The Gun Satan embodies humanity’s worry of weapons, a worry that grew as weapons turned extra frequent. Initially, weapons have been seen as a useful means to counter the specter of devils.
As using firearms elevated, so did the variety of gun-related crimes, making a rising worry of weapons.
This worry reached a peak after a large-scale terrorist assault in America involving using weapons, resulting in widespread panic.
It was on today, 13 years earlier than the occasions of the manga, that the Gun Satan appeared.
After I first began studying Chainsaw Man, I envisioned the Gun Satan as the ultimate antagonist—a formidable foe that Denji must overcome by the top of the sequence. It turned out to be a pink herring, although.
Spoiler warning! If you have not learn the manga but, you higher go learn it now!
As Makima reveals in Chainsaw Man chapter 73, the Gun Satan was already defeated earlier than the present occasions of the manga.
The satan’s stays have been divided amongst a number of international locations: the US owned 20%, the Soviet Union 28%, China 11%, and different international locations collectively owned 4%.
The remaining 37 % of the Gun Satan’s physique was within the palms of different devils, who both ate a part of it or merged with it.
This raises a query…
Who has defeated the Gun Satan prior to now?
Sadly, the manga would not give a transparent reply. We do not even get a exact timeline for when the Gun Satan was defeated.
In line with Makima, it was the Soviets who encountered the satan in a defeated and unconscious state. We have no idea how way back the satan was defeated.
However primarily based on different hints Makima gave, we are able to make an informed guess.
It was the Chainsaw Man:
Probably the most believable principle is that it was the Chainsaw Satan (or the Chainsaw Man, for those who can say so) who defeated the Weapon Satan the primary time.
In Chapter 87 of Chainsaw Man, Makima tells Chainsaw Man that he fought the Weapon Demon and the 4 Horsemen prior to now.
Apparently, the Chainsaw Satan was overpowered by them and disappeared on the top of the battle.
Makima and the others looked for the Chainsaw Man, however they could not discover him. He was dwelling in a state that was about to die.
Makima doesn’t explicitly affirm or deny the Gun Satan’s presence on this battle, however there are delicate clues within the manga that counsel he’s concerned.
The primary clue is kind of easy: the Gun Satan is, in spite of everything, a Weapon Satan.
The second element is extra visible in nature.
The second clue is extra visible. Within the very first chapter, when Pochita (the weakened type of the Chainsaw Satan) first seems, he’s bleeding from what seems to be a gunshot wound.
This damage may very properly have been a results of the battle Makima mentions, indicating that the Gun Satan was certainly current throughout this battle.
That is what it may need regarded like from my head:
Given the unbelievable pace of the Gun Satan and the Chainsaw Satan, their battle may have spanned a number of international locations, together with the US, China, and others.
The Chainsaw Satan possible defeated the Gun Satan someplace within the Soviet Union and left him to die, however not earlier than struggling a gunshot wound himself.
Because the battle with different Weapon Devils continued and finally reached Japan, the Soviets have been in a position to uncover the defeated Weapon Satan and safe its stays.
This could clarify how numerous nations got here to own elements of the Gun Satan’s physique. The Chainsaw Man would have chopped it up throughout the struggle, leaving items behind.
It is very important notice, nonetheless, that that is merely hypothesis primarily based on my understanding of the Chainsaw Man manga. Precise occasions might differ.
Gun Satan’s second look and battle with Makima:
Now let us take a look at the looks of the Gun Satan within the manga. This was the second look of the satan within the Chainsaw Man universe.
The Gun Satan this time seems on September 12, 1997, after making a contract with the President of the US to kill Makima, the Management Satan.
This time, nonetheless, it isn’t the complete Gun Satan, solely the 20% that was underneath American management seems. Regardless of being solely a fraction, this a part of the Gun Satan is clever sufficient to make a contract and launch an assault.
5 seconds after showing off the coast of Akita Prefecture, Japan, the Gun Satan fires a bullet into Makima’s head, killing her. This was her twenty ninth recorded demise.
