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For millennia, humanity has feared death, and understandably so, all things considered. Therefore, when personifying it, the result was often pretty terrifying. However, there has also been a very different attitude at times, with various writers and artists creating a personification of Death who is not only not scary, but friendly, compassionate, and otherwise the sort of person you'd want to find waiting for you at a difficult time like that. This sort of Death won't glare at you with Glowing Eyelights of Undeath from underneath a Black Cloak while carrying a scythe (well, some might, but purely because it's expected of them); they will dress as a Perky Goth or take on A Form You Are Comfortable With. They won't challenge you to chess, but will instead be your best pal (before you die, even!) if you give them half a chance. Friendliness notwithstanding, picking fights with Death is still something the challenger will regret. Sometimes this overlaps with Beleaguered Bureaucrat, when they are friendly but nonetheless have a long list of people to get through today and doesn't have time to deal with every decedent's requests. The Celestial Bureaucracy is very busy, you know. The Trope Namer is the eponymous song by Blue Öyster Cult from Agents of Fortune, which is a song about how true love can last even after death, and not, as some seem to think, about anyone committing suicide. Nor is it about more cowbell. Often applied to Psychopomps, Death and the Maiden, the God of the Dead and The Grim Reaper. Contrast with Everybody Hates Hades and Enemies with Death, when authors do the opposite with death-related deities. Is often a Friendly Skeleton. Compare also Friendly Ghost and Friendly Zombie. Distant cousin to The Devil Is a Loser. Compare Not Afraid to Die and We All Die Someday, which is about not fearing death itself rather than its personification. |
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In Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, The Grim Reaper is a bit of a goofball, but every mortal fears him for the obvious reasons. This annoys him when Frankenstein gives him no respect at all as he's immortal and has nothing to fear. | |
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Death in Gregory Horror Show is the only character shown to be completely friendly to the trapped guests, speaking kindly and offering to help where he can. | |
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In the end of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Madoka herself is seen appearing before magical girls whose soul gems are about to be corrupted and taking the gems with her, enabling them to die peacefully and go to the afterlife without becoming witches. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): Pre-Crisis Hades is generally benign, and his realm a place of rest. He does go off the deep end leading up to the Crisis but this was because Ares and the Anti-Monitor manipulated his mind and his wife is able to bring him back to his senses with The Power of Love. | |
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Enlightenments is from the perspective of Dormin, a god of life and death. As far as the god of death aspect goes, they are initially pretty aloof to the concerns of mortals, but are nonetheless mellow in general and patient with the recently dead. They become more compassionate and understanding of mortal concerns as time goes on, too. | |
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In Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, the Grim Reaper appears as someone with kind of a bad attitude (in fact, he looks almost exactly like he did in The Seventh Seal, which is intentional, given the Chess with Death scenario that occurs between him and the protagonists) — but turns out to become a useful ally. In fact, he later on joins the Wyld Stallyns. The Trope Namer is even quoted, when The Grim Reaper finally agrees to help Bill and Ted out. | |
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Bleach: Any deceased human with enough spiritual energy can become a shinigami. The fact that the main character becomes one while still alive is a plot point before the Big Bad shows his face. Thus, the shinigami are just like humans: they can be friendly, moody, supportive, scary, hostile depending on situation or individual personality type. However, shinigami aren't enemies of humanity even if their focus on the big picture can make them seem aloof at times. Their role is to guide the dead to Soul Society, cleanse hollows of post-death sin so they too can be guided to Soul Society and also to maintain the balance of souls across different worlds. In other words, shinigami are portrayed the same way humans are portrayed: as individuals with their own personalities, worries, fears, foibles, strengths and weaknesses. This is arguably the overarching theme of the series. Death is indeed a scary thing, but it will happen to all of us eventually, so we might as well accept it. The final Big Bad, Yhwach, is written to be the embodiment of the fear of death, and is a perfect demonstration of how far a person is willing to go to escape death. A world of immortality does sound like a good idea on paper, but when one stops and really think about it, a world of immortality would have no need to grow and advance. In the end, death is necessary for progression. |
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The Amazing Maurice: Discworld's death makes his appearance here, and is strict but not unkind. He even allows Maurice to give up a life for Dangerous Beans after Maurice tries to save him from the Death of Rats. | |
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Humakt from Glorantha is a stern figure, but not genocidal. His sword Death represents the final end of all things, alongside separation (such as the separation of the living world from the underworld). Humakt also makes use of the Law Rune, but only in its capacity to swear oaths - oaths sworn on death are unbreakable, and holding at least such geas is a requirement to join his cult. Humakti warriors are master swordsmen and women, like their patron, and are honor-bound to hunt down undead and oathbreakers. Thanks to having the Mark of Certitude beneath his tongue healed by Chalana Arroy, he does allow for occasional resurrections, but the ritual to do so requires very strong magic and a lot of sacrifice. | |
