The Gun Satan embodies humanity’s concern of weapons, a concern that grew as weapons grew to become extra prevalent. Initially, weapons have been seen as a good means to counter the risk posed by devils.

Nonetheless, as the usage of firearms elevated, so did gun-related crimes, resulting in a surge in concern surrounding weapons.

This concern reached a peak following a large-scale terrorist assault in America involving weapons, inflicting widespread panic.

It was on today, 13 years earlier than the occasions of the manga, that the Gun Satan materialized.

After I first began studying Chainsaw Man, I imagined the Gun Satan as the ultimate antagonist—a formidable foe that Denji must overcome by the collection’ finish. Nonetheless, seems that it was all a pink herring.

Spoiler Alert! In the event you haven’t caught up with the manga, you would possibly wish to flip again now!

As revealed by Makima in Chainsaw Man chapter 73, the Gun Satan had already been defeated earlier than the present occasions of the manga.

The satan’s stays have been divided amongst varied international locations: the USA possessed 20%, the Soviets 28%, China 11%, and different international locations held a mixed 4%.

The remaining 37 p.c of the Gun Satan’s physique was within the palms of different devils, who both consumed or fused with part of it.

This brings forth a query…

Who defeated the Gun Satan prior to now?

Sadly the manga doesn’t present a transparent reply. We aren’t even given a exact timeline for when the Gun Satan was defeated.

Based on Makima, it was the Soviets who chanced upon the satan in a defeated and unconscious state. We don’t understand how way back the satan was defeated.

Nonetheless, primarily based on different hints dropped by Makima, we are able to make a calculated guess.

It was the Chainsaw Man:

Probably the most believable concept is that it was the Chainsaw Satan (or the Chainsaw Man for those who could) at its full energy, who defeated the Gun Satan the primary time round.

In Chainsaw Man chapter 87, Makima tells Chainsaw Man that he as soon as fought towards the weapons satan and the 4 horsemen prior to now.

The Chainsaw Satan was apparently overpowered by them and he vanished on the peak of the battle.

Although Makima and the others looked for the Chainsaw Man, they couldn’t discover him, as a result of he was residing in a close to demise kind.

Makima doesn’t explicitly affirm or deny the Gun Satan’s presence on this battle, however there are refined clues within the manga that counsel its involvement.

The primary clue is sort of easy—the Gun Satan is, in spite of everything, a Weapon Satan.

Now, 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 harm might very nicely be a results of the battle that Makima mentions, indicating that the Gun Satan was certainly current throughout this battle.

Off the highest of my head, right here’s how issues might have performed out.

Given the Gun Satan and Chainsaw Satan’s unimaginable velocity, their battle might have spanned a number of international locations, together with the USA, China, and others.

The Chainsaw Satan might need defeated the Gun Satan someplace within the Soviet Union, leaving it to die however not earlier than sustaining a gunshot harm.

Whereas the battle with different weapons devils continued, finally reaching Japan, the Soviets might have found the defeated Gun Satan and secured its stays.

This could clarify how completely different nations ended up possessing elements of the Gun Satan’s physique. The Chainsaw Man might need chopped it up in the course of the combat, leaving items behind.

Nonetheless, it’s essential to notice that that is merely hypothesis primarily based on my understanding of the Chainsaw Man manga. The precise occasions could differ.

Gun Satan’s second look & combat with Makima:

Now let’s get into the Gun Satan’s look within the manga. This was the second look of the satan within the Chainsaw Man universe.

The Gun Satan seems this time on September twelfth, 1997, after making a contract with the USA president to kill Makima, the management satan.

Nonetheless, this time it isn’t the whole lot of the Gun Satan—solely the 20% that was below U.S. management seems. Regardless of being solely a fraction, this portion of the Gun Satan is sentient sufficient to kind a contract and launch an assault.

