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* AchillesHeel: Makima's only weakness it that she is unable to take control of any being she doesn't consider herself superior to, the sole individual she believes meets that criteria being the original Chainsaw Man. However, it appears other people can share Pochita's immunity by becoming physically connected to him; she appears unable to control Denji despite her utter disdain for the boy because the two are merged, and Power becomes capable of ignoring her commands after drinking some of Pochita's blood.
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* AchillesHeel: Makima's only weakness it that she is unable to take control of any being she doesn't consider herself superior to, the sole individual she believes meets that criteria being the original Chainsaw Man. However, it appears other people can share Pochita's immunity by becoming physically connected to him; she appears unable to control Denji despite her utter disdain for the boy because the two are merged, and Power becomes capable of ignoring her commands after drinking eating some of Pochita's blood.flesh.
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* BlessedWithSuck: As it turns out, having natural power over those inferior to you makes it depressingly impossible to build any sort of relationship where both parties are equal.
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* BlessedWithSuck: As it turns out, having natural the power to take total control over those inferior to you consider your inferiors makes it depressingly impossible to build any sort of relationship where both parties are equal.
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* ControlFreak: Befitting her being the Control Devil, she fully reveals herself as this in Chapter 82, giving Denji happiness then cruelly taking it away just to make it clear to him that he belongs to her. She then threatens to repeat what she did to Aki and Power if he ever finds happiness with someone else other than her. This ends up turning out to extend to her plans to bring about a utopia, as well. While she intends to sic the Chainsaw Man on Primal Fears to help humanity live in a reality of safety and comfort, she admits she'd also use her plan to remove bad movies from existence, showing how much her bias indeed plays into her supposedly good intentions.
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* ControlFreak: Befitting her being the Control Devil, she fully reveals herself as this in Chapter 82, giving Denji happiness then cruelly taking it away just to make it clear to him that he belongs to her. She then threatens to repeat what she did to Aki and Power if he ever finds happiness with someone else other than her. This ends up turning out to extend to her plans to bring about a utopia, as well. While she intends to sic the Chainsaw Man on Primal Fears to help humanity live in a reality of safety and comfort, she admits she'd also use her plan to remove bad movies from existence, showing how much her bias indeed plays into her supposedly good intentions.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on the image of a friendly, loving woman around Denji, just so she can eventually drop it to make him fully believe he will ''never'' have a happy, normal life. When he regains control of his body, she drops all pretenses and displays nothing but contempt towards Denji for basically bringing her beloved Chainsaw Man to his level.
* FreudianExcuse: She was raised in a sterile, abusive environment meant to mould her into the Japanese government's HumanWeapon, which lead to her growing up into a sociopath incapable of comprehending the idea of a relationship not founded on slavish obedience.
* FreudianExcuse: She was raised in a sterile, abusive environment meant to mould her into the Japanese government's HumanWeapon, which lead to her growing up into a sociopath incapable of comprehending the idea of a relationship not founded on slavish obedience.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on the image of a friendly, loving woman around Denji, just so she can eventually drop it to make him fully believe he will ''never'' have a happy, normal life. When he regains control of his body, she drops all pretenses and displays nothing but contempt towards Denji for basically bringing her beloved Chainsaw Man to his level.
* Foil: Just like Denji, Makima spent her childhood being used as a tool and attack by an abusive criminal organisation (him by the Yakuza and her by a corrupt Japanese government), that caused her to grow up with a stunted understanding of love and the sort of people she she should look for it from. But while Denji is able to eventually recognise Makima as just manipulating him, Makima herself refuses to accept the object of her desires, Chainsaw Man, cares nothing for her.
* FreudianExcuse: She was raised in a sterile, abusive environment meant to mould her into the Japanese government's obedient HumanWeapon, which lead to her growing up into a sociopath incapable of comprehending the idea of a relationship not founded on slavish obedience.
* Foil: Just like Denji, Makima spent her childhood being used as a tool and attack by an abusive criminal organisation (him by the Yakuza and her by a corrupt Japanese government), that caused her to grow up with a stunted understanding of love and the sort of people she she should look for it from. But while Denji is able to eventually recognise Makima as just manipulating him, Makima herself refuses to accept the object of her desires, Chainsaw Man, cares nothing for her.
* FreudianExcuse: She was raised in a sterile, abusive environment meant to mould her into the Japanese government's obedient HumanWeapon, which lead to her growing up into a sociopath incapable of comprehending the idea of a relationship not founded on slavish obedience.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Kishibe and Pochita explain that being the Control Devil who ran a powerful organization like Public Safety, Makima had no possible chance to build relationships with those she could consider her equal. It's partly why she was so in love with Chainsaw Man, as she saw him as someone just as powerful as she was and thus her equal.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Kishibe and IJustWantToBeLoved: Pochita explain that being the Control Devil who ran a powerful organization like explains [[spoiler: after her reincarnation as Nayuta]] that, having been groomed all her life to lead Public Safety, Safety as the government’s attack dog, Makima never had no possible a chance to build relationships with those she could consider her equal. It's partly why she was so in love with Chainsaw Man, as she saw him as someone just as powerful as she was and thus her equal.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Is utterly uncaring that being devoured by Pochita, and thus removing the very concept of Control from reality, may have terrible ramifications for mankind.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Is utterly uncaring that being devoured by Pochita, and thus removing the very concept of Control from reality, may would have terrible ramifications for on mankind.
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* KickTheDog: She doesn't bother with any sort of plan or SadisticChoice to result in Power's death. She just kills her in front of Denji with no warning or reason. She then ''laughs hysterically'' at Denji trying to cope with Power's death by convincing himself this is just a bad dream. Then she reveals she engineered him killing Aki too, and that Denji could've saved him if he hadn't listened to her. And then tells him she will never let him even ''think'' he can be happy and will kill anyone else he comes to care about from now on.
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* KickTheDog: KickTheDog:
** She doesn't bother with any sort of plan or SadisticChoice to result in Power's death. She just kills her in front of Denji with no warning or reason. She then ''laughs hysterically'' at Denji trying to cope with Power's death by convincing himself this is just a bad dream. Then she reveals she engineered him killing Aki too, and that Denji could've saved him if he hadn't listened to her. And then tells him she will never let him even ''think'' he can be happy and will kill anyone else he comes to care about from nowon.on.
** After learning of the existence of the Angel Devil and becoming curious about the nature of his power, she travelled to the seaside village he’d made his home and brainwashed him into demonstrating it [[KillEmAll on his neighbours]].
** She doesn't bother with any sort of plan or SadisticChoice to result in Power's death. She just kills her in front of Denji with no warning or reason. She then ''laughs hysterically'' at Denji trying to cope with Power's death by convincing himself this is just a bad dream. Then she reveals she engineered him killing Aki too, and that Denji could've saved him if he hadn't listened to her. And then tells him she will never let him even ''think'' he can be happy and will kill anyone else he comes to care about from now
** After learning of the existence of the Angel Devil and becoming curious about the nature of his power, she travelled to the seaside village he’d made his home and brainwashed him into demonstrating it [[KillEmAll on his neighbours]].
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* MinoredInAssKicking: Makima prefers to have her minions take care of any physical confrontations and, on the rare occasions she intervenes personally, relies on her HandBlast ability. [[spoiler: But in Ch. 95, she’s so disgusted to see Denji back as Chainsaw Man that she attacks him with her bare fists, relying on [[LiquidAssets her Contract with the government]] and expert hand-to-hand combat skills to gradually wear him down before ripping out his heart.[[EvilIsPetty All so she can say that he’s so much worse then the “real” Chainsaw Man that she didn’t need her powers to beat him]]]].
* MirrorCharacter: Both Makima and Denji spent their childhoods raised as tools and attack dogs by an abusive criminal organisation (him by the Yakuza and her by a corrupt Japanese government) and grew up to become deeply love-starved as a result.
* MirrorCharacter: Both Makima and Denji spent their childhoods raised as tools and attack dogs by an abusive criminal organisation (him by the Yakuza and her by a corrupt Japanese government) and grew up to become deeply love-starved as a result.
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* MinoredInAssKicking: Makima prefers to have her minions take care of any physical confrontations and, on the rare occasions she intervenes personally, relies on her HandBlast ability. [[spoiler: But in Ch. 95, she’s so disgusted to see Denji back as Chainsaw Man that she attacks him with her bare fists, relying on [[LiquidAssets her Contract with the government]] and expert hand-to-hand combat skills to gradually wear him down before ripping out his heart.[[EvilIsPetty All so she can say to prove that he’s so much worse then the “real” Chainsaw Man that she didn’t wouldn’t need her powers or minions to beat him]]]].
* MirrorCharacter: Both Makima and Denji spent their childhoods raised as tools and attack dogs by an abusive criminal organisation (him by the Yakuza and her by a corrupt Japanese government) and grew up to become deeply love-starved as a result.him]]]].
* MirrorCharacter: Both Makima and Denji spent their childhoods raised as tools and attack dogs by an abusive criminal organisation (him by the Yakuza and her by a corrupt Japanese government) and grew up to become deeply love-starved as a result.
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** It becomes increasingly obvious that Makima severely underestimated the selfless, genuine love Pochita has for Denji. Having assumed their relationship was purely contractual and that Pochita would just take his body for himself once it was broken, she's extremely frustrated and confused when he views her more as a nuisance that keeps interrupting his attempts to make Denji's dreams come true rather than a legitimate threat that needs to be RetGone. Her stunned reaction to Denji being back in control in Chapter 93 also shows that she didn't anticipate the Chainsaw Man willingly ceding control back to him even after the contract was broken.
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** It becomes increasingly obvious throughout the Control arc that Makima severely underestimated the selfless, genuine love Pochita has for Denji. Having assumed their relationship was purely contractual and that Pochita would just take his body for himself once it was broken, she's extremely frustrated and confused when he views blows off her more as demand for a nuisance that keeps interrupting his attempts rematch to make Denji's dreams come true rather than instead search for a legitimate threat that needs way to be RetGone. Her bring Denji back. And later in Chapter 93, she’s completely stunned reaction to see Denji being back in control in Chapter 93 also shows that she didn't anticipate the of Chainsaw Man Man, having never anticipated that Pochita would willingly ceding cede control back to him even after the contract was broken.
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* MinoredInAssKicking: Makima prefers to have her minions take care of any physical confrontations and, on the rare occasions she intervenes personally, relies on her HandBlast ability. [[spoiler: But in Ch. 95, she’s so disgusted to see Denji back as Chainsaw Man that she attacks him with her bare fists, relying on [[LiquidAssets her Contract with the government]] and expert hand-to-hand combat skills to gradually wear him down before ripping out his heart.[[EvilIsPetty All so she can say that he’s so much worse then the “real” Chainsaw Man that she didn’t need to rely on her powers to beat him]]]].
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* MinoredInAssKicking: Makima prefers to have her minions take care of any physical confrontations and, on the rare occasions she intervenes personally, relies on her HandBlast ability. [[spoiler: But in Ch. 95, she’s so disgusted to see Denji back as Chainsaw Man that she attacks him with her bare fists, relying on [[LiquidAssets her Contract with the government]] and expert hand-to-hand combat skills to gradually wear him down before ripping out his heart.[[EvilIsPetty All so she can say that he’s so much worse then the “real” Chainsaw Man that she didn’t need to rely on her powers to beat him]]]].him]]]].
* MirrorCharacter: Both Makima and Denji spent their childhoods raised as tools and attack dogs by an abusive criminal organisation (him by the Yakuza and her by a corrupt Japanese government) and grew up to become deeply love-starved as a result.
* MirrorCharacter: Both Makima and Denji spent their childhoods raised as tools and attack dogs by an abusive criminal organisation (him by the Yakuza and her by a corrupt Japanese government) and grew up to become deeply love-starved as a result.
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* WrongContextMagic: She's able Makima uses a contract that allows her to remotely crush a band of criminals trying to abduct Denji. Unlike all other contracts, it doesn't seem to come at a cost for herself as sacrifices are killed instead.
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* TheWorfEffect: After spending most of the series [[CurbstompBattle vanquishing every opponent without a scratch]], [[spoiler: she ends up losing an arm and getting impaled in her brief fight with Darkness to rescue Division 4 during the Assassins arc. Firmly establishing that no one can match the [[PrimalFear Primal Fears]] in strength]].
* WrongContextMagic:She's able In contrast to every other Contract shown, Makima uses a contract is apparently able to sacrifice ''other'' people to fulfil it instead of compromising her own well-being. As during the Katana Man arc she’s able that allows her to remotely crush a band of criminals Yakuza trying to abduct Denji. Unlike all other contracts, it doesn't seem to come at a cost Denji By killing one person for herself as sacrifices are killed instead.every target affected.
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* CorruptedCharacterCopy: She's a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[Anime/{{FLCL}} Haruko Haruhara]]: An extremely manipulative non-human pretty girl who [[StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong poses as a potential girlfriend]] to the male protagonist to manipulate him into helping her achieve the ultimate power. Unlike Haruko, Makima never feels ''any'' regret at all for how she treats Denji and tries to make him as dependent on her as possible.
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* CorruptedCharacterCopy: She's a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[Anime/{{FLCL}} Haruko Haruhara]]: An extremely manipulative non-human pretty girl who [[StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong poses as a potential girlfriend]] to the male protagonist to manipulate him into helping her achieve the ultimate power. Unlike Haruko, Makima never feels ''any'' regret at all for how she treats Denji and tries to make him as dependent on her as possible.
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* CorruptedCharacterCopy: She's a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[Anime/{{FLCL}} Haruko Haruhara]]: An extremely manipulative non-human pretty girl who [[StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong poses as a potential girlfriend]] to the male protagonist to manipulate him into helping her achieve the ultimate power. Unlike Haruko, Makima never feels ''any'' regret at all for how she treats Denji and tries to make him as dependent on her as possible.
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* {{Expy}}: She’s a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[Anime/{{FLCL}} Haruko Haruhara]]: Being an extremely manipulative non-human resembling a pretty human girl who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* VictoryIsBoring: She just sighs in annoyance after finally beating Pochita by forcing to [[TakingTheBullet block an attack meant for Kobeni]. Presumably out of frustration that, even after trying to stack the deck as much as possible in her favour, Chainsaw Man ''still'' outclassed her so much she could only beat him with a cheap shot.
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* VictoryIsBoring: She just sighs in annoyance after finally beating Pochita by forcing to [[TakingTheBullet block an attack meant for Kobeni].Kobeni]]. Presumably out of frustration that, even after trying to stack the deck as much as possible in her favour, Chainsaw Man ''still'' outclassed her so much she could only beat him with a cheap shot.
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* MinoredInAssKicking: Makima prefers to have her minions take care of any physical confrontations and, on the rare occasions she intervenes personally, relies on one of her [[PowerParastite forced contracts]]. [[spoiler: But in Ch. 95, she’s so disgusted to see Denji back as Chainsaw Man that she attacks him with her bare fists, relying on [[LiquidAssets her Contract with the government]] and expert hand-to-hand combat skills to gradually wear him down before ripping out his heart, [[EvilIsPetty purely to prove to him that he’s so much worse then the “real” Chainsaw Man that she wouldn’t need any of her powers to defeat him]]]].
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* MinoredInAssKicking: Makima prefers to have her minions take care of any physical confrontations and, on the rare occasions she intervenes personally, relies on one of her [[PowerParastite forced contracts]].HandBlast ability. [[spoiler: But in Ch. 95, she’s so disgusted to see Denji back as Chainsaw Man that she attacks him with her bare fists, relying on [[LiquidAssets her Contract with the government]] and expert hand-to-hand combat skills to gradually wear him down before ripping out his heart, heart.[[EvilIsPetty purely to prove to him All so she can say that he’s so much worse then the “real” Chainsaw Man that she wouldn’t didn’t need any of to rely on her powers to defeat beat him]]]].
