Mahito

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## Entertainingly Detestable

### Powers / Skills

Supernatural strength
Supernatural durability
Superhuman agility
Regeneration
**Idle Transfiguration:**

* Biomanipulation
* Ability to perceive souls
* Ability to heal himself and others

### Goals

Ally with Sukuna.
Manipulate Junpei into misanthropy.
Replace humanity with Curses. (all failed)
Kill Yuji Itadori and Kento Nanami. (succeeded with the latter)

### Most Entertaining Features

He has quite a few Laughably Evil moments and a lot of Evil is Cool moments.
His viewpoint regarding humanity isn't completely wrong.
His ability called Idle Transfiguration is pretty unique for anime and manga.

### Most Detestable Traits

He ruined Junpei's innocence by killing his mother, and brutally killed Junpei after he learned the truth about him.
He attempted to murder Nobara Kugisaki solely to destroy Yuji Itadori's spirit, and clearly enjoyed the act when Yuji temporarily entered a broken state.

### Type of ED

Sadomasochistic Misanthrope

**Mahito** is the secondary antagonist of the manga *Jujutsu Kaisen*. He is a Special Grade Cursed Spirit born after humanity's fear of other humans reached a critical point. Misanthropic in nature, Mahito manipulated Junpei into misanthropy while gaining Yuji Itadori's hatred.

He is voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki in Japanese and Lucien Dodge in English.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* Mahito possessed a curious nature after being manifested, eager to learn about the world.
* Has a funny demeanor while interacting with his fellow Disaster Curses (such as playing football with Jogo's head), which doesn't detract from his evil nature.
* Has a cool theme when first unlocking his Domain Expansion.
* His ability, Idle Transfiguration is an extremely powerful in-universe, with only Yuji Itadori as Sukuna's vessel could resist, thus making it an instant-win ability.
	+ Mahito also uses this ability to heal Kokichi Muta to bypass his Heavenly Restriction with zero side-effects.
* Despite being misanthropic, he is not completely off the mark about humanity and their nature.
* Killed a few bullies who were tormenting Junpei for no real reason other than their condescending nature.
* Gave Kento Nanami a battle worth his money despite being poorly experienced.
* Carefully manipulated Junpei Yoshino into misanthropy twice, despite Yuji attempting to intervene. He was only stopped due to Yuji inviting him to Jujutsu High to investigate his mother's death.
* While getting beaten up by Yuji and Nanami, Mahito discovered his true self and unlocked the ability to cast Domain Expansion, thus turning the tables and nearly killing Nanami.
* Formulated a plan to steal the Death Paintings from Jujutsu High, by utilizing Hanami and the Curse Users as distraction.
* While at a harsh disadvantage when fighting against Yuji and Nobara, Mahito discreetly switched places without either of their knowledge, thus defeating Nobara.

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* Mahito killed several innocent civilians as a demonstration of his ability to Junpei.
* After watching Junpei walk out of misanthropy by befriending Yuji Itadori, Mahito planted Sukuna's finger in Junpei's mother's room, luring Cursed Spirits which killed her and maddened Junpei, ruining his innocence entirely.
* Watched Junpei tearing his school apart for revenge as entertainment, while he was the one who killed Junpei's mother.
* After Junpei realized that Mahito is evil, he transformed Junpei to fight Yuji, which failed due to his heart giving out and Junpei dying in despair.
* Mahito, alongside Sukuna, laughed when Sukuna refused to heal Junpei.
* Mahito transfigured thousands of innocent people in Shibuya just to distract Gojo, including children.
* Had a long villainous breakdown after Yuji and Todo managed to defeat him, even trying to flee from Yuji and trying to save himself from getting absorbed by Kenjaku for his Idle Transfiguration.

## Trivia

* For a long time, Mahito used to be a Hate Sink before it was revealed that he was meant to be seen as complex. In fact, Gege Akutami (the creator of *Jujutsu Kaisen*) compared Mahito to the MCU version of Thanos to convey his opinion on the character.

## External Links

* Mahito on the Villains Wiki
* Mahito on the Pure Evil Wiki