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In The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, there is a doctor who resort to magic in order to fight an ancient wizard who resurrected himself, but I don't recall if he was called a necromancer. Anyway, is an example of fighting an evil being with his own "evil" practices.

Richard from Looking for Group?

Does it need to be magic? Does Victor Frankenstein and Herbert Wes qualify?

In popular culture, necromancers usually work with the bodies of the dead, not their souls. Unless a characters that deals whit spirits is refered to as a necromancer, I wouldn't be calling him that.

Liliana Vess from Magic: the gathering. She is more pragmatic and amoral than actually evil.

Nice, me too.

I don't have images to prove it, but I recall that the scenes of the beach, the desert, Bruce's vision, the congress (both outside and inside), Lex house, Bruce house, the batcave, and the chase, all have establishing shots. Just an example. I don't want you to think good about this movie...

You are talking about the order of the shots? Because that is what an editor does.

I don't buy that the movie was too complicated, many things happened, but most where one after another, and many where too simplified. Im talking about give to one of the main characters some initiative instead of turning him into a puppet for the other characters.

I agree. The things I don't like about the movie feel like pandering to the audience: "Perry White commands Clark to do an article about a sports team for Gotham, so he can go there and see the consequences of Batman's actions by himself, but no, instead he watch it on the news while...