Chainsaw Man Devils List: Horsemen, Primal Fears & More

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Chainsaw Man’s devils fall into five groups: the Four Horsemen, the Primal Fears, ordinary devils, Fiends (devils in corpses) and Hybrids (humans fused with devils).
The Four Horsemen are Control (Makima, then Nayuta), War (Yoru), Famine (the real Fami, Ch. 195) and Death, who posed as Fami from Ch. 108.
Darkness, Falling and Aging are named Primal Fears, and Death makes a fourth. None of them had ever been killed before the story.
In the final chapter (Ch. 232) Pochita has erased himself. Nayuta runs Public Safety and Power is alive again.

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Chainsaw Man’s devils fall into five groups. At the top sit the Four Horsemen (Control, War, Famine and Death) and the Primal Fears (Darkness, Falling, Aging and, by most counts, Death). Below them are ordinary devils, Fiends (devils in human corpses) and Hybrids (humans fused with a devil).

This list covers every major devil in each group, with debut chapters and how each one ends up. Spoilers run to the final chapter (Ch. 232, March 2026). The manga is complete at 24 volumes.

How Chainsaw Man devils work

A devil is born in Hell from humanity’s fear of a concept. The more people fear its name, the stronger it gets. That is why a Gun Devil is a world-ending threat while a Tomato Devil is a 400,000-yen bounty (Ch. 1).

Three rules decide how the list below plays out:

Reincarnation. A devil that dies on Earth comes back in Hell, and one that dies in Hell comes back on Earth. It loses its memories each time.
Primal Fears never die. They are so feared that they have never gone through that cycle (Ch. 64).
Chainsaw Man is the exception. A devil he eats is erased, and its concept leaves the world with it. (Our separate guide covers every devil he erased.)

Group	What it is	Main examples
Four Horsemen	Four “sister” devils named after the Apocalypse riders	Makima / Nayuta, Yoru, Fami, Death
Primal Fears	Ancient, never-killed devils of instinctive fears	Darkness, Falling, Aging, Death
Ordinary devils	Every other devil, from Fox to Gun	Zombie, Bat, Eternity, Fox, Future, Gun
Fiends	A devil possessing a human corpse	Power, Beam, Violence Fiend, Cosmo
Hybrids	A living human fused with a devil, can transform	Denji, Reze, Katana Man, Quanxi

The Four Horsemen in Chainsaw Man

The Four Horsemen are Control, War, Famine and Death, named after the riders in the Book of Revelation. Makima first mentions them in Ch. 84, and in Ch. 87 she says they and the Weapon Devils fought Chainsaw Man in Hell. All four look human and call each other sisters. Death is the eldest and strongest.

Horseman	Human form	Debut	Ability	Fate
Control Devil	Makima, then Nayuta	Ch. 1 (Makima), Ch. 97 (Nayuta)	Controls anyone she sees as beneath her	Makima is killed and eaten by Denji (Ch. 96). Nayuta is killed in Part 2 (Ch. 170), then returns as head of Public Safety in the new world (Ch. 232)
War Devil	Yoru, inside Asa Mitaka	Ch. 98	Turns anything she sees as hers into a weapon	Makes a truce with Denji (Ch. 230). Asa is free of her in the new world, and Yoru’s whereabouts are unknown (Ch. 232)
Death Devil	Posed as “Fami”	Ch. 108	Enslaves anything she has killed	Eaten and erased by Chainsaw Man (Ch. 219)
Famine Devil	The real Fami	Ch. 195	Drains the life of whatever she touches	Survives the war; her fate in the new world isn’t shown

Is Fami the Famine Devil?

Not at first. The Fami who joins Asa’s Devil Hunter Club in Ch. 108 calls herself the Famine Devil. She was really the Death Devil, using her sister’s name as cover. The real Famine Devil shows up as a transfer student in Ch. 195, and the truth comes out a few chapters later (Ch. 198). Older guides written before then still list Fami as Famine.

