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Oracular Head
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A preserved head or skull that can speak on its own, usually to answer questions of a divinatory nature. As a trope, it is at least Older Than Feudalism — it goes back to the Greek myth of Orpheus's singing head. A common variation in medieval lore was the Brazen Head, which could answer any question and make oracular pronouncements. The Brazen Head crops up in the stories surrounding many medieval magicians, including Roger Bacon and Faust. See also Losing Your Head and Brain in a Jar for other cases of living beheaded creatures. If it comes down to just being a skull, it starts to overlap with Dem Bones. |
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The Party God from Adventure Time. | |
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Hunter: The Vigil gives us the Aegis Kai Doru and their most prized possession, the living head of John the Baptist. It's implied in some places that the Aegis Kai Doru went through a period of decapitating any prophet they heard of in hopes of adding more living heads to their collection; this actually worked a couple of times, but the failure rate was enough to make them stop. | |
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The Magic Goes Away: The necromancer Wavyhill has cast immortality spells on himself. However, that backfires when his body is hacked up and all that is left is his skull, which, due to his magic, he is trapped in and can talk. | |
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Too Human, being a Cyberpunk adaptation of Norse Mythology has Mimir as the Aesir corporation's data decryption and information specialist, he's not much for field work though seeing how last time only his head came back. | |
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The Last Unicorn: A skull tells the main characters how to find the Red Bull's lair. This was changed to an entire skeleton for the movie, probably to make for more interesting animation. | |
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Choose Your Own Adventure: In Return to Brookmere, the protagonist has a necklace with a talking amulet in the form of a dragon's head. | |
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The Simpsons: in Bart Gets Famous, Kitty Carlisle‘s head appears in a floating ball | |
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus contains one prime example where William Blazkowicz's head is kept preserved in a jar developed by Set. It remains there a short time until it can be reattached to the headless body of a captured Nazi. | |
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The Secret of Monkey Island has a severed navigator's head that leads you through the Bloody Bowels of Hell. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Lordgenome gets his head resurrected and hooked to life support by post-Time Skip Rossiu, who wants to regain full access to his knowledge this way. | |
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The Shattered World: Pandrogas has a talking brazen head mounted over his laboratory's door as a security device. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: In one strip, Calvin pretends to have one of these in a paper bag for Show and Tell. He uses it as a vehicle for teasing Susie Derkins. | |
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Don Quixote: Subverted. Don Antonio Moreno tricks Quixote into thinking he has one of these, when really it's just his nephew speaking through a tube that leads into the head. | |
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The Dresden Files: Bob is a spirit of air and intellect bound into a skull. He is bound to serve the owner of his vessel, and currently serves Harry as a functionally limitless repository of historical and arcane knowledge. | |
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Baphomet from Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages is a rare modern work that depicts him as the older idea of being a head rather than the more popular 19th-century hermaphrodite satyr created by Eliphas Levi. In this game's backstory, Baphomet was able to have the testimony of Osiris's murder that groups like The Knights Templar and The Priory of Sion passed down through the generations. | |
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Power Rangers: Zordon, the franchise's original mentor figure. He's actually a humanoid being communicating from a pocket dimension Rita stuck him in, but we only ever see him outside his prison in the Non-Serial Movie. When he's released from the prison at the beginning of Turbo, he apparently becomes the floating head for real. Unfortunately, this makes it easier for the bad guys to imprison him during Space. Zordon's pupil from Megaforce, Gosei, is this also but has taken the form of a Tiki head. Gosei's counterpart in Tensou Sentai Goseiger, Master Head, also resembles a Tiki. |
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Discworld: Soul Music: A talking skull appears in a minor scene taking place in a wizard's workshop. Making Money introduces Unseen University's Department of Post-Mortem Communications, which includes a talking skull named Charlie (who brags that he's "the backbone of the department"). The Science of Discworld: In The Globe, it's mentioned in passing that the Dean keeps a skull in his office that sings comical songs. |
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The Planescape campaign setting features Mimir: 'Living' encyclopaedias that take the form of floating, animate skulls and recite any knowledge they contain on demand. Mimirs are magical constructs and typically not sentient in and by themselves (this varies depending on the creator and the Mimir's intended use, however, and sentient Mimir do exist). | |
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Making Money introduces Unseen University's Department of Post-Mortem Communications, which includes a talking skull named Charlie (who brags that he's "the backbone of the department"). | |
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Piranesi: In the gradually revealed backstory, a wannabe-magician turns out to have consulted the head of an ancient druid in a museum to acquire crucial knowledge. | |
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Texhnolyze: Subverted with Ran, who ends up in this state but refuses to divine anything to Kano. | |
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Magic, Inc.: An African sorcerer consults the Shrunken Head of his grandfather. | |
