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Cavalry of the Dead

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Cavalry of the Dead	comment	The Evil Army is about to overrun our stronghold! Hold the Line tactics worked just fine until The Dragon showed up and smashed a bloody great hole in our defenses. It looks like the enemy has won... but wait! The wizard has finished that spell he was working on! There's a horn sounding over the horizon. Wait... why are all our fallen comrades in the courtyard stirring? Is that army coming over the hills... translucent? Man, I sure am glad the army of the dead is on our side. They're tearing The Evil Army right up. I sure hope we can keep these guys around! ...What do you mean, "good for one battle only?" The essence of this trope is: Fallen allies, usually having died either in the battle at hand or in a previous battle with the same enemy, rise temporarily from the dead en masse and contribute to the ongoing battle in some critical way. The undead in question are more likely to be spectral than physical, but both are possible. The important part is that the loyalty of the fallen is preserved. Also, the army of the dead can help win the (usually climactic or highly significant) battle, but they can't then join the standing army. They tend only to last until the immediate threat is vanquished. The Trope Namer and possibly also modern Trope Codifier is the army of the dead from The Lord of the Rings. However, it's Older Than They Think. See Also: The Cavalry, Big Damn Heroes, Desperation Attack and Warrior Undead for what the army may be individually composed of. Contrast Animate Dead, and Night of the Living Mooks, where the original loyalty of the raw materials isn't relevant, and Ghost Invasion, which may be the work of a villain. Compare Resurrected for a Job which is usually a singular and 'complete' version to this mass-production, halfway version. If the dead in question died in different time periods, they may also be an Army of The Ages. Related to The Wild Hunt. For villainous examples, see Necromancer and The Undead. Not to be confused with Army of the Dead. ENDING TROPE! Unmarked Spoilers ahead.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_11d0af1	comment	In the last book of His Dark Materials, Lyra and Will have to travel through the land of the dead, and dead characters from the last several books decide to come along with them to help Lord Asriel's side in the fight against The Authority's angels.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_15c73c49	comment	Wonder Woman (2011): Ares responds to the First Born's question "what warrior would follow you?'', with a casual "All of them" at which a vast army consisting of ghostly figures of fighters from all the wars in human history appear to back him up.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_23b84765	comment	The film of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, as noted above, has the Army of the Dead, led by Aragorn, sweep in and save the day. Played with in that they are not at all loyal to Aragorn in any real way. In fact, the only reason they are available at all is because of a curse. They betrayed Isildur out of cowardice in ages past and they haven't gotten any better. But Aragorn, as Isildur's descendant, is the only one who can release them from their eternal torment.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_313bbd31	comment	The Night Huntress novel At Grave's End sees Mencheres raise wraiths from the powdered bones of the good guys' fallen friends. They are the embodiment of the rage that lingers in the bones of murdered people, and when he releases them, they immediately seek out the one responsible for their death, showing where she is hidden, as well and taking out her guards and tormenting her until Bones arrives to finish her.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_3277eea2	comment	In The Battle for Middle-earth, with units and powers based on the Peter Jackson films, one of the Tier 4 Ring Powers for Men is Army of the Dead, which... summons an army of the dead. Aragorn gets a smaller version of this as his Level 10 ability.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_329f9e9	comment	Hijikata Toshizo from Drifters is a villainous example of this trope. While a ruthless and brutal combatant on his own, he gets more dangerous when he uses his power to summon the ghosts of the Shinsengumi to fight on his behalf.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_37170a84	comment	In Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell, Deathstalker is able to beat the evil overlord Troxartes with the help of an army of undead warriors. Well, technically he talked Troxartes' undead warriors into switching sides.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_41b0198a	comment	In the The Dresden Files book Grave Peril, Harry Dresden raised an army of ghosts against Bianca, assisted by her tearing of the veil. Happens again in Ghost Story, when self-styled "Ectomancer" (ghost therapist) Mortimer is suspended in a pit full of shades, and naturally gets control of them.