History Characters / ChainsawManOtherCharacters

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Insultingly calls the androgynous Nail Fiend the "''Kama'' Devil" ("Girly-Boy Devil" in English), a generally very-offensive term to use for gay or effeminate men.

* HeartDrive: The devil they make a contract with becomes embedded in their body, which is also the part any severed limbs reform around or regenerate from. A small piece sticks out and is used to activate their transformation. Pochita became Denji's heart. The other locations are unspecified, though Bomb and Crossbow both regenerate from a head, implying that's their location. Curiously, Katana states (with some uncertainty) that his heart is a core like Denji's, but his trigger is removing his hand and he recovered from an attack that should have sliced his heart in half.

* HealingFactor: After consuming a piece of the Darkness Devil's flesh, she can regenerate from nearly any wound as long as she's in darkness, much like Denji can as long as he consumes blood. Denji gets around this by lighting himself, and then her, [[KillItWithFire completely on fire]].

* EnemyMine: Samurai Sword's only definite loyalty is to [[ArchEnemy his grudge against Denji]], and as long as he ends up on the opposite side of Chainsaw Man he'll cheerfully work with anyone.

* CurbStompCushion: Katana Man handedly got the jump on Division 4, but it wasn't a one-sided affair: Aki actually managed to kill him, and the Ghost Devil was about to make quick work of him as well. The only reason Himeno didn't kill him outright with the Ghost Devil [[spoiler:was because Sawatari killed her first.]]

* UncertainDoom:
** [[spoiler:After he's initially defeated by Denji and left alive but in Public Safety Division Custody in Chapter 38, he isn't seen again until Chapter 86 as one of Makima's thralls. Considering her other most prominent servants in that chapter are the ''very much dead'' Reze and Quanxi, it's unknown whether he was still alive when Makima took over his mind, but knowing Makima, [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness probably not.]]]]
** [[spoiler:Like Quanxi, Katana Man is defeated twice, but as a functionally-immortal hybrid, he's back for more after getting whipped by Pochita.]]

* NotQuiteDead: While they can be killed, there's a small window of time after they've been slain where they can be revived through specific means, even if they'd just been a victim of certain kill attacks by the likes of the Curse Devil.

* SuperStrength: Even excluding their weapons, hybrids are supernaturally strong in Devil form. Denji is able to throw a car and physically overpower [[{{Kaiju}} the Cockroach Devil]], Bomb Girl can block a kick with enough force behind it to crush solid concrete, and Spear Man can (with help from [[TheDreaded the Control Devil]]) throw his spears with enough force to launch [[spoiler: Pochita's true form]] into ''space''. Crossbow Woman displays similar levels of strength even in human form, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower but that doesn't seem to involve any devil power]].

* MultiformBalance: In her human form she is a proficient melee fighter and extremely skilled in both hand-to-hand and bladed combat. However, missing an eye likely messes with her depth perception, thus meaning she can't use any ranged weaponry. That being said, when she switches into her Hybrid form, she excels at ranged combat but can't fight up close and personal anymore due to her hands morphing into crossbows.

* MonsterProgenitor: Santa Claus refers to Quanxi as "the first Hunter", possibly making her the first human to merge with a Devil.

* TheAgeless: Within the nine years showcased in the omake about her and Kishibe's history, Quanxi doesn't visibly age, and looks just about the same in the present where Kishibe himself has become an old man. [[spoiler:It's implied that she stopped aging after becoming becoming a functionally immortal Hybrid]].

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Quanxi reappears in Chapter 143, her first appearance since the end of Part 1, by slicing up the Chainsaw Man Church's hybrids with ease.]]

* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Quanxi is decapitated by Darkness, and seemingly killed. Tsugihagi revives her by drawing the arrow stored beneath her eyepatch, activating her Devil form.]]

* DarkActionGirl: One of the series' most prominent villainous badasses, combining her speed and skill to take out opponents without them even noticing. [[spoiler:And that's not even counting what she does in her Devil form.]]

* EyepatchOfPower: She wears an eyepatch, further marking her as an experienced fighter. [[spoiler:It's actually the means of activating her Devil form, concealing an arrow embedded in the socket.]]

* FeelNoPain: Gets her arms sliced off by the Darkness Devil? Her expression barely changes. Breaks her legs and lands on ''her crotch'' after falling from a great height? Her expression doesn't change.

