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* In a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons']] Halloween special, Homer kills Death after trying to save Bart from him. Lisa mentions that there is now a world without death, and then cue scenes around Springfield of people not dying when they should. Homer then puts on Death's cloak for fun and accidentally becomes the new Grim Reaper (Possibly an AffectionateParody slash Hallow'een version of ''Film/TheSantaClause''). HilarityEnsues.
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* In a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons']] Halloween Treehouse of Horror special, Homer kills Death after trying to save Bart from him. Lisa mentions that there is now a world without death, and then cue scenes around Springfield of people not dying when they should. Homer then puts on Death's cloak for fun and accidentally becomes the new Grim Reaper (Possibly an AffectionateParody slash Hallow'een version of ''Film/TheSantaClause''). HilarityEnsues.
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* Inverted in ''Action Comics'' #900, the finale of the "[[ComicBook/TheBlackRing Black Ring]]" story arc, when Lex Luthor [[FusionDance becomes one with the child of the Phantom Zone]], and he stops entropy itself. The concept of death itself is stopped and so Death has her very first vacation since the beginning of time.
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* Inverted in ''Action Comics'' #900, the finale of the "[[ComicBook/TheBlackRing Black Ring]]" ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story arc, when arc: "ComicBook/TheBlackRing": Invertedwhen Lex Luthor [[FusionDance becomes one with the child of the Phantom Zone]], and he stops entropy itself. The concept of death itself is stopped and so Death has her very first vacation since the beginning of time.
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* In Ibis the Invincible #2, ''Ibis sends Death on a Holiday'', Ibis uses his Ibistick to banish Death from the city. This leads to chaos after a criminal sentenced to execution survives, breaks out, and causes a crime wave. Finally Ibis allows Death to return.
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* In Ibis the Invincible ''ComicBook/IbisTheInvincible'' #2, ''Ibis sends Death on a Holiday'', Ibis uses his Ibistick to banish Death from the city. This leads to chaos after a criminal sentenced to execution survives, breaks out, and causes a crime wave. Finally Ibis allows Death to return.
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* In Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's "Literature/GamblingHansel", when Death comes to take Hansel, he tells Death to wait and climb up on a tree. Death does so but could not go back down for 7 years, thus making people stop dying. Because it was a gift that Hansel asked from God, a tree where one can climb up but only Hansel can allow them to go back down.
* Creator/AlexanderAfanasyev's "Literature/TheSoldierAndDeath": Death stops being active for several yers due to being trapped in a sack and hung from a tree by the titular soldier, who releases the Grim Reaper when he realizes that people has not stopped aging.
* "Literature/DeathInANut", in which a boy traps death to save his mother, but then can't get bacon, cabbages, etc. His mother explains that death is natural, and he releases the Reaper.
* "Death gets stuck in a magic tree" is the idea behind the folktale ''Tia Miseria'': an old woman traps Death in her pear tree and only agrees to release him when her oldest friend begs to be allowed to die of old age. However, Tia Miseria makes Death promise never to come for her; as long as Death keeps his promise, [[JustForPun there will always be misery in the world]].
* In one of the Appalachian "Jack Tales" (derived from English folktales), Jack, through magic, is able to see Death perched above the bed of a dying person and traps Death in a sack. Many, many years later, he meets a very old woman who complains of being so old and not able to die because some fool has Death trapped in a sack. Jack thinks about this, goes home and unties the sack and Death resumes his duties, "and Jack was just about the first one Death got, I reckon."
** A variation on this story has Death so afraid of Jack that he runs from Jack once released and refuses to take him.
** This is related to a folktale in which Jack traps the Devil, rather than death. Sometimes he traps him up a tree by planting crosses or carving a cross. Sometimes he tricks him into turning into a coin, which is then placed in a wallet next to a cross. Either way, Jack ends up wandering the world, carrying one of the embers of hell with him to light his way: Jack of the Lantern. Similarly, you can end up with WillOTheWisp. Jack o'Lantern was originally, fable notwithstanding, just a term for a night watchman, a guy with a lantern.
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* In Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's "Literature/GamblingHansel", when Death comes to take Hansel, he tells Death to wait and climb up on a tree. Death does so but could not go back down for 7 years, thus making people stop dying. Because it was a gift that Hansel asked from God, a tree where one can climb up but only Hansel can allow them to go back down.
* Creator/AlexanderAfanasyev's "Literature/TheSoldierAndDeath": Death stops being active for several yers due to being trapped in a sack and hung from a tree by the titular soldier, who releases the Grim Reaper when he realizes that people has not stopped aging.
* "Literature/DeathInANut", in which a boy traps death to save his mother, but then can't get bacon, cabbages, etc. His mother explains that death is natural, and he releases the Reaper.
