He demolished him cause Puss in Boots was blindly fighting a life of a legend, but in the second fight Puss in Boots was fighting to preserve his life longer as he finally found a life worth living for. The performance between the two fights show this. Death easily beat him the first time, while second fight Death opted to new methods to beat Puss and didn’t waste time toying with him (First fight he told him to pick up his weapon, while second fight he went to strike Puss right away when he was disarmed).
In this medium, he was clearly being hurt. He went flying, let out a brief scream of being hurt, and wiped the spot he was hit as a way to show he was hurt. Second hit he dropped his weapon, sent flying, and didn’t get up right away unlike the first time he was hit. It was also in slow-mo to show he was hurt by Puss’ strong kick.
Death stood down, but Puss still put up a fight beforehand. So it’s irrelevant, it just begs more of a question on who would’ve won if they continued (Probably would’ve been death).
It’s not a nail in the coffin, I used it for example as Death’s way of having fun and toying with his “victims.” He says food cause they’ll eventually die, and he’s playing with them by even creating his wolf form in the first place. He hated that Puss wasted his lives and was going to waste another one, so he was going to make him feel death before ending him himself. That was his playing. Death being serious is just him waiting for Puss to die by natural causes, cause he’s his food anyhow. It’s just that Puss didn’t know that because he thought he was immortal. Problem is he was frustrated because Puss learned his lesson, and he was chasing after someone who didn’t even deny his mortality.
Ah yes, Death casually walking, saying "You really gotta stop losing that", and THEN attacking again is definitely him not ******* around, my God dude, rewatch these scenes sometime
First hit: Death is hit, makes a grunt, lands, locked his teeth again, and wiped the spot on the inside of his mouth. That basically means anything that could've done anything but knock Death back was on the inside of his mouth, AKA Puss more just just made Death harm himself even if there was no further connotations death was harmed at all, now second hit:
rewatches second hit real quick PFFFFT. Oh me oh my you are wrong on so many levels. First of all, Death made no noises when he was knocked back, second of all, his weapons were let go of becuase he wasn't gripping them hard enough so Puss just knocked them out of his hands, third of all, Death STILL wasn't bothered by this hit, like, he got up and was more bothered by not getting to kill Puss right then and there then anything, hell,
Yes, put up a fight. Nobody ever denied Puss put up a fight against casual Death.
Prove his wolf form isn't his true form. Use shit from the movie, not what you assume to be the case. Aside from that, playing with your food is a saying that in this case means Death was dicking around, he wasn't giving it his all, he was a cat playing with a wounded mouse, in this case, he held off on killing Puss despite being able to very easily chase him down and kill him on two seperate engagements, and on the third one where he still showed signs other then what he said about being casual.