In Hypnos' defense, his special move does make the target go into an endless sleep, with the caveat that it has No Ontological Inertia once he is beaten.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. Hades actually uses his powers intelligently and gives a Deal with the Devil to dead Gold Saints.Just how powerful they are 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. and his minion gods Thanatos and Hypnos, gods of death and sleep, respectively. Saint Seiya has the heroes fight Hades, god of the underworld.Other cards based on Death have also appeared, such as Reaper of the Cards. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX has an episode where the opponent's trading card is actually The Grim Reaper himself.Or perhaps Death just can't be killed permanently.Ĭontrast Monster Roommate and, more specifically, Don't Fear The Reaper. Or, the hero may discover too late that You Kill It, You Bought It. 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. Interestingly, when our hero kills Death (s/he's a hero armed with a Save Point, s/he'll succeed eventually) it is not a case of Immortality Immorality, and it won't result in Death Takes a Holiday. If instead Death is a right bastard, it may well do "nothing" to the hero. If Death is particularly gentlemanly, it could offer to resolve the whole thing with a nice game of chess. Death has two ways to make the hero's life difficult: fight the hero physically (usually as a Boss Battle), or mess with the people and events around the hero, making the her/him either a Weirdness Magnet or a Doom Magnet chased by the Butterfly of Doom. 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. Oddly (especially when it's Death) he/she/it won't just kill the protagonist with a snap of the fingers. Maybe the hero has upset their Evil Plan, 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. Some heroes are Pals with Jesus, while the least fortunate are Enemies With Death.įor some reason The Grim Reaper, or an Anthropomorphic Personification of some other concept intrinsic to existence, takes a serious dislike to our hero and has it in for her/him.
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