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* A minor villain in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' is the mad priest Basillus, who lost his family at Zhentil Keep, went mad, and then went on a mass-murdering spree and raised the corpses as zombies and skeletons in the belief that they are his dead family. The PlayerCharacter can hunt him down as a side quest, and if you pick the right dialogue options first you can break Basillus' control over them and make the inevitable fight a ''lot'' easier as a result.
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* In ''Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes'', the title character is trying to avenge his wife's (Creator/Caroline Munro in an early, non-speaking role) death. In ''Dr. Phibes Rises Again'', he's done that and is now trying to bring her back using Ancient Egyptian magic (with the added bonus of getting eternal life for the pair of them). At the end of the film, he [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech explains to his nemesis]] why [[NotSoDifferentRemark they're not only similar]], but Phibes actually holds the moral high ground.

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* In ''Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes'', the title character is trying to avenge his wife's (Creator/Caroline Munro (Creator/CarolineMunro in an early, non-speaking role) death. In ''Dr. Phibes Rises Again'', he's done that and is now trying to bring her back using Ancient Egyptian magic (with the added bonus of getting eternal life for the pair of them). At the end of the film, he [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech explains to his nemesis]] why [[NotSoDifferentRemark they're not only similar]], but Phibes actually holds the moral high ground.
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* In ''Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes'', the title character is trying to avenge his wife's death. In ''Dr. Phibes Rises Again'', he's done that and is now trying to bring her back using Ancient Egyptian magic (with the added bonus of getting eternal life for the pair of them). At the end of the film, he [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech explains to his nemesis]] why [[NotSoDifferentRemark they're not only similar]], but Phibes actually holds the moral high ground.

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* In ''Film/TheAbominableDrPhibes'', the title character is trying to avenge his wife's (Creator/Caroline Munro in an early, non-speaking role) death. In ''Dr. Phibes Rises Again'', he's done that and is now trying to bring her back using Ancient Egyptian magic (with the added bonus of getting eternal life for the pair of them). At the end of the film, he [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech explains to his nemesis]] why [[NotSoDifferentRemark they're not only similar]], but Phibes actually holds the moral high ground.
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* Downplayed in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury''. [[spoiler:Ericht isn't technically dead, but has no physical body - Elnora aka Prospera Mercury was forced to [[EmergencyTransformation transform her mind into a living Permet field inhabiting the Gundam Aerial]] in order to keep her alive. Prospera's ultimate goal is to use Quiet Zero to create a powerful enough Permet field that Ericht will be able to physically manifest, fully restoring her to life. While Suletta Mercury is a clone of Ericht, her creation was a means to that end rather than an example of this trope, with Prospera seeing her more like a tool than a daughter.]]
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* ''VisualNovel/Case03TrueCannibalBoy'': Marty [[spoiler: uses the goddess extract from ''VideoGame/Case02ParanormalEvil'' to bring back Sally as a zombified head after the Cannibal Boy ate her body. He then becomes a SerialKiller trying to find a replacement body for Sally]].

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* In Myth/EgyptianMythology Isis tries unsuccessfully to bring her husband Osiris back to life but fails to because his brother Set ripped his dead body apart and a fish eats the penis. Isis is by no means a villain though.
** Isis then conceived Horus with her dead husband (yes, after he was dead, and without his original penis), who avenges his murdered father.
* In the Armenian folktale of Ara the Handsome, Ara is the king of Armenia and the most handsome man in the land. The Queen of Assyria, Semiramis, hears about how handsome he is and asks him to marry her, but he refuses because he already has a wife. Angry, Semiramis declares war on Armenia and orders her soldiers to bring Ara back alive. However, Ara dies in battle. Semiramis attempts to resurrect him by calling upon wolf spirits to lick his wounds and heal him, but the sorcery is unsuccessful.

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* In Myth/EgyptianMythology Isis tries unsuccessfully to bring her husband Osiris back to life but fails to because after his body was dismembered by his brother Set ripped his dead body apart and a fish eats the ate his penis. She succeeds in conceiving their son Horus with him (after making a prosthetic penis out of gold for him) and reviving him for only a brief amount of time before he returns to the underworld to become its king. Isis is by no means a villain villain, though.
** Isis then conceived Horus with her dead husband (yes, after he was dead, and without his original penis), who avenges his murdered father.
* In the Armenian folktale of Ara the Handsome, Ara is the king of Armenia and the most handsome man in the land. The Queen of Assyria, Semiramis, hears about how handsome he is and asks him to marry her, but he refuses because he already has a wife. Angry, Semiramis declares war on Armenia and orders her soldiers to bring Ara back alive. However, Ara dies in battle. Semiramis attempts to resurrect him by calling upon wolf spirits to lick his wounds and heal him, but the sorcery is unsuccessful. It's theorized that this was a revision after the rise of Christianity in the region to discredit the idea of anyone but UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} returning to life; in earlier versions of the story, Semiramis's sorcery succeeded and Ara was resurrected.
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* Sinner, an antagonist from the first ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' [[LightNovels light novel]], carried around the long-past-decayed corpse of his daughter Lynthia in hopes that he would be able to bring her back to life after she succumbed to a curse. Unfortunately, he's also AxCrazy and refuses to believe that she's even dead (until Shannon beats seven shades of hell out of him).

