Line #28 Main/EnemiesWithDeath


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:He's not kidding, he [[BagOfSpilling steals]] all your [[ATasteOfPower stuff!]]]]
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4	->''"Death had to take him sleeping, for if [Theodore] Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight.''"
5	-->-- '''Thomas Marshall'''
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7	Some heroes are PalsWithJesus, while the least fortunate are Enemies With Death.
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9	For some reason TheGrimReaper, or an AnthropomorphicPersonification of some other concept intrinsic to existence, takes a serious dislike to our hero and has it in for her/him. Maybe the hero has upset their EvilPlan, they dislike her/him for doing things counter to their nature (like saving lives, cheating death, or becoming immortal), or they have a boss who orders them to antagonize the hero.
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11	Oddly (especially when it's Death) he/she/it won't just kill the protagonist with a snap of the fingers. There may or may not be some form of cosmic rulebook obliging Death not to outright kill the hero, or it may be merely a {{Psychopomp}} with no power to directly cause people to die, but likely it's an authorial fiat to give the hero a chance to survive. Death has two ways to make the hero's life difficult: fight the hero physically (usually as a BossBattle), or mess with the people and events around the hero, making the her/him either a WeirdnessMagnet or a DoomMagnet chased by the ButterflyOfDoom. If Death is particularly gentlemanly, it could offer to resolve the whole thing with [[ChessWithDeath a nice game of chess]]. If instead Death [[TheProblemWithFightingDeath is a right bastard]], it may well [[AgeWithoutYouth do "nothing"]] [[AgeWithoutYouth to the hero]].
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13	Interestingly, [[LogicBomb when our hero kills Death]] (they're a hero armed with a SavePoint, they'll [[SaveScumming succeed eventually]]) it is not a case of ImmortalityImmorality, and it won't result in DeathTakesAHoliday. Usually. It may have something to do with the fact that an actively malicious Death is somehow going AWOL and not doing its "duties" with impartiality. Or, the hero may discover too late that YouKillItYouBoughtIt. Or perhaps [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} Death just can't be killed permanently]].
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15	Contrast MonsterRoommate and, more specifically, DontFearTheReaper.
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23	* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' has an episode where the opponent's [[SeriousBusiness trading card]] is actually TheGrimReaper himself. Other cards based on Death have also appeared, such as Reaper of the Cards.
24	* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' has the heroes fight Hades, god of the underworld... and his minion gods Thanatos and Hypnos, gods of death and sleep, respectively. Just how powerful they are [[MisappliedPhlebotinum or how wisely they use their abilities]] is debatable, as they both physically fight the saints (and lose) rather than kill them by natural causes or make them comatose, respectively.
25	** Hades actually uses his powers intelligently and gives a DealWithTheDevil to dead Gold Saints. It just happens that the Gold Saints took the bait to accomplish more strategic objectives, but this is still a valid tactic specific to a Death God.
26	** In Hypnos' defense, his special move ''does'' make the target go into an [[ConvenientComa endless sleep]], with the caveat that it has NoOntologicalInertia once he is beaten. Thanatos, on the other hand, may just be an arrogant {{Jerkass}} who prefers toying with his opponents rather than plain killing them.
27	** Thanatos tries to use the insta-death on a non-fighter, [[spoiler:Seiya's long lost sister,]] but the lowest ranked saints manage to block it (at great damage). It's implied that the nearly godly main characters would be immune, what with divine blood protection.
28	** It should be noted it worked on former minion Pandora who just betrayed them, giving Phoenix Ikki a key to go to Elysion.
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32	* After ComicBook/TheMightyThor severely ticked off Hela (Norse goddess of the dead) one time, she cursed Thor to be undying, but to have extremely brittle bones, leaving him in constant pain and held together by an improvised suit of armor and splints. (Obviously, he got better.)
33	* When ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} and Death become infatuated with one another after Deadpool has a number of near-death experiences, a jealous Thanos prevents Deadpool from dying and joining the entity.
