Why not? Yeah. I've been waiting for an ancient skeleton to get up off its throne and start tossing defilers around the crypt for some time now. Classic example: Conan The Barbarian. I was so sure the old king was gonna get up and thrash Conan's ass, but, he just flopped over all sad, instead. In the novels and comics, Conan had to Fight for that sword.
Skeletor put up a fight in Masters Of The Universe, but he's all muscular from the neck down, so that's kinda cheating the tradition of skeletal fighters.
