No Budget Films
Miniature Menace
"Unless we strike back at the stink of society, then we ourselves will be struck down."
Shrunken Skeleton
Fact File
Species: Undead miniature human
Size: 15 inches, 2.5 feet, 5.8 feet (varies)
Weapons: Fear tactics, cunning, sharp claws, unnatural strength, Magnaroth beams (when charged by the Magnaroth Crystal)
Weaknesses: Small size, frail, overconfidence
Favorite hobbies: Attacking humanity
Special skills: Detachable body parts, can enter a healing sleep to restore his body
Pet peeves: Recycling bins, children
Description
Once a mistreated man who went about causing mischief and misery in his anger at society, before making the mistake of tangling with a sorceress. She transformed him into a hideous living skeleton, cursed to roam the Earth and shrink until he eventually fades into nothingness. This only caused the skeleton more anguish and rage, prompting him to attack humankind all the more savagely. The skeleton uses fear to its advantage, using scare tactics to render its victims too frightened to fight back. However, if the fear the skeleton relies on his somehow overcome, its advantage quickly disappears as it is actually quite frail and weak in battle. This is not the case, however, if the skeleton is at full size. In this state, he is powerful enough to go toe to toe against two fully grown men. The Shrunken Skeleton speaks in a raspy, echoing voice which it uses to threaten and intimidate its opponents.
After failing to finish off its last three victims—Tim, Shotaro, and Kai—the skeleton enters a deep sleep and reawakens years later with a new goal in mind: retrieve the mysterious Magnaroth Crystal, and harness its awesome power for himself.
Trivia
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The Shrunken Skeleton was the very first original villain of No Budget Films.
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Before Return of the Curse of the Shrunken Skeleton, I had made a half-baked attempt at writing an origin story for the skeleton—originally, he was supposed to be a frail old hermit who was picked on by the local children, which is how he later came to hate children and attacked them.