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Animate beings constructed from ossific material in their entirety are a very common form of The Undead in video games, but much rarer in other media, to the point where, as an object of fear, they have become slightly camp. They're cousins to the Zombie in spirit, but remain explicitly separated in the public consciousness by the lack of flesh and other juicy bits. A likely explanation for their ability to see and hear, not to mention move without any muscles, and indeed their status as Perpetual Motion Monsters is a necromancer used Functional Magic to raise and operate them. Thus, these creatures are firmly inhabitants of Fantasy works. You might know them as skeletons. We call 'em "Dem Bones". And wouldn't you know... There's a skeleton inside you right now! ... Of course you don't actually count, 'cuz you have flesh and organs over those bones. Anyway... There are human, non-human, and weirder variants, and in 99% of their appearances, they're enemy Mooks. Their prevalence in Role Playing Games is owed to Dungeons & Dragons, which established them as the slaves of necromancers. When they aren't Mooks, they're usually liches, which are much nastier, because they tend to be powerful mages. Skeletal spellcasters who are not liches are rare (in cases where "skeletal spellcaster" isn't the outright ''definition'' of a lich, that is), but not nonexistent. Often enough, Dem Bones are reused in the same game à la Underground Monkey. Expect, in the spirit of a Zombie Minotaur, to find double-category monsters, like a skeletal mammoth or dragon. Many games have even tougher skeletons that are colored red. This could be because the red ones are a little more skilled and covered in the blood of hapless adventurers who couldn't best them. A prominent variation is a being composed of just a skull without a body. In this case, their ability to attack may be a simple bite, or through magic spells. They may or may not also have the power to defy gravity to compensate for the lack of legs. As trope examples indicate, there are a noticeably greater number of friendly talking skulls compared to the rare Friendly Skeleton. In video games, skeletal foes will often attack by throwing bones. One cannot help but wonder where they get dem bones from. Some versions are difficult to harm with ordinary swords or arrows, but can be dealt with using blunt weapons or magic. But be warned: many have the ability to pull themselves back together after you knock them apart. In Mexico, Dem Bones are called Calacas and are associated with the Day of the Dead holiday much the same way bunnies are associated with Easter, making them less common as stock spooky elements (they tend to be more comedic). It helps that said calacas are made of sugar and chocolate. See also Skull for a Head and Stripped to the Bone. May or may not be prone to dancing. A unique example is The Grim Reaper, so ubiquitous it's its own trope. If the Skeleton is friendly and/or comical, it's a Friendly Skeleton. See also Bad with the Bone if bones are used as Improvised Weapons, and Ballistic Bone if they're used as Abnormal Ammo. A Walking Ossuary is when bits from multiple skeletons are assembled into a single chimeric whole. If the skeleton is really a robot, see SkeleBot 9000. |
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Boy and Dog: Subverted in a story one of Rowan's parents tells. It looks like the villagers are skeletons but they're actually just malnourished. | |
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Vol 1: When Artemis, Diana's predecessor as the Amazon's champion, is "revived" by Circe she comes back as a vengeful walking skeleton clad only in the scraps remaining of her armor. The henchmen the Adjudicator created as manifestations of his will modeled after the Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Judgment In Infinity were each skeletal figures wearing cloaks. |
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Vol 2: When Hippolyta is confronted by her guilty conscience she faces a skeletal Diana accusing her of killing her by siphoning her power to Artemis in order to ensure Diana didn't win The Contest. This did end up getting Diana killed, which was precisely what Polly was trying to prevent after having a premonition that Wonder Woman would die. | |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Luigi gets chased by a horde Dry Bones shortly after he lands in the Dark Lands. And later, when Bowser reveals to his troops his plans to marry Peach, one Koopa soldier makes the unfortunate mistake of asking "What if she says no?" He gets roasted by Bowser's fire breath and turned into a Dry Bones for his trouble. | |
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In Pinball Quest, the main enemies of the first table are a set of animated skeletons. | |
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Bleach: Barragan Luisenbarn turns into a skeleton dressed in a crown and robes upon releasing his zanpakuto, and his original form before becoming an Arrancar was a mighty Hollow, possibly even a Vasto Lorde level, in the form of a similar skeleton. This is to symbolize his power over old age and decay, which lets him rot other people into skeletons. The dead kind. | |
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In Death Ship, Nick lunges at Capt. Ashland, only to fall into a trap and find himself in a net holding the skeletal remains of the eponymous ship's former crew. | |
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In Reaper Man, the New Death rides a skeletal horse. After Bill Door defeats this upstart and reclaims his position as Death, Miss Flitworth decides to keep it, because any hay it "eats" just falls through its ribs to the stable floor, making it cheap to feed. | |
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The Rifter: The walls at the convent of Umbhra’ibaye are strung with bones who are issusha’im: women who’ve been stripped of their flesh but kept alive, with charms carved on the bones. This somehow gives them the power to see through time, seeing multiple possible futures as well as (maddeningly) the lives that they might have lived if they hadn’t been turned into issusha’im. The Payshmura use the issusha’im’s soothsaying to avert future events that they don’t want. It’s a Fate Worse than Death, but at least it’s possible for them to take on flesh again, which is a considerable improvement, if they escape Umbhra’ibaye. Ji, a talking dog, is an issusha who took the body of a dog and is now a leader of the Fai’daum. She’s centuries old and has very powerful magic as well as soothsaying abilities. Laurie was taken partway through the issusha-making process and they used the blood of her own baby to create the enchantment. She’s now part-flesh, part-walking skeleton. Understandably mentally unstable, she’s been using those enchantments herself, but only managing to create "hungry bones", monstrosities patched together from human and animal bones which thirst for blood. | |
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Skeldon from The☆Ultraman is a skeletal carnivorous dinosaur kaiju. | |
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Mermaid Moon: Baroness Thyrla has prolonged her life by many years by stealing the remaining lifespans of other people, including her mother, her uncle, her husband, and all but one of her children. She keeps the bones of her victims in her bedroom, where they can speak and have limited movement. They act as her advisors. | |
