Death is a Villain, Not Just Doing His Job||Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Video Essay
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- For some reason many people who watched Puss in Boots: The Last Wish claim that Death, the main antagonist of the film, is not a villain. Because according to them, everything he does in the film is justified because he is death incarnate. This is a claim I have never understood as everything he does in the film directly contradicts what his job as Death is. Death is a villain, hes not just doing his job, and here is why.
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Yes, this. While Death _did_ end up teaching Puss a lesson, that wasn't his goal. He was just going to kill Puss because he didn't think he deserved another chance at life.
He's kinda like a Noble Demon, a trope of a villian/antagonist that has a code of valor. He has a personal grudge but still stands with a code that he abides by. A villian with a line he won't cross.
TV Tropes might actually list him as an example of this, I'd have to check.
This video has possibly the best understanding of Death as a character than any other I've seen.
Well done I really enjoyed your analysis of this and it it was straight to the point ! This was so personal for death and he just got sick and tired of Puss wasting his lives
I agree. I would say that most of the time Death isn't a villain, but throughout the movie he becomes one, then is no longer once he isn't mad at Puss anymore.
This video has solid counter arguments to the common "Death is not a villain,: Death is teaching Puss." statements.
I really appreciated the part where you point out the only reason Puss matures as a character is due to Death not catching his prey faster than he did. That was wholly the consequence of Puss being hard to capture/ corner.
However, this video fails to acknowledge the *true* first time we see Death.
Early on as Puss jumps out of a hole in a wall to fight the giant and exclaims "Fear me if you dare!" it then cuts to a crowd of cheering citizens.
In the top left corner of that scene, Death can be seen watching the events unfold.
This could imply that Death does have at least some knowledge of the time and location of individuals deaths as he is shown to be nearby just before Puss loses his 8th life.
This implication supports the idea that Death could be a grim reaper *of sorts* : the idea that he knows when and where someone will die yet not personally causing it could be reasoned from this as he is essentially on standby waiting for Puss to die.
What if this meant that Death WAS the grim reaper but not the kind that does the killing himself.
Here's the kicker
If we reason on the idea that Death KNOWS when people will die BUT does not cause it himself
it's clear to see how someone having NINE lives but discarding them with little thought could provoke him to act outside of his normal purview.
(His normal purview being that of coming to the time and place of someone's natural death.)
In his line of work he has seen this cat utterly waste 8 of his 9 lives... that could reasonably frustrate anyone who held the position of a grim reaper.
The difference between Death and Thanos morals is what Death has against Puss is a true vendetta. Thanos had no attritional war against one specific party or individual (except at the end).
Thanos did not hold any real grudge , he saw the universal populace as a hurdle against itself. Very broad stroked and generalist goals.
1:01 In this video his motives for going after Puss are defined and can reasonably be backed.
Death had time to build a justifiable moral case against *specifically* Puss and Boots and that 8th death was the final nail in the coffin.
THAT is when Death stepped out of line- became judge jury and executioner- THAT is when it become a vendetta.
When he says "*I* find the idea of nine lives absurd..." that is another point of reason to believe he himself does not set the rules of who gets to have more lives than others.
This final point has two parts that must be taken together which admittedly takes my initial theory in a different direction:
1:09
"Why don't I do us both a favor and take this last one [life] .....NOW."
Implying he DOES take lives.
At the end of the movie- Death says "You know we will meet again...right?" Another implication that Death is involved in the taking or ending of lives process.
My bottom line Too Long Didn't Read theory is :
Death IS doing his job. This was a single act of stepping out of line. Death isn't inherently a villain- Holding a grudge doesn't necessarily make you a bad person - Individuals with power can sometimes let it cloud their judgement and become essentially vigilantes.
Once Puss and Boots displayed that he valued his life - it was business as usual again for Death since he had no reason to resolve a vendetta whose reasons no longer existed.
**"You know we will meet again...right?"**
Death comes for us all.
Holding a grudge doesn’t mean you a bad person but actively seeking to kill someone for having disrespected you does. And yes, I know he gets better at the end
Can we get a TL;DR?
Edit: NVM
@@justaghostinthesea He has one at the end. His argument is that holding a grudge doesn’t make you a bad person and that Death went back to just doing his job after Puss learned his lesson.
@@matityaloran9157 Oh. My bad.
@@justaghostinthesea Though you should know I disagree with the commenter’s argument. Since even though bearing a grudge doesn’t make you a bad person, attempted murder does. And the fact that Death goes back to just doing his job after Puss learns his lesson only means that Death doesn’t stay a villain rather than that he was never a villain
Finally someone said it
Death was extremely petty and sadistic all because Puss has the 9 lives thing and because Puss in Boots laughs in the face if death. The only reason he even showed up was because Puss was cocky. Being a cocky villain to put down a cocky hero doesn't make you less of a villain.
Death is not, in fact, a true villain. He's what's considered an unscrupulous anti-hero (formerly labeled type IV). If he were a true villain, he wouldn't let Puss go when he sees that Puss has learned to value life. In fact, he probably wouldn't reveal himself (at least not fully) to Puss at all until after he'd actually managed to kill Puss. And in the end, he finds that he has indeed managed to "kill" Puss, and lets the new cat who takes his place live because he respects him (begrudgingly, perhaps, but it's respect nonetheless). A villain wouldn't do that. But an anti-hero would. The mark of a villain is that they put their morals aside to achieve their obsession, or their bad morals ARE their obsession. Neither of these apply to Death. He doesn't actually like ending life. He hates an arrogant person's disdain for life even more. But he doesn't set aside his value of life to pursue Puss. Not when he sees that Puss finally shares that value.
