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2019 Reads > HF: What are your other favorite versions of Death/ Grim Reaper?

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Christos | 219 comments I love Discworlds version of Death, he is my 2nd favorite version of the character after the Sandman version, then after that the Supernatural tv show version.


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Trike | 11190 comments I do love the Supernatural version. Talk about a badass entrance: https://youtu.be/u1EzU9sLQ6I

Death on Family Guy is always fun: https://youtu.be/sasAcokbnVw

But probably my favorite is from Dead Like Me: https://youtu.be/cNHDFf1YLlc

In books:

The black rabbit from Watership Down was an interesting/disturbing version of Death.

I quite like Death from the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman. Death: The High Cost of Living

I did read the sample from Scythe and put it on my TBR. That version looks cool.


Phil | 1452 comments Two of my favorites are A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore and On a Pale Horse by Piers Anthony. Both involve regular guys who accidentally become the personification of death.


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Trike wrote: "I quite like Death from the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman. Death: The High Cost of Living"

I'll third her. She's my favourite. She is fun, friendly version of death.

I also liked Death from "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey"


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terpkristin | 4407 comments I liked the reapers from the tv show Dead Like Me. I know they’re not quite the same but that show was pretty great. Mandy Patinkin, how can you go wrong?


Ruth | 1778 comments Trike wrote: "I do love the Supernatural version. Talk about a badass entrance: https://youtu.be/u1EzU9sLQ6I

Death on Family Guy is always fun: https://youtu.be/sasAcokbnVw

But probably my favorite is from Dea..."


I too am a fan of the Supernatural Death... and more recently (view spoiler)


Joseph | 2433 comments I also admit to some fondness for Death as shown in the Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.


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Dara (cmdrdara) | 2702 comments I like all versions of Death that have a sense of humor.


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John (Taloni) Taloni (johntaloni) | 5193 comments So many good ones, just off the top of my head, Death from Sandman, Death from Discworld, and Death from Incarnations of Immortality (On A Pale Horse.) But topping them all is Death from Monty Python's Meaning of Life for me.

"The Salmon mousse..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoBTs...


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Trike | 11190 comments Ooh, I forgot the Python one. Good call!


Sarah | 7 comments I love death in "Death with Inturruptions" by Jose Saramago.


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Tamahome | 7215 comments Thanos's girlfriend was death, at least in the comics:




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Aaron | 285 comments Back then, Thonos assembled the Infinity Gauntlet to to kill half the universe as a gift for Death.


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Tassie Dave | 4076 comments Mod
Aaron wrote: "Back then, Thonos assembled the Infinity Gauntlet to to kill half the universe as a gift for Death."

Hasn't the poor girl got enough work to do? :-?


;-)


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John (Taloni) Taloni (johntaloni) | 5193 comments There was a short-lived non-Starlin take on the Marvel Death where she chided Thanos for reducing the life available to take. That Death wanted life to thrive so she could harvest more. I immediately related to that idea, Death as the celebration of life at its inevitable end. Think I saw something along those lines before, or at least I'd reflected on that concept and don't think I would have come up with it on my own. Anyway, very different from the Starlin take, but I liked it a lot.


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Hyena | 41 comments Deadpool dated her too...

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terpkristin | 4407 comments Joseph wrote: "I also admit to some fondness for Death as shown in the Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy."

YES! How could I forget Grim?


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Jan | 774 comments I like the East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise Death. A Western Gunslinger Death? Yeas, please!

Also, does Manny Calavera from the fantastic LucasArts adventure game "Grim Fandango" count?


Christopher Preiman | 347 comments Jan, if Manny doesn’t count, then what’s the point in life!


Caitlin | 358 comments Trike wrote: "I do love the Supernatural version. Talk about a badass entrance"

I love that scene so much.


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