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* Sinner, an antagonist from the first ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'' [[LightNovels light novel]], carried around the long-past-decayed corpse of his daughter Lynthia in hopes that he would be able to bring her back to life after she succumbed to a curse. Unfortunately, he's also AxCrazy and refuses to believe that she's even dead (until Shannon beats seven shades of hell out of him).



* A story arc in ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Slayers NEXT]]'' features a wizard making a pact with mazoku in order to resurrect his lover. He succeeds, but she awakens in a zombie-like state [[MercyKill begging to be sent back]]. Needless to say, things do not end well.

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* A story arc in ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} ''[[Literature/{{Slayers}} Slayers NEXT]]'' features a wizard making a pact with mazoku in order to resurrect his lover. He succeeds, but she awakens in a zombie-like state [[MercyKill begging to be sent back]]. Needless to say, things do not end well.
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** Th eanime also hints that [[spoiler:the homunculus ''is'' the person who was supposed to be brought back]]. By the end, Lust is thoroughly convinced of this while Sloth is scared to death of the possibility; [[spoiler:it's why she wants to kill the Elrics so much: no mother would do such a thing, thus differentiating herself from Trisha]].

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** Th eanime The anime also hints that [[spoiler:the homunculus ''is'' the person who was supposed to be brought back]]. By the end, Lust is thoroughly convinced of this while Sloth is scared to death of the possibility; [[spoiler:it's why she wants to kill the Elrics so much: no mother would do such a thing, thus differentiating herself from Trisha]].
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* In ''Literature/TheFindersStoneTrilogy'', the wizards Cassana and Zrie Prakis were once lovers, but the relationship soured to the point that they tried to kill each other. Cassana succeeded, only to reanimate Prakis as a {{lich}} so they could continue their relationship. Prakis hates this as his continued existence is tied to Cassana's wand, effectively making him her slave, and he tries to convince one of the protagonists to help him overthrow Cassana so he can finally be free of her control. [[spoiler:When Prakis finally dies for good, he spends his last moments triumphantly laughing and telling Cassana to die.]]
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* Shows up again in the Ashen Wolves sidestory in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': [[spoiler:A monk that previously worked at the Church of Seiros hatches a plan that spans the whole story: he sends off Byleth and their students to [[MacguffinDeliveryService risk their lives and get him an ancient artifact]]. He then initiates a [[BloodMagic blood sacrifice ritual]] in order to feed the artifact and revive, of all people, Byleth's mother, as he loves her so dearly. The ritual fails and the artifact eats him alive.]]
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' has two, [[spoiler:Lyon and Orson]]. [[spoiler:Lyon]] becomes possessed by [SealedEvilInACan Fomortiis]] when he attempts to use Grado's Sacred Stone to revive his late father Vigarde, who is revived as a soulless zombie. He promises [[spoiler:Orson]] that he'll revive his wife if he does a FaceHeelTurn. By the time he gets his "wife" back, he's too crazy to [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable notice she's just a reanimated corpse.]]

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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' has two, [[spoiler:Lyon and Orson]]. [[spoiler:Lyon]] becomes possessed by [SealedEvilInACan [[SealedEvilInACan Fomortiis]] when he attempts to use Grado's Sacred Stone to revive his late father Vigarde, who is revived as a soulless zombie. He promises [[spoiler:Orson]] that he'll revive his wife if he does a FaceHeelTurn. By the time he gets his "wife" back, he's too crazy to [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable notice she's just a reanimated corpse.]]
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' has two, [[spoiler:Lyon and Orson]]. [[spoiler:Lyon]] becomes possessed by SealedEvilInACan when he attempts to use said can to revive his late father, who is revived as a soulless zombie. He promises [[spoiler:Orson]] that he'll revive his wife if he does a FaceHeelTurn. By the time he gets his "wife" back, he's too crazy to [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable notice she's just a reanimated corpse.]]

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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' has two, [[spoiler:Lyon and Orson]]. [[spoiler:Lyon]] becomes possessed by SealedEvilInACan [SealedEvilInACan Fomortiis]] when he attempts to use said can Grado's Sacred Stone to revive his late father, father Vigarde, who is revived as a soulless zombie. He promises [[spoiler:Orson]] that he'll revive his wife if he does a FaceHeelTurn. By the time he gets his "wife" back, he's too crazy to [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable notice she's just a reanimated corpse.]]

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