Basic Trope: One who resurrects dead beings.
- Straight: Neko summons The Undead.
- Exaggerated: Neko raises an army of the dead and runs a Zombie Apocalypse with them.
- Downplayed:
- Neko resurrects a dead person.
- Neko doesn't 'resurrect' anyone: the skeletons are all animated by the tiniest amount of magic puppeteering their joints. They're still as dead as they day they died.
- Justified:
- Neko wants to resurrect her love.
- Neko falls in love with dead bodies.
- Neko wants to establish a world ruled by the dead.
- Neko is plotting to avenge the dead by giving them a chance to deliver a Karmic Death.
- Neko is a Mad Scientist and she toys with the dead for the sake of science, or simply finds it amusing.
- Neko's religion of Proud Warrior Race Guys believes that not reanimating a mighty warrior after they die is basically saying they have no more use for them. To be reanimated is the greatest glory that can be bestowed upon the soldiers of Neko's culture, even if ultimately they're empty husks. Once their undead bodies are damaged beyond repair, they're given a proper sendoff.
- Neko has the power to talk to the souls of dead people. She can occasionally talk one into or out of a corpse (usually their own, or failing that, a refurb) as the need arises. When she does that, she provides the body with a spark of Life Energy; just enough for it to walk around and not enough for them to cause trouble if they decide to double-cross her.
- Neko needs some very dangerous tasks carried out and would prefer not to have anyone die in the process. Sending those who are already dead limits the risk.
- Inverted:
- Clara puts the undead back to where they belong.
- Neko uses her powers to lay the dead back to rest after something stirs them up. Sometimes it's just the afterlife equivalent of waking up at 3AM and not being able to go back to sleep, sometimes the little ones need a bedtime story, and sometimes their great-grandson sold the farm. Sometimes, a lost soul needs to be guided back home to be at peace. Sometimes an Eldritch Abomination dropped something and woke everyone up.
- Subverted: It turns out Neko doesn't have actual power to resurrect the dead.
- Double Subverted:
- Then the dead still arise and obeys Neko.
- Even though Neko cannot resurrect a dead person directly, she still can clone deceased people and manipulate them.
- Parodied:
- Neko resurrects a dead cat and calls herself Neko The Neko-Romancer.
- Neko resurrects a dead thread.
- Zig Zagged: Neko the Necromancer is accused of this but she just speaks to them. However she can still call spirits to her. Any animation of the bodies is the accord of the dead themselves - although nearly all possessed bodies stay in a deathly stupor unless given reason and made aware of it usually by a Necromancer.
- Averted: There is no necromancer.
- Enforced:
- The creator wants to explore the topic of life and death, so they employed Neko.
- The creator is in need of a Knight of Cerebus to create a serious atmosphere, and they found manipulation on death intimidating.
- Lampshaded: "Maybe you should learn more about recycling."
- Invoked: Neko reads dozens of books, hoping to become a necromancer.
- Exploited:
- Clara asks Neko to raise the dead body, while Clara grinds them over and over again for experience.
- Dan, a mind controller, taunts Neko to raise the dead, so she does and Dan immediately controls them all, giving him an advantage.
- Defied:
- Clara deliberately burns every dead body on sight to prevent Neko from messing with them.
- Neko tries to resurrect the dead, only to realize that it simply doesn't work in real life.
- Discussed: "Oh yes, why is Neko beckoning the dead? Does she literally romance the dead?"
- Conversed: "Clara, death will not protect you, for I will bring you here, over and over again!"
- Deconstructed:
- Neko has spent her entire life looking after the dead and resurrecting them, but in the end, she is unable to resurrect herself in her deathbed.
- Neko, a Dark Magical Girl with Friendless Background, resorts to resurrecting the dead, wishing to have a friend, and yet her behavior brings nothing but a great disdain from the others.
- Necromancers tend to very die very often not because of angry mobs burning them alive for their blasphemy against life, heroic knights or holymen, or even their own creations turning against them but disease from handling decaying bodies when they are even more rotten then when they were first put into the ground. And that is before the side effects of their dark magic enervating them.
- Reconstructed:
- Neko then decides to turn herself into an immortal Lich and continues her career.
- Neko learns that a true friendship does not come from puppeting the dead, and she finally gets her first friend: a lich awoken by her.
- Actually malevolent necromancers can bend those diseases to their will, provided they survive them. It may even be an integral part of learning to be a better necromancer; dying from a corpse-borne illness and coming back as a festering Revenant Zombie in order to "go and see the elephant" as it were.
- Played For Laughs: Neko brings up a botnet controlled by her army of dead cats to give her an unfair advantage in a MMORPG, her in-game class also happens to be a necromancer.
- Played For Drama:
- Alice, Clara's best friend died protecting the latter from the Evul Empire. A year later, Neko, a Dragon of Emperor Evulz, reanimates Alice into a sentient undead and forces her to kill Clara, tormenting Alice's soul in the process. This pushes Clara into a severe Heroic BSoD because she can't bring herself to Mercy Kill Alice.
- Neko, a member of the religion mentioned under Justified and perhaps the friendliest, most adorable little
Lawful Good cinnamon bun ever, is still disparaged as pure evil due to her being a necromancer and treated horribly in the party she joins. - Something is stirring up the dead really bad, in all senses of the word. Each restless soul-and there's a lot of them-is in a near-maddened state of pure terror, and Neko can barely keep up.
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