** To Santa Claus. Both are the most infamous assassins sent after Denji, with Kishibe most afraid of Quanxi while Makima is more worried about Santa Claus. Quanxi is the WorldsStrongestWoman and relies on her inhuman physical prowess to go after her target, while Santa Claus lurks in the shadows, uses proxies to attack and [[TheChessmaster lays out intricate plans]] to achieve victory. Quanxi is accompanied by her four girlfriends whom she loves, only accepted the contract on Denji so they could be granted human rights and a basic education, and is willing to sacrifice her life for theirs. Santa Claus is only motivated by self-interest and [[spoiler:only pretended to love her apprentice, Tolka, raising him since childhood for the sole purpose of turning him into a [[EmptyShell Perfect Doll]]]]. Quanxi firmly believes the secret to living a happy life is by accepting IgnoranceIsBliss, while Santa Claus's goal is to learn everything she can. [[spoiler:Both end up suffering ironic fates reflecting their opposing desires. Quanxi is last seen with her memories erased and happily brainwashed into servitude by Makima, while Santa Claus is driven irreversibly insane by the Cosmos Fiend [[MySkullRunnethOver pouring all knowledge of the cosmos into her brain.]]]]

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Quanxi and her harem of fiends spend a good portion of the manga naked and in the throes of passion with one another, to the point where VIZ Media needed to add an age rating to one particular chapter starring them. Said chapter contains a ''full SplashPage'' dedicated to Quanxi and her girlfriends in the middle of a particularly steamy sex session, so the warning is pretty warranted.

* {{Irony}}: She's a fantastic hand-to-hand martial artist, but her [[spoiler:Devil form is chiefly focused on far-off projectile attacks.]]

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's not clear if Quanxi's ridiculous speed and strength come from a Contract ([[spoiler:specifically her fusion with the Crossbow Devil]]) or it's just pure CharlesAtlasSuperpower. On the one hand, Yoshida does say her "strength isn't human", which she doesn't dispute. On the other, he and Kishibe weren't ''immediately'' overwhelmed, and [[spoiler:none of the other Weapon Humans have superhuman ability without transforming, not even Denji]]. [[spoiler:Having fought in her prime for much longer than a regular human could, Quanxi may have learned to either [[WrongContextMagic use her powers in ways the others haven't]] or else surpass human limits without directly using a devil's power.]]
* MonsterProgenitor: [[spoiler:Santa Claus refers to Quanxi as the first Hunter, possibly making her the first human to merge with a Devil.]]

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:As a hybrid, Quanxi is immortal and has shown no signs of age since she first partnered with Kishibe, who is noted to be 50 years old by present day. She is known as the "first Devil Hunter", which if taken literally means that she has been around for quite a long time, which may also explain how she fused with a devil of such an antiquated weapon like the crossbow.]]
* OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler:Activating Quanxi's Devil powers requires shoving a hand ''wrist-deep'' into her eye socket to pull an arrow out.]]

* RainOfArrows: [[spoiler:Her Devil form unleashes a hail of arrows, too fast to perceive before they tear holes in anything unfortunate enough to be her target.]]

* TheStraightAndArrowPath: [[spoiler:Quanxi's Devil Form is the Crossbow, representing one of the humanity's oldest weapons]].

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the English version of the manga, he refers to the [[AmbiguousGender Nail Fiend]] as a "girly-boy," which is... already not great, but in the original Japanese the term he uses for them is more blatantly homophobic.

* ClosetGeek: In Part 2, [[spoiler:Katana Man turns out to be a closet fan of Asa's poetry, though he vehemently denies it.]]

* ArchEnemy: He sees Denji as his greatest foe, never giving up his grudge against him for killing his grandfather and stating in Part 2 that his desire to kill Denji is what keeps him alive. [[spoiler:His hatred for Denji is [[ThePowerOfHate such an overwhelming motive]] that he will ''immediately'' [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor switch sides]] to join whoever can most expediently point him at Chainsaw Man.]]

* ArchEnemy: He sees Denji as his greatest foe, never giving up his grudge against him for killing his grandfather and stating in Part 2 that his desire to kill Denji is what keeps him alive.

* EnemyMine:

* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler:He has a genuine point when he calls out the young members of the Chainsaw Man Church for being easily manipulated and being responsible for the Pseud-Chainsaw Man attacks. Unfortunately, he only brings it up while mindlessly parroting his grandfather and his hatred of all religion, undermining his own point.]]

* RedOniBlueOni: The impulsive, fiery, emotional Red to Sawatari's calm, quiet, stoic Blue.

* DisabilityNegatingSuperpower: Merging with their devil and regenerating brings them to full health. Denji's contract with Pochita regrew an eye, a kidney, and a testicle, and possibility cured a congenital heart disease. Crossbow Woman is still missing an eye, but that's where her devil part sticks out (and it's not clear if the wound existed before she made her contract).

* PayEvilUntoEvil: After Denji beats him and ties him up, awaiting a pickup with Aki, he and Denji collectively agree to a 'contest' where both of them pass the time infecting multiple [[GroinAttack crotch kicks]] on him to see who can make him [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl cry the loudest]]. Given his MoralMyopia towards Denji and the fact that his partner was responsible for [[spoiler:Himeno's death]], even the stoic Aki is [[NotSoAboveItAll happy to make him suffer a little]], despite his professionalism.

