Gojo vs Makima: Cross-Series Battle

Two of modern anime’s most overpowered characters. Two concepts of “being untouchable.” One fight that would break reality itself.

Gojo Satoru controls space, bending infinity to make himself unhittable and compressing it to erase anything in his path. Makima controls beings, dominating anything she perceives as inferior and redirecting all damage to others. Both are narrative forces designed to be unbeatable within their own worlds.

But what happens when you pit absolute defense against absolute control? Can Makima’s Devil contracts reach past Infinity? Can Gojo’s domain even affect someone who offloads all damage? This is the cross-series battle that power scalers have been waiting for.

Gojo Satoru: Powers and Abilities

Key Abilities

Limitless: The Gojo clan’s inherited technique that allows manipulation of space at an atomic level. Infinity, the neutral state, creates an infinite barrier between Gojo and everything else—attacks slow infinitely and never reach him
Six Eyes: A dojutsu that dramatically reduces cursed energy consumption and allows Gojo to see cursed energy at an atomic level. Makes Infinity truly perfect by allowing real-time calculations
Cursed Technique Reversal: Red: Repulsion that blasts targets away with extreme force
Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue: Attraction that creates a vacuum, pulling matter inward and crushing it
Hollow Purple: The combination of Red and Blue—a sphere of imaginary mass that erases anything in its path from existence
Unlimited Void: Gojo’s Domain Expansion, trapping targets in infinite space where they experience all information at once, overwhelming and paralyzing their minds

Best Feats

Being unhittable for 28 years: No one landed a clean hit on Gojo from childhood until his fight with Sukuna—decades of being literally untouchable
Surviving soul damage from Sukuna: Tanked attacks that damaged his soul directly and kept fighting at full capacity
Fighting Sukuna evenly: Battled the King of Curses for 15 chapters of continuous combat, with both going all out
Casually destroying Jogo: A Special Grade Curse that could destroy cities was toyed with like a child
Reversing his brain functions: Used Reverse Cursed Technique to heal brain damage in real-time during combat
Killing multiple Special Grades simultaneously: Has treated top-tier curses as minor annoyances

For a full analysis of Gojo at his peak, check out our Gojo vs Sukuna: The Ultimate Jujutsu Kaisen Battle.

Makima: Powers and Abilities

Key Abilities

Control Devil Contract: Makima IS the Control Devil—the physical embodiment of humanity’s fear of domination and control. This gives her:

– Domination: Can control any being she perceives as inferior to herself. This includes humans, devils, and hybrids

– Chain Manifestation: Creates invisible chains that bind and control targets

– Memory/Personality Manipulation: Can rewrite controlled beings’ memories and personalities

Damage Transfer: All damage dealt to Makima is transferred to random Japanese citizens through a contract with the Prime Minister. She effectively has an entire country as her health bar
Death Immunity: Even if killed, she can reconstitute from damage as long as her contract holds
Borrowed Abilities: Can use the abilities of Devils she has contracts with or has killed, including:

– The Gun Devil’s instant targeting

– The Future Devil’s foresight

– Countless other Devil abilities accumulated over centuries

Pointing Finger Attacks: Can inflict invisible, instant-kill attacks at range

Best Feats

Surviving the Gun Devil assault: Took hits that killed thousands and regenerated
Killing the Gun Devil (partially): Defeated 20% of the Gun Devil’s body
Controlling Chainsaw Man (briefly): Dominated Denji before his heart was reconstituted
Living for centuries: Has existed since the concept of control has existed in human consciousness
Regenerating from obliteration: Has been blown apart, shot, and dismembered repeatedly with no lasting effect
Orchestrating the entire Chainsaw Man plot: Manipulated events across years to achieve her goals

Makima’s power isn’t raw destruction—it’s conceptual superiority. She doesn’t need to be stronger than you; she needs to consider herself superior to you.

Battle Analysis

Speed

Edge: Gojo

Makima has shown decent speed feats, but nothing approaching the supersonic-to-hypersonic tier that Jujutsu Kaisen characters operate at.

