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{{quote|''"The dead make good soldiers. They can't disobey orders, never surrender, and don't stop fighting when a random body part falls off."'' |'''[[Larry Niven|Nevinyrral]]''', Necromancer's Handbook (as mentioned in ''[[Flavor Text]] for the ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' card [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=202275 Drudge Skeletons]'')}}
[[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|Beings made entirely of ossific material]] are a very common form of [[The Undead]] in video games, but much rarer in other media. They're a cousin to the [[Zombie Apocalypse|Zombie]] in spirit, but remain explicitly separated in the public consciousness by the lack of muscles and other juicy bits. This raises a [[Fridge Logic|troubling question]]: [[A Wizard Did It|where do the motor skills come from]]? And [[The Dead Have Eyes|how are they capable of seeing and hearing?]] What makes these [[Perpetual Motion Monster|Perpetual Motion Monsters]] keep going? In some depictions, even the connective tissue physically binding bones into a coherent whole
There are human, [[Non-Human Undead|non-human]], and weirder variants, and in 99% of their appearances, they're enemy [[Mooks]]. Their prevalence in [[RPG
Often enough, Dem Bones are reused in the same game ''à la'' [[Underground Monkey]]. Expect, in the spirit of a Zombie Minotaur, to find [[Hybrid Monster|double-category monsters]], like a skeletal mammoth or dragon. Also for some odd reason, many games have even tougher skeletons that are [[Palette Swap|colored red]].
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