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* A secret class in the [[Game Boy Advance]] version of ''[[Final Fantasy V]]''. They are basically glorified [[Mega Manning|Blue Mages]] who can't be healed by normal means, and are only available once the [[Bonus Boss]] is [[Bragging Rights Reward|killed.]]
* Subverted in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''. While he is known throughout the world as The Necromancer, Jade never re-animated corpses. {{spoiler|He ''did'' invent a technology, called fomicry, that could create perfect copies of people, including the recently deceased. The replicas of his human test subjects retained no memories of their originals, so Jade eventually gave up on fomicry as a means of "reviving" the dead. It doesn't help his image that he used to collect the remains of dead soldiers to further his work.}}
* ''[[Ever QuestEverQuest]]'' plays the "Necromancer = [[Evil Sorcerer]]" bit '''painfully''' straight. In the original, being a Necromancer automatically flagged your character as evil (getting them a Kill On Sight reaction from non-evil-aligned city guards), even if they were part of an otherwise Neutral or Good race. In ''Everquest 2'', you literally ''cannot be a Necromancer unless you are evil.'' Only evil characters can start as one, and if a Necromancer performs the City Betrayal questline, they spontaneously stop being a Necromancer. (Conversely, if a ''Good'' Conjurer performs the questline, they spontaneously ''become'' a Necromancer)
* The first [[Legacy of Kain]] game, ''Blood Omen'', features Mortanius the Necromancer as one of the main antagonists and most powerful member of the Circle of Nine. In something of an aversion, his powers are connected to the Pillars of Nosgoth, specifically the Pillar of Death, making them completely natural and no more evil than throwing a fireball. In fact, [[The Atoner|he's one of the most sympathetic characters in the series]], setting the series in motion by bringing the main character back to life as a vampire as part of an elaborate [[Evil Pllan]].
* {{spoiler|Dynos}} in [[Arc Rise Fantasia]], although before his name is revealed he's called the "Deathchanter".
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== Web Comics ==
* 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.