Thanatos, the winged Greek personification of non-violent death, has been compared to the Grim Reaper, but there are two main differences. Thanatos is always male and he carries away the dead.

What we do know is that Thanatos is supposed to be “peaceful death,” which is why the team tapped voice actor Chris Saphire to portray a more “gentle” version of the grim reaper.

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"the reaper of death". That is because its official name came from the Greek god of death Thanatos combined with theristes meaning "one who reaps or harvests". After analysing the fossil and the ...