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[[File:skeletons 663.jpg|link=Jason and the Argonauts|frame|[[Punch Line|And that's the way it goes]].]]
{{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
▲{{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]]s keep going? In some depictions, even the connective tissue physically binding bones into a coherent whole is optional, making this creature firmly an inhabitant of [[Fantasy]] works. You might know them as '''Skeletons.''' We call 'em "Dem Bones."
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If the [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|skeleton is really a robot]], see [[Skele-Bot 9000]].
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== Anime ==
* Used by a [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|Faust VII]] in ''[[Shaman King]]'', quite drastically - in his fight against the main character, he insisted it be held on a Western (Christian) graveyard, where the dead were not cremated, so he could use their skeletons to launch a mass attack at our protagonist. On top of it, he carried his deceased wife's skeleton under his clothes and used it as a secret weapon.
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