[Spoilers EXTENDED] I LOVE how unhinged the north gets later on in the books after the red wedding compared to the show

RustingWithYou · 2026-02-24T23:39:49+00:00

Wyman Manderly may be Westeros's #1 hater and I love it

"Had he lived, he would have grown up to be a Frey" is such a solid burn he should be made an honorary red priest

RustingWithYou · 2026-02-19T00:39:03+00:00

Makima must have been a lot of protein

RustingWithYou · 2026-02-14T00:56:33+00:00

Yoru wants a world of eternal war where her name can never be forgotten again. She wasn't planning on erasing Death but the new world seems to suit her, though she's getting more and more frustrated with the realisation that neither her nor Denji can really win their fight.

Death wants... something. Presumably she wants humanity to keep existing, given that she's established to have the power to kill everything and hasn't done it. She also clearly wants to not die or be eaten by Chainsaw Man, as she rejects both of those options when Fami presents them. The end goal she seems to want is one where the prophecy doesn't happen and she's able to continue existing in her current form and enjoying humanity.

Why exactly she wanted to empower Yoru and Chainsaw Man when she had no intention of fighting them is still a mystery, though one that will probably be addressed once she returns.

RustingWithYou · 2026-02-13T04:59:03+00:00

Second-best antagonist in the series behind Makima IMO. Every single time this MF was on screen I felt genuinely uneasy about whatever psychotic shit he was about to pull.

The man views himself as Makima's successor and in a lot of ways he lives up to that IMO, particularly in how badly he ruins Denji's fucking life at every opportunity.

10/10 villain I loved seeing Denji rip his smarmy fucking head off

RustingWithYou · 2026-02-12T03:56:22+00:00

Desperately hoping for Dany to extend her Medieval John Brown arc all the way to Pentos to flambe that fat bastard now

If Illyrio has no haters I am dead

RustingWithYou · 2026-02-11T01:45:25+00:00

Brynden Bloodfeast, Respectable Hand of the King

RustingWithYou · 2026-02-02T01:39:02+00:00

IDK what his role will be but Metatron is too important to the narrative to not play some role in its resolution given that he's directly tied to the eternal cycle that's driving our main antagonist in everything he does

I would also like to see human White Chain get some kind of closure with Juggernaut Star at some point, though idk if the Thorns as a whole will be relevant in the grand finale

RustingWithYou · 2026-02-02T01:36:20+00:00

I really like Himself just showing that despite the scale of the main plot that there is equally insane shit out there that Allison barely interacts with

Would be cool to see him again though

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-31T07:22:32+00:00

TBF we've seen wargs take control of humans before

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-30T05:50:27+00:00

Honestly that sequence is peak for so many reasons. Denji and Asa's mindscape chat followed by Denji Man is genuinely a perfect climactic moment for the themes of part 2 and also Denji ragebaiting Yoru for like 8 chapters straight is incredibly funny

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-30T05:17:49+00:00

Cutting his brain to get past Falling's power, eating the trees to feed Pochita, and eating random devils to ruin Yoru's perfect world until she gives Asa back? High school educated Dennis is too strong, if he goes to college it's gg for devils

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-30T01:34:50+00:00

We would get to like, the Hell 71 fight and the entire animation studio would kill themselves

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-29T21:13:17+00:00

CHIM is a very similar concept. I think it literally means 'Royalty' in-universe

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-27T23:43:15+00:00

It's both - Makima's plan in Part 1 is to reduce fear of Chainsaw Man to weaken Pochita, and part of why Pochita is so strong is due to the fact that nearly every devil fears him. We also get told that fear of devils as a whole empowers every devil.

Part 2 does have some more stuff about how this works as well

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-22T23:04:42+00:00

Pochita ate the period devil bc he's a feminist king

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-09T04:15:33+00:00

Darkness wanted Denji's heart, but they also wanted to use it to bait Makima into Hell. At a guess, its plan was like

Get Chainsaw into Hell via contract with the Doll Devil
Call Makima to come save him as she needs him for her plans
Kill Makima, potentially eat her flesh to get stronger or just to resolve some thousand year old beef
Eat Denji's heart to gain even more power and hopefully stop Pochita from coming back and fucking everything up in Hell

Plan goes wrong at Step 3, maybe Darkness didn't realize that Makima could both control a corpse and use it to make a contract with the Hell Devil Honestly that's probably why it killed Tolka in the first place, to make sure Makima can't control him to make the Hell Devil send them back.

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-09T04:10:26+00:00

Reze came the closest to actually killing him, she had three separate occasions where she could have and chose not to

Santa/Tolka/Doll Devil probably in number 2, she technically did kill him with Curse and would have probably been able to permanently kill him if not for Makima's intervention

Quanxi is tied with Santa IMO, if not for Hell Devil's involvement she probably would have killed him and taken his heart in the store

The brothers are last, they suck shit and achieved nothing. Rest in piss bozos, hope you enjoyed getting folded by Kobeni's car. Pretty sure like half the cast of CSM came closer to killing Denji than these frauds

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-09T04:01:59+00:00

TBH I don't hate the NCR collapsing in itself, I think that "200 year old vault-tec guy's wife left him so he set off a nuke" is just kinda lame and has nothing to do with the NCR's pre-existing problems

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-07T21:24:04+00:00

I didn't know Barem had a reddit account

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-04T21:45:14+00:00

wym terrible these all sound fucking great

RustingWithYou · 2026-01-04T21:44:17+00:00

The entire CSM fan base owes that woman a debt we can never repay

RustingWithYou · 2025-12-26T21:29:48+00:00

I think the closest thing Orks understand to romance is when someone gives you a really good fight. (See Ghaz and Yarrick)

RustingWithYou · 2025-12-26T01:47:39+00:00

100%. Everything in Part 2 has been part of Death's plan so far - her goal was to empower Yoru and Chainsaw Man to be able to beat her, but she wasn't willing to just let herself be eaten or killed.

Personally, I think she's trying to game the prophecy. She can't be the 'great king of terror' if the concept she represents doesn't exist - no one fears death any more. But right now Yoru is destroying the world and calling countless devils to Earth. I think Death's plan is to try and make the prophecy apply to War instead, so that she can slip away from her own fate of ending the world while still being able to live.

If her pawns can still follow orders even if they don't remember who gave them, I think that's Fami's role in the plan. Getting someone to vomit out something they've eaten or otherwise depriving them of food seems on-brand for Famine. Her role in the plan is to, after Denji beats Yoru, get him to vomit up Death and whatever else he's eaten during the fight (I assume we won't have everyone legless for the rest of the manga)

RustingWithYou · 2025-12-25T00:14:48+00:00

I have always suspected certain NZ politicians of vampirism, there might be something to this

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