spells that you would never want.

[NigelWalmsley]

I mean...yeah? I don't think I'd ever want to forcefully reanimate a dead body like that. Pretty sure that spell's got the [Evil] descriptor (most of the BoVD is nasty enough I don't keep that splat on my bookshelf, but I had it to reference for making villains).

That only means you can't cast it as a Cleric of a Good god. Relying on the alignment tags assigned to various things as any kind of morality is a path that leads only to madness. Also, it's not like you have to animate human (or even intelligent) corpses. Hard to see how "zombie bear" represents any great moral violation.

Well...they still take half damage, which means the second fireball is guaranteed to kill them on round 2. Hmm.

I like how you're trying to describe "I can spend twice as many spell slots to solve a problem" as a win for Fireball. Your whole post is basically "how contrived can I get away with my examples being", but that really takes the cake.