DC Comics Grim Reapers Explained!
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DC Comics have a bunch of characters that fill a Grim Reaper-style role including Death of the Endless, Nekron, Black Racer, and Black Flash so here's an easy guide about who's who!
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Well, Death won't actually be alone at the End of Time. After she claims every last being (including her siblings), the concept of Death will cease to exist, meaning she will claim herself, or as she put it, "I'll put the chairs on the tables, put out the lights, and lock the universe behind me when I leave."
@parsapourkaveh7492
5 жыл бұрын
I literally got Goosebumps
@parsapourkaveh7492
5 жыл бұрын
@Living meme The Endless aren't limited to one universe. they are multiversal beings, even beyond the multiverse and anything that doesn't cross the Source Wall
@trioan3500
4 жыл бұрын
And where will she leave to? Nothing After ending the universe, she will be nothing
@gonhunter3994
4 жыл бұрын
@Danny SJ Nope
@notme8652
4 жыл бұрын
If Death still exists then Destiny would still exists since now his book only has the Destiny of Death
Death of the Endless: "When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave."
@smal750
Жыл бұрын
also death : Lucifer neg me
@Mi-Jung_Kim-tq2bl
9 ай бұрын
@@smal750eat 💩
@kcreator8844
2 ай бұрын
@smal750 was this necessary?
I’ve a theory on why the black flash looks like the flash Barry Allen is the person who gives all life to speedsters by creating the speed force and the black flash is a reflection of him representing the death of speedsters
@ComicDrake
6 жыл бұрын
Oh shit, that is some good head canon!
@wuzzen97
6 жыл бұрын
Same here, I assumed the Black Flash looked like the Flash because Barry Allen kinda created the Speed Force.
@archony5514
6 жыл бұрын
Please do a video on how marvel should reboot and who should be kept in it if u want we could talk about this over discord my user uberdrew#4909 I would like to do a comic podcast and it would be great if u we’re on it comic Drake
@mikeburnsy6492
6 жыл бұрын
+Comic Drake is it weird that I wanna see An Endless show? or just a Miniseries on DC Nation
@azureheart2846
6 жыл бұрын
Mike Burnsy nope, I'd love to see a show about the Endless. I'd be great, and it could help people who don't know about them. I had a long talk to my friends when trying to explain them about the Endless.
Wow, that was dark. Actual Death (herself) seems cool though BTW.
@athannyx6815
6 жыл бұрын
Because she's awesome.
@MrWetty01
6 жыл бұрын
She is a super cool character, my favorite character in comics tbh.
@frankr.ashbyjr.2006
6 жыл бұрын
Seriously read her in sandman...she is SO well written...one of the best characters in all comics
@DracoSuave
6 жыл бұрын
She is totally chill
@obscurityknocks
6 жыл бұрын
Death loves people. Her job is complicated and people need to die. She's very well written in Sandman and her limited series: The High Cost of Living.
Given Death (of Endless) personality, I sure would like to be there for her at the end. Just to chat with her. She's got a great personality, a warm smile, and infinite wisdom through countless experience (just for Earth humans, there is a death every 3 seconds). Except she's present in all deaths, not just humans (insect, a rock, even the concept of time). And she doesn't just take people away forcefully (although she can, if she wanted to). She chats with them, and brings them spiritual comfort, regardless of how long it takes (at the moment of death of a thing, the time freezes, so she has infinite time to do what she needs to do).
@flyingpigproductions5934
3 жыл бұрын
Simp
@michaelsong5555
3 жыл бұрын
@@flyingpigproductions5934 I have no problem being a simp for a girl like that. Worth it.
@flyingpigproductions5934
3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelsong5555 I can respect your dedication to the simp arts, namaste 🙏
@goken9046
11 ай бұрын
yeah i mean that's next level simping
@seanraines5871
3 ай бұрын
@@goken9046is he wrong though
Fear the reaper of the New Gods! The Black Racer and his SPAAAAAAAACE SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!
@raul5578PR
6 жыл бұрын
JamcalX you’ll fear him when you’re the one that’s being followed😁
@g00gleminus96
6 жыл бұрын
He can't get to me, I'm surrounded by a cosmic snow fence.
