Death (Puss in Boots)

### Goals

Hunt down and kill Puss in Boots for recklessly squandering eight of his lives (abandoned)
To collect the souls of the dead or dying (ongoing)

### Moral Event Horizon

Almost killing Puss in Boots during their first encounter, leaving him severely traumatized.

### Kill Count

More than dozens (implied)
1 (attempted)

### Crimes

Attempted murder
Psychological abuse
Stalking
Theft
Arson
Unlawful imprisonment
Destruction of property
Assault and battery
Abuse of position
Fearmongering

### Type of Villain

Sadistic Death God

> I just **love** the smell of fear!
>
> Death relishing in Puss in Boots' fear after drawing blood from him - also his most famous quote.

> What's the matter? Lives flashing before your eyes?
>
> ~ Death's catchphrase, said whenever Puss's lives flash before his eyes.

**Death**, also known as **Lobo** is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Big Jack Horner) of DreamWorks' 43th full length animated film *Puss in Boots: The Last Wish*, a spin-off film of the Shrek franchise and the sequel of the spin-off franchise *Puss in Boots*.

He is the physical embodiment of death who takes the form of a wolf in a black hooded cloak. During the events of the film, Death is intent on killing the legendary Puss in Boots once and for all as punishment for carelessly wasting eight of his nine lives.

He was voiced by Wagner Moura.

## Physical appearance

Death appears to be an anthropomorphic silvery-white wolf with an elongated snout, a gray "mask" marking on his face, sharp teeth, and large, round eyes that have jet black sclera and bright red irises that glow when he's excited. He wears a black cloak with a built-in hood, and brown trousers under the cloak. He also has brownish-gray wraps around his wrists and calves, and carries a pair of razor-sharp sickles that can be combined at the handle and extended to form a double-bladed scythe. Each sickle can be bent inwards for compact holstering, and has eight cat heads crossed out on them, referring to Puss's eight past lives.

## Personality

Death is a cunning and sinister individual whose sole purpose is to take the souls of the dead. Although he waits in the shadows for people to die naturally, if someone angers or offends him enough, he will physically manifest in order to attempt to take their life by force.

Death is sadistic and thrill-seeking, as he takes a degree of pride and pleasure in his job, and openly admits that he enjoys striking fear into his victims. This is shown by the pleasure he took in scaring and provoking Puss in Boots with his taunts, eerie whistling, and his very presence, and how he got especially excited when he managed to draw blood on the cat. Death also admits to having a dislike of cats and the fact that they all have nine lives, finding the very idea to be "absurd".

Despite Death's sadistic and sinister nature, he does have a sense of honor and nobility, as his main reason for pursuing Puss in the first place was to punish the cat for arrogantly squandering his eight lives with reckless abandon, concluding from this that it would be best to kill Puss before he wasted his final life. Not to mention Puss often declared that he "laughed in the face of death", therefore Death was insulted and disrespected by Puss for his claims of false immortality as well as his deeds in wasting his lives. This indicates that despite representing the end of mortal life, Death holds life sacred and is disgusted by those who don't treat their own lives with true appreciation or care and believe they live forever. He also has a sense of fair play, as he always gives Puss the chance to fight back whenever they encountered each other, even giving Puss's old sword back to him for their final duel on the Wishing Star. This suggests Death prefers to give fair fights for those who challenge him, but his comments about how much he would enjoy taking Puss out from the realm of the living seems to indicate that he may have brought him his sword back just for sport, finding it more entertaining to see Puss fight rather than just surrender.

When Puss finally stops running from him and instead fights him while promising to respect his final life with his friends, Death, although initially enraged that Puss has changed and thus "ruined his hunt", quickly calms down and recognizes that killing him now would be pointless and unethical. Thus, Death honorably decides to let Puss live out his final life, respectfully biding the cat to live his last life well before warning Puss that they will meet again eventually when his life finally comes to a permanent end. This all but proves that Death isn't unbeatable, even if he is unavoidable in the long run.

Overall, Death is best described as a harsh, but fair and reasonable individual who takes his job seriously, enjoys a thrilling challenge and is more than happy to mete out severe punishment against those who disrespect him and his job, but doesn't kill just for the sake of doing so and is able to respect and spare those who prove him wrong.

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