34	* Inverted in ''[[ComicBook/EarthX Universe X]]''. Death is under siege by Captain Mar-Vell's army, and fights back, but it seems she'd be perfectly willing to leave him alone if he'd return the favor. [[spoiler: And then it turns out that the world [[DeathTakesAHoliday needs a Death]].]]
35	* This is the origin of [[ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers Mr. Immortal]]'s power.
36	* The 2009 Marvel MAX Destroyer series by RobertKirkman and CoryWalker featured the elderly hero refusing to go with the GrimReaper squad into the afterlife. One of them makes the mistake of threatening to take his family if he doesn't come willingly.
37	* [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Shuma Gorath]] and the other Many-Angled Ones alter reality in the dimensions they take root in to remove Death so that life will grow out of control and become cancerous, spawning more {{Eldritch Abomination}}s like themselves. And even Death itself (as in the cosmic anthropomorphic personification of death) can't permanently kill them.
38	** Marvel's Cancerverse is the living result of one of these alterations through an in-universe DealWiththeDevil. It took [[spoiler: A multi-versal invasion, bringing in other Eldritch Abominations, and a moment of stupidity on part of Thanos to bring Death back, and even then it's temporary since Death's gone again]].
39	* Marvel's Elders of the Universe were essentially immortal already, but after they offended Death, she refused to accept them, forcing them to live on, no matter how horribly maimed.
40	* ComicBook/AlphaFlight foe Deadly Ernest was a WWI soldier who rejected Death when she came to claim him on the battlefield. He later discovered that by rejecting her he had been cursed to never die and to bring death to anyone who touched him.
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44	* ''Fanfic/TheLionKingAdventures'' depicts Death as the BigBad of [[spoiler: Series 3]], and Simba marks his ability to defeat him as one of his greatest achievements.
45	* In ''FanFic/DiariesOfAMadman'', Navarone turns out to be Discord's ArchEnemy. Discord being the AnthropomorphicPersonification of chaos/discord.
46	* ''[[Fanfic/DeliverUsFromEvilSeries Mortality]]'': Watson ''out-right refuses'' to let Death take his friend. Seriously. He's NOT letting Death kill his friend. [[Literature/SherlockHolmes You know who it is]]. And who wants to bet Death is thinking OhCrap when he has to deal with Watson?
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50	* The ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' films have the main cast fight Death in the form of a faceless ButterflyOfDoom that's out to get them for ''not'' dying when they should have. Except it is revealed (or [[RetCon retconned]]) in the fourth movie that [[spoiler:the characters DID die when and how they were supposed to- the visions that saved them from dying ''were sent by Death itself!]]'' Suck on that, causality!
51	* ''Film/TheFeatherFairy'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4nwLLB8sV0 A Slovak adaptation of the fairytale "Frau Holle"]], Jakob is the godchild of Frau Holle (Life) and can see her sister "Frau Hippe" (Death). Hippe wiped out Jakob's whole family with an avalanche, only Jakob being saved by Frau Holle. The evil stepmother and her daughter always try to kill his love interest, but he blames Hippe instead and constantly hands her ass to her since she's a withered crone and he's a strong lad, making her the film's ButtMonkey. (Her only [[WouldntHitAGirl defense]], sort of, is that she is the Slavic Death and can take the form of a beautiful maiden. Her crooked gold teeth ruin the effect somewhat.) It culminates when Jakob is to be hanged for "murdering his love interest". Luckily, she comes back just in time to refute the false claims. In the ensuing chaos, Death tries to finish the job herself, while Jakob desperately holds up the noose with one hand. But with that, she finally overstepped her boundaries, and her sister is so pissed off she makes Jakob immortal. Death's only [[ThrowTheDogABone consolation]] (written in, it's nowhere in the [[Creator/BrothersGrimm original]]) is that she can claim the evil stepmother and her daughter.