@justas423
5 жыл бұрын
His new design is SIIIICCCCKKK
@seldomstudios6351
5 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment
@lunahetfield
4 жыл бұрын
JamCal-X o no im soooo scared :c
"Hello and welcome to Comic Drake. Where I talk about comics and my name is Drake. *All things must die.* " Me: Well that escalated quickly.
@j2geek
3 жыл бұрын
Should be part of his standard intro.
Minor correction, big fan of the endless. She would not be the only one at the end of the universe. The endless themselves as concepts don't die, even though their faces do, with the exception of her who does something similar during her moments... Not only that, the other Endless have survived through different universes. They move onto other universes. Death is the only one who is guaranteed to be left UNCHANGED at the end and close the door on that universe. Last one to leave. But as long as there is dream/reality, Delirium/truth, despair/hope, Destiny/free will, desire/apathy and Destruction/creation all of her siblings will exist in some form. tl;dr: The representative personification might change. Their concept may warp. But they are the endless because their concepts are eternal.
@shimonbanana6973
6 жыл бұрын
Athan Nyx but if it's true why not make a new universe at the end of everything. You said as long as creation live even as a concept there could still be a universe.
@athannyx6815
6 жыл бұрын
There actually is one. The concepts can and have waited there at the end of the world inn. But they also... It's a MULTIVERSE. So they are not chained to any one universe. They can also exist in multiple times and places. They are the active faces but their concepts go unhindered in other areas. That's why Death talked about being the last one to put up the chairs, turn off the lights and close the door to the old universe. It's not that her siblings have died. It's that she is the one who does the finishing touches. She learned a long time ago she has to do her duties. She can't abandon them like Destruction has. Also totally ask me more questions, I have read those books far too much and I am fairly comfortable in my knowledge of the endless.
@Kevin-Hdz
6 жыл бұрын
Athan Nyx- So um you know how you said your quiet knowledgeable on the Endless? So just how powerful are they, I mean you could tell me about individual on each character or the whole endless combined but just how powerful are they? Also with Dr.manhattan messing with stuff, did he affect the endless? Or are the endless more powerful than him? Also thanks if you reply
@grayscribe1342
6 жыл бұрын
Kevin Hernandez: As far as power goes, there is no scale for the Endless. Only a few things can influence them and even fewer can kill the current aspect, which only will give raise to a new aspect. Dr. Manhatten would have to confront them in their individual centers of power and what they can do there depends on which Endless he faces. For example, as powerful as Dr. Manhatten is, he still has desires, so Desire can influence him as she is each and every desire. Dream literally is the reality of the Dreaming, so Dream could do anything he wants with Dr. Manhatten. Dr. Manhatten's powers will only work there if Dream allows them to work. Destiny, well Destiny is in some ways like Dr. Manhatten. All that will ever happen is written in his book and everything happens as he reads it. While he has been surprised in the past, his book details everything that happens in the universe until his sister Death takes him (as seen in 'Books of Magic'). Despair, is like Desire and even Dr. Manhattan can despair. I'm not sure about Delirium's abilities, but I doubt the Orderly Dr. Manhatten can deal with her chaotic naure. While Destruction has retired, he has not given up his power, but using them again would mean to take up he mantle of Destruction again, something he does not want to. But if he does, as with his siblings, he is destruction, that is what he does. And Death... well, we saw Death at the end of the universe, cleaning up the place before closing the door behind her and there was no Dr. Manhatten there. That said, Dr. Manhatten probably can influence the Endless in some ways. There are ways how some entities and even mortals can influence the Endless, but it is not advisable as it rarely ends well for them. One Demon Lord rejected Dream's hospitality and, well, Dream has a chest with some stuff in it, including a sphere with the trapped Demon Lord. Even when the old aspect died, the sphere was still in that chest. Considering that the old Dream banished his love to hell for 10,000 years and only was going to release her after it was ponted out to him that he was unfair to her, I have my doubts that the Demon Lord will be free anytime soon.
@Kevin-Hdz
6 жыл бұрын
Gray Scribe- oh ok thank you, sorry I just have few more questions if you ever reply 1. Do the endless affect/effect The Presence 2. Do they affect/effect Lucifer and Micheal and Elaine 3. Do they effect/affect the Overmonitor Thank you if you reply!
