Many games have even tougher skeletons that are colored red. Expect, in the spirit of a Zombie Minotaur, to find double-category monsters, like a skeletal mammoth or dragon.
Often enough, Dem Bones are reused in the same game à la Underground Monkey. Skeletal spellcasters who are not liches are rare ( in cases where "skeletal spellcaster" isn't the outright ''definition'' of a lich, that is), but not nonexistent. When they aren't Mooks, they're usually liches, which are much nastier, because they tend to be powerful mages. Their prevalence in Role Playing Games is owed to Dungeons & Dragons, which established them as the slaves of necromancers. There are human, non-human, and weirder variants, and in 99% of their appearances, they're enemy Mooks. Of course you don't actually count, 'cuz you have flesh and organs over those bones. There's a skeleton inside you right now!. We call 'em "Dem Bones".Īnd wouldn't you know. Thus, these creatures are firmly inhabitants of Fantasy works.
A likely explanation for their ability to see and hear, not to mention move without any muscles, and indeed their status as Perpetual Motion Monsters is a necromancer used Functional Magic to raise and operate them. They're cousins to the Zombie in spirit, but remain explicitly separated in the public consciousness by the lack of flesh and other juicy bits. Animate beings constructed from ossific material in their entirety are a very common form of The Undead in video games, but much rarer in other media, to the point where, as an object of fear, they have become slightly camp.
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