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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Nagash, the current dominant death god, averts this trope rather spectacularly, being tyrannical, petty, and fully convinced that every mortal soul in existence is his property by right. He also consumed every other death god/spirit/psychopomp in the Realms, many of whom fit this trope far better. Legend does speak of one, however, who escaped him and is worshipped still by Nagash's enemies: Morrda, who is implied to be Morr himself, or at least a new incarnation of him. If true, than Morrda is much closer to this trope, and is something of a rallying point for those who oppose Nagash's domination of the underworld. | |
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Death in Problem Sleuth is a nice enough guy, willing to let you drink tea and play games for your life. He's also pretty ineffectual at his job, as most of the characters who end up in the afterlife escape through the door. | |
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The Arbiters of Death Parade meet recently deceased humans to determine whether their souls should go back into the cycle of Reincarnation or into the Void, but are usually rather pleasant individuals to deal with, albeit with occasional hints of how how utterly alien their minds are compared to humans. | |
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In the My Little Pony oneshot The Black Stallion, the titular black stallion is a Grim Reaper for ponies. Ponies view all-black ponies as demonic, but the black stallion is a benevolent figure appointed by the Rainbow itself. | |
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Love and Death parodies The Seventh Seal in its depiction of Death, who first visits a young Boris and then dances with an adult Boris at the end. | |
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In Holy Bibble, Azrael — the angel of death — is a blond-haired, blue-eyed angel who values the well-being of the mortals she collects more than some of her fellow fallen. | |
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One Tumblr post◊ wonders why the Grim Reaper is seen as a bad guy when he's just there to take you to the afterlife. They mention that it's actually quite nice of him to walk you there- if you had to walk to the afterlife alone, it would suck. | |
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Machinae Supremacy. I tell you, I Know The Reaper. | |
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In the MLP fanfic Actually, I'm Dead, we meet one of many Grim Reapers, that are apparently there to help guide various types of ponies to the after life. The one we meet, although intimidating, is very warm and welcoming to Trixie, and even takes the time to try and comfort her. It probably helps that she is the reincarnation of Trixie's mother. | |
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In Deities, Death is very friendly towards humans. He also has a very cute appearance and has even had a human girlfriend. | |
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Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): Pre-Crisis Hades is generally benign, and his realm a place of rest. He does go off the deep end leading up to the Crisis but this was because Ares and the Anti-Monitor manipulated his mind and his wife is able to bring him back to his senses with The Power of Love. In Post-Crisis Wonder Woman, as conceived by George Perez, Hades is depicted as a relatively benign god who is rather kind and generous as far as his job description allows and nobody has an especially significant problem with him. Other writers had different ideas about him. |
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In some fanfics, Harry Potter will sometimes become The Grim Reaper, and in most of these fics, retains his heroic qualities. When portrayed separately, Death is also this in a lot of cases. Then there's Reptilia28's "Don't Fear the Reaper" challenge. In stories based on this, Harry is facing his Grim Reaper after multiple premature deaths and gets sent back to get it right this time. |
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The scrapyard robot in Freefall is pretty nice for a robot built to take apart other robots (and who carries a scythe). He even allows them to buy themselves as scrap (including lending them money if they can't afford it) so they don't need to be disassembled (not to mention exist without an owner). | |
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Death Takes a Holiday (from 1934, starring Frederick March and Evelyn Venable), sees Death become progressively nicer during his stint in human form. It was remade in 1971, and again in 1998 as Meet Joe Black. | |
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Bernie in Death Vigil doesn't claim souls at all—instead, she focuses on protecting people from death by combating primordial forces of evil that want to eat reality. She revives people who have died to join the Vigil and gives them veilrippers to fight against said primordial evils. In her spare time, she likes listening to modern music on her iPod and dancing. | |
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In Animaniacs the Reaper is Laughably Evil, and the three protagonists are able to scare him away as easily as they could anyone else. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-3540 is the activity of two grim reapers designated SCP-3540-1 and SCP-3540-2. The reapers, Maurice and Lance, are gay lovers who save up vacation time to take a shared break from their jobs as psychopomps to live domestically and participate in the Hallowe'en season. The two try not to impede upon the neighbors of the abandoned houses they move into, are hospitable to their visitors, and would adopt and raise a presumably-mortal child were it not for certain limitations. Their SCP entry invokes the trope with its title, Don't Queer the Reaper. SCP-4999 shows up to people who are on the brink of death who have no loved ones or otherwise close individuals to comfort them as they die. In the Foundation universe, the grim reaper is a group called the Three Brothers of Death. The Small-Death represents the death of the individual, the nameless Second represents the death of the many, and the All-Death represents forces outside our control, both natural and supernatural. At their worst, they're True Neutral; they can be petty and especially don't like to be cheated, but they're only trying to do their job. They're still kind to the souls of the dead and All-Death claims they collect them in order to protect them. It's also implied that SCP-4999 is actually the Small-Death. |
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In the Supernatural/Arrow crossover How the Light Gets In, Laurel remembers when Death came for her. He's portrayed as patient, compassionate, reminds her of all the good she has done, tells her she deserves peace and rest, and points out it doesn't matter how long you live, but how you live. Also, an Author's Note confirms it was Death himself who came for her, not one of his Reapers, as a sign of respect. | |
