Necromancy/Examples

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Examples

Known Users

Mythology/Folklore

• Hades/Pluto (Greco-Roman mythology).
• Hecate/Triivia (Greco-Roman mythology).
• Hel/Hela (Norse mythology).

Literature

• Count Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula).
• Sauron (Lord of the Rings).
• The Chronicles of Prydain:
  • Arawn Death-Lord
  • The Horned King
  • The Cauldron Born
• Stephen King:
  • Randall Flagg (The Dark Tower).
  • Wendigo (Pet Sematary).
• Harry Potter:
  • Lord Voldemort
  • Lord Voldemort's Inferi army.

Comic Books

• Nekron (DC Comics).
• Marvel Comics:
  • Hela
  • Morgan le Fay
• Spawn:
• Violater
  • The Phlebiac Brothers
• Nerissa (W.I.T.C.H.).

Live-Action

• Evil Dead:
  • The Dark Ones
    • Ruby
  • The Kandarian Demon/Evil Force/Kandar
  • The Deadites
  • Evil Ash
• Thriller (Michael Jackson's Thriller).
• Harry Potter:
  • Lord Voldemort
  • Lord Voldemort's Inferi army.
• Fading of the Cries:
  • Mathias
  • Zombies
• Hela Odinsdottir (Thor: Ragnarok).
• A Game of Thrones:
  • The Night King
  • The Wights
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides:
  • Blackbeard
  • Blackbeard's Zombie Officers

Cartoons

• Chernabog (Disney's Fantasia).
• Disney's The Black Cauldron:
  • Arawn Death-Lord
  • The Horned King
  • The Cauldron Born
• Mumm-Ra (Thundercats).
• Mozenrath (Aladdin: The Animated Series).
• The Pastmaster (Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron).
• Aku (Samurai Jack).
• The Lich (Adventure Time).
• Grogar (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic).
• Old Daka (Star Wars: The Clone Wars).

Anime/Manga

• Zombie Master (Yu-Gi-Oh).
• Orochimaru (Naruto).
• Kabuto Yakushi (Naruto).
• Gekko Moria (One Piece).
• Urasue (Inuyasha).
• Kagura (Inuyasha).

Videogames

• Ganondorf (The Legend of Zelda).
• Mortal Kombat:
  • Lord Shinnok
  • The Brotherhood of Shadow
  • Quan Chi
  • Onaga the Dragon King
  • The Dragon King's Army
  • Lord Raiden
• Zarok (MediEvil).
• God of War:
  • Kratos; via Army of Hades, Claws of Hades and Soul of Hades
  • Hades
• Warcraft:
  • Arthas Menethil
  • Lich King
  • Kel'Thuzad
  • Ner'zhul
  • Sylvanas Windrunner
• Swan (Lollipop Chainsaw).

Known Objects

Live-Action

• The Necronomicon (Lovecraft).
• The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Evil Dead).
• 2-4-6 Trioxion (Return of the Living Dead).
• Pet Sematary (Stephen King's Pet Sematary (both 1989 film adaptation and its 2019 movie remake)).
• Disney's Hocus Pocus:
  • The Spellbook
  • The Black Flame Candle
• The Book of the Dead (The Mummy).
• The Rising (Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice).
• The Rune of Seralean (Fading of the Cries).

Anime/Manga

• The Shikon Jewel (Inuyasha).
• Kagura's fan (Inuyasha).

Videogames

• Mortal Kombat:
  • The Amulet of Shinnok
  • The Crown of Kronika
  • Soulnado
  • The Dragon King's Heart

Known Places

Literature

• Pet Sematary (Stephen King's Pet Sematary).