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Grave Robbing
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A grave robber digs up a grave or breaks into a crypt or mausoleum to steal the corpse inside, whether it be for medical research, profit by selling the body to medical researchers (which used to be done by shady professions called Bodysnatchers or Resurrectionists), resurrection of the dead, or... whatever reason. In some situations, this can also include vandalism of the corpse if the robber is trying to make a statement or just feels especially spiteful. This practice is generally frowned upon, to the point that most modern archaeologists have been avoiding burial sites for some time now. Not only is desecrating someone's body after death considered extremely offensive in the vast majority of cultures, it's also pretty gross. Either way, stealing a body from the grave and any items buried with it still counts as theft and is therefore illegal. This is often part of The Igor's job description. Do not confuse with Robbing the Dead, which is the taking of personal belongings from a corpse. It should be noted, however, that the term "grave robbing" is sometimes used to refer to both tropes. |
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In the third season premiere of Pretty Little Liars, someone digs up Alison's grave and steals her body, as well as the mementos her friends buried with her. | |
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On Adventure Time, Finn needs to find princess hair to save his best friend from an evil, balding witch. He winds up in a cemetery and finds a grave belonging to "Princess Beautiful," whom he digs up. It turns out she died of baldness. Also, rather than her spirit being vengeful, her skeleton simply thanks him for freeing her and wanders away. The events of the Adventure Time: Distant Lands special "Together Again" reveals that after Finn and Jake died, Peppermint Butler took their bones without getting their approval. |
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On Penny Dreadful, Victor Frankenstein is recruited to the team from where he'd been earning a living - and acquiring raw materials - assessing and prepping the cadavers brought in by resurrectionists for London's medical schools. | |
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In Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge, Melody wonders if Eric is truly dead, and Peter insists they must exhume his body. When they dig up his coffin, they discover it is empty. | |
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In Star Trek Online, the second expansion Delta Rising revealed that the Kobali, who populate their race by reviving the dead via a special virus who transform them into Kobali, have gone into this, taken fallen Vaadwaur and changing them into Kobali. This angers Harry Kim, as he was never told this. This gets even worse when he finds out that they have the real Harry Kim and are turning him into a Kobali, too. This last incident makes Harry decide to force the Kobali into changing their rules over someone being revived. The Kobali usually don't rob actual graves, but that's because there appears to be limits to how damaged a corpse can be and still be possible to turn into a living Kobali — the main source of Vaadwaur is actually a giant cryostasis facility meant to preserve thousands of Vaadwaur for their eventual return. The Kobali just keep an eye on it and pull out corpses for transformation whenever a cryopod fails. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons Online, as you might imagine, has you visiting quite a few tombs — and given the best way to raise money for maintenance and magic items is to smash apart sarcophagi, one can safely guess that you get to do a lot of this. One of the earliest such quests has you thwarting a grave robbing attempt by Sahuagin and their Devourer cultist allies, who want to raise the dead of the family entombed there as undead to use against the village of Korthos. | |
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Angel ("Just Rewards") When Angel takes over Wolfram & Hart, one of the first things he does is shut down their Interment Acquisitions department. This gets him on the bad side of a powerful necromancer. | |
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In the fourth season of Arrow, Laurel and Thea dig up Sara's body to resurrect her at Nanda Parbat. | |
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House and his team did this once. Obviously a medical benefit, probably for the patient at the time. After all, they're a bit late to provide any benefit to the patient they're digging up. | |
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Taboo: During the time period, it was an unofficial practice among some medical professionals to perform experiments on recently buried, excavated corpses. After James hires a doctor to perform a post-burial autopsy on his father so he can confirm that the man was killed through poison, the latter makes a sly remark that it would be wise to bury him a bit deeper the second time around. James immediately threatens to kill him and any of his colleagues if the body is desecrated in any way. | |
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In Hollow Fields, the story's namesake school has an entire class dedicated to the subject. | |
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Dark Souls features Trusty Patches, an Easily Forgiven graverobber with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, who kicks people into a bottomless pit and loot them, and he hates clerics. | |
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Bloodborne features the Tomb Prospector, a whole clan of Healing Church graverobbers designed to rob the ancient tombs of Pthumeru. | |
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Horrible Histories gives a cheery song about the gruesome activities of historical grave robbers Burke and Hare. | |
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Uncharted, as part of the territory. Lampshaded in Drake's Fortune: | |
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In the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero miniseries "Arise Serpentor Arise" the villains engage in this to obtain the DNA needed to create Serpentor; Sergeant Slaughter even uses the word "grave robber" while insulting them. | |
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In the PC game based on The Mummy (1999), the first levels include tomb raiders as enemies, who will try to murder Rick with pickaxes, presumably so they can eliminate a witness to their thievery. | |
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Harrow: After his request to exhume Chester's body is refused in "Parce Sepulto" ("Forgive the Dead"), Harrow buys a shovel and goes to the graveyard to dig it up himself. | |
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Friday the 13th: The opening dream sequence of Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning features two guys digging up Jason's corpse, and getting killed by him. In Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Jason is accidentally resurrected by lightning when a survivor from the last film digs up his corpse to symbolically kill him with fire. |
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NetHack allows you to rob graves. This has a chance of allowing you to obtain gold and items. This being NetHack, you're just as likely to find an irate mummy or zombie. Grave robbing also has the potential to carry an alignment penalty. | |