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The idea is alluded to in Cowboy Bebop, where Laughing Bull says "Do not fear death. Death is always by our side. When we show fear it jumps at us faster than light, but if we do not show fear, it casts its eye upon us gently, and guides us into infinity." | |
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Seventh Endmost Vision has a Double Subversion of this trope as part of the argument between the Western and Eastern cultures. Eastern cultures definitely fear the reaper, and specifically have the standard skeleton in a cloak with a scythe as their death figure. Westerners- or at least Cloud- find this ridiculous; they have Lady Jenny instead, who is a beautiful, attractive woman who comes to take you to her kingdom. That would make her similar to Death of the Endless, the basis for a lot of these interpretations... except that Lady Jenny gets pissy if you make human-shaped dolls, and will possess them to kill everyone around her, meaning that both cultures have reason to fear the reaper. Given that it's implied that Lady Jenny is a cultural memory of Jenova, the fear is very reasonable! | |
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In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Death, while still retaining the black clothing (albeit a suit) and skeletal appearance, is a mostly-polite British waiter who guides you to your table in Purgatory, which is a restaurant. | |
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Lots of fanworks for Homestuck that explore what would have happened if the trolls had made it through the door and become the deities of our universe cast Aradia as the goddess of death. She's canonically pretty nice, so this association pretty much requires this trope. | |
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The Reaper in A Growing Affection appears as a beautiful young girl, is quite kind to almost everyone, and only smiles in amusement at Naruto's borderline blasphemy. And the second she gets a chance she pulls out a scythe bigger than she is and cuts Orochimaru's soul in half. | |
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Momo in Ballad Of A Shinigami is a sweet, white-haired girl who not only makes your death painless, she helps the people you are leaving behind by comforting them. | |
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The deaths in Irregular Webcomic! are just trying to meet quota so they don't get demoted or fired. One can't help feel sorry for Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs, who can't even manage to harvest people from the Montana Jones storylines... even though half the time they're set on hydrogen zeppelins manned by trigger-happy Nazis. Or, most of the time, the fantasy storylines, which contain a character for whom "cast ridiculously huge fireball" is The All-Solving Hammer. Other Deaths become sympathetic due to other mistreatment. The Death of Being Wrestled to Death by Steve (a Steve Irwin parody)...got wrestled to death by Steve. |
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Death from Death and the Maiden is a generally genial guy with a crush on a human girl. | |
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In The Order of the Stick: Malack argues that while death gods get a bad reputation, they should be viewed as neutral by default. Death claims everyone, not just the righteous. His own patron god, Nergal, is almost certainly evil though: Malack is his high priest and his goal is, after his allies have passed on (from old age or otherwise), to begin mass sacrifices to Nergal on a scale that the gladiator games cannot compare to. | |
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Rage's album Speak of the Dead features a Grim Reaper in several songs who is "Heaven-sent" as a mercy to free one from pain, and wishes not to be feared. | |
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Soul Eater: Lord Death willingly embraces this trope. Back in his day he used to look like a textbook skull-and-black-cloak (read: very intimidating) Grim Reaper, but when he founded Death Weapon Meister Academy, he took on a more friendly appearance and goofy speech patterns, so as to not frighten his students. He saves that for his enemies. His son Death the Kid is also hardly a threatening image of death, being a teenage boy with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Don't try to do whatever you like with human lives. He doesn't like that one bit. |
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Exalted: The Abyssal Exalted are semi-resurrected humans empowered by the Deathlords. Some Abyssals are savage killers who just want to destroy everything, but others rebel against their skeletal patrons, finding life all the more beautiful because they know how fleeting it can be. Several canonical Abyssal characters work to prevent ghosts in the Underworld from starving (yes, Exalted ghosts can starve) by encouraging their living descendants to remember them. Saturn, the goddess of all endings, is a benevolent and natural fixture of the setting's cosmology. It's not only human death she presides over- when a fever runs its course or a war stops, that's an ending Saturn signed off on sometime. Nor are most of her endings permanent. |
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The Marvel Universe's Death can be like this. Sometimes, she seems like a nice girl, if a little dead inside. Depending on the Writer, she could also be quite evil. Wade Wilson, prior to becoming Deadpool, even fell in love with her, and one of the reasons he can't die is because one of her jealous suitors made him immortal so he'd stay away from her, which is another reason why Deadpool is so freaking Ax-Crazy. Amazingly, she's been shown to reciprocate his feelings—but they can only meet during the few seconds after he dies and before his mutant power/immortal curse can call him back to life. Death as a star-crossed lover? Death has also appeared as a low-key but friendly construction worker, to Jean Grey and Rachel Grey-Summers. In another X-Men related example, New Mutant Dani Moonstar once tried to fight off an incarnation of Death from taking one of her (non-mutant) friends. She eventually allowed Death to do her job, after she explained why her 'gift' was not to be feared by those who were suffering. She can stop being nice if she wants to. When she appeared to Dracula - who she clearly didn't like - she took a male form that was far more intimidating. In any story involving Thanos (which constitutes most of the stories she appears prominently in), she is presented as a cruel, greedy, and insidiously manipulative being who enjoys causing suffering almost as much as causing death itself; and is generally depicted as the very antithesis of DC's compassionate version of Death. At best, she is Lawful Neutral, often crossing over into genuine evil (she actively seduced Thanos into becoming the living murder machine he is, while still always keeping him lonely and miserable). The reason her relationship with Deadpool is so funny is because it's so unusual for her to react with sincere affection (let alone love) to anyone. One story included a presumed Take That! towards the DC Death, having Marvel Death appear as a cute goth girl who was far from perky: When an Elseworld Silver Surfer gained the Infinity Gauntlet and went crazy with its power he attempted to invoke this by making Death appear as a beautiful woman instead of a cloaked skeleton. |