* "Death gets stuck in a magic tree" is the idea behind the folktale ''Tia Miseria'': an old woman traps Death in her pear tree and only agrees to release him when her oldest friend begs to be allowed to die of old age. However, Tia Miseria makes Death promise never to come for her; as long as Death keeps his promise, [[JustForPun there will always be misery in the world]].
* In one of the Appalachian "Jack Tales" (derived from English folktales), Jack, through magic, is able to see Death perched above the bed of a dying person and traps Death in a sack. Many, many years later, he meets a very old woman who complains of being so old and not able to die because some fool has Death trapped in a sack. Jack thinks about this, goes home and unties the sack and Death resumes his duties, "and Jack was just about the first one Death got, I reckon."
** A variation on this story has Death so afraid of Jack that he runs from Jack once released and refuses to take him.
** This is related to a folktale in which Jack traps the Devil, rather than death. Sometimes he traps him up a tree by planting crosses or carving a cross. Sometimes he tricks him into turning into a coin, which is then placed in a wallet next to a cross. Either way, Jack ends up wandering the world, carrying one of the embers of hell with him to light his way: Jack of the Lantern. Similarly, you can end up with WillOTheWisp. Jack o'Lantern was originally, fable notwithstanding, just a term for a night watchman, a guy with a lantern.
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* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', there's a distinction made between a concept not being ''needed'' and simply being removed completely, and this has been showed very clearly when it comes to Mortis, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Death:
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* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', there's ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': There's a distinction made between a concept not being ''needed'' and simply being removed completely, and this has been showed very clearly when it comes to Mortis, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Death:
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* In [[Creator/GeorgeARomero George A. Romero's]] ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' anyone who dies comes back as a zombie unless [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain you remove their head or destroy their brain]]. One of the various theories as to why comes from ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 Dawn Of The Dead]]'' is that Hell is full so the dead have to walk the Earth.
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* In [[Creator/GeorgeARomero George A. Romero's]] Creator/GeorgeARomero's ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' anyone who dies comes back as a zombie unless [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain you remove their head or destroy their brain]]. One of the various theories as to why comes from ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 Dawn Of The Dead]]'' is that Hell is full so the dead have to walk the Earth.
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* In the ''Literature/{{Confessions}}'', The culmination of Augustine's recounting of his friends' death is the realization that Death itself has been slain, thanks to the sheer quantity of life in UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} overwhelming death at the Crucifixion.
* Creator/JoseSaramago's ''Death with Interruptions'', which explores all the political, social and economical consequences of people not dying in a certain country -- a sense of pride, crime syndicates threatening people with [[FateWorseThanDeath fates worse than death]] and the trafficking of ill people to the border so they can die, with all the international chaos that follows. Death then resumes to its reaping [[spoiler:though she begins to warn people beforehand, until she falls in love with the only man she couldn't kill. The following day, no one died.]]
* Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels have several[[note]]Although ''Hogfather'', despite the pun potential in "Death taking a holiday" when he takes on the duties of Hogfather, is not an example[[/note]]:
* Creator/JoseSaramago's ''Death with Interruptions'', which explores all the political, social and economical consequences of people not dying in a certain country -- a sense of pride, crime syndicates threatening people with [[FateWorseThanDeath fates worse than death]] and the trafficking of ill people to the border so they can die, with all the international chaos that follows. Death then resumes to its reaping [[spoiler:though she begins to warn people beforehand, until she falls in love with the only man she couldn't kill. The following day, no one died.]]
* Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels have several[[note]]Although ''Hogfather'', despite the pun potential in "Death taking a holiday" when he takes on the duties of Hogfather, is not an example[[/note]]:
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* In the ''Literature/{{Confessions}}'', ''Literature/{{Confessions}}'': The culmination of Augustine's recounting of his friends' death is the realization that Death itself has been slain, thanks to the sheer quantity of life in UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} overwhelming death at the Crucifixion.
*Creator/JoseSaramago's ''Death with Interruptions'', which explores all the political, social and economical consequences of people not dying in a certain country -- a sense of pride, crime syndicates threatening people with [[FateWorseThanDeath fates worse than death]] and the trafficking of ill people to the border so they can die, with all the international chaos that follows. Death then resumes to its reaping [[spoiler:though she begins to warn people beforehand, until she falls in love with the only man she couldn't kill. The following day, no one died.]]
* Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels have several[[note]]Although ''Hogfather'', despite the pun potential in "Death taking a holiday" when he takes on the duties of Hogfather, is not an example[[/note]]:''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
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* Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels have several[[note]]Although ''Hogfather'', despite the pun potential in "Death taking a holiday" when he takes on the duties of Hogfather, is not an example[[/note]]:
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* Referenced in ''Literature/TheBookThief'', where Death mentions that his job is very wearying, but he can't exactly go on a package holiday, since he's [[GenreSavvy aware of what would happen if he tried.]]