* BreakoutVillain: Initially TheDragon and TheHeavy for the Katana Man arc, Samurai Sword comes BackFromTheDead twice -- once under Makima's control, and later in Part 2 where he eventually gets a decent amount of characterization for a returning major Part 1 character. As the final opponent faced in Season 1 of the anime, he's fairly heavily marketed as a TokenMotivationalNemesis to Denji.

* HumanDemonHybrid: Samurai Sword was originally a human who became a Devil-human hybrid by merging with the Katana Devil.

* MoralMyopia: He has a grudge against Denji because [[YouKilledMyFather Denji killed his friends and grandpa]]... except said friends and grandpa were {{Yakuza}} who exploited Denji for years, and then got turned into zombies through their own stupidity. They were all already mindless, rotting husks when Denji "killed" them. He then tries to guilt trip Denji over the fact he doesn't feel anything about killing them... again despite all of them being abusive assholes to Denji. And having already become mindless zombies. And him having killed one of his own very much still alive underlings who was being used by Denji as a HumanShield earlier. [[spoiler:Part 2 shows that he ''still'' has a grudge against Chainsaw Man after being freed from Makima, believing that there's "no justice" with him around.]]

* EnemyMine: While he may have been coerced in to [[spoiler:attacking the Chainsaw Man Church under Public Safety's order]], he also seems happy to [[spoiler:kill Chainsaw Man's followers]].

* NerdInEvilsHelmet: Though truly and unrepentantly vile, beneath his intimidating hybrid visage is an ordinary and unpleasant-looking goon. Even the way he transforms with a dinky knife where his hand used to be is less impressive than how the other hybrids do it.

** He assumes his minions having firearms means Public Safety aren't a threat. Then Makima reveals her survival by making his underlings ''explode'' and Kobeni--one of the only humans their ambush failed to shoot--beats him with just a knife. For extra irony, she takes his gun and shoots him with it.

* {{Yakuza}}: Like his grandpa, he's a member of the Yakuza, leading his own faction to take down Denji and Division 4.

* TurnCoat: [[spoiler:By Part 2, he had joined Public Safety under the promise of his gang becoming state-sponsored, but ends up abandonning them for Yoru and Fami so he can fight Chainsaw Man.]]

* NoNameGiven: In spite of having a personal connection to Denji, his name is not revealed. Kishibe once calls him "Samurai Sword", which is used in all official sources, but fans tend to call him "Katana Man" in keeping with Chainsaw Man's SomethingPerson naming convention and the naming convention of the other hybrids in Part 2. [[spoiler:He is referred to as "Katana" by Public Safety when he returns in Part 2, implicitly confirming that "Katana Man" exists for him as an in-universe name.]]

* MultiformBalance: In her human form she is a proficient melee fighter and extremely skilled in both hand-to-hand and bladed combat. However, missing eye likely messes with her depth perception, thus meaning she can't use any ranged weaponry. That being said, when she switches into her Hybrid form, she excels at ranged combat but can't fight up close and personal anymore due to her hands morphing into crossbows.

* NinetiesAntiHero: He clearly ''[[WrongGenreSavvy thinks]]'' he's one, but he's actually a DeconstructiveParody. He has the [[BadassLongcoat attire]], the [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge motivation]], the [[SkullForAHead sinister appearance]], and the [[KatanasAreJustBetter weaponry]], but he's presented as not only an outright villain, but a unlikeable, moronic loser with no redeeming qualities.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Deconstructed. His entire beef with Denji is due to Denji killing his grandfather. However his love for his grandpa blinds him to the fact his grandfather was a murderous gangster who exploited an orphaned child for years, and even sold a number of that child's organs. To say nothing of the fact the Zombie Devil had already killed the man, with Denji simply chopping up his zombified corpse. This further leads Katana Man to flimsily justify his crimes, understate the severity of them, and generally just become even more evil out of "love".

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: If Katana Man is a deconstruction of the NinetiesAntiHero, then Sawatari can be read as a play on the MysteriousWaif character that shows up in the stories where someone like Katana Man is the main "hero", a character who regularly sticks around as the deuteragonist, provides support to the protagonist via advice on their powers or even be the reason why they have the powers to begin with (as implied with Sawatari possibly being responsible for Katana Man merging with the Katana Devil). However [[spoiler:Sawatari is implied to actually be under orders from Makima to manipulate Katana Man into a FalseFlagOperation to purge Division 4 of its members, making the premise of a FriendlyNeighborhoodGangster gaining superpowers from a mysterious aloof girl to get revenge for his "kindly" grandfather all just a means to an end rather than the beginning of an epic action manga]]. This in turn makes her something of a {{Foil}} to Makima, who plays this role (mostly) straight for the story of ''Chainsaw Man''.

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:While all of the other Weapons have reappeared in Part 2, Reze is the only one still unaccounted for.]]