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* The main character Chihiro from ''[[Sanka Rea]]'' is a zombie afficionado and a wannabe necromancer. Things get complicated when he actually succeed in necromancy, bringing his cat, as well as the eponymous girl, [[Back From the Dead]].
* The somewhat recent manga [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Necromancer]] features one as the main character.
* ''[[Rental Magica]]'' had one overenthusiastic fellow who used a rare magical substance to raise a crowd of zombies and was impatient enough to slaughter a village for this purpose rather than [[Grave Robbing|unobtrusively collect corpses]] like everyone else does. His former supplier; came to wear a widow's outfit after the incident and sent the protagonists to deal with him when he tried to gather another portion of the magic plant on his own. He also used a [[Paper Talisman]] to incapacitate a ghost, but this only made her more upset after she shrugged it off.
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== Music ==
* [[Rush]]'s ''"The Necromancer"''.
* ''Necromancer'' by [[Van der Graaf Generator]], in the spirit of [[Good is Not Nice]].
== Tabletop Games ==
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* Black Mage Evilwizardington of ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' is skilled at necromancy. He reconstructed and redecorated the Temple of Fiends by willing it to change, as it was made from corpses.
* Xykon from [[Order of the Stick]].
** And also his newest major minion, [[Nightmare Fetishist|Tsukiko]], who not only creates the undead but... uh... [[I Love the Dead|really likes them]] too.
* The world of ''[[Erfworld]]'' knows them as "Croakamancers". Of the main characters, Wanda Firebaugh the Croakamancer.
* The lead villain of [[Harry Potter Comics]]''.
* [[Aloof Big Brother|Jacob]], [[The Dragon|Helixa]], and [[Dark Is Not Evil|Rilian]] from ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''.
** On his airship trip Dominic meets a "good" necromancer {{spoiler|actually Rilian in disguise}} who claims that his job is more traditional speaking with the dead than animating corpses.
* Richard from ''[[Looking for Group]]
* [[True Villains]]: [http://www.truevillains.com/comic-2011-12-02-Necromancy%20at%20its%20Finest-jpg.htm It is not going to be easy. It is not going to be painless. It is not going to be legal. It is, however, going to be] '''fun'''.
* Yakuv from [[Reliquary (webcomic)|Reliquary]] is an unusual good guy version; necromancy is considered a Gift from God in his culture.
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