Sukuna and Jujutsu Kaisen are CANON in the Marvel Universe?
Has Sukuna been officially canonized to Marvel comics? Imagine Marvel’s heroes fighting him.
It looks like anime universes are canon to Marvel and DC.
On May 7, 2026, in the latest issue of the Marvel comic, “Storm: Earth’s Mightiest Mutant” by Murewa Ayodele, Storm gets thrown across the Omniverse, a realm containing every universe that has ever existed.
They are divided into multiple clusters, meaning universes with a particular theme.
We get two direct anime references here.
First, the area directly identified as Shibuya on October 31st in the “Multiverse Cluster of Magic and Death”, meaning a Marvel comic is directly showing the events of an anime series, namely the Shibuya Incident where Sukuna fought against Jogo, and later Mahoraga, destroying the whole district with his Malevolent Shrine and Divine Flame.
Furthermore, this happens to show Sukuna’s T-pose during the Jogo fight from the anime adaptation, again cementing how culturally significant Jujutsu Kaisen’s anime by Studio MAPPA has really been, not only influencing Gege Akutami’s writing in both the main manga and the sequel Modulo but also in the pages of Western comics.
There is also the “Multiverse Cluster of Sentient Trash”, which is a direct reference to the Gachiakuta universe since it features Mono, one of the six hostile No Man’s Lands of the Ground.
Marvel and DC are no strangers to making references to anime, as the Absolute Batman series has already referenced Chainsaw Man and Kagurabachi.
Naruto is featured in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia have made appearances in Marvel as well.
Yet this is a rare milestone for anime as they are directly canonized as involved in a comic storyline.
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