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The Devil she is contracted to is unknown, as others are not permitted to see her using its powers.
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The Devil she is contracted to is unknown, as others the rest of Public Safety are not permitted legally required to see her using wear blindfold whenever she uses its powers.
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* HandBlast: She has the ability to shoot massive, invisible bullets by making a FingerGun and saying "''bang''", seemingly [[PowerParasite taken]] from the Gun Devil.
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* HandBlast: She has the ability to shoot massive, invisible bullets by making a FingerGun and saying "''bang''", seemingly [[PowerParasite taken]] acquired]] from the Japan’s piece of the Gun Devil.
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** [[https://twitter.com/YourAnimeGuy/status/1336948317226463234 The author has pointed out]], her name is [[OedipusComplex "mama"]] with "ki (wood/tree)" stuck in the middle. [[spoiler:Which overlaps with PropheticNames, as she is ultimately struck down like a tree with a chainsaw.]]
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** [[https://twitter.com/YourAnimeGuy/status/1336948317226463234 The author has pointed out]], her name is [[OedipusComplex "mama"]] with "ki (wood/tree)" stuck in the middle. [[spoiler:Which overlaps with PropheticNames, as she is she’s ultimately struck down like a tree with a chainsaw.]]chainsaw]].
* MinoredInAssKicking: Makima prefers to have her minions take care of any physical confrontations and, on the rare occasions she intervenes personally, relies on one of her [[PowerParastite forced contracts]]. [[spoiler: But in Ch. 95, she’s so disgusted to see Denji back as Chainsaw Man that she attacks him with her bare fists, relying on [[LiquidAssets her Contract with the government]] and expert hand-to-hand combat skills to gradually wear him down before ripping out his heart, [[EvilIsPetty purely to prove to him that he’s so much worse then the “real” Chainsaw Man that she wouldn’t need any of her powers to defeat him]]]].
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* OrderIsNotGood: As the embodiment of Control, she personifies order and social harmony, but in its worst aspects; abuse, forced compliance, and lack of any concern for others except as tools of another. Notably, Pochita has to be talked out of killing her, because he quite understandably didn't see ''anything'' good in her and had to be reminded order includes things like the very concept of society or the common good.
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* OrderIsNotGood: As the embodiment Devil of Control, she personifies order and social harmony, but harmony in all its worst aspects; abuse, forced compliance, and lack of any concern for others except as tools of another. Notably, another. Pochita has noticeably never attempts to be talked out of killing her, [[RetGone eat her]] as she desires so desperately, presumably because he quite understandably didn't see ''anything'' good in her he’s aware the concept of “order and had to be reminded order control” includes things like the very concept of society or the common good.good.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She’s so completely infuriated at seeing Denji back in control of Chainsaw Man (meaning that Pochita choose [[GreenEyedMonster him over her]]) that, even after he exhausts all his blood defeating Division 5 and is lying helpless on the ground, she feeds him enough of her own blood to ''fully revive him'' and challenges the boy to a hand-to-fight so she can tear him apart herself.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She’s so completely infuriated at seeing Denji back in control of Chainsaw Man (meaning that Pochita choose [[GreenEyedMonster him over her]]) that, even after he exhausts all his blood defeating Division 5 and is lying helpless on the ground, she feeds him enough of her own blood to ''fully revive him'' and challenges the boy to a hand-to-fight so she can tear him apart herself.
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* VictoryIsBoring:
** She looks displeased after getting the Chainsaw Man to [[TakingTheBullet take a bullet]] for Kobeni and seemingly lose their battle. Luckily, this is what allowed Chainsaw Man to avoid falling under her control long enough for Power to save him.
** She is both disappointed and impressed by how Denji managed to hold his own against the other Hybrids that she feeds him her blood and challenges him to a one-on-one fight so she can kill him herself.
** She looks displeased after getting the Chainsaw Man to [[TakingTheBullet take a bullet]] for Kobeni and seemingly lose their battle. Luckily, this is what allowed Chainsaw Man to avoid falling under her control long enough for Power to save him.
** She is both disappointed and impressed by how Denji managed to hold his own against the other Hybrids that she feeds him her blood and challenges him to a one-on-one fight so she can kill him herself.
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* VictoryIsBoring:
**VictoryIsBoring: She looks displeased just sighs in annoyance after getting the Chainsaw Man finally beating Pochita by forcing to [[TakingTheBullet take a bullet]] block an attack meant for Kobeni and seemingly lose their battle. Luckily, this is what allowed Kobeni]. Presumably out of frustration that, even after trying to stack the deck as much as possible in her favour, Chainsaw Man to avoid falling under ''still'' outclassed her control long enough for Power to save him.
** She is both disappointed and impressed by how Denji managed to hold his own against the other Hybrids thatso much she feeds could only beat him her blood and challenges him to with a one-on-one fight so she can kill him herself.cheap shot.
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** She is both disappointed and impressed by how Denji managed to hold his own against the other Hybrids that
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Okay who keeps spelling “Japanese” like that?
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomoriKusunoki (Japaneese), Creator/SuzieYeung (English)
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomoriKusunoki (Japaneese), (Japanese), Creator/SuzieYeung (English)
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The head of Division 4 of the Public Safety Devil Hunters Bureau and the target of Denji's romantic interest and lust, she happens across Denji shortly after his transformation and cuts a deal with him to either be hunted like any other Devil or join her division in exchange for shelter and food.
Contracted to an unknown but very powerful Devil.
Contracted to an unknown but very powerful Devil.
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The beautiful and enigmatic head of Division 4 of the Public Safety Devil Hunters Bureau Bureau, and the target of Denji's romantic interest and lust, she lust. She happens across Denji shortly after his transformation and cuts a deal with him to either be hunted like any other Devil or join her division in exchange for shelter and food.
Contracted to an unknownfood. She initially acts caring and generous, and in doing so wraps Denji around her little finger, but very powerful Devil.as the story goes on it becomes clear that Makima is not wholly as benevolent she seems.
The Devil she is contracted to is unknown, as others are not permitted to see her using its powers.
Contracted to an unknown
The Devil she is contracted to is unknown, as others are not permitted to see her using its powers.
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[[folder: Tropes after Chapter 75('''SPOILERS''')]]
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[[folder: Tropes after Chapter 75('''SPOILERS''')]]75 ('''SPOILERS''')]]
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, She’s a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[Anime/{{FLCL}} Haruko Haruhara]]. Being an extremely manipulative non-human resembling a pretty human girl who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, {{Expy}}: She’s a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[Anime/{{FLCL}} Haruko Haruhara]]. Haruhara]]: Being an extremely manipulative non-human resembling a pretty human girl who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, She’s a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[{{FLCL/Anime}} Haruko Haruhara]]. Being a manipulative, non-human older girl who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, She’s a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[{{FLCL/Anime}} [[Anime/{{FLCL}} Haruko Haruhara]]. Being a manipulative, an extremely manipulative non-human older resembling a pretty human girl who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, She’s a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[{{FCLC/Anime}} Haruko Haruhara]]. Being a manipulative, non-human older girl who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, She’s a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[{{FCLC/Anime}} [[{{FLCL/Anime}} Haruko Haruhara]]. Being a manipulative, non-human older girl who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, She’s a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[{{FCLC}}/Anime Haruko Haruhara]]. Being a manipulative, non-human older girl who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, She’s a DarkerAndEdgier take on [[{{FCLC}}/Anime [[{{FCLC/Anime}} Haruko Haruhara]]. Being a manipulative, non-human older girl who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, She’s a DarkierAndEdgier take on [[Anime/FCLC Haruko Haruhara]]. Being a manipulative older girl later revealed to be non-human who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, She’s a DarkierAndEdgier DarkerAndEdgier take on [[Anime/FCLC [[{{FCLC}}/Anime Haruko Haruhara]]. Being a manipulative manipulative, non-human older girl later revealed to be non-human who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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* Expy: According to WordOfGod, She’s a DarkierAndEdgier take on [[Anime/FCLC Haruko Haruhara]]. Being a manipulative older girl later revealed to be non-human who poses as a potential girlfriend to the male protagonist to manipulate them into helping her achieve ultimate power.
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomoriKusunoki
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomoriKusunokiCreator/TomoriKusunoki (Japaneese), Creator/SuzieYeung (English)
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Did I not include Nayuta on Main Characters? I can see her there.
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Nayuta still falls under the umbrella of the Control Devil. Also, you, uh… kinda just Removed her without restoring her anywhere.
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!!Nayuta / Control Devil
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The next incarnation of the Control Devil who Kishibe found in China after Makima's death. She retains none of her previous self's memories, but as her powers could easily send her down the path to becoming a second Makima if she ended up in the wrong hands, Kishibe dumps her on Denji, appointing him as her guardian.
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* AntiAntiChrist: Denji's [[RaiseHimRightThisTime prospective goal]] is to raise Nayuta into a genuinely good person instead of a sociopathic conqueror.
* CreepyChild: One of the first things she does is point at Denji and call him a "doggy", in a way that ''clearly'' reminds Denji a little ''too'' much of her past self.
* DeathOfPersonality: Nayuta has no memory of her past life as Makima and while she retains some of her mannerisms, she's ultimately a completely different person.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Nayuta has MessyHair compared to Makima's more well groomed and braided hairstyle, signifying how this reincarnation of the Control Devil has yet to realize her power.
* GooGooGodlike: She possesses the same incredibly potent CompellingVoice ability Makima did, but doesn't appear to be aware of her powers.
* HeelFaceReincarnation: The sociopathic and manipulative Makima is reincarnated into the creepy but otherwise innocent Nayuta.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Introduced in chapter 97, the last chapter of the Public Safety Saga.
* ManBitesMan: We are first introduced to her when Denji tries to shoo her away from his talk with Kishibe, only for her to turn around and playfully bite his finger.
* RapidAging: Implied. Despite having spawned very recently, Nayuta already looks like a ten-year old girl; possibly hinting that the Control Devil reaches adulthood far faster then human children do.
* RaiseHimRightThisTime: Pochita notes that Makima turned out the way she did out of a desire to build relationships with people, but only thought she could do so through fear. Kishibe notes that if the government found her they could very well turn her into another Makima. The two of them decide to entrust Nayuta, the new Control Devil, to Denji so that he could show her a real loving relationship.
* RedemptionDemotion: The Control Devil's powers require her to fully believe someone or something is below her to control them. But since Kisibe leaves Nayuta with Denji to ensure that she will grow to consider the majority of humans and Devils as equals, she will never be able to exert the level of power Makima possessed.
* ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Makima once bit Denji's finger while telling him to remember the way she did it. Nayuta biting him the same way, along with her eyes, makes him immediately realized she's Makima's reincarnation.
* SharedFamilyQuirks:
** She's adopted by Denji and not even five minutes into meeting each other, she seems to have taken up Denji's tendency to raise a peace sign as a silent response.
** She's also shown to not be a picky eater, asking for nothing more than sliced bread for dinner much like how Denji was excited for a similar meal at the start of the series.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like Makima, the golden concentric circles surrounding her pupils are what indicate that the otherwise human looking Nayuta is in fact a Devil.
* TookALevelInKindness: As Makima's reincarnation, she has none of her past self's memories. Though something of a CreepyChild, she bonds to Denji quickly, and they finish the final chapter hugging each other in their sleep.
* {{Transplant}}: Her name, physical appearance, and role (a CreepyChild born to apocalyptic power held back from carrying out their destiny only by their love for their adoptive older brother) are all derived from the title character of Fujimoto's past one-shot ''Manga/NayutaOfTheProphecy''.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her entire existence is owed to Denji finally killing Makima after the reveal of her being the Control Devil and the main antagonist of Part 1.
* YouAreNotAlone: Denji adopts her to always assure her of it, as Makima was never able to experience this and became what she was.
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!!Nayuta / Control Devil
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nayuta_digital_color_version.jpg]]
The next incarnation of the Control Devil who Kishibe found in China after Makima's death. She retains none of her previous self's memories, but as her powers could easily send her down the path to becoming a second Makima if she ended up in the wrong hands, Kishibe dumps her on Denji, appointing him as her guardian.
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* AntiAntiChrist: Denji's [[RaiseHimRightThisTime prospective goal]] is to raise Nayuta into a genuinely good person instead of a sociopathic conqueror.
* CreepyChild: One of the first things she does is point at Denji and call him a "doggy", in a way that ''clearly'' reminds Denji a little ''too'' much of her past self.
* DeathOfPersonality: Nayuta has no memory of her past life as Makima and while she retains some of her mannerisms, she's ultimately a completely different person.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Nayuta has MessyHair compared to Makima's more well groomed and braided hairstyle, signifying how this reincarnation of the Control Devil has yet to realize her power.
* GooGooGodlike: She possesses the same incredibly potent CompellingVoice ability Makima did, but doesn't appear to be aware of her powers.
* HeelFaceReincarnation: The sociopathic and manipulative Makima is reincarnated into the creepy but otherwise innocent Nayuta.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Introduced in chapter 97, the last chapter of the Public Safety Saga.
* ManBitesMan: We are first introduced to her when Denji tries to shoo her away from his talk with Kishibe, only for her to turn around and playfully bite his finger.
* RapidAging: Implied. Despite having spawned very recently, Nayuta already looks like a ten-year old girl; possibly hinting that the Control Devil reaches adulthood far faster then human children do.
* RaiseHimRightThisTime: Pochita notes that Makima turned out the way she did out of a desire to build relationships with people, but only thought she could do so through fear. Kishibe notes that if the government found her they could very well turn her into another Makima. The two of them decide to entrust Nayuta, the new Control Devil, to Denji so that he could show her a real loving relationship.
* RedemptionDemotion: The Control Devil's powers require her to fully believe someone or something is below her to control them. But since Kisibe leaves Nayuta with Denji to ensure that she will grow to consider the majority of humans and Devils as equals, she will never be able to exert the level of power Makima possessed.
* ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Makima once bit Denji's finger while telling him to remember the way she did it. Nayuta biting him the same way, along with her eyes, makes him immediately realized she's Makima's reincarnation.
* SharedFamilyQuirks:
** She's adopted by Denji and not even five minutes into meeting each other, she seems to have taken up Denji's tendency to raise a peace sign as a silent response.
** She's also shown to not be a picky eater, asking for nothing more than sliced bread for dinner much like how Denji was excited for a similar meal at the start of the series.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like Makima, the golden concentric circles surrounding her pupils are what indicate that the otherwise human looking Nayuta is in fact a Devil.
* TookALevelInKindness: As Makima's reincarnation, she has none of her past self's memories. Though something of a CreepyChild, she bonds to Denji quickly, and they finish the final chapter hugging each other in their sleep.
* {{Transplant}}: Her name, physical appearance, and role (a CreepyChild born to apocalyptic power held back from carrying out their destiny only by their love for their adoptive older brother) are all derived from the title character of Fujimoto's past one-shot ''Manga/NayutaOfTheProphecy''.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her entire existence is owed to Denji finally killing Makima after the reveal of her being the Control Devil and the main antagonist of Part 1.
* YouAreNotAlone: Denji adopts her to always assure her of it, as Makima was never able to experience this and became what she was.
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!!Nayuta / Control Devil
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nayuta_digital_color_version.jpg]]
The next incarnation of the Control Devil who Kishibe found in China after Makima's death. She retains none of her previous self's memories, but as her powers could easily send her down the path to becoming a second Makima if she ended up in the wrong hands, Kishibe dumps her on Denji, appointing him as her guardian.
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* AntiAntiChrist: Denji's [[RaiseHimRightThisTime prospective goal]] is to raise Nayuta into a genuinely good person instead of a sociopathic conqueror.