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Neuromancer: Inverted. An ornate head is found inside the Tessier-Ashpool complex, to which the password needs to be spoken to allow Neuromancer and Wintermute to merge into the first true AI. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Planescape campaign setting features Mimir: 'Living' encyclopaedias that take the form of floating, animate skulls and recite any knowledge they contain on demand. Mimirs are magical constructs and typically not sentient in and by themselves (this varies depending on the creator and the Mimir's intended use, however, and sentient Mimir do exist). The bugbear deity Hruggek sends omens to his followers via this trope, and is known to keep a large collection of severed heads that plead endlessly for mercy. Rumor has it that each head can also mentally influence members of its original race via suggestion, or utter power word spells, if Hruggek commands it. A demilich is a lich that has grown so powerful and ancient, and spent so much time mentally exploring other worlds rather than within its body, that its remains have dwindled and decayed to nothing but a skull. Which eats souls. One type of druj, a powerful class of undead creatures from CD&D, takes the form of a skull. |
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Myth Adventures: In Myth Fortunes, the living crystal ball of the Golden Hoard manifests as a female head of whatever species she's currently addressing, much like the Haunted Mansion example under 'Theme Parks'. | |
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The Dresden Files: Bob is a human ghost who "lives" in a skull and comes out when Harry needs his to plumb his considerable arcane knowledge... or whenever he feels like it. | |
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Call of Cthulhu supplement The Asylum and Other Tales, adventure "The Auction". A magical Brass Head could animate and answer questions if it were covered with burning blood. It was a trap: it contained a Servitor of the Outer Gods which would try to trick the user into releasing it. | |
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Azrael: The Order of St Dumas had a brazen head that was supposedly St Dumas himself, preserved to share his wisdom. Which was mostly spewing misogyny at Sister Lilhy and telling Az how useless he was. A marginally more useful version appears in the Legends of the Dead Earth annual, where it's just called the Oracle. | |
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Kingdom Come: Deadman has a talking skull head. | |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban features a Shrunken Head who is apparently the navigator of the Knight Bus, giving directions to the driver and making smart remarks. He isn't mentioned in the books, but J.K. Rowling has said she wished she'd thought of it. | |
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Postie Pete in RuneScape, a talking skull that delivers letters to NPCs. Also one of the Holiday items was a severed Zombie head that you could hold and talk to. | |
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Journey to Chaos: Eric finds a talking skull while raiding the lair of an ancient mage. It is the animated remains of his fellow Dengel Disciple, an otherworlder nicknamed "Asuna" who remembers all of Dengel's research. | |
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The witches use an apparition of an armed head to tell the future to Macbeth. | |
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Urien's ending in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike has this with Urien looking down at the head of Gill, the series' Big Bad and his older brother. | |
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That Hideous Strength: The NICE have the severed head of an executed criminal attached to a machine that keeps it alive and lets it speak. But it turns out it's not the original owner who's using it... | |
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The Wizard of Oz: Oz the Great and Powerful first appeared as a great and looming head before turning out to be The Man Behind the Curtain. | |
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Gosei's counterpart in Tensou Sentai Goseiger, Master Head, also resembles a Tiki. | |
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Avernum had the Xian Skull, a skull that would randomly talk while carried around in the party's inventory. | |
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Valhalla: The decapitated but still-living head of Mimir is a recurring side character; he's a bit of a grouch and Odin's eternal chess partner. In most of the stories he tends to win the chess games (or is about to), although Odin frequently cheats. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Ser Clarence Crabb, a folkloric hero of Cracklaw Point, is said to have been in the habit of decapitating dead foes and taking their heads with him, which his wife could then reanimate. He filled his castle, the Whispers, with the living heads of pirates, lords, wizards, knights and at least one king, which gave him counsel and constantly whispered to one another. | |
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Futurama is known for having contemporary celebrities appear in the show as heads preserved in jars and fully animated. | |
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Morte the sentient Mimir from Planescape: Torment (see Tabletop Games), who looks even more skull-like than other Mimir. Mainly, this is because Morte ultimately turns out not to be a Mimir, but a piece of the Pillar of Skulls from the first layer of Hell. Morte doesn't just talk, he snarks and jibes and is pretty much 'alive' in every sense of the world but the purely physical one. | |
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Subverted in Nox. Talking to a recently-deceased mook's skull results in the skull responding, "I'm dead, I can't hear you." | |
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In the "Rise of the Funsnake" story arc of Oglaf Morag The Immortal gets her head bitten off by the Funsnake. She can still talk, but only if somebody blows air up her neck. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind expansion, Bloodmoon, a guy sends you to find his friend, who's an oracle. The friend, it turns out, is a skull. | |
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Transformers: Animated: Megatron spends all of Season 1 as one due to damage sustained in the pilot movie. He gets his body back in the season finale. | |
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In God of War (PS4) Mimir is decapitated by Kratos, at his own request, as he's trapped in a tree when first encountered, and then revived and carried around to provide advice and commentary. | |
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Doctor Who: The Face of Boe, a billions-year old giant-head-in-a-jar. No one knows how he's lived so long - unless he really is Captain Jack Harkness - but he's had a very long time to gather knowledge and wisdom. Additionally, the head of Dorium technically fits this, although he doesn't exactly have much of the characterization (i.e., he has his head wired to surf the internet, and complains of boredom the instant you remove him from a wifi hot-spot). In "The Time of the Doctor," the Doctor has obtained the head of a Cyberman which he uses as a databank. |