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* Referenced in ''Literature/TheBookThief'', where ''Literature/TheBookThief'': Death mentions that his job is very wearying, but he can't exactly go on a package holiday, since he's [[GenreSavvy aware of what would happen if he tried.]]
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** ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' episodes "Death in Chains" (loosely based on the above myth; Sisyphus captures the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Death, and we find out that it's not such a great deal: Sisyphus gets to cheat nature, but those suffering agonizing mortal injuries are subjected to AndIMustScream. If Death is not released soon, the effect becomes permanent, and the whole ''world'' will suffer this thanks to AgeWithoutYouth.) and "Mortal Beloved".
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* OlderThanFeudalism: In Myth/GreekMythology, the ManipulativeBastard Sisyphus captured Thanatos, the Greek personification of death. Sisyphus only wanted to prevent his own death (and not for the first time, either!), and accidentally ended up preventing all humans from dying at all (not that he ever gave a damn about other people's suffering in the first place). He did this to escape the punishment he would certainly receive for: breaking the laws of hospitality (he killed guests and travelers under his care to steal from them), seducing his niece, Tyro, in one of his many, many plots to kill his hated brother, Salmoneus, ratting out Zeus' romance with the nymph Aegina to her father Asopus, and just pissing off the gods in general. In the end he learned the hard way about TheProblemWithFightingDeath when [[TailorMadePrison Death's boss made a bargain with him]].
* Literature/TheBible includes a reference to this, making it OlderThanFeudalism. In this case, it's during the fifth plague from the Literature/BookOfRevelation, where the people are tortured by locust demons for five months.
* Literature/TheBible includes a reference to this, making it OlderThanFeudalism. In this case, it's during the fifth plague from the Literature/BookOfRevelation, where the people are tortured by locust demons for five months.
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* OlderThanFeudalism: In Myth/GreekMythology, the ManipulativeBastard Myth/ClassicalMythology: Manipulative bastard Sisyphus is captured by Thanatos, the Greek personification of death. Sisyphus only wanted to prevent his own death (and not for the first time, either!), and accidentally ended up preventing all humans from dying at all (not that he ever gave a damn about other people's suffering in the first place). He did this to escape the punishment he would certainly receive for: breaking the laws of hospitality (he killed guests and travelers under his care to steal from them), seducing his niece, Tyro, in one of his many, many plots to kill his hated brother, Salmoneus, ratting out Zeus' romance with the nymph Aegina to her father Asopus, and just pissing off the gods in general. In the end he learned the hard way about TheProblemWithFightingDeath when [[TailorMadePrison Death's boss made a bargain with him]].
*Literature/TheBible includes a reference to this, making it OlderThanFeudalism. In this case, it's ''Literature/TheBible'': Referenced during the fifth plague from the Literature/BookOfRevelation, ''Literature/BookOfRevelation'', where the people are tortured by locust demons for five months.
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%%** Of course, the Bible also speaks of God putting an end to death, and this is clearly established as being a good thing. Then there's the somewhat strange verse where Death gets sent to Hell.
* In Literature/TheTalmud (Ketubot 77b), Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi manages to trick the Angel of Death into bringing him to Heaven alive, and, having acquired the knife that he uses to kill people, refuses to return it until {{God}} intervenes.
* Another folk tale variant is "Death in a Nut", in which a boy traps death to save his mother, but then can't get bacon, cabbages, etc. His mother explains that death is natural, and he releases the Reaper.
* "Death gets stuck in a magic tree" is the idea behind the folktale ''Tia Miseria'': an old woman traps Death in her pear tree and only agrees to release him when her oldest friend begs to be allowed to die of old age. However, Tia Miseria makes Death promise never to come for her; as long as Death keeps his promise, [[JustForPun there will always be misery in the world]].
* In one of the Appalachian "Jack Tales" (derived from English folktales), Jack, through magic, is able to see Death perched above the bed of a dying person and traps Death in a sack. Many, many years later, he meets a very old woman who complains of being so old and not able to die because some fool has Death trapped in a sack. Jack thinks about this, goes home and unties the sack and Death resumes his duties, "and Jack was just about the first one Death got, I reckon."
** A variation on this story has Death so afraid of Jack that he runs from Jack once released and refuses to take him, making Jack a [[FlyingDutchman permanent sufferer]] of this trope.
** This is related to a folktale in which Jack traps the Devil, rather than death. Sometimes he traps him up a tree by planting crosses or carving a cross. Sometimes he tricks him into turning into a coin, which is then placed in a wallet next to a cross. Either way, Jack ends up wandering the world, carrying one of the embers of hell with him to light his way: Jack of the Lantern. Similarly, you can end up with WillOTheWisp. Jack o'Lantern was originally, fable notwithstanding, just a term for a night watchman, a guy with a lantern.