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft, the ability is actually called "Army of the Dead"! However, the way it works changed significantly, most likely due to the Genre Shift from a RTS to a MMORPG. The World Of Warcraft version of the ability simply summons 10 ghouls from the ground to fight for the Death Knight for a limited time. It doesn't require nearby corpses, and the ghouls mindlessly swarm the area and don't have any special abilities, but the spell can still be a very effective "panic button" in some situations.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_4bfcba97	comment	In The Record of Unusual Creatures, during the Battle at Spiral hill in the original version of the Collow Continent, two undead army appeared. One is composed of spirits of the devote members of the church buried under Fidelinopolis, who voluntarily followed the church to join the fight. The other is composed of what remains of the brave spirits army that helped the Wardens defend against Lockmarton's influence. They stayed behind when the Wardens evacuated and become extremely mutated by Lockmarton's influence, but stayed loyal to their cause. Both army joined the battle when the living forces start to ran out of momentum.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_509dbca7	comment	An Army of the Dead: The eponymous army, the members of which not only resurrected in order to defeat an otherwise unstoppable invading horde, they are deliberately killed in order to do so. Seriously hardcore.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_521fb09	comment	Heidelberg 1693 has two bosses, Count Tilly and the Moon King, who can summon ghost knights as their backup. They deal damage on contact, but dissappears after a short while.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_52ef161a	comment	Used by both sides in the Olympics plot of DC Nation. To be fair, they were fighting Hades. Jerkass God he is, he killed off Nightwing and Arsenal, then sends an army of undead rogues, skeletons, and victims. Just when it looks like the heroes are up a creek, here comes Hawkman, flanked by the two fallen Titans and bringing in fallen allies for one Climactic Battle Resurrection.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick does this during The Siege of Azure City. The Sapphire Guard swore an oath to protect the Gate regardless of circumstances, and in death, their founder called them back to fulfill their oath. They were more of a major annoyance to the Big Bad, but their leader is a whole different level, and he delivers curbstomp to both the Big Bad and his Dragon. Unfortunately, due to various reasons however, it failed to completely eliminate the threat.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_60c3abdc	comment	Spellforce 2 Paladins, on their deaths, turn into killable ghost warriors who fade over time. They're only slightly weaker than the original unit, so they're useful for pressing an attack or covering a retreat.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_645d2bd1	comment	Warbreaker: At the climax. The villains have seized control of Hallendren's army of 40,000 zombie soldiers, changed the magical control codes to lock out the heroes, and then sent them to invade the heroes' homeland of Idris. At this point, Vasher saves the day by giving the heroes the command codes for the D'Denir, an army of a thousand skeletons encased in stone statues.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_65f49106	comment	In Phantom Brave, Marona's power is to communicate with spirits, and give them corporeal form, making an army once you make enough Player Mooks.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_69484cdd	comment	In Ushio and Tora, the climatic final battle has Saya, the resident mystic maiden, open a gate to the Underworld, so that the souls of the fallen allies can join the battle against the forces of Hakumen no Mono.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Back in The Invincible Iron Man 150, Iron Man and Dr. Doom were time displaced to Camelot, and met King Arthur. But Dr. Doom was not interested in him, but in King Arthur's sister: Morgan Le Fey. Doom wanted Le Fey to train him into the black magic, and Le Fey requested in exchange that Doom led an army against King Arthur (a spell prevented her from leaving the castle herself). She had a piece of the Excalibur sword, which allowed her to raise an army composed of all those who died by that sword and wanted vengeance against its wielder.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_760e3662	comment	Wonder Woman (2009): The climactic battle is between the Amazons of Themyscira and Ares's forces which include numerous Amazons who died in battle.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_78fbc3f4	comment	Subverted in The Zombie Survival Guide. The Japanese and Soviets both attempted to create armies of undead to unleash upon their enemies. It didn't work.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_798e6a69	comment	DM of the Rings Deconstructs this trope. (It also parodies this trope, just like everything else in LOTR.) Commanding elite undead warriors is almost always evil, or at least looks that way, and relying on anyone bound to serve you by a curse is Playing with Fire. Specifically, be careful of the Curse Escape Clause.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_7ab1b252	comment	Dr. Greta Helsing: Invoked in the Paris Catacombs when the fight against the Big Bad Corvin and his vampire coven turns against the protagonists. Unfortunately for Corvin, the coven desecrated a lot of bodies to make their lair, and Greta's allies include two Psychopomps who offer the affronted spirits a chance to vent their displeasure.