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Monster Musume: Lala is a psychopomp who's also a gothy, socially awkward girl who pretends to be a psychopomp, making her a chuunibyou who actually does have supernatural powers. Despite loving to talk about darkness and death all the time, she's actually a very nice girl who's covering up the fact that she's cripplingly shy around strangers. | |
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In The Sunset Limited, the character White feels warm and fuzzy inside when thinking about the peace and silence of death. | |
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The God of Death in Pathfinder, being a Spiritual Successor to D&D 3rd edition, is the True Neutral Pharasma. She's is also the god of Fate, Prophecy, and Rebirth. She has no problem with Resurrection as you'll arrive in her domain eventually so there is no need to rush things. However she hates undead and her followers seek out and destroy them. | |
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When Death comes for Lisa in Funky Winkerbean, he is a perfectly-mannered well-dressed gentleman (albeit with a theatre mask hiding his face) who makes an undramatic entrance, allows Lisa to realize for herself that "It's time" and extends his hand for her to take, and lets her pause for a moment as he leads her away so she can say goodbye though it goes unheard. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Forgotten Realms setting really likes this trope. Kelemvor is the poster boy for this trope and canonically Lawful Neutral. He and his worshipers work to comfort the living and ensure that the dead rest in peace, and Kelemvorite rangers, clerics and paladins are among the most determined undead hunters in the setting. The setting also includes the halfling death god Urogalan, also LN, and the Mulhorandi god Osiris who is Lawful Good. Even Kelemvor's unnerving-to-mortals subordinate Jergal counts, as he is merely the archivist of death. In 2nd edition, Kelemvor was Lawful Good. He was changed to neutral later on because of D&D's tendency to equate death powers to evil. In-universe, the rest of the pantheon got together to stop him from being too nice. Sehanine Moonbow, the elven goddess of (amongst other things) death, was of the "Neutral Good" alignment and had a bit of a 'death as part of the journey of existence, not the end' slant to her. She got retconned as merely an aspect of Selûne (who does not have death in her portfolio) in 4th edition, however. In the Greyhawk setting, Wee Jas is the Lawful Neutral goddess of Death and Magic. Her clerics teach that death is part of the natural order, and that she shepherds the souls of the deceased to their final destinations. She was originally a goddess of magic, but after a magical disaster killed millions, magic was equated with death, which altered the perception of her to a more morbid figure. She's also a rival to Nerull, the Grim Reaper figure of the setting, since she's seen as a relatively healthy form of death worship, and Nerull... really, really isn't. Ezra, the Lawful Neutral patron goddess of the Anchorites of Ravenloft, has an innate connection to Death, as she is said to have voluntarily merged with the Mists (themselves associated with death) in order to stand between the Land's dark forces and its inhabitants. She doesn't cause death, but is believed to shield the souls of the deceased from evil forces upon their passing. At least one god of death (a converted version of Hades) is explicitly stated to only be evil because the alignment was required for levels in the Assassin class, but would otherwise be True Neutral. Which makes sense. In 4th Edition the deity of death, the Raven Queen, was Unaligned, and hated the undead. Which, since paladins in that edition only needed to match the alignment of their patron deity, made her rather popular with players. Grave Domain Clerics are themed around this and follow gods who embody it, comforting the dying, ensuring the dead are laid to rest, souls find the afterlife properly, and destroying undead. However, unusually for this trope, their god has also provided them tools to prevent death...but only from unnatural causes, never to prolong life past its natural end point. This manifests in powers such as being able to get max healing from spells on dying allies, negating critical hits, getting Revivify and Raise Dead as domain spells, and turning spiritual energy from slain foes into healing for allies, but also getting a large number of necrotic spells for offense. |
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While the other "The Last Trick-or-Treaters" strips by R.K. Milholland of Something*Positive fame are frightening, this one starring The Grim Reaper and an unfortunate trick-or-treater is oddly touching. | |
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In The Halloween Tree, Mr. Moundshroud (heavily implied to be the manifestation of Death). While not the most friendly individual, he also bears no real malice to the children; it's just business to him. | |
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Some scholars take "Angel of Death" from the Book of Exodus to be an allegory for Jesus. A large number of angels also bear the title. The Kabbalic figure Azriel (known as Ezra/Azra in Orthodox Christianity and Azrael in Islam and Sikhim) is probably the most famous today, but Michael and Gabriel also qualify. Satan is also credited as an "angel" of death, so it's Zig Zagged. | |