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Naruto: How exactly did Tobi get all those Sharingan eyes? And then he's actually shown stealing Nagato's eyes, from his tomb. And then Kabuto doesn't even pretend that he got the bodies and DNA samples that he uses for Edo Tensei, without doing so. He even states "I mean, I was basically grave robbing", and with a smile, no less. |
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The Awful Dr. Orloff: After finding Morpho's fingerprint at a crime scene, Tanner and his assistant dig up Morpho's grave to see if he is really dead and discover it is empty. | |
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In Endstone, Gog and Bolo search here for the missing Lightstone. | |
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Wonder Woman: In Wonder Woman (1942), a mummy whose tomb Etta, Bobby, and Glamora are exploring alongside one of their professors accuses them of being grave robbers before attacking them and doesn't see how the distinction between robber and archeologist is anything more than pedantic. | |
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In Luck Be A Land Lord, Hooligans destroy Urns, Big Urns, and Tombs to release Spirits that give out 6 coins for 4 spins before disappearing. The Grave Robber item also destroys these symbols automatically 66% of the time. | |
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After The Death of Superman, Project Cadmus steals Superman's body after his funeral with the intent of cloning him. A little bit later on, the Eradicator does the same thing when he tries to claim Superman's body and can only create a facsimile. | |
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In Free Fall, some of the robots had to learn the hard way that grave robbing is seen as bad. | |
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In Army of Frankensteins, one of Igor's main duties is securing body parts from graveyards for Mad Scientist Dr. Finski's experiments. | |
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Torture Garden: In "The Man Who Collected Poe", Lancelot Canning reveals that his grandfather was resurrection man who stole bodies to supply medical schools. He also robbed Poe's grave and stole the dust of his mortal remains before using black magic to resurrect him. | |
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Macabre's "Burke and Hare" begins with the two villains starting off as this, then move on to living bodies. | |
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The ghouls in Pickman's Model (and to a lesser extent, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath) rob graves for food. | |
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On Supernatural the most common and effective way to defeat the ghost is by finding the bones and burning them. This will almost always lead to a scene of the boys acting as grave robbers. Technically, they aren't robbing graves, just desecrating them. In-Universe, however, they are accused and charged with grave robbing when the law caught up with them. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Dark Bakura's past self in Ancient Egypt. Some justification in that his start was robbing from the evil kings who sacrifice his village for dark magic. Besides, he was also the self-pronounced "Thief King", and generally believed that it was within his right to steal whatever he wanted. | |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Horror of Frankenstein: Holmes is first alerted to the case when a string of grave robberies escalates to murder. He is further intrigued when he learns that all of the graves belonged to women of noble lineage, and that only the bodies were taken: leaving behind the valuables, and even the clothes the bodies were dressed in. | |
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell opens with Dr. Helder's alcoholic assistant digging up a corpse and meeting a constable, which leads to Simon getting caught and being sent to an asylum. | |
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Forever Knight. In "Ashes to Ashes", a modern graverobber breaks the seal of Ra on a sacrophagus in Eygpt. It doesn't end well for him or anyone else. | |
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The opening dream sequence of Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning features two guys digging up Jason's corpse, and getting killed by him. | |
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You can find a band of gravediggers in World of Warcraft in Duskwood as a Rare Mob Encounter. If you listen to them talk long enough they complain about how it's okay for adventurers to loot corpses (that they made) while they're abhorrent for doing it to corpses that have been sitting around rotting for a while. | |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: This is what Dr. Robinson, Injun Joe, and Muff Potter are doing in the graveyard (presumably for medical research, as the ringleader is a doctor) until Joe murders Robinson and frames Muff. | |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_4fae3df1 | |
Grave Robbing / int_5089c018 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_5089c018 | comment |
The events of the Adventure Time: Distant Lands special "Together Again" reveals that after Finn and Jake died, Peppermint Butler took their bones without getting their approval. | |
Grave Robbing / int_5089c018 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Grave Robbing / int_5089c018 | featureConfidence |
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Adventure Time: Distant Lands | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_5089c018 | |
Grave Robbing / int_5144055f | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_5144055f | comment |
Guybrush does this in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge in order to make a voodoo doll of Largo. The scene is complete with thunder and lightning accompanied by swelling musical dread, ending with Guybrush hoisting the stolen item over his head while his pants fall to his ankles. | |
Grave Robbing / int_5144055f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Grave Robbing / int_5144055f | featureConfidence |
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_5144055f | |
Grave Robbing / int_52155112 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_52155112 | comment |
In The Flesh and the Fiends, Burke and Hare begin as 'resurrectionists'—stealing bodies from graveyards to sell to medical schools—before they decide that murdering Disposable Vagrants will provide them with a much more steady supply. | |
Grave Robbing / int_52155112 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Grave Robbing / int_52155112 | featureConfidence |
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The Flesh and the Fiends | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_52155112 | |
Grave Robbing / int_54277b38 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_54277b38 | comment |
On Deadwood it came up during one of the town meetings that Doc Cochran had been arrested for grave robbing, presumably For Science!. | |
Grave Robbing / int_54277b38 | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_54277b38 | featureConfidence |
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Deadwood | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_54277b38 | |
Grave Robbing / int_543bfacd | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_543bfacd | comment |
Committed a couple times by the protagonists of Dracula, since vampires sleep in their coffins. Some of them really take issue with it at first. | |
