Death Glare

Death Glare is the slash ship between Lord Hater and Commander Peepers from the Wander Over Yonder fandom.

Canon
Death Glare is a villain pairing, more specifically a Boss & Subordinate duo. They were given this name by the fandom: "Death" being coded synonymnously with the Skeleton overlord and "Glare" with the evil eyeball commander.

Lord Hater and Commander Peepers are an evil (comedic) duo that conquer the world together: Peepers being the second in command and Hater being the big boss. Together they aim to build the "Hater Empire." They haven't been given a true backstory, but through the episodes it is implied that these two have been together for a very long time. They've also been proven a few times that they can't function & conquer on their own--- they need eachother.

While they often bicker with eachother, they also have moments where they enjoy eachothers company and fawn over eachother, especially Peepers, loves it when Hater is being a powerful and threatening villain, And Hater eventually appreciates Peepers for his advice and hard work. Peepers thinks that what he and Hater has is special, and in the last episode of the show: goes heart eyes for him. Practically, Peepers is Hater's hype man. He recites his grand titles and words and can sometimes be seen mimicking Hater's movements as they hold their evil speeches when invading/conquering planets. He is very prideful and attached to Hater and goes through great lengths to impress him and spoil him with all kinds of things, like building an entire battle arena or making an entire alien clan form a statue of his Skeleton overlord. He treats Hater like a King (sometimes coddles him like a mom with her baby) and after meeting Wander in their lives they started bickering a lot more and start to act more or less like a married couple.

In the first season, Peepers was a far-off admirer who was fairly intimidated by Hater, yet he always aimed to get his attention and approval. In the second season, Peepers becomes more independant and assertive: instead of worshipping and pleading for his attention he starts to talk back and become bossier and gradually Hater starts to respect him and treat him more equally, even sharing some far-off looks at him.

Peepers is the power behind Hater's throne and the brains of the warlord's operation, coming up with master plans (that often go ignored.) He acts as his voice of reason but also coddles Hater ("The Fancy Party", "The Brainstorm", "The Funk", also briefly seen comforting Hater in "The Greatest" and in the credits of "The Little Guy") .

Hater and Peepers disagree over how best to deal with Wander and Sylvia. Whenever Peepers compiles extensive and potentially workable plans of attack, Hater shoots them down with far-flung notions of possible Wander interference ("The Brainstorm"). Peepers longs for Hater's acceptance and approval, and strives to be the champion supporter of the Hater empire by being the one to destroy Wander and Sylvia. In "The Buddies," he was shocked and devastated when he thought Lord Hater picked Wander as best buddy instead of him and began destroying all the Lord Hater pictures and objects in his room while simultaneously fixing them and crying. (This was also the first real glimpse into Peepers's love for Hater, and practically the starting foundation of Death Glare.)

There are some moments where Peepers does stand up to Lord Hater. In "The Funk", he angrily told Lord Hater to do his job and stop being so depressed. In "The Greater Hater", Lord Hater first blames Peepers for not getting newer, cooler weapons like an atom smasher. He angrily reminds Lord Hater that they couldn't get the weapons because he wanted useless things like a pool, arcade, a lab for new BBQ sauce for the food court, and he puts a big emphasis on the fact that they have a food court in the first place. In The Bad Hatter, he began to fight Lord Hater for Wander's hat because he wanted to use it to acquire weapons and rule the galaxy. Notably, Peepers says "the universe will be mine," implying that Hater is not a part of this plan, or at least won’t be ruling the universe with Peepers. In The Bad Neighbors, Peepers was desperately trying to think up of a plan to save the galaxy from Dominator's wrath so that he, along with the whole Hater Empire can take control of it later. While Peepers was doing that, Hater was too busy trying to sabotage their neighbor to pay attention. Although Peepers scolded them both to stay on their own sides of the street and act neighborly, Hater kept disregarding these rules, much to Peepers' dismay. Eventually, Peepers reached a breaking point and began to shout at Hater to "sit down, shut up, and behold [his] ultimate plan to stop Dominator".

There are some times that he does treat Lord Hater like a child. In "The Birthday Boy" he kneels down and speaks to him how you would to a child, offering to vaporize Wander and Sylvia out back and if that would make Lord Hater happy.

in "The Axe," it's shown that Peepers cares deeply for Lord Hater like naming their passcode "H8RNP33P3RS4EVR" and shows that they do everything together such as playing tennis, blowing up a planet, playing in their pit of bones, etc. He was also extremely happy that Lord Hater had created a statue for him, and hugged him.

In "The Cool Guy", he was spending a lot of time with Lord Hater and planning their next invasion with action figures of them (that he’d presumably made). He wasn’t happy with how Lord Hater ditched him to party with Emperor Awesome, so he decided to go through with the invasion himself. But in the end, Lord Hater saved him from Emperor Awesome, and went back to hanging out with Peepers.

In "My Fair Hatey" Peepers sings a ballad to Hater--despite stating his distaste for songs earlier--about how Hater is "the Greatest". When Hater starts to cheer up he smiles with his hands folded in glee.

In "The End of the Galaxy" Peepers is shown clinging onto Hater, and makes a giant heart eye at him, which confirms that he truly crushes on him.

Wander Over Yonder ran from 2013 to 2016. It was sadly cancelled by Disney higher-ups even though Disney Channel gave approval for a 3rd season. The writers had answered on tumblr that if they were given the chance, they would've showcased an episode of how Haters and Peepers met.

Season 1
Hater and Peepers are first shown in the first episode, “The Greatest”. In it, Peepers is shown doing his job as Hater’s second in command, and just following orders. He also later helps Hater back into the Skull-ship, (along with the other watchdogs), and is heard comforting him.

Major episodes:


 * The Greatest
 * The Brainstorm
 * The Buddies
 * The Funk
 * The Date
 * The Gift 2: The Giftening

Season 2
Major episodes:


 * The Greater Hater
 * The Axe
 * The Cool Guy
 * The Rival
 * The Bad Neighbors
 * The End of the Galaxy

Quotes
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to marry this stunning vision of loveliness...to some broad he met at a restaurant."

- Peepers at Lord Hater's wedding in "The Date".

"Sir you're forgetting one thing: You're Lord Hater, the most powerful, most evil villain in the entire universe! And while Wander may have beaten you a few times, the Lord Hater I know would never let some furry weirdo get in his head, he'd just keep conquering planets and doing evil! And if Wander did show up, the Lord Hater I know would just use his powers to blast him into the next dimension!"

- Peepers Encouraging Hater in "The Brainstorm".

"Oh, you're not alone, sir...You have me, and the Watchdogs...! Who needs Dominator anyway? Why, if she can't see that you're really the greatest in the galaxy, then she doesn't deserve you."

- Peepers to Lord Hater in "The Rival"

Behind the Scenes
One of the directors: Dave Thomas, is a huge Death Glare shipper and was practically the insinuator for all their ship moments to happen.

He's the one that wrote the ending & credits scene for episode "The Buddies", where Peepers cries over a misunderstanding of where Lord Hater picked Wander as his "Best Bud", feeling betrayed and heartbroken.

He also directed "The Axe" in the 2nd season, which was the first episode where Lord Hater learns to truly accept and respect Peepers. He is also quite responsible for Peepers having a huge heart-eye over Hater in the very last episode.

Fanon
The name Death Glare has been given to them from the fandom.

Fandom
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