Gojo casually perceives and reacts to attacks that cross rooms in microseconds. His Six Eyes process information so fast that he can maintain Infinity against attacks he can’t consciously register. During his Sukuna fight, both moved at speeds that regular sorcerers couldn’t perceive.

Makima relies more on her pointing attacks (instant but short-range) and borrowed Devil abilities. In terms of personal movement speed, she’s far below Gojo.

This matters because Gojo could theoretically land numerous attacks before Makima could react—though whether those attacks would matter is another question.

Strength/Attack Power

Edge: Gojo

Hollow Purple erases matter from existence. It’s not damage in the conventional sense—the target simply stops existing where the technique passes through. This is one of the most absolute offensive techniques in anime.

Makima’s offensive options are powerful but more varied. Her pointing attacks are lethal against normal targets, and her borrowed Devil abilities give her versatility. But she doesn’t have a single attack that matches Hollow Purple’s absolute nature.

In terms of “can this attack kill the other person,” Gojo’s attacks are more definitively lethal. Whether they can actually reach Makima is the real question.

Durability

Edge: Makima (by a lot)

Here’s where Makima’s hax becomes ridiculous.

Gojo’s durability is essentially Infinity. If attacks can’t reach him, they can’t hurt him. But Infinity has been bypassed by Sukuna’s Domain Expansion and Mahoraga’s adaptation. It’s powerful but not absolute.

Makima’s durability is her damage transfer contract. Any harm that would affect her is instead distributed to Japanese citizens—around 125 million people. You’d have to kill the entire population of Japan before she’d take meaningful damage, and even then, she’s regenerated from being essentially destroyed before.

This isn’t durability in the traditional sense. It’s a contractual hack that makes direct damage meaningless.

Special Abilities/Hax

Edge: Highly contested

This is where the fight gets interesting.

Gojo’s Hax:

Unlimited Void paralyzes targets through information overload
Infinity makes him literally untouchable
Hollow Purple erases existence

Makima’s Hax:

Control works on anyone she considers inferior
Damage transfer makes her unkillable through normal means
Death immunity through contract
Can potentially use Gojo’s abilities against him if she controls him

The critical question: Can Makima control Gojo?

Makima’s Control works on beings she perceives as inferior. Gojo considers himself the strongest—and backs it up with feats. He’s supremely confident, potentially to the point of arrogance. Would Makima perceive herself as superior to Gojo?

Probably not immediately. Gojo’s presence, power, and confidence would likely register as an equal or superior threat, not an inferior to be dominated. Her Control might not work on him at all.

But here’s the counter: Makima has existed for centuries and has dominated countless beings. Her self-perception as superior is fundamental to her nature as the Control Devil. The conceptual weight of “Control” itself might override Gojo’s personal confidence.

This is genuinely unclear and would depend on authorial intent in a crossover.

The Critical Questions

Can Makima’s Attacks Reach Gojo?

Probably not.

Infinity stops all incoming attacks by dividing the remaining distance infinitely. Makima’s pointing attacks are fast and invisible, but they’re still physical phenomena traveling through space. Infinity should stop them.

Her Control chains are more ambiguous. Are they physical or conceptual? In Chainsaw Man, they appear to be metaphysical constructs that bind the soul/will rather than the body. These might bypass Infinity entirely—or Infinity might stop them because Gojo’s technique affects space at all levels.

Without clear authorial ruling, we have to assume Infinity blocks physical attacks and might block metaphysical ones.

Can Gojo’s Attacks Affect Makima?

They can hit her, but they won’t kill her.

Nothing stops Hollow Purple from erasing Makima’s body. Gojo can absolutely destroy her physically.

But her damage transfer contract and regeneration mean this doesn’t matter. She’ll reconstitute from the Japanese population’s life force. Gojo would have to kill her over 125 million times to exhaust her contract—and even then, the Control Devil might just reincarnate.