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The Night Gallery episode "Logoda's Heads" featured as its antagonist the witch doctor Logoda who had the power to make a bunch of Shrunken Heads tell him their secrets. British authorities accuse him of murdering an explorer but are unable to find enough evidence against him. A local young woman who knows that he is guilty takes matters into her own hands by revealing that she is an even more powerful witch doctor who can make the shrunken heads kill, after Logoda's body was torn apart off-screen. The episode ends with the camera zooming in on the heads and the traces of blood and flesh on their teeth... | |
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Monkey Island: The Secret of Monkey Island has a severed navigator's head that leads you through the Bloody Bowels of Hell. The third and fourth instalments include Murray, a talking skull left behind after Guybrush destroys the rest of his skeletal body. He's necessary to the plot in the third game, but just a cameo in the fourth. |
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The Skull of Truth: The protagonist finds an oracular skull named Yorick in The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday. | |
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Gerry of Graveyard Keeper is this as a talking skull, though he's a particularly ineffective one as he barely has any useful information due to having amnesia, sends you off on trips to get alcohol for him, and drives you to do terrible things like cutting off flesh from the corpses you autopsy and selling it for money. | |
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Marvel 1602: Clea brings the heroes Doctor Strange's severed head in a brandy barrel. However, being dead means that Strange can now tell our heroes stuff that he couldn't while alive. | |
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Marvel Zombies: Deadpool has been reduced to a Headpool, who is now the regular Deadpool's sidekick. | |
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The Sandman (1989) has Orpheus (from the Greek myths), Morpheus' son, an oracle and disembodied head. In one arc his father comes to consult him as Destruction's anti-tracking wards could only be penetrated by a member of the family. In exchange, he is finally allowed to die. | |
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The Science of Discworld: In The Globe, it's mentioned in passing that the Dean keeps a skull in his office that sings comical songs. | |
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This is how Moses is portrayed in South Park, parodying the design of the MCP from TRON. A Running Gag is Moses stammering at a question he doesn't know the answer to. | |
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Top of the Line (Editor-Bug): At the end of the SIR Unit tournament, MiMi is reduced to just a head after GIR destroys the rest of her with his Ultimate Duty Mode. GIR is blown apart by MiMi's BFG in The Rematch, leaving only his head remaining intact and functional afterwards. He stays like that for the rest of the story. |
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Bonehead, one of the most memorable characters in the Quest for Glory series (and that's saying something), was - as his name suggests - a skull of this nature, one of many skulls surrounding the hut of Baba Yaga. One of the few things he doesn't complain about is not having Eye Beams like his boneheaded kinsmen, apparently considering sentience a valid trade-off. | |
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Soul Music: A talking skull appears in a minor scene taking place in a wizard's workshop. | |
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Ironclaw: The announcement for the Second Edition directly mentions "the brazen head" towards the end, referring to the designer/publisher. In-universe, Phelan legend has Finias (presumably a lupine fusion of Orpheus and Bran the Blessed), a bard who was decapitated by a gang of his paramours' jealous husbands and whose severed head continued to sing. The people took this as an omen and built a city on the location, burying his head under the royal hall. Sometime later a queen of the tribe they founded famously sought counsel from the head. |
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Rolli – Amazing Tales: The Great Trash, the deity worshipped by the evil Trashers, is a giant plumpish head that resides in the Trashers' underground lair. He doesn't speak much beyond his hammy Villain Song, but he converts people into Trashers by vomiting on them. | |
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Stellaris has the mummified Head of Zarqlan, an alien prophet whose tomb you can excavate with the Ancient Relics expansion. The head never talks to you, but any Holy Guardians in your galaxy will see your possession of it as proof that you are Zarqlan's chosen and grant you permission to settle their Holy Worlds, and will even periodically gift you fleets of their advanced warships. | |
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GURPS: Fantasy features the mythological Orpheus, who still has access to powerful magic. | |
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Myth: The Fallen Lords had a talking, severed head show up in the cutscenes, serving as an adviser to the sorcerer-generals in charge of the war against Balor. Turns out that the head is more interested in sowing chaos and discord among the good guys then actually helping them win. Given the amount of stuff that was based on Celtic lore, he's probably based on the aforementioned Bran. The prequel established that the head is actually from a previous incarnation of the Big Bad. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing has a number of examples: The Detective Skull is an off-hand item that gives a vague estimate of the remaining HP of a monster. There's also a joke item called the Defective Skull, which gives useless "information" like "I deduce that this monster is one jive turkey" or "I deduce that this monster has approximately eleventy-seven hojillion hit points." A side quest in Little Canadia has a Shrunken Head that guides you through a maze in a direct Shout-Out to Secret of Monkey Island. A revamp of the Naughty Sorceress quest in January 2015 included a floating skull named Frank who gave adventurers advice on how to get through the many tricks and traps of the Sorceress's tower; the Tower had previously been a serious case of Guide Dang It! for new players. |
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H-E Double Hockey Sticks: Marie Antoinette is a disembodied head who acts as Mrs. Beelzebub's secretary. Despite the handicap of having no hands or arms. | |
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