52	* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'', Puss’s greatest adversary ends up being TheGrimReaper himself in the form of the Wolf, who he's been unknowingly pissing off for years due to arrogantly wasting the extra lives he gets as a cat and claiming himself an immortal legend who "laughs in the face of death" — thus, Death decided to test that notion and take his last life personally. This conflict ends amicably, however; Puss shows Death he's undergone CharacterDevelopment and humbly accepts his mortality, the latter in turn giving into his honor and sparing Puss, wishing him well with his life until they inevitably meet again.
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56	* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' has a fable that takes this form: three brothers use magic to cheat death, and Death himself shows up to "congratulate" them with three gifts. Two of the brothers die soon after because they chose or used their gifts poorly, just as Death hoped, but the third uses his gift to hide from Death, and decades later, as an old man, he decides he's lived long enough and passes the gift down to his son. It's suggested that this gift is [[spoiler:Harry's invisibility cloak]] and that Death has poorer eyesight than a cat.
57	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
58	** Death is usually a pretty nice guy, or neutrally doing his job, but in [[Literature/TheColourOfMagic the first book]], [[CharacterizationMarchesOn before his characterisation was quite settled]], he could be slightly malevolent, and annoyed that he couldn't tell when [[CosmicPlaything Rincewind]] was going to die. He stopped actively going after Rincewind as early as [[Literature/TheLightFantastic the second book]], and took the view of [[AC:I'll get him eventually. I get ''everyone'', eventually.]]
59	*** Death's attitude toward Rincewind (and fellow death defier Vimes) softens significantly in the later books, to the point where he sees them as a curiosity (or a source of mild exasperation at worst) more than anything else. At one point, while Vimes is in a particularly dangerous situation, Death appears off to the side sitting in a chair and idly flipping through a book. When Vimes notices him, Death says something along the lines of [[AC:Oh, don't mind me. I'm just waiting to see how this turns out.]]
60	** The Auditors of Reality, on the other hand, who are roughly personifications of the laws of the universe, are antagonistic towards all life, especially intelligent beings. They have it in for Death, too, particularly as he takes the side of life against them; this results, especially in ''Literature/ReaperMan'' where he's a protagonist, in the odd situation that ''Death'' is "EnemiesWithDeath".
61	** In ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', [[PsychoForHire Mr. Teatime]] devises plans for killing Death, as well as seemingly every other anthropomorphic personification on Discworld, in his spare time. He nearly pulls off the one against the Hogfather ([[YouMeanXmas a Santa Claus expy]]) until Death and his daughter Susan get involved.
62	** One wizard thought to escape Death by getting into a box adorned with every protective enchantment he can think of. Once he's inside...
63	---> '''Death:''' [[AC:Dark in here, isn't it?]]
64	*** Turns out there wasn't much room for, say, airholes...
65	* In the ''Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser'' stories the Death of their world is something like a cosmic bureaucrat that answers to some vague pan-dimensional forces. He has to meet particular quotas of who dies within allocated time periods (measured in mortal heartbeats) and is only really allowed to do so by manipulating natural events. He can't snap his fingers and kill somebody unless they have a severe medical condition, but he can make sure that they might have a nasty incident with some badly maintained masonry. The exceptions to this rule are the main characters, who once attempted to steal his mask; since then he's had it in for them and has resorted to toying with reality by teleporting crazed berserkers into their living quarters.
66	* ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'':
67	** Dassem Ultor, a legendary Malazan general started out as the Champion of Hood, the God of Death, but felt betrayed by his god when his beloved daughter died under suspicious circumstances which looked a lot like Hood using her for his own purposes. Dassem declared himself an enemy of his former patron and spends most of the series [[{{Revenge}} pursuing a way]] [[KillTheGod to kill Hood]]. Hood himself really does not have any strong feelings on the matter.