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YouTube Pooper Ricesnot specializes in making videos about skeletons, especially the skeleton from the advertisement for the '80s board game "Rattle Me Bones". | |
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Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion: Lou hallucinates a talking skeleton while in the desert. | |
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Yorick and Bones: Yorick, one of the protagonists of the comic, is a magically-resurrected skeleton who was dug up by Bones. | |
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Monsters Can Be Heroes Too!: Coal's second quest is to go defeat a gang of skeletons. She recruits a skeleton named Shelly to join her party from them. | |
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Helvetica's entire cast is this, although none of them are sure why. | |
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Bruce Coville's Book of... Monsters: The title character of Kokolimalayas, the Bone Man is a giant skeleton. | |
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In The Mummy (2017), the titular Mummy, Princess Ahmanet, turns her victims into her skeletal followers with a Kiss of Death. | |
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For Halloween in 2006, Late Night with Conan O'Brien broadcast an already-aired episode in 'skelevision', with Conan, the band, the guests and the audience all appearing as skeletons operated by puppeteers. | |
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The Tumblr ‘Skeleton War’. | |
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And in two pirate-themed adventures, Demons of the Deep and Bloodbones, you can actually summon skeleton warriors on your side to help you battle enemy pirates. | |
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Mazes and Minotaurs: Skeletons serve as mooks. | |
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A lot of animate skeletons appear in Monster Mash (2000). | |
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Endstone: Grave Robbing rouses one. | |
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The skeleton warriors from Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, a deliberate homage to the Harryhausen example above. | |
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In Seconds (2014), the Seconds restaurant employs some walking, talking skeletons when reality starts to break apart. | |
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Eberron: The setting's "evil, schmevil" attitude (it subverts the Always Chaotic Evil trope hard) means that a nation like Karrnath can have a significant portion of its army composed entirely of skeletons, and nobody thinks any differently about them because of it. | |
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Wonder Woman: Vol 1: When Artemis, Diana's predecessor as the Amazon's champion, is "revived" by Circe she comes back as a vengeful walking skeleton clad only in the scraps remaining of her armor. The henchmen the Adjudicator created as manifestations of his will modeled after the Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Judgment In Infinity were each skeletal figures wearing cloaks. Vol 2: When Hippolyta is confronted by her guilty conscience she faces a skeletal Diana accusing her of killing her by siphoning her power to Artemis in order to ensure Diana didn't win The Contest. This did end up getting Diana killed, which was precisely what Polly was trying to prevent after having a premonition that Wonder Woman would die. |
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Mr. Crypt is a comedic example. He is a sentient skeleton who gets into various mishaps from dealing with vampires to running away from angry villagers to facing island natives. | |
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book: Death is a skeleton because Evan Dorkin didn't see any stills from the Bill & Ted movies until he was a third of the way through the comic and it was too late to redraw. | |
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A skeleton does the "rap" in Rush's "Roll the Bones". | |
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Champions of Far'aus: When Daryl and Skye encounter a Nekomata, it raises some nearby skeletons to go and fight them. | |
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Corpse Bride. The inhabitants of the Underworld are either zombie-like or skeletal. Not that that makes them any less fun to hang around. | |
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In True Tail, Eldritch the Necromancer has an army of skeletons that are on green fire! | |
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Forest Kingdom: In book 2 (Blood and Honor), early on, Jordan and his escorts are confronted by Bloody Bones, a Transient Being in the form of a nine-foot, bloody (and blood-drinking) skeleton. Luckily, the knight Gawaine has an Anti-Magic axe that allows him to dispatch the monster, and they plan to dump the skull in a body of water some distance away to ensure he can't come back. | |
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Horrorman and Horako from Anpanman. Horrorman's a pretty nice guy (at least, when he's on the heroes' side) and Horako's a sweet little girl... even though her imagination has a tendency to go over the top and she's actually a sea princess. | |
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Fairy Tail ZERØ: The dragon skeleton of Blue Skull is an example of this. Once under the Sirius Orb's influence, it ultimately becomes a Dracolich. | |
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The Dresden Files is borderline - there's Bob the Skull, a spirit who lives inside a skull, but it is merely a casing, and Bob leaves it when he needs mobility. When a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton was reanimated in book 7 "Dead Beat"; the higher quality a reanimated being, the more life-like they appear. (broadly) | |
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De Griezelbus: The driver of the Griezelbus is a skeleton named Beentjes. While initially he appeared to be a creation of Onnoval, he is later revealed to be his formerly living best friend. | |
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Dokuro Skull of The World God Only Knows is this after having cast away her flesh to create New Hell. | |
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SCP Foundation has several skeletons, including the sad and scary case of SCP-3114. It's an animated skeleton and kills and skins any human or humanoid creature it comes into contact with and tries to wear it. When exposed to a simple border collie, 3114 was friendly to the dog and they played together for two hours before the dog was removed without incident. When exposed to an articulated skeleton for medical teaching, 3114 approaches and seems hopeful for a moment and then dejected when it realises the skeleton isn't alive. Finally, when it obtains a cadaver that fits perfectly and attempts to interact with a D-Class prisoner, it reacts with no hostility and even tries to hug him; when the (very disturbed) D-Class is recalled, 3114 stares at the door for a moment and then tears the skin off and kicks it into the corner and then lies down to "sleep" for several days before returning to its old behaviour. 3114 is just a confused and frustrated creature desperate to belong. | |