Great video. The Sandman cast of characters is so interesting and beautifully drawn.
@dr.jackbright963
3 жыл бұрын
Their like ethereal
Death has always been my favorite character, I loved her interaction with Lucifer, and other Vertigo characters. In a way, I always wanted her and Constentine to have a thing, and see just how badly he would piss her off.
@michaelsong5555
3 жыл бұрын
I doubt someone like John can piss off Death. She's seen a lot. Someone like John wouldn't be able to piss off Death.
@jrijuju9474
3 жыл бұрын
That would broken one of the rules
@agentchaos9332
Жыл бұрын
@@michaelsong5555 you underestimate Constantines capacity for being a wanker
watching black racer mosey on through a wall on those skis was killing me.
@ComicDrake
6 жыл бұрын
Welcome to comics. :P
So this is why people wants a goth gf
@smal750
Жыл бұрын
no
@Thereal_Pranabindu
Жыл бұрын
Yes
@FireFox-oh7jg
Жыл бұрын
Yes
@fmpstudios305
Жыл бұрын
I concur
@TheOvervoid2099
9 ай бұрын
Maybe
I just watched the DC animated short Death and it was amazing, it made me want to look more into the character which lead me here
Wouldn’t death killing all life basically bring upon the death of death. I mean death only exists because life exists so if life ceases to exist so will death since how can death exist if there’s nothing to die
@ComicDrake
6 жыл бұрын
I'm going to go into more detail in the dedicated Death video, but she also represents life to an extent and appears at every sentient being's birth. She is a lot more than just death as a concept.
@Ali-bd6kb
6 жыл бұрын
Comic Drake okay thanks
@Knator100
6 жыл бұрын
Also in Sandman it states she may be around after the end of the multiverse. Although their are a few beings she can't kill. Like The Presence, Lucifer Morningstar and Michael.
@Knator100
6 жыл бұрын
Serpico Lee in Lucifer comics when he almost died because his powers emploded stopping him from keeping a physical form (or something like that tbh it was a convoluted plan to get rid of him by a bunch of cosmic entities) and she showed up he told her flat out that she has no claim on him and she admits it
@mikeburnsy6492
6 жыл бұрын
+Keon Morningstar (Keonrule) could she Spectre,Mr.Mxy,or the Phantom Stranger?
Death from the endless is basically death. She is not a reaper just appeares when it is your time. The others are just helping her because she has to get everyone at some point. I like how DC writes her. She is there when you are born and when you die. She's there to let you live your life and experience it to its fullest whatever you do deside to do with it and takes you when it's time to go. When reading about her she's so lively because she knows nothing is forever so she just enjoys it while she can. Even those that are immortal know they can't outrun her forever but she will wait for them. She doesn't interfere but she is there to persuade you to live. PS she's not evil, chaotic or good but lawfully nutrual. Yes she has the power to take anyone anywhere anytime but only takes you when it is your time. She does not discriminate because everything dies or just ends
@itsDjjayy
Жыл бұрын
Wait but isn't death the grim reaper 🤔
If Necron was the first threat ever faced by the Guardians, that could explain why they chose their original enforcers to be machines. They by definition couldn’t die, and thus be used to fuel and entity like Necron.
I like to think that Death is the actual concept and the other three are just her underlings for certain specialty areas (speedsters, new gods...... lanterns?).
I think Death's relationship is different with everyone. For some, it's a joke, some an inevitable monster, and others just another part of a journey. Maybe every hero sees Death differently, and we can only see all the forms of it because we just happen to be the spectators of the stories.
Death of the endless is death in concept. The black racer is the idea of death being inevitable for all beings even 'gods' Nekron is the fear and hatred of death, the idea that it is fundamentaly wicked and evil. At least that's just my theory. As for the black racers taking a different form in order to draw speedsters into the speed force once thier time is up.
Even with that morbid end, your videos make me happy.
Death is my favorite portrayal of death as an entity in all of fiction. She's also one of my favorite characters ever.
I love how speedsters are so many and so important in the DC universe. That they need their own grim reaper. XD
Billy and Mandy's is still the best
@bowshockgalaxy
2 жыл бұрын
No that was ur mom
I've been waiting for you to mention Sandman lore
@ComicDrake
6 жыл бұрын
I have a Lucifer video with over a million views, dude.