68	** Hood does, however, have a beef with the T'lan Imass as a whole, as is revealed in ''Literature/TheCrippledGod'', who are a race that collectively cheated death by becoming [[TheUndead undead]]. For a long time, he could do nothing about it, but then the T'lan Imass decided to make [[spoiler:Dassem Ultor]] ''their'' champion, and since such motions have metaphysical investiture in the series, all Hood had to do was to serve him the information the T'lan Imass had just made him the [[DeityOfHumanOrigin God of Tragedy]] on a hot platter. It's never explicitly explained what truly happened, but Onos T'oolan claims that [[spoiler:Dassem and his daughter]] were actually Hood's ''weapons'' directed at the T'lan Imass.
69	** Hood himself is the God of Death because, as is hinted at in ''Literature/TollTheHounds'', then confirmed in the [[Literature/TheKharkanasTrilogy prequel trilogy]], he at one point decided to fight the very concept of Death itself and called together a huge army to do so. Technically, they lost, but in best YouKillItYouBoughtIt fashion, Hood who was mortal up until that point became the God of Death.
70	* In the ''Literature/IronDruidChronicles'' the protagonist has the inverse problem. A female goddess of Death of his religion is rather fond of him and likes to use him for sex. This has given him a form of immortality but has also made him a mortal enemy of one of the gods of Love. Since in that pantheon all the gods are very nasty, vengeful and quite barbaric, the difference is mostly academic. The god has tried to make the protagonist's life miserable for two millenia and is always looking for a way to kill the protagonist.
71	* In ''Literature/TheTigersWife'', by Téa Obreht, the narrator's grandfather tells of his encounters with the "deathless man," who angered Death — his uncle — by saving a woman who was meant to die, and was punished with immortality.
72	* In the ''Wuntvor the Apprentice'' books by Creator/CraigShawGardner, Death believes that Wuntvor is the Eternal Apprentice, a sort of comic relief version of the Eternal Champion, undying yet forever incompetent, and views his very existence as a personal insult.
73	* In ''Literature/{{Legend\|1984}}'' by Creator/DavidGemmell, RetiredBadass Druss the Legend has visions of Death taunting him; rather than convince him to lie down and die, they just seem to goad him to even mightier feats.
74	* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': By the time of ''Literature/TranscendingLimitations'', Eric Watley has offended three {{grim reaper}}s and all of them want to kill him. Their boss, Lord Death, forbid it until one of them used their [[UnfinishedBusiness Final Wish]] to kill him. Eric would have died right then and there if not for other deities intercepting their attacks.
75	* Used for a DownerEnding in ''Literature/{{Revival}}'' by Creator/StephenKing: [[spoiler: when the protagonist gets a glimpse of what lies beyond the world we know, his BigNo offends Mother, an EldritchAbomination who appears to be a CosmicEntity responsible for the miserable state of human souls in the afterlife. Though he escapes immediate retribution, he's not looking forward to what she'll have in store for him.]]
76	* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Ghosts'': Alex in ''Not From Detroit'', who chases down and fights Death to get his wife's soul back. In the end though, while he successfully gets Margie's soul back, he can't stop Death from taking her for good, and the two settle their differences, Alex choosing to let Death take him early so he won't have to outlive his wife.
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80	* The Series 8 finale of ''Series/RedDwarf'', "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIIOnlyTheGood Only the Good...]]", has Rimmer escape from Death by hitting him with a GroinAttack. Made even funnier if you flash back to Series I, when Lister picked up a length of pipe to ward off his inevitable demise:
81	-->'''Rimmer:''' You can't just whack Death on the head!\
82	'''Lister:''' If he comes near me, I'm gonna rip his nipples off.
83	* The ''{{Series/Lexx}}'' crew are personal foes of an AffablyEvil ManipulativeBastard incarnation of Death.
84	* This is used at least four times in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''.
85	** The demon Alastair uses Death's scythe to kill two Reapers, part of a ritual to break one of the 66 seals on Lucifer's cage. He's stopped by the Winchesters from killing [[spoiler:Tessa and completing the ritual]] though.