Grave Robbing / int_543bfacd | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_543bfacd | featureConfidence |
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Dracula | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_543bfacd | |
Grave Robbing / int_55252fe6 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_55252fe6 | comment |
The Gravedancers: The protagonists break into the cemetery and dig up the remains of those haunting them, so they can rebury them and lay them to rest properly. | |
Grave Robbing / int_55252fe6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Grave Robbing / int_55252fe6 | featureConfidence |
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The Gravedancers | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_55252fe6 | |
Grave Robbing / int_5908ee91 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_5908ee91 | comment |
In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, if you are a Necromancer yourself and learn both Dead Thrall and The Ritual Stone, you can recruit the corpses from ancient tombs to your service, in addition to just taking their gold. | |
Grave Robbing / int_5908ee91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Grave Robbing / int_5908ee91 | featureConfidence |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_5908ee91 | |
Grave Robbing / int_59da62aa | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_59da62aa | comment |
Fallout: New Vegas also allows players to do this if they have a shovel in their inventory. No significant consequences are attached but what loot there is to be found is usually pretty mild (a few meds, some ammo, or maybe a damaged weapon) | |
Grave Robbing / int_59da62aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Grave Robbing / int_59da62aa | featureConfidence |
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Fallout: New Vegas (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_59da62aa | |
Grave Robbing / int_5bd9e7b7 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_5bd9e7b7 | comment |
Dark Souls II features Afflicted Graverobber, The Squadette of a Wolfpack Boss, she looted Alva's Armor and carried two Berserker Blades. | |
Grave Robbing / int_5bd9e7b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Dark Souls II (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_5bd9e7b7 | |
Grave Robbing / int_5e150650 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_5e150650 | comment |
In Exalted, grave robbing is discouraged not only for cultural reasons but also because desecrating a tomb/corpse will unleash a raging Hungry Ghost (one of the person's souls that remains with the body to protect it) on the local area. Powerful people often receive highly secure tombs as much to reduce the chance of anybody angering the resident ghost to protect their valuables and dignity (although lavish tombs also help keep the ghost placated). | |
Grave Robbing / int_5e150650 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Grave Robbing / int_5e150650 | featureConfidence |
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Exalted (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_5e150650 | |
Grave Robbing / int_607332d6 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_607332d6 | comment |
My Brother Cain, My Brother Abel Caleb Wittebane's grave is dug up by his brother in order to make grimwalkers, this not only is devastating to his wife Evelyn, who found comfort in her weekly ritual of visiting her husband's grave but also resulted in Caleb's soul being pulled from Heaven and stuck in limbo for 400 year. | |
Grave Robbing / int_607332d6 | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_607332d6 | featureConfidence |
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My Brother Cain, My Brother Abel (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_607332d6 | |
Grave Robbing / int_61d602c8 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_61d602c8 | comment |
In Murder at Yellowstone City, Thaddeus digs up Robert Dunnigan's body so he can extract the bullet from it to prove that it didn't come from Cicero's gun. | |
Grave Robbing / int_61d602c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Murder at Yellowstone City | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_61d602c8 | |
Grave Robbing / int_64d207c9 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_64d207c9 | comment |
Done adorably in Frankie and Stein when Stein, armed with his book "Grave robbing for Dummies" goes a'hunting for the perfect parts with which to make a friend. | |
Grave Robbing / int_64d207c9 | featureApplicability |
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Frankie and Stein (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_64d207c9 | |
Grave Robbing / int_66a1dcea | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_66a1dcea | comment |
The series is named Tomb Raider. You don't need the manual to figure it out. | |
Grave Robbing / int_66a1dcea | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_66a1dcea | featureConfidence |
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Tomb Raider (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_66a1dcea | |
Grave Robbing / int_6744d821 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_6744d821 | comment |
The Owl House Given the fact that one of the ingredients of the Grimwalkers is 'bone of the ornet' it can be concluded that Belos must have dug up his brother's grave in order to obtain his body. | |
Grave Robbing / int_6744d821 | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_6744d821 | featureConfidence |
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The Owl House | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_6744d821 | |
Grave Robbing / int_6873fde2 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_6873fde2 | comment |
Doctrine of Labyrinths: Resurrectionists have their own Weird Trade Union in the city of Melusine. | |
Grave Robbing / int_6873fde2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Grave Robbing / int_6873fde2 | featureConfidence |
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Doctrine of Labyrinths | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_6873fde2 | |
Grave Robbing / int_69de2e4d | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_69de2e4d | comment |
In No Rest for the Wicked, they found Claire digging up what they thought was an old grave. They took her for a ghoul or some such, and didn't care what she was after in it. | |
Grave Robbing / int_69de2e4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Grave Robbing / int_69de2e4d | featureConfidence |
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No Rest for the Wicked (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_69de2e4d | |
Grave Robbing / int_6ac55ec7 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_6ac55ec7 | comment |
