# Death — Metropolis character guide

> Death in Metropolis by Thea von Harbou.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Death

**First appearance:** 0001-metropolis

## Who they are

A personified figure appearing in visions or symbolic scenes.

## Relationships

### [Freder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/characters/freder)

_psychological_

Death is a symbolic figure that haunts Freder, representing his existential fears and the mortality of the workers.

### [Freder](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/characters/freder)

_psychological_

Death is a symbolic figure that haunts Freder, representing his existential fears and the mortality of the workers.

## In the story

### [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metropolis_se/chapters/x)

Appears in Freder's dream as a minstrel playing a flute made of human bone, leading the seven Deadly Sins in a dance before bowing to the Whore of Babylon.

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