* In Literature/TheTalmud (Ketubot 77b), Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi manages to trick the Angel of Death into bringing him to Heaven alive, and, having acquired the knife that he uses to kill people, refuses to return it until {{God}} intervenes.
* Another folk tale variant is "Death in a Nut", in which a boy traps death to save his mother, but then can't get bacon, cabbages, etc. His mother explains that death is natural, and he releases the Reaper.
* "Death gets stuck in a magic tree" is the idea behind the folktale ''Tia Miseria'': an old woman traps Death in her pear tree and only agrees to release him when her oldest friend begs to be allowed to die of old age. However, Tia Miseria makes Death promise never to come for her; as long as Death keeps his promise, [[JustForPun there will always be misery in the world]].
* In one of the Appalachian "Jack Tales" (derived from English folktales), Jack, through magic, is able to see Death perched above the bed of a dying person and traps Death in a sack. Many, many years later, he meets a very old woman who complains of being so old and not able to die because some fool has Death trapped in a sack. Jack thinks about this, goes home and unties the sack and Death resumes his duties, "and Jack was just about the first one Death got, I reckon."
** A variation on this story has Death so afraid of Jack that he runs from Jack once released and refuses to take him, making Jack a [[FlyingDutchman permanent sufferer]] of this trope.
** This is related to a folktale in which Jack traps the Devil, rather than death. Sometimes he traps him up a tree by planting crosses or carving a cross. Sometimes he tricks him into turning into a coin, which is then placed in a wallet next to a cross. Either way, Jack ends up wandering the world, carrying one of the embers of hell with him to light his way: Jack of the Lantern. Similarly, you can end up with WillOTheWisp. Jack o'Lantern was originally, fable notwithstanding, just a term for a night watchman, a guy with a lantern.
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* Another folk tale variant is "Death in a Nut", in which a boy traps death to save his mother, but then can't get bacon, cabbages, etc. His mother explains that death is natural, and he releases the Reaper.
* "Death gets stuck in a magic tree" is the idea behind the folktale ''Tia Miseria'': an old woman traps Death in her pear tree and only agrees to release him when her oldest friend begs to be allowed to die of old age. However, Tia Miseria makes Death promise never to come for her; as long as Death keeps his promise, [[JustForPun there will always be misery in the world]].
* In one of the Appalachian "Jack Tales" (derived from English folktales), Jack, through magic, is able to see Death perched above the bed of a dying person and traps Death in a sack. Many, many years later, he meets a very old woman who complains of being so old and not able to die because some fool has Death trapped in a sack. Jack thinks about this, goes home and unties the sack and Death resumes his duties, "and Jack was just about the first one Death got, I reckon."
** A variation on this story has Death so afraid of Jack that he runs from Jack once released and refuses to take him, making Jack a [[FlyingDutchman permanent sufferer]] of this trope.
** This is related to a folktale in which Jack traps the Devil, rather than death. Sometimes he traps him up a tree by planting crosses or carving a cross. Sometimes he tricks him into turning into a coin, which is then placed in a wallet next to a cross. Either way, Jack ends up wandering the world, carrying one of the embers of hell with him to light his way: Jack of the Lantern. Similarly, you can end up with WillOTheWisp. Jack o'Lantern was originally, fable notwithstanding, just a term for a night watchman, a guy with a lantern.
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** Also, the Boatman really wishes to get a holiday, as he became old and tired, but he cannot leave his post. [[spoiler:He enters an AbsurdlyHighStakesGame and wins it, with the prize being his heart's desire. He spends it on demanding a [[RelievingTheReaper replacement for his job]], so that he can retire without damaging the reality.]]
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4935 SCP-4935]] is a portal leading 130 thousand years into a future where this has happened. The portal was opened by future people in attempt to wipe out our society and avert their own.
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4935 SCP-4935]] is a portal leading 130 thousand years into a future where this has happened. The portal was opened by future people in an attempt to wipe out our society and avert their own.
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* Creator/IsaacAsimov's short story "The Last Trump" is about these. As no human could ever decide how the afterlife would be, The Chief (a.k.a God) decide that the only thing all of humanity has in common is the fear of death. When the day of the judgement finally arrive, all people stop dying and the dead ones start to resurrect.
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* ''Series/InLivingColor'' had this happen in a ''literal'' sense, with Creator/JimCarrey playing TheGrimReaper [[http://youtu.be/xczQ5c26pWs at a beach resort]]. He meets with a couple who [[KillEmAll goad him into showcasing his powers]], and HilarityEnsues.