Dungeons & Dragons has enough of it to make twists and subversions relatively common. The Entomber is a specialized undead monster that's a perfect minion for necromancers, since it has the magical ability to exhume a corpse through up to ten feet of loose earth, which leaves no trace of its passage and doesn't harm the body. The undead gets its name from the fact that the same ability can just as easily be reversed to dispose of evidence or leave an opponent Buried Alive. Ravenloft: The adventure Ship of Horrors pits heroes against a grave-robbing clan of reanimated corpses which provide bodies to a nasty necromancer. According to Van Richten's Guide to the Lich, there's even a high-level spell Ghoul Lattice that makes the work easy by digging a maze of tunnels that connects to all graves and other underground pockets in an area that may be a mile or more wide. Robbing graves is one of many, many misdeeds that may warrant a Powers check, as the act can draw the attention of the Dark Powers that rule the realm. Forgotten Realms sourcebooks and novels has "fun" with long-dead (and sometimes un-dead) people's tombs. This includes things like... "Tomb robbers" turning out to be a bunch of ghouls, eating corpses but always ready to diversify the diet. "Tomb robbers" turning out to be there about a certain Sealed Evil in a Can, so a clash with tomb guards accidentally breaks the can, which they otherwise could avoid. Adventurers breaking and entering a crypt only to face a room seemingly empty except one old man with a pipe, who answered the obvious question by stunning everyone (as in "power word"), introducing himself as Elminster and stating that "despoilers of tombs" will leave him and his friends alone—right now. (Lords of Darkness) |
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Grave Robbing / int_6ac55ec7 | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_6ac55ec7 | featureConfidence |
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Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_6ac55ec7 | |
Grave Robbing / int_6ae1d164 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_6ae1d164 | comment |
Doctor Evazan was doing this for his zombie experiments in Galaxy of Fear: City of the Dead. He's soon killed and buried. Later Tash wishes to exhume him, and her uncle and his droid agree, but local customs don't let that happen legally. So they'll just have to grave rob surreptitiously. | |
Grave Robbing / int_6ae1d164 | featureApplicability |
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Galaxy of Fear | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_6ae1d164 | |
Grave Robbing / int_6bf069b3 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_6bf069b3 | comment |
The Matthew Hawkwood novel Resurrectionist is about the grave robbing trade that supplied the medical schools in Regency England. | |
Grave Robbing / int_6bf069b3 | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_6bf069b3 | featureConfidence |
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Matthew Hawkwood | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_6bf069b3 | |
Grave Robbing / int_6bf150d5 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_6bf150d5 | comment |
Vow of Nudity: They don't quite reach the grave, but Fiora the forest witch mentions she used to steal fresh corpses from battlefields and trade them to a demon lord in exchange for abyssal alchemy ingredients. | |
Grave Robbing / int_6bf150d5 | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_6bf150d5 | featureConfidence |
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Vow of Nudity (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_6bf150d5 | |
Grave Robbing / int_6c1d09b2 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_6c1d09b2 | comment |
Fallout 2 allows players with a shovel to dig up graves. Beyond an odd few sidequest important ones, they give you the "gravedigger" reputation (bad). It's also very profitable. And the reaction when you dig up a ghoul who was accidentally buried. This leads to funny comments and one confused PC. Fallout: New Vegas also allows players to do this if they have a shovel in their inventory. No significant consequences are attached but what loot there is to be found is usually pretty mild (a few meds, some ammo, or maybe a damaged weapon) |
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Grave Robbing / int_6c1d09b2 | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_6c1d09b2 | featureConfidence |
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Fallout 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_6c1d09b2 | |
Grave Robbing / int_6d9a0c36 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_6d9a0c36 | comment |
The Orcs, sorry, Shanka inhabiting the ruined city in Joe Abercrombie's ''Before They Are Hanged'' live on dead bodies from mass graves. | |
Grave Robbing / int_6d9a0c36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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The First Law | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_6d9a0c36 | |
Grave Robbing / int_6e1d5f36 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_6e1d5f36 | comment |
In the Farscape episode "Taking the Stone", set on an entire planet used as a cemetery for royalty, Lovable Rogue Rygel steals gold and jewels from graves, but returns them after suffering poltergeist phenomena. It's left unclear whether this was due to actual vengeful spirits or to the team psychic Zhaan using her powers to teach him a lesson. | |
Grave Robbing / int_6e1d5f36 | featureApplicability |
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Farscape | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_6e1d5f36 | |
Grave Robbing / int_72b3800a | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_72b3800a | comment |
"The Hound (1924)": The narrator and St. John are two peas in a pod desperate to escape boredom. To this end, they've started robbing final resting places; sometimes of grave goods, sometimes of body parts. Their collection contains samples in all states of preservation and decay and from all walks of life. They also own a number of ancient mummies, which likely they've purchased from other graverobbers rather than extracted themselves. | |
Grave Robbing / int_72b3800a | featureApplicability |
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The Hound (1924) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_72b3800a | |
Grave Robbing / int_72edeb82 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_72edeb82 | comment |
In Frankenstein Created Woman, Christina breaks into Hans's grave to steal his head. | |
Grave Robbing / int_72edeb82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Grave Robbing / int_72edeb82 | featureConfidence |
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Frankenstein Created Woman | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_72edeb82 | |
Grave Robbing / int_73b4d4c1 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_73b4d4c1 | comment |
Call of Cthulhu. In several adventures, ghouls are noted as stealing grave jewelry and other valuables buried with the dead, and eating the dead. | |
Grave Robbing / int_73b4d4c1 | featureApplicability |
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Call of Cthulhu (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_73b4d4c1 | |
Grave Robbing / int_76e7de99 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_76e7de99 | comment |
Forgotten Realms sourcebooks and novels has "fun" with long-dead (and sometimes un-dead) people's tombs. This includes things like... "Tomb robbers" turning out to be a bunch of ghouls, eating corpses but always ready to diversify the diet. "Tomb robbers" turning out to be there about a certain Sealed Evil in a Can, so a clash with tomb guards accidentally breaks the can, which they otherwise could avoid. Adventurers breaking and entering a crypt only to face a room seemingly empty except one old man with a pipe, who answered the obvious question by stunning everyone (as in "power word"), introducing himself as Elminster and stating that "despoilers of tombs" will leave him and his friends alone—right now. (Lords of Darkness) |
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Grave Robbing / int_76e7de99 | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_76e7de99 | featureConfidence |