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The hermit's ghost in The Castle of Otranto. | |
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The title character from Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san is drawn as a skeleton (an entire one, not just a Skull for a Head like the title indicates). He isn't literally a skeleton though, he's a human in an entirely mundane setting. | |
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Crowns of the Kingdom has the skeletons on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, which come to life and attack the heroes. | |
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The Last Unicorn: A talking, wise-cracking skeleton appears. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! Ryuji Otogi used a few skeletal monsters in his Dungeon Dice Monsters game, including The 13th Grave and Dark Assailant. (Unfortunately, the card game equivalents of these cards are pretty bad.) | |
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Charby the Vampirate: When K'ale gets arrested and imprisoned by King Samrick, his cellmate is a talking skeleton. | |
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Nedroid has a skeleton whose name is unpronounceable by above worlders, but you can call him Ethan. (His ex does.) | |
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Halloweentown has a wisecracking skeleton, Benny, drive the local taxi. | |
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Pierre Tombal: In this Black Comedy comic book about a gravedigger at his local cemetery all dead bodies are living skeletons who spent their afterlife on the cemetery and are treated as residents. Usually they spent their activities underground. | |
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Readalong: One of the characters introduced during the show's run was Mr. Bones, a skeleton who would sing songs in the style of "Dem Bones". | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Season 1 gives us Bones, who was the first monster the Rangers fought. Season 3 gives us Rita Repulsa's halfwit brother Rito Revoltonote One might say, he was a real bonehead., who's based on Gasha Dokuro from Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, who's in turn based on an actual creature in Japanese folklore described in the Mythology and Religion folder. | |
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In User Unfriendly, one of the enemies the heroes face is a giant rat skeleton. | |
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Planescape has "mimirs", recording devices shaped like metallic skulls. | |
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Dreamscape: The Master of the Dammed is a Lean and Mean living skeleton. The Overlord of Evil's a living skeleton with Creepily Long Arms wearing tattered robes. |
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Homestuck: In the Alpha kids' void sessions, the Underlings — normally living fantasy monsters — take the form of animated skeletons that haunt the session's graveyard planets. After they're killed, the bones just reassemble, making them almost impossible to permanently kill. | |
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Key antagonists in the battle on the Plains of Death in With Strings Attached. Paul loves them because destroying them doesn't compromise his Actual Pacifism]. | |
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Mr. Bones, a man whose body is invisible except for his skeleton, has been a recurring Infinity, Inc. villain, before his Heel–Face Turn, at which time he briefly joined Infinity Inc. Currently he's the morally grey Director of the Department of Extranormal Operations. | |
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In Overlord, main character Ainz Ooal Gown is a skeleton — a Lich, to be more exact. Well, to be even more exact, he is a regular guy permanently stuck in the body and world of his video game character, but that's beside the point. Of course, as a godlike Necromancer Sorcerous Overlord, he also has legions of skeletal minions at his beck and call. | |
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The title character from Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon is a living skeleton who was brought back to life by a necromancer. One of the Driving Questions of the manhwa is who he was in life before being revived. | |
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The Order of the Stick: The Big Bad is a lich, Xykon. At one point, decoys of him are created by reanimating other powerful, free-willed forms of skeletal undead and sticking them in similar robes. | |
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The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time: The appropriately named Bone Man is one of the first undead our protagonist creates, and while at first he's not much stronger than the average skeleton, in time he grows to be one of the deadlier fighters under Vandalieu's command. Funny thing is his skeleton was possessed by mice spirits who were given human-level sentience. | |
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The Boneys in Warm Bodies are zombie skeletons. | |
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There are living skeletons in Xanth. Some are the spirits of people who starved to death while their minds were trapped in the Gourd Realm. Others are their descendants. All of them need to acquire a part of a soul to spend much time in Xanth proper. | |
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Digimon Adventure: SkullGreymon is giant, freakily shaped dinosaur skeleton that launches fish-looking rockets from its back. SkullGreymon is one of Greymon's evolutions and it returns in Digimon Adventure 02. | |
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Solomon Kane: In "Rattle of Bones", the skeleton of a murdered sorcerer returns to exact vengeance on the man who murdered him. | |
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Sid is a walking, talking skeleton in Family Skeleton Mysteries. | |
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The Back o' Beyond: Baines is a lich (he seems to take offense at being called a skeleton) and a pirate. | |
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The Asterisk War: Gustave Malraux, an Enemy Summoner who specializes in beasts out of Classical Mythology, uses "dragons' teeth" to summon the Spartoi as they were depicted in the film Jason and the Argonauts. They're no match whatsoever for Kirin Toudou, who has added techniques to deal with multiple enemies to her repertoire. | |
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Horohoro from Galaxy Express 999 episode "The Skeleton's Song"; after having his heart broken by the woman he was in love with, he slowly lost one part of his body every time she betrayed him until he was reduced to a living skeleton with a hole in place of his ribcage. | |
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The Crawling King contains plenty of illustrations of living skeletons. From one of a frog riding a dog skeleton, to a story of a woman whose skeleton leaves her body. | |