* CreepyChild: One of the first things she does is point at Denji and call him a "doggy", in a way that ''clearly'' reminds Denji a little ''too'' much of her past self.
* DeathOfPersonality: Nayuta has no memory of her past life as Makima and while she retains some of her mannerisms, she's ultimately a completely different person.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Nayuta has MessyHair compared to Makima's more well groomed and braided hairstyle, signifying how this reincarnation of the Control Devil has yet to realize her power.
* GooGooGodlike: She possesses the same incredibly potent CompellingVoice ability Makima did, but doesn't appear to be aware of her powers.
* HeelFaceReincarnation: The sociopathic and manipulative Makima is reincarnated into the creepy but otherwise innocent Nayuta.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Introduced in chapter 97, the last chapter of the Public Safety Saga.
* ManBitesMan: We are first introduced to her when Denji tries to shoo her away from his talk with Kishibe, only for her to turn around and playfully bite his finger.
* RapidAging: Implied. Despite having spawned very recently, Nayuta already looks like a ten-year old girl; possibly hinting that the Control Devil reaches adulthood far faster then human children do.
* RaiseHimRightThisTime: Pochita notes that Makima turned out the way she did out of a desire to build relationships with people, but only thought she could do so through fear. Kishibe notes that if the government found her they could very well turn her into another Makima. The two of them decide to entrust Nayuta, the new Control Devil, to Denji so that he could show her a real loving relationship.
* RedemptionDemotion: The Control Devil's powers require her to fully believe someone or something is below her to control them. But since Kisibe leaves Nayuta with Denji to ensure that she will grow to consider the majority of humans and Devils as equals, she will never be able to exert the level of power Makima possessed.
* ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Makima once bit Denji's finger while telling him to remember the way she did it. Nayuta biting him the same way, along with her eyes, makes him immediately realized she's Makima's reincarnation.
* SharedFamilyQuirks:
** She's adopted by Denji and not even five minutes into meeting each other, she seems to have taken up Denji's tendency to raise a peace sign as a silent response.
** She's also shown to not be a picky eater, asking for nothing more than sliced bread for dinner much like how Denji was excited for a similar meal at the start of the series.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like Makima, the golden concentric circles surrounding her pupils are what indicate that the otherwise human looking Nayuta is in fact a Devil.
* TookALevelInKindness: As Makima's reincarnation, she has none of her past self's memories. Though something of a CreepyChild, she bonds to Denji quickly, and they finish the final chapter hugging each other in their sleep.
* {{Transplant}}: Her name, physical appearance, and role (a CreepyChild born to apocalyptic power held back from carrying out their destiny only by their love for their adoptive older brother) are all derived from the title character of Fujimoto's past one-shot ''Manga/NayutaOfTheProphecy''.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her entire existence is owed to Denji finally killing Makima after the reveal of her being the Control Devil and the main antagonist of Part 1.
* YouAreNotAlone: Denji adopts her to always assure her of it, as Makima was never able to experience this and became what she was.
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!!Nayuta / Control Devil
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nayuta_digital_color_version.jpg]]
The next incarnation of the Control Devil who Kishibe found in China after Makima's death. She retains none of her previous self's memories, but as her powers could easily send her down the path to becoming a second Makima if she ended up in the wrong hands, Kishibe dumps her on Denji, appointing him as her guardian.
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* AntiAntiChrist: Denji's [[RaiseHimRightThisTime prospective goal]] is to raise Nayuta into a genuinely good person instead of a sociopathic conqueror.
* CreepyChild: One of the first things she does is point at Denji and call him a "doggy", in a way that ''clearly'' reminds Denji a little ''too'' much of her past self.
* DeathOfPersonality: Nayuta has no memory of her past life as Makima and while she retains some of her mannerisms, she's ultimately a completely different person.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Nayuta has MessyHair compared to Makima's more well groomed and braided hairstyle, signifying how this reincarnation of the Control Devil has yet to realize her power.
* GooGooGodlike: She possesses the same incredibly potent CompellingVoice ability Makima did, but doesn't appear to be aware of her powers.
* HeelFaceReincarnation: The sociopathic and manipulative Makima is reincarnated into the creepy but otherwise innocent Nayuta.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Introduced in chapter 97, the last chapter of the Public Safety Saga.
* ManBitesMan: We are first introduced to her when Denji tries to shoo her away from his talk with Kishibe, only for her to turn around and playfully bite his finger.
* RapidAging: Implied. Despite having spawned very recently, Nayuta already looks like a ten-year old girl; possibly hinting that the Control Devil reaches adulthood far faster then human children do.
* RaiseHimRightThisTime: Pochita notes that Makima turned out the way she did out of a desire to build relationships with people, but only thought she could do so through fear. Kishibe notes that if the government found her they could very well turn her into another Makima. The two of them decide to entrust Nayuta, the new Control Devil, to Denji so that he could show her a real loving relationship.
* RedemptionDemotion: The Control Devil's powers require her to fully believe someone or something is below her to control them. But since Kisibe leaves Nayuta with Denji to ensure that she will grow to consider the majority of humans and Devils as equals, she will never be able to exert the level of power Makima possessed.
* ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Makima once bit Denji's finger while telling him to remember the way she did it. Nayuta biting him the same way, along with her eyes, makes him immediately realized she's Makima's reincarnation.
* SharedFamilyQuirks:
** She's adopted by Denji and not even five minutes into meeting each other, she seems to have taken up Denji's tendency to raise a peace sign as a silent response.
** She's also shown to not be a picky eater, asking for nothing more than sliced bread for dinner much like how Denji was excited for a similar meal at the start of the series.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like Makima, the golden concentric circles surrounding her pupils are what indicate that the otherwise human looking Nayuta is in fact a Devil.
* TookALevelInKindness: As Makima's reincarnation, she has none of her past self's memories. Though something of a CreepyChild, she bonds to Denji quickly, and they finish the final chapter hugging each other in their sleep.
* {{Transplant}}: Her name, physical appearance, and role (a CreepyChild born to apocalyptic power held back from carrying out their destiny only by their love for their adoptive older brother) are all derived from the title character of Fujimoto's past one-shot ''Manga/NayutaOfTheProphecy''.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her entire existence is owed to Denji finally killing Makima after the reveal of her being the Control Devil and the main antagonist of Part 1.
* YouAreNotAlone: Denji adopts her to always assure her of it, as Makima was never able to experience this and became what she was.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Deconstructed. It's noted early on that the more a Devil understands and empathises with humanity, the more human they look; which is why Makima is almost completely human in both appearance and motivation. But her kinship with humanity in no way leaves Makima immune to [[IJustWantToBeLoves the same]] [[ItsAllAboutMe character flaws]] that compel people to abuse and mistreat each other, as well granting her an understanding of people [[BitchInSheepsClothing and how to manipulate them into destroying themselves]] most Devils could only dream of.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Deconstructed. It's noted early on that the more a Devil understands and empathises with humanity, the more human they look; which is why Makima is almost completely human in both appearance and motivation. But her kinship with humanity in no way leaves Makima immune to [[IJustWantToBeLoves [[IJustWantToBeLoved the same]] [[ItsAllAboutMe character flaws]] that compel people to abuse and mistreat each other, as well granting her an understanding of people [[BitchInSheepsClothing and how to manipulate them into destroying themselves]] most Devils could only dream of.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Deconstructed. It's noted early on that the more a Devil understands and empathises with humanity, the more human they look; which is why Makima is almost completely human in both appearance and motivation. But her kinship with humanity in no way leaves Makima immune to [[IJustWantToBeLoves the same]] [[ItsAllAboutMe character flaws]] that compel people to abuse and mistreat each other, as well granting her an understanding of people [[BitchInSheepsClothing and how to manipulate them into destroying themselves]] most Devils could only dream of.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Deconstructed. It's noted early on that the more a Devil understands and empathises with humanity, the more human they look; which is why Makima is almost completely human in both appearance and motivation. But her kinship with humanity in no way leaves Makima immune to [[IJustWantToBeLoves the same]] [[ItsAllAboutMe character flaws]] that compel people to abuse and mistreat each other, as well granting her an understanding of people [[BitchInSheepsClothing and how to manipulate them into destroying themselves]] most Devils could only dream of.
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* AnimateDead: Even death appears unable to free the victims of Makima’s ability; as she summons Akane Sawatari, Michiko Tendo, and Yutaro Kurose to use their Devil Contracts against Gun (despite all three having been dead for months) with no issue.
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* TheAntichrist: Makima is a Devil born into the world with human form and supernatural charisma whom the government tried to mould into a perfect servant, but instead aims to TakeOverTheWorld--and isn't too concerned with causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt it if she fails.
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* TheAntichrist: Makima is a Devil born into the world with human form and supernatural charisma whom the government tried attempted to mould into a perfect servant, but instead aims to TakeOverTheWorld--and isn't too concerned with causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt it if she fails.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Deconstructed. It's noted early on that the more a Devil understands and empathises with humanity, the more human they look; which is why Makima is almost completely human in both appearance and motivation. However, these good intentions don't stop her from still being the BigBad, a BitchInSheepsClothing, and genuinely horrifying on multiple levels.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Deconstructed. It's noted early on that the more a Devil understands and empathises with humanity, the more human they look; which is why Makima is almost completely human in both appearance and motivation. However, these good intentions don't stop But her from still being kinship with humanity in no way leaves Makima immune to [[IJustWantToBeLoves the BigBad, a BitchInSheepsClothing, same]] [[ItsAllAboutMe character flaws]] that compel people to abuse and genuinely horrifying on multiple levels.mistreat each other, as well granting her an understanding of people [[BitchInSheepsClothing and how to manipulate them into destroying themselves]] most Devils could only dream of.
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* DavidVsGoliath: In one corner is the Gun Devil, the absolutely massive and notoriously powerful Devil who ravaged the world and killed millions of people in only a few minutes. In the other corner is Makima, seemingly a human bureaucrat. [[CurbStompBattle She wins in three panels]] by [[DeathByLookingUp dropping an enhanced Punishment Devil on its head]].
* TheDreaded: As the Control Devil, humanity has long been terrified of what she represents.
* TheDreaded: As the Control Devil, humanity has long been terrified of what she represents.
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* DavidVsGoliath: In one corner is the Gun Devil, the absolutely massive and notoriously powerful Devil who ravaged the world and killed millions of people in only a few minutes. In the other corner is Makima, seemingly a human bureaucrat. [[CurbStompBattle She wins in three panels]] by [[DeathByLookingUp dropping an enhanced augmented Punishment Devil on its head]].
* TheDreaded: As the Control Devil, humanity has long been terrified of [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill what sherepresents.represents]].
* TheDreaded: As the Control Devil, humanity has long been terrified of [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill what she
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The very first thing she used to sway Denji to her side, after he's been living in squalor and selling his own organs just to get by, is with the promise of [[MundaneLuxury companionship, a place to live and decent food]]. [[spoiler:By the end of the story, Denji has attained all three by taking her apartment and pet dogs, and making half a dozen meals out of her body. Not as a violent [[HorrorHunger animalistic feast of bloodshed]] as the Chainsaw Man, but by cutting her into pieces that [[CannibalLarder he keeps in his refrigerator]] [[BlackComedy like last week's takeout]].]]
* LonelyAtTheTop: Pochita reveals her actual, original dream was to have equals she could build loving relationships with. But her upbringing led her to believe she could only force people into relationships with her through fear.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Pochita reveals her actual, original dream was to have equals she could build loving relationships with. But her upbringing led her to believe she could only force people into relationships with her through fear.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: The very first thing she used to sway Denji to her side, after he's been living in squalor and selling his own organs just to get by, is with the promise of [[MundaneLuxury companionship, a place to live and decent food]]. [[spoiler:By the end of the story, Denji has attained all three by taking her apartment and pet dogs, and making half a dozen meals out of her body. Not as a violent [[HorrorHunger animalistic feast of bloodshed]] as the Chainsaw Man, but by cutting her into pieces that [[CannibalLarder he keeps in his refrigerator]] [[BlackComedy like last week's takeout]].]]
takeout]]]].
* LiquidAssets: Thanks to her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister, all damage Makima takes from any attack, including being shot in the head, having her arm obliterated, and being chopped to pieces 26 times, is completely nullified as if it never happened in exchange for a random Japanese citizen suffering a similar injury or death shortly thereafter.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Pochitareveals believes her actual, original dream was to have equals she could build loving relationships with. But her upbringing led her to believe she could only force people into relationships with her through fear.
* LiquidAssets: Thanks to her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister, all damage Makima takes from any attack, including being shot in the head, having her arm obliterated, and being chopped to pieces 26 times, is completely nullified as if it never happened in exchange for a random Japanese citizen suffering a similar injury or death shortly thereafter.
* LonelyAtTheTop: Pochita
* MysteriousPast: How the Japanese government found Makima as a child, as well as how she could travel to Hell and become involved with the other three Horsemen without their knowledge, goes unexplored.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: Thanks to her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister, any damage she takes from an attack, including being shot in the head, having her arm obliterated, and being chopped to pieces 26 times, is removed as if it never happened in return for a random Japanese citizen suffering a similar injury or death shortly thereafter.
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* UptightLovesWild: There's a level of irony that the [[GodOfOrder demonic personification of control, conquest and subjugation]] has such an infatuation with a devil whom she sees as a [[GodOfChaos disharmonious entity devoid of restraint or mercy]].
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Makima wants to use Chainsaw Man's RetGone powers to erase humanity's biggest fears from existence and turn Earth into a utopia without things like hunger, war or death.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Quite literally, as Denji observes her, in a rare moment of vulnerability, actually ''crying'' in the movie theater during an emotional scene of two characters hugging. [[spoiler:Because as Pochita notes in the last chapter of Part 1, all she really wanted was genuine affection from another person who she saw as an equal, but both her upbringing and her existence as the Control Devil made that impossible.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Quite literally, as Denji observes her, in a rare moment of vulnerability, actually ''crying'' in the movie theater during an emotional scene of two characters hugging. [[spoiler:Because as Pochita notes in the last chapter of Part 1, all she really wanted was genuine affection from another person who she saw as an equal, but both her upbringing and her existence as the Control Devil made that impossible.]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Makima wants to use Chainsaw Man's RetGone powers to erase humanity's biggest fears from existence and turn Earth into a utopia without things like hunger, war or death.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Quite literally, as Denji observes her, in a rare moment of vulnerability, actually ''crying'' in the movie theater during an emotional scene of two characters hugging. [[spoiler:Because as Pochita notes in the last chapter of Part 1, all she really wanted was genuine affection from another person who she saw as an equal, but both her upbringing and her existence as the Control Devil made that impossible.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Quite literally, as Denji observes her, in a rare moment of vulnerability, actually ''crying'' in the movie theater during an emotional scene of two characters hugging. [[spoiler:Because as Pochita notes in the last chapter of Part 1, all she really wanted was genuine affection from another person who she saw as an equal, but both her upbringing and her existence as the Control Devil made that impossible.]]
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* WrongContextMagic: Makima is a devil who makes contracts with other devils, which was explicitly stated as impossible, though several of them have a human as a proxy. Since Makima can mind control either, her accessing their powers through "contracts" could simply be a matter of semantics.
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[[Characters/ChainsawManMainCharacters Main Characters]] ([[Characters/ChainsawManDenji Denji]] | '''Makima''') | [[Characters/ChainsawManPublicSafetyDevilHunters Public Safety Devil Hunters]] | [[Characters/ChainsawManDevilsAndFiends Devils and Fiends]] | [[Characters/ChainsawManOtherCharacters Other Characters]] -]]]]]
!!Makima
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomoriKusunoki
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->''"Your necessary evil... is just an excuse to justify your own crimes. Those excuses are unnecessary to society. The truly necessary evils are always kept collared and controlled by the state."''\\\
The head of Division 4 of the Public Safety Devil Hunters Bureau and the target of Denji's romantic interest and lust, she happens across Denji shortly after his transformation and cuts a deal with him to either be hunted like any other Devil or join her division in exchange for shelter and food.