86	** In the later part of season 5, Dean hunts down Death so he can kill him and take his ring. When he finally meets the Grim Reaper, it turns out that [[TheProblemWithFightingDeath things don't work that way]] in the ''Supernatural'' universe.
87	** In the first episode of season 7, Castiel and Death get into a very heated argument, in which Castiel outright threatens to kill Death. Death isn't impressed by the "mutated angel".
88	** Billie has never liked the Winchesters but grudgingly accepts working with them after she becomes [[LegacyCharacter the new Death]]. When their deal to kill Chuck falls apart she's more than ever determined to reap Dean. [[spoiler: Of course, she failed to mention that she was planning on becoming the new God all along, starting with killing off everybody the Winchesters have saved from Apocalypse World. Castiel foils her by dragging her with him to the Empty.]]
89	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E6WhiteLightFever White Light Fever]]", Harlan Hawkes is a billionaire centenarian with an abject fear of death due to his extremely traumatic childhood experiences, and uses his wealth to reserve revolutionary medical treatments for himself. The Grim Reaper concludes that he's outstayed his welcome, and starts to hunt Hawkes ''Film/FinalDestination''-style.
90	* In a HalloweenEpisode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', Death comes to collect Al, and is downright ''sadistic''. Seeing as it can take the form of whatever it wants, it purposely takes one that makes Al uneasy - Peg. "She" isn't unreasonable, however, and says that if his family - who is at Marcy's house - say they need him [[WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve before midnight]], she'll spare him. Of course, she spends the whole time [[EvilGloating goading and taunting him]], at one point claiming [[DraggedOffToHell he won't like where she's taking him]], and then slyly adding "maybe!" Al eventually wins the bet, however, and she honors her end of the bargain, but takes one last jab at him before she leaves, saying she'll be back the day after he wins the lottery. (Again adding "maybe!" to the end.)
91	* One Season 1 episode of ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'' had Death decide to claim Tommy's life, when he had his work interrupted by [[ChronicHeroSyndrome the latter wanting to save an old man from him]]. It takes a lot of convincing for Death to leave Tommy alone, although he later returns in a Season 2 ClipShow episode to claim ''[[RevengeByProxy Merton]]'''s life instead.
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95	* The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin appropriately titled]] ''Death To The Angel Of Death'' by the ''Consortium Of Genius'' attempts to teach the listener how to do this properly. [[spoiler: Unfortunately YouKillItYouBoughtIt.]]
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99	* The titular character of ''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'' has a love-hate relationship with Death. She doesn't fear him and continually rebuffs his advances (romantic or [[StalkerWithACrush otherwise]]) throughout the show, until her DespairEventHorizon (at which he [[spoiler: refuses to take her because he realized in that moment she wanted to use him as an escape]]). In the German version, Lucheni implies that Death [[DisproportionateRetribution goes out of his way to mess Sisi's life up]] out of spite.
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103	* ''VideoGame/{{Pathologic}}'' has an odd version of this. One of the main characters is a Bachelor of Medicine who honestly believes that the very concept of "death" is ''not'' a natural part of our existence, but rather another disease we have simply yet to cure. Some of the NPC's even refer to death as his natural enemy, which is true on more than one level given his profession.
104	* Each generation of Belmonts in ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' has fought Death. (Who just won't stay dead!) Amusingly, Alucard in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'', being Dracula's son, is on a first name basis with Death when they meet at the start of the game. Doesn't keep Death from [[BagOfSpilling punking his equipment,]] though.
105	* A significant theme in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''. [[spoiler:And ultimately, all you can do is hold Death off for a time - the battle is not truly winnable.]] In a less existential sense, TheGrimReaper will hunt you down and (unless your levels are significantly stacked) wipe the floor with you if you dawdle too long in Tartarus.
