Tropescilloscope: Our Zombies Are Different

This work has its own rules and conventions about how zombies are portrayed. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Bullying a Dragon Leitmotif As Himself Big Fancy House Early-Bird Cameo No Celebrities Were Harmed Animated Credits Opening Intergenerational Friendship Novelization Rule of Three Music Stories Karma Houdini Age Lift Corrupt Corporate Executive Shoot the Shaggy Dog Insane Troll Logic Villain Ball Roaring Rampage of Revenge Shout-Out The Ace Conspicuous CG Vacation Films Mythology Gag Artistic License – Physics The Lancer Put on a Bus Fire-Forged Friends Car Fu Historical-Domain Character Developing Doomed Characters The Film of the Book All Men Are Perverts Rape as Drama What Happened to the Mouse? The Atoner 20 Minutes into the Future Happily Married Killed Mid-Sentence Missing Mom Narrator Chekhov's Gun Guns Akimbo Recycled IN SPACE! Translation Convention Eagleland She Cleans Up Nicely Hair-Trigger Temper Red Shirt Evil Brit Costume Porn Calling the Old Man Out World of Ham Grievous Bottley Harm Would Hurt a Child Meaningful Name Author Avatar Have a Gay Old Time Does This Remind You of Anything? Death by Adaptation Villain Opening Scene Anyone Can Die Reality Is Unrealistic Bring My Brown Pants Cool Old Guy Military and Warfare Films Unspoken Plan Guarantee What the Hell, Hero? Deal with the Devil Badass Bookworm Big Damn Heroes Victoria's Secret Compartment Driven to Suicide Pretty Little Headshots Protagonist Title Not What It Looks Like Unreliable Narrator Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun MacGuffin How We Got Here As You Know Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Not So Stoic Worthy Opponent You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Sci-Fi Horror Loophole Abuse The Alleged Car Poor Communication Kills The '70s Meet Cute Ungrateful Bastard Word of God Plot Hole Creator Cameo Documentary Alliterative Name Body Horror Red Right Hand Big Eater Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Soft Glass Sassy Black Woman Actually Pretty Funny Eureka Moment The X of Y From Nobody to Nightmare Punch-Clock Villain Fingore Rule of Cool Psychological Thriller Cassandra Truth Karmic Death Animal Motifs Funny Background Event Scenery Gorn Star-Crossed Lovers Curb-Stomp Battle Taking You with Me Rasputinian Death Vitriolic Best Buds Psychopathic Manchild You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Noodle Incident Genre Throwback Advertised Extra Auto Erotica Downer Ending Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Maybe Ever After Central Theme Nothing Is Scarier Russian Films Combat Pragmatist Funny Foreigner Really Gets Around Jerk with a Heart of Gold Cruel and Unusual Death The Stinger "Well Done, Son!" Guy I Did What I Had to Do Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Let's Get Dangerous! Rated M for Manly Bond One-Liner Japanese Films Deus ex Machina Children Are Innocent Framing Device Beard of Evil Everyone Has Standards Face Death with Dignity Punny Name The Voiceless No OSHA Compliance Celebrity Paradox Hero of Another Story Pay Evil unto Evil Blood from the Mouth Crazy Jealous Guy Homage Defrosting Ice Queen Aluminum Christmas Trees Hoist by His Own Petard Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Stylistic Suck Mad Scientist Fantasy Films Morality Pet Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dramatic Irony Sequel Escalation I'm a Humanitarian Mooks Male Frontal Nudity Those Wacky Nazis Agony of the Feet In Medias Res Arc Words Adaptational Badass The Place Cool Car Retirony Pyrrhic Victory Jerkass Alpha Bitch Crazy-Prepared Take a Third Option Love at First Sight May–December Romance Last-Name Basis Stepford Smiler Honor Before Reason Anachronic Order Big Applesauce One-Word Title The Smurfette Principle Manipulative Bastard Artistic License – Law Pre-Mortem One-Liner My Beloved Smother Freudian Excuse Character Development Gone Horribly Right Index of Film Westerns "Awesome McCool" Name Red Herring Psycho for Hire Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane More Dakka Eyepatch of Power Irony Epic Fail Handicapped Badass Knight Templar Badass Longcoat Overly Long Gag Gory Discretion Shot Camera Abuse Berserk Button Fanservice Extra Catapult Nightmare Malevolent Masked Men Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Heroic BSoD Major Injury Underreaction Gilligan Cut Disney Villain Death Only in It for the Money Chewing the Scenery Coming-of-Age Story Anti-Hero Decoy Protagonist Science Fiction Films The Ghost Final Girl Bald of Evil Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Distracted by the Sexy Fainting Pragmatic Villainy Arranged Marriage The Hero Double Entendre Only a Flesh Wound Beware the Nice Ones Awesome, but Impractical Parental Incest Evil vs. Evil Police are Useless Public Domain Feature Films Closed Circle Offscreen Moment of Awesome Big Brother Instinct Heterosexual Life-Partners Humans Are Bastards Covers Always Lie Parental Neglect Card-Carrying Villain Beauty Is Never Tarnished '80s Hair Accidental Misnaming Chekhov's Gunman No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Casting Gag Hypocrite Soundtrack Dissonance Bad Boss Papa Wolf Genre Savvy Wrong Genre Savvy Brainless Beauty Mood Whiplash Male Gaze Room Full of Crazy BFG Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Mr. Fanservice Dirty Cop Big Bad Duumvirate Disappeared Dad Evil Laugh Blackmail