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Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_76e7de99 | |
Grave Robbing / int_7c3fed29 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_7c3fed29 | comment |
In The Devil Commands, Dr. Blair has been conducting experiments to communicate telepathically with the dead, and to expedite this he has been robbing a few graves here and there. | |
Grave Robbing / int_7c3fed29 | featureApplicability |
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The Devil Commands | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_7c3fed29 | |
Grave Robbing / int_7dcdbde1 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_7dcdbde1 | comment |
The third case of the second game in the The Great Ace Attorney duology explores this. One of the witnesses explains he used to be a grave robber while at university, stealing a corpse but leaving all valuables behind, because it proved lucrative for medicine studies. He eventually ends up coming across a man rising from his grave, the man thought to be the mass murderer known as The Professor, and his account of the events ends up ruining his promising career. Grave robbing to provide bodies for medical schools during the nineteenth/early twentieth century is Truth in Television. | |
Grave Robbing / int_7dcdbde1 | featureApplicability |
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The Great Ace Attorney (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_7dcdbde1 | |
Grave Robbing / int_7e05f763 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_7e05f763 | comment |
Uncanny Avengers: The clone of the Red Skull demonstrates that he is every bit as vile as his source material when he steals Professor Xavier's body and rips out his brain so that he can steal Xavier's Psychic Powers. | |
Grave Robbing / int_7e05f763 | featureApplicability |
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Grave Robbing / int_7e05f763 | featureConfidence |
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Uncanny Avengers (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_7e05f763 | |
Grave Robbing / int_7e63ee20 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_7e63ee20 | comment |
In Gang of Roses, Left Eye's gang spends a large amount of time digging up graves in the town's cemetery; looking for either the treasure or the map detailing its location. | |
Grave Robbing / int_7e63ee20 | featureApplicability |
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Gang of Roses | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_7e63ee20 | |
Grave Robbing / int_806c20e5 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_806c20e5 | comment |
Demon's Souls features Graverobber Blige, who takes what he can from the dead to sell to passing Demon slayers. In fact, almost every merchant but the Once Royal Mistress gets their ways by taking advantage of the demon invasion this way. | |
Grave Robbing / int_806c20e5 | featureApplicability |
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Demon's Souls (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_806c20e5 | |
Grave Robbing / int_8374dc0f | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_8374dc0f | comment |
In Dark Heritage, Clint and Jack dig up Eric Dansen's grave only to find an empty coffin and a tunnel leading away from it. | |
Grave Robbing / int_8374dc0f | featureApplicability |
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Dark Heritage | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_8374dc0f | |
Grave Robbing / int_84cc472a | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_84cc472a | comment |
Santo vs. la hija de Frankestein opens with a grave-robbing scene. | |
Grave Robbing / int_84cc472a | featureApplicability |
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Santo vs. la hija de Frankestein | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_84cc472a | |
Grave Robbing / int_85a5a3b9 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_85a5a3b9 | comment |
In Transformers: Prime, the ancient artifact known as the Forge of Solus Prime can only be used to its full potential by a Prime; otherwise, it's just a big hammer. Megatron, in possession of the Forge, decides that the next best thing would be to replace his arm with one from a Prime, so he takes Dreadwing to a tomb on Cybertron to take an arm off a long-dead Prime, and then has Knock Out perform the surgery. It works. | |
Grave Robbing / int_85a5a3b9 | featureApplicability |
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Transformers: Prime | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_85a5a3b9 | |
Grave Robbing / int_86c3beca | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_86c3beca | comment |
Girl Genius mad scientists need bodies for the same reasons as Frankenstein, so this was mentioned both in the continuity and Side-Story Bonus Art. | |
Grave Robbing / int_86c3beca | featureApplicability |
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Girl Genius (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_86c3beca | |
Grave Robbing / int_8889af94 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_8889af94 | comment |
Larry, Darryl, and Darryl of Newhart were first introduced when they were hired to dig up a long-dead body. | |
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Newhart | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_8889af94 | |
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Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_89147048 | comment |
The Field Guide to Evil: In "The Kindler and the Virgin", the Kindler robs the graves of the freshly dead: cutting out their hearts and eating them in a quest to gain infinite knowledge. | |
Grave Robbing / int_89147048 | featureApplicability |
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The Field Guide to Evil | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_89147048 | |
Grave Robbing / int_8a339030 | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_8a339030 | comment |
Indiana Jones is accused of robbing a grave at the banquet in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. | |
Grave Robbing / int_8a339030 | featureApplicability |
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Indiana Jones (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_8a339030 | |
Grave Robbing / int_8b5820ed | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_8b5820ed | comment |
In Red Dead Redemption, one of the people John Marston is forced to interact with is Seth Briars, a thoroughly insane, extremely Squicky Grave Robber who prefers the company of corpses to real people. This reaches its natural conclusion in the Halloween Episode Undead Nightmare, where Seth's reaction to the Zombie Apocalypse is to play poker and hold parties with the walking dead, and to express disgust with Marston for wanting to end the curse that brought them back to life. Red Dead Redemption 2 has a very atmospheric mission where you must catch some graverobbers in the above-ground cemetery of Saint Denis, although it's ambiguous whether these guys are merely Robbing the Dead or after the bodies themselves. |
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Grave Robbing / int_8b5820ed | featureApplicability |
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Red Dead Redemption (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_8b5820ed | |
Grave Robbing / int_8c63b80a | type |
Grave Robbing | |
Grave Robbing / int_8c63b80a | comment |
In Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, Frankenstein's assistant steals a girl's body from the graveyard. Genz takes the opportunity to grope the corpse. | |