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His adaptation of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children contains a scene featuring re-animated skeletons, in a homage to the works of Ray Harryhausen, particularly Jason and the Argonauts. | |
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Zigzagged with Ghost Rider, whose skeleton form is largely Depending on the Artist. In more than a few comics, only the head is a burning skull and rest is normal, see 1,000,000 BC Ghost Rider. Yet the majority of the time the riders e.g Johnny Blaze have their bodies become skeletons as well as revealed by Clothing Damage or the Marvel Swimsuit Special. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: A variety of skeletons exist, displaying different levels of power and intelligence. They're usually the result of spellcasters using necromancy, but a few have been known to spontaneously awaken in places of evil. Usually. Of course, there are also liches and their variants (archlich, baelnorn, banelich, master lich). The Basic Set of the first version of D&D had 4 kinds of golems, one of these was the Bone Golem which was a skeleton with 4 arms. The Dracolich is an undead evil dragon that has combines the powers of a dragon and a lich. While their description does not specifically say they have to be skeletal, most are depicted as such. While most settings are full of undead, Forgotten Realms is especially fond of this theme and has the remarkable collection of unusual bones. For example, there lived — until she tried to raid a big temple of the god of wizardry, that is — Tashara of the Seven Skulls, who seduced and tricked into becoming spellcasting flying skulls (under her control) seven archmages, one after another. There's even one city openly ruled by floating skulls (no, not Tashara's seven). Realms is also the origin of the baelnorn and banelich. Eberron: The setting's "evil, schmevil" attitude (it subverts the Always Chaotic Evil trope hard) means that a nation like Karrnath can have a significant portion of its army composed entirely of skeletons, and nobody thinks any differently about them because of it. Planescape has "mimirs", recording devices shaped like metallic skulls. Ravenloft: The original products had a number of variants of this trope, such as archer skeletons whose ammo turns into more skeletons, or giant skeletons (enlarged human bones) that toss fireballs from the green flames ablaze inside their ribcages. Arthaus's Van Richten's Guide to the Walking Dead has guidelines for customizing the Obedient Dead with all sorts of creepy abilities. The Demilich is a lich who had decided to leave his/her phylactery and use astral projection to learn from other realms. All that's left is a weathered skull or skeletal hand that skill can dish out a world of hurt by sucking the souls of anyone who bothers them or summoning Demiliches, six inch tall/long magic roaches with Skull for a Head. By the thousands. Apart from the lich, D&D featured many other skeletal sentient undead, like the Death Knight (skeletal warrior), the Huecuva (skeletal divine spellcaster), or skeletal Ancient Dead (variant of the Mummy from the Ravenloft setting). It should also be noted that, in 3rd edition anyway, just about anything with bones that isn't already dead can be turned into Dem Bones through application of the Skeleton template. This includes everything from normal humanoids, to dragons, to bizarre aberrations with bone structures such have never been seen by mortal eyes. |
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The titular character of the Skulduggery Pleasant books is a centuries old living skeleton. The secondary protagonist, when being introduced to the supernatural for the first time, actually points out that he has no muscles to move with or lungs to speak with and asks how he works. He is rather disgruntled and gives the simple answer "it's magic". Later on, she wonders if he can whistle without lungs (he can). He's also entirely unique, with how he ended up like that being a long running question. The answer is that Skulduggery was naturally magically ambidextrous, with vast potential as a Necromancer as well as an Elemental. The necromancer who discovered that potential took the chance to install a failsafe in the Red Right Hand of Skulduggery's arch-enemy so it wouldn't quite kill him, because he was curious to see what would happen. The answer was an extremely angry living skeleton turned necromancer better known as 'Lord Vile'. | |
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In The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #33-34, an Evil Sorcerer raises a skeletal army of Viking warriors to kill Indy, or—at the very least—keep him occupied until the soccer's evil ritual is completed. | |
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On the virtual pets game Neopets, the old Pirate Kiko◊ was one of these. | |
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Berserk: In Episode 2 of the Black Swordsman Arc, "The Brand", the evil spirits attracted to Guts' Brand Of Sacrifice possess the skeletal corpses of warriors who died at an old battlefield and use them to attack. The Skull Knight also appears to be an armor-wearing undead skeleton, although since he is the most powerful known being opposing the Godhand, he is actually the closest thing the series has to a Big Good. | |
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Beetlejuice includes the charred ghost of a man who died in a house fire caused by his own smoking addiction. | |
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LEGO features skeleton minifigures in various series, primarily in LEGO Castle, LEGO The Lord of the Rings and Ninjago. | |
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While most settings are full of undead, Forgotten Realms is especially fond of this theme and has the remarkable collection of unusual bones. For example, there lived — until she tried to raid a big temple of the god of wizardry, that is — Tashara of the Seven Skulls, who seduced and tricked into becoming spellcasting flying skulls (under her control) seven archmages, one after another. There's even one city openly ruled by floating skulls (no, not Tashara's seven). Realms is also the origin of the baelnorn and banelich. | |
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The Black Cat's Lair: Skelly is a walking skeleton wearing only a bonnet. | |
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Monster Warriors: Von Steinhauer unleashes a gang of animate skeletons upon Capital City in "Last Ride of the Skeleton Crew" and "The Skeleton Crew Rides Again". | |
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Sweet & Bitter Magic: Arwyn has an army of skeletal animals under her control who she uses while hunting down criminal witches. They are incredibly creepy and very frightening to Wren. | |
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Mudon from Ultraman Cosmos was an animated dinosaur skeleton that sought to reunite with its lost child after millions of years of separation. | |
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The Goodies. In one episode the Goodies are operating their own hospital. Graham gets a patient to step behind an X-Ray screen, which naturally displays his skeleton. The skeleton then walks out from the other side of the screen, causing Graham to flee in terror (this scene is included in Title Sequence). | |