Nevertheless, she comes again to life, the satanand all due to her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister.
However a very powerful query that must be answered is: has Makima managed to take out the Gun Satan for good this time?
Did Makima kill the Gun Satan this time?
No, Makima would not kill the Gun Satan outright; she merely defeats him after which leaves him weak.
Utilizing contracts with Yutaro Kurose, Michiko Tendo, Akane Sawatari’s Snake Satan, and Aki’s Future Satan, she summons the Punishment Satan.
After activating her skills, Makima assaults the Gun Satan, weakening it considerably however not killing it.
As an alternative, she reduces it to a state the place it has no selection however to own a lifeless human to outlive, resulting in Aki changing into the Gun Fiend.
Should you’re not sure whether or not Aki is a satan or a hybrid, Chapter 76 clarifies this by itemizing Aki Hayakawa’s title among the many casualties brought on by the Gun Satan.
Additionally, if Makima makes use of the Future Satan’s powers, it was via the ante-mortem contract Aki made with it. Ante-mortem…that means it was executed earlier than his lifeless!
The quick reply is that Makima didn’t kill the Gun Satan, or the a part of it that appeared in Japan. She defeated him and allowed him to take over Aki Hayakawa’s physique.
Aki, now the Gun Fiend, was finally killed by Denji. Emotional injury is the consequence. Nevertheless, this doesn’t imply the top of the Gun Satan. As talked about earlier, solely 20% of the Gun Satan was concerned on this battle.
What precisely is the standing of the opposite elements?
Nicely, partly 2 of Chainsaw Man we reached a conclusion in regards to the Soviets’ Gun Satan.
Became a weapon by Yoru:
Chainsaw Man half 2 has lots to supply. However the most effective elements was the Gun Satan reappearing within the manga.
In contrast to his earlier look, the Gun Satan was not summoned by a contract with a human. As an alternative, he was summoned and remodeled by Yoru, the Conflict Satan, into considered one of her highly effective weapons.
Curiously, Fujimoto solely confirmed the elements of Gun Satan that have been on the territory of the Soviet Union, to be exact Mount Elbrus, with a purpose to use them as a weapon.
The one with China seems to be unhurt.
The identical goes for the elements of the Gun Satan that have been eaten by different devils. So far as we all know, it nonetheless exists.
Is the Gun Satan lifeless and gone?
On this planet of Chainsaw Man, a satan’s demise isn’t everlasting.
Devils are consistently transferring between life and demise, each in Hell and on Earth. Even when the Gun Satan have been “lifeless”, he would finally return to Earth if he have been killed in Hell.
Now that Yoru has turned the Gun Satan right into a weapon, a number of questions come up. There are two doable outcomes.
First, the Gun Satan could also be gone for good. Not within the sense that he dies and is reincarnated in Hell, however slightly within the sense that he has been completely transformed right into a weapon.
This might clarify the intense guilt Yoru felt when he summoned each the Gun Satan and the Tank Satan in Chapter 176.
Turning one thing right into a weapon is completely different from merely killing it; the being continues to exist, however in an unconscious kind, purely as a weapon of destruction in Yoru’s arms.
The second chance is that the Gun Satan nonetheless has an opportunity to return. We all know that elements of it nonetheless exist with different lands and devils, and these elements may doubtlessly regain their consciousness.
Thus, Energy continued to exist in some kind inside Denji by permitting him to drink her blood even after she was killed by Makima.
And by consuming a bit of Pochita, the Blood Satan might be utterly resurrected.
And if a powerful sufficient contract have been made, would the Gun Satan have the ability to resurrect in its acutely aware kind even when Yoru’s weapon have been destroyed?
In conclusion, the Gun Satan as we all know it is probably not gone completely. It might resurface, embodying the idea of a “Chekov’s gun” in Fujimoto’s story.
What do you consider the Gun Satan and his destiny in Chainsaw Man? Do you assume he is lifeless? Will he make one other look sooner or later? Let me know what you assume within the feedback under!