@Knator100
6 жыл бұрын
Comic Drake you are right i believe I mean I've been waiting for you to focus on the characters from the Sandman mainly the Endless.
Found this randomly and this was a trip I loved it! Plus I like how you ended it that dark and then boom we're good now it actually made me laugh, still is but yeah awesome work
@ComicDrake
5 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! You might like my other content to. ;P
While I know you do your homework on these things, I can't help but feel you missed a moment to mention that Death's design was inspired by Cinamon Hadley; Hadley passed away back in January.
@ComicDrake
6 жыл бұрын
While it's a shame that she died, this would not be the video for that. that would go in something like a dedicated History of Death video.
I have found my new comic-related cosplay... But I really enjoyed this one! I didn't know much about these characters, so this was really cool to learn about. Thanks for the vid!
The sound of her wings...
Great video, man. I‘m really tempted to read some Sandman.
Binge watching your videos, right now. Great stuff!
Drake , Sandman will be back on June !! What a time to be alive.
The DC Grimreapers topic have been covered in dozens of other KZread videos, but I think its because there's such great material about it. Great vid.
This is what I think the other deaths are heralds of death of the endless
Brand NEW subscriber, as of the 10th, and I've been using "because Comics" so often now! Keep doing what you're doing!
@breckwarren6142
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the highlight, but I noticed an error and just had correct it. I'm a linguistics snob like that. 😉
is it just me, or is Death literally just Siouxsie Sioux
nice video always wanted this particular character explained
@ComicDrake
6 жыл бұрын
It wasn't a video about a single character though.
Amazing episode!! 👍👏
I really enjoy all of your videos. Thank you for such good content. It must be a lot of work.
@ComicDrake
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! It's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding.
@unclesunbro1577
5 жыл бұрын
@@ComicDrake You single handedly got me back into comics. Haven't delved far yet but the rabbit holes are deep and alluring.
So Death (the endless) was cool with blackest night event? She seems way to laid back to have let that happen if she even knew about it. I mean you have a whole lanturn core dedicated to you, one would think she would have said something to them at some point.
@athannyx6815
6 жыл бұрын
She actually is usually uninvolved in the actual dying part. She knows how people are supposed to die but her duty is that they do and to escort them to their afterlife if there isn't a reaper to. She doesn't mind zombies, ghosts or if people opt to not even die. But unless they do something that specifically makes it so she can never be involved with them again without an intermediary, Orpheus did this when he went to the underworld for his wife, she can always come to pick them up later.
@uutakke1
6 жыл бұрын
Athan Nyx I'm just saying that Death being chill kinda takes away from the horror of BN and makes Necron look like a fan boy that went way to far
@athannyx6815
6 жыл бұрын
Well the thing is dying is still painful. She's actually so chill because most people panic and react badly to having died. She just knows the alternative is worse. She ran away once from her duties. All we know about that is it was... Not a good thing. Everything was in pain from being unable to die. And I don't know much about Blackest night but I know she wouldn't approve. But she doesn't actively get involved in those sort of events. Several immortals were killed by Destruction, Joe doesn't want to be destruction again so he has some rather fatal fail safes, and although she lets immortals come in their own time... At that point she had to take them. There are some rules to her involvement.
@ombuddy
4 жыл бұрын
Death said she does not mind the blackest night happened cuz in the end everything will be back to her.
@Vort23
2 жыл бұрын
Black Lanterns aren't a group devoted to Death of the Endless, they're a group of zombies controlled by Nekron (another entity of death, as was described). It isn't some fan group, it's Nekron trying to become more powerful.
Awesome video!!!
Strong finish there, like damn. Good job, Drake.
DC’s version of Death is also my favourite personification. Tied with Terry Pratchett’s Death from Discworld.
