Necromantic: Difference between revisions

Unfortunately, they don't live in a world where people are [[Only Mostly Dead]] and [[Death Is Cheap]]. Nope, in their world, resurrection is [[Immortality Immorality|breaking]] the [[Scale of Scientific Sins|laws of Man and God]], making their goal more of a [[Tragic Dream]] than anything else. Thus, they delve into mysteries [[These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know|Man Is Not Meant to Know]] and things [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|quickly go downhill from there]]. Often they're willing to make a [[Deal With the Devil]] or bargain to free the [[Sealed Evil in A Can]] for this. [[Love Makes You Evil]] is often involved somewhere down the line.

 

 

Often the [[Replacement Goldfish]] is either the first step in the process or a fallback. They may become a [[Living Doll Collector]] if they keep the resulting monstrosities around as if they were fine.

* This is the motivation of antagonist Fei Wong Reed in [[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]] and ''[[XXX Holic]]''.

* In [[Pokémon]], the guy who made Mewtwo was a Necromantic. In order for Giovanni to fund his efforts to clone his dead daughter, he had to make him a [[Super Soldier]] as well.

* After Yuki's {{spoiler|parents}} die in ''[[Future Diary]]'', he decides to win the power of God in the survival game and bring them back to life.

** It should be noted that, unlike most examples, {{spoiler|he is told this is perfectly possible, and what's more is that he also intends to bring ''everyone'' back to life, not just his parents. Well, everyone who died in Royale at least.}}

* The trope is touched upon in the 1994 adaptation of ''Frankenstein''. Frankenstein resurrects his dead bride, to horrific effect, as she is a stumbling, barely-aware reanimated corpse.

* The eponymous Biollante from ''[[Godzilla]] vs. Biollante'' is an interesting variant on the end result, as the Necromantic character was ''intentionally'' trying to resurrect his loved one as a strange creature. By combining his daughter's DNA with that of a rose with psychic abilities and Godzilla, he was hoping to create a plant that contained her spirit and protected it with Godzilla's super-regeneration and near-indestructibility, making the new her virtually impossible to kill. It ''still'' ended up not being quite what he intended, though, as the Godzilla DNA made it a giant monster rather than merely [[Nigh Invulnerability|Nigh Invulnerable]].

* The film of ''[[Pet Sematary]]''. See Literature, below.

* The [[Mad Scientist]] in ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die|The Brain (Head) that Wouldn't Die]]'' isn't trying to ''resurrect'' his decapitated fiancée (as her head is still living), but he does some pretty villainous things while trying to "secure" her a body, all the while ignoring her piteous demands to [[Mercy Kill|be killed]]. (Of course, said body has to come from a freshly killed victim...)

* The plot of the Frankenstein retread ''Frankenhooker''.

 

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** The ''hero'' tries this in ''Shadow Hearts: Covenant'', despite being well aware of the above two examples. The best thing you can say about the result is that it doesn't try to kill him at least.

** In ''Shadow Hearts: From The New World'', the entire plot turns out to have been set in motion by someone attempting this {{spoiler|and actually ''succeeding'' for once, if only partially}}.

* Count Bleck from ''[[Super Paper Mario (Video Game)|Super Paper Mario]]'' almost has this as his motivation. However, even with all his power he can't bring his lover back, so he just decides to do the next best thing: Destroy all worlds. Sadly, he doesn't know until it's far too late that {{spoiler|she came back already, and is helping Mario defeat him}}.

* The {{spoiler|Second Chapter}} of ''[[La Pucelle]]: Tactics'' involves {{spoiler|A man turned monster who is that he can bring his dead wife if he finds a heart just like hers... by ripping out those of the living}}.

* Fairly early in ''[[Bullet Witch]]'', you discover that the events leading up to the game -- disastrous plague, demonic invasion, etc. -- were caused by such a character attempting to revive their loved one. A bit farther in, you discover that it was his daughter, not a lover. Towards the end... {{spoiler|You find out that it was Alicia's father, resurrecting her after a plane crash -- she seems to be [[Walking Techbane]] for aircraft. She came back to life as a super-powered witch with a mysterious demonic [[Ninja Butterfly]]... and he's spent the entire time since alive but in agony from being impaled, as the physical embodiment of the contract opening the demonic portal. She's been spending the time since fighting the demons to make up for her resurrection bringing them about in the first place... and has to kill him to finally close the portal and allow any chance of ending the demonic invasion once and for all.}}

* Lezard Valeth of ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'' is one of the more demented villains out there even before he discovers that valkyries are only active when the humans serving as their [[Soul Jar]] are killed. So he kills a few dozen female humans and elves to make homunculi for Lenneth Valkyrie to be incarnated into (it's never made clear how many, but at least a dozen homunculi are shown, and it's suggested it takes a few of both species to make just one), all so he can woo her. [[Karma Houdini|By the end of the game, he gets away with it, too.]]

* This happens in one of the endings to [[Silent Hill 2]] to {{spoiler|James, who, throughout, the game gathers several artifacts as part of a ritual to return his wife, Mary, back to life.}}

** The antagonist to [[Silent Hill 4]] isn't so much attempting to resurrect a loved one, as {{spoiler|transform an apartment into what he thinks of as his mother}}.