Death’s plan is also unusual for a final villain. Nostradamus’ prophecy says the “Great King of Terror” will end humanity, and Death believes that is her (Ch. 146). So she spent Part 2 trying to make War and Chainsaw Man strong enough to kill her.

Primal Fears: Darkness, Falling, Aging and Death

Primal Fears are devils of fears so old and instinctive that they have never been killed. Characters call them “transcendent” beings, and even other devils are terrified of them (Ch. 64). The Falling Devil says humanity has no weapon that can kill one (Ch. 125).

Primal Fear	Debut	What it does	Fate
Darkness Devil	Ch. 64	Cuts off everyone’s arms in an instant; its blade makes victims bleed out	Stays in Hell, alive. Makima only wounds it (Ch. 66)
Falling Devil	Ch. 122	A “chef” from Hell who makes people fall upward into Hell through doors in the sky	Beaten by Yoru (Ch. 209), who turns her into clothes (Ch. 210)
Aging Devil	Ch. 173	Withers and ages whatever it touches; traps people in a world where nobody ages or dies	Gives up and sends everyone back (Ch. 190); still alive
Death Devil	Ch. 108	The “Ultimate Terror”; enslaves those she kills	Erased by Chainsaw Man (Ch. 219)

How many Primal Fears are there?

Three are named outright, and Death makes four. Darkness, Falling and Aging are all called Primal Fears in the story. Death is also a Horseman, but as the “Ultimate Terror” she sits at or above Primal Fear level. The Chainsaw Man wiki counts four: Darkness, Falling, Aging and Death. Any other figure you see online, such as eight, isn’t backed by the manga.

Even Primal Fears can be beaten. Death took control of the Falling Devil (Ch. 131), and the Aging Devil offered to let Chainsaw Man eat it if Public Safety killed 10,000 children (Ch. 174).

Major ordinary devils

These are the regular devils that drive the plot. For who made contracts with them and what it cost, see our devil contracts guide. This table covers the devils themselves.

Devil	Debut	Key detail	Fate
Zombie Devil	Ch. 1	Turns the yakuza into zombies and kills Denji	Killed by Denji. In the new world it attacks Denji again and Power cuts it down (Ch. 232)
Bat Devil	Ch. 6	Holds Power’s cat Meowy hostage	Cut to pieces by Denji in the Bat Devil arc
Eternity Devil	Ch. 14	Traps a hotel floor in an endless loop	Begs Denji to kill it after three days of fighting, and he does (Ch. 19). Reborn in Part 2 and impaled by Yoru (Ch. 117)
Fox Devil	Ch. 10	Lends its head to good-looking devil hunters	Alive
Curse Devil	Ch. 24	Aki’s Curse Spike: pierce a target three times and a giant skeleton appears	Alive
Ghost Devil	Ch. 25	Invisible arms; Himeno gives it her whole body	Deceased (wiki)
Future Devil	Ch. 31	Grants future sight, and predicts Aki’s “worst possible death”	Alive; mocks Aki’s death in Ch. 79
Angel Devil	Ch. 34	Drains lifespan by touch and turns it into weapons	Loses both arms in Hell, then ends up under Makima’s control
Gun Devil	Ch. 75	Killed 1.2 million people worldwide	Defeated; its flesh pieces are held by various countries
Justice Devil	Ch. 124	Summoned by the Falling Devil to eat her “dishes”	Killed by the Falling Devil (Ch. 131)
Locust Devil	Ch. 226	Grows huge once Death’s erasure means pests can’t die	Erased in the original timeline

The Gun Devil gets top billing in Part 1 for a reason. On its first rampage it hit Japan for 26 seconds and killed 57,912 people (Ch. 13).

Fiends in Chainsaw Man

A Fiend is a devil that has taken over a human corpse. Fiends are weaker than full devils and, unlike Hybrids, they die from fatal wounds. They also can’t make contracts.

