Chainsaw Man's Most Breathtaking Moment Has an Incredibly Dark Origin
The manga Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto is known for its over the top action and brutal scenes of gore, yet it has always maintained a sense of thematic layering beneath its eye-catching panels. Chainsaw Man tackles various themes including love, change, and most of all, fear. Nowhere is that clearer than the series’ most jaw-dropping panel, which makes no attempt to hide Fujimoto’s message about fear.
In chapter 64 of Chainsaw Man, the international assassin known as “Santa Claus” succeeds in using her former apprentice to contact and fulfill a contract with the Darkness Devil. Since the entire cast of characters was transported to Hell prior, the Darkness Devil is able to manifest itself completely and appears before the Devil Hunters and Santa Claus. As it makes its debut, the Darkness Devil is preceded by a hall of bisected astronauts with their hands joined in prayer. This Chainsaw Man image is horrifying and may seem completely random at first glance, but it likely references an extremely dark event in human history.
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It's possible this page is a reference to an image of the Apollo 1 crew, consisting of Ed White, Gus Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee. In this photo, the three astronauts hold their hands in prayer as a joke over a miniature of the Apollo 1 space shuttle. On January 27, 1967, these three astronauts were all tragically killed when the shuttle caught fire during a test launch. It seems unlikely that Fujimoto using the imagery of praying astronauts is a coincidence, especially when it comes to the Darkness Devil. All devils in the world of Chainsaw Man are powered by the fear that humanity has for the aspect of reality they
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