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13	Sure, skeletons are scary, especially if they're still walking around. But, you want a real gross out factor? Try a living person (not undead) whose skeleton is partially visible. While a corpse, animate or not, showing bones is a natural sign of decay, a living body showing its skeleton is decidedly ''unnatural''.
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15	A bit medically improbable, so usually indicates magic or super-science. (Although a prosthetic that only [[SkeleBot9000 looks skeletal]] is very plausible.) Compare DemBones, supertrope of SkullForAHead. A common trait of {{Necromancer}}s. Often Overlaps with RedRightHand.
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22	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
23	* The twin babes born to Delia, Queen of Faeries in Creator/RalphBakshi's ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'' were diametric opposites: Avatar was the attractive cherub, while Blackwolf was the repulsive wraith with bare-bone arms. Both would mature into powerful wizards, destined to clash over the fate of the AfterTheEnd world.
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27	* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'': the audience's first actual look at the curse's effects is in the Port Royal jail, when the Bosun reaches through the bars to grab Jack Sparrow by the throat. A beam of moonlight shines onto the Bosun's arm, which turns it skeletal.
28	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
29	** In the prequel trilogy, Anakin Skywalker gets a mechanical replacement for most of an arm. It's first seen as a golden skeletal hand, but he usually covers it with a leather glove. Unlike his son Luke later, he does not get or receive a fake-skin covering for it (or the technology at the time can't do it yet).
30	** In the sequel trilogy, Luke Skywalker's mechanical hand that he got in the original trilogy looks somewhat skeletal, because the fake-skin covering has been worn off over time.
31	* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
32	** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': After the T-800 cuts away the skin and muscle on his arm to prove his origins, what's left is a skeletal armature made of metal "bones". In-universe this gives the sight a double punch: "my god, it's just bones but it still works!" followed instantly by "my god, it's a robot underneath!"
33	** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'': The T-800 gets his arm's metal bones fully exposed due to acid.
34	* ''Film/TotalRecall1990'': The Martian cabdriver who befriends Quaid turns out to be a mutant: one of his arms is grossly deformed, twice the normal length and skeletally thin so it looks like just skin over bones.
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38	* In ''Literature/TheDarkProfitSaga'': [[spoiler:Jynn's first attempt at channelling solamancy in decades sears the flesh from his hand, leaving a skeletal hand that he animates with noctomancy. His liche father tries to invoke it for a NotSoDifferentRemark.]]
39	* ''Literature/HarrowTheNinth'': When [[spoiler:Ianthe]]'s transplanted arm proves to be incompatible with her magic, Harrowhark cuts it off and grows a skeletal replacement out of [[spoiler:Ianthe]]'s own bone, with the bare minimum of nerves and tendons necessary to move it. She leaves the flesh off because [[BadWithTheBone bone magic]] is her preferred discipline of {{Necromanc\|er}}y, whereas she finds flesh magic crass. [[spoiler:Ianthe]] immediately finds it far more responsive than her old transplant, and later gets the bones plated with gold.
40	* In ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'': Hakram loses a hand in a fight with the Lone Swordsman, but the Warlock animates a skeletal appendage as a replacement. This earns Hakram the moniker Death-Hand (and apparently makes him a hit with the orkish ladies).
41	* In ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'': [[spoiler:After losing the skin on her right hand due to a HeroicRROD induced MagicMisfire, [[YouShallNotPass holding back]] a hoard of undead to protect a fellow adventurer. Ceria Springwalker find's she can still move it and use it to cast [[AnIcePerson ice magic]].]]
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44	[[folder:Music]]
45	* Toh Kay's "The Man With the Skeleton Arms" is about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a man with skeleton arms]]. He lost the flesh on his arms when he was caught in a fire started by the singer and his friend Flanagan, and his goal is to capture them and boil all the flesh off of their bodies ''except'' for on their arms.
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48	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
49	* Undead grafts in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' can include skeleton arms, and the Pale Master prestige class includes one.
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52	[[folder:Video Games]]
53	* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': Shinnok in his Necromancer variation removes flesh in his forearm, showing nothing but bones. Oddly (or hilariously), upon getting "finished", his arms revert back to normal.
54	* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': Marie's back has no skin and thus exposes her ribs and spine. This is likely because this is where the Skullheart is as it usually imbeds itself within the current Skullgirl. Sometimes her skin will peel off when performing certain attacks or getting hit. This is most notable with her hands and face.
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58	* ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'': Regina's wing was stripped to the bone in her first fight with Dan, and she periodically re-strips it when it regenerates because she likes the look.
59	* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': Jacob tears the flesh off his arm twice, and his face once, in his attempts to become "the zombie alive". Though it gets regenerated by white magic explosions.
60	* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': One AlternateUniverse version of Minmax is an OmnicidalManiac {{Ps\|ychicPowers}}ion whose arms are [[http://goblinscomic.com/comic/02222011-2/ replaced]] by skeletal HardLight constructs. He prefers to use his MindOverMatter powers, so their utility is unclear.
61	* There's a short comic on ''Webcomic/JohnnyWander'' called [[http://www.johnnywander.com/comic/girl-with-the-skeleton-hand-1 "Girl with the Skeleton Hand"]] about... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a woman with one skeletal hand]]. She used to have a regular hand, but a little accident on a blind date with the physical incarnation of death stripped away the flesh and tendons from her right hand. She doesn't appear to mind, and in the [[http://www.johnnywander.com/comic/girl-with-the-skeleton-hand-2-1 sequel]] she discovers that her skeleton hand allows her to [[TouchTheIntangible interact with ghosts]] the way her psychopomp date (and now partner) does.
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65	* ''WebVideo/BelkinusNecrohunt'':
66	** [[spoiler: Kara's]] left arm is nothing but bone, as the price for a Blood Siphon spell that didn't go as planned.
67	** [[spoiler: Chandrelle]] has a similar skeletal right arm, though they usually use Illusion magic to cover it up.
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71	* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': The evil {{Necromancer}} Mozenrath has a skeletal, albeit functional, right arm underneath the ArtifactOfDoom gauntlet that grants him his powers. It's implied that the gauntlet is draining his LifeEnergy and will [[ArtifactOfDeath eventually kill him]].
72	* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'': Prince Keldor's left arm from the forearm down was eroded down to the bone when he was cursed with the power of [[TheDarkSide Havoc]]. After fully embracing Havoc and becoming Skeletor, he keeps the bony left hand and also gets a SkullForAHead.
73	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the first segment of "Treehouse of Horror XIV", Homer's right arm turns skeletal (and gains the TouchOfDeath) when he becomes the new Grim Reaper.
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