'''Basic Trope''': For some reason TheGrimReaper, or an AnthropomorphicPersonification of some other concept intrinsic to existence (or the ending thereof), takes a serious dislike to TheHero and has it in for them.
* '''Straight''':
** Bob is an enemy of Death.
** Bob is an enemy of the {{Shinigami}}.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob is an enemy of the four HorsemenOfTheApocalypse.
** Bob is an enemy of the avatar of the Heat Death of The Universe.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob and death don't like each other and will go out of their way to trip each other up, short of finishing each other off.
* '''Justified''':
** Bob upset ThePlan Death made for something or someone.
** Death dislikes Bob for making their job harder or even impossible (like saving lives, cheating death or becoming immortal).
** Death's boss orders him/her to antagonize Bob.
** Bob kills lots of people, making Death overworked and frustrated.
** Bob, age 4965, has cheated Death too often.
* '''Inverted''':
** Bob is PalsWithJesus.
** Bob [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu has tea with Cthulhu]].
** Bob [[DontFearTheReaper doesn't fear the reaper.]]
** Bob is an enemy of the AnthropomorphicPersonification of ''Life.''
** Bob is pals with Death. Yeah, that's just [[{{Pun}} morbid]].
** Alternatively: Bob and Death are enemies... But it's ''Bob'' who is the aggressor, and Death is just trying to do his job.
** Death is overworked so he forms a partnership with Bob to [[LivingForeverIsAwesome create an expanding community of happy immortals]] so he has fewer souls to collect.
* '''Subverted''':
** Turns out that Death antagonizes ''everyone'', and Bob just has an inflated sense of self-importance.
** Bob and Death are VitriolicBestBuds.
* '''Double Subverted''': But Death ''especially'' hates Bob.
* '''Parodied''':
** [[ChessWithDeath Death offer to settle the whole thing with a game of]]... ''VideoGame/{{Dissidia|Final Fantasy}}''. Then it turns out that Death is one of those StopHavingFunGuys (pun intended).
** Death is Bob's SitcomArchNemesis.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes Bob fight Death like there is no tomorrow (possibly literal, shall Bob ever lose), the other day they went to watch football match together.
* '''Averted''':
** Death is equally apathetic toward all beings.
** [[CurbStompBattle Death kills Bob with a finger flick]].
* '''Enforced''': It's one of those feel-good stories where TheHero spits on Death's face and wins. Unlike in, you know, RealLife.
* '''Lampshaded''': [[GallowsHumor "Hope your insurance policy is up to date!"]]
* '''Invoked''': Bob bluffs his way out of a room full of assassins by noting that they'd have to be pretty stupid to "steal" a kill from Death itself.
* '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz set up a deal with [[strike: the devil]] Death to destroy Bob. Or with Bob to destroy Death, whichever is more profitable for him.
* '''Defied''': [[TopGod Death's boss]] has a "stay away from this guy" policy regarding Bob.
* '''Discussed''': "Death won't kill ya, oh no, it likes to ''toy'' with you. No "sweet release", just oodles of agony before the curtain call."
* '''Conversed''': "Y'know, if Death is explicitly out to kill this character, why don't they just appeal to some 'Life' entity or even {{God}} to even things out? It's hardly fair."
* '''Deconstructed''': TheProblemWithFightingDeath.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Bob goes with one (or more) of the suggested solutions in the above trope page, and it/they works!
** Bob is enemies with a particular {{psychopomp}}, but there is a limit to what that psychopomp can actually do about it. Killing Bob with its scythe in combat is fair game, but simply cutting the thread of his life is not, and once Bob is dead, the psychopomp must treat him as it would any other dead soul.
* '''Played For Drama''': Death hates Bob, but just killing him outright wouldn't do much for him... that'd put Bob's soul in his hands for only a short while. Instead, he torments Bob by killing all of his loved ones; friends, family, pets, anybody Bob would hold dear. And if this is enough to have Bob DrivenToSuicide? Death just won't take him. Bob will be miserable and alone forever.
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Are you sure you want to go back to being EnemiesWithDeath? It might not be worth the trouble, you know.
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