The movie explores Puss’s fear of death and finally overcoming it. To illustrate this, the movie personifies Death. We first see Death after Puss goes down to his ninth life, and proceeds to relaxes at the bar. Death is shown to be a wolf wearing a dark hood, who approached Puss with his sinister whistle. During this encounter, Death completely defeated Puss using his two sickles, causing Puss to flee in fear.

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Um actually … that isn’t the first time we see Death. We see him in the cheering crowd as a cameo right after Puss defeats the giant. This references Death’s quote that he is there for each of Puss’s deaths.