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* ''Series/InLivingColor'' had this happen in a ''literal'' sense, with Creator/JimCarrey playing TheGrimReaper [[http://youtu.be/xczQ5c26pWs at a beach resort]]. He meets with a couple who [[KillEmAll goad him into showcasing his powers]], powers, and HilarityEnsues.
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* In Literature/TheTalmud (Ketubot 77b), Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi manages to trick the Angel of Death into bringing him to Heaven alive, and, having acquired the knife that he uses to kill people, refuses to return it until {{God}} intervenes.
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* Wiki/SCPFoundation: The [[http://scp-wiki.net/end-of-death-hub End of Death canon]], created for the 2018 Doomsday Contest. It plays all of this for extremely depressing horror. It's one of the darkest canons on the site, [[CosmicHorrorStory and that's saying something]].
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* Wiki/SCPFoundation: ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
** The [[http://scp-wiki.net/end-of-death-hub End of Death canon]], created for the 2018 Doomsday Contest. It plays all of this for extremely depressing horror. It's one of the darkest canons on the site, [[CosmicHorrorStory and that's saying something]].
** The [[http://scp-wiki.net/end-of-death-hub End of Death canon]], created for the 2018 Doomsday Contest. It plays all of this for extremely depressing horror. It's one of the darkest canons on the site, [[CosmicHorrorStory and that's saying something]].
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** In the short comic "Death: A Winter's Tale", she reminisces about her history and reveals there was a time millions of years ago when she fulfilled this trope because she was sick of everyone being unhappy to see her. After a while, the usual "people realize how much they really need Death" kicked in and someone was sent to find her and get her to start up again.
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** In the short comic "Death: A Winter's Tale", she reminisces about her history and reveals there was a time millions billions of years ago when she fulfilled this trope because she was sick of everyone being unhappy to see her. After a while, the usual "people realize how much they really need Death" kicked in (in this case, nothing being able to die) and someone was sent to find her and get her to start up again.again. Interestingly enough, among the people who realized how much Death was needed was Death herself, as she was unaware of how bad things would be without her, and didn't find out until she saw what had happened in her absence.
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* Inverted in ''Action Comics'' #900, the finale of the "[[ComicBook/TheBlackRing Black Ring]]" story arc, when Lex Luthor [[FusionDance becomes one with the child of the Phantom Zone]], and he stops entropy itself. The concept of death itself is stopped and so the Death has her very first vacation since the beginning of time.
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* Inverted in ''Action Comics'' #900, the finale of the "[[ComicBook/TheBlackRing Black Ring]]" story arc, when Lex Luthor [[FusionDance becomes one with the child of the Phantom Zone]], and he stops entropy itself. The concept of death itself is stopped and so the Death has her very first vacation since the beginning of time.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':
** Subverted in the first issue when a cabal of mystics attempt to capture Death and thus become immortal, but screw up and trap her brother Dream instead, leading to worldwide sleeping disorders. When he escapes captivity several decades later, he berates the son of his original captor, saying that he has no idea what kind of chaos would have resulted had they ''succeeded''.
** Subverted in the first issue when a cabal of mystics attempt to capture Death and thus become immortal, but screw up and trap her brother Dream instead, leading to worldwide sleeping disorders. When he escapes captivity several decades later, he berates the son of his original captor, saying that he has no idea what kind of chaos would have resulted had they ''succeeded''.
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**Subverted {{Subverted|Trope}} in the first issue when a cabal of mystics attempt to capture Death and thus become immortal, but screw up and trap her brother Dream instead, leading to worldwide sleeping disorders. When he escapes captivity several decades later, he berates the son of his original captor, saying that he has no idea what kind of chaos would have resulted had they ''succeeded''.
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** In ''Literature/{{Mort}}'', Death takes on an apprentice (Mort) and then leaves him in charge whilst and goes wandering around the Disc trying human pleasures such as fishing, partying, and getting drunk. Naturally, HilarityEnsues...
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** In ''Literature/{{Mort}}'', Death takes on an apprentice (Mort) and then leaves him in charge whilst and Death himself goes wandering around the Disc trying human pleasures such as fishing, partying, and getting drunk. Naturally, HilarityEnsues...
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** ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' probably counts as an inversion, because Death is supposed to be still doing his regular job in addition to SubbingForSanta and that's got to be the exact opposite of a vacation. He makes the best of it by exploiting the fact that the Hogfather can intervene directly to ''save'' a life in the way that TheGrimReaper cannot do on pain of Really Bad Things happening to the fabric of reality.
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** ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' probably counts as an inversion, because Death is supposed to be still doing his regular job in addition to SubbingForSanta and that's got to be the exact opposite of a vacation. He makes the best of it by exploiting the fact that the Hogfather can intervene directly to ''save'' a life in the a way that TheGrimReaper cannot do on pain of Really Bad Things happening to the fabric of reality.
