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* Faust the VIII from ''[[Shaman King]]''. He's the descendent of the original Dr. Faustus who made a [[Deal with the Devil]] and Faust learned about being a shaman and necromancy from his books. He did it to resurrect his wife from the dead so he's got the [[Necromantic]] thing going on as well. Finally, his basic fighting technique is to summon tons and tons of skeletons. Not to mention he's about the most evil character we see until [[The Big Bad]] shows up. {{spoiler|Faust makes a [[Heel Face Turn]] after that though.}}

* Doll from ''[[Half Prince]]'' is a spell caster class called necromancer; she doesn't really summon zombies, she summons flaming spell monsters which generally act as meat shields for her team. However, if she's really motivated, she can summon a freaking undead dragon; however, since it generally scares her, she's only done this twice so far.

* Eucliwood Hellscythe of ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?]]'' is one of the rare [[Dark Is Not Evil|sympathetic]] necromancers. Her magic allows her to heal, kill, and create zombies (in this case, [[Our Zombies Are Different|immortal, self-aware undead]]).

* One of Kenshiro's creepier one-shot foes from ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' was an evil priest-looking guy by the name of Zaria who could hypnotize people into "zombies" via ''Nanto Ansho Ken'' and ultimately revives a group of his mooks that Kenshiro had just given the [[Your Head Asplode]] treatment to. Naturally, Kenshiro considers this level of disrespect for the dead [[This Is Unforgivable!|unforgivable]].

* The most powerful [[Telepathic Spacemen|Newtypes]] of [[Gundam]]'s Universal Century can perform a limited and relatively benign form of necromancy, communicating with and (in extreme circumstances) drawing power from the spirits of the dead. In fact, since it requires a great deal of human empathy, [[Dark Is Not Evil|it's pretty much exclusively limited to heroic Newtypes]].

* Emperor Muge Zorbados, [[Big Bad]] of the [[Super Robot]] series, ''[[Dancougar]]''

* 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.

== Tabletop Games ==

* A good deal of ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' creatures are called necromancers, while the actual creatures generally have creatures types of cleric or wizards. Users of [[Black Magic]] in the settings tend to have dead minions.

** Interestingly enough, earlier D&D editions had healing spells in the necromancy school. But since necromancy was categorized as magic over life forces, it made perfect sense.

** The 3.5 supplement ''Heroes of Horror'' include the class Dread Necromancer which, among other things, ''turns into a lich'' upon reaching level 20.

** Zorbak's robot in ''[[Warp Force]]'', Zorboz, can reanimate ''machines'' and turn them undead.

* The February 2012 update of ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' features them. It's actually the first type of magic put in the game, and being Dwarf Fortress, the players themselves are able to use it. Keep in mind, so are migrants to your fortress, and even random merchants or whoever else reads one of the "secrets of the life and death" written on slabs by the gods, which inconveniently results in body parts in the refuse pile coming to life and attacking you.

* The first ''[[Golden Sun]]'' didn't have many references to necromancy, but ''The Lost Age'' has the Dark Mage class series, unlocked with an artifact in a small [[Bonus Dungeon]] under Kibombo (where it's normally kept for the local witch-doctors to use), which can summon zombies and inflict curses upon enemies, among other things.

** ''Dark Dawn'' doesn't have class-enabling artifacts like the Tomegathericon, and by extension no Dark Mage classes... but Himi's exclusive Curse Mage class series does much of the same, which is pretty weird since she's normally a cute little [[Shrine Maiden]].

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