106	* In the original ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts1'', the God of Death embodied as Fox Face doggedly hunts Yuri through half the game, apparently having a major grudge against him that is never spelled out, beyond wanting to help the monsters killed by Yuri take their revenge. Implied to be one of the innumerable lesser death gods as common in Japanese mythology, as opposed to the ultimate personification of Death as in Western mythology.
107	* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal 2''[='=]s Mr. Grimm ''is'' in fact the Grim''m'' Reaper. He's pretty weak but has the single most powerful projectile in the game. His reason for entering the tournament is to make people die faster to feed his hunger for souls. [[JackassGenie He gets his wish.]] [[spoiler:For a while. When global war breaks out, its only so long until everyones dead and there's no more deaths, ever again.]]
108	* In ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'', the protagonist Dante is assassinated. When Death appears before him and tells him that he will be damned for his sins, Dante gets up, takes the knife from his back, and fights Death. Dante won. But not before stealing Death's scythe and killing him with it.
109	** [[spoiler: And then it turns out Death never came for him in the first place as a tangible being. He just keeled over on the spot.]]
110	* Happens in ''VideoGame/TouhouYouyoumuPerfectCherryBlossom'' when you fight Yuyuko, a super-powered ghost whose main power is inflicting death upon others. Said battle happens in the local equivalent of an ''afterlife''. A more ''literal'' use of this trope is during ''VideoGame/TouhouKaeidzukaPhantasmagoriaOfFlowerView'' when you must fight [[{{Shinigami}} Komachi]] to [[DeathTakesAHoliday get her back to work]], so it's ''your character'' who deliberately makes Death your enemy.
111	** What is important to remember is Komachi is just a ferryman shinigami who takes the spirits over to meet the Yama, not a reaper shinigami who comes to collect the person when their time is up. However, Tenshi the Celestial is immortal through the fact she has defeated every reaper shinigami who has come for her, which makes the fight against her in Komachi's storyline a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
112	** Hermits are also on probation from Hell for their immortality, and have to perform good deeds or get taken by a shinigami. Hermits who don't, like Seiga, have to fight off or escape the servants of Hell to survive. The same applies to Celestials.
113	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout Tactics\|BrotherhoodOfSteel}}'' has this as a potential character trait for Ghouls. They gain access to perks faster than regular ghouls, but they have a chance of taking damage for no reason other than DEATH!!!
114	* ''VideoGame/ChakanTheForeverMan'' is based on this. A Swordsman brags so much about his skills that he declares [[BlasphemousBoast not even Death could better him]]. Death accepted the challenge with a condition: If Chakan could defeat him, he'd be granted eternal life. If Chakan was defeated, he'd become Death's eternal servant. Chakan wins, but turns out he was BlessedWithSuck since he cannot rest until all Evil is eliminated.
115	* In ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'', several of the characters have to fight Odette, the Lady of Death, for various reasons. Gwendolyn [[spoiler: succeeds in killing her.]] [[FromBadToWorse This wound up being something of a mistake]], since it winds up [[spoiler:being one of several events that help trigger the apocalypse, killing all but four people on the planet.]]
116	* Although the Queen of Maggots in ''VideoGame/TheCatLady'' is, by her own admission, not truly "death", she may as well be given her ability to resurrect the dead and prevent souls from passing on into the afterlife. The game provides an excellent example of what happens when you annoy Death: she picks a recently-deceased soul, resurrects them, and makes them functionally immortal while telling them that the only way they get out of their crapsack life is by murdering the hell out of you.
117	* In ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'', one of the bosses you fight is [[TheGrimReaper the Death God]], who will chase your party of adventurers through the Castle of the Dead until you successfully send it back to the underworld or [[WeakenedByTheLight escape via an area filled with sunlight]]. The FlavorText of the Angel of Destiny Treasure Art explains that [[spoiler:death gods only started appearing in the world after people gained the powers of resurrection from the gods, causing people who are supposed to have died to not show up in the afterlife]]. Considering how often adventurers use that specific gift from the gods, it probably explains why the death gods aren't in good terms with them.