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** The effects in this case happen gradually with monsters that come back to life after a few years anyway, coming back sooner. Then other supernatural beings like demigods coming back to life. If it hadn't been stopped, the {{Muggles}} would have become immortal.
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** The effects in this case happen gradually gradually, with monsters that come back to life after a few years anyway, coming back sooner. Then other supernatural beings like demigods coming back to life. If it hadn't been stopped, the {{Muggles}} would have become immortal.
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* And then there's the fanfic "Binkie Pie", a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' crossover in which it's Death's horse who's out of action and [[ItMakesSenseInContext for reasons that make sense in context]], he recruits a replacement from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the magical land of Equestria]]. Death is TheComicallySerious and Pinkie is... well, ''Pinkie'', so their working relationship can be... strained.
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* And then there's the fanfic "Binkie Pie", ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6983158/1/FiM-Binky-Pie Binky Pie]]'', a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' crossover in which it's Death's horse who's out of action and [[ItMakesSenseInContext for reasons that make sense in context]], he recruits a replacement from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the magical land of Equestria]]. Death is TheComicallySerious and Pinkie is... well, ''Pinkie'', so their working relationship can be... strained.
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* ''FanFic/DeathIsForcedToTakeAVacation'': Fall Harvest, the Reaper of Alicorns (and one of many adjuncts to the Role of Death) is forced to take a vacation from his duties, literally getting back into his old skin to do so. Considering how few alicorns there are, and how long it'll be until he's due to collect any more, he can easily stay away for a time without complications.
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* ''FanFic/DeathIsForcedToTakeAVacation'': ''Fanfic/DeathIsForcedToTakeAVacation'': Fall Harvest, the Reaper of Alicorns (and one of many adjuncts to the Role of Death) is forced to take a vacation from his duties, literally getting back into his old skin to do so. Considering how few alicorns there are, and how long it'll be until he's due to collect any more, he can easily stay away for a time without complications.
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* And then there's the fanfic "Binkie Pie", a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' crossover in which it's Death's horse who's out of action and [[ItMakesSenseInContext for reasons that make sense in context]], he recruits a replacement from [[Series/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the magical land of Equestria.]] Death is TheComicallySerious and Pinkie is... well, ''Pinkie'', so their working relationship can be... strained.
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* And then there's the fanfic "Binkie Pie", a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' crossover in which it's Death's horse who's out of action and [[ItMakesSenseInContext for reasons that make sense in context]], he recruits a replacement from [[Series/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the magical land of Equestria.]] Equestria]]. Death is TheComicallySerious and Pinkie is... well, ''Pinkie'', so their working relationship can be... strained.
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%%* This occurred in a short story this troper read a few times, years ago, but can't remember the name - only that it involved a bet, Death getting stuck in some sort of special tree he needed someone's permission to get out of, and that somehow, it led to the origin of all the world's "no-good gamblers.
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%%* This occurred in a short story this troper read a few times, years ago, but can't remember the name - -- only that it involved a bet, Death getting stuck in some sort of special tree he needed someone's permission to get out of, and that somehow, it led to the origin of all the world's "no-good gamblers.
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* ''Horatio in the Wind'' is a chidren's book about a boy who traps Death to give his kingdom eternal life.
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* The status of death in the universe of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' may or may not be suspended while Grim is in bondage to the kids. He's shown reading an obituary page in one episode, lamenting that nobody has died for a while. In another episode, Mandy sternly orders him "No Grim Reaping!" If nobody can really die anymore, that would certainly explain the show's NegativeContinuity. On the other hand, he's shown on several occasions to, in fact, be reaping. (In one episode where he and Billy switch roles, Billy ends up having to reap; the "Big Boogey Adventure" movie also showed Grim trying to reap [[WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne General Skarr]].)
* In a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons']] Halloween special, Homer kills Death after trying to save Bart from him. Lisa mentions that there is now a world without death, and then cue scenes around Springfield of people not dying when they should. Homer then puts on Death's cloak for fun and accidentally becomes the new Grim Reaper (Possibly an AffectionateParody slash Hallow'een version of ''Film/TheSantaClause''). ''HilarityEnsues''
* In a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons']] Halloween special, Homer kills Death after trying to save Bart from him. Lisa mentions that there is now a world without death, and then cue scenes around Springfield of people not dying when they should. Homer then puts on Death's cloak for fun and accidentally becomes the new Grim Reaper (Possibly an AffectionateParody slash Hallow'een version of ''Film/TheSantaClause''). ''HilarityEnsues''
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* The status of death in the universe of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' may or may not be suspended while Grim is in bondage to the kids. He's shown reading an obituary page in one episode, lamenting that nobody has died for a while. In another episode, Mandy sternly orders him "No Grim Reaping!" If nobody can really die anymore, that would certainly explain the show's NegativeContinuity. On the other hand, he's shown on several occasions to, in fact, be reaping. reaping (In one episode where he and Billy switch roles, Billy ends up having to reap; the "Big Boogey Adventure" movie also showed Grim trying to reap [[WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne General Skarr]].)
