History Main / TheDeathOfDeath

* ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII'': The Beyonder is a RealityWarper who wants to make good things for mankind, and does not think that mere superhero stuff is enough. An advisor convinces him to kill Death itself. Unlike most of his other feats, that one would not be possible to be reverted. After he does this, the cosmic entities show up and complain the way he upset the cosmic balance. The Molecule Man complains that, without death, life is meaningless. The advisor agrees, they made a mistake. But, as resurrecting Death is beyond the Beyonder's power, he turns his advisor into a new personification of death.

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Death himself met his demise at Dean's hands after [[TooDumbToLive handing him the only thing in existence that could kill him]], his scythe. Although the personification of death cease to exist, the concept of death did not and a different, friendlier reaper takes up the mantle.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}}'', use of a potion eliminates all Deaths on screen, earning the player from 1,000 to 8,000 points for each.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' ends with the goddess of death Etro being killed. The sequel ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'' shows the consequences that came after Etro's death, such as how no one can die of old age, nor can any new life be born into the world. However, people can still die by means outside of aging like sickness or being attacked by a monster.

* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'': A {{downplayed|Trope}} example in ''Twisted Metal: Head On''. If Mr. Grim wins the Twisted Metal tournament, he wishes for somebody else to take his role as the grim reaper. When Claypso grants his wish, a nearby girl is turned into the reaper while Mr. Grim is turned into a mortal human being. Unfortunately for him, his is almost immediately killed by a truck.

* ''Discworld/ReaperMan'' opens with Death fired and given a mortal life by the Auditors of Reality. At the climax of the book, the new Death comes to claim him. And the old Death outsmarts and kills his would-be replacement.
** And the reason that Death was 'retired'? The Auditors though he [[DontFearTheReaper cared about his "charges" too much]]. The New Death... didn't.

--> '''PlayerCharacter''': Did Sepulchure just kill Death?!

* A {{downplayed|Trope}} example in ''[[VideoGame/TwistedMetal Twisted Metal: Head On]]''. If Mr. Grim wins the Twisted Metal tournament, he wishes for somebody else to take his role as the grim reaper. When Claypso grants his wish, a nearby girl is turned into the reaper while Mr. Grim is turned into a mortal human being. Unfortunately for him, his is almost immediately killed by a truck.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': In the [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/end-of-death-hub End of Death Canon]], during the research of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3448 SCP-3448]] (Halfterlife) they visit afterlife and accidentally kill Death. This causes an ΩK-Class ("End-of-Death") Scenario. Which means "immortality is forced upon all life, without any other biological change".

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* ''Manga/SoulEater'': In the manga, Lord Death passes away the moment his son, Death The Kid, awakens his reaper powers. The reason for this is because there can't be more than one Grim Reaper.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' segment "Reaper Madness", Death comes to the Simpsons house to claim Bart. As the family runs to keep Death from taking him away, Homer hits him with a bowling ball, killing him and creating a world without death.

Compare to DeathTakesAHoliday, wherein Death is no longer doing his job. See also KillTheGod. If a mere mortal manages to take down the big guy, see DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu?

Compare to DeathTakesAHoliday, wherein Death is no longer doing his job. See also KillTheGod.

* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' where Death is killed in a car accident, where a taller version of himself tells him that he's going to be born as a kid in China. He disappears for a second, then reappears; apparently Death was born as a girl.

* The premise of ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'' is that one day everybody suddenly stopped dying. [[spoiler: It turns out to be something to do with the immortal Jack Harkness's blood, and Torchwood successfully reverses it.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'', the game starts with the protagonist killing the Grim Reaper in an effort to avoid being {{dragged to hell}}. Spoilers, it doesn't work.

* Nekron, the Embodiment of Death in Franchise/TheDCU is the BigBad of the ZombieApocalypse CrisisCrossover event ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''. Being the Death himself, it's impossible to kill him, even with Sinestro taking The Entity and converting himself into a White Lantern. But he was eventually defeated when [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] and the rest of the superheroes that had been revived, included [[Franchise/{{Superman}} The]] [[Franchise/{{Batman}} DC]] [[Franchise/WonderWoman Trinity]] take The Entity's power and all become White Lanterns and all of them aim Black Hand (Nekron's avatar and connection to the Earth) with their rings and revive him as a White Lantern too, [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/63/72/2f/63722f6ca6d0a1f12d82838148789566.jpg making Nekron to explode]] and finishing the Black Lanterns menace once for all.

* [[PlayingWith Played with]] in the final episode of ''Series/TheColbertReport''. "Grimmy" attempts to strangle Stephen Colbert so Stephen shoots Grimmy dead, resulting in Stephen becoming immortal.

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Death himself met his demise at Dean's hands after [[TooDumbToLive handing him the only thing in existence that could kill him]], his scythe. Although the personification of death cease to exist, the concept of death did not and another (more friendly) reaper takes up the mantle.

* In ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'', the game starts with the protagonist killing the Grim Reaper in an effort to avoid being dragged to hell. Spoilers, it doesn't work.

* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. When the kids are trapped inside their school bus, they pass the time by telling past exploits with slight twist that didn't happen. Kenny's is him killing Death when it was the other way around.

TheGrimReaper is always considered to be the embodiment of death. As such, It only makes sense that such a being would be considered immortal and unable to actually die. Can't die if you are death itself.

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'''(Alt. Titles: Even Death May Die, Death May Die)'''

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'' ends with the goddess of death Etro being killed. The sequel ''VideoGame/

* In ''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative'', we see an alternate universe called "The Cancerverse". In the Cancerverse, "life won" and Death was destroyed. This resulted in all life in the universe becoming a CosmicHorrorStory (almost all living beings in the Cancerverse worship the "Many Angled Ones") and almost all available space in the universe is filled by a [[EldritchAbomination truly]] [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily horrifying]] organism, described as "a cancer attempting to metastasize into our universe" to find more space to occupy.

* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' where Death is killed in a car accident, where a taller version of himself tells him that he's going to be born as a kid in China. He disappears for a second, then reappears, apparently Death was born as a girl.