While I’m unfamiliar with most fictional portrayals of Death including the ones you mention, I will say that I played Death on stage for a high school production of a one-act play written by one of my theater classmates, and the character I played was a neutral-to-good comical bumbler just trying to act on his boss’s orders. My classmate had a creative streak, obviously, but I don’t think she was being particularly transgressive; probably she was influenced by several neutral-to-good just-doing-his-job Death characters from existing fictional media.
While I’m unfamiliar with most fictional portrayals of Death including the ones you mention, I will say that I played Death on stage for a high school production of a one-act play written by one of my theater classmates, and the character I played was a neutral-to-good comical bumbler just trying to act on his boss’s orders. My classmate had a creative streak, obviously, but I don’t think she was being particularly transgressive; probably she was influenced by several neutral-to-good just-doing-his-job Death characters from existing fictional media.