, but rather that one weird pervert who he goes to school with]].



* IJustWantToBeSpecial: It's fairly subtle, but when you get down to it, Haruka is just a normal, lonely kid who's desperate to be important somehow. After [[spoiler:breaking out of prison, Haruka watches television with the others and comes across a news story that seems to be about the Chainsaw Man Church at first... only for it to really be about a celebrity, to which Haruka responds with evident disappointment]].

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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: It's fairly subtle, but when you get down to it, Haruka is just a normal, lonely kid who's desperate to be important somehow. After [[spoiler:breaking out of prison, Haruka watches television with the others and comes across a news story that seems to be about the Chainsaw Man Church at first... only for it to really be about a celebrity, to which Haruka responds celebrity. Haruka's reaction has a strong sense of emptiness, with evident disappointment]].him realizing that he flat-out doesn't matter in the lives of most people]].


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* NervousWreck: Not to the same extent as Nobana, but as Haruka keeps getting wrapped up in Asa's and Denji's absurd messes that he has absolutely no control over, you can ''really'' start to see the stress wear away at the guy.
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* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Haruka is shocked and disgusted when he finally discovers Chainsaw Man is "Asa's boyfriend".]]

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* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Haruka is shocked AudienceSurrogate: During and disgusted when he finally discovers Chainsaw Man after [[spoiler:the prison break]], Haruka is "Asa's boyfriend".]]pretty much the only one in the group who acts anywhere to close to a normal person. He's pretty much just a normal guy thrown into the middle of a gigantic mess without even a single clue as to what's going on.



* FakeUltimateHero: He's the leader of a devil hunting club, but so far he's demonstrated himself to be nothing but an [[MilesGloriosus obnoxious braggart]] who quickly blows off the expertise of [[DramaticIrony actual Devil Hunters like Denji and Yoshida]]. Even more pathetic, it's revealed in Chapter 115 that his ripcord isn't a functional imitation of Denji's, it's completely cosmetic.

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* FakeUltimateHero: He's the leader of a devil hunting club, but so far he's demonstrated himself to be nothing but an [[MilesGloriosus obnoxious braggart]] who quickly blows off the expertise of [[DramaticIrony actual Devil Hunters like Denji and Yoshida]]. Even more pathetic, it's revealed in Chapter 115 that his ripcord isn't a functional imitation of Denji's, it's completely cosmetic. It's heavily implied that, beneath all of Haruka's initial bravado, he's really just a lonely kid who is desperate to be important somehow.


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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: It's fairly subtle, but when you get down to it, Haruka is just a normal, lonely kid who's desperate to be important somehow. After [[spoiler:breaking out of prison, Haruka watches television with the others and comes across a news story that seems to be about the Chainsaw Man Church at first... only for it to really be about a celebrity, to which Haruka responds with evident disappointment]].

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* AccidentalHero: After several stronger fighters are incapacitated, Nobana desperately tries to shield himself with [[spoiler:Denji's severed head]], which ends up saving the entire party [[spoiler:because Quanxi decides she doesn't want Denji as an enemy]].



* SharedFamilyQuirks: Nobana is just as meek and nervous as his likely sister Kobeni. Both also wear multiple hairclips all on one side of their head, but Nobana's are on his right.

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* SharedFamilyQuirks: Nobana is just as meek and nervous as his likely sister Kobeni.Kobeni, and has the same history of [[UnluckilyLucky surviving constant peril through dumb luck]]. Both also wear multiple hairclips all on one side of their head, but Nobana's are on his right.


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* UnluckilyLucky: Despite only being a student devil hunter, Nobana's proximity to Fami has endangered his life repeatedly, but he's survived (and even saved others) through random chance.
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* ItCanThink: Barem gives them orders by [[FalseProphet pretending to speak for Chainsaw Man]]. If he isn't just being dramatic, it suggests they've maintain at least some coherent thought, albeit wildly fanatical. When Denji tells a crowd he's the real Chainsaw Man, they claim some of the Pseudo-Chainsaw Man can still talk coherently, though it remains to be seen if this is true.

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* ItCanThink: Barem gives them orders by [[FalseProphet pretending to speak for Chainsaw Man]]. If he isn't just being dramatic, it suggests they've maintain at least some coherent thought, albeit wildly fanatical. When Denji tells a crowd he's the real Chainsaw Man, they claim some of the Pseudo-Chainsaw Man can still talk coherently, though it remains to be seen if this is true. It's also indicated that they keep some memories of their past lives, as the transformed wife of a Devil Hunter seems to hold at least some familiarity toward her husband.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: They were founded on the idea of helping Chainsaw Man avert a prophesized apocalypse. [[spoiler:Which Fami plans to do by making Chainsaw Man stronger, in the process sacrificing the humanity of most members and getting the rest branded as terrorists.]]



* ItCanThink: Barem gives them orders by [[FalseProphet pretending to speak for Chainsaw Man]]. If he isn't just being dramatic, it suggests they've maintain at least some coherent thought, albeit wildly fanatical.

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* ItCanThink: Barem gives them orders by [[FalseProphet pretending to speak for Chainsaw Man]]. If he isn't just being dramatic, it suggests they've maintain at least some coherent thought, albeit wildly fanatical. When Denji tells a crowd he's the real Chainsaw Man, they claim some of the Pseudo-Chainsaw Man can still talk coherently, though it remains to be seen if this is true.
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* EvilVirtues: Humility, in stark contrast to her sisters. She never gets upset at her plans failing or holds any grudges. When Haruka unleashes a furious rant at Fami, she just acquieses to his points so he'll stop bothering her. Fami was also the only devil in her party who chose to help [[spoiler:put Denji's severed parts back together]], the others electing to stick back and demand it be handled by the humans who were tagging along.

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