Fiend	Devil	Debut	Fate
Power	Blood	Ch. 4	Killed by Makima (Ch. 81). Alive again in the new world, where she saves Denji (Ch. 232)
Beam	Shark	Ch. 34	Dies against the Darkness Devil (confirmed in Ch. 71)
Galgali (Violence Fiend)	Violence	Ch. 34	Dies against the Darkness Devil (Ch. 65)
Cosmo	Cosmos	Ch. 54	Turns Santa Claus’s mind to “Halloween” (Ch. 70); beheaded by Makima’s team the same chapter
Yoru (in Asa)	War	Ch. 98	A special case: she kept Asa’s brain intact, so they share one body

Quanxi’s other three girlfriends, Long, Pingtsi and Tsugihagi, are also Fiends, but the manga never says which devils they are.

Hybrids (weapon devils fused with humans)

Hybrids are living humans fused with a devil. They change form with a trigger, like pulling a cord or a pin, and can come back from almost anything if they get blood. Makima says the seven Weapon Devils once served the Four Horsemen (Ch. 87).

Hybrid	Devil	Debut	Fate
Denji	Chainsaw (Pochita)	Ch. 1	Pochita erases himself (Ch. 231). Denji starts over in the new world (Ch. 232)
Katana Man	Katana	Ch. 23	Beaten by Denji and Aki (Ch. 38); returns in Part 2 and is taken prisoner (Ch. 191)
Reze	Bomb	Ch. 40	Caught by Makima’s side at the end of her arc (Ch. 52), then revived as one of Makima’s Hybrids (Ch. 86)
Quanxi	Bow	Ch. 54	Beheaded by Makima (Ch. 70), revived as her pawn (Ch. 87), back in Part 2 (Ch. 160)
Barem Bridge	Flamethrower	Ch. 86	Eaten by Chainsaw Man (Ch. 214)

The other weapon Hybrids are Longsword (Miri Sugo), Whip and Spear. They appear mostly as Makima’s Special Division 5.

What happens to the devils at the end?

In Ch. 231, Denji and Pochita have been eaten by a devil. Pochita tears out his own heart and eats himself, erasing Chainsaw Man and resetting the world.

The final chapter (Ch. 232) shows the new world:

Nayuta runs Public Safety in Makima’s place.
Power is alive. She saves Denji from the Zombie Devil, just as Pochita did in Ch. 1.
Asa is an ordinary student with no Yoru in her head.
Devils Chainsaw Man had erased are presumably restored (Ch. 232).

So the series ends where it began, with Denji, the Zombie Devil and a devil saving his life. This time it’s Power instead of Pochita.

FAQ

Who are the Four Horsemen in Chainsaw Man?

The Control Devil (Makima, later Nayuta), the War Devil (Yoru), the Famine Devil (the real Fami, debut Ch. 195) and the Death Devil, the eldest and strongest, who posed as Fami from Ch. 108.

How many Primal Fears are there in Chainsaw Man?

Three devils are called Primal Fears outright: Darkness, Falling and Aging. The Death Devil, the “Ultimate Terror”, is usually counted as a fourth, as the Chainsaw Man wiki does.

Is Fami the Famine Devil?

The Fami from Ch. 108 was really the Death Devil using her sister’s name. The real Famine Devil appears in Ch. 195.

What is the difference between a Fiend and a Hybrid?

A Fiend is a devil possessing a human corpse, like Power. A Hybrid is a living human fused with a devil who can transform and regenerate from blood, like Denji or Reze.

What happens to the devils at the end of Chainsaw Man?

Pochita erases himself (Ch. 231), resetting the world. In Ch. 232 Nayuta heads Public Safety, Power is alive and saves Denji from the Zombie Devil, and Asa no longer has Yoru inside her.

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This guide is the English edition of a BuzzBeaver article originally written in Japanese: 日本語版を読む. Facts are checked against the official manga and anime; fan theories are labeled as such.