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The Forgotten Realms setting really likes this trope. Kelemvor is the poster boy for this trope and canonically Lawful Neutral. He and his worshipers work to comfort the living and ensure that the dead rest in peace, and Kelemvorite rangers, clerics and paladins are among the most determined undead hunters in the setting. The setting also includes the halfling death god Urogalan, also LN, and the Mulhorandi god Osiris who is Lawful Good. Even Kelemvor's unnerving-to-mortals subordinate Jergal counts, as he is merely the archivist of death. In 2nd edition, Kelemvor was Lawful Good. He was changed to neutral later on because of D&D's tendency to equate death powers to evil. In-universe, the rest of the pantheon got together to stop him from being too nice. Sehanine Moonbow, the elven goddess of (amongst other things) death, was of the "Neutral Good" alignment and had a bit of a 'death as part of the journey of existence, not the end' slant to her. She got retconned as merely an aspect of Selûne (who does not have death in her portfolio) in 4th edition, however. |
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In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus explicitly states that angels come to get people when they die (Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus) but they're not the ones you should be afraid of. God is the one who judges you. The angels will escort the faithful to Heaven, but they'll also dutifully cast the wicked into Hell. | |
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The Mass Effect fic Crucible depicts Death as a nice, friendly, charismatic guy who smokes like crazy and often goes by the name "Sam Shepard" or "Lord Samikis". He will often appear as the same species as you to make you feel at home. Death's a very cunning man who will always get his ways in the end but so don't let his easy-going attitude fool you. When your time comes you will have to go with him but if he feels the need to do otherwise, he may give you a little more time. If you have enough power and manage to catch him off-guard, you can seal him away, but even that doesn't stick long. As Sam is a very devoting father to his daughter, Jane Shepard, to the point of being a Knight Templar Parent and loving husband to his wife, do not mess with his family or you will receive a Fate Worse than Death in which you get locked in your paralysed body forever, unable to die, rotting away in helplessness while Death comes back regularly to torture you. | |
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Death from Slightly Damned, though initially intimidating, is very friendly. However, that Death has been revealed to be the angel Darius, the adoptive father the boy he is hugging. The real Death appears to be much less pleasant. | |
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She can stop being nice if she wants to. When she appeared to Dracula - who she clearly didn't like - she took a male form that was far more intimidating. | |
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The world of Gunnerkrigg Court has Psychopomps from all cultures to help the newly deceased enter the Ether. They range from fuzzy dogs to old women to the unseen insect guide Ketrak, all of them quite personable and concerned for their charges' well-being. Annie was pals with a lot of them prior to their falling-out when they didn't show up to collect her mother's spirit, and the owl-headed Muut makes overtures to try to mend their relationship. | |
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In Godslave, Anpu, the reaper in question, argues for it, stating that his job simply entails keeping the world from spinning out of control. | |
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Angel in Chainsaw Man is the Anthropomorphic Personification of this concept. He's a humanoid Angelic Abomination with a Touch of Death ability he can't control. | |
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In the short film The Life of Death (otherwise known as Death and the Deer by fans), Death is given a bit more of a human but child-like side and is genuinely unhappy with his place in nature, until he meets a doe and stays alongside her, until she becomes too weak to catch up with the rest of her herd, thus, she goes to him for a Final First Hug. | |
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Downplayed in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The Wolf is eventually revealed to be Death itself, and he is hunting Puss down. However, he has a reasonable motive for doing sonote he's sick of Puss wasting his lives and being downright disrespectful of him, he never involves any innocents in the chase, and when he realizes Puss has changed from the arrogant blowhard he used to be, he's willing to let the cat live his life and leaves him be until they inevitably meet again. | |
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Mortis from the Pony POV Series, the Anthropomorphic Personification of Death and Grim Reaper, is a pretty nice guy, all things considered. He isn't depicted as malevolent and wasn't complaining that there wasn't much need of him in the G3 reality, barring the occasional accidental death, due to everyone being immortal. He also seems to have no problems letting a soul remain to until its Unfinished Business is completed as the G2 mane cast were permitted to remain on earth until they could pass on together. When his brother Morning Star complained about him not doing his job "right" in favor of being nice to mortals, Mortis points out that his job included helping mortals pass peacefully into the afterlife; after all, mortals are not simply sapient cargo to ferry off. He also appears at the end of the Pony POV Series Chaos Verse, an Alternate Universe Spin-Off of the original, where he guides the Construct Mane Six to Pony Heaven, but permits them to watch over Discord and Fluttercruel until the Final Battle with Nightmare Phobia is won first. | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance has Kravitz, The Grim Reaper, who prevents souls from escaping or avoiding the afterlife as part of the cycle of life and death. If he comes for you personally, you're in major trouble, but he's not a bad or even unreasonable person. He's willing to bend the rules for the heroes due to how important their work is, and even agrees to play a game of cards with Magnus so that the latter has the chance to save an innocent soul. All in all, he's just a person with a very unusual job that he takes very seriously. He even falls in love with Taako. | |
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Death from Monkey Bone, despite having a nasty temper and dark sense of humor, is quite friendly and a rather Benevolent Boss to her reapers. Being played by Whoopi Goldberg definitely helps to play up her perky and cheerful personality. | |
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The Undertaker, at least since his 2004 return to his "undead" gimmick. He's still depicted as intensely scary and having supernatural powers, but he usually battles against villains - most famously at the 2007 Royal Rumble, when he arrived as the 30th entrant to save Shawn Michaels, Edge, Randy Orton, and Montel Vontavious Porter from The Great Khali. | |