5 seconds after it appeared off the coast in Akita Prefecture, Japan, the Gun Satan fires a bullet at Makima’s head, and kills her. This was her twenty ninth recorded demise.

Nonetheless, she comes again to life once more, the satan, all due to her contract with the Japanese Prime Minister.

However the essential query that begs to be answered is that this, did Makima do away with the Gun Satan for good this time?

Did Makima kill the Gun Satan this time?

No, Makima doesn’t kill the Gun Satan outright; she solely defeats it and leaves it in a susceptible state.

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, severely weakening it 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, leading to Aki turning into the Gun Fiend.

In the event you’re uncertain whether or not Aki is a fiend or a hybrid, chapter 76 clarifies this by itemizing Aki Hayakawa’s title among the many casualties attributable to the Gun Satan.

Additionally, when Makima makes use of the Future Satan’s powers, it was through the ante-mortem contract that Aki had made with it. Ante-mortem…that means it was carried out earlier than his demise!

Principally, the quick reply is that Makima didn’t kill the Gun Satan, or the a part of it that made an look in Japan. She defeated it and enabled it to take over Aki Hayakawa’s physique.

Aki- who was now the Gun Fiend, was finally killed by Denji. Emotional injury proper there. Nonetheless, this doesn’t mark the top of the Gun Satan. As beforehand talked about, solely 20% of the Gun Satan was concerned on this battle.

So, what precisely is the standing of the opposite elements?

Properly, come Chainsaw Man half 2, we now have some conclusion relating to the Soviets’ Gun Satan.

Changed into a weapon by Yoru:

Chainsaw Man half 2 has so much occurring. However, top-of-the-line elements was that the Gun Satan made an look once more within the manga.

Not like its earlier look, the Gun Satan was not summoned by a contract with a human. As an alternative, it was summoned and reworked by Yoru, the Battle Satan, into one among her highly effective weapons.

Curiously, Fujimoto solely confirmed the elements of Gun Satan that was on Soviet Union territory, Mount Elbrus to be precise, to show right into a weapon.

The one that’s with China nonetheless appears to be unhurt.

The identical goes for the elements of the Gun Satan that was consumed by different devils. For all we all know, it’s nonetheless current on the market.

Is the Gun Satan lifeless and gone?

On the planet of Chainsaw Man, a satan’s demise isn’t everlasting.

Devils constantly cycle between life and demise, each in Hell and on Earth. Even when the Gun Satan have been “lifeless,” it could finally return to Earth if it have been killed in Hell.

Nonetheless, now that Yoru has turned the Gun Satan right into a weapon, a number of questions come up; and two doable outcomes come to thoughts.

The primary is that the Gun Satan could be gone for good, not within the sense of dying and reincarnating in Hell, however moderately in that it has been completely transformed right into a weapon.

This might clarify the acute guilt Yoru felt when summoning each the Gun and Tank Devils in chapter 176.

Reworking one thing right into a weapon differs from merely killing it; the entity continues to exist however in a non-sentient kind, purely as a weapon of destruction in Yoru’s arms.

The second chance is that the Gun Satan would possibly nonetheless have an opportunity to return. We all know elements of it nonetheless exist with different international locations and devils, and these elements might doubtlessly regain sentience.

For instance, Energy continued to exist in some kind inside Denji by making him drink her blood, even after being killed by Makima.

And by consuming a bit of Pochita, the Blood Satan was in a position to resurrect fully.

Equally, if a powerful sufficient contract have been made, would the Gun Satan might doubtlessly resurrect in its sentient kind, even when Yoru’s weapon have been to be destroyed?

In conclusion, the Gun Satan, as we all know it, is probably not totally gone. It might nonetheless make one other look, embodying the idea of a “Chekov’s gun” in Fujimoto’s narrative.

What are your ideas on the Gun Satan and its destiny in Chainsaw Man? Do you suppose it’s lifeless? Will it make an look once more sooner or later? Let me know what you suppose within the feedback under!