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An animated skeleton is a type of corporeal undead often found in fantasy and horror fiction. Most are human skeletons, but they can also be from any race or creature found in that particular fantasy world. Skeletons might be given 'life' by a more powerful undead or necromancer.
When raised by another, skeletons are a mindless set of animated bones, brutal and virtually immune to a piercing attack that would only harm the flesh they lack. In many stories, legions of undead skeletons are raised as perfectly obedient and expendable foot-soldiers or guards. In the 1999 movie The Mummy, Imhotep controls skeletons for this purpose. With no free will or fear of death, they cannot disobey commands. Animated skeletons are not affected by many effects of spells and combat; they cannot be unconscious or tired.
Animated skeletons do have their weaknesses though. Since most skeletons are controlled by something else, they cannot make their own intelligent decisions. Physically, many role-playing games specify that blunt weapons, such as war hammers are effective at knocking the bones apart. In Dungeons & Dragons (and games it inspired), clerics also often have the ability to banish animated skeletons completely.
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