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| “ | I just love the smell of fear! | „ |
| ~ Death relishing in Puss's fear after drawing blood from him. |
| “ | Death: Sorry to crash the party with your past lives, or your past deaths, as I like to call them. I was there to witness all of them. Each. Frivolous. End. But you... didn't even notice me, because "Puss in Boots laughs in the face of Death", right? But you're not laughing now. Puss: You are no bounty hunter. You are... Death: Death. And I don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or theoretically or any other fancy way. I'm Death. Straight. Up. And I've come for you, Puss in Boots. Puss: But, I’m still alive! Death: [Chuckles] You know… [inhales] I’m not a cat person. I find the very idea of nine lives absurd. And you didn’t value any of them. |
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| ~ Death revealing his true identity to Puss. |
Death, also known as the Wolf, is the overarching antagonist of DreamWorks' 43rd full-length animated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, a spin-off of the Shrek franchise.
He is the physical embodiment of Death who intends on killing Puss in Boots as punishment for carelessly wasting each and every single one of his nine lives, despite going against his duty and boundaries by his own admission.
He was voiced by Wagner Moura.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- When he met Puss in Boots, he said that multiple people have tried to defeat him but have all failed, which implies Death has hunted down other individuals before rather than stealing their souls.
- After Puss in Boots wasted eight of his nine lives, Death attacked him at the bar, intending to kill him once and for all, and while Puss survived, he was injured and developed a fear of Death.
- Thanks to his attack, Puss in Boots went into hiding for what appears to be months, afraid that Death could be at in any corner and kill him, demonstrating how traumatized Death's attack left him. Given how miserable Puss was as “Pickles”, this was a slow and painful death or a fate worse than death.
- He appeared to Puss in Boots whistling several times throughout the movie, taunting him and giving him a warning that he is almost certainly still after him.
- He nearly captured and killed Puss in Boots once again in the Cave of Lost Souls, breaking the crystals that contained fragments of his past lives and nearly grabbing him, only grabbing and tearing a piece of his cape.
- When one of Puss in Boot's life points out he is cheating for targeting Puss in Boots when he is alive. Death shushes him which implies Death hunting Puss in Boots is not part of his job and does it for the fun of it.
- He made one last attempt to kill Puss in Boots on the wishing star, taunting him on whether or not that he would actually fight him or take the coward's way out by asking him if he was going to make his wish to regain his lost lives.
- He is played completely seriously in contrast to the movie’s other two villains, with his only comedic trait being a snarky but dark sense of humor.
- He is highly sadistic by confirming to love sense of fears in his victims.
- It is pretty clear he does not care about his job since he is not supposed to be after people that are still alive.
- While he lets Puss live at the end of the movie, it doesn't redeem him as he feels no remorse for his actions.
- He never got punished for his crimes due to being the embodiment of death itself.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- While it's vaguely implied that Puss isn't the first person Death has gone after, any other victims he may have claimed rely on Fridge Nightmare Fuel which is not important to the plot and only exists to traumatize theorists, with the rest of his actions amounting to typical "kill the hero" villainy.
- He fails the heinous standards to Rumpelstiltskin, Humpty Alexander Dumpty and even Big Jack Horner, who do worse with way less resources and power than him.
- He ironically also fails the heinous standards to Bloodwolf, who is just as powerful as Death but doesn't suffer from Fridge Horror, as his heinous actions were explored enough to pass the baseline, along with how Bloodwolf has attempted to destroy Earth while Death only wanted to hunt down Puss.
- He is a bit of a morally grey character, as while he is undeniably sadistic and aware of breaking his own rules, he does have a genuinely fair reason to be after Puss in Boots, as he wasted eight of his nine lives in extremely reckless ways, most of which that could have been avoided (like accepting a spotter and not eating shellfish which he was obviously allergic to), and didn't cherish them at all, showing no respect to either life or death in a false belief that he was immortal before encountering the physical embodiment of the latter.
- He does at least possess a sense of honor as after Puss gains respect for his last life and accepts the fact that he will never be able to defeat him, Death spares Puss so he can live his life and sincerely asks him to live it as well as he can, even if he does acknowledge that this will certainly not be the last time they meet.
- He has standards, as shown when during his pursuit of Puss and only Puss, he created flames that pushed Perrito out of the way completely unharmed. It’s also worth noting that he was targeting Puss solely to punish him for foolishly and carelessly wasting his first eight lives and laughing in the face of death while doing so. He also had a point that wishing for more lives to prolong his mortality was “the coward’s way out”.
- While he dislikes that cats have nine lives, he will leave them be if they are at least appreciative of them, as he didn’t go after Kitty Softpaws.
- Eventually, he let Puss live his last life after he finally learned to embrace and cherish it.
Trivia[]
- He serves as the Candidates for deletion template, which is fitting due to him being the literal incarnation of Death and the deleted candidates aren’t shown here anymore, or like how he’s gone after them to take their lives like how the deletion takes pages.
- He is the first Villainous Benchmark to headlined on this wiki.
- In a way, Death could be seen as the most heinous villain in the Shrek franchise, being that he has caused death since the beginning of time itself. This makes him being a VB very ironic. The main reason why he's not voted as Inconsistently Heinous is because he suffers from Fridge Horror, causing theorists to be traumatized when they realize what Death can do.
External Links[]
- Death on the Villains Wiki
- Death on the Shrek Wiki
- Death on the Universal Studios Wiki
- Death on the DreamWorks Wiki
- Death on the Puss in Boots Wiki
- Death on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
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