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The Kansas song "Child of Innocence". While the lyrics focus on the inevitability of death and the pointlessness of trying to prevent it, they also paint the grim reaper as a comforting figure that need not be feared. | |
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Played with in Death Note. Shinigami have Blue-and-Orange Morality and most don't give humans and their lives very much thought. At the same time, they're not all bad — Ryuk really seems to enjoy hanging out with Light and often spends time doing goofy stuff like playing video games in his room. Two Shinigami fell in love with a human and used their powers to extend her life. In spite of their pleasant nature, Shinigami will never be "good" as it's understood by humans. Gelus and later Rem saved Misa's life but were both killed because Shinigami can never use their powers to prolong the lifespan of mortals, and after knowing and hanging out with Light for so many years, Ryuk was all too happy to kill him as soon as he stopped being entertaining. | |
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Asphodel in A Prairie Home Companion. Rather apropos, as it is Robert Altman's last film. | |
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Hunters of Justice, being a DC Universe crossover, naturally has Death of the Endless. She has a polite conversation with Pyrrha in the House of Mystery, and is quite friendly with Ozpin, as she has encountered Ozma's soul multiple times due to his curse. | |
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In Post-Crisis Wonder Woman, as conceived by George Perez, Hades is depicted as a relatively benign god who is rather kind and generous as far as his job description allows and nobody has an especially significant problem with him. Other writers had different ideas about him. | |
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An episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX deals with the spirit of the pharaoh Abidos, challenging Judai. After losing, he passes on, satisfied that he finally found an opponent who would duel him seriously. Judai refuses his offer to go with him to the afterlife, but promises to meet him again after 100 years. The episode ends with the crew discussing death and the afterlife. Needless to say, this didn't go well with the translators. | |
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In Kamichu!, Death is a rather friendly, if somewhat eccentric goddess, who even once had an affair with Poverty. | |
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Martian Manhunter: The Martians worshipped H'ronmeer, the god of death and fire (though some regard him as a god of life and light), who called all Green Martians his children. He was blamed for the plague that wiped out the Martian race, but that was actually Ma'alefa'ak's fault. On one occasion, he seemed to be coming after J'onn, but in truth he just needed his help to lead the Martians' souls to the afterlife. | |
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Apollo 440 covered Blue Öyster Cult's "(Don't Fear the Reaper)" in an electronic rock version, for their album Millenium Fever. | |
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The title character from the webcomic Jack is ass-ugly, he's mean, he WILL hunt you down viciously if you try to run away from him, he's one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and in life, he was an evil dictator who wiped out all of humanity. However, he also genuinely cares about the souls he guides to the afterlife (he gets mad when reasonably decent people get condemned to Hell), and even denizens of Hell. And sweet mother of potatoes is he nicer than the other sins.note Except Sloth. But Sloth is merely the ground of Hell, so it's disqualified. | |
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The Bible: In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus explicitly states that angels come to get people when they die (Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus) but they're not the ones you should be afraid of. God is the one who judges you. The angels will escort the faithful to Heaven, but they'll also dutifully cast the wicked into Hell. Some scholars take "Angel of Death" from the Book of Exodus to be an allegory for Jesus. A large number of angels also bear the title. The Kabbalic figure Azriel (known as Ezra/Azra in Orthodox Christianity and Azrael in Islam and Sikhim) is probably the most famous today, but Michael and Gabriel also qualify. Satan is also credited as an "angel" of death, so it's Zig Zagged. Subverted in Revelations, where the personification of death is treated as an enemy of God and is implied to be the only being who will be truly destroyed by God after the Last Judgement.note As the fallen angels and damned souls are sent to Hell |
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The Loving Reaper series of comics by Jenny-Jinya portrays the Grim Reaper as a kind, merciful being towards the neglected, abused, or (in rare cases) just unlucky animals he reaps. At one point he even sends an abandoned dog in his place to bring comfort to the soul of a kid who died in a hospital, to the kid's delight, and also grants the soul of a circus lion the title as a king among the souls of other cats. | |
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Deidre from Rhapsodies is always friendly and wishes her clients well before leading them into the light. | |
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In The Seventh Seal Death seems like a reasonably amiable fellow, even postponing someone's demise to play a game of chess. Death isn't particularly malicious or even spiteful towards Block but rather affable, in one scene he even acts as a sort of confidant for Block's confession and angry rant against God. That being said, Death will do whatever he can to win the game. | |
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hololive: Calliope Mori is the apprentice of the Grim Reaper, though she is currently "on hiatus" from scythe-swinging. While she likes to talk a big game about how powerful and fearsome she is, in reality she's more of an Endearingly Dorky Nice Girl. Her mentor Death-Sensei is the Grim Reaper, and also fits this trope. When he first started, the newly dead drowned in the Sea of Souls while desperately trying to reach the staircase to whatever came next — even Death-sensei doesn't know for certain, though he assumes it's The Nothing After Death. At any rate, he changed things so that his reapers now give souls a ride across the Sea to the stairs, because "at some point, I realized that if they're all gonna die anyway, let it be with a comforting little boat ride by some funny skeleton man." Death-sensei is thus fine with his reapers prolonging people's lives on ocassion, and has even done so himself, as with the case of Alexander Fleming (who discovered penicillin, saving countless lives). So not only does Death-Sensei not punish Calli for saving someone, he gives her permission to continue doing so, and lets her go off on vacation. |
