Reaper Man: Difference between revisions

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: Standard Discworld trope, but comes into play here because instead of there being one Death for everything, the spontaneously re-forming Deaths are built up by the beliefs of all the different species - for instance, the Death of Mayflies is a great black trout. The New Death's malevolence is based on the fact that modern people tend to treat death as more fearful and less of a natural occurrence than people in the past.

* [[Dancing Pants]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Death to the New Death. {{smallcaps|Oh. Drama.}}

** Even better: Death deduces when the New Death will arrive because a Death who will pose on a hill on a skeletal horse during a thunderstorm to be lit up by a lightning flash, will not come at 11:25 when he could come at midnight.

{{quote| "One yodel out of place would attract, not the jolly echo of a [[The Sound of Music|lonely goatherd]], but fifty tons of express-delivery snow." }}

* [[Heroic Fire Rescue]]: By Bill Door (Death) no less.

* [[Hive Mind]]: The predatory shopping mall.

** There's also One-Man-Bucket, short for One-Man-Pouring-A-Bucket-Of-Water-Over-Two-Dogs.

*** This was a tribal tradition in One-Man-Bucket's tribe - children are named for the first thing their mother sees outside the tent after their birth. His elder twin brother, named ten seconds earlier, wasn't so lucky...

'''One-Man-Bucket:''' Two-Dogs-Fighting? Two-Dogs-''Fighting?'' Wow, he would have given his right arm to be called Two-Dogs-''Fighting''. }}

* [[Literal Metaphor]]: The overabundance of life after Death is fired means that it infuses what was only a metaphor - the ''idea'' of shopping malls as parasitic predators that suck the life out of inner city shops - and makes it real.

{{quote| '''Flitworth''': You've got to be Bill or a Tom or a Bruce or one of those names.<br />

'''Death''': {{smallcaps|Yes.}} }}

* [[Time Abyss]]: Azrael is as old as the universe (and note his namesake from Islamic theology is said to be the last being in all the universe to die at the end of time). He's also responsible for the Ultimate Clock, which is actually the opposite of a clock - rather than telling what you what the time is, it tells Time what ''it'' is.

** Death notes, too, that unlike other clocks, this Clock ''only goes around once''. And, at the end of the book, Azrael states "{{smallcaps|I remember when all of this will be again}}."

* [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]]: This is when the new Death will turn up. The new Death ''deliberately'' chose this time in order to heighten what Death dismissively refers to as "drama".

* [[Werewolf]]: Ludmilla Cake; fellow Fresh Start Club member Lupine is the opposite, a wolf that turns into a human every full moon. Poons arranges for them to meet, but it isn't clear if anything comes of it. Another character points out the [[Fridge Logic]] involved.