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** Inverted in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' when Death subs for the Disc's Santa-equivalent, explicitly as a method of keeping the Hogfather alive by [[GodsNeedAPrayerBadly maintaining belief in him]]. He enjoys it a great deal more than the usual scythe job.
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** Inverted in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' when Death subs for the Disc's Santa-equivalent, explicitly as a method of keeping the Hogfather alive by [[GodsNeedAPrayerBadly [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly maintaining belief in him]]. He enjoys it a great deal more than the usual scythe job.
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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/433318/reaping-rainbow Reaping Rainbow]]'' features the below mentioned Discworld's Death rescinding Equestrian duties to Rainbow Dash in return for the usual reward- Another chance at life. During that time he takes off and relaxes as a mortal for his brief vacation.
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* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/433318/reaping-rainbow Reaping Rainbow]]'' features the below mentioned Discworld's Death rescinding Equestrian duties to Rainbow Dash in return for the usual reward- Another chance at life. During that time he takes off and relaxes as a mortal for his brief vacation.
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** ''Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure'' had Grim stripped of his powers for abusing them at the whim of mortals. They are subsequently given to [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kuki Sanban, a.k.a. Numbuh 3]] from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
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** ''Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure'' had Grim stripped of his powers for abusing them at the whim of mortals. They are subsequently given to [[ItMakesSenseInContext [[CrossoverPunchline Kuki Sanban, a.k.a. Numbuh 3]] from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
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** In ''Literature/{{Mort}}'', Death decides to do some soul-searching and hire an apprentice to fill in for him, and keep his adopted daughter Ysabel company. He ends up with a gangly teenager named Mort.
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** In ''Literature/{{Mort}}'', Death decides to do some soul-searching and hire an apprentice to fill in for him, and keep his adopted daughter Ysabel company. He ends up with a gangly teenager named Mort. He wasn't great at it, though the problem was less incompetence, more well-meaning impulsiveness... and the fact that he was taking on more and more of Death's aspect, while retaining a bit too much of his humanity, transforming into a ''terrifying'' HumanoidAbomination.
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** Inverted in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' when Death subs for the Disc's Santa-equivalent.
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** Inverted in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' when Death subs for the Disc's Santa-equivalent.Santa-equivalent, explicitly as a method of keeping the Hogfather alive by [[GodsNeedAPrayerBadly maintaining belief in him]]. He enjoys it a great deal more than the usual scythe job.
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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''' TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms universe, this is how the GodsOfEvil known as the Dead Three came to be. They were [[DeityOfHumanOrigin once mortal]] {{Godhood Seeker}}s who confronted the GodOfTheDead Jergal and demanded his powers. Luckily for them, Jergal had long since grown bored of his GodJob and retired, dividing his domain among them. Bane became the [[WarGod god of tyranny and strife]], Bhaal became the god of murder, and Myrkul became the new god of death with Jergal assisting him.
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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''' TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms universe, this is how the GodsOfEvil known as the Dead Three came to be. They were [[DeityOfHumanOrigin once mortal]] {{Godhood Seeker}}s who confronted the GodOfTheDead Jergal and demanded his powers. Luckily for them, Jergal had long since grown bored of his GodJob and retired, dividing his domain among them. Bane became the [[WarGod god of tyranny and strife]], Bhaal became the god of murder, and Myrkul became the new god of death with Jergal assisting him. [[spoiler:In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', Jergal comes out of retirement [[GodWasMyCopilot to punish them for the piss-poor job they did]].]]
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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''' TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms universe, this is how the GodsOfEvil known as the Dead Three came to be. They were [[DeityOfHumanOrigin once mortal]] {{Godhood Seeker}}s who confronted the GodOfTheDead Jergal and demanded his powers. Luckily for them, Jergal had long since grown bored of his GodJob and retired, dividing his domain among them. Bane became the [[WarGod god of tyranny and strife]], Bhaal became the god of murder, and Myrkul became the new god of death with Jergal assisting him.
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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''' TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms universe, this is how the GodsOfEvil known as the Dead Three came to be. They were [[DeityOfHumanOrigin once mortal]] {{Godhood Seeker}}s who confronted the GodOfTheDead Jergal and demanded his powers. Luckily for them, Jergal had long since grown bored of his GodJob and retired, dividing his domain among them. Bane became the [[WarGod god of tyranny and strife]], Bhaal became the god of murder, and Myrkul became the new god of death with Jergal assisting him.