Grave Robbing / int_8c63b80a | featureApplicability |
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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks | hasFeature |
Grave Robbing / int_8c63b80a | |
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Grave Robbing | |
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Elika accuses the Prince of being this in Prince of Persia (2008). He doesn't deny it. | |
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On Lost, Charles Widmore took this trope to extremes when he had 324 graves in Thailand dug up just so he could create a fake wreckage of Oceanic 815. | |
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Lost | hasFeature |
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Grave Robbing | |
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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero and its adaptation in Dragon Ball Super: Dr. Hedo served a prison sentence for stealing bodies from graves to experiment on them. | |
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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero | hasFeature |
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Grave Robbing | |
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Superman: After The Death of Superman, Project Cadmus steals Superman's body after his funeral with the intent of cloning him. A little bit later on, the Eradicator does the same thing when he tries to claim Superman's body and can only create a facsimile. Used for a Stealth Pun/Cameo in the DC Comics Elseworlds The Superman Monster, which combines the Superman mythos with Frankenstein. Mad Scientist Victor Luthor is provided with corpses by a resurrectionist who is clearly this universe's counterpart of Mitch Shelley, the Resurrection Man. |
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Black Saddle: In "Client: Starkey", Clay and Scott exhume an unmarked grave in the middle of the night while attempting to unravel the mystery of a Town with a Dark Secret. | |
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Black Saddle | hasFeature |
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In Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Jason is accidentally resurrected by lightning when a survivor from the last film digs up his corpse to symbolically kill him with fire. | |
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Grave Robbing | |
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Underling: or so he is accused | |
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Underling (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Ed Gein, the infamous source of inspiration for Norman Bates, Jame Gumb, and Leatherface, exhumed bodies from graveyards and created trophies out of their bones and skin. His own grave was a frequent target as well, resulting in his burial site to be unmarked. | |
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Psycho | hasFeature |
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DC Extended Universe: Both versions of Justice League have the League digging up Superman's body to resurrect him for aid in the fight against Steppenwolf. |
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Grave Robbing | |
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In Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, you are required to dig up 2 graves (1 if you know where you are going) to beat the game. You can also dig up various other graves. | |
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Pharaoh: Once burial goods have been placed in a tomb, unsafe areas of a city will spawn grave robbers, who will head straight to the grave in order to plunder it. Unlike regular thieves who will drain the city coffers, the grave robbers only take things that were already accounted for and in small quantities, so there's no major inconvenience... except that the afterlife being the Serious Business that it is, your Kingdom Rating takes a hit if a grave robber gets through. | |
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One Piece: It's implied that in order to get the corpses to make the zombies on Thriller Bark, Gecko Moria and his minions have indulged in this. It's all but assured this was how he obtained the corpse of the legendary samurai Ryuuma, stealing it and his sword from his grave in the Wano Country. Also in the Wano Country, in order to obtain weapons for the resistance against Kaido, the samurai Kawamatsu would steal swords that were buried with their samurai in graveyards. After he was captured by Kaido's forces, a friendly fox-dog continued his efforts. |
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The Goon: The Zombie Priest, an evil necromancer, is in constant need of fresh bodies to recruit into his gang. To this end, he hires a broke gravedigger named Houstus Graves to supply him with the recently deceased. The evil of Houstus' involvement in this scheme corrupts his wife's pregnancy, killing her and causing their twin sons to grow up to be a pair of Sackhead Slashers. There's also the Creepy Good character The Buzzard, a sort of "reverse zombie" — a living man who must feed on the flesh of the dead. He's been known to break into the occasional grave for a snack. | |
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Herbert West–Reanimator: Herbert West frequently resorts to grave robbing in order to acquire subjects for his experiments. | |
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Martian Manhunter: In one story, J'onn is given the case of a presumed mass murderer in his role as police detective John Jones. A man has been found with his apartment full of dead bodies! J'onn pretty quickly figures out he's a grave robber, not a murderer. Among other things, all the corpses were obviously prepared for burial (wearing formal clothing and makeup). | |
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Bender of Futurama apparently has a grave robbery kit, and by the end of the episode "The Luck of the Fryrish" is "one skull away from a Mouseketeer reunion." In the same episode he is seen emerging from an open grave saying that "no one can say that I don't own John Larroquette's spine". He also says that grave robbing isn't a crime in the 31st century...but knowing Bender that's probably a lie. |
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Futurama | hasFeature |
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Planescape: Torment has a guild of people known as the Collectors whose job is to find dead bodies and turn them in to the Dustmen, a local sect that runs the Mortuary and prepares and inters the bodies of Sigil's dead. The Collectors almost always strip the bodies of everything valuable first. One of your party members, Annah, is one... and met you by finding your Player Character dead and collecting his body. (The game starts with you waking up at the morgue, and you meet up with her again later.) You can later discover that a particularly rich Collector has become rich by finding ways into the Dustmen's own crypts, essentially robbing them of their own charges and re-selling them back. The Dustmen will not be happy to learn this. |
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The Bible: Mary Magdalene believes this is what happened to Jesus' body until she finds proof otherwise. Also the Romans, anticipating this possibility, put some serious security on Jesus's tomb: blocked it with a heavy stone, put a seal on that (breaking the seal alone was a serious offense), and posted guards. All that still didn't keep him inside. | |
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The Bible | hasFeature |
