DC Showcase: Death

## "Death"

**Death** is a DC Showcase included with purchase of Batman: Death in the Family. It plays for 19 minutes and is surrounded around the comic character Death.

## Synopsis

Vincent Omata is seen drawing a picture on a piece of paper with a crayon at a young age, as his mother calls him. It then displays Vincent at an older age, painting on the bars of a gate at Arkham Asylum, until his boss approaches him, calling him out. Vincent argues back, although the argument is cut short, as Vincent was fired. Someone then whispers in Vincent's ear, pointing out how many jobs Vincent has lost. Vincent would then collect his stuff, before leaving.

It then shows Vincent drinking at a bar called "Noonan's", where he talks to the bartender, talking about a worker named Pedro gotten sick and how his wife and kids should be disappointed, until Vincent's art teacher says he at least had a wife and children, asking Vincent what he had. He then leaves the bar to go back to his room, after lashing out at someone the bartender couldn't see. Seeing something under the door, he decides not to go into his room, but sit in the hallway, where a female approaches him, saying the cigarette he's litten and smoking will kill him. Vincent says it's the least of his problems. The woman believes it's been a shitty day for him, causing Vincent to drop the cigarette. He responds yes, saying he's gotten fired and he should be happy he gotten fired. The woman guesses he's a struggling artist, causing him to respond yes again. Surprised, Vincent believes there's something about the woman. Something then messes with Vincent again, causing Vincent to lash out again. Before the woman leaves, she puts her tophat on Vincent. 3 more of them arrive to continue to mess with Vincent.

Vincent then has a flashback, of his time in art class where his art teacher would turn down his work, who would really be one of his inner demons. Vincent would then walk past Monarch Theatre to return to his home. Another one of them mock Vincent on wasting the last of his money on booze, and how he wouldn't be able to pay rent. He then remembers how he would lash out on his father due to him wanting Vincent to return to school, who would be revealed to also be one of his inner demons. He would have another flashback of his previous marriage to a woman named Charlotte, who would leave him due to him wasting his life on a failed career, who would be another one of his inner demons. He had another flashback of him as a child, drawing with a crayon until hearing a crash. He looks outside to see the same woman from earlier being harassed by 2 people. He threatens to call the cops, and runs outside to see their bodies and how they've died in a car accident. He would talk with the woman again, her appreciating how he at least attempted to stick up for her. He would go back to his apartment, but taken the woman in as well to show off his work.

She would look at his artwork. Vincent would ask what she thought of him, until his inner demons mocked his artwork. She points out that most of them aren't finished, asking why, with him failing to reply due to his inner demons. She says Vincent has a gift, saying it's missing a spark, about something he had once but lost along the way. He said when he was still a kid, he'd sit on the bedroom floor and draw all day, describing it as if time stopped, and the only think was the picture. She responded with pure joy, with Vincent responding yes, also saying it wasn't a pickup line on wanting to paint her portrait. His inner demons would then say he was a liar, and that he was pathetic. He describes the woman by her being beauty, but sadness deep underneath, so young, but very old. He then says he's been waiting for this moment, with the woman responding maybe he has, and accepts to her posing for him. He then paints her, as his inner demons make fun of him. They'd slowly die out, as he drawn. He then realizes how time froze. He asked what was happening, then realizing how time has stopped. The woman explains their standing in a place beyond time. She then points out how Vincent was dead the entire time. He then realizes the woman was Death the entire time. He realizes his life hasn't been that great, but saw the painting and was happy he left behind something of value. The time would then start again, as Vincent's cigarette started a fire, burning down the room. He blames Death for being cruel, but she responds she's not doing anything and that it was the book of Destiny. He begs Death to spare his artwork, but remembers his past of drawing the painting. Happy, he thanks Death for his gift, as his spirit leaves Earth.

The firefighters look around the building, as everything was burnt to a crisp other than Vincent's painting.

## Cast

* Leonardo Nam as Vincent Omata
* Jamie Chung as Death
* Darin De Paul as Professor
* Keith Szarabajka as Supervisor
* Kari Wahlgren as Charlotte

## Notes

The Showcase is non-canon and contributes nothing to the Under the Red Hood universe.