Well, Death won't actually be alone at the End of Time. After she claims every last being (including her siblings), the concept of Death will cease to exist, meaning she will claim herself, or as she put it, "I'll put the chairs on the tables, put out the lights, and lock the universe behind me when I leave."

Death of the Endless: "When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave."

Wow, that was dark. Actual Death (herself) seems cool though BTW.

I’ve a theory on why the black flash looks like the flash Barry Allen is the person who gives all life to speedsters by creating the speed force and the black flash is a reflection of him representing the death of speedsters

Given Death (of Endless) personality, I sure would like to be there for her at the end. Just to chat with her. She's got a great personality, a warm smile, and infinite wisdom through countless experience (just for Earth humans, there is a death every 3 seconds). Except she's present in all deaths, not just humans (insect, a rock, even the concept of time). And she doesn't just take people away forcefully (although she can, if she wanted to). She chats with them, and brings them spiritual comfort, regardless of how long it takes (at the moment of death of a thing, the time freezes, so she has infinite time to do what she needs to do).

Fear the reaper of the New Gods! The Black Racer and his SPAAAAAAAACE SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!

"Hello and welcome to Comic Drake. Where I talk about comics and my name is Drake. *All things must die.* " Me: Well that escalated quickly.

Great video. The Sandman cast of characters is so interesting and beautifully drawn.

Death has always been my favorite character, I loved her interaction with Lucifer, and other Vertigo characters. In a way, I always wanted her and Constentine to have a thing, and see just how badly he would piss her off.

Minor correction, big fan of the endless. She would not be the only one at the end of the universe. The endless themselves as concepts don't die, even though their faces do, with the exception of her who does something similar during her moments... Not only that, the other Endless have survived through different universes. They move onto other universes. Death is the only one who is guaranteed to be left UNCHANGED at the end and close the door on that universe. Last one to leave. But as long as there is dream/reality, Delirium/truth, despair/hope, Destiny/free will, desire/apathy and Destruction/creation all of her siblings will exist in some form. tl;dr: The representative personification might change. Their concept may warp. But they are the endless because their concepts are eternal.

watching black racer mosey on through a wall on those skis was killing me.

If Necron was the first threat ever faced by the Guardians, that could explain why they chose their original enforcers to be machines. They by definition couldn’t die, and thus be used to fuel and entity like Necron.

So this is why people wants a goth gf

I just watched the DC animated short Death and it was amazing, it made me want to look more into the character which lead me here

Death from the endless is basically death. She is not a reaper just appeares when it is your time. The others are just helping her because she has to get everyone at some point. I like how DC writes her. She is there when you are born and when you die. She's there to let you live your life and experience it to its fullest whatever you do deside to do with it and takes you when it's time to go. When reading about her she's so lively because she knows nothing is forever so she just enjoys it while she can. Even those that are immortal know they can't outrun her forever but she will wait for them. She doesn't interfere but she is there to persuade you to live. PS she's not evil, chaotic or good but lawfully nutrual. Yes she has the power to take anyone anywhere anytime but only takes you when it is your time. She does not discriminate because everything dies or just ends

I like to think that Death is the actual concept and the other three are just her underlings for certain specialty areas (speedsters, new gods...... lanterns?).

Wouldn’t death killing all life basically bring upon the death of death. I mean death only exists because life exists so if life ceases to exist so will death since how can death exist if there’s nothing to die

Billy and Mandy's is still the best

I love how speedsters are so many and so important in the DC universe. That they need their own grim reaper. XD

I think Death's relationship is different with everyone. For some, it's a joke, some an inevitable monster, and others just another part of a journey. Maybe every hero sees Death differently, and we can only see all the forms of it because we just happen to be the spectators of the stories.

Even with that morbid end, your videos make me happy.

Death of the endless is death in concept. The black racer is the idea of death being inevitable for all beings even 'gods' Nekron is the fear and hatred of death, the idea that it is fundamentaly wicked and evil. At least that's just my theory. As for the black racers taking a different form in order to draw speedsters into the speed force once thier time is up.

Death is my favorite portrayal of death as an entity in all of fiction. She's also one of my favorite characters ever.

The sound of her wings...