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Many Magic: The Gathering cards are based around this, usually allowing the exhumed creature to be played again. | |
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Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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Ravenloft: The adventure Ship of Horrors pits heroes against a grave-robbing clan of reanimated corpses which provide bodies to a nasty necromancer. According to Van Richten's Guide to the Lich, there's even a high-level spell Ghoul Lattice that makes the work easy by digging a maze of tunnels that connects to all graves and other underground pockets in an area that may be a mile or more wide. Robbing graves is one of many, many misdeeds that may warrant a Powers check, as the act can draw the attention of the Dark Powers that rule the realm. |
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Darkest Dungeon has the Grave Robber class, which specializes in dodging, knife throwing, pickaxing enemies' faces in, and delivering Blight via poison syringes. Her backstory shows she was a widowed noblewoman who fell into hard times and resorted to grave robbing. You can also loot grave curios provided you have a shovel to spare. Plus, your adventures often take you into the undead-haunted Ruins of your ancestry in order to grab heirlooms belonging to your family for purposes of rebuilding the Hamlet. | |
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Scary Gary: When Gary's henchman Leopold talks with Dr.Frankenstein’s henchman Egor about their respective bosses over drinks at a bar, Egor mentions that Dr.Frankenstein makes him rob graves every night. | |
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Scary Gary (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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Ed and Joey in Return of the Living Dead Part II are at the graveyard to open graves and take their owner's heads for selling. When the zombies start to rise, Ed believes that they're sent by God to punish him. | |
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Return of the Living Dead Part II | hasFeature |
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Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #426, the Hand was brazen enough to dig up Doctor Octopus's corpse from a public cemetery in broad daylight in order to enact the evil ritual that restored him to life. As one might expect, Peter and Mary Jane were rather shaken about it after seeing it on the news. | |
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True Potential: As per canon, Kabuto, although he's doing it to augment his body by gaining access to the person's Kekkai Genkai and other genetic abilities. | |
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An accidental version in Dracula 2000. The gang of professional thieves are not impressed when they break into Van Helsing's high-security vault and find only a coffin, even though it's made of silver. However their leader is convinced this is just a trick to convince people there's nothing valuable inside except a corpse. The fact that a Booby Trap kills two of them with Spikes of Doom the moment they move it only reinforces this belief. Unfortunately the only thing inside the coffin is Dracula. | |
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Both versions of Justice League have the League digging up Superman's body to resurrect him for aid in the fight against Steppenwolf. | |
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Justice League (2017) | hasFeature |
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SpongeBob SquarePants had Mr. Krabs digging up a grave of a guy he (seemingly) made up to retrieve a valuable hat buried there by Spongebob (long story). The deceased is annoyed at this and summons an army of zombie fish skeletons to stop Krabs (only for Krabs to defeat them all). | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
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Empire Earth 2's Egyptian campaign features a different kind of grave robbing in one level set in a famine, where starving people pull the mummified corpses out of the pyramid to eat them. | |
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As revealed in the Team Fortress 2 supplementary comic Loose Cannon, Engineer's grandfather built Blutarch and Redmond Mann machines that would extend their lifespans indefinitely. When Blutarch eventually demands that Engineer fix his when it starts to break down. Engie points out that without his grandfather's blueprints it'd be impossible, and said blueprints were buried with him- at which point Blutarch presents a large stack of old papers before him. | |
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Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Minecraft lets you rob treasure from pyramids in the desert. Each pyramid can contain things like gold, iron, diamonds, bones, and rotten flesh, but they're also guarded by TNT traps that trigger if you step on the pressure plate. Doing so will destroy all the treasure and kill you. Jungle temples have arrow traps that are triggered the moment you walk through the linked tripwires or destroying the wire itself. The only safe way to disarm the trap is to use shears to cut the wire. Luckily, you can just stand on one side of the hall to avoid the arrows and just loot the dispensers of their arrows. Jungle temples also have chests that contain similar treasure from the pyramids. |
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Minecraft (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Judge Dredd: Inverted when a very old widower wants to bury his beloved wife instead of sending her to Resyk, but doesn't have enough credits to pay for a plot. He breaks into the graveyard to bury her body, but is arrested by Dredd, who notes he's not even sure if they have a law for itnote Using the plot without paying for it could be considered defrauding the person who owns it. He does charge him with trespassing. | |
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Grave Robbing | |
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Conan the Barbarian: In The Hour of the Dragon it is necessary to revive the Big Bad. | |
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Pushing Daisies: Dwight Dixon robs Chuck's father's grave in order to get his gold pocket watch. Ned and Chuck later dig up Chuck's father and bring him back to life so that they can find out the truth about Dwight. The first season episodes "Pie-lette" and "The Fun in Funeral" has the Schatz brothers, who own a funeral home, and regularly steal valuables from corpses. |
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Pushing Daisies | hasFeature |
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The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen: One of the thief's story is about his robbing a grave. | |
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Grave Robbing | |
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Night Gallery episode "Deliveries in the Rear". Dr. Fletcher uses grave robbers to obtain bodies for dissection. Multiple other people are disturbed at the very possibility, but Fletcher just defaults to "don't ask, don't tell" regarding his suppliers' sources. | |
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Night Gallery | hasFeature |
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Grave Robbing | |