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_7afc24b0	comment	In Samurai Deeper Kyo, Oda Nobunaga in Shatora's body has increased his powers over the Grim Reaper to the point that he can summon his slain Junishinsho in combat, only to ruthlessly cut through them to catch Kyo unprepared. Deconstructed, as they refuse to answer his call a second time.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_7bc04973	comment	Happens again in Ghost Story, when self-styled "Ectomancer" (ghost therapist) Mortimer is suspended in a pit full of shades, and naturally gets control of them.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_7f20564b	comment	Sabaton: The song "The Attack of the Dead Men" from The Great War Concept Album about World War I plays up the historical counter-attack by Russians through Deadly Gas without gas masks (as few of the Russian soldiers in this battle had gas masks) as if they really were fighting on in undeath.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_817acecf	comment	In Fables #150, Rose Red summons the Knights of the Endless Table: soldiers from every world, and every time and battle who have one thing in common. They all died while holding out hope.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_87fab81b	comment	In Micah E. F. Martin's The Canticle, any Necromancer or High Dead worth his salt has a legion of starving ghouls at their beck and call.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_8c76835f	comment	Oddly Enough: Brion, the protagonist of "With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm", leads one against enemy soldiers who've been sent to raid his kingdom. Unusually, the dead don't attack the living — they just point out what it'll be like to be dead, and the soldiers decide they'd rather go home and live as long as possible.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_8cb3a247	comment	In the climax of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the shades of the last several people Voldemort murdered come out of his wand and swarm him, giving Harry just enough time to escape.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_8fa1064	comment	MediEvil: The final confrontation between Zarok and the heroic Sir Daniel Fortesque starts with the spirits of slain heroes from the Hall of Heroes rising to aid Sir Dan in defeating the evil necromancer's cohorts.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time has the Heroes of the Horn, legendary heroes who have become bound to the Wheel of Time by their famous deeds; they're meant to be summoned by the Horn of Valere at the Last Battle. There are only about a hundred of them, but the psychological effect of a glorious band of fearful warriors wreathed in mist is enough to bolster the morale of the armies of the Light and give pause to their enemies.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_942bee58	comment	In Toll the Hounds, book eight of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, everyone who ever died is marched out of the Warren of Death and into the Warren within Dragnipur right when the forces of Chaos are about to devour those few still dragging the wagon within. The Army of the Dead swoops in and closes with the forces of Chaos just in time to save the day.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_9acdda28	comment	Watership Down sees Fiver calling up the spirits of the rabbits Vervain has murdered when Vervain comes to kill him. It doesn't go great for Vervain.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls The Dunmer (Dark Elves) practice significant ancestor worship in their religion, believing that their ancestors stick around to watch over their living kin. On a relatively smaller scale, they've summoned the bodies and spirits of their honored ancestors as guardians and protectors for ages. They consider this practice different from true necromancy, which they consider absolutely blasphemous (as seen prominently in Morrowind). Then, during the Oblivion Crisis, they resurrected the massive skeleton of an Emperor Crab (large enough to hold a city district inside its shell) to fight back against the Daedric hordes. King Gortwog of Orsinium, home of the Orcs who (as the Orsimer or "Pariah Elves") who seem to be eternally Fighting for a Homeland, was said to be considering whether to hire necromancers to supplement Orsinium's forces with the dead against their many powerful enemies. No word on whether or not he went through with it, but Orsinium itself would fall during the Time Skip between Oblivion and Skyrim. In the series' backstory, Queen Potema of Solitude (known as " the Wolf Queen") caused one of the bloodiest wars to ever hit Tamriel in an attempt to get her son proclaimed as the rightful heir to the Imperial throne. After her armies and those of her allies were defeated, she held out in Solitude in a protracted siege which lasted 10 years. During that time, Potema, a powerful necromancer and practitioner of other Dark Arts, resurrected many dead bodies to bolster her dwindling forces.