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The B-17 segment of Heavy Metal has the Loc-Nar reanimate dead crew of the B-17 as skeletons, melting away the flesh in the process, which have Super-Strength and crave human flesh. Its influence spreads to a Derelict Graveyard on an island, reanimating the pilots' bodies to corner the B-17's pilot in a Bolivian Army Ending. | |
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From Skeleton Knight in Another World, we have Arc, a gamer whose avatar is an armored knight who happens to be a skeleton. | |
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In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm Queen of the Dead, Francis starts terrorizing L.A. with his undead army of empowered skeletons. | |
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In Pretty Deadly, the entire story is being narrated by Bones Bunny, a skeletal bunny. In addition, Death is a skeleton (not with a human skull, but rather an animal one). | |
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Girl Genius: A group of Martellus' knights are stripped to the bone by an attack which animates their remains to be loyal servants to the user. | |
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Shows up a few times throughout the course of The Adventure Zone: Balance: Kravitz's skeletal form, which is supposedly what inspired The Grim Reaper mythos throughout the planar system which includes our world, as well. The Red Robe is a spectral skeleton that stalks the Tres Horny Boys throughout their adventures, from "Petals to the Metal" to "The Suffering Game". This is actually Barry Bluejeans's lich form, see below. All liches have a spectral, skeletal form that appears when they are killed or otherwise removed from their bodies, such as via the Animus Bell. It is also visible in the Ethereal Plane. Edward and Lydia both show theirs off in "The Suffering Game", and Lup is in hers when she returns in "Story and Song". Barry's is shown throughout most of the series as the "Red Robe". The skeletal pirates that the Tres Horny Boys, Davenport, and Kravitz, Barry, and Lup team up to take down in the San Francisco Live Show. |
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The Onion depicts some Stupid Archaeologists believing that they have uncovered a village of skeleton people. | |
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Geoff Peterson of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, clad in a suit, mohawk, and The Price Is Right name-tag. | |
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In one crossover, Savage Dragon and Hellboy fought the undead skeletons of pirates while inside of a giant sea monster. | |
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In the Superman story The Jungle Line, the Man of Steel is attacked by the skeletons of some species of mammoth-like Kryptonian beast during one hallucination. | |
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Buster Keel! has the skeletal army summoned by Jack Bone. | |
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Godforsaken: Skeletons are the most common servants of Crumellia the necromancer. Some are human, many belong to the extinct sapients that once ruled Flevame, many more are animal, and quite a lot resemble nothing that ever lived and were likely created by Crumilia as macabre works of art from bits and pieces of other things. For the most part they are little more than mindless automatons. | |
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Tricky from Madness Combat become a giant dragon-skeleton thing in Expurgation, he also spawn an army of black skeletons who later sports his clown haircut. Tricky himself looks like one of these skeletons mook while in Auditor's hell except he wears the halo and has glowing eyes. | |
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Kingdom's Disdain: Mad Crossbone's "bone boys". He and Cardinal achieve infamy by having them pull their chariot. | |
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Most of the "Deadite" army in Army of Darkness. Evil Ash ends up this way (sans his eyes) after Ash sets him on fire. | |
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Similarly to Mr. Bones, Tom Strong had a minor villain named Charlie Bones, a gangster with invisible flesh who was supposedly the first villain Tom fought after coming to the USA. | |
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Shonen Sarutobi Sasuke: As she keeps exhausting her powers against Sasuke during the final battle, Yakusha transforms from someone who at least appears human into a decrepit old woman and then into an animated skeleton that ultimately falls to pieces when she gets a dagger in the skull. | |
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The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. The Skeleton was later re-used in Jason and the Argonauts. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the crew of the Black Pearl are revealed as being skeletons when exposed to moonlight, primarily to provide the most contrast from their normal appearance as ordinary (but immortal) people. | |
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One Piece: In the Thriller Bark arc, the Straw Hats meet Brook, who's eaten a Devil Fruit that lets him come back to life once. But due to the fog in the area he was in, he got lost on his way back to his mortal body. By the time he found it, it was nothing but bones. Although initially freaked out by his own appearance, he eventually adapted and grew a habit of making puns about it. Constantly. He also came to discover that being a skeleton has surprising advantages over being made of flesh, such as making him a lot faster and lighter. He eventually joins the crew as their musician and second swordsman. | |
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In "Clubland Heroes", one of the Splendid Six's adventures involves an army of skeletal warriors animated by a geas. | |
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In The DCU event Blackest Night event, black power rings re-animate dead characters, typically making them look like slightly-decayed versions of their former selves. The body of Boston Brand, aka Deadman, however, had been dead so long that his Black Lantern version is little more than a skeleton with a black version of his costume stretched over it. In some stories (most notably, Kingdom Come), Deadman's ghostly form also appears significantly more skeletal than usual. | |
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Oddly enough, in their very first appearance in the very first book, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the skeletons are depicted as labourers building a boat for the titular warlock, with armed warrior-skeletons only appearing afterwards. | |
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Nine Goblins: The cervidians, magical creatures which resemble animate deer skeletons, are very similar to this. Except they're specifically noted to still be ALIVE somehow, the bones held together with a fine organic webbing. They're not actually evil, but are distinctly sinister and are drawn to magical disturbances. | |
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Many of the zombies that attack the Evers in The Haunted Mansion (2003). | |
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Ultraman R/B: The first monster of the show is Grigrio Bone, a red skeletal kaiju. Unlike the other three mentioned above, this one is a hostile and dangerous monster. | |