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* In a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons']] Halloween special, Homer kills Death after trying to save Bart from him. Lisa mentions that there is now a world without death, and then cue scenes around Springfield of people not dying when they should. Homer then puts on Death's cloak for fun and accidentally becomes the new Grim Reaper (Possibly an AffectionateParody slash Hallow'een version of ''Film/TheSantaClause'').''HilarityEnsues''HilarityEnsues.
* In a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons']] Halloween special, Homer kills Death after trying to save Bart from him. Lisa mentions that there is now a world without death, and then cue scenes around Springfield of people not dying when they should. Homer then puts on Death's cloak for fun and accidentally becomes the new Grim Reaper (Possibly an AffectionateParody slash Hallow'een version of ''Film/TheSantaClause'').
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* And then there's the fanfic "Binkie Pie", a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' crossover in which it's Death's horse who's out of action and [[ItMakesSenseInContext for reasons that make sense in context]], he recruits a replacement from [[Series/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the magical land of Equestria.]] Death is TheComicallySerious and Pinkie is... well, ''Pinkie'', so their working relationship can be... strained.
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* ''On Borrowed Time'' (1939) has Lionel Barrymore holding off Death (personified as a "Mr. Brink") by trapping him in an apple tree in his backyard.
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* ''On Borrowed Time'' ''Film/OnBorrowedTime'' (1939) has Lionel Barrymore holding off Death (personified as a "Mr. Brink") by trapping him in an apple tree in his backyard.
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* Inverted in ''Action Comics'' #900, the finale of the "[[ComicBook/TheBlackRing Black Ring]]" story arc, when Lex Luthor [[AGodAmI becomes one]] [[ItsALongStory with the child of the Phantom Zone]], and he stops entropy itself. The concept of death itself is stopped and so the Death has her very first vacation since the beginning of time.
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* Inverted in ''Action Comics'' #900, the finale of the "[[ComicBook/TheBlackRing Black Ring]]" story arc, when Lex Luthor [[AGodAmI [[FusionDance becomes one]] [[ItsALongStory one with the child of the Phantom Zone]], and he stops entropy itself. The concept of death itself is stopped and so the Death has her very first vacation since the beginning of time.
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** ''Literature{{Hogfather}}'' probably counts as an inversion, because Death is supposed to be still doing his regular job in addition to SubbingForSanta and that's got to be the exact opposite of a vacation. He makes the best of it by exploiting the fact that the Hogfather can intervene directly to ''save'' a life in the way that TheGrimReaper cannot do on pain of Really Bad Things happening to the fabric of reality.
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** ''Literature{{Hogfather}}'' ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' probably counts as an inversion, because Death is supposed to be still doing his regular job in addition to SubbingForSanta and that's got to be the exact opposite of a vacation. He makes the best of it by exploiting the fact that the Hogfather can intervene directly to ''save'' a life in the way that TheGrimReaper cannot do on pain of Really Bad Things happening to the fabric of reality.
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** ''Literature{{Hogfather}}'' probably counts as an inversion, because Death is supposed to be still doing his regular job in addition to SubbingForSanta and that's got to be the exact opposite of a vacation. He makes the best of it by exploiting the fact that the Hogfather can intervene directly to ''save'' a life in the way that TheGrimReaper cannot do on pain of Really Bad Things happening to the fabric of reality.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{AFK Arena}}'', the god of death, Annih, was sick of being [[EverybodyHatesHades hated by mortals]], and in turn [[ThenLetMeBeEvil gave them a good reason to hate him]] by creating the demons known as Hypogeans and waging war on humankind. In the process, he [[TakeThisJobAndShoveIt intentionally abandoned his duties as the god of death]]. The result is that souls tend to wander aimlessly in [[PurgatoryAndLimbo limbo dimensions]], becoming increasingly consumed by the unfinished business they had in life. Characters with supernatural connections such as the necromancer Niru, the twin deities Elijah & Lailah, and very likely others are able to to [[RelievingTheReaper guide lost souls themselves]] when they have the chance, but they can only do so much.
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* In [[Creator/GeorgeARomero George A. Romero's]] ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' anyone who dies comes back as a zombie unless [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain you remove their head or destroy their brain]]. One of the various theories as to why comes from ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 Dawn Of The Dead]]'' is that Hell is full so the dead have to walk the Earth.
