Well to be fair, the death thing is kind of silly.
"Thanos loves the concept of Death because he considers living a horrible state of being. Now lets throw all pretense of metaphor out the window by having there be a literal physical personification of Death who is a sexy lady (who is sometimes a Skeleton) whom Thanos wants to fuck."
I mean, Darkseid developed the same problem: In the original stories the Anti Life Equation was just a thing that gives you mind control, because Anti Life is fascism, its tyranny, if you are living without free will, you aren't really living, and you may as well be a robot. But later stories made the Anti Life Equation a living thing that was destroying planets and stuff and gave it other weird powers, and the Metaphor gets lost in the shuffle.
Kind of the problem with Multiple writers. Some writers are not gonna get what the original writer was going for with a story (Of course the opposite is True: Red Hulk didn't come into his own until he was removed from Loeb's wing and lost his uber plot armor, and he went from the unbeatable bad guy OC to The guy who gets dunked on all the time for the shit he pulled when he was an unbeatable bad guy OC)
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"Thanos loves the concept of Death because he considers living a horrible state of being. Now lets throw all pretense of metaphor out the window by having there be a literal physical personification of Death who is a sexy lady (who is sometimes a Skeleton) whom Thanos wants to fuck."
I mean, Darkseid developed the same problem: In the original stories the Anti Life Equation was just a thing that gives you mind control, because Anti Life is fascism, its tyranny, if you are living without free will, you aren't really living, and you may as well be a robot. But later stories made the Anti Life Equation a living thing that was destroying planets and stuff and gave it other weird powers, and the Metaphor gets lost in the shuffle.
Kind of the problem with Multiple writers. Some writers are not gonna get what the original writer was going for with a story (Of course the opposite is True: Red Hulk didn't come into his own until he was removed from Loeb's wing and lost his uber plot armor, and he went from the unbeatable bad guy OC to The guy who gets dunked on all the time for the shit he pulled when he was an unbeatable bad guy OC)