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* ''VideoGame/RetroCityRampage'': When Player is murdered by his girlfriend, he'll meet Death. When Player asks if he can be resurrected, Death offers him to cover his shift out of mutual respect. Doing so will not only resurrect player, but also unlock Death as a power-up.
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* ''VideoGame/RetroCityRampage'': When Player is murdered by his girlfriend, he'll meet Death. When Player asks if he can be resurrected, Death offers him to cover his shift out of mutual respect. Doing so will not only resurrect player, but also the player and unlock Death as a power-up.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The first arc sees Ichigo Kurosaki take over for Rukia Kuchiki as a Soul Reaper - whose duries include sending ghosts to the afterlife and slaying evil spirits called Hollows - after she accidentally transfers all of her power to him.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The first arc sees Ichigo Kurosaki take over for Rukia Kuchiki as a Soul Reaper - whose duries duties include sending ghosts to the afterlife and slaying evil spirits called Hollows - after she accidentally transfers all of her power to him.
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* ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'': In the lead-up to the final battle, it's revealed that [[spoiler:[[TopGod Bhunivelze]] has been grooming Lightning to take the Goddess Etro's old position as the keeper of balance between the seen and unseen realms: making sure human souls are granted unto newborn humans, come back to the sea of chaos after death, and reincarnate. After [[KillTheGod Bhunivelze is dead]], Lightning plans to carry out the role regardless, but Caius and the Yeuls step in to take her place.]]
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* In ''The Grim Reaper'' episode of the ''Mythological Monsters'' Parcast podcast, prince Callum [[ChessWithDeath challenges Death to a hunting contest]]. When Death wins, Callum takes his place, initially chatty and friendly with the souls under his care. His attitude shifts somewhat as he [[AgeWithoutYouth continues to age and decay]] over the centuries, ultimately growing silent [[AndIMustScream when his tongue and mouth wear away]], though [[PetTheDog he's still compassionate]] with a young girl who died of an accident, who he allows to ride alongside him rather than crammed with the rest of the souls in his corpse-wagon.
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* In ''The Grim Reaper'' episode of the ''Mythological Monsters'' Parcast podcast, prince Callum [[ChessWithDeath challenges Death to a hunting contest]]. When Death wins, Callum takes his place, initially chatty and friendly with the souls under his care. His attitude shifts somewhat as he [[AgeWithoutYouth continues to age and decay]] over the centuries, ultimately growing silent [[AndIMustScream when his tongue and mouth wear away]], though [[PetTheDog he's still compassionate]] with a young girl who died of an accident, who he allows to ride alongside him rather than crammed with the rest of the souls in his corpse-wagon.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': After The Chairman's destruction, Scratch is forced to take the role of the new Chairman, much to his disgust, since he is technically the one who defeated the previous one (Molly doesn't count because she is still a living person).
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'': After The Chairman's destruction, Scratch is forced to take on the role of the new Chairman, much to his disgust, since he is technically the one who defeated the previous one (Molly doesn't count because she is still a living person).
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* ''LightNovel/SundayWithoutGod'': Death stopped occurring in the world, so a certain type of beings called Gravekeepers appeared to send those past their expiration dates to rest in peace. The protagonist Ai is one such Gravekeeper.
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* In ''Film/TheLifeOfDeath2015'' ([[SimilarlyNamedWorks not the web cartoon]]), Death is born from regular human parents, and sires a pair of little reapers. He also gets run over by a car and it's implied that his kids will be starting shortly.
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** Inverted in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' where Death subs for the Disc's Santa-equivalent.
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** Inverted in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' where when Death subs for the Disc's Santa-equivalent.Santa-equivalent.
* ''Literature/SundayWithoutGod'': Death stopped occurring in the world, so a certain type of beings called Gravekeepers appeared to send those past their expiration dates to rest in peace. The protagonist Ai is one such Gravekeeper.
* ''Literature/SundayWithoutGod'': Death stopped occurring in the world, so a certain type of beings called Gravekeepers appeared to send those past their expiration dates to rest in peace. The protagonist Ai is one such Gravekeeper.
* ''Series/ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina'': Sabrina must guide souls to the afterlife to show she can deal with her position as "Ruler of Hell" after imprisoning the previous ruler (and also her father), Lucifer.
* ''Series/{{Reaper}}'': Sam learns on his 21st birthday that his parents sold his soul to the Devil; Sam must serve him by reaping the souls of the damned, or go to Hell himself.
