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{{quote|''"You are utterly the stupidest, most self-centered, appallingest excuse for an [[Department of Redundancy Department|anthropomorphic personification]] in this or any other plane!"''|'''Death''' berating '''Dream''' in ''[[The Sandman (Comic Book)|The Sandman]]''}}
 
{{quote|''"[[He Who Fights Monsters]] should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."''|Friedrich Nietzsche}}
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== Comics ==
* The [[Marvel Universe]] has ''loads'' of these. Lord Chaos, Master Order, Eternity, Infinity, Oblivion, Anomaly, Despair... They even have Anthropomorpho, of the "dimension of forms", where they pick up physical forms to manifest themselves within the regular universe, making him the living embodiment of ''living embodiments''.
* [[The DCU]] has them too, the most famous being [[Neil Gaiman]]'s "[[The Sandman (Comic Book)|The Endless]]"; Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium. Note that this version of Death is ''not'' [[The Grim Reaper]], being instead a cute, [[Perky Goth]] girl who appreciates the value of life as far as her calling permits (''Dream'' is the grim, brooding one...). At one point, when Dream is being particularly emo, Death shouts the page quote at him.
** There's also the Black Flash, anthropomorphic personification of death for speedsters (or maybe of the Speed Force), who takes the form of a zombie-looking guy in a black Flash costume.
** Lots of the [[New Gods]] function as anthropomorphic personifications as well. Mister Miracle is freedom, Metron is knowledge, Highfather is leadership, [[Darkseid]] is despotism, Desaad is cruelty, Granny Goodness is child abuse, and so on, and so forth. They even have their own Death personification, the Black Racer.
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** [[Green Lantern]]'s enemy Nekron, [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Blackest Night]]'', is not the Anthropomorphic Personification of death, as many people believe; but of the cold, dead cosmic void and absence of life (yes, there's a difference). But there ''is'' a(nother) personification of death in Nekron's servant Black Hand. And Black Hand is one of several [[Energy Being|Energy Beings]] that personify the emotional energies that the Green Lanterns and similar corps draw power from: the others embody rage (the Butcher), avarice (Ophidian), fear (Parallax), willpower (Ion), hope (Adara), compassion (Proselyte), and love (the Predator); and an embodiment of life that includes all emotions.
** In ''[[Shazam]]'' Captain Nazi claims to be this for, well, Nazis.
* In ''Jack of [[Fables (Comic Book)|Fables]]'', "Literals" are embodiments of literary concepts. Revise embodies censorship, Bookburner embodies forgetting and destroying stories, and the Pathetic Fallacy is an embodiment of the pathetic fallacy, with the ability to bring inanimate objects to life, making him a sort of anthropomorphic personification of anthropomorphic personifications. {{spoiler|They recently introduced Eliza Wall, the youngest of four siblings, which makes her the ''[[Fourth Wall]]''}}
* As a child, [[Usagi Yojimbo (Comic Book)|Usagi Miyamoto]] once freed Aki-onna, the anthropomorphic personification of autumn. The monster who imprisoned her was trying to stop winter from coming.
* The Goddess of [[Britpop]] turns up in one story arc of ''[[Phonogram]]''.
* The [[Wildstorm]] Universe has the 'Century Babies', which include Jenny Sparks, the anthropomorphic personification of the 'spirit' of the 20th Century. Her state of mind mirrors that of the 'spirit' of the current age e.g. she suffers depression during the Great Depression, is giddy for most of the Roaring Twenties, becomes much more cynical during the 80s. Jenny Quantum is the 'spirit' of the 21st Century.
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