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* ''Franchise/BillandTed'';
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* One occurs in issue #2 of ''ComicBook/BillAndTedsExcellentComicBook''.
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** In issue #2 of''ComicBook/BillAndTedsExcellentComicBook''.''ComicBook/BillAndTedsExcellentComicBook'', Death gets annoyed and quits, causing the dead to rise as zombies until Bill and Ted persuade him to come back.
** A later issue has him getting fired and replaced by a ReplacementScrappy called Morty who'd apparently been waiting for the job for centuries despite not being mentioned the last time Death quit.
** In ''[[ComicBook/BillAndTedsMostTriumphantReturn Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return]]'' Chuck De Nomolos wins ChessWithDeath several times. One of the things he demands is Death relinquish his job and powers to Chuck's younger brother. Due to him being too lazy to do his job, this leads to a BadFuture where everybody's still alive thousands of years from now.
** In issue #2 of
** A later issue has him getting fired and replaced by a ReplacementScrappy called Morty who'd apparently been waiting for the job for centuries despite not being mentioned the last time Death quit.
** In ''[[ComicBook/BillAndTedsMostTriumphantReturn Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return]]'' Chuck De Nomolos wins ChessWithDeath several times. One of the things he demands is Death relinquish his job and powers to Chuck's younger brother. Due to him being too lazy to do his job, this leads to a BadFuture where everybody's still alive thousands of years from now.
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** In another story, a sorcerer of some sort is able to lock Death out of a gate that leads to his island, allowing him and his court to happily live the same day over and over again. Eventually, Death gets in and reveals that the "outside" of everyone is dead... In a bit of a subversion, it's revealed that the sorcerer belives he has forced not Death to take a vacation, but ''Time''.
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** In another story, a sorcerer of some sort is able to lock Death out of a gate that leads to his island, allowing him and his court to happily live the same day over and over again. Eventually, Death gets in and reveals that the "outside" of everyone is dead... In a bit of a subversion, it's revealed that the sorcerer belives believes he has forced not Death to take a vacation, but ''Time''.
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* Referenced in ''Literature/TheBookThierf'', where Death mentions that his job is very wearying, but he can't exactly go on a package holiday, since he's [[GenreSavvy aware of what would happen if he tried.]]
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* Referenced in ''Literature/TheBookThierf'', ''Literature/TheBookThief'', where Death mentions that his job is very wearying, but he can't exactly go on a package holiday, since he's [[GenreSavvy aware of what would happen if he tried.]]
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* George is less than enthusiastic about her duties at the beginning of ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' and tries to shirk them... with highly negative consequences. Later in the first season however, as the basis for a ClipShow, the group gets a day off from reaping in the aptly-titled episode "Vacation". The beings that cause the "external circumstances" (accidents, mostly) which the group handles take a day off "every few years". Rube takes the opportunity to catch up on paperwork... from the last seventy or eighty years.
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* George is less than enthusiastic about her duties at the beginning of ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' and tries to shirk them... with highly negative consequences. Later in the first season however, as the basis for a ClipShow, the group gets a day off from reaping in the aptly-titled episode "Vacation". The beings gravelings that cause the "external circumstances" (accidents, mostly) which the group handles take a day off "every few years". Rube takes the opportunity to catch up on paperwork... from the last seventy or eighty years.
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4935 SCP-4935]] is a porta leading 130 thousand years into a future where this has happened. The portal was opened by future people in attempt to wipe out our society and avert their own.
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** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4935 SCP-4935]] is a porta portal leading 130 thousand years into a future where this has happened. The portal was opened by future people in attempt to wipe out our society and avert their own.
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* This is the whole plot of [[Creator/JoseSaramago José Saramago]]'s ''Death with Intervals'', which explores all the political, social and economical consequences of people not dying in a certain country -- a sense of pride, crime syndicates threatening people with [[FateWorseThanDeath fates worse than death]] and the trafficking of ill people to the border so they can die, with all the international chaos that follows. Death then resumes to its reaping [[spoiler:though she begins to warn people beforehand, until she falls in love with the only man she couldn't kill. The following day, no one died.]]
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* This is the whole plot of [[Creator/JoseSaramago José Saramago]]'s Creator/JoseSaramago's ''Death with Intervals'', Interruptions'', which explores all the political, social and economical consequences of people not dying in a certain country -- a sense of pride, crime syndicates threatening people with [[FateWorseThanDeath fates worse than death]] and the trafficking of ill people to the border so they can die, with all the international chaos that follows. Death then resumes to its reaping [[spoiler:though she begins to warn people beforehand, until she falls in love with the only man she couldn't kill. The following day, no one died.]]