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* ''Series/{{Reaper}}'': Sam learns on his 21st birthday that his parents sold his soul to the Devil; Sam must serve him by reaping the souls of the damned, or go to Hell himself.
* Series/{{Chilling Adventures of Sabrina}}: Sabrina must guide souls to the afterlife to show she can deal with her position as "Ruler of Hell" after imprisioning the previous ruler (and also her father), Lucifer.
* Series/{{Chilling Adventures of Sabrina}}: Sabrina must guide souls to the afterlife to show she can deal with her position as "Ruler of Hell" after imprisioning the previous ruler (and also her father), Lucifer.
* This is the premise of ''VideoGame/FlippingDeath''; the protagonist gets roped into temping while DeathTakesAHoliday, only for someone to use the missing piece of Death's scythe to possess her body in the mortal world and cause trouble.
* This is what starts the mess in ''VideoGame/HaveANiceDeath2022''. Death hires the Sorrows and generally founds Death Inc. in order to take up his slack (because reaping every soul personally gets ''tiring''). But the Sorrows waste no time in making a mess of things and overloading the poor Reaper with paperwork when he really just [[DeathTakesAHoliday wants to take a vacation]], to the point that Death [[RageBreakingPoint goes ballistic]] and decides that it's time to take back his company.
* This is what starts the mess in ''VideoGame/HaveANiceDeath2022''. Death hires the Sorrows and generally founds Death Inc. in order to take up his slack (because reaping every soul personally gets ''tiring''). But the Sorrows waste no time in making a mess of things and overloading the poor Reaper with paperwork when he really just [[DeathTakesAHoliday wants to take a vacation]], to the point that Death [[RageBreakingPoint goes ballistic]] and decides that it's time to take back his company.
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* The premise of ''Flipping Death'', the protagonist gets roped into temping while DeathTakesAHoliday only for someone to use the missing peace of deaths scythe to possess her body in the mortal world and cause trouble.
* This is what starts the mess in ''VideoGame/{{Have A Nice Death|2022}}''. Death hires the Sorrows and generally founds Death Inc. in order to take up his slack (because reaping every soul personally gets ''tiring''). But the Sorrows waste no time in making a mess of things and overloading the poor Reaper with paperwork when he really just [[DeathTakesAHoliday wants to take a vacation]], to the point that Death [[RageBreakingPoint goes ballistic]] and decides that it's time to take back his company.
* This is what starts the mess in ''VideoGame/{{Have A Nice Death|2022}}''. Death hires the Sorrows and generally founds Death Inc. in order to take up his slack (because reaping every soul personally gets ''tiring''). But the Sorrows waste no time in making a mess of things and overloading the poor Reaper with paperwork when he really just [[DeathTakesAHoliday wants to take a vacation]], to the point that Death [[RageBreakingPoint goes ballistic]] and decides that it's time to take back his company.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Death appoints Peter as the Grim Reaper while staying at his house to recuperate from an injury early in the episode "Death is a Bitch".
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** In "Grim for a Day", Billy and Grim switch places, with Billy becoming a reaper and Grim going to school. Billy's first assignment was a bust; the old man takes all day to get to the door, and when he finally answers, he believes Billy to be a trick-or-treater and gives him candy.
** ''Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure'' had Grim stripped of his powers for abusing them at the whim of mortals. They are subsequently given to [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kuki Sanban, a.k.a. Numbuh 3]] from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
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** In "Grim for a Day", Billy and Grim switch places, with Billy becoming a reaper and Grim going to school. Billy's first assignment was a bust; the old man takes all day to get to the door, and when he finally answers, he believes Billy to be a trick-or-treater and gives him candy.
** ''Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure'' had Grim stripped of his powers for abusing them at the whim of mortals. They are subsequently given to [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kuki Sanban, a.k.a. Numbuh 3]] from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In "Grim for a Day", Billy and Grim switch places, with Billy becoming a reaper and Grim going to school. Billy's first assignment was a bust; the old man takes all day to get to the door, and when he finally answers, he believes Billy to be a trick-or-treater and gives him candy.
** ''Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure'' had Grim stripped of his powers for abusing them at the whim of mortals. They are subsequently given to [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kuki Sanban, a.k.a. Numbuh 3]] from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
** ''Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure'' had Grim stripped of his powers for abusing them at the whim of mortals. They are subsequently given to [[ItMakesSenseInContext Kuki Sanban, a.k.a. Numbuh 3]] from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
