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Do ''not'' confuse with [[I Love the Dead|necro-romancer]].

 

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* The [[Big Bad]] of [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime)|the 2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' uses forbidden Human Transmutation and could be seen as a necromancer.

* Charles zi Britannia in [[Code Geass]] [[Nightmare of Nunnally]]'s Geass, "The Dead Rise," allows him to raise the dead to fight for him, creating soldiers that are virtually unkillable {{spoiler|unless he dies, at which point, they die too}}. He raised some of the best soldiers from the dead in order to claim the throne, including the current Knights of the Round.

* There are three in ''[[Naruto]]'' - {{spoiler|Orochimaru, the Second Hokage, and as of chapter 489, Kabuto.}} All use the Impure World Resurrection technique.

* The protagonist of ''[[Ghost Talkers Daydream]]'' works part-time as a necromancer. It mostly involves fighting ghosts, so there is no "evil sorcerer" part there. Yet for some reason, she considers her main job as a dominatrix way more respectable.

* 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]]).

* 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]]''

** By the time of ''[[Skyrim]]'', the Mages' Guild is long gone, and its equivalent in that game, the College of Winterhold, is just fine with teaching necromancy. Necromancy is also better represented mechanically - where previously the player could at best hope to get a Summon Zombie spell, ''Skyrim'' allows you to zombify specific dead things, up to and including [[Our Giants Are Bigger|giants]]. Granted, the two College members who practice it are a guy who wants to keep things on the down low and someone who was kicked out of Morthal because of a [[Noodle Incident]].

* A whole army of Necromancers are the primary antagonists in ''[[Nox]]''.

* Marona from ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' is the most adorable little girl around, who can summon the spirits of the dead in the forms of Phantoms. Despite what [[All of the Other Reindeer|Ivoire]] tells you, she's [[Dark Is Not Evil|not evil]]. Interestingly, there ''is'' a mercenary later in the game who summons skeletons and zombies; it's not the same thing.

** Nevertheless, in later ''[[Disgaea]]'' games, her mere presence can power up members of the party who are of [[The Undead]].

* {{spoiler|Dynos}} in [[Arc Rise Fantasia]], although before his name is revealed he's called the "Deathchanter".

* Roswell of [[Yggdra Union]], although he's not evil. {{spoiler|Nessiah}} is one of these as well.

* Orin of ''[[Touhou]]'' isn't actually a [[Catgirl|neko-romancer]], but she does have a lot of trappings of one, ordering spirits around and fighting with a troupe of "zombie" fairies (Touhou fairies are immortal, and these ones are just dressing up). The series' real necromancer is Seiga, who raised a [[Jiangshi]] subordinate, though Seiga doesn't do much with the dead otherwise.

* The MMO ''[[Rift]]'' also has Necromancers as one of the mage souls (classes). The backstory is that the soul comes from a heroic necromancer named Corthana. She had been kidnapped by the evil cult necromancers. She learned the magic of necromancy from them but was clever and took out all the parts that [[Big Bad|Regulos]] had snuck in to brainwash them into being his evil minions. When her paladin brother busts in to save her, she turns on the cultists, slaughters them with their own magic, and even tore out her own blood to heal her brother when he was injured. But as they fled, [[The Dragon|Regulos' high priest]] caught up with them and slew her brother, and in her rage she became an avatar of a lich and avenged him right then and there. By the time the game takes place in, her heroic deeds have redeemed the art of necromancy and the necromancer players are even praised for continuing her legacy (especially as Ascended necromancers seem to actually possess her [[Ghost Memory|knowledge and memories]].)

 

== Web Comics ==

* Xykon from [[Order of the Stick]].

** And also his newest major minion, [[Nightmare Fetishist|Tsukiko]], who not only creates the undead but... likes them too.

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