![]() ![]() Shishio, Yumi, and Hoji are also depicted in this Hell shortly after their deaths, quite cheerful about it and setting off to conquer the place.Rurouni Kenshin: Hell is depicted as full of mountains of skulls during Kenshin's Heroic BSoD, he imagines himself there as Shishio taunts him.His throne, which has a skull motif, is sitting right on top of it. Sengoku Basara: Demon King Nobunaga has a giant pile of skulls in his throne room.In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Badass Biker Mukuro Enjo uses a deck with skull-themed monsters, mostly skulls that are on fire.For skulls (usually animal ones) that are mostly seen alone, without the rest of the skeleton or other skulls, see Desert Skull and Sinister Deer Skull.Īfter reading this page, skull will no longer sound like a word. Beware the Skull Base refers to when skulls and skeletal aesthetics contribute to the design of a sinister location, whether it be a natural skull or an artificial one. Skeletons in the Coat Closet is for when skulls and other bones are used as accessories and on clothing. Whatever the case, when warlords and writers want to evoke terror, they create gargantuan piles of Nothing But Skulls. It's also what you're left with when you take heads as trophies and leave the rest on the battlefield. While a given human has multiple of the majority of other bones (and the most visible exception, the spine, takes up a lot more room per victim). Or perhaps it's the fact that skulls represent a one-to-one ratio of bones to corpses, giving an instant clue on how many lives must have (been) ended to produce this. It helps too that skulls stack up so neatly. Other bones do not carry the same emotive weight few people could identify a human kneecap on sight, let alone associate it with atrocities. A human skull is instantly recognizable, making it a powerful symbol of death. ![]() ![]() There are good narrative and practical reasons for this. It doesn't matter whether the victims were killed by ancient death traps, man-eating monsters or barbarian hordes nothing remains but the skull. ![]() The rest of the bones vanish without explanation. ![]()
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