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The Bible had the story of Ezekiel and the Valley of the Dry Bones that came to life and inspired the Trope Namer "Dry Bones"/"Dem Bones" song. The trope-naming song is based on a Biblical incident involving Ezekiel, who was told by God to create an army of these things with a prophecy. The Bible is surprisingly metal, in places. The bones are immediately given flesh and souls during their resurrections, instead of being a literal skeleton army like those created by Ray Harryhausen. | |
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Zelda from the original Svengoolie and Zalman T. Tombstone in Son of Svengoolie. Both are floating skulls. Zelda had '80s Hair (despite being from the early 1970s). | |
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The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra has this. Of course, since it's an Affectionate Parody of cheesy movies from The '50s, there's probably a number of straight examples from that era that no one really remembers. | |
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In Magic: The Gathering, skeletons are closely tied to the "regenerate" mechanic. Most creatures with the Skeleton creature type have an ability that allows them to keep fighting after they've been destroyed, a tradition that began in the very first expansion with Drudge Skeletons. (Ordinary undead minions that don't regenerate are typically classified as regular Zombies instead.) Skeletal Grimace has a ghoulcaller pointing out that everyone has a skeleton inside them already...and there's no real need to wait for someone to die first before controlling it. The card grants a minor power and toughness boost to the enchanted creature and a "regenerate" mechanic just like that of skeleton creatures'. | |
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The review and comedy series, Professor Shadow has the reoccurring character, Joe. A gun crazy skeleton with an immature sense of humor. | |
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In the Motu Patlu episode "Bhoot Bangla", Motu and Patlu go to a mansion that is said to be haunted and, sure enough, among the things they find in it are walking, talking skeletons. They're actually being controlled by Jon the Don in an attempt to scare the duo. | |
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Ravenloft: The original products had a number of variants of this trope, such as archer skeletons whose ammo turns into more skeletons, or giant skeletons (enlarged human bones) that toss fireballs from the green flames ablaze inside their ribcages. Arthaus's Van Richten's Guide to the Walking Dead has guidelines for customizing the Obedient Dead with all sorts of creepy abilities. | |
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Docky from Midnight Horror School, while not a real skeleton, is a plastic skeleton. Also a majority of the school's faculty are living skeletons. | |
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In Episode 5 of Jemjammer (aptly titled "Ghost Ship"), The Kestrel encounters a ship crewed by animated skeletons. | |
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Ultra Series examples: One episode of Ultraman had a Monster of the Week named Seabozu, a skeletal dinosaur-like creature that accidentally ended up on Earth when a rocket passing through the Monster Graveyard brought it back. Unlike most, it was completely harmless as it only sought to return to its grave and eternal rest, so Science Patrol had to help it get back into space. Return of Ultraman had Stegon, the animated skeleton of a sauropod-like kaiju from the Mesozoic that went on a rampage after its grave was disturbed by construction workers. Mudon from Ultraman Cosmos was an animated dinosaur skeleton that sought to reunite with its lost child after millions of years of separation. Ultraman R/B: The first monster of the show is Grigrio Bone, a red skeletal kaiju. Unlike the other three mentioned above, this one is a hostile and dangerous monster. |
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In the fourth season finale of Game of Thrones, The Children, the Wights that attack Bran & his party beyond the Wall have only their bones left. | |
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In Bizarrogirl, Supergirl suffers several nightmares where her enemy Superwoman, her parents and all deceased Kryptonians turn into walking, rag-wearing skeletons and try to drag her down into Hell. | |
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Kings of War uses skeletons in much the same role, in much the same army, alongside the slightly less expendable, slightly better-dressed skeletons known as Revenants. | |
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The Dark Eye: Skeletons are a very common type of undead, routinely created by necromancers who want cheap, plentiful troops without having to put up with the decomposition, clumsiness and bad smell of zombies. They are quicker and more agile than the walking corpses, although they're vulnerable to blunt weapons as these can shatter their bones. | |
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St. Bear's Dolls Hospital: In one episode, Nurse Penny found a living skeleton in a closet at the hospital, and assumed it was a patient that the staff had been ignoring. She became very concerned about the visiting inspector seeing it and assuming that the staff haven't been doing their job properly. When the inspector does see the skeleton, however, she clears up that the skeleton's a piece of teaching equipment. | |
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Averted by The Axis of Awesome with "Skeleton Man" who is part man, part skeleton. Like everyone. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Floating servo-skulls — although they're robotic rather than undead. Not to mention the Necrons. No really, don't mention them, they aren't this trope. They are robots shaped like skeletons that function as Soul Jars for an ancient alien race. |
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In Living Color!. Jim Carrey riffs how the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series are getting too old for the movies. Captain Kirk calls for Bones to come to the bridge, only to find he really lives up to his name this time. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Grace encounters some skeleton NPCs during the "Fantasy Wasteland" storyline. | |
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The Keeper Wants to Build a Zoo in Another World, so He Tames Monsters: Two kids, Mensh and Gwena, accidentally awaken a bunch of murderous skeleton warriors, only to be saved by Merou, Ikuhara, and Cerberus. According to Merou, they're manifestations of magic rather than animated human bodies. A Gashadokuro appears as well. | |
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Unsounded's Duane Adelier is a rare heroic example: a former rector and family man who died six years before the story begins and continues to inhabit his body via unknown means, which he hides with heavy clothing and glamours. His mind and his formidable magical skill are intact but his body decomposes at the normal rate; his tongue and eyes are magical prostheses and he scavenges pieces from cadavers to replace limbs that get too damaged. He strips the meat off those pieces for his own comfort: feeling them rot is really unpleasant for him. | |
