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Jan 5, 2025 7:29 PM
SquirrelWithATophat
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battery1979
He doesn't even kill. He uses the scythe to separate the thread of the soul from the mortal shell.
KleptoKea
Or elected president of USA, based on what the world has seen from the American voters in the last few elections.
kurvarVillain
Get him a combine. Make him the Grimharvester
oblimo
WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR BUT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
dronir
Because cutting down a swath of grain with one swing of a scythe was a chilling simile for people dying in droves from wars and plagues.
themorebeer
The grim reaper doesn't kill. The grim reaper severs the soul from the body after death. Can't do that with a touch, my man!
happyrabbitzz
Pphunk77
Grim Creeper
Slewth87
The Grim Reaper does not kill. He cuts the tether tying the soul to the body (using the scythe) after the body has died, so that the soul can then travel to the afterlife. He escorts the soul there. The Grim Reaper does not take life, he offers aid and companionship as you transition.
trinxter
Scythian reapers are the best reapers.
Kazpur81S
The unrelenting scythe of time…
downvoteifyouhatekittens
I thought he used it to cut the souls from the bodies? Not to kill people with
MuttMonkey
It is all symbolic. He could also be called the grim harvester. It shows that he reaps all in their time. When harvesting grain with a scythe, you take a swath. You don't evaluate each head. There is no plucking or pruning. When that field's time comes, it all gets reaped. Mature and immature. Grain and weed and sapling. When it's time comes... It's not personal or individual. It is the cycle. Making room for the new. To everything, there is a season. Hope this helps.
Kbantar
The only true constant in life is death.
ShadeMeadowsArt
Is the killin' touch an American thing?
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
He is The Man, The Scythe, The Legend, that's why
PballQhead
He doesn't need a scythe, he does sometimes carry a sword. Or very small scissors and other tiny tools, for if He needs to take a very small life.
https://wiki.lspace.org/Death%27s_Scythe
Akistos
what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper?
PballQhead
Okay, I really, really, REALLY hate to be That Guy…but you left out maybe the most important word in that quote.
"Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in Azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants.
ʟᴏʀᴅ, ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴄᴀɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴀʀᴠᴇꜱᴛ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ꜰᴏʀ, ɪꜰ ɴᴏᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀʀᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ ᴍᴀɴ?"
ParaspriteHugger
It's the scythe, isn't it? People always notice the scythe.
BladeTurMoiL
He may kill with a touch, but the scythe is specifically for reaping souls.
allenvasher3000
I should rewatch dead like me
PrettyPrettyPrettyPrettyGood
Great show. Terrible movie.
tonchandailvert
Fashion
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
Because sometimes just touching people isn't grim enough.
idontknowyoufromadam
"Who is it, darling?"
"It’s a Mr Death or something … He’s come about the reaping …"
2fligh2high
stoots24
"You may be a King, or a little street sweeper,
But sooner or later, you dance with The Reaper.
GET DOWN WITH YOUR BAD SELVES!!!"
2fligh2high
GutstobeGnK
In what lore does the Grim Reaper kill with a touch? He uses the scythe to sever the spirit from the body upon death, right... to harvest it? That's always what I knew/heard/read.
SquirrelWithATophat
Family Guy. Like the episode where he finally got a date with the lady he had the hots for, but she ended up annoying him so he just tapped her so she would die and shut up, while picked up the check at the cafe and left.
swedeonamoose
Also who would want to go around touching a bunch of random humans, that is icky.
JackHL01
imagine the victim of a pedestrian meeting a truck head on, i wouldn't want to touch that!
ParaspriteHugger
Plus "boop, you're it!" just doesn't set the right tone.
BladeTurMoiL
That’s a fetish you know?
Sechran
UndeadGopher
This comic was my first thought when I saw this post
squibler
OverKILL. Outstanding pun.
AIisAbutnotI
The Grim Pruner
Elminster
No, one swing for each blade of grass!
Shovi
All that bending to snap must be hard on those old bones, if only he had a tool with a long handle and a blade on top....
ToasterDent
During really bad wars, Grim drives a modern mechanized farm harvester.
TheMightyMollusk
Ah yes, the Grim Thresher.
battery1979
He actually fought a battle against that. It was too impersonal.
lalwaysupvotecatsandTHT
He's known as "The man with the scythe" in my country, taking it away from him would just render him "The man".
nclu
After taking the scythe away we just call him
"Legendary Plainswalker
Deathtouch"
SoupCanMan
...the myth, the legend. Scott Sterling!
Noughmad
It's "Old woman with the scythe" here. Possibly because the word "death" is feminine. Similarly, calling her just "the old woman" might be ageism.
oblimo
Death is also sometimes referred to just as "The Man" in English, although the term is usually used to refer to a more temporal authority.
tgeliot
Sort of like how taking away their horses would leave us with the four pedestrians of the apocalypse.
HelpfulCorn
That's not foreboding in the least!
MightyUrto
"The finger"
DeadeicPrints
"Don't let him finger you!"
Doopapotamus
"He fingers everyone eventually!"
kmikl
This sounds like a proctologist, though.