I've been waiting for you to mention Sandman lore

I have found my new comic-related cosplay... But I really enjoyed this one! I didn't know much about these characters, so this was really cool to learn about. Thanks for the vid!

is it just me, or is Death literally just Siouxsie Sioux

This is what I think the other deaths are heralds of death of the endless

While I know you do your homework on these things, I can't help but feel you missed a moment to mention that Death's design was inspired by Cinamon Hadley; Hadley passed away back in January.

Binge watching your videos, right now. Great stuff!

Found this randomly and this was a trip I loved it! Plus I like how you ended it that dark and then boom we're good now it actually made me laugh, still is but yeah awesome work

Drake , Sandman will be back on June !! What a time to be alive.

Brand NEW subscriber, as of the 10th, and I've been using "because Comics" so often now! Keep doing what you're doing!

Great video, man. I‘m really tempted to read some Sandman.

You think you could do a similar video but for marvel? Between Ms Death, Hella and Mikaboshi (to name a few) things get confusing too, especially during time runs out and secret wars (2015)

I really enjoy all of your videos. Thank you for such good content. It must be a lot of work.

So she's death? Guess I'm suicidal.

Death of the Endless won't be alone. She'll have the Presence to keep her company.

Wait, what about Shrouds, they've appeared within the John Constantine series and the film of Justice League Dark, do they count as Grim Reapers? I thought there job was to take souls to the afterlife

I just found out about this channel and as a new comic reader- I absolutly love it. Thank you.

Amazing episode!! 👍👏

DC’s version of Death is also my favourite personification. Tied with Terry Pratchett’s Death from Discworld.

nice video always wanted this particular character explained

Strong finish there, like damn. Good job, Drake.

The DC Grimreapers topic have been covered in dozens of other UKposts videos, but I think its because there's such great material about it. Great vid.

Awesome video!!!

Finally someone release this. To me Death of endless rip soul Neckron rip body Black racer rip speedster

Death of the endless knows she will be completely alone one day, but she's still cool with it because she's "living in the moment" Weirdly inspiring honestly

Comic Drake. Love your videos. Keep it up...❤❤💗💗

I always thought Black Flash and Black Racer were different dudes

I love grim reaper/Death are my favorite and with the scythe

I loved her little short film DC put out, wish they made it longer, it was great!

The metaphor w Death lifting the chairs and closing the door is so awesome and Sandman is so epic,that to infer she isn't The Death is just nonsense :)

Thanks for explaining Necron! That guy always bugged me for some reason.

I see all of them on a scale with nekron being the lowest, the black racer being middle and death of the endless being the strongest

"Death has come for you" - The Silver Shroud

The Presence will be with her

I'm always fascinated with the more religious side of dc, especially the endless, those guys are epic. I also like untold backstories of certain characters. Right now, i am thinking of a fan made dc comic book called "the family", it's the life of thomas wayne and his secret. No spoilers

So Death (the endless) was cool with blackest night event? She seems way to laid back to have let that happen if she even knew about it. I mean you have a whole lanturn core dedicated to you, one would think she would have said something to them at some point.

0:42 you've been *dying* to make this video 😂 nice pun

Please do a video on all The Endless...

holy shit this video was brilliant!!!

I would love more videos about these kind of things

In my opinion: Black Racer is the inevitability, while Black Flash is probably an expression of him or the speed force manifesting a way to kill speedsters across time. Nekrom being a cosmic death also makes sense. Death of the endless would just be Lady Death, the form of death that is your companion in your final moments. Always able to appear through the ability of the Black Racer as an inevitability and Nekrom as a cosmic force that exists throughout the universe. But as far as I know, Vertigo was always supposed to be it's own thing so it was probably shoehorned in. Preferably, Death shouldn't have a true form, only expressions. Since death as many faces: the inevitable, the reaper, the beautiful woman, the ferryman and much more.

There was the traditional Grim Reaper who appeared pre-Crisis, as the host of DC's horror or war-based stories. Also, even though all speedsters ends up in the Speed Force, Barry somehow appears in Heaven to talk to Green Arrow (or rather his soul) in Kevin Smith's run of "Green Arrow".

