Beyond Muzan: 5 Demon Slayer Characters Who Could Have Become Deadlier Final Bosses
By Robert Thorne
To grasp why Muzan Kibutsuji lived in perpetual, neurotic terror, one only needs to examine his single encounter with Yoriichi Tsugikuni during the Sengoku era. Yoriichi was not merely an exceptional swordsman. He was an anomaly of nature. Born with the Demon Slayer Mark, direct access to the Transparent World, and complete mastery of the Selfless State, Yoriichi developed Sun Breathing to perfection. In their legendary clash, Yoriichi severed Muzan into hundreds of fragments in an eye-blink, inflicting cellular damage that burned inside Muzan's body for over four centuries.
Now consider the catastrophic reality of Yoriichi succumbing to demonization. Muzan's greatest strength was his biological immortality, but his greatest weakness was his lack of formal swordsmanship; he fought like an angry hydra flailing poisonous tendrils. Had Yoriichi accepted blood and undergone a demonic transformation, his already supernatural reflexes, infinite stamina, and precision cutting power would have magnified a hundredfold. A demonic Yoriichi wielding Sun Breathing through a weaponized Blood Demon Art would have generated solar-infused slashing strikes capable of destroying both human flesh and demon regeneration simultaneously.
The Hashira power ranking wouldn't matter against such a force. Even the combined generational might of Gyomei Himejima, Sanemi Shinazugawa, and Muichiro Tokito would have fallen in seconds. Humanity survived Muzan's reign solely because the progenitor spent four hundred years running away from Yoriichi's ghost. Had the creator of Sun Breathing become the dark king instead, the Demon Slayer Corps would have been eradicated before the Sengoku era drew to a close.
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