Contracted to an unknown but very powerful Devil.
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[[folder:Tropes exclusive to Makima in general]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Despite supposedly being the head of the Public Safety Devil Hunters, she acts incredibly sinister, manipulative and heartless, with the strong implication there's much more to her than meets the eye.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: At a glance she seems to be a totally normal woman, but she also has [[ExoticEyeDesigns strange golden concentric circles in her irises]], demonstrates some unexplained form of NighInvulnerability, and has numerous strange powers other Devil Hunters and even Devils don't seem to have.
* AnimalEyeSpy: She's somehow able to use "lower lifeforms" such as birds and rats to spy on others, listening in or watching them from afar. It makes everyone that knows anything about her powers ''extremely'' cautious about what they do or say.
* AnimalMotif: Contrary to what you'd expect, [[YouDirtyRat Rats]]. Makima has [[TheNoseKnows an extremely sharp nose]], displays [[PestController the ability to bend the animals to her her will]], [[spoiler: and confronts Reze after manifesting out a SwarmOfRats while referencing the "Town Mouse or Country Mouse" fable]]. It adds to her [[AmbiguouslyEvil suspicious, sinister presence]].
* BigBrotherIsWatching: She has some level of omniscience that allows her to keep tabs on several things, most likely through her rats. Kishibe confirms this when he advises Quanxi though written notes to not vocally respond because "Makima is listening." Yoshida later confirms that she also uses birds.
* CoolDownHug: Her introduction to the series involves her hugging Denji, which calms him down enough to cancel his Hybrid transformation.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Most of the abilities granted by her secret Contract don't seem to have any obvious connecting theme; by the International Assassins Arc she's displayed a HealingFactor, [[PestController command over a massive swarm of rats and other "lower lifeforms"]], and making large portions of a target's body [[DisintegratorRay seemingly vanish into thin air]].
* CradlingYourKill: She cradles [[spoiler:Reze]] as she dies, not out of any sort of kindness or remorse.... but simply to prevent her from using her powers.
* CurbStompBattle: Utterly destroys the Yakuza and later [[spoiler:Reze]], with them having no chance to fight back once she starts attacking.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Makima actually manages to wound the Darkness Devil and make it bleed by essentially just pointing at him. However, this only works once. The second time she tries it, the Darkness Devil takes no visible harm and [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu obliterates her arm, leaving nothing but an empty dress shirt sleeve.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Makima always appears calm and dignified, speaking in a soft tone whether she's slaughtering enemies or making shady deals with the Yazuka. Nothing seems to faze her.
* EmotionlessGirl: Makima never reacts to anything around her and is usually content with having a polite attitude. The only exception is a movie that manages to make her cry, although it's unclear if she's sincere.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Chapter 2 serves extensively as one for her. While initially coming across as kind and generous to Denji, Makima then displays some more... questionable characteristics when she outright threatens to have Denji put down if he didn't obey her. The ending of the chapter cinches her manipulative nature when she quickly figures out that Denji is attracted to her and begins work to give him hope at a chance to date her.
* ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy: {{Inverted|Trope}}; As the leader of the Public Safety Bureau, Makima has to access to an exclusive contract with an extremely powerful Devil that is kept as secret as possible to not give the organisation's enemies any possible advantage. Whenever she uses its power, the other employees are legally required to wear blindfolds.
* FetishizedAbuser: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; the author outright admits he likes dominant women, but while Makima's manipulation of Denji is initially played as titillating, the story seriously acknowledges how exploitative it is. [[spoiler:And the ''psychological torture'' it was all leading up to is not portrayed as enticing in the least.]]
* FieryRedhead: {{Subverted}}. Makima has auburn hair, but is a textbook EmotionlessGirl.
* {{Foil}}: To Power. Both are attractive devil hunters in nice suits who are close to Denji. However, Power is emotional, childish and rude while Makima is stoic, intelligent and dignified. Power owns a cat while Makima owns dogs. Power lets her hair loose and has devil-like horns while Makima styles her hair into a single braid. Similarly, Power initially starts off as a jerk to Denji, but grows to care for him and even unselfishly put herself at risk for him. Makima meanwhile starts off being somewhat friendly and affectionate to Denji, but it also becomes increasingly clear she is using Denji for her own ends and she repeatedly puts him in harm's way for selfish reasons.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Denji and Aki seem to be the only ones in Public Safety who actually like her, as everyone else who's expressed their opinion seem to just loathe her or fear her.
* GodzillaThreshold: She avoids rescuing the Devil Hunters in Hell until it's abundantly clear that she has no choice but to travel there herself. Once she does, she and Darkness are on even ground as attacks that previously dismembered people can only muster a few broken fingers on her.
* HartmanHips: Her pants are tight enough to reveal that she has a pretty prominent pair of hips.
* HeroesWantRedheads: She has auburn hair, and is the primary focus of Denji's affection/lust.
* HiddenDepths: Ch. 39 strongly implies that Makima is a bit of a cinephile. The activity she chooses for her first "date" is a movie marathon, and during one of the last few she actually ends up ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness crying]]'' at a scene of two characters embracing.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Even powerful Devils are ''terrified'' of Makima, without her needing to say or do anything.
* IronicEcho: Makima does this in Chapter 52 [[spoiler:right before killing Reze.]] She brings up the Country Mouse vs City Mouse conversation that Reze had with Denji, stating that she too likes the country mouse but because she likes watching them get slaughtered.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Learns more about persons and people in general to know how to better control/use them, but these same studies have made her capable of dispensing some rather valid life advice to Denji.
* LadyInAPowerSuit: She is the head of the Public Safety Devil Hunters and wears an appropriate suit, showing off her status. Denji can still guess her forms beneath it too.
* LittleBlackDress: Wears a [[{{Fanservice}} rather tight-fitting]] long-sleeved dress to the beach in the Gun Devil arc.
* {{Motif}}: Domination (both sexual and otherwise).
** On the [[{{Dominatrix}} sexual]] side, Makima is a physically attractive woman that often wears dark, form-fitting outfits, and acts as TheTease for the very submissive Denji. Some of the series's extra official art downright has her [[{{Fanservice}} on kinky outfits or carrying chains]]. [[spoiler: After TheReveal she comes across as a FetishizedAbuser.]]
** On the non-sexual side, Makima holds a position of authority, often intimidates others ([[HorrifyingTheHorror including devils and fiends]]), has an imposing presence, and pretty much press-ganged a good deal of her subordinates into service.
* MsFanservice: Her form-fitting suit show off her curves and is TheTease to Denji. She also wears a very nice (and equally form-fitting) LittleBlackDress to the beach in the Gun Devil Arc.
* NeverGetsDrunk: At the drinking party, there's already dozens of empty mugs around her as she calmly and lucidly asks for another cup.
* NighInvulnerability: She somehow regenerates after getting shot in the head multiple times, getting her arms cut off, and other mortal wounds.
* TheNoseKnows: In her first appearance, Makima mentions that Denji has the two smells of a human and a devil.
* NothingIsScarier: Makima is a mystery wrapped in many questions, and utterly terrifying because of this. Her subordinates are required to wear blindfolds when she supposedly uses her Contracted Devil, as no one is permitted to know its name, appearance, or exact powers.
* PestController: She confronts [[spoiler:Reze]] by summoning a SwarmOfRats, and then forming out of them. The remaining mice appear to obey her commands.
* RunOrDie: Makima rarely handles matters directly, but when she does the results are typically very messy and sudden for her target. It takes a PrimalFear like the Darkness Devil to survive her, and all those familiar with her consider her a monster beyond compare.
* SingleStrokeBattle: At the end of the Assassins arc she decapitates [[spoiler:Quanxi and her Fiends]] with a single attack that is so fast no one can react.
* TheStoic: She displays little in the way of strong emotions, always holding a BlankStare. Even her teasing interactions with Denji are shown to be little more than acts of manipulation.
* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Every time Denji thinks of going for another girl, Makima narrowly reins him in without doing much of anything in terms of physical intimacy. [[spoiler:To Makima, Denji is just a means to the Chainsaw Devil, her ''actual'' love.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Makima is an incredibly powerful, AmbiguouslyHuman Devil Hunter with strange, golden eyes.
* TheTease: Definitely shows signs of this to Denji. Saying she likes guys like him, getting up close and letting him touch her chest, and giving him an indirect kiss with coffee-flavored candy (after his first actual kiss involved getting a mouthful of vomit).
* WrongContextMagic: She's able Makima uses a contract that allows her to remotely crush a band of criminals trying to abduct Denji. Unlike all other contracts, it doesn't seem to come at a cost for herself as sacrifices are killed instead.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Makima is an incredibly mysterious and manipulative woman with strange, golden eyes.
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!!Makima / Control Devil
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->''"I want to use Chainsaw Man... to create a better world."''\\\
Makima's true identity, the Devil representing humanity's fear of control, and the real BigBad of ''Part 1''. Desperately seeking someone she could see as an equal, she fell in love with Pochita back when he was the "hero of Hell, Chainsaw Man" for his power and [[OppositesAttract seemingly chaotic nature]]. Her ultimate goal is to release Pochita from his contract with Denji, so she can either have Pochita join her in her UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans plans to undo any concept she deems to have a negative effect on humanity, or be consumed by him herself.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: She set up the massacre of Division 4 by the Yakuza, Aki and Power's deaths (who she purposefully set up as Denji's older brother and little sister figures), and mentally breaks Denji completely by revealing the AwfulTruth that he murdered his abusive father in self-defense as a child. All so she can get her hands on Pochita... who she plans to use to [[WellIntentionedExtremist end things like war, hunger and death]].
* AncientEvil: The American President muses that human history has been spent in fear of the Control Devil, struggling against her in what may be a losing battle. This is a more symbolic example than many, as Makima represents the absence of free will, but as an ''[[AnthropomorphicPersonification individual]]'' she appears to age the same way a human does.
* AchillesHeel: Makima's only weakness it that she is unable to take control of any being she doesn't consider herself superior to, the sole individual she believes meets that criteria being the original Chainsaw Man. However, it appears other people can share Pochita's immunity by becoming physically connected to him; she appears unable to control Denji despite her utter disdain for the boy because the two are merged, and Power becomes capable of ignoring her commands after drinking some of Pochita's blood.
* TheAntichrist: Makima is a Devil born into the world with human form and supernatural charisma whom the government tried to mould into a perfect servant, but instead aims to TakeOverTheWorld--and isn't too concerned with causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt it if she fails.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: She's really banking on Chainsaw Man at the very least eating her and erasing her from existence, but he's so focused on fulfilling Denji's dreams and going on a "date" with Kobeni that she displays deadpan frustration over how he's barely giving her his attention.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Deconstructed. It's noted early on that the more a Devil understands and empathises with humanity, the more human they look; which is why Makima is almost completely human in both appearance and motivation. However, these good intentions don't stop her from still being the BigBad, a BitchInSheepsClothing, and genuinely horrifying on multiple levels.
* BigBad: She's the one behind every bad thing that happens to Denji over the entire series. All so she can break his contract with Pochita and either have Chainsaw's RetGone power serve her, or be consumed by Chainsaw herself.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In Chapter 82, she reveals to Denji that one of her goals was to nullify Denji's contract with Pochita. In order to accomplish this, she planted Aki and Power into his life and systematically plotted to rip them away from him one by one in order to mentally break him.
* BlessedWithSuck: As it turns out, having natural power over those inferior to you makes it depressingly impossible to build any sort of relationship where both parties are equal.
* BreakingSpeech: Gives one to Denji in Chapter 82 after her brutal murder of Power. She admits that she specifically set up all the chain of events of the story, right down to encouraging Denji to opening up and getting close to Aki and Power just so that she can strip away all of his happiness. All because she views him as her tool and nothing more, and Makima wanted to destroy the possibility of Denji ever hoping for a better life.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She's extremely spiteful and cruel towards Denji because she sees him as a rival for Chainsaw Man / Pochita's attention and affection.
* CompellingVoice: Stemming from her nature as the embodiment of the loss of free will, Makima has the power to compel anyone, human or Devil, to obey her commands to the letter. The truly dangerous thing about this ability is that it has ''no'' weakness or work-around; as long as she consider the target as inferior to herself (and Makima considers ''[[SmugSuper everyone]]'' beneath her) she can force them to do anything from taking a bullet for her to murdering their closest friends and family.
* ControlFreak: Befitting her being the Control Devil, she fully reveals herself as this in Chapter 82, giving Denji happiness then cruelly taking it away just to make it clear to him that he belongs to her. She then threatens to repeat what she did to Aki and Power if he ever finds happiness with someone else other than her. This ends up turning out to extend to her plans to bring about a utopia, as well. While she intends to sic the Chainsaw Man on Primal Fears to help humanity live in a reality of safety and comfort, she admits she'd also use her plan to remove bad movies from existence, showing how much her bias indeed plays into her supposedly good intentions.
* CharmPerson: Her CompellingVoice powers seem to include a side-effect that causes the victim to fall hopelessly in love with her. For instance, Aki is infatuated with her, but when asked to say ''what'' he likes so much about her, he is unable to say. And later, we see a still alive Reze and Katana Man preparing to kill Denji for her affection.
* CurbStompBattle: Wipes out the Gun Devil in a few panels by calling on multiple of her entralled Devils at once.
* DavidVsGoliath: In one corner is the Gun Devil, the absolutely massive and notoriously powerful Devil who ravaged the world and killed millions of people in only a few minutes. In the other corner is Makima, seemingly a human bureaucrat. [[CurbStompBattle She wins in three panels]] by [[DeathByLookingUp dropping an enhanced Punishment Devil on its head]].
* TheDreaded: As the Control Devil, humanity has long been terrified of what she represents.
-->'''US President:''' Fearing and strengthening Makima is nothing less than the history of humanity. Everything, even resistance, may be but a step on a predictable course.
* EmotionlessGirl: Subverted. She always appears calm and collected when playing the BigGood, only to drop the act and burst into laughter upon murdering Power, in one of the most disturbing moments in the entire series.
* EngineeredHeroics: Didn't do much to suppress information about the Denji's exploits and arranged for the Gun Fiend to attack Denji in a heavily populated area to foster a heroic image of the Chainsaw Man in the public conscience to sabotage the fear humanity had for the Chainsaw Devil, potentially hobbling Pochita if he ever reemerged.
* EntitledToHaveYou: A non-romantic variant towards Denji. Makima views him as her tool, and a means to achieve her end goal. Anything and anyone that stands in the way of distracting Denji gets eliminated and she even point blank tells him in Chapter 82 that she will destroy any attempt at happiness that he tries to achieve.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Though it's unclear if the target has to be lesbian or bi beforehand, she uses her Control Devil powers to make female characters like Quanxi and Reze fall in love with her.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: After revealing herself to be the Control Devil, She switch her suit for a black dress.
* EvilIsPetty: Makima admits that she would also erase bad movies in her plan to bring about a utopia, showing how she's ultimately self-serving when talking about her desire to bring about a happy reality for all.
* EvilIsVisceral: When the Gun Devil shoots her in the head, a halo of brain matter emerges from the wound and floats over her head.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** It becomes increasingly obvious that Makima severely underestimated the selfless, genuine love Pochita has for Denji. Having assumed their relationship was purely contractual and that Pochita would just take his body for himself once it was broken, she's extremely frustrated and confused when he views her more as a nuisance that keeps interrupting his attempts to make Denji's dreams come true rather than a legitimate threat that needs to be RetGone. Her stunned reaction to Denji being back in control in Chapter 93 also shows that she didn't anticipate the Chainsaw Man willingly ceding control back to him even after the contract was broken.
