Misused: Army Of The Dead

The Spartans are the aggressors and are recruited before the fight. They can't be the cavellry so they don't count. Likewise the ones in B&B are summoned prebattle so they also aren't the cavellry.

The forsaken in World Of Warcraft are an undead people and army allied with the horde. They are not calvary at all nor are they random mooks to fight. They are just a normal, if occasionally unhinged, people with their own internal politics, goals and such.

edited 24th May '16 5:06:26 PM by Memers

They also aren't evil. The Horde vs. The Alliance is very much a grey on grey fight.

To be accurate, both factions are composed of people and sub-factions that are essentially all over the morality spectrum, though generally the ones who are really dark grey / outright-black are either an extremist minority that their comrades despise/distrust or don't last long in whatever positions of power/influence they may attain.

I'm not sufficiently familiar with the GOW series, so I defer to you on the details. That said, this is what I'm talking about, for clarity's sake.

EDIT: And it turns out Kratos has another "summon group of allies" magic spell.

edited 24th May '16 5:43:40 PM by MarqFJA

Even considering that the "good" equivalent of Mook is Red Shirt, I don't think we need a separate "Night of the Living Red Shirts" trope.

I don't see a reason why it's evil only. Especially if we are renaming it army of the dead.

Maybe we need to rework it entirely? The examples list is really damn small.

Summoning temporary followers that do things as a sort of cavalry are a thing in of itself not just Undead, its commonly undead, resurrection or ghosts simply because of convenience or returning killed off characters for a short time.

For say Druids in Warcraft 3 its Treants and they pretty much are exactly like all the rest of the examples on the page.

edited 24th May '16 10:10:45 PM by Memers

I don't think Night of the Living Mooks needs a rework. Maybe just clarify in the description that they good guys can use it.

Night of the Living Mooks needs a minor tweak. Not a complete overhaul.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks isn't actually an example as those were uniforms and suits of armour, not dead bodies.

So, does this trope only apply to "good" or allied-to-the-protagonist examples? There's a situation in Fire Emblem (7) where the final boss raises all of his fallen allies in a sort of boss rush, but it's treated with all the shock and horror that fighting the still-unique shades of the fallen would otherwise entail.

According to the playing with of The Cavalry, that would be an inversion.

edited 30th May '16 7:09:26 PM by iNfiniTeSe7eNz

Been a few months, so bumping.

For Army Of The Dead wicks, as of this post, we still have 158 to go.

Now down <100 wicks.

97 wicks to go now.

Now down to 45 wicks. This looks like it will be finished soon.

Finished with the rest of the wicks to Army Of The Dead. The only one remaining is someone else's sandbox.

Will holler for a lock.

What about the sandbox?

I know just enough about the character to know it's Night of the Living Mooks. Fixed and re-requesting lock.

Moved the discussion, now closing.