Also, in regards to Puss, who literally calls himself a hero--in song, no less--Death is a literal anti-hero.
An anti-hero is by definition “a hero who lacks heroic traits” whereas a villain is an evildoer. Death the Wolf isn’t a hero, even if he has a code of honour. If anything he’s an anti-villain. Since he’s a villain who lacks typical villainous traits.
I've never heard of an anti hero having a type (type IV).
Where might I go about finding a list of this sort of thing?
@@XiasIV TV Tropes.
The way I see it, the supernatural don’t play by the rules sometimes. But the thing is, what does he mean by don’t tell? Don’t tell God?
If you where the embodiment of a concept rules are below you who’s gonna stop death
I dont really think he's a villain, but I dont think he's just "doing his job" either, considering he's trying to take Puss' last life preemptively.
I think he's simply an antagonist of the story.
According to the Grim Reaper, Death doesn't like to be tricked. When a person manages to escape Death, it goes after the person until it manages to kill them, with the only way for the person to escape Death being if someone else is killed in their place. Nonetheless, although many consider Death to be evil, it is actually just doing its job of ensuring the balance between life and death, taking lives for new lives to be born.
The concept of death being an entity is surely a strange one at that for all the more it makes sense, people have theorize and speculated that death takes on what puss fears the most in this case a dog-like or wolf-like feature one of canine features similar to that of a cat fearing a canine, and just like death shape-shifts into what you fear most oh, I'm sure that hidden intentions are not passed him in this instance, Life Death God the Devil the angels anything related to any of these type of things and events are truly spiritual end of line so I think that a lesson here is without question even though it may seem as though death is a villain, that's my opinion though
Death (Puss in Boots 2) VS Dark Ace (Storm Hawks)
Two red eyed, tall, hot, terrifying, antagonists who wield large weapons, deep demonic voices, and dark personalities
Who would win?
(I said antagonists because Death is NOT A VILLAIN! He's an antagonist! Dark Ace on the other hand...I'll leave that up to ya'll)
Here is the thing.
He is DEATH... it's his RIGHT to take Puss....
There is nothing wrong with Death removing Puss' right to life because it's HIS to take....
If he deemed Puss as unworthy, then he was right to take it.
And let's be real... he could have taken Puss' life at ANY TIME...
His 1st attack made Puss actually care about his life.... afterwards, he actually STOPPED hunting Puss and left him alone.
And he only went after Puss again once Puss started to be arrogant again.
And he specifically TOLD Puss everything he was doing wrong....
And he didn't kill Puss once he saw the cat learned his lesson...
If you only go after someone when they do something wrong, tell them exactly what they did wrong and commend them for fixing their mistake, you are a teacher.
Also, Death could have killed Puss at any time. But he didn't. Puss himself stated that he couldn't ever actually beat Death.
So no, I feel Death was just a teacher... Puss didn't need to stop or beat Death. He just needed to prove to Death he understood the value of his life....
If Death didn't go to Puss, you realize Puss would have been dead, right???
Puss was planning to risk his life for stupid reasons again. In fact, Puss once died from over drinking and was planning on drinking too much again.
So Death actually SAVED Puss.....
Think about it. Without Death's attack, Puss would have quickly been dead anyways. Death didn't need to do anything.
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I'm think that "Big" Jack Horner it's main antagonist of this movie.
Jack Horner only works as a secondary antagonist, Death is the driving force of the film, the only one with a personal connection to Puss, the plot centers around him and Puss and the climax of the film revolves around him, Death is the main villain by default
@@establishingthrills Ok.
I have to disagree with Thanos being a villain, his goal was to save the universe from giant planetary titans
yeah thats only the movies, in comics he does it to impress Death so she can become his gf
Sorry but Death / Lobo is NOT a villain, as he IS DOING HIS JOB. Since Puss did not give a crap about his lives or even value them, then death comes early to individuals like Puss! That is called winning a Darwin Award, since the individual (in this case Puss) brought about his own Death. Death/Lobo actually values life far more than Puss did at the beginning of the film, when Puss foolishly celebrated his victory over the giant, then died when the bell fell on him, taking life # 8! Puss also " laughs in the face of Death" while Death is right in front of him, so Death/Lobo naturally took offense to Puss, since now not only does Puss not value his life but he disrespects Death ( his superior )!
He is not a villain, do you think of death and real life as a villain no, it's something natural
Did you not listen to what the guy was saying? Death in this movie was interfering with the living because he had a personal grudge with Puss' arrogance.
@@Tomha Wouldn't this just make him an antagonist? He is the "check foe" of the protagonist but he's not "evil" himself. I see Death in PUSS in Boots as an atagonist, not as a villain.
@@vcamv2354 You can have someone oppose the hero without being evil, but it's hard to say they aren't when they're sadistic and the goal is to murder someone in cold blood.
He essentially says he's only here to torment and murder Puss for fun. When Puss makes peace with Mortality, that ruins the fun for him so he leaves.