Wait, what about Shrouds, they've appeared within the John Constantine series and the film of Justice League Dark, do they count as Grim Reapers? I thought there job was to take souls to the afterlife
@karlcembrano9540
6 жыл бұрын
Zak The Street Fighter in my opinion, they are more of a courierol or escort for the souls in which they escort the souls from the mortal spiritual plane to the entrance of the afterlife after the mortal lifespan expires
You think you could do a similar video but for marvel? Between Ms Death, Hella and Mikaboshi (to name a few) things get confusing too, especially during time runs out and secret wars (2015)
I loved her little short film DC put out, wish they made it longer, it was great!
Death of the endless knows she will be completely alone one day, but she's still cool with it because she's "living in the moment" Weirdly inspiring honestly
So she's death? Guess I'm suicidal.
@spiderjerusalem4009
3 жыл бұрын
true, i'd give thanos all benefits if this were the death he simps
@Emike-nc9ew
3 жыл бұрын
Yo,what the fuck....
@wanderin_stud499
3 жыл бұрын
@@spiderjerusalem4009 Marvel death is way more vixen-y (if that's even a word) than Death of the Endless. So calling Thanos a simp still applies.
@spiderjerusalem4009
3 жыл бұрын
always has done
I see all of them on a scale with nekron being the lowest, the black racer being middle and death of the endless being the strongest
I don’t see death as an aspect of death and Death as death itself to be mutually exclusive, just like Dream having forms recognized in various pantheons doesn’t make him any less Dream itself. I think it’s reasonable for Death to be also a manifestation of herself, and have ties with roles in relation to the other manifestations even if ultimately, they are temporary facets of her domain. After all, I’m well established canon, Death is also individual to each personal experience of Death, so why wouldn’t she be as herself a face and aspect of her own broader comic identity?
@athannyx6815
6 жыл бұрын
The thing is she was sort of written as a personification. So she is the face of the whole concept. That will. So her as an aspect is just wrong. Each Endless is the form and active will of their concept.
@athannyx6815
6 жыл бұрын
Added to that. Reapers are sort of treated as her employees. They can lead to specific afterlives people want to go to and are supposed to go to. That's how psychopomps can coexist with her. If there isn't a reaper to lead them, then she leads them through the sunless lands to their afterlife. But she will never see their afterlife and unless they reincarnate she will never see them again.
@cookiesxsugar9447
6 жыл бұрын
Athan Nyx Again, your mileage may vary, but I don’t see why you the will of a concept would be mutually exclusive from representing an aspect of her own concept, taking on a specific role within her larger one. Especially seeing as active will can quite reasonably be read as one aspect of Death’s operation as a character.
@athannyx6815
6 жыл бұрын
The reason is she is supposed to be death itself. Death the character. A personification. All the endless are personifications. That is like saying Nyx is just a piece of the night. She IS the night. Death is basically the form you can understand and are comfortable with for that concept. I don't take as much offense by her just going along with it because it's actually what death does. She's not going to make someone upset or go into a concept if you can't handle it. But I see Neil Gaiman's issue because it confuses how Death is supposed to be. The others can be, and probably are, representing aspects. She has representatives. Psychopomps and gods actually technically count as working for her. But she's supposed to be the very concept of death in a form you can talk to.
Finally someone release this. To me Death of endless rip soul Neckron rip body Black racer rip speedster
@happycompsognathus4411
6 жыл бұрын
correction! Death of the Endless Rip everything!! i mean everything...
Thanks for explaining Necron! That guy always bugged me for some reason.
I always thought Black Flash and Black Racer were different dudes
@fictionarch
6 жыл бұрын
it seems weird for them to be the same because they have different types of prey.
I would love more videos about these kind of things
@ComicDrake
6 жыл бұрын
But... that's the whole point of this channel...
@Xayver1082
6 жыл бұрын
Comic Drake let me be more clear, stuff about powerful cosmic entities
I'm always fascinated with the more religious side of dc, especially the endless, those guys are epic. I also like untold backstories of certain characters. Right now, i am thinking of a fan made dc comic book called "the family", it's the life of thomas wayne and his secret. No spoilers
The metaphor w Death lifting the chairs and closing the door is so awesome and Sandman is so epic,that to infer she isn't The Death is just nonsense :)
Comic Drake. Love your videos. Keep it up...❤❤💗💗
The Presence will be with her
In my opinion: Black Racer is the inevitability, while Black Flash is probably an expression of him or the speed force manifesting a way to kill speedsters across time. Nekrom being a cosmic death also makes sense. Death of the endless would just be Lady Death, the form of death that is your companion in your final moments. Always able to appear through the ability of the Black Racer as an inevitability and Nekrom as a cosmic force that exists throughout the universe. But as far as I know, Vertigo was always supposed to be it's own thing so it was probably shoehorned in. Preferably, Death shouldn't have a true form, only expressions. Since death as many faces: the inevitable, the reaper, the beautiful woman, the ferryman and much more.
