Ryuk’s ghastly good looks and clothes that could have been borrowed from The Crow’s costume closet are an aesthetic cross of Edo-era Shinigami and industrial Goth. As in, glowing-yellow-eyes-huge-talons-mouthful-of-dagger-teeth-and-leathery-bat-wings creepy (at least to those who can see him). Some of the newly dead may prefer their grim reaper to be on the creepier side. She also really knows how to hand it to Morpheus when he’s more of a nightmare than a dream. Unlike many personifications of death, she also has compassion for souls she has to take too soon-such as a baby that died in its sleep-and feels nothing but remorse. If your soul has just left your body and needs an escort to the hereafter, you’ll want to take off with one of these 13 reapers who will do everything but bore you to death. Wouldn’t you rather be ushered off to the underworld by someone with a wicked sense of humor or candy-color hair? Someone with powers that create a spectacle and banish evil spirits that might be lurking on the way? Someone to make your journey to eternity a little more….entertaining? He’s badly in need of an image makeover if he has any intention of not making disembodied souls expire all over again. Maybe it’s the party-store explosion of polyester robes and plastic scythes around this time of year, but the Angel of Death has become more monotonous than menacing, more stereotypical than sinister. The problem is that the Death who used to scare has decomposed into something tragically boring. It’s the Grim Reaper, Hel, Thanatos, La Muerte, Psychopomp, Shinigami, aka the personification of death that has haunted folklore and literature since death was a thing. Trick-or-treaters in even the most eerily convincing costumes would probably still drop all their candy and run if they saw this ominous figure. Black hooded robe, skeletal hands, signature scythe, fleshless face (or lack thereof)-if someone who looks like this comes knocking at your door, it’s either Halloween or your funeral.
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