Gojo’s attacks work, but they don’t solve the Makima problem.

Can Unlimited Void Affect Makima?

This is Gojo’s best chance.

Unlimited Void doesn’t deal damage. It overwhelms the target with infinite information, paralyzing them mentally. It’s a technique that attacks the mind/soul rather than the body.

Makima’s damage transfer applies to “damage”—it’s unclear if mental paralysis counts as transferable damage. If Unlimited Void’s effect can’t be transferred, Gojo could potentially trap her indefinitely.

However, Devils in Chainsaw Man have unusual mental constitutions. Makima herself has manipulated countless minds over centuries. Her resistance to mental attacks might be substantial.

Can Makima Control Gojo?

The trillion-dollar question.

If Makima can activate Control on Gojo, she wins. A controlled Gojo would turn Infinity off and allow himself to be killed/dominated.

The factors working against this:

Gojo’s supreme confidence makes him not perceive himself as inferior
Six Eyes might detect and resist the Control attempt
Jujutsu sorcerers have shown resistance to mind-affecting techniques

The factors working for this:

Makima’s Control is conceptual, not a technique that can be “resisted” traditionally
She IS Control embodied—her very nature might override personal conviction
She’s dominated beings of comparable confidence before

This would likely come down to a battle of wills and narrative weight. Who is more fundamentally “superior”—the Honored One or the Control Devil?

The Verdict: Who Wins?

Winner: Makima (in most scenarios)

This hurts to write as a JJK fan, but Makima’s kit specifically counters what Gojo brings.

Here’s Why Makima Wins:

Gojo can’t kill her: No matter how many times Gojo erases her with Hollow Purple, she regenerates through her contract. He’d have to kill her 125+ million times. He doesn’t have that kind of stamina, and she has centuries of patience.

Eventually, Control might work: Even if Makima can’t immediately dominate Gojo, she has infinite attempts. All she needs is one moment of doubt, one instant where Gojo’s absolute confidence wavers. Given enough time, she’ll find it.

She can outlast him: Six Eyes reduces cursed energy consumption but doesn’t eliminate it. Over hours or days of continuous combat, Gojo will tire. Makima literally cannot tire—she’s been doing this for centuries.

Domain stalemate: Unlimited Void might paralyze Makima temporarily, but it has duration limits. When it ends, she’s back. And if she survives the information overload (Devils have unusual mental constitutions), she’s now experienced his trump card.

The Scenario Where Gojo Wins:

If Control fundamentally cannot work on Gojo—if his Six Eyes detect and neutralize metaphysical influence, or if Jujutsu sorcery provides immunity to devil contracts—then the fight becomes a stalemate.

Gojo can’t kill Makima permanently. Makima can’t touch or control Gojo. They fight forever.

In this scenario, Gojo doesn’t lose, but he also doesn’t win. Makima’s immortality makes victory impossible without killing her concept—and Gojo doesn’t have Chainsaw Man’s ability to eat and erase Devils.

True Winner: Denji

The actual answer to beating Makima is Chainsaw Man’s power—the ability to eat Devils and erase their concept from existence. Neither Gojo nor Makima can actually permanently defeat each other. You’d need to bring in a third party with conceptual erasure.

Final Thoughts

Gojo vs Makima is a fascinating matchup because both characters are designed to be unbeatable within their own systems. Gojo can’t be touched. Makima can’t be killed. What happens when unstoppable force meets immovable object?

The answer is that Makima’s immortality is more absolute than Gojo’s defense. Infinity can be bypassed (as Sukuna proved). Makima’s contract can’t be bypassed—only her concept can be erased, and Gojo doesn’t have that ability.

In a straight fight, Makima wins through attrition and eventual Control. It might take days, weeks, or years. But she has the time. Gojo doesn’t.

Of course, this analysis might change with JJK’s conclusion or future Chainsaw Man developments. For now, the Control Devil takes it—not through power, but through patience and unfair conceptual advantages.

Sometimes the strongest sorcerer just isn’t enough.