The Death of The Endless is the embodiment of ENTROPY something a little above traditional Death. This also confirmed by the fact that one of the Endless described himself and his Endless siblings as a "Wave Function."

I love your videos

Hey Drake, Just wondering if you were going to do a video on the end of Invincible? It's my favorite comic of all time and I know it's yours too, So it would be cool to see some kind of tribute video

I like to think that characters like The Black Racer and The Black Flash are kinda like Death of the Endless' henchmen in a sense. If someone, the Flash, is somehow able to cheat her, it'd be Black Flash's job to kick his ass for her.

Well, that was cheerful

Do a video on the manifestations of the lantern corps. Necron, Paralax, ect.

Great video you're awesome

I think I have a theory about the black racer and black flash connection. What if every type of being has a specific death to them, so speedsters have the black flash, new god's have black racer, and so on (examples could be like, lantern corps having one or meta humans as well). So each distinct form of life that has mystical abilities have their own "black" death but each black death are aspects of the one black death being. Then, since the most powerful entities the black death precedes over are the new gods, his physical body defaults to the black racer, as it's in a way his own most powerful form.

Death of the Endless is by far the cutest of the dc grim reapers, I don't think anyone will fight me on that one.

Death of the Endless makes Mr.Meseeks so relatable

3:12 who's the artist?

Oh no, Comic Drake has the infinity gauntlet! We must all bow down if we even want a *chance* at living o.O

The way she puts it "when everything is said and I'll be the one to put up the chairs,turn off the lights, and lock the door."

that intro has serious Vsauce vibes, introducing yourself, and just instantly jumping in with "all things must die"

One more death left out is the force called 'The Black' and its Parliament of Decay from Swamp Thing. Not technically a reaper figure in DC continuity, but it is pretty relevant.

Do you think Black Flash would be a cool villain to end of The Flash on CW or possibly an animated/live action Flash film?

5:59 this can all be fixed by saying each issue happens on a different overvoid lol easy Cause there is bound to be an overvoid out there where death is called the black racer and the black racer is death with the rule of infinite possibilities

This whole video was so meta

I like to think of Nekron and the Black Racer as 3 things: 1. They're like any other gods of death from any other mythology or patheon that came before (e.g., Xanatos of Greece, Anubis of Egypt, or Baron Samedi of Vodou/Voodoo/Iwa); the only difference being is that neither Nekron nor the Black Racer were born from The Dreaming (Dream of The Endless' Realm), so are not given life by the belief of others. Although, I'm aware that Morpheus once visited J'onn J'onzz, (AKA John Jones and The Martian Manhunter) where he appeared as Lord L'zoril (The Martian God of Dreams), but I don't know if Morpheus only did that to fast track the process since he was in a rush due to events going on at the time, or if Dream truly is the god of dreams to anyone who's belief structure includes them -- so this entire theory could be wrong, but since I lean towards the former, I'm counting it unless corrected otherwise. 2. Nekron and the Black Racer could deal with those whose ability to die is not so cut and dry (for lack of a better phrasing): 2a. The Black Racer: The New Gods, have this tendency to come back after death through some ambiguous form of reincarnation, as was shown in both "The Legion of Super-Heros: The Greak Darkness Saga" with High Father of New Genesis, and in the "Final Crisis" event where all the New Gods had all died in some great, off-panel war before reincarnating; or else their existence seems to just persist as some essence comprised of personified sound that Darkseid had become after The Black Racer took his life, which led to Superman shattering said essence through the universe's loudest and most epic acapella tune ever! lol I imagine the Black Racer is more "specialized" in handling the "bodily deaths" of New Gods, where unlike Death of the Endless who simply guides souls to their destined afterlife, The Black Racer deals more with The New Gods' unique cosmic circumstances where they don't seem to ever die in the traditional sense. 2b. Nekron: If I recall correctly, during "The Blackest Night" event, Nekron claimed to be responsible for the deaths and ressurections of super powered beings as a part of his grand master plan of his. The storyline also touched on the fact that it stemmed from the darkness of the universe that existed before the big bang (AKA the "let their be light" moment). There's also the fact that Nekron has the ability to animate his own flavor of zombies through the Black Lantern rings. This part of my theory is a bit more muddy, but I believe Nekron's role is more through ressurection and zombification rather than actual death. As far as I know, he doesn't have the ability to bring about death to anyone on a whim like The Black Racer, nor does he escort the departed to some intended afterlife like Death herself. It would kinda make sense considering most of those who come back to life don't seem to have any memory or stories to tell about their time in Heaven or the like (maybe with the exception of the more mystical folks like John Constantine), but I could be wrong on that. 3. Death outsources Nekron and the Black Racer to deal with those she'd rather not have to deal with herself. I mean, could you imagine Death having to deal with Darkseid after the end of Final Crisis. XD