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_a037ae41	comment	In Fate/Zero, among the Noble Phantasms owned by Servant Rider, Alexander the Great, is his Reality Marble: Ionioi Hetairoi, "Army of the King". After the boundary field is set, his entire army from life slowly appear, each and every one so ferociously loyal to Alexander that death itself can not keep them from aiding their king. 100 of the greatest assassins in history? Meet the army that conquered the world.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_a183d57f	comment	In Futurama The Robot Devil, at Bender's request, assembles for him The Army of the Damned. Though his robots aren't really "dead", they are from Robot Hell.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_a4ff8e01	comment	In Fate/Grand Order, the aforementioned example with Iskandar appears with his Ionian Hetairoi and another appears in the form of Darius III, his "rival" in life summoned as a Berserker, with his Noble Phantasm Athanaton Ten Thousand, "Immortal Ten Thousand Soldiers". His summons his own army to battle, but unlike Iskandar's who are brought forth in their prime, his are an army of ten thousand skeleton warriors, complete with his own personal skeleton War Elephant.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_a5549ed0	comment	In The Bible, Ezekiel, with God's help, raised his own army of the dead in a vision.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_aa08b12e	comment	Lady Death: As "The Goddess of All That Is Dead And Dying", Lady Death can command an army of undead warriors. They are loyal to her as she lets them rest in peace save for when she needs them.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_aaaee755	comment	The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. The final battle is between the Emperor's army of terracotta soldiers, a smaller army of skeletons that's brought out from under the Great Wall of China, a pair of warplanes, and a group of yetis.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: Depending on whether or not the ghosts are actually the spirits of the dead, the series' finale featured one of these, when Danny recruits the population of the Ghost Zone to turn the Earth intangible and save it from a doomsday asteroid that's heading straight for Earth, Pariah Dark's skeleton ghost army in Reign Storm.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Legion of the Damned, a legion-full of undead Space Marines that wander the cosmos and have appeared in the midst of many battles to leverage victory for Imperial forces that had the odds stacked highly against them before disappearing back into the Warp. It isn't known if they actually are undead marines or something elsenote other possibilities include time travelers from an even worse future, regular marines altered by the warp, or creatures of the warp that just look like marines but their skeleton decorated armor and flaming bodies certainly makes them look like it.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_bdc2b9c1	comment	Age of Mythology: When you lose normal army units while playing as the Greeks worshiping Hades, you will receive weak "shade" units at your temple. They're weak and vulnerable, but they don't count toward your Arbitrary Headcount Limit, making them great for a Zerg Rush or as last-ditch Cannon Fodder. There's also a God Power, Ancestors. It summons a bunch of zombies to fight your enemies, but only for about a minute. Also, there's the Einherjar, if you're Nordic.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_cacc7427	comment	Galavant gets an army of undead soldiers for the climactic battle of the second season...that react to The Power of Love!.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_cce5a834	comment	Mortal Kombat: The Movie: A smaller scale example occurs in the final battle between Liu Kang and Shang Tsung. When Tsung realizes he is no match for Liu Kang in hand-to-hand combat, he summons some of the dead warriors whose souls he has claimed to fight for him. Liu Kang defeats them all with greater ease.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_db30cf92	comment	In Warrior Cats, all the villains who die go to the Dark Forest, which is essentially cat hell. An important Myth Arc is that the Dark Forest is rising because of the birth of the Three, and will soon wage a war on the living. In the series Grand Finale, The Last Hope, the Dark Forest invades, but the two Heaven equivalents, StarClan and the Tribe of Endless Hunting, fight alongside the Clans to even the odds.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_eee7448f	comment	In Dora Wilk Series, Witkacy beats Viola by empowering ghosts of all people she's killed and letting them loose on her. And she's been killing people for a looong time.
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Cavalry of the Dead / int_fe83990a	comment	In Saint Seiya, Hades brings back to life fallen Gold Saints of Athena, granting them 12 hours to bring him her head. If they do so, he may bring them back to life for real. It turns out that they remained loyal to their Goddess nonetheless and only accepted Hades' deal to warn her about the upcoming Holy War while killing some members of Hades' army in the process. Once the 12 hours delay expired, they disappeared to return to the Underworld (where they join again to fire a super Combined Energy Attack).
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