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In Finmonster's Danny Phantom/ParaNorman crossover Harbinger, hitting Danny with a bus aside, the Reapers and Death seem to be largely okay beings. | |
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The Animal Crossing fic Slice of Heaven reinterprets Rover as the Grim Reaper. He's a benevolent, friendly cat who helps take animals to the afterlife. | |
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The Warhammer 40,000 version of Valkyries are Wolf Priests, Space Wolves who watch over the constant battles of the Fenrisian natives, taking those who are grievously wounded, still able to be saved and young enough to survive the Training from Hell and horrifying alterations that will turn them into Space Marines. Fenrisians consider it a great honor to be chosen to join the Sky Warriors and fight forever more alongside their heroes. In this case, the reaper is still feared by the enemies of Man. | |
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Codex Equus: Many Death deities recorded in the Codexverse are benevolent, and it's a much-needed necessity considering that dying is a very serious matter. Whenever a Death deity shows up, they devote their time and effort to comforting the dying/dead so the process of ushering them into an afterlife realm would go smoothly. Angering a Death deity is not a good idea, as there are limitless options to make the offender's life (and afterlife) utterly hellish. The Three Deaths are a trio of Alicorn siblings who embody different aspects of Death. They are: Gavisus Manes is the youngest sibling who presides over those who died happily and content, and literally the afterlife's party pony. He's a very happy-go-lucky sort and very friendly. He typically greets those he's come to claim with a huge 'Welcome to Your Eternal Reward Party' intended to be as happy as possible for them with all their deceased loved ones as guests. He often even begins his role before they die by allowing them to relive their happiest moments. Audens Manes is the middle sibling who handles those who died heroic and valiant deaths, such as heroes, soldiers, and rescue workers. She's virtuous and noble, though a bit of a Large Ham. She greets the dead with gratitude and thanks them for their heroic acts, as well as shows them all the good their actions have done. She also possesses an ability called Last Stand, which gives a dying person enough life to perform a Dying Moment of Awesome before they pass. Malus Manes is the eldest sibling who deals with those who were wicked and evil in life. While it's his job to drag the wicked off to face their punishment for their sins and thus he's decidedly not the guy you want waiting for you, he's not a bad guy, mostly somber about what his job is. He often intervenes before the evil person dies to help ensure they get what they deserve. If a wicked soul genuinely repents, he's happier than anyone and will even give them a second chance or at least time as his Angel to atone for their actions. However, failing to act on that second chance will royally tick him off. This also applies to the Trimortidae, the adoptive/biological children of the Three Deaths. Many of them are very benevolent, compassionate, and heroic. Their roles either consist of comforting the dying by bringing them joy in their last moments, delivering them to their eternal reward for good deeds, and/or punishing the wicked for their crimes. They also serve as protectors who defend the deceased from those who seek to resurrect them against their will, and/or wicked souls and demonic forces who prey on the innocent. However, it's implied there are exceptions, as one member of the Trimortidae joined the Poenan Pantheon out of disillusionment towards her family and their duties. |
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Morr from Warhammer and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay - his chief priorities are to ensure that the dead rest in peace and maintains a peaceful and restful afterlife for them, and his main enemies are Necromancers, who take the dead back into the land of the living against their will, and the followers of Khaine, God of Murder (his younger brother in human pantheons) who takes murdered souls to his own realm. | |
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Apocalyptic Horseplay: Mot, the personification of death. He looks just like typical grandpa, maybe with a little bony knees... He is also the nicest of Horsemen, and the one who convinced them to settle down instead of bringing constant chaos to earth. His appearance is somehow close to Discworld Death, with his heavy way of speaking, kindness to humans and lack of understanding them in the same time. | |
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Finder's Keepers (2008) features a Gaiman-inspired Perky Goth Death, the youngest of the nine Powers That Be, the highest authorities beyond The Veil. She does have rather nasty skeleton-and-cowl enforcers. She seems to have a soft spot for Card, though.´ | |
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Bob Fosse's All That Jazz features a sweet and welcoming angel of death having a possibly lifelong relationship with the main character. | |
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Child of the Storm has Death of the Endless, who's her typical Perky Goth self and, among other things, occasionally answers to Didi. She helps out the protagonists in little and not so little ways - little, for example, including helping Dumbledore walk an insensible Harry back into Hogwarts and hint that he'll be all right, and everything about her conversation with the recently deceased Luna Lovegood, who she essentially adopts as her little sister after she consents to take the position of Delirium (the old one having simply wandered off one day). Not so little assists include bussing in the late Alan Scott to give Carol, the new wielder of his Green Lantern Ring, a quick tutorial in how it works, and with Dream, Delirium (Luna) and Destruction a.k.a. the Phoenix a.k.a. Lily Potter, briefly diverting Maddie and Jono during their trip through the Nevernever to the Red Room's base, and providing them with a guide and escorts to help them rescue Harry. | |
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Death from Fanboys is a pretty chill and laid-back guy, but he has a very twisted sense of humor. | |