I don’t see death as an aspect of death and Death as death itself to be mutually exclusive, just like Dream having forms recognized in various pantheons doesn’t make him any less Dream itself. I think it’s reasonable for Death to be also a manifestation of herself, and have ties with roles in relation to the other manifestations even if ultimately, they are temporary facets of her domain. After all, I’m well established canon, Death is also individual to each personal experience of Death, so why wouldn’t she be as herself a face and aspect of her own broader comic identity?

I think the Black Flash isn’t a sentient entity in the usual sense like the others. You know the whole “energy cannot be created or destroyed”? When a speedster gets their powers, it takes away a small amount of Speed Force away from the whole. In universe, it’s something that’s not supposed to happen so the empty space manifests as the Black Flash to take back what was removed and it just manifests as a Flash-like being because it’s taking the same shape as the space that was left.

wow this got super dark super fast

Best Death portrayal next to Pratchett's interpretation.

Isn’t what she says “after I reap the last soul, I’ll put up the chairs, turn off the lights, and lock the universe behind me when I leave.” She’s so goddamn cool

he said he was vague about _Endless!Death's_ role. the other two can still have the same roles while she doesn't. anyway, great video. i had been wondering how these three coexisted.

While I get why Gaiman was upset(cuz he really wasn't writing his Sandman stories to be apart of the main UC Universe), I like the idea of Black Racer, Death, Black Flash, etc being different aspects of the same thing that somehow exist concurrently. Sorta like over in Marvel, they have Mephisto, Thog, Satan, Blackheart, etc, all being different aspects of the Devil.

While death of the endless is Death I fell the others are what they were called before aspect or extensions of death. All of them are connected to death and somewhat share the same function and role to take souls to were ever they end up every Grimm reaper character besides death herself is kind of like a part timer while death is the manager one the one in charge even though she doesn’t control the other, but you get my point.

Technically, when the universe ends, it will be death who will put it all in order and then lock the door behind her as she leaves. That being said, just as you can't have life without death, you can't have death without life. Death is endless in the truest sense of the word and every sense of the word. So, then, must life be. After she locks the doors of the finished universe, she will still have an infinite amount of other universes, all teeming with life never ending. She'll never be alone, and that is somewhat beautiful.

Weissman had a point. There were other deaths in DC comics before Geilman decided to write a "one true death" which is what REALLY confuses things. There's a death of all things but also several deaths for specific things. So if nekron takes some mortals, black racer takes the new God's and black flash takes speedsters, who or what does Death take (besides those other "deaths" which technically shouldn't be capable of dying anyway) I feel like either there should be only one death OR multiple equal aspects of death for different things, but not both. And it's not like the endless were entirely separate from the dcu anyway. Hell, Geilman used other pre-existing DC characters in his work at times, like when he used Fury and Hector Hall to create his second Sandman, Daniel Hall. So Weissman didn't "shoehorn Death into the DC Universe" Geilman literally wrote her into it. All Weissman did was attempt to make sense of it. He expects Weissman to run things by him, yet he never ran things by other writers who also had death based characters before him

The way I see it, is that since dream has an incarnation for the dreams of different beings (as seen in the sandman:overture), it make sense that black racer is the incarnation of death of the endless for the new gods, the black flash is the incarnation for the speedsters, and Nekron is most likely the death of the first created things (again, see sandman: overture for what that last one means)

Dc's favorite numeric word is several, because that's how many in canon versions of a single character there are

I've always had a crush on Death of the Endless since reading Gaiman.

There's alternate versions of death right?

Please make a Video about Death of The endless

Death of the endless and black racer are by far my favourites