Makima

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Makima (マキマ) is a Public Safety Devil Hunter, who took Denji as her human pet. She is later revealed to be the Control Devil (の) which embodies the fear of control. She serves as the overall main antagonist of the Public Safety Saga.

Appearance
Makima is a beautiful woman who appears to be in her mid-twenties. Her hair colour is a light red, normally kept in a loose braid with bangs reaching just past her eyebrows and two longer side bangs that frame her face. Her eyes are yellow with multiple red rings within them.

Personality
Makima is extremely cunning and manipulative. She controls Denji through the promise of a romantic and sexual relationship while also threatening him with extermination if he disobeys her. Ruthless and normally emotionless, she will do whatever it takes to reach her goals, even at the cost of the people she should be protecting.

Makima is an extreme fan of chainsaw man, the "Hero of Hell". Fascinated by its ability to wipe out the embodied concept of a devil through consuming them, her stated goal is to bring Chainsaw Man under her control in order to use its abilities to create an ideal world without fear, death, and “bad” movies. However, failure is also acceptable, as it would mean being eaten—an honor according to her.

Makima's true goal, however, was to be together forever with Pochita and lead a happy life with him. She always yearned for something like a family, being incapable of forming equal and meaningful relationships as the control devil.

Physical Abilities
Immense Strength: Makima possesses a great deal of physical strength allowing her to fight effectively in hand-to-hand combat without relying on any of her subordinates. Her strength was great enough to overwhelm Pochita and shatter his chainsaws with her strikes.

Enhanced Smell: According to Denji, Makima primarily differentiates others through smell. In their first encounter, she was able to detect that Pochita still existed within Denji through his scent.

Supernatural Abilities
Control Devil Abilities: The full extent of Makima's abilities are mostly unknown. She has shown a variety of abilities either inherent as a devil, or borrowed from another devil. The following is a list of her shown abilities:


 * Makima has shown to control any being who she believes is inferior to her, even being able to force them into making contracts with her or another devil. It seems as though once placed under her control, the victim subsequently loses their memory. This ability works on humans, devils, fiends and hybrids. She can channel the power of her victims by summoning them through a chain connected to her body. It has been shown that she can use the abilities of Angel Devil, Future Devil, Snake Devil, Punishment Devil and Zombie Devil. Even deceased individuals can be controlled in this manner. Makima was able to form a squad of weapon hybrids, three of which (Reze, Quanxi, and Katana Man) were former enemies who now behaved affectionately towards her. This suggests Makima can control individuals outright as well as changing their personalities in subtle ways.


 * Makima has shown to cause her target to be crushed by an invisible force. In order to use this technique, Makima appears to require a higher place, the name of a target and a human sacrifice. Makima forms a symbol with her hands and instructs the sacrifice to utter the name of the target. The sacrifice then dies and the target subsequently is crushed, leaving only a splatter of blood behind and their clothes. While she is using this ability, the people around herself close their eyes with a black cloth.


 * Makima has shown to kill her targets if she looks at a person, seemingly being crushed from the inside. She has also shown to inflict damage to targets she points at with her index finger which is strong enough to kill Power in instant and send empowered Chainsaw Man to outer space. She has also shown to remove the heads of her targets in vicinity from a short-to-mid range by using a sword; similar to her crushing ability, the people around herself close their eyes with a black cloth. These abilities are similar to the Darkness Devil's and Gun Devil's, though it's unknown if Makima gained them.


 * Makima has shown to transmit her voice into in others by placing her hand on his or her head even if the person is dead. She uses this to command the devils that the person is currently contracted with.


 * Makima has been shown to control a large number of rats which allow her to travel around using them. These rats can then cluster together to form the shape of a human and thus allow for Makima to be transported to that location instantly.


 * Makima borrows the hearing of rats, birds, and other lower life forms to hear conversations remotely, seemingly anywhere on the planet and possibly extending into Hell itself. She was able to spy on Denji's and Reze's conversation and was listening in on Kishibe's conversation with Quanxi. This ability can be circumvented by communicating nonverbally such as writing on a piece of paper.

Contract Creation: As a devil, the Control Devil can bestow contracts upon humans for a price. Thanks to her ability to control humans, she can force them to make a contract with herself. The Control Devil has a contract with the Prime Minister of Japan in exchange of working for Japan.
 * As a result of her contract with the Prime Minister, any fatal damage inflicted to Makima is transferred into a appropriate illness or ailment effecting a to random citizen of Japan. She was shown to have been shot in the back of the head and seemingly killed, only to stand up later with no visible wounds. She stated that she was merely grazed by a bullet, however, this is unlikely given the placement of the gun when it was fired, as well as the location of the blood from the exit wound. Later, she has been killed by Gun Devil after it fires a gunshot through her head. It is confirmed that she has been killed twenty-six times up until the attack of Gun Devil.

Blood Consumption: As a devil, the Control Devil should be able to restore its health by consuming blood. She has shown to regenerate her arm that has been damaged by Darkness Devil, however it is unknown that whether this ability is derived from her regeneration ability or her contract with the Prime Minister.

Revival: As a devil, the Control Devil should revive in Hell after being killed effectively making it immortal. After she has been eaten by Denji, she has reincarnated in China as Nayuta.

Other Abilities
High Alcohol Tolerance: Makima has an exceedingly high tolerance for drinking alcohol; able to out-drink both Aki and Himeno without showing any signs of being debilitated by the vast quantities of drink.

Trivia

 * Makima's ranking in the Popularity Polls are as follows;
 * Makima ranked 2nd in the First Popularity Poll, with 27,224 votes.
 * Makima ranked 2nd in the Second Popularity Poll, with 76,733 votes.


 * Makima smokes "hi-fight"s, likely a reference to the Japanese tobacco brand "hi-lite."
 * Makima was the first character Fujimoto had a solid image of as she is a character in "Breath of The Stars", one of the serialised works in Fujimoto's head, out of many fantasy stories he imagined in Junior High.
 * Makima was partially based on "Benten", a character in "The Eccentric Family" that Fujimoto liked, for she is an unfathomable higher being, with her own sadness we lowly humans can't comprehend. Something Fujimoto wanted to convey in Makima.
 * Fujimoto has mentioned FLCL as a source of inspiration for the girls of Chainsaw Man and Makima is likely based on Haruko from FLCL who is a manipulative, unpredictable being.
 * According to Fujimoto, if you remove the -ki- from Ma-ki-ma's name, you're left with Mama. Which ties in with Denji, who has always been pursuing Maternal things since the death of his mother at a young age.
 * Makima's final battle at the end with Chainsaw Man was inspired by the Shinobu vs Araragi fight in the Kizumonogatri III movie according to a tweet by Fujimoto.