Grasshopper Curse (MSB)

## Grasshopper Curse

**Grasshopper Curse** (バッタの呪い, *Batta no Noroi*?) is a minor antagonist in the *Jujutsu Kaisen* series. It was a grade 2 cursed spirit born from humanity's hatred of the grasshopper plague. Yuji Itadori encountered it on B2F of Meiji-Jingumae Station while it was guarding the commissioned curtain there, until it was resurrected in The Death Games to be killed again at the hands of Maga Zenin. However it was brought back once more by Kenjaku to participate in the Culling Games.

## Appearance

The Grasshopper Curse is named for the obvious type of curse it is. It is a relatively large, bipedal, humanoid curse that strongly resembles a normal grasshopper. The Grasshopper Curse uses two of its six legs to stand on and the other four as arms.

## Personality

The Grasshopper Curse is not particularly bright. It is capable of speech and communication to some degree, albeit with some occasional trouble. Despite barely being considered intelligent, the Grasshopper Curse believes itself to be very smart. Upon meeting Yuji nearly everything it talked about revolved about either itself being smart or asking if Yuji if he's smart. When Yuji revealed to it that smart people don't really talk about being smart, it was surprised and covered its mouth to stop talking.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill**: Evidenced by his ability to communicate, the Grasshopper Curse is at least a grade 2 level cursed spirit with high combat abilities that surpass some semi-grade 1 curses. He is more intelligent than most curses, but the Grasshopper isn't very smart compared to a typical jujutsu sorcerer. In Shibuya it was given two simple tasks: guarding the commissioned curtain and killing non-sorcerers. Despite having natural physical prowess superior to a normal human, Yuji was far superior in physical skill and easily defeated the curse. Mahito mentioned that it must have taken a strong jujutsu sorcerer to defeat him. however in the gladiator-esque Death Games, it actually gained more intelligence as he was the strongest cursed spirit there as he slaughtered and killed many sorcerers in his path as his skills has improved as he was not willing to lose once more to sorcerers, as it had developed what it lacked in the form of hand-to-hand combat. This aspect of its combat had improved to the point where it was able to go toe to toe with others as shown during his fight with Maga Zenin. where he traded many blows with him as this helped him become more unpredictable in fighting style, however Maga learned of his skills and said he was impressed and he used his fighting style and quickly he overwhelmed it and killed it once more, however in the culling games, it was revived once more, (TBC)

* **Enhanced Jumping and Biting Power**: The Grasshopper Curse can use its strong legs to jump very long distance's, allowing him to gain a benefit from just jumping as he can easily dodge Innate Technique's or Inherited Technique's, but he also can close gaps with his opponent: to support his jumping he had an powerful jaw to rapidly move across a contained area and bite everything in sight. Its jaws can knaw clean through a metal sign, let alone human flesh: it shown also its jaw had the power of an alligator but stronger and mahito said its bite, was strong enough it can eat through an domain.

## Battles & Events

**Shibuya Incident Arc**

* The Shibuya Incident
	+ Yuji Itadori vs. Grasshopper Curse

**The Death Games**

* The Death Games Arc 1
	+ Maga Zenin vs Grasshopper Curse

## Trivia

Books Gege Akutami used for inspiration when writing the Grasshopper character:

* When Lonely Grasshoppers Flock Together: The Mutation and Outbreak of the Desert Locust by Dr. Kotaro Ould Maeno
* Bear Storm by Akira Yoshimura.