** She also didn't take into account that tricking Denji into forming attachments to others would go both ways, as the [[LikeBrotherAndSister sibling-like bond]] he forms with Power is reciprocated when she returns prioritizes Denji over her own safety. Makima appears surprised but unamused when Power disobeys her.
** Pochita explains that being in the position that she was, Makima could only understand how to have friends and companions through fear, completely missing out on the reciprocation such relationships should have thus her perception of having a family being skewed into forcing others into loving and worshipping her.
* ExactWords: Her claims that her type is "someone like this boy named Denji" is not entirely untrue. Since the Chainsaw Man had merged with him, she's technically not lying when she says she likes "someone like him" since it applies to the parts of him that are Pochita.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on the image of a friendly, loving woman around Denji, just so she can eventually drop it to make him fully believe he will ''never'' have a happy, normal life. When he regains control of his body, she drops all pretenses and displays nothing but contempt towards Denji for basically bringing her beloved Chainsaw Man to his level.
* FreudianExcuse: She was raised in a sterile, abusive environment meant to mould her into the Japanese government's HumanWeapon, which lead to her growing up into a sociopath incapable of comprehending the idea of a relationship not founded on slavish obedience.
* GlassCannon: Makima can bend nearly anyone in the setting to her will with just a word, but she's unique among Devils in that her body seems physically human; so an attack that would only annoy most of them is as lethal to her as it would be to a normal person. While she usually gets around this using the ResurrectiveImmortality granted by her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister. [[spoiler: Denji managing to interrupt her HealingFactor with one solid blow from a chainsaw made from Power's blood is enough to beat her in the penultimate chapter.]]
* HandBlast: She has the ability to shoot massive, invisible bullets by making a FingerGun and saying "''bang''", seemingly [[PowerParasite taken]] from the Gun Devil.
* HeelFaceReincarnation: Makima is the latest incarnation of the Control Devil. She is responsible for a number of tragedies that befall [[TheHero Denji]] and is the main villain of the Public Safety Saga. [[spoiler:After Denji kills Makima, the Control Devil is reincarnated as a little girl named Nayuta whom Kishibe leaves in Denji's care so she doesn't follow the same path as Makima]].
* HeroKiller: Over the course of ''Part 1'' Makima tears through more of the protagonists and antagonists than pretty much every other character combined.
* HopeCrusher: Every act of kindness that she showed Denji during the ''entire story'' turns out to be part of a plot to do this - giving him a decent place to live, [[PunchClockHero a steady job]], a social circle, and [[FamilyOfChoice a surrogate family]] for the sole purpose of ripping them away from him in front of his eyes to completely break his spirit and make him give up on ever being anything but her slave.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Her EngineeredHeroics to weaken the Chainsaw Devil by removing humanity's fear of him is what inspires Denji to want to live again, completely screwing her original plans at ''Part 1'''s climax.
* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: It's implied Makima is the Horseman of Conquest. She talks of the Chainsaw Devil battling the Horsemen as if she witnessed it herself. In Japanese, she is the Devil of "shihai (支配)", which means "control" but is also a common translation for the biblical figure. The Horseman of Conquest is often interpreted as God, Satan, Christ, or the Antichrist, all figures Makima is symbolically compared to. Makima's most used personal ability is a HandBlast, reflecting Conquest wielding a bow. Evidently, she has it in for the other three Horsemen, singling out death, war, and hunger as things the Chainsaw Devil should erase.
* HumanoidAbomination: Unlike most [[OurMonstersAreWeird Devils]], she takes the form of a red-haired, golden-eyed woman that most consider beautiful.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Kishibe and Pochita explain that being the Control Devil who ran a powerful organization like Public Safety, Makima had no possible chance to build relationships with those she could consider her equal. It's partly why she was so in love with Chainsaw Man, as she saw him as someone just as powerful as she was and thus her equal.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: She declares herself a fan of the Chainsaw Devil, something that causes her to be unable to use her Control Devil powers on him or Denji because she doesn't consider him below her. Her plan is to fight him and win, giving herself a sense of superiority over him so she can take control of him. Failing that, she would still consider it the greatest honor imaginable to be eaten by and become a part of him. This trope takes on a whole new meaning in Chapter 97, as it's revealed she admires the Chainsaw Man ''because'' she saw him as an equal, one who could bring her lifelong dream of having a family of equals to life after a lifetime of forcing those inferior to her to worship her.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: She is deeply attracted to Pochita / Chainsaw Man's chaotic actions killing and consuming other Devils in his time as the "hero of Hell". And even though she desires to use him for her UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans plans, she would also consider it the greatest honor imaginable to be consumed by him herself. In fact, she's so enamored with his carnage that at least one reason why she hates Denji is because he's turned Chainsaw Man into a genuinely heroic figure.
* IronicDeath: [[spoiler:A part of Makima was hoping that if she could not control Chainsaw Man / Pochita to make him consume various Devils to erase them from existence, that Chainsaw Man would at least eat ''her'' and remove her (and "control") from existence. In the end, Chainsaw Man doesn't eat Makima. But the human Denji ''does'', and it [[KilledOffForReal permanently ends the Makima personality]], and the Control Devil reincarnates as a young girl.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Is utterly uncaring that being devoured by Pochita, and thus removing the very concept of Control from reality, may have terrible ramifications for mankind.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While at first glance Makima appears rather creepy and manipulative to Denji, she also shows him kindness on multiple occasions, flirting with him and comforting in moments where he's feeling down, so it seems like she's not really so bad. Except actually she is, and not only does she not have his best interests at heart, but every good thing she gave to Denji was done for the sole purpose of destroying his hope for a better life by killing everyone he's loved and met.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Makima spent the entire series psychologically torturing Denji and using the people around him like pawns, all for the sake of either controlling Chainsaw Man or being eaten by him. Ultimately, she's beaten by a sneak attack from Denji, using a chainsaw (made from the blood Power left him) to interrupt her HealingFactor. Afterwards, we see that her remains are about to be eaten not by her beloved Chainsaw Man, but Denji - the human she saw as nothing but dog at best and roadblock to her goals at worst.]]
* KickTheDog: She doesn't bother with any sort of plan or SadisticChoice to result in Power's death. She just kills her in front of Denji with no warning or reason. She then ''laughs hysterically'' at Denji trying to cope with Power's death by convincing himself this is just a bad dream. Then she reveals she engineered him killing Aki too, and that Denji could've saved him if he hadn't listened to her. And then tells him she will never let him even ''think'' he can be happy and will kill anyone else he comes to care about from now on.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:After Denji dismembers and eats her entire body, due to it being a very specific method that falls outside of her contract with the Prime Minister of Japan that protects her from all attacks, Makima truly dies. As proof of this, Kishibe finds the reincarnation of the Control Devil who is an entirely new person.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: The very first thing she used to sway Denji to her side, after he's been living in squalor and selling his own organs just to get by, is with the promise of [[MundaneLuxury companionship, a place to live and decent food]]. [[spoiler:By the end of the story, Denji has attained all three by taking her apartment and pet dogs, and making half a dozen meals out of her body. Not as a violent [[HorrorHunger animalistic feast of bloodshed]] as the Chainsaw Man, but by cutting her into pieces that [[CannibalLarder he keeps in his refrigerator]] [[BlackComedy like last week's takeout]].]]
* LonelyAtTheTop: Pochita reveals her actual, original dream was to have equals she could build loving relationships with. But her upbringing led her to believe she could only force people into relationships with her through fear.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: PlayedWith. Though she knows from the start Denji is Chainsaw Man now, she is much more interested in the old "hero of Hell" than this new one. She even expresses a desire to be "eaten" by the Chainsaw Devil if she cannot kill and control him herself. In Chapter 93 she even starts throwing {{Pretender Diss}}es at Denji about being "unworthy of Chainsaw Man." [[spoiler:Ultimately, this proves to be her downfall, as Denji relies on her obsession with Chainsaw Man alone to pull a sneak attack and finally take her down.]]
* LovingAShadow: The extreme, GodOfChaos Chainsaw Man that she fell for was just her own perceived image of him, and not who the TorturedMonster TokenHeroicOrc Pochita really was. She never even imagined he'd spend the last several years as the pet of a destitute orphan, and is baffled as to why he cares so much for Denji. It becomes even more apparent in Chapter 95 [[spoiler:where she throws a PretenderDiss at what she thinks is Denji, but in fact has been Pochita the entire time.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Everything bad attributed to the Gun Devil was actually orchestrated by her as part of a ploy to revive the original Chainsaw Man.
* ManipulativeBastard: She's the Devil of Control, representing the fear of domination and loss of free will, after all. Her entire relationship with Denji has all been a plot to separate him from Pochita by breaking their contract, which in practice involves giving Denji happiness that he has never known through a sibling relationship with Aki and Power, then violently ripping it away. This includes manipulating Aki to die at Denji's hands, and killing Power right in front of him.
* MeaningfulName:
** [[https://twitter.com/YourAnimeGuy/status/1336948317226463234 The author has pointed out]], her name is [[OedipusComplex "mama"]] with "ki (wood/tree)" stuck in the middle. [[spoiler:Which overlaps with PropheticNames, as she is ultimately struck down like a tree with a chainsaw.]]
** The most common spelling of Makima in Japanese is 牧間, which can be read, as a play on 人間 / "human", as "shepherd".
* MonsterFangirl: She has an extremely unhealthy obsession with Pochita, specifically due to his monstorous and chaotic acts.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Once her plan to have Pochita take control of Denji falls through, she resolves to simply murder Denji so she can have Pochita to herself.
* NighInvulnerability: Makima can’t be harmed by any physical attack thanks to a contract she has with the Prime Minister of Japan. Any fatal harm she takes is transformed into a fatal event befalling a random Japanese citizen. If she gets fatally wounded in a fight, she’ll be unscathed and alive again within a few minutes. By her own account, this has happened almost thirty times. [[spoiler:The finale reveals that this agreement ''only'' applies to attacks. Denji cutting her body up and consuming it over the course of several weeks manages to get past these conditions and kills her for good.]]
* TheNoseKnows: She doesn't recognize people by their faces or appearance, but by their smell, and she doesn't bother remembering the smell of people she doesn't care about. Denji eventually gambles on the guess that she only remembered Chainsaw Man's smell and not his. [[spoiler:He was right.]]
* NotSoStoic: Denji is shocked to see her actually ''crying'' at their date to the movies during an emotional scene of two characters hugging. [[spoiler: It's strongly implied that this was a moment of [[WhatYouAreInTheDark genuine vulnerability]], because she was reminded of something that, due to both her demonic origins and her role as the head of the Public Safety divison, she knows she will and can never have - to love another person as her equal and to be loved as one in return.]]
* OrderIsNotGood: As the embodiment of Control, she personifies order and social harmony, but in its worst aspects; abuse, forced compliance, and lack of any concern for others except as tools of another. Notably, Pochita has to be talked out of killing her, because he quite understandably didn't see ''anything'' good in her and had to be reminded order includes things like the very concept of society or the common good.
* PetTheDog: A rare inversion where her love of dogs actually makes her ''less'' sympathetic - as she tells Denji, she likes dogs because they have no ambition, worship her unconditionally, and always do what they're told; exactly how she thinks ''all'' humans should behave around her.
* PowerParasite: Her powers as the Control Devil allow her to force anyone she considers below her to do exactly what she wants, allowing her to utilize the abilities of most Devils by brainwashing them into a very one-sided [[DealWithTheDevil contract]] with her.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Thanks to her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister, any damage she takes from an attack, including being shot in the head, having her arm obliterated, and being chopped to pieces 26 times, is removed as if it never happened in return for a random Japanese citizen suffering a similar injury or death shortly thereafter.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: She's somehow the only one to still have memories of the various Devils the Chainsaw Man had RetGone out of existence. And even then, she admits she has a hard time remembering them.
* SatanicArchetype: A demonic being [[BeautyIsBad in the form of a beautiful woman]] who wishes for complete subjugation of the world, and to accomplish that, [[CompellingVoice controls people with her words]] and acts as a [[TheCorrupter figure of temptation]] towards Denji [[ManipulativeBastard for her own ends]]. To drive the point home, she has artwork of [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Paradise_Lost_12.jpg Lucifer falling]] from ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' in her house.
* SemanticSuperpower: She and the Prime Minister of Japan cut a deal where the wounds from any attacks on her are [[LiquidAssets transferred to a random Japanese citizen]]. However, [[LoopholeAbuse what qualifies as an "attack" is somewhat up for grabs]]. [[spoiler:Denji manages to kill her by [[EatingTheEnemy butchering Makima and then cooking and eating her body parts one piece at a time]], which he considers "becoming one with her" rather than killing her.]] Kishibe isn't sure if the contract fails to invoke due to it objectively not being an attack or merely [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve because the perpetrator doesn't believe its an attack]], but either way, it works.
* ShadowArchetype: To Pochita. Both are powerful and very feared Devils in similar positions of power that put the both of them on the same level on top of the food chain. But both also rather tragically yearned for friendship and love that ended up being impossible with their statuses and powers as terrifying Devils. However, Pochita managed to achieve his dreams of getting a hug from Denji, making him fiercely and unconditionally loyal to the boy. Makima meanwhile never received such love as Pochita did and coupled with being employed by the Japanese government to run Public Safety, turned into a sociopathic monster who can only force others to fulfill her dreams of companionship.
* SingleTargetSexuality: She only ever displays any sort of adoration towards one being: Chainsaw Man.
* SmokingIsNotCool: In chapter 96, she attempts to take a puff of a cigarette, only to cough and reveal that it's likely the first and only time she's tried it. It's one of the very few times we see her in a vulnerable state and it hints at her true GlassCannon nature right before [[spoiler:Denji strikes her down with a chainsaw that disrupts her HealingFactor.]]
* TheSociopath: She has little to no attachment to the people around her, seeing them only as tools to control and further her plans. In Chapter 89, she expresses fondness for humanity but only in the same way one has fondness for dogs. And not even in the way one would love their pet; she pinpoints their capacity for stupid loyalty and propensity for being easily manipulated as things she enjoys about them.
-->'''Makima''': And also...they love me.
* StoryBreakerPower: Her abilities as the Control Devil allow her to enthrall anyone she sees as her inferior, which includes all of humanity and most of devilkind. The latter allows her to create unlimited contracts at no cost to herself, giving her whatever additional powers she might need on top of an army of slavishly loyal minions.
* TautologicalTemplar: While she espouses high-minded altruistic goals, whatever she does with the Chainsaw Devil's powers will ultimately depend on her own subjective, immovable tastes. This is ultimately why Denji decides he has to defeat her.
-->'''Chainsaw Man''': Ms. Makima. In this ultra-awesome perfect world you're gonna make, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion will there still be crappy movies]]?\\
'''Makima''': ...Personally... I believe the world would be better if bad movies ceased to exist.\\
'''Chainsaw Man''': Hmmm...guess I gotta kill you after all then.
* TermsOfEndangerment: In the Japanese version, she calls Kobeni by the diminutive "Kobeni-chan" while explaining she plans to murder her for diverting the Chainsaw Devil's attention.
* ThisCannotBe: Downplayed. After [[spoiler:Denji]] successfully surprises and geviously wounds her in Chapter 96, the most that she can muster in response is barely coherent confusion.
* TranquilFury: She remains as emotionless as usual but it's very obvious that she's furious that the Chainsaw Man would care deeply about a nobody like Denji.