@xo-1320
6 жыл бұрын
Kuwabara Sama Nope Dream (the second one) Appears in Dark Knights Metal
@sketchstevens5859
6 жыл бұрын
Emp United Yeah DC has been shoehorning characters IMO. They shoehorned in Alan Moore's Promethea and Tom Strong in these recent new stories. Neil Gaiman's take is his own though. He kinda sucks for selling Angela to Marvel since her mythos does not work well with Thor.
@MrJMB122
5 жыл бұрын
Neil Gaiman Sandman she is death not the aspect but the force itself.
@ArmandoUlloa
5 жыл бұрын
+Sketch Stevens Dc has to ask neil gaiman when they want to use a sandman character. He has to approve the usage of characters. also is not a recent thing, Death appeared in Action comics after the blackest knight.
Death of the Endless won't be alone. She'll have the Presence to keep her company.
@destructorzombis1735
4 жыл бұрын
That would be a really weird conversation XD
@azaezelmorningstar3992
3 жыл бұрын
she actually kills the presence :/
I like to think that characters like The Black Racer and The Black Flash are kinda like Death of the Endless' henchmen in a sense. If someone, the Flash, is somehow able to cheat her, it'd be Black Flash's job to kick his ass for her.
Well, that was cheerful
Great video you're awesome
@ComicDrake
6 жыл бұрын
You haven't watched it yet. It's been up for less than three minutes.
The way I see it, is that since dream has an incarnation for the dreams of different beings (as seen in the sandman:overture), it make sense that black racer is the incarnation of death of the endless for the new gods, the black flash is the incarnation for the speedsters, and Nekron is most likely the death of the first created things (again, see sandman: overture for what that last one means)
@wilhempatrickmbassinzie370
2 жыл бұрын
Rectification. Black Racer is an incarnation of the concept of Death,not an Incarnation of Death of the Endless
@wilhempatrickmbassinzie370
2 жыл бұрын
In Overture,it was the same being,but with different form ( he is an abstracr being, his physical form depend how you see it, and in Overture,there's all forms of Dream. It wasn't others gods of dream,it was Only Dream of the Endless )
The way she puts it "when everything is said and I'll be the one to put up the chairs,turn off the lights, and lock the door."
One more death left out is the force called 'The Black' and its Parliament of Decay from Swamp Thing. Not technically a reaper figure in DC continuity, but it is pretty relevant.
I love grim reaper/Death are my favorite and with the scythe
I love your videos
There was the traditional Grim Reaper who appeared pre-Crisis, as the host of DC's horror or war-based stories. Also, even though all speedsters ends up in the Speed Force, Barry somehow appears in Heaven to talk to Green Arrow (or rather his soul) in Kevin Smith's run of "Green Arrow".
The Death of The Endless is the embodiment of ENTROPY something a little above traditional Death. This also confirmed by the fact that one of the Endless described himself and his Endless siblings as a "Wave Function."
@shawnhall3849
4 жыл бұрын
Mr.Knight The Detective She’s in every story even in other aspects of her such as the grim reaper
@mr.knightthedetective7435
4 жыл бұрын
@@shawnhall3849 Might as well say she exists even in Marvel Universe because if you read King Thanos comic Lady Death manifests as her younger self and looks AWFULLY allot like Death of the Endless.
Isn’t what she says “after I reap the last soul, I’ll put up the chairs, turn off the lights, and lock the universe behind me when I leave.” She’s so goddamn cool
I think the Black Flash isn’t a sentient entity in the usual sense like the others. You know the whole “energy cannot be created or destroyed”? When a speedster gets their powers, it takes away a small amount of Speed Force away from the whole. In universe, it’s something that’s not supposed to happen so the empty space manifests as the Black Flash to take back what was removed and it just manifests as a Flash-like being because it’s taking the same shape as the space that was left.
