Revenant (fiction)

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In fantasy fiction, the term revenant usually means a sentient creature whose desire to complete a goal (usually to avenge its death) allows it to return from the grave as a creature vaguely resembling an intelligent zombie. Another possibility is that a powerful wizard returns a dead hero from the past to make him go on a quest that no living human would dare to undertake. Such revenant may be just as intelligent as it was in life but its will is usually bound by the wizard who summons and controls it.

Revenants exist primarily in role-playing games and horror movies.

Examples

Al Simmons a.k.a. Spawn (Spawn)
Eric Draven a.k.a The Crow (The Crow)
Locke D'Averam (Revenant)
Revenant (Soul Calibur III)

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