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Calacas

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24 feature instances
20 referencing feature instances

Calacas	type	FeatureClass
Calacas	label	Calacas
Calacas	page	Calacas
Calacas	comment	Originating in Mayan traditions that survived the Spanish conquest, Calacas are representations of the dead celebrated in Mexican art and holidays, particularly Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). If you find yourself in a Mexican-inspired Spirit World, chances are you'll run into these as living skeletons. For them being dead isn't all that bad at all, and in fact is not much different from being alive. Their "lifeblood" is tied to their living descendants' memories of them in the real world. They experience a final death when they are completely forgotten by the living. Until then, death is seen as a natural and joyous part of anyone's life cycle. They are often depicted in festive colors, playing instruments, and surrounded by leaves and flowers. Calacas iconography in art, facepaint, costumes etc. is also fairly common. These dead can not only dance, they tend to be very good at it, and often play instruments as well. See also Dem Bones and Friendly Skeleton.
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Calacas	isPartOf	DBTropes
Calacas / int_11b7db91	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: In "James Baxter the Horse", a skeleton animated by its former owner's angry ghost has a decorated skull.
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Adventure Time	hasFeature	Calacas / int_11b7db91
Calacas / int_154582d2	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_154582d2	comment	"Ladies and Skeleton", a segment of The Thrilling Adventure Hour "A Halloween Beyond Belief" episode, features Frank and Sadie Doyle confronting a Calaca. Here, the Calaca is described as a monster that kills via Involuntary Dance and, in the past, it killed and has since enslaved the spirit of Frank's first love. His victim gets away and, when it appears to take her back, speaks with a stereotypical accent with rattling noises in the background to suggest the bones. The Calaca can only be killed by a silver bullet. Frank utilizes a previous episode's Chekhov's Gun, literally the gun wielded by famed playwright and werewolf hunter Anton Chekhov, to dispatch it.
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The Thrilling Adventure Hour (Podcast)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_154582d2
Calacas / int_16ca9c3	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_16ca9c3	comment	Rayman Legends: The Mexican themed world Fiesta de los Muertos features skeletons as common Mooks.
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Rayman Legends (Video Game)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_16ca9c3
Calacas / int_1cc09117	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_1cc09117	comment	The Hollows of Bleach seem to be partially inspired by the concept: they all wear skull masks and Gratuitous Spanish abounds in the names of their home (Hueco Mundo) and abilities (Cero, Bala and in the Arrancar's cases Sonido and Resurreccion).
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Bleach (Manga)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_1cc09117
Calacas / int_4a1af3cb	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_4a1af3cb	comment	In Â¡Mucha Lucha! calacas visit the living world during day of the dead and return to their own land when they had their fill of food. The problem comes when one of them, a kid named Calavera Muerto, just wants to play videogames and refuses to leave Ricochet's house.
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Â¡Mucha Lucha!	hasFeature	Calacas / int_4a1af3cb
Calacas / int_5593a35d	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_5593a35d	comment	Wayward Children: The Magical Land of Mariposa is filled with marigolds and butterflies by day, and by night, skeletons awaken in song and dance. Some used to be human, but others were created by skeleton "parents". Christopher was trapped there for a time and hopes to return to his Skeleton Girl fiancÃ©e, the princess.
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Wayward Children	hasFeature	Calacas / int_5593a35d
Calacas / int_5c5864ed	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_5c5864ed	comment	My Singing Monsters: The seasonal monster Clavavera is a monster based on one, and the limited-time period she's avalable in-game, Beat Hereafter, is based on DÃa De Los Muertos.
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Calacas / int_5c5864ed	featureConfidence	1.0
My Singing Monsters (Video Game)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_5c5864ed
Calacas / int_68237790	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: Two types of Psychopomps are based on Mexican calacas: Catrinas take the form of beautiful skeletal women, festively dressed and adorned with floral garlands. They welcome mortals into the afterlife — sometimes after easing a stubborn hanger-on off the mortal coil with a Kiss of Death — and work to ease their transition into the next world. Calacas are another type of skeletal psychopomps who, unlike others, deal with the living rather than the dead. Their role is to comfort and counsel those who mourn a fallen loved one, typically by promoting philosophical acceptance of death and through joyous celebration of the departed's life, and especially to discourage them from using necromancy to bring their loved one back. They typically wear formal or festive clothing to hide their skeletal forms and carry ornate guitars, in addition to antique weapons — usually pistols, sometimes sabers — to be used in extremis if all diplomacy fails.
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_68237790
Calacas / int_6bbde1c8	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Overwatch: Sombra and Reaper, the two Mexican/Mexican-American members of the terrorist group Talon, both use calacas-derived imagery in their gear. Health packs and enemies hacked by Sombra display electronic sugar skulls, and she also wears calavera face paint in her Los Muertos skins. As for Reaper, his El Blanco and Mariachi skins replace his standard skull mask with a more elaborate calavera one.
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Overwatch (Video Game)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_6bbde1c8
Calacas / int_6ea7c33b	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_6ea7c33b	comment	Altered Carbon. The Day of the Dead has become an official national holiday, which families use to spin up their dead relatives in a future were death doesn't have to mean Real Death.
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Altered Carbon	hasFeature	Calacas / int_6ea7c33b
Calacas / int_742af508	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_742af508	comment	Grim Fandango depicts the dead as living skeletons. The society they established on the threshold of the true afterlife is equally inspired by the Day of the Dead and Film Noir.
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Grim Fandango (Video Game)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_742af508
Calacas / int_797793b1	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_797793b1	comment	Shaman King: Mexican shaman Peyote DÃaz has his former mariachi band as guardian spirits. As explained by the man himself, they were all killed in bar fights they themselves started. The band manifested by possessing a set of calacas dolls and Peyote could control them via strumming his guitar.