* TroubledAbuser: She eventually reveals herself as an abuser, both in a metaphorical and literal sense as her actions throughout the entire series work to manipulate and traumatize Denji. However, it's heavily implied that she herself was a victim at the hands of TheGovernment, [[spoiler:and to prevent another monster like her from being born, Denji is tasked with lovingly raising her reincarnation Nayuta.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery:
** Makima assumes if she fought Chainsaw Man, she’d have a 50-50 chance of defeating him. Chainsaw Man rips her to shreds before she could even react. Chapter 89 reveals that he managed to kill her 26 times altogether, with her only managing to best him after weakening him and forcing him to [[TakingTheBullet get hit by one of Angel's spears to protect Kobeni]].
** [[spoiler:Makima's defeat can entirely be attributed to underestimating Denji. She may have the power, but she certainly did not count on Denji ever being a threat to her and never bothered to remember his scent. This allowed Denji to sneak up on her and slice her open with a chainsaw made out of Power's blood to disrupt her healing factor, allowing him to finally defeat her once and for all.]]
* UndignifiedDeath: There's certainly nothing being very dignified about being [[spoiler:cut up into pieces and stored in ''[[CannibalLarder takeout boxes and tupperware]]'' in Denji's refrigerator.]]
* UnknownRival: Or unknown WorthyOpponent. She really wants the Chainsaw Devil to, if not join her after being defeated, at least acknowledge her as a genuine threat that he needs to consume and thus erase from existence. Instead, he barely even seems to notice her presence, and at best treats her as a nuisance who's interfering with his attempts to fulfill Denji's last wish of living a normal life. She's clearly frustrated in Chapter 89 that, after killing her ''26 times'', he still refuses to consume her and instead went back to his mock date with Kobeni.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Heavily implied. Pochita reveals that Makima just wanted to have a family of people she could consider her equals. Kishibe also posits that being under the employ of a government turned Makima into the sociopathic monster she was. [[spoiler:Her new incarnation as Nayuta]] shows that with a clean slate, she's pretty docile, friendly, and even receptive of others' kindness, if not a little creepy.
* VagueAge: She ''looks'' like she's in her mid-twenties and seems to imply to Kishibe while talking about her life with the government that she experienced childhood the same way humans do. [[spoiler: but the fact Nayuta, her reincarnation, looks like she's around ten just a few days after spawning might imply the Control Devil experiences RapidAgeing]].
* VictoryIsBoring:
** She looks displeased after getting the Chainsaw Man to [[TakingTheBullet take a bullet]] for Kobeni and seemingly lose their battle. Luckily, this is what allowed Chainsaw Man to avoid falling under her control long enough for Power to save him.
** She is both disappointed and impressed by how Denji managed to hold his own against the other Hybrids that she feeds him her blood and challenges him to a one-on-one fight so she can kill him herself.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: She's in love with the "Hero of Hell" Chainsaw Man and much of her motivation stems from showing herself off to him as his ultimate enemy. Interestingly, she seems to actually abhor the idea of Chainsaw Man being a hero, as her infatuation with him comes from what she perceives as him being "chaotic" and "extreme" and rants at Denji for dragging her beloved down with his inherent good and, most prominently, human nature.
* XanatosGambit: Makima plans to break Denji's contract with Pochita either ends with her having control of Pochita and his power to RetGone Devils to erase concepts like Death or Pochita eats Makima and releases humanity from the fear of control. Makima gets what she wants either way... until Denji TookAThirdOption and rather than lose to her or eat her as Chainsaw Man, [[spoiler:he eats her as his regular human self for a mundane dinner.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Makima wants to use Chainsaw Man's RetGone powers to erase humanity's biggest fears from existence and turn Earth into a utopia without things like hunger, war or death.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Quite literally, as Denji observes her, in a rare moment of vulnerability, actually ''crying'' in the movie theater during an emotional scene of two characters hugging. [[spoiler:Because as Pochita notes in the last chapter of Part 1, all she really wanted was genuine affection from another person who she saw as an equal, but both her upbringing and her existence as the Control Devil made that impossible.]]
* {{Yandere}}: All the deaths, destruction, and misery she causes are all for the Chainsaw Man to notice her and see her as a WorthyOpponent. It only gets worse and more blatant once she realizes the degree to which the Chainsaw Man cares for Denji, sending her into a TranquilFury as she curb-stomps Denji and [[AndShowItToYou rips Pochita out of his chest]] for ''daring'' to get between them.
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!!Nayuta / Control Devil
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The next incarnation of the Control Devil who Kishibe found in China after Makima's death. She retains none of her previous self's memories, but as her powers could easily send her down the path to becoming a second Makima if she ended up in the wrong hands, Kishibe dumps her on Denji, appointing him as her guardian.
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* AntiAntiChrist: Denji's [[RaiseHimRightThisTime prospective goal]] is to raise Nayuta into a genuinely good person instead of a sociopathic conqueror.
* CreepyChild: One of the first things she does is point at Denji and call him a "doggy", in a way that ''clearly'' reminds Denji a little ''too'' much of her past self.
* DeathOfPersonality: Nayuta has no memory of her past life as Makima and while she retains some of her mannerisms, she's ultimately a completely different person.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Nayuta has MessyHair compared to Makima's more well groomed and braided hairstyle, signifying how this reincarnation of the Control Devil has yet to realize her power.
* GooGooGodlike: She possesses the same incredibly potent CompellingVoice ability Makima did, but doesn't appear to be aware of her powers.
* HeelFaceReincarnation: The sociopathic and manipulative Makima is reincarnated into the creepy but otherwise innocent Nayuta.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Introduced in chapter 97, the last chapter of the Public Safety Saga.
* ManBitesMan: We are first introduced to her when Denji tries to shoo her away from his talk with Kishibe, only for her to turn around and playfully bite his finger.
* RapidAging: Implied. Despite having spawned very recently, Nayuta already looks like a ten-year old girl; possibly hinting that the Control Devil reaches adulthood far faster then human children do.
* RaiseHimRightThisTime: Pochita notes that Makima turned out the way she did out of a desire to build relationships with people, but only thought she could do so through fear. Kishibe notes that if the government found her they could very well turn her into another Makima. The two of them decide to entrust Nayuta, the new Control Devil, to Denji so that he could show her a real loving relationship.
* RedemptionDemotion: The Control Devil's powers require her to fully believe someone or something is below her to control them. But since Kisibe leaves Nayuta with Denji to ensure that she will grow to consider the majority of humans and Devils as equals, she will never be able to exert the level of power Makima possessed.
* ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Makima once bit Denji's finger while telling him to remember the way she did it. Nayuta biting him the same way, along with her eyes, makes him immediately realized she's Makima's reincarnation.
* SharedFamilyQuirks:
** She's adopted by Denji and not even five minutes into meeting each other, she seems to have taken up Denji's tendency to raise a peace sign as a silent response.
** She's also shown to not be a picky eater, asking for nothing more than sliced bread for dinner much like how Denji was excited for a similar meal at the start of the series.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like Makima, the golden concentric circles surrounding her pupils are what indicate that the otherwise human looking Nayuta is in fact a Devil.
* TookALevelInKindness: As Makima's reincarnation, she has none of her past self's memories. Though something of a CreepyChild, she bonds to Denji quickly, and they finish the final chapter hugging each other in their sleep.
* {{Transplant}}: Her name, physical appearance, and role (a CreepyChild born to apocalyptic power held back from carrying out their destiny only by their love for their adoptive older brother) are all derived from the title character of Fujimoto's past one-shot ''Manga/NayutaOfTheProphecy''.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her entire existence is owed to Denji finally killing Makima after the reveal of her being the Control Devil and the main antagonist of Part 1.
* YouAreNotAlone: Denji adopts her to always assure her of it, as Makima was never able to experience this and became what she was.
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[[Characters/ChainsawManMainCharacters Main Characters]] ([[Characters/ChainsawManDenji Denji]] | '''Makima''') | [[Characters/ChainsawManPublicSafetyDevilHunters Public Safety Devil Hunters]] | [[Characters/ChainsawManDevilsAndFiends Devils and Fiends]] | [[Characters/ChainsawManOtherCharacters Other Characters]] -]]]]]
!!Makima
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TomoriKusunoki
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->''"Your necessary evil... is just an excuse to justify your own crimes. Those excuses are unnecessary to society. The truly necessary evils are always kept collared and controlled by the state."''\\\
The head of Division 4 of the Public Safety Devil Hunters Bureau and the target of Denji's romantic interest and lust, she happens across Denji shortly after his transformation and cuts a deal with him to either be hunted like any other Devil or join her division in exchange for shelter and food.
Contracted to an unknown but very powerful Devil.
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[[folder:Tropes exclusive to Makima in general]]
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Despite supposedly being the head of the Public Safety Devil Hunters, she acts incredibly sinister, manipulative and heartless, with the strong implication there's much more to her than meets the eye.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: At a glance she seems to be a totally normal woman, but she also has [[ExoticEyeDesigns strange golden concentric circles in her irises]], demonstrates some unexplained form of NighInvulnerability, and has numerous strange powers other Devil Hunters and even Devils don't seem to have.
* AnimalEyeSpy: She's somehow able to use "lower lifeforms" such as birds and rats to spy on others, listening in or watching them from afar. It makes everyone that knows anything about her powers ''extremely'' cautious about what they do or say.
* AnimalMotif: Contrary to what you'd expect, [[YouDirtyRat Rats]]. Makima has [[TheNoseKnows an extremely sharp nose]], displays [[PestController the ability to bend the animals to her her will]], [[spoiler: and confronts Reze after manifesting out a SwarmOfRats while referencing the "Town Mouse or Country Mouse" fable]]. It adds to her [[AmbiguouslyEvil suspicious, sinister presence]].
* BigBrotherIsWatching: She has some level of omniscience that allows her to keep tabs on several things, most likely through her rats. Kishibe confirms this when he advises Quanxi though written notes to not vocally respond because "Makima is listening." Yoshida later confirms that she also uses birds.
* CoolDownHug: Her introduction to the series involves her hugging Denji, which calms him down enough to cancel his Hybrid transformation.
* ComboPlatterPowers: Most of the abilities granted by her secret Contract don't seem to have any obvious connecting theme; by the International Assassins Arc she's displayed a HealingFactor, [[PestController command over a massive swarm of rats and other "lower lifeforms"]], and making large portions of a target's body [[DisintegratorRay seemingly vanish into thin air]].
* CradlingYourKill: She cradles [[spoiler:Reze]] as she dies, not out of any sort of kindness or remorse.... but simply to prevent her from using her powers.
* CurbStompBattle: Utterly destroys the Yakuza and later [[spoiler:Reze]], with them having no chance to fight back once she starts attacking.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Makima actually manages to wound the Darkness Devil and make it bleed by essentially just pointing at him. However, this only works once. The second time she tries it, the Darkness Devil takes no visible harm and [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu obliterates her arm, leaving nothing but an empty dress shirt sleeve.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Makima always appears calm and dignified, speaking in a soft tone whether she's slaughtering enemies or making shady deals with the Yazuka. Nothing seems to faze her.
* EmotionlessGirl: Makima never reacts to anything around her and is usually content with having a polite attitude. The only exception is a movie that manages to make her cry, although it's unclear if she's sincere.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Chapter 2 serves extensively as one for her. While initially coming across as kind and generous to Denji, Makima then displays some more... questionable characteristics when she outright threatens to have Denji put down if he didn't obey her. The ending of the chapter cinches her manipulative nature when she quickly figures out that Denji is attracted to her and begins work to give him hope at a chance to date her.
* ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy: {{Inverted|Trope}}; As the leader of the Public Safety Bureau, Makima has to access to an exclusive contract with an extremely powerful Devil that is kept as secret as possible to not give the organisation's enemies any possible advantage. Whenever she uses its power, the other employees are legally required to wear blindfolds.
* FetishizedAbuser: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; the author outright admits he likes dominant women, but while Makima's manipulation of Denji is initially played as titillating, the story seriously acknowledges how exploitative it is. [[spoiler:And the ''psychological torture'' it was all leading up to is not portrayed as enticing in the least.]]
* FieryRedhead: {{Subverted}}. Makima has auburn hair, but is a textbook EmotionlessGirl.
* {{Foil}}: To Power. Both are attractive devil hunters in nice suits who are close to Denji. However, Power is emotional, childish and rude while Makima is stoic, intelligent and dignified. Power owns a cat while Makima owns dogs. Power lets her hair loose and has devil-like horns while Makima styles her hair into a single braid. Similarly, Power initially starts off as a jerk to Denji, but grows to care for him and even unselfishly put herself at risk for him. Makima meanwhile starts off being somewhat friendly and affectionate to Denji, but it also becomes increasingly clear she is using Denji for her own ends and she repeatedly puts him in harm's way for selfish reasons.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Denji and Aki seem to be the only ones in Public Safety who actually like her, as everyone else who's expressed their opinion seem to just loathe her or fear her.
* GodzillaThreshold: She avoids rescuing the Devil Hunters in Hell until it's abundantly clear that she has no choice but to travel there herself. Once she does, she and Darkness are on even ground as attacks that previously dismembered people can only muster a few broken fingers on her.
* HartmanHips: Her pants are tight enough to reveal that she has a pretty prominent pair of hips.
* HeroesWantRedheads: She has auburn hair, and is the primary focus of Denji's affection/lust.
* HiddenDepths: Ch. 39 strongly implies that Makima is a bit of a cinephile. The activity she chooses for her first "date" is a movie marathon, and during one of the last few she actually ends up ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness crying]]'' at a scene of two characters embracing.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Even powerful Devils are ''terrified'' of Makima, without her needing to say or do anything.
* IronicEcho: Makima does this in Chapter 52 [[spoiler:right before killing Reze.]] She brings up the Country Mouse vs City Mouse conversation that Reze had with Denji, stating that she too likes the country mouse but because she likes watching them get slaughtered.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Learns more about persons and people in general to know how to better control/use them, but these same studies have made her capable of dispensing some rather valid life advice to Denji.
* LadyInAPowerSuit: She is the head of the Public Safety Devil Hunters and wears an appropriate suit, showing off her status. Denji can still guess her forms beneath it too.
* LittleBlackDress: Wears a [[{{Fanservice}} rather tight-fitting]] long-sleeved dress to the beach in the Gun Devil arc.
* {{Motif}}: Domination (both sexual and otherwise).
** On the [[{{Dominatrix}} sexual]] side, Makima is a physically attractive woman that often wears dark, form-fitting outfits, and acts as TheTease for the very submissive Denji. Some of the series's extra official art downright has her [[{{Fanservice}} on kinky outfits or carrying chains]]. [[spoiler: After TheReveal she comes across as a FetishizedAbuser.]]
** On the non-sexual side, Makima holds a position of authority, often intimidates others ([[HorrifyingTheHorror including devils and fiends]]), has an imposing presence, and pretty much press-ganged a good deal of her subordinates into service.
* MsFanservice: Her form-fitting suit show off her curves and is TheTease to Denji. She also wears a very nice (and equally form-fitting) LittleBlackDress to the beach in the Gun Devil Arc.
* NeverGetsDrunk: At the drinking party, there's already dozens of empty mugs around her as she calmly and lucidly asks for another cup.
* NighInvulnerability: She somehow regenerates after getting shot in the head multiple times, getting her arms cut off, and other mortal wounds.
* TheNoseKnows: In her first appearance, Makima mentions that Denji has the two smells of a human and a devil.
* NothingIsScarier: Makima is a mystery wrapped in many questions, and utterly terrifying because of this. Her subordinates are required to wear blindfolds when she supposedly uses her Contracted Devil, as no one is permitted to know its name, appearance, or exact powers.
* PestController: She confronts [[spoiler:Reze]] by summoning a SwarmOfRats, and then forming out of them. The remaining mice appear to obey her commands.
* RunOrDie: Makima rarely handles matters directly, but when she does the results are typically very messy and sudden for her target. It takes a PrimalFear like the Darkness Devil to survive her, and all those familiar with her consider her a monster beyond compare.