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Talisman: The aptly named Grave Robber character has a special ability that allows him to encounter the top card on the discard pile instead of drawing a card for their space as normal. This presumably represents the character digging up graves for their treasure, though interestingly enough the power lets them encounter any type of card, including events, places, and previously killed enemies. The character can rob graves in a more traditional sense by visiting the graveyard space, which allows them to take one item of their choice from the top 8 cards in the adventure deck. | |
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The 1945 film The Body Snatcher, directed by Robert Wise, starring Boris Karloff (and with Bela Lugosi in a bit part). This was based on a Robert Louis Stevenson short story of the same that was Very Loosely Based on a True Story of Burke and Hare (body snatchers who sold the body of a dead tenant to pay his back rent, liked the money, and decided to increase their income by increasing their supply of the dead.) Karloff's character is specifically compared to Burke and Hare a few times, and the doctor he's stealing the bodies for is supposed to be a protege of Dr. Knox, Burke and Hare's own main buyer. In the later film Corridors Of Blood, Karloff plays a well-meaning doctor forced to buy cadavers, acquired in this way by a sinister fellow named Resurrection Joe (a young Christopher Lee). |
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The Body Snatcher | hasFeature |
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In Knife for the Ladies, Burns and Jarrod (illegally) break into Travis' tomb to see if his corpse is actually there. They choose to do this at night just as a storm breaks. | |
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Knife for the Ladies | hasFeature |
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In Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire, when Vinny lists off the things the group isn't proud of, they include grave-robbing, plundering tombs -and double parking. | |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire | hasFeature |
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The 4400: Grave Robbing: In "As Fate Would Have It", Jordan Collier's body vanishes from the 4400 Center immediately after his memorial service. | |
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NCIS: New Orleans: In "Second Line" the NCIS team uncovers a case of tomb-robbing, with the robbers stealing valuable artifacts from tombs to sell and on the black market and taking the bones as well to establish the provenance of the artifacts. | |
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Once Upon a Time episode "In the Name of the Brother": How Victor initially plans on finding a body to attempt resurrection before his brother dies and is used instead. | |
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Red Dead Redemption 2 has a very atmospheric mission where you must catch some graverobbers in the above-ground cemetery of Saint Denis, although it's ambiguous whether these guys are merely Robbing the Dead or after the bodies themselves. | |
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Obligatory Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference - when Giles hears about graves opened from the outside his academic curiosity is stirred: | |
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In Undead Friend, the entirety of Chapter 8 is devoted to the main characters robbing a grave together in order to retrieve a human bone that Orrick must turn into a weapon. | |
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Midsomer Murders: In "Habeus Corpus", the body of a dead man is stolen from his bed minutes after he is pronounced dead, and then the body of a woman who died five months previously is dug up and stolen from her grave. | |
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Lady Frankenstein opens with Tom Lynch and his cronies stealing bodies for Dr. Frankenstein. | |
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Return of the Archwizards trilogy begins when an elven tomb guards' routine patrol detects what they think is yet another desecration by a bunch of human "adventurers". Things don't go well when these specific humans turned out to be extremely uninterested in the tomb stuffed with traps, magic, and valuables, other than as a place marker. | |
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In The Atomic Brain (also shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000), Dr. Otto Frank steals the bodies of the recently deceased so he can test his atomic-powered revival machine. These "recently deceased" have been dead for a bit, reviving them leaves them as mindless zombies, but it's proof of concept that he can revive the dead. | |
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In the John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Edinburgh Festival special, the Storyteller sketch has Finnemore sent to get the thumbs needed for his uncle's thimble factory (yes, just go with it) from two men named Pratt and Rabbit who meet him at midnight in Greyfriars Kirkyard. He finds them in an open grave and is unconvinced that they're re-burying someone who digs himself out to look for his wee dog. ("We call him ... Greyfriars Body.") | |
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Mission: Impossible: In "The Catafalque", part of the IMF's plan requires to steal the body of the former leader of a Ruritania while while it is on public display. | |
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In My Little Pony: The Movie (1986), Draggle raids a random grave at the cemetery to get one of the ingredients of smooze and accidentally falls in. She is later seen getting kicked out by its inhabitant. | |
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Repo! The Genetic Opera has a singing, dancing Mr. Exposition in the Graverobber (played by the fantastic Terrance Zdunich). He slinks around stealing Zydrate from dead bodies and telling us how this Crapsack World came to be. | |
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On Babylon 5, a race called the Markab dies off and others start using the local jumpgate to strip their home planet bare until Sheridan blows it up (for other reasons, but he mentions his disdain for grave robbers and clearly considers cutting off their access to be a bonus). | |
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The Phantasm films feature large-scale grave robbing by the Tall Man, who animates and shrinks the dead to provide slave labor on another planet (or another dimension, other time, etc). | |
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Subverted in Batman: Under the Red Hood. Batman breaks into the grave of Jason Todd. He was presumed to be dead and laid to rest after a "fight" with The Joker but having tested the Red Hood's DNA and discovered a match, He and Alfred break into the grave to verify that his body is still there. To their surprise, it has been replaced with a stunningly accurate latex dummy... | |
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Wishbone: Subverted in the pilot episode, "A Tail In Twain". In Part I, Joe, Sam, David, and Wishbone go to "The No-Name Grave", an unmarked grave that's the source of local urban legends, where they see a strange man digging up the grave, who scares them away when he spots them. In Part II, when they go back with Joe's mom, Ellen, and their neighbor Wanda, they learn that he was recovering the belongings left behind by the man's settler family in the 19th century. | |
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