118	* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarGhostOfSparta'' Thanatos is the BigBad [[spoiler:Death somehow gets killed, even though he is Death incarcerate. Its implied Kratos has absorbed his power and become the new death, but since this is an {{Interquel}} its unknown if he lost this status in the beginning of ''VideoGame/GodOfWar2''.]]
119	* [[OurLichesAreDifferent Haldos]], the first Lich and UnreliableNarrator from ''VideoGame/NexusWar'' learned his powers in a bid to overthrow [[DontFearTheReaper Hashaa]], the pantheon's death god. Hashaa responded with a BoltOfDivineRetribution that wiped out Haldos' power base in one blow, though he survived in a lesser (but still [[ThatOneBoss dangerous]]) state.
120	* ''VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus'': This trope and its opposite are equally possible depending on whether Hades is set to be enemy or friendly. If an enemy, he unleashes Cerberus on you, or shows up and instakills every walker in the city along with cursing your silver mines. But if friendly (and you built him a sanctuary), he'll send Cerberus to defend your city, bless your silver mine production (not to mention his sanctuary providing silver veins to mine), and defends your city against other gods (and there's only two gods more powerful than him).
121	* Hel, the Norse goddess of death, is the BigBad of the third arc of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes''; her army, and her own power, increase every time someone dies in any universe. The heroes manage to kill her.
122	* By the time of ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeonII'', the [[CombatSadomasochist Flagellant]] has attracted the ire of [[SamusIsAGirl Death herself]] thanks to his constant self-abuse, to the point [[BodyHorror he’s little more than a walking corpse]] that tainted his BloodMagic thanks [[PoisonousPerson to his body rotting away]], and [[spoiler: he outright fights her off as death would put an end to his suffering]]. Thus, any party with him in it [[VictoryFakeout has a chance for Death to spawn in at the end of a Resistance encounter to try and claim him and any other poor sods in your party]].
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126	* The Fire God Agni from ''Webcomic/{{Kubera}}'' fights the god of death just to save Brillith.
127	* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': {{Inverted}} at first, when it's Bun-bun the mini-lop who has it in for an AnthropomorphicPersonification; he tries to kill SantaClaus every Christmas due to a grudge whose origin he can't remember properly. Eventually he pushes Santa so far that he snaps and starts plotting Bun-bun's death too. As this theme progresses, other Anthropomorphic Personifications of the holidays also become Bun-bun's enemies (others, cowed allies), although they'd rather just leave him alone after he shows he could beat up just about any of them.
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131	* Website/{{SCP\| Foundation}}-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1440 1440]] is a man who won immortality from the {{grim reaper}}s at cards. The reapers take revenge by destroying everything human-related wherever he goes.
132	* At the end of the ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' War of the Obelisk plot, the Awakened, an army of the undead, are [[BossBattle pitted against]] Death. They fear him because he is a threat to their immortality. It also would appear that he is [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling the little brother]] of [[UndeadChildren the leaders of the Awakened,]] [[CreepyTwins Lanie and Lillie]]. As they encourage the dead to rise from their graves, and he wants the dead to stay dead, they are at odds with each other.
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136	* Skips in ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. Also arguably the whole group as of "Skips Strikes," since Rigby won a bet against Death and defeated Death's bowling team.
137	** Another borderline example is in "It's Time" where Father Time is shown to be frustrated with Mordecai for [[ItMakesSenseInContext microwaving his clocks]] and decides to free him from eternal imprisonment only because he accidentally trashed Father Time's living room.
138	* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'' -- just like in the video games, ends up featuring Death as an antagonist, arriving in [[spoiler:the very climax of the final season, turning out to be the series' GreaterScopeVillain responsible for much of the bloodshed throughout the series, being the FinalBoss behind Dracula himself.]]
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