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In Delicious in Dungeon, walking skeletons are a type of monster that can be found in the titular dungeon. They occur when a dead body is possessed by a wandering spirit and, because the ghost inhabiting it isn't the right one, the flesh rots off. | |
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Roys Bedoys: Maker dresses as a skeleton for Halloween in “Let’s Go Trick-or-Treating, Roys Bedoys!�. | |
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Lewis from Mystery Skulls Animated is a suit wearing skeleton ghost with magenta fire for hair. | |
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Inverted in the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories: "Lankhmar Ghouls" are perfectly normal, living, breathing humanoids who just happen to have invisible body tissues—except for their bones. | |
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Crüe Ball has the Bad Bones, legless Skeletons that wander the playfield. | |
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In Tragg and the Sky Gods #9, the Necromancer Ostellon, Master of the Living Bones reanimates the skeletons of the tribe that used to inhabit the caves that Tragg's tribe have just moved into and uses them to attack Keera | |
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In Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain, the titular mountain's entrance is guarded by flying skeletons of dead soldiers, achieved by some impressive wire-work effects. | |
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Beyond the Canopy: Skeletons are the Baron's standard mooks. They're intelligent, and seem to have individual personalities. | |
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The Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Smurphony Of The Night" has Empath and Smurfette dealing with an army of Smurf skeletons brought to life in order to stop them from escaping Castle Smurfenstein. | |
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Exploited in Nan Quest. The Pilgrim looks like an example of this, but is actually just a squishy human wearing a costume — precisely because it makes people assume they're an invincible skeleton. It works, too — players occasionally made suggestions that would have actually worked, such as strangling him with his own noose, only to be shot down by other players saying something to the effect of "He's a skeleton, are you crazy?" | |
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In the first installment of Samhain Island it is revealed that Vanessa Vargas is a skeleton, more specifically the esteemed Santa Muerte. | |
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Bone constructs are everywhere in the Empire of necromancers of The Locked Tomb series, but are the Ninth House's specialty. | |
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One episode of Ultraman had a Monster of the Week named Seabozu, a skeletal dinosaur-like creature that accidentally ended up on Earth when a rocket passing through the Monster Graveyard brought it back. Unlike most, it was completely harmless as it only sought to return to its grave and eternal rest, so Science Patrol had to help it get back into space. | |
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Night at the Museum features a skeletal T-rex, which was reanimated with the Egyptian tablet like everything else in the movie. | |
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The Cauldron Born in The Black Cauldron. In the book, they were more like zombie bodybuilders. | |
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One of the most infamous monsters encountered by Sun Wukong and company in Journey to the West was the White Bone Demon, a living skeleton creature who impersonates innocent humans. Wukong sees through each disguise easily thanks to his powers, but Xuanzang is fooled and eventually banishes Wukong after one too many "innocents" are killed. | |
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In Agents of Atlas, the organization fights mobile skeletons so much it borders on a Running Gag. | |
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In A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Freddy's bones come to life when the characters try to give him a proper burial. | |
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In RWBY (2015), the body of the Cephalopod looks like a giant horned skull. | |
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In The Book of Life, both La Muerte and the Spirits of the Dead are based on calacas, skeleton figures which are decorated on The Day of the Dead, specifically the ones made out of candy. In particular, La Muerte’s overall design in particular is inspired by the iconic La Calavera Catrina of Mexican culture. | |
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At the beginning of The Phantom, one of the bad guys gets killed by a skeleton that comes to life and chokes him. | |
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A Mage's Power: There are many skeletons in the sewers beneath Roalt and they are animated by a combination of ambient mana and lingering spiritual power. Dengel suggests that they are the remains of past adventurers, and stupid people on dares. Eric has to blow them up to stop them. | |
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I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson: "And it was also the night that the skeletons came to liiiiife!"note They'll pull your hair up, but not out. | |
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The vampiress Velanna from Sixes and Sevens uses halberd-wielding skeletons reanimated from the bones of her meals in one of her attacks against van Helsing and Victoria. | |
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Our Little Adventure is set in an RPG Mechanics 'Verse and has both regular mindless skeleton minions and the Bone, skeletal undead who retain the minds and skills they had in life. Some of them are extremely unhappy about this. | |
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A Gashadokuro appears in Kubo and the Two Strings. It guards the Sword Unbreakable, which is embedded in his skull, along with dozens of regular swords. Removing it causes the Gashadokuro to fall apart. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Tabula Rasa" a spell causes the Scooby Gang to lose their memories. Anya begins to try various spells in the hopes of reversing it, at one point conjuring up a skeletal swordsman which Giles fences with, all while shouting at Anya to 'try another book'. In "Gone" after Buffy reveals to her friends that she's been turned invisible, she picks up a skull and works the jaw to mimic what she's saying. |
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Conan the Barbarian: In "The Valley of the Howling Shadows" (The Savage Sword of Conan #118, November 1985), Conan and his followers meet a group of talking and walking skeletons. The skeletons are the nicest and friendliest characters in the entire story, but their dialogue creeps Conan out. They claim that Conan looks familiar to them, suspect that they have seen him before, and ask him whether he is related to them through their families. They also indicate that they would like to know him better. Conan retreats quickly. Notably, for most of the scene, the skeletons pay no attention to the other characters present. | |