* SingleStrokeBattle: At the end of the Assassins arc she decapitates [[spoiler:Quanxi and her Fiends]] with a single attack that is so fast no one can react.
* TheStoic: She displays little in the way of strong emotions, always holding a BlankStare. Even her teasing interactions with Denji are shown to be little more than acts of manipulation.
* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Every time Denji thinks of going for another girl, Makima narrowly reins him in without doing much of anything in terms of physical intimacy. [[spoiler:To Makima, Denji is just a means to the Chainsaw Devil, her ''actual'' love.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Makima is an incredibly powerful, AmbiguouslyHuman Devil Hunter with strange, golden eyes.
* TheTease: Definitely shows signs of this to Denji. Saying she likes guys like him, getting up close and letting him touch her chest, and giving him an indirect kiss with coffee-flavored candy (after his first actual kiss involved getting a mouthful of vomit).
* WrongContextMagic: She's able Makima uses a contract that allows her to remotely crush a band of criminals trying to abduct Denji. Unlike all other contracts, it doesn't seem to come at a cost for herself as sacrifices are killed instead.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Makima is an incredibly mysterious and manipulative woman with strange, golden eyes.
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[[folder:Late Story Tropes ('''SPOILERS''')]]
!!Makima / Control Devil
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->''"I want to use Chainsaw Man... to create a better world."''\\\
Makima's true identity, the Devil representing humanity's fear of control, and the real BigBad of ''Part 1''. Desperately seeking someone she could see as an equal, she fell in love with Pochita back when he was the "hero of Hell, Chainsaw Man" for his power and [[OppositesAttract seemingly chaotic nature]]. Her ultimate goal is to release Pochita from his contract with Denji, so she can either have Pochita join her in her UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans plans to undo any concept she deems to have a negative effect on humanity, or be consumed by him herself.
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* AmbiguouslyEvil: She set up the massacre of Division 4 by the Yakuza, Aki and Power's deaths (who she purposefully set up as Denji's older brother and little sister figures), and mentally breaks Denji completely by revealing the AwfulTruth that he murdered his abusive father in self-defense as a child. All so she can get her hands on Pochita... who she plans to use to [[WellIntentionedExtremist end things like war, hunger and death]].
* AncientEvil: The American President muses that human history has been spent in fear of the Control Devil, struggling against her in what may be a losing battle. This is a more symbolic example than many, as Makima represents the absence of free will, but as an ''[[AnthropomorphicPersonification individual]]'' she appears to age the same way a human does.
* AchillesHeel: Makima's only weakness it that she is unable to take control of any being she doesn't consider herself superior to, the sole individual she believes meets that criteria being the original Chainsaw Man. However, it appears other people can share Pochita's immunity by becoming physically connected to him; she appears unable to control Denji despite her utter disdain for the boy because the two are merged, and Power becomes capable of ignoring her commands after drinking some of Pochita's blood.
* TheAntichrist: Makima is a Devil born into the world with human form and supernatural charisma whom the government tried to mould into a perfect servant, but instead aims to TakeOverTheWorld--and isn't too concerned with causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt it if she fails.
* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: She's really banking on Chainsaw Man at the very least eating her and erasing her from existence, but he's so focused on fulfilling Denji's dreams and going on a "date" with Kobeni that she displays deadpan frustration over how he's barely giving her his attention.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Deconstructed. It's noted early on that the more a Devil understands and empathises with humanity, the more human they look; which is why Makima is almost completely human in both appearance and motivation. However, these good intentions don't stop her from still being the BigBad, a BitchInSheepsClothing, and genuinely horrifying on multiple levels.
* BigBad: She's the one behind every bad thing that happens to Denji over the entire series. All so she can break his contract with Pochita and either have Chainsaw's RetGone power serve her, or be consumed by Chainsaw herself.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In Chapter 82, she reveals to Denji that one of her goals was to nullify Denji's contract with Pochita. In order to accomplish this, she planted Aki and Power into his life and systematically plotted to rip them away from him one by one in order to mentally break him.
* BlessedWithSuck: As it turns out, having natural power over those inferior to you makes it depressingly impossible to build any sort of relationship where both parties are equal.
* BreakingSpeech: Gives one to Denji in Chapter 82 after her brutal murder of Power. She admits that she specifically set up all the chain of events of the story, right down to encouraging Denji to opening up and getting close to Aki and Power just so that she can strip away all of his happiness. All because she views him as her tool and nothing more, and Makima wanted to destroy the possibility of Denji ever hoping for a better life.
* ClingyJealousGirl: She's extremely spiteful and cruel towards Denji because she sees him as a rival for Chainsaw Man / Pochita's attention and affection.
* CompellingVoice: Stemming from her nature as the embodiment of the loss of free will, Makima has the power to compel anyone, human or Devil, to obey her commands to the letter. The truly dangerous thing about this ability is that it has ''no'' weakness or work-around; as long as she consider the target as inferior to herself (and Makima considers ''[[SmugSuper everyone]]'' beneath her) she can force them to do anything from taking a bullet for her to murdering their closest friends and family.
* ControlFreak: Befitting her being the Control Devil, she fully reveals herself as this in Chapter 82, giving Denji happiness then cruelly taking it away just to make it clear to him that he belongs to her. She then threatens to repeat what she did to Aki and Power if he ever finds happiness with someone else other than her. This ends up turning out to extend to her plans to bring about a utopia, as well. While she intends to sic the Chainsaw Man on Primal Fears to help humanity live in a reality of safety and comfort, she admits she'd also use her plan to remove bad movies from existence, showing how much her bias indeed plays into her supposedly good intentions.
* CharmPerson: Her CompellingVoice powers seem to include a side-effect that causes the victim to fall hopelessly in love with her. For instance, Aki is infatuated with her, but when asked to say ''what'' he likes so much about her, he is unable to say. And later, we see a still alive Reze and Katana Man preparing to kill Denji for her affection.
* CurbStompBattle: Wipes out the Gun Devil in a few panels by calling on multiple of her entralled Devils at once.
* DavidVsGoliath: In one corner is the Gun Devil, the absolutely massive and notoriously powerful Devil who ravaged the world and killed millions of people in only a few minutes. In the other corner is Makima, seemingly a human bureaucrat. [[CurbStompBattle She wins in three panels]] by [[DeathByLookingUp dropping an enhanced Punishment Devil on its head]].
* TheDreaded: As the Control Devil, humanity has long been terrified of what she represents.
-->'''US President:''' Fearing and strengthening Makima is nothing less than the history of humanity. Everything, even resistance, may be but a step on a predictable course.
* EmotionlessGirl: Subverted. She always appears calm and collected when playing the BigGood, only to drop the act and burst into laughter upon murdering Power, in one of the most disturbing moments in the entire series.
* EngineeredHeroics: Didn't do much to suppress information about the Denji's exploits and arranged for the Gun Fiend to attack Denji in a heavily populated area to foster a heroic image of the Chainsaw Man in the public conscience to sabotage the fear humanity had for the Chainsaw Devil, potentially hobbling Pochita if he ever reemerged.
* EntitledToHaveYou: A non-romantic variant towards Denji. Makima views him as her tool, and a means to achieve her end goal. Anything and anyone that stands in the way of distracting Denji gets eliminated and she even point blank tells him in Chapter 82 that she will destroy any attempt at happiness that he tries to achieve.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Though it's unclear if the target has to be lesbian or bi beforehand, she uses her Control Devil powers to make female characters like Quanxi and Reze fall in love with her.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: After revealing herself to be the Control Devil, She switch her suit for a black dress.
* EvilIsPetty: Makima admits that she would also erase bad movies in her plan to bring about a utopia, showing how she's ultimately self-serving when talking about her desire to bring about a happy reality for all.
* EvilIsVisceral: When the Gun Devil shoots her in the head, a halo of brain matter emerges from the wound and floats over her head.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** It becomes increasingly obvious that Makima severely underestimated the selfless, genuine love Pochita has for Denji. Having assumed their relationship was purely contractual and that Pochita would just take his body for himself once it was broken, she's extremely frustrated and confused when he views her more as a nuisance that keeps interrupting his attempts to make Denji's dreams come true rather than a legitimate threat that needs to be RetGone. Her stunned reaction to Denji being back in control in Chapter 93 also shows that she didn't anticipate the Chainsaw Man willingly ceding control back to him even after the contract was broken.
** She also didn't take into account that tricking Denji into forming attachments to others would go both ways, as the [[LikeBrotherAndSister sibling-like bond]] he forms with Power is reciprocated when she returns prioritizes Denji over her own safety. Makima appears surprised but unamused when Power disobeys her.
** Pochita explains that being in the position that she was, Makima could only understand how to have friends and companions through fear, completely missing out on the reciprocation such relationships should have thus her perception of having a family being skewed into forcing others into loving and worshipping her.
* ExactWords: Her claims that her type is "someone like this boy named Denji" is not entirely untrue. Since the Chainsaw Man had merged with him, she's technically not lying when she says she likes "someone like him" since it applies to the parts of him that are Pochita.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Puts on the image of a friendly, loving woman around Denji, just so she can eventually drop it to make him fully believe he will ''never'' have a happy, normal life. When he regains control of his body, she drops all pretenses and displays nothing but contempt towards Denji for basically bringing her beloved Chainsaw Man to his level.
* FreudianExcuse: She was raised in a sterile, abusive environment meant to mould her into the Japanese government's HumanWeapon, which lead to her growing up into a sociopath incapable of comprehending the idea of a relationship not founded on slavish obedience.
* GlassCannon: Makima can bend nearly anyone in the setting to her will with just a word, but she's unique among Devils in that her body seems physically human; so an attack that would only annoy most of them is as lethal to her as it would be to a normal person. While she usually gets around this using the ResurrectiveImmortality granted by her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister. [[spoiler: Denji managing to interrupt her HealingFactor with one solid blow from a chainsaw made from Power's blood is enough to beat her in the penultimate chapter.]]
* HandBlast: She has the ability to shoot massive, invisible bullets by making a FingerGun and saying "''bang''", seemingly [[PowerParasite taken]] from the Gun Devil.
* HeelFaceReincarnation: Makima is the latest incarnation of the Control Devil. She is responsible for a number of tragedies that befall [[TheHero Denji]] and is the main villain of the Public Safety Saga. [[spoiler:After Denji kills Makima, the Control Devil is reincarnated as a little girl named Nayuta whom Kishibe leaves in Denji's care so she doesn't follow the same path as Makima]].
* HeroKiller: Over the course of ''Part 1'' Makima tears through more of the protagonists and antagonists than pretty much every other character combined.
* HopeCrusher: Every act of kindness that she showed Denji during the ''entire story'' turns out to be part of a plot to do this - giving him a decent place to live, [[PunchClockHero a steady job]], a social circle, and [[FamilyOfChoice a surrogate family]] for the sole purpose of ripping them away from him in front of his eyes to completely break his spirit and make him give up on ever being anything but her slave.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Her EngineeredHeroics to weaken the Chainsaw Devil by removing humanity's fear of him is what inspires Denji to want to live again, completely screwing her original plans at ''Part 1'''s climax.
* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: It's implied Makima is the Horseman of Conquest. She talks of the Chainsaw Devil battling the Horsemen as if she witnessed it herself. In Japanese, she is the Devil of "shihai (支配)", which means "control" but is also a common translation for the biblical figure. The Horseman of Conquest is often interpreted as God, Satan, Christ, or the Antichrist, all figures Makima is symbolically compared to. Makima's most used personal ability is a HandBlast, reflecting Conquest wielding a bow. Evidently, she has it in for the other three Horsemen, singling out death, war, and hunger as things the Chainsaw Devil should erase.
* HumanoidAbomination: Unlike most [[OurMonstersAreWeird Devils]], she takes the form of a red-haired, golden-eyed woman that most consider beautiful.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Kishibe and Pochita explain that being the Control Devil who ran a powerful organization like Public Safety, Makima had no possible chance to build relationships with those she could consider her equal. It's partly why she was so in love with Chainsaw Man, as she saw him as someone just as powerful as she was and thus her equal.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: She declares herself a fan of the Chainsaw Devil, something that causes her to be unable to use her Control Devil powers on him or Denji because she doesn't consider him below her. Her plan is to fight him and win, giving herself a sense of superiority over him so she can take control of him. Failing that, she would still consider it the greatest honor imaginable to be eaten by and become a part of him. This trope takes on a whole new meaning in Chapter 97, as it's revealed she admires the Chainsaw Man ''because'' she saw him as an equal, one who could bring her lifelong dream of having a family of equals to life after a lifetime of forcing those inferior to her to worship her.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: She is deeply attracted to Pochita / Chainsaw Man's chaotic actions killing and consuming other Devils in his time as the "hero of Hell". And even though she desires to use him for her UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans plans, she would also consider it the greatest honor imaginable to be consumed by him herself. In fact, she's so enamored with his carnage that at least one reason why she hates Denji is because he's turned Chainsaw Man into a genuinely heroic figure.
* IronicDeath: [[spoiler:A part of Makima was hoping that if she could not control Chainsaw Man / Pochita to make him consume various Devils to erase them from existence, that Chainsaw Man would at least eat ''her'' and remove her (and "control") from existence. In the end, Chainsaw Man doesn't eat Makima. But the human Denji ''does'', and it [[KilledOffForReal permanently ends the Makima personality]], and the Control Devil reincarnates as a young girl.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Is utterly uncaring that being devoured by Pochita, and thus removing the very concept of Control from reality, may have terrible ramifications for mankind.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While at first glance Makima appears rather creepy and manipulative to Denji, she also shows him kindness on multiple occasions, flirting with him and comforting in moments where he's feeling down, so it seems like she's not really so bad. Except actually she is, and not only does she not have his best interests at heart, but every good thing she gave to Denji was done for the sole purpose of destroying his hope for a better life by killing everyone he's loved and met.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Makima spent the entire series psychologically torturing Denji and using the people around him like pawns, all for the sake of either controlling Chainsaw Man or being eaten by him. Ultimately, she's beaten by a sneak attack from Denji, using a chainsaw (made from the blood Power left him) to interrupt her HealingFactor. Afterwards, we see that her remains are about to be eaten not by her beloved Chainsaw Man, but Denji - the human she saw as nothing but dog at best and roadblock to her goals at worst.]]
* KickTheDog: She doesn't bother with any sort of plan or SadisticChoice to result in Power's death. She just kills her in front of Denji with no warning or reason. She then ''laughs hysterically'' at Denji trying to cope with Power's death by convincing himself this is just a bad dream. Then she reveals she engineered him killing Aki too, and that Denji could've saved him if he hadn't listened to her. And then tells him she will never let him even ''think'' he can be happy and will kill anyone else he comes to care about from now on.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:After Denji dismembers and eats her entire body, due to it being a very specific method that falls outside of her contract with the Prime Minister of Japan that protects her from all attacks, Makima truly dies. As proof of this, Kishibe finds the reincarnation of the Control Devil who is an entirely new person.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: The very first thing she used to sway Denji to her side, after he's been living in squalor and selling his own organs just to get by, is with the promise of [[MundaneLuxury companionship, a place to live and decent food]]. [[spoiler:By the end of the story, Denji has attained all three by taking her apartment and pet dogs, and making half a dozen meals out of her body. Not as a violent [[HorrorHunger animalistic feast of bloodshed]] as the Chainsaw Man, but by cutting her into pieces that [[CannibalLarder he keeps in his refrigerator]] [[BlackComedy like last week's takeout]].]]
