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0: Safe
1: No plant-based diet bullshit or promotion of plant-based capitalism.
2: No omni apologists or carnists.
3: No advocating violence to any species for any reason.
4: Use Content Warnings and NSFW tags for triggering content.

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It's so much more than that.  
  
Deadman is a ghost. He knows there's something after death. He's been offered the chance to move on. He's been to Heaven. He's been to Hell. He's been to the Dreaming and other dimensions where the dead find new homes. He deals with the strange and magical. He's friends with the practically-immortal Swamp Thing and Frankenstein, he knows the Phantom Stranger personally. He's seen the living dead and the undead and the dead come back to life in this world. So the question becomes, why does death mean anything to Deadman? When there is something beyond it, and for many, it is a paradise where they can feel eternal happiness, what meaning does life hold? What worth does it have? Why does Deadman truly care what happens to the living? Why should he?  
  
Because in life, there is choice. We are in control of our own destinies. We go out into the world and meet people and find love and make mistakes and sometimes get hurt, but it's all guided by us. Whether we're out shopping or swinging from a trapeze without a net, that's our choice to make. It's our freedom. And when some mugger or hook-handed assassin comes along, and they interfere, and they hurt us, it's a violation of that freedom. When people hurt each other, when they do bad things to each other, when they kill each other, they take away that freedom. The same goes for when gods and devils use people as pawns in their great cosmic games.  
  
This is what Deadman protects. For us living people, it's all full of uncertainty. We don't know what's on the other side. As far as we can tell, this goofy life we live is all we've got. But Deadman knows better. And Deadman knows that what makes this world more special than any of the other worlds out there is that we're the ones in control while we're here. The value of life that Deadman sees? The thing he can only get when he takes over somebody's body? That's freedom. And he has to be extra careful not to screw up while in somebody's body, because just being there is encroaching on that freedom. And he understands that and values that better than anybody. Deadman is the truest manifestation of the human spirit, that thing that says "We're here and we matter", the ultimate freedom fighter. He fights for our right to be us in a chaotic and unfair universe.  
  
Side Note: What comics have you read where Deadman gets peoples' memories? I think I've only ever seen it during Blackest Night. Not that I think it's a bad thing, mind you, it's just that in all the comics I've ever read, it's only the stuff by Peter Tomasi that really ever demonstrates it. Different writers tend to make up whatever when it comes to Deadman's powers.
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