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Death from The Time... Guys is pretty cool and takes time out of his killer schedule to go to a bar with Dr. Chronos when Timmy and Caveman were unavailable for the weekend. | |
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La Muerte from The Book of Life, is a goddess that governs the dead and her name literally means death in Spanish. However, she highlights the view that those who've died are never really gone as long as they are remembered by their loved ones (fitting, since the movie borrows heavily from Mexico's Dia de los Muertos). | |
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Dee, from the Spanish webcomic CROWLEY, usually looks like a cheerful little girl and is quite friendly and kind, and a friend of the main character. Unless you piss her off, then she can be downright terrifying. | |
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The absolute classic Fairport Convention track "Meet On The Ledge" treats death as a chance to catch up with all those friends that have gone before, not as something to be feared. It's an extremely popular funeral song in the UK for that very reason. | |
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As stated in Jacob's Ladder... This has led viewers to theorize that Louis himself is one of those angels, albeit far more personable than the others. |
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Pop Will Eat Itself have a song called "Menofearthereaper" about this. | |
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Death in Johnny Wander is an awkward guy who falls in love with a human girl, accidentally skeletonizing her hand with a kiss and then being too shy to approach her for eighty years, which incidentally prevents her from aging. They get together in the end. | |
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The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Death takes the form of a kindly old stallion when he comes for Twilight, allowing her to pass on peacefully. | |
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The Brazilian comic Monica's Gang has one in the spinoff Penadinho (known in English as Bug-a-booo). Dona Morte/Lady McDeath is a clumsy Grim Reaper who is always forced to run after her "next clients". Her creator Mauricio de Sousa states that the character is an attempt to make death less scary than most people treat it, and tries to portray her as just someone doing her job, never an assassin. Even the full-sized scythe she carries is ultimately unthreateling — all she does is lightly bonk dying people over the head with the blunt side opposite the blade, turning them into Bedsheet Ghosts. | |
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In Bleak World this is a hugely averted. The Reapers will send any ghost to the death beyond death if they stick around too long. The organization of ghosts that fancies themselves as Reaper initiates are definitely the most morally objectionable, often torturing other ghosts before sending them to The Death Beyond Death. | |
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Family Guy: Several episodes have revolved around Peter dealing with Death, and he's often a lot more down-to-earth than most of the human characters on the show—although Death does have a tendency toward using his Touch of Death to get out of awkward situations. Being voiced by Norm Macdonald then Adam Carolla definitely helps him be seen as a likeable if somewhat sarcastic guy. Just don't look under his hood. | |
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In Spirited Away, Chihiro takes a train to get to Zeniba's home which is intended for use by the dead moving onto the next life; it has phantom passengers. | |
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Housepets!: Cerberus is first seen in her new job as the Reaper giving a giant cookie to a drowned puppy to calm him down as she takes him to heaven. She apparently took the job for the opportunity to work with kids | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Tour Guide From the Underworld seems rather friendly for someone who drives an Afterlife Express. (A lot of fans tend to disagree, however, given how much her card can be abused, often regarding her as the type who seduces souls before dragging them to Hell.) | |
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In the Creepypasta My Grandfather Made a Deal with Death, the narrator recounts how his grandpa met Death in the trenches of World War I, and cheated him at a coin flip, and would always tell him that Death smelled horrific- rotten meat, ammonia, etc. As his grandfather becomes more and more decrepit, he fears that he has been given Age Without Youth, and he'll just get older and older until he's in a living hell. However, Death visits him and tells him that he (Death) 'd always known about the coin flip being rigged, he (Grandpa) was just scheduled to die at 96. The narrator sees this whole conversation, and says that Death's scent was Christmas dinner, his mother's perfume, and Grandma's cookies all at once. Death smells of comfort, not horror. | |
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YuYu Hakusho: Botan, who acts as The Grim Reaper in the first few episodes, wears a pink robe and is a Genki Girl. Yusuke even does Lampshade Hanging when they first meet in the pilot: | |
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A variation in Sailor Moon. Sailor Saturn is an entity of death and carries a scythe as a weapon. She has the power to destroy a planet if she wants. However she is not evil and her purpose is to kill off the remnants of a destroyed world, so that Sailor Moon can use her own powers to restore it. Any time she uses her death powers is only to allow rebirth to happen immediately afterwards. | |
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Wade Wilson, prior to becoming Deadpool, even fell in love with her, and one of the reasons he can't die is because one of her jealous suitors made him immortal so he'd stay away from her, which is another reason why Deadpool is so freaking Ax-Crazy. Amazingly, she's been shown to reciprocate his feelings—but they can only meet during the few seconds after he dies and before his mutant power/immortal curse can call him back to life. Death as a star-crossed lover? | |
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In Curtailed, Mandy shows us a reaper that is so cute it would be almost impossible for anyone to fear it. | |
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Childrin R Skary: The Childrin may indeed be scary, but Death, despite the skeleton-in-a-cloak-with-a-scythe look, is a kindly and benevolent figure : Death 'n' Elsie. An Elephant's Memory. A Parting Gift. |
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