Calacas / int_797793b1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Shaman King (Manga)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_797793b1
Calacas / int_7c3e0841	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_7c3e0841	comment	El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera: In "The Grave Escape", Manny and Frida end up in the Land of the Dead after a battle with supervillainess Sartana of the Dead. With the help of Manny's superhero and super villain ancestors, they make it back to the land of the living and defeat Sartana's army of forgotten dead.
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El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera	hasFeature	Calacas / int_7c3e0841
Calacas / int_96cb0f6b	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_96cb0f6b	comment	In Deadly Class, Mexican-born Maria often wears Calaca-inspired facepaint.
Calacas / int_96cb0f6b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Deadly Class (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_96cb0f6b
Calacas / int_9b1b6065	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_9b1b6065	comment	Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle: Calavera is a boss Rabbid who has his face painted to resemble one of these. He is fought in the spooky World 3.
Calacas / int_9b1b6065	featureApplicability	1.0
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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Video Game)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_9b1b6065
Calacas / int_a97a40f0	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_a97a40f0	comment	The Witch of Knightcharm: Carlita Xique, a rookie witch at an evil Wizarding School, wears a sugar-skull mask in the style of a Calacas skull. It's noted that she's very good at sacrificial magic, and it's implied that the mask pertains to how she uses her powers.
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The Witch of Knightcharm	hasFeature	Calacas / int_a97a40f0
Calacas / int_bf4abb02	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_bf4abb02	comment	In the Harley Quinn solo title, Harley's enemy and later ally Harley Sinn has facial tattoos in a Calaca design.
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Harley Quinn (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_bf4abb02
Calacas / int_c35ec21c	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_c35ec21c	comment	Super Mario Odyssey: Tostarenans in the Sand Kingdom are colorful skeletons wearing ponchos and sombreros, often seen carrying maracas.
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Super Mario Odyssey (Video Game)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_c35ec21c
Calacas / int_caaccb8e	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_caaccb8e	comment	When Felix enters the ring for his fight with Damian in Creed III, a man wearing a tuxedo and a skull mask precedes him and he's flanked by two girls made up in this style.
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Creed III	hasFeature	Calacas / int_caaccb8e
Calacas / int_cb45dbdc	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_cb45dbdc	comment	PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet: Skeledirge, Fuecoco's final form has this general theme. It isn't dead, but its a half Ghost-Type Crocodile who sings soothing songs that calms the souls of those who hear it.
Calacas / int_cb45dbdc	featureApplicability	1.0
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PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet (Video Game)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_cb45dbdc
Calacas / int_db2eaaa1	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_db2eaaa1	comment	The Book of Life: All those who have died and have people among the living who remember them live out their afterlives in an endless fiesta in the Land of the Remembered. They are usually white skeletons with colorful designs decorating them, their eyes glowing orange dots in their eye sockets. Should the memory of them fade away completely, they are then sent to the Land of the Forgotten, where they wander aimlessly - their bones blackened with glowing green eyes and markings — before fading away into dust..
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The Book of Life	hasFeature	Calacas / int_db2eaaa1
Calacas / int_ec2531c4	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_ec2531c4	comment	Coco: The Calacas are all skeletal, but their design include fully-functioning human eyes and small ornate markings. They are only allowed to venture to the land of the living when their living relatives have their photographs displayed on an altar during DÃa de Muertos and can take the astral forms of inanimate objects (from food to guitars and clothes) back with them. Living humans that are brought to the afterlife can only be sent back from a blessing of a relative that is already there before sunrise lest they turn into a calaca permanently. Should the memory of them on Earth fade away completely, they themselves fade away into "the final death".
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Coco	hasFeature	Calacas / int_ec2531c4
Calacas / int_f120845f	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_f120845f	comment	In Kingdom of Loathing, Calaveras feature as a variant "Skleton" encountered in South of the Border. They're noted to be ghosts inhabiting a life-sized candy (specifically marzipan) skeleton, a reference to sugar skulls.
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Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_f120845f
Calacas / int_f783ff96	type	Calacas
Calacas / int_f783ff96	comment	Guacamelee!: The Big Bad, Carlos Calaca, is a wicked skeleton who has sinister-looking red and gray markings on his skull.
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Guacamelee! (Video Game)	hasFeature	Calacas / int_f783ff96

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Calacas	processingCategory2	Index of Fictional Creatures
Calacas	processingCategory2	Skeletal Tropes
Calacas	processingCategory2	Undead Index
Harley Quinn (Comic Book) / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Harley Quinn (New 52) (Comic Book) / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
New Pantheon / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Paraiso Street / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Under the Volcano / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Wayward Children / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
The Thrilling Adventure Hour (Podcast) / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery (Video Game) / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Grim Fandango (Video Game) / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Guacamelee! (Video Game) / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Rayman Legends (Video Game) / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Calacaschidas (Web Video) / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Dr. Crafty (Web Video) / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Coco / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
Super Monsters / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas
The Book of Life / int_7216b31d	type	Calacas

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