Sukuna’s Malevolent Shrine isn’t just a domain expansion—it’s a declaration of supremacy. Unlike traditional domains that form enclosed spaces, Sukuna’s technique breaks the rules of the system, manifesting an open shrine that slices through everything in its radius. With his Cleave and Dismantle attacks automatically targeting enemies based on durability and structure, the results are horrifyingly efficient. It’s not about flash—it’s about surgical destruction on a god-tier level. Each time Sukuna activates Malevolent Shrine, he leaves nothing behind but ruins, corpses, and psychological scars.
#10: First Activation Against Finger Bearer – A Glimpse of What’s Coming
Though not a full use of the domain, the first time Sukuna fights the Finger Bearer in the detention center foreshadows what Malevolent Shrine can do. While he doesn’t deploy the domain yet, his cleaving slashes hint at something more—strikes that ignore armor, slicing creatures that overwhelmed other sorcerers like they’re nothing. This encounter sets the stage for the devastating technique to come, showing us, that Sukuna isn’t just a brute force fighter—he’s precise, controlled, and calculating. Even without the shrine itself, the foreshadowing of Malevolent Shrine gives fans a taste of the mechanical beauty behind his power.
#9: Trial Run Against the Cursed Womb Spirits
Sukuna doesn’t waste time experimenting in battle—when Yuji’s body is briefly taken over again, and a cursed womb spirit appears, Sukuna toys with the idea of using more power. While he doesn’t fully unleash the domain, his casual dismemberment of the curse hints that if he had, it would’ve been obliterated in seconds. The terrifying part is how casually he dispatches something considered a dire threat by others. It’s a preview of what Malevolent Shrine could do if he cared enough to activate it—which makes the moment all the more chilling.
#8: Setting the Radius – Sukuna’s Domain is Open
When Sukuna’s domain is finally revealed in full during the Shibuya Incident, fans are stunned by its structure. Unlike traditional domains that create a sealed pocket space, Malevolent Shrine exists without a barrier. This makes it one of the most dangerous domains in the series, because it affects everything within a 200-meter radius. This isn’t just power—it’s genius. By skipping the boundary, Sukuna allows absolute freedom of attack while still applying sure-hit effects. The entire city block becomes a killing field, and there’s no way to hide. This unique mechanic turns Malevolent Shrine into a living guillotine that rains death from every angle.
#7: Killing Transfigured Humans with Precision
During the Shibuya Incident, Sukuna activates Malevolent Shrine to clear a massive group of transfigured humans created by Mahito. But what makes this moment so impactful isn’t just the scale—it’s the precision. Sukuna spares Yuji’s allies, calculating every slash to avoid his own team while executing dozens of monsters. It shows how terrifyingly in control he is. Most domain users blanket the area in chaos. Sukuna carves it like a surgeon, proving that his instincts aren’t just destructive—they’re meticulous. It’s one of the clearest demonstrations that his mind is as sharp as his blade.
#6: Erasing the Landscape in Shibuya
When Sukuna fully releases Malevolent Shrine in Shibuya, the city itself suffers. Buildings collapse. Pavement peels apart. The sheer area denial of the domain is staggering. Cleave and Dismantle don’t just kill—they reshape the environment. Watching the shrine sit solemnly in the middle of a war zone while invisible slashes carve through matter is like witnessing divine wrath. It’s not just a fight—it’s a reconstruction of terrain. The scale alone makes it one of the most visually and thematically overwhelming uses of any domain expansion in the series.
#5: The 140-Second Massacre of Shibuya Civilians
Perhaps one of the most horrifying applications of Malevolent Shrine comes during the Shibuya Incident—when Sukuna activates it over a 140-second window, targeting everyone in a 200-meter radius, regardless of curse or human origin. Hundreds of civilians are instantly diced apart in ways too fast to register, reduced to gore without warning. The most chilling part? Sukuna does it while smiling. There’s no strategic gain here. No threat to eliminate. He simply kills, because he can. The indiscriminate carnage paints a terrifying portrait: Malevolent Shrine isn’t a weapon of war—it’s a display of dominance. And in those 140 seconds, Sukuna reminds everyone exactly who the King of Curses is.
#4: Sukuna vs. Jogo – Demonstrating Mercy Through Death
During his battle with Jogo, Sukuna casually activates Malevolent Shrine—mid-fight, with no dramatic announcement or tension. He just ends it. The moment is terrifyingly casual. Jogo, despite being a powerful special-grade curse, is annihilated in the domain’s field. The precision of the cleaves and the inevitability of death within the shrine are unmatched. Yet what makes this moment especially chilling is what follows: Sukuna compliments Jogo’s strength before incinerating him completely. Malevolent Shrine here isn’t just a battlefield—it’s a throne. Sukuna doesn’t need to flex. He ends lives, then delivers final judgments with the tone of a god.
#3: Sukuna vs. Mahoraga – Domain Expansion Meets Adaptation
Fighting the nearly indestructible Mahoraga requires more than raw power—it requires innovation. Sukuna uses Malevolent Shrine in tandem with delayed slashing, something never seen before, adapting to Mahoraga’s own adaptive defense system. He calculates Mahoraga’s reaction time and manipulates the domain’s auto-targeting properties to land precise delayed Cleave attacks just after Mahoraga tries to counter them. The result? A truly divine level of cursed combat strategy. This wasn’t just the domain being powerful—it was Sukuna using its mechanics to out-think the most adaptive creature in the world. It’s the ultimate chess move, and it proves that even the most powerful defense means nothing in a shrine built by the King.
#2: The Fusion of Mahoraga’s Technique into Malevolent Shrine
After possessing Megumi’s body, Sukuna takes things a step further. He combines Mahoraga’s adaptability with his Malevolent Shrine to create a refined, more terrifying version of the domain. Now, not only can Cleave and Dismantle automatically scale to durability—but they adapt in real-time. This means that even domain counters or high-resistance sorcerers can’t survive for long. In this upgraded state, Malevolent Shrine doesn’t just target—it learns. The result is a sentient death field. No longer just a mechanical kill zone, the domain becomes a responsive entity under Sukuna’s absolute control. It’s not just the strongest domain. It’s a god’s judgment evolving with every heartbeat.
#1: Sukuna vs. Gojo – The Day the Strongest Fell
The crowning moment of Malevolent Shrine’s terror comes during Sukuna’s legendary battle against Satoru Gojo, the strongest modern sorcerer. Gojo unleashes his own domain, Unlimited Void, and the two titans clash in what feels like a divine war. Initially, it’s Gojo who dominates. But then Sukuna adapts—first by combining Domain Amplification, then unleashing Mahoraga inside Malevolent Shrine to slowly decode Infinity. Finally, Sukuna activates a precise version of Malevolent Shrine that bypasses Gojo’s defenses, cleaving his body diagonally in a single strike. The strongest falls—not because of brute force, but because Sukuna used Malevolent Shrine like a scalpel. This is the domain’s most poetic, most brutal moment: it didn’t just win a fight. It ended a legacy. And that makes it the greatest—and most ruthless—use of the Malevolent Shrine.
Malevolent Shrine isn’t just a domain expansion—it’s Sukuna’s philosophy incarnate. Precision. Power. No mercy. Every time he activates it, the battlefield becomes his canvas, and the result is always destruction. Whether slicing through cities, outsmarting divine beasts, or felling legends, Malevolent Shrine proves again and again that Sukuna is not just the King of Curses—he’s a curse upon the world itself.