* LonelyAtTheTop: Pochita reveals her actual, original dream was to have equals she could build loving relationships with. But her upbringing led her to believe she could only force people into relationships with her through fear.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: PlayedWith. Though she knows from the start Denji is Chainsaw Man now, she is much more interested in the old "hero of Hell" than this new one. She even expresses a desire to be "eaten" by the Chainsaw Devil if she cannot kill and control him herself. In Chapter 93 she even starts throwing {{Pretender Diss}}es at Denji about being "unworthy of Chainsaw Man." [[spoiler:Ultimately, this proves to be her downfall, as Denji relies on her obsession with Chainsaw Man alone to pull a sneak attack and finally take her down.]]
* LovingAShadow: The extreme, GodOfChaos Chainsaw Man that she fell for was just her own perceived image of him, and not who the TorturedMonster TokenHeroicOrc Pochita really was. She never even imagined he'd spend the last several years as the pet of a destitute orphan, and is baffled as to why he cares so much for Denji. It becomes even more apparent in Chapter 95 [[spoiler:where she throws a PretenderDiss at what she thinks is Denji, but in fact has been Pochita the entire time.]]
* TheManBehindTheMan: Everything bad attributed to the Gun Devil was actually orchestrated by her as part of a ploy to revive the original Chainsaw Man.
* ManipulativeBastard: She's the Devil of Control, representing the fear of domination and loss of free will, after all. Her entire relationship with Denji has all been a plot to separate him from Pochita by breaking their contract, which in practice involves giving Denji happiness that he has never known through a sibling relationship with Aki and Power, then violently ripping it away. This includes manipulating Aki to die at Denji's hands, and killing Power right in front of him.
* MeaningfulName:
** [[https://twitter.com/YourAnimeGuy/status/1336948317226463234 The author has pointed out]], her name is [[OedipusComplex "mama"]] with "ki (wood/tree)" stuck in the middle. [[spoiler:Which overlaps with PropheticNames, as she is ultimately struck down like a tree with a chainsaw.]]
** The most common spelling of Makima in Japanese is 牧間, which can be read, as a play on 人間 / "human", as "shepherd".
* MonsterFangirl: She has an extremely unhealthy obsession with Pochita, specifically due to his monstorous and chaotic acts.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Once her plan to have Pochita take control of Denji falls through, she resolves to simply murder Denji so she can have Pochita to herself.
* NighInvulnerability: Makima can’t be harmed by any physical attack thanks to a contract she has with the Prime Minister of Japan. Any fatal harm she takes is transformed into a fatal event befalling a random Japanese citizen. If she gets fatally wounded in a fight, she’ll be unscathed and alive again within a few minutes. By her own account, this has happened almost thirty times. [[spoiler:The finale reveals that this agreement ''only'' applies to attacks. Denji cutting her body up and consuming it over the course of several weeks manages to get past these conditions and kills her for good.]]
* TheNoseKnows: She doesn't recognize people by their faces or appearance, but by their smell, and she doesn't bother remembering the smell of people she doesn't care about. Denji eventually gambles on the guess that she only remembered Chainsaw Man's smell and not his. [[spoiler:He was right.]]
* NotSoStoic: Denji is shocked to see her actually ''crying'' at their date to the movies during an emotional scene of two characters hugging. [[spoiler: It's strongly implied that this was a moment of [[WhatYouAreInTheDark genuine vulnerability]], because she was reminded of something that, due to both her demonic origins and her role as the head of the Public Safety divison, she knows she will and can never have - to love another person as her equal and to be loved as one in return.]]
* OrderIsNotGood: As the embodiment of Control, she personifies order and social harmony, but in its worst aspects; abuse, forced compliance, and lack of any concern for others except as tools of another. Notably, Pochita has to be talked out of killing her, because he quite understandably didn't see ''anything'' good in her and had to be reminded order includes things like the very concept of society or the common good.
* PetTheDog: A rare inversion where her love of dogs actually makes her ''less'' sympathetic - as she tells Denji, she likes dogs because they have no ambition, worship her unconditionally, and always do what they're told; exactly how she thinks ''all'' humans should behave around her.
* PowerParasite: Her powers as the Control Devil allow her to force anyone she considers below her to do exactly what she wants, allowing her to utilize the abilities of most Devils by brainwashing them into a very one-sided [[DealWithTheDevil contract]] with her.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Thanks to her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister, any damage she takes from an attack, including being shot in the head, having her arm obliterated, and being chopped to pieces 26 times, is removed as if it never happened in return for a random Japanese citizen suffering a similar injury or death shortly thereafter.
* RippleEffectProofMemory: She's somehow the only one to still have memories of the various Devils the Chainsaw Man had RetGone out of existence. And even then, she admits she has a hard time remembering them.
* SatanicArchetype: A demonic being [[BeautyIsBad in the form of a beautiful woman]] who wishes for complete subjugation of the world, and to accomplish that, [[CompellingVoice controls people with her words]] and acts as a [[TheCorrupter figure of temptation]] towards Denji [[ManipulativeBastard for her own ends]]. To drive the point home, she has artwork of [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Paradise_Lost_12.jpg Lucifer falling]] from ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' in her house.
* SemanticSuperpower: She and the Prime Minister of Japan cut a deal where the wounds from any attacks on her are [[LiquidAssets transferred to a random Japanese citizen]]. However, [[LoopholeAbuse what qualifies as an "attack" is somewhat up for grabs]]. [[spoiler:Denji manages to kill her by [[EatingTheEnemy butchering Makima and then cooking and eating her body parts one piece at a time]], which he considers "becoming one with her" rather than killing her.]] Kishibe isn't sure if the contract fails to invoke due to it objectively not being an attack or merely [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve because the perpetrator doesn't believe its an attack]], but either way, it works.
* ShadowArchetype: To Pochita. Both are powerful and very feared Devils in similar positions of power that put the both of them on the same level on top of the food chain. But both also rather tragically yearned for friendship and love that ended up being impossible with their statuses and powers as terrifying Devils. However, Pochita managed to achieve his dreams of getting a hug from Denji, making him fiercely and unconditionally loyal to the boy. Makima meanwhile never received such love as Pochita did and coupled with being employed by the Japanese government to run Public Safety, turned into a sociopathic monster who can only force others to fulfill her dreams of companionship.
* SingleTargetSexuality: She only ever displays any sort of adoration towards one being: Chainsaw Man.
* SmokingIsNotCool: In chapter 96, she attempts to take a puff of a cigarette, only to cough and reveal that it's likely the first and only time she's tried it. It's one of the very few times we see her in a vulnerable state and it hints at her true GlassCannon nature right before [[spoiler:Denji strikes her down with a chainsaw that disrupts her HealingFactor.]]
* TheSociopath: She has little to no attachment to the people around her, seeing them only as tools to control and further her plans. In Chapter 89, she expresses fondness for humanity but only in the same way one has fondness for dogs. And not even in the way one would love their pet; she pinpoints their capacity for stupid loyalty and propensity for being easily manipulated as things she enjoys about them.
-->'''Makima''': And also...they love me.
* StoryBreakerPower: Her abilities as the Control Devil allow her to enthrall anyone she sees as her inferior, which includes all of humanity and most of devilkind. The latter allows her to create unlimited contracts at no cost to herself, giving her whatever additional powers she might need on top of an army of slavishly loyal minions.
* TautologicalTemplar: While she espouses high-minded altruistic goals, whatever she does with the Chainsaw Devil's powers will ultimately depend on her own subjective, immovable tastes. This is ultimately why Denji decides he has to defeat her.
-->'''Chainsaw Man''': Ms. Makima. In this ultra-awesome perfect world you're gonna make, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion will there still be crappy movies]]?\\
'''Makima''': ...Personally... I believe the world would be better if bad movies ceased to exist.\\
'''Chainsaw Man''': Hmmm...guess I gotta kill you after all then.
* TermsOfEndangerment: In the Japanese version, she calls Kobeni by the diminutive "Kobeni-chan" while explaining she plans to murder her for diverting the Chainsaw Devil's attention.
* ThisCannotBe: Downplayed. After [[spoiler:Denji]] successfully surprises and geviously wounds her in Chapter 96, the most that she can muster in response is barely coherent confusion.
* TranquilFury: She remains as emotionless as usual but it's very obvious that she's furious that the Chainsaw Man would care deeply about a nobody like Denji.
* TroubledAbuser: She eventually reveals herself as an abuser, both in a metaphorical and literal sense as her actions throughout the entire series work to manipulate and traumatize Denji. However, it's heavily implied that she herself was a victim at the hands of TheGovernment, [[spoiler:and to prevent another monster like her from being born, Denji is tasked with lovingly raising her reincarnation Nayuta.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery:
** Makima assumes if she fought Chainsaw Man, she’d have a 50-50 chance of defeating him. Chainsaw Man rips her to shreds before she could even react. Chapter 89 reveals that he managed to kill her 26 times altogether, with her only managing to best him after weakening him and forcing him to [[TakingTheBullet get hit by one of Angel's spears to protect Kobeni]].
** [[spoiler:Makima's defeat can entirely be attributed to underestimating Denji. She may have the power, but she certainly did not count on Denji ever being a threat to her and never bothered to remember his scent. This allowed Denji to sneak up on her and slice her open with a chainsaw made out of Power's blood to disrupt her healing factor, allowing him to finally defeat her once and for all.]]
* UndignifiedDeath: There's certainly nothing being very dignified about being [[spoiler:cut up into pieces and stored in ''[[CannibalLarder takeout boxes and tupperware]]'' in Denji's refrigerator.]]
* UnknownRival: Or unknown WorthyOpponent. She really wants the Chainsaw Devil to, if not join her after being defeated, at least acknowledge her as a genuine threat that he needs to consume and thus erase from existence. Instead, he barely even seems to notice her presence, and at best treats her as a nuisance who's interfering with his attempts to fulfill Denji's last wish of living a normal life. She's clearly frustrated in Chapter 89 that, after killing her ''26 times'', he still refuses to consume her and instead went back to his mock date with Kobeni.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Heavily implied. Pochita reveals that Makima just wanted to have a family of people she could consider her equals. Kishibe also posits that being under the employ of a government turned Makima into the sociopathic monster she was. [[spoiler:Her new incarnation as Nayuta]] shows that with a clean slate, she's pretty docile, friendly, and even receptive of others' kindness, if not a little creepy.
* VagueAge: She ''looks'' like she's in her mid-twenties and seems to imply to Kishibe while talking about her life with the government that she experienced childhood the same way humans do. [[spoiler: but the fact Nayuta, her reincarnation, looks like she's around ten just a few days after spawning might imply the Control Devil experiences RapidAgeing]].
* VictoryIsBoring:
** She looks displeased after getting the Chainsaw Man to [[TakingTheBullet take a bullet]] for Kobeni and seemingly lose their battle. Luckily, this is what allowed Chainsaw Man to avoid falling under her control long enough for Power to save him.
** She is both disappointed and impressed by how Denji managed to hold his own against the other Hybrids that she feeds him her blood and challenges him to a one-on-one fight so she can kill him herself.
* VillainessesWantHeroes: She's in love with the "Hero of Hell" Chainsaw Man and much of her motivation stems from showing herself off to him as his ultimate enemy. Interestingly, she seems to actually abhor the idea of Chainsaw Man being a hero, as her infatuation with him comes from what she perceives as him being "chaotic" and "extreme" and rants at Denji for dragging her beloved down with his inherent good and, most prominently, human nature.
* XanatosGambit: Makima plans to break Denji's contract with Pochita either ends with her having control of Pochita and his power to RetGone Devils to erase concepts like Death or Pochita eats Makima and releases humanity from the fear of control. Makima gets what she wants either way... until Denji TookAThirdOption and rather than lose to her or eat her as Chainsaw Man, [[spoiler:he eats her as his regular human self for a mundane dinner.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Makima wants to use Chainsaw Man's RetGone powers to erase humanity's biggest fears from existence and turn Earth into a utopia without things like hunger, war or death.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Quite literally, as Denji observes her, in a rare moment of vulnerability, actually ''crying'' in the movie theater during an emotional scene of two characters hugging. [[spoiler:Because as Pochita notes in the last chapter of Part 1, all she really wanted was genuine affection from another person who she saw as an equal, but both her upbringing and her existence as the Control Devil made that impossible.]]
* {{Yandere}}: All the deaths, destruction, and misery she causes are all for the Chainsaw Man to notice her and see her as a WorthyOpponent. It only gets worse and more blatant once she realizes the degree to which the Chainsaw Man cares for Denji, sending her into a TranquilFury as she curb-stomps Denji and [[AndShowItToYou rips Pochita out of his chest]] for ''daring'' to get between them.
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!!Nayuta / Control Devil
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The next incarnation of the Control Devil who Kishibe found in China after Makima's death. She retains none of her previous self's memories, but as her powers could easily send her down the path to becoming a second Makima if she ended up in the wrong hands, Kishibe dumps her on Denji, appointing him as her guardian.
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* AntiAntiChrist: Denji's [[RaiseHimRightThisTime prospective goal]] is to raise Nayuta into a genuinely good person instead of a sociopathic conqueror.
* CreepyChild: One of the first things she does is point at Denji and call him a "doggy", in a way that ''clearly'' reminds Denji a little ''too'' much of her past self.
* DeathOfPersonality: Nayuta has no memory of her past life as Makima and while she retains some of her mannerisms, she's ultimately a completely different person.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Nayuta has MessyHair compared to Makima's more well groomed and braided hairstyle, signifying how this reincarnation of the Control Devil has yet to realize her power.
* GooGooGodlike: She possesses the same incredibly potent CompellingVoice ability Makima did, but doesn't appear to be aware of her powers.
* HeelFaceReincarnation: The sociopathic and manipulative Makima is reincarnated into the creepy but otherwise innocent Nayuta.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Introduced in chapter 97, the last chapter of the Public Safety Saga.
* ManBitesMan: We are first introduced to her when Denji tries to shoo her away from his talk with Kishibe, only for her to turn around and playfully bite his finger.
* RapidAging: Implied. Despite having spawned very recently, Nayuta already looks like a ten-year old girl; possibly hinting that the Control Devil reaches adulthood far faster then human children do.
* RaiseHimRightThisTime: Pochita notes that Makima turned out the way she did out of a desire to build relationships with people, but only thought she could do so through fear. Kishibe notes that if the government found her they could very well turn her into another Makima. The two of them decide to entrust Nayuta, the new Control Devil, to Denji so that he could show her a real loving relationship.
* RedemptionDemotion: The Control Devil's powers require her to fully believe someone or something is below her to control them. But since Kisibe leaves Nayuta with Denji to ensure that she will grow to consider the majority of humans and Devils as equals, she will never be able to exert the level of power Makima possessed.
* ReincarnationIdentifyingTrait: Makima once bit Denji's finger while telling him to remember the way she did it. Nayuta biting him the same way, along with her eyes, makes him immediately realized she's Makima's reincarnation.
* SharedFamilyQuirks:
** She's adopted by Denji and not even five minutes into meeting each other, she seems to have taken up Denji's tendency to raise a peace sign as a silent response.
** She's also shown to not be a picky eater, asking for nothing more than sliced bread for dinner much like how Denji was excited for a similar meal at the start of the series.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Like Makima, the golden concentric circles surrounding her pupils are what indicate that the otherwise human looking Nayuta is in fact a Devil.
* TookALevelInKindness: As Makima's reincarnation, she has none of her past self's memories. Though something of a CreepyChild, she bonds to Denji quickly, and they finish the final chapter hugging each other in their sleep.
* {{Transplant}}: Her name, physical appearance, and role (a CreepyChild born to apocalyptic power held back from carrying out their destiny only by their love for their adoptive older brother) are all derived from the title character of Fujimoto's past one-shot ''Manga/NayutaOfTheProphecy''.
* WalkingSpoiler: Her entire existence is owed to Denji finally killing Makima after the reveal of her being the Control Devil and the main antagonist of Part 1.
* YouAreNotAlone: Denji adopts her to always assure her of it, as Makima was never able to experience this and became what she was.
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