From the seemingly benign Grape Devil to the infinitely terrifying Gun Devil, Denji and the Devil Hunters have their hands full with foes of all shapes and sizes. But in a world where so many people fear so many different things, there’s always room for more hellish incarnations. Here’s 10 Devils we would have loved to see roaming the Chainsaw Man universe.
Insanity Devil
If you’ve ever had that unsettling feeling of waking up in the middle of the night, still straddling that line between dream world and reality, and had to get up and walk around or take a second to get your bearings, you know full well the fear tethered to slipping out of sanity.
The fear of losing one’s mind, often referred to as dementophobia, is bedded in the fear of losing control; being reduced to a rudderless boat on full throttle fueled only by a cocktail of base instinct and a tapestry of neurons firing in all the wrong directions.
We can only imagine what the Insanity Devil might have looked like in the Chainsaw Man universe, but we’re almost glad we don’t have to confront the embodiment of the very primal fear of losing what separates us from, well, the primal.
Claustrophobia Devil
People that opt for the stairs over cramming themselves inside a stuffy elevator know all too well the fear that would feed the Claustrophobia Devil. With about 12.5% of the population avoiding confined spaces in response to the fear, the demonic embodiment would almost certainly pose as a formidable foe.
Even if you don’t technically suffer from the phobia itself, it’s easy to imagine the terror that this Devil would wreak on people; distorting their reality by making them think they’re in a tiny room where the walls are creeping inward, trapping victims in coffins, or sending poor souls on an infinite elevator ride of pure anxiety.
Gravity Devil
Who hasn’t come to a ledge, looked down at the ground below and felt that stomach-dropping, cold-sweat inducing fear of plummeting to the bottom? It is an almost biologically hardwired response to have in the face of gravity and its unforgiving consequences.
The Gravity Devil would most assuredly feed off a mix of barophobia (fear of gravity) and acrophobia (fear of heights), towering high into the sky like a demonic watchtower, snatching its victims from their terrestrial comforts and dropping them to their demise, soaking in their panic as it does so.
This terrifying Devil would also undoubtedly have the ability to manipulate gravity itself, propelling its victims into perpetual weightlessness for fun, or increasing the forces pushing down on them until they flatten like a pancake and flipping the remains into its mouth like a horrifying breakfast flapjack.
Clown Devil
Somewhere along the way, clowns stopped being light-hearted spectacles of amusement and started being the stuff of nightmares. If the number of killer-clown movies isn’t enough indication of peoples’ fear of the makeup-drenched cretins, a literal serial killer (John Wayne Gacy) found the persona as a fitting profession. Need we say any more?
Fear of clowns, or coulrophobia, would have made for possibly one of the strongest Devils in the Chainsaw Man canon. If you’re not outright terrified of them, they at least make you uneasy, and that kernel alone is enough for a demon feeding on fear to exploit.
When it comes to imagining what the Clown Devil might look like, visions of IT’s Pennywise crossbred with the Joker spring to mind; a quippy, hyper-intelligent savage with a bloodlust for killing humans with giant circus hammer and filling a circus arena with their corpses.