Maybe what separates death of the endless from the other three is that she is the ultimate authority, being not just the person who takes life but the person who gave it in the first place, which could mean that she never really takes it away, but she’s just returning what she borrowed
Death of the Endless is by far the cutest of the dc grim reapers, I don't think anyone will fight me on that one.
"Death has come for you" - The Silver Shroud
While I get why Gaiman was upset(cuz he really wasn't writing his Sandman stories to be apart of the main UC Universe), I like the idea of Black Racer, Death, Black Flash, etc being different aspects of the same thing that somehow exist concurrently. Sorta like over in Marvel, they have Mephisto, Thog, Satan, Blackheart, etc, all being different aspects of the Devil.
Please do a video on all The Endless...
Dc's favorite numeric word is several, because that's how many in canon versions of a single character there are
Do you think Black Flash would be a cool villain to end of The Flash on CW or possibly an animated/live action Flash film?
wow this got super dark super fast
Do a video on the manifestations of the lantern corps. Necron, Paralax, ect.
0:42 you've been *dying* to make this video 😂 nice pun
holy shit this video was brilliant!!!
This whole video was so meta
Weissman had a point. There were other deaths in DC comics before Geilman decided to write a "one true death" which is what REALLY confuses things. There's a death of all things but also several deaths for specific things. So if nekron takes some mortals, black racer takes the new God's and black flash takes speedsters, who or what does Death take (besides those other "deaths" which technically shouldn't be capable of dying anyway) I feel like either there should be only one death OR multiple equal aspects of death for different things, but not both. And it's not like the endless were entirely separate from the dcu anyway. Hell, Geilman used other pre-existing DC characters in his work at times, like when he used Fury and Hector Hall to create his second Sandman, Daniel Hall. So Weissman didn't "shoehorn Death into the DC Universe" Geilman literally wrote her into it. All Weissman did was attempt to make sense of it. He expects Weissman to run things by him, yet he never ran things by other writers who also had death based characters before him
I've always had a crush on Death of the Endless since reading Gaiman.
3:12 who's the artist?
I think the three deaths are like, if Death of the endless is the straight up concept of death, then Nekron is like the emotion of death. Similar to how there's this weird whale thing which is the manifestation of the emotion of willpower, then Nekron is the emotion which encompasses Death. While the Black Racer is more or less the god of death, similar to Thanatos or something where he's just there to claim the new gods and deliver them to Death herself.
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Death of the endless and black racer are by far my favourites
I was lucky enough to get an answer from Gaiman last year and he pretty much said the same thing; Black Racer, Nekron, Black Flash, etc. will one day die, and Death of the Endless will come for them.
Death of the Endless makes Mr.Meseeks so relatable
that intro has serious Vsauce vibes, introducing yourself, and just instantly jumping in with "all things must die"
Hey Drake, Just wondering if you were going to do a video on the end of Invincible? It's my favorite comic of all time and I know it's yours too, So it would be cool to see some kind of tribute video
The thing about Endless's Death is that she's the personification of the action itself--shes not so much an existing creature as she is an event. All the others--Racer, Flash, Nekron exists and can be defeated even. Death though? She just kind of... is. So the others, who will stop existing at some point, will eventually be reaped by her.
I think I have a theory about the black racer and black flash connection. What if every type of being has a specific death to them, so speedsters have the black flash, new god's have black racer, and so on (examples could be like, lantern corps having one or meta humans as well). So each distinct form of life that has mystical abilities have their own "black" death but each black death are aspects of the one black death being. Then, since the most powerful entities the black death precedes over are the new gods, his physical body defaults to the black racer, as it's in a way his own most powerful form.
I love the idea of Endless Death. She is so nice and absolutely who I want to meet when I die.
That chair.... Where did you get that kick ass chair?????
Oh no, Comic Drake has the infinity gauntlet! We must all bow down if we even want a *chance* at living o.O
Best Death portrayal next to Pratchett's interpretation.
About the end bit: It's really not that bad. If I remember right, her exact words were "When this universe..." as in this current one. She might have to wait abit but another universe will pop up eventually.
Please make a Video about Death of The endless