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All That had Dead Spice in the "Spice Boys" skits. He was literally just a skeleton in clothing that never did or said anything, although he does move his arms a few times and it's implied he really is alive. At one point the fans are happy when they manage to steal one of his arms. | |
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In 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night, the player must hit various animated skeletons to return them to their dungeon cells. | |
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Shiro from Shakugan no Shana. His true form, though, is a Bishōnen. | |
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The Return of the Living Dead features a brief but memorable scene where a reanimated skeleton rises from a grave. It's never seen again after that. There is also Tarman, a prominently-featured zombie so decayed he's a skeleton held together with rotting muscle tissue and a thick black substance (hence the word “tar� in his name) ; unlike the skeleton, different Tarman zombies show up in two more films, albeit with designs of lesser quality compared to the original. | |
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The Three Stooges encounter one of these in The Ghost Talks. | |
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Looking for Group: Richard summons up some skeletons to aid in battle. What makes this really stand out is that the skeletons were ''borrowed'' from a few enemy soldiers, while they were still alive. | |
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Morborgran of Negima! Magister Negi Magi, the massive, Multi-Armed and Dangerous, skeletal demon member of the Canis Niger bounty hunters in the Magic World. He's actually a pretty friendly guy, though with a bit of a complex about his appearance. | |
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Fesxis from Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues is an otherwordly being whose appearance is noted to be similar to a human skeleton with a doe skull. The actual composition of her body seems closer to chitin than bone. | |
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Mage: The Awakening has these as a variation on the standard Animate Dead spell. The corpse's connective tissue and some of its flesh is transmuted into razor-edged metal plated around the bones (giving it damage resistance and a better attack) and it rips its way out of the rest of the flesh. It was invented by a member of a Black Metal band whose bandmates promptly declared the spell to be metal as hell. | |
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Similarly, in Coco, the inhabitants of the Land of the Dead are walking, talking, clothed skeletons with colorful facial markings like those found on sugar skulls. They can detach their bones from their bodies with no ill effects and their body parts can move independently even when not attached to their bodies. Lampshaded when one of the customs officials in the Land of the Dead is allergic to Dante, the Mexican Hairless dog: |
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy has Honorius, a powerful and murderously insane Afrit. Instead of manifesting himself in a physical form like most magical creatures, Honorius' essence is instead infused into the skeleton of the long-dead magician president Gladstone. He basically acts as a "living" security system against people trying to pilfer the mage's tomb, who open it up only to see the skeleton spring up and brutally obliterate them. | |
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Such a skeleton appears at the climax of House on Haunted Hill (1959). It's less elaborate than the above examples though, which is ultimately justified because it's a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax, operated by Vincent Price's character. In theaters, it was originally set up to have a plastic skeleton on wires fly over the audience, but it posed a tempting target to kids with slingshots and other projectiles. | |
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Dragon Dice: Skeletons are one of the basic undead troop types — they move faster than zombies, but do less damage and are less capable of absorbing damage. | |
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In the first book of The Kingdom Keepers series, one of Maleficent's tricks is bringing the fake T-Rex fossil at Big Thunder Mountain Railroad to life in an attempt to do away with Finn and Philby. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, there is the Wight archetype. Originally, this was nothing more than Skull Servant, a Joke Item at best, as it was weak and had no real function (aside from a few Fusion Monsters who were equally bad) but eventually, cards were introduced to make it playable, like King of the Skull Servants, The Lady in Wight, Wightmare, and Wightprince. | |
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In the Merlin episode "The Tears of Uther Pendragon", Morgana raises skeleton warriors to fight Arthur and the Knights of Camelot, who are already in battle against (human) invading forces. | |
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LEGO Games: Skeletons are among the minifigures you can find in Monster 4. You use them as wild cards; they act as one of the monsters you are placing in a row. The game's official description says the monsters play with the skeletons, implying sentience. | |
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The Sock series features a gigantic skeletal hell being that walks on its two arms. In Empire of Sock, we see there are multiple of them. | |
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Jack Skellington, of The Nightmare Before Christmas is, well, a skeleton. He's the hero, so that's OK. | |
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In the prologue to Wishmaster, one of the Persians has his skeleton erupt out of his body and then go on a killing spree. | |
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Carnies: Part of the cast. | |
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Return of Ultraman had Stegon, the animated skeleton of a sauropod-like kaiju from the Mesozoic that went on a rampage after its grave was disturbed by construction workers. | |
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Skeletons are a reoccurring enemy type in the Fighting Fantasy series of books, with notable villains such as Zanbar Bone (City of Thieves (1983)), Razaak (Crypt of the Sorcerer), Chancellor Unthank (Night of the Necromancer) and Mencius (Magehunter) capable of summoning skeleton warriors as mooks to deal with the players. Oddly enough, in their very first appearance in the very first book, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the skeletons are depicted as labourers building a boat for the titular warlock, with armed warrior-skeletons only appearing afterwards. And in two pirate-themed adventures, Demons of the Deep and Bloodbones, you can actually summon skeleton warriors on your side to help you battle enemy pirates. |
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Lost in a Harem: While in the palace cell, Harvey runs into a skeleton chained to the wall, which briefly talks to him and freaks him out. | |
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