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* ''Creator/AbbottAndCostello in the Foreign Legion'' has Lou hallucinating a talking skeleton while in the desert.

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* ''Creator/AbbottAndCostello in the Foreign Legion'' has ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloInTheForeignLegion'': Lou hallucinating hallucinates a talking skeleton while in the desert.
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* ''Film/LostInAHarem'': While in the palace cell, Harvey runs into a skeleton chained to the wall, which briefly talks to him and freaks him out.
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* Fairly common in pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Comics Code]] horror, to the point where David Hajdu's ''The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!'' contains an entire essay on their usage and associated tropes. Hajdu's observation is that they typically appear to avenge their own deaths with as much poetic justice as possible.

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* Fairly common in pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode pre-[[MediaNotes/TheComicsCode Comics Code]] horror, to the point where David Hajdu's ''The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!'' contains an entire essay on their usage and associated tropes. Hajdu's observation is that they typically appear to avenge their own deaths with as much poetic justice as possible.
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** The Bakekujira is the animated skeleton of a ''[[NonHumanUndead whale]]'' feared as a harbinger of disaster for coastal villages, forever seeking vengeance against the humans that killed it.

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** The Bakekujira is the animated skeleton of a ''[[NonHumanUndead ''[[RaisingTheSteaks whale]]'' feared as a harbinger of disaster for coastal villages, forever seeking vengeance against the humans that killed it.
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* ''Art/ShippingLeviathanArkOfApocalypse'': Part of the ship's crew (as well as the scaffold) is made of human skeleton beings.

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* ''Art/ShippingLeviathanArkOfApocalypse'': Part ''Art/GothicTimes'': The main visual {{motif}} of all the {{sculptures}} is bones, particularly, skulls. In "Shipping Leviathan -- Ark of Apocalypse", part of the ship's crew (as well as the scaffold) is made of human skeleton beings.

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It's been decided that Manhua and Manhwa examples shall be placed into their own folders. Moving example to the correct section. Also I'm rewriting the example so it stands on its own.


* Similar to the above, we have the title character from the {{Manhwa}} ''Manhwa/SkeletonSoldierCouldntProtectTheDungeon''.


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* The title character from ''Manhwa/SkeletonSoldierCouldntProtectTheDungeon'' is a living skeleton who was brought back to life by a necromancer. One of the {{Driving Question}}s of the manhwa is who he was in life before being revived.
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* A skeleton does the "rap" in Music/{{Rush}}'s "Roll the Bones".

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* A skeleton does the "rap" in Music/{{Rush}}'s Music/{{Rush|Band}}'s "Roll the Bones".
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* ''Art/ShippingLeviathanArkOfApocalypse'': Part of the ship's crew (as well as the scaffold) is made of human skeleton beings.
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* In ''ComicBook/{{Seconds}}'', [[spoiler:the Seconds restaurant employs some walking, talking skeletons when reality starts to break apart]].

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* In ''ComicBook/{{Seconds}}'', ''ComicBook/Seconds2014'', [[spoiler:the Seconds restaurant employs some walking, talking skeletons when reality starts to break apart]].

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* ''TabletopGame/LEGOGames'': Skeletons are among the minifigures you can find in ''Monster 4''. You use them as wild cards; they act as one of the monsters you are placing in a row.


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* ''TabletopGame/LEGOGames'': Skeletons are among the minifigures you can find in ''Monster 4''. You use them as wild cards; they act as one of the monsters you are placing in a row. The game's official description says the monsters play with the skeletons, implying sentience.
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* ''TabletopGame/LEGOGames'': Skeletons are among the minifigures you can find in ''Monster 4''. You use them as wild cards; they act as one of the monsters you are placing in a row.
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* ''Series/IThinkYouShouldLeaveWithTimRobinson:'' "And it was also the night that the skeletons came to liiiiife!"[[note]]They'll pull your hair up, but not out.[[/note]]
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* ''Literature/SweetAndBitterMagic'': Arwyn has an army of skeletal animals under her control who she uses while hunting down criminal witches. They are incredibly creepy and very frightening to Wren.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Godforsaken}}'': Skeletons are the most common servants of Crumellia the necromancer. Some are human, many belong to the extinct sapients that once ruled Flevame, many more are animal, and quite a lot resemble nothing that ever lived [[WalkingOssuary and were likely created by Crumilia as macabre works of art from bits and pieces of other things]]. For the most part they are little more than mindless automatons.
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* In ''Music/TheBlackParade'' by ''Music/MyChemicalRomance'', the eponymous parade contains some of these among their number.

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* In The eponymous parade from the Music/MyChemicalRomance album ''Music/TheBlackParade'' by ''Music/MyChemicalRomance'', the eponymous parade contains some of these among their number.number, one of whom is featured in the album cover.



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* ''Literature/MermaidMoon'': Baroness Thyrla has [[ImmortalitySeeker prolonged her life by many years]] by stealing the remaining lifespans of other people, including her mother, her uncle, her husband, and all but one of her children. She keeps the bones of her victims in her bedroom, where they can speak and have limited movement. They act as her advisors.



* Al Sarrantonio's ''Skeletons'' involves a post-apocalyptic story where all of the dead (including the newly and antique dead) rise as skeletons surrounded by ghostly flesh and clothing.

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* Al Sarrantonio's ''Skeletons'' ''Literature/{{Skeletons}}'' involves a post-apocalyptic story where all of the dead (including the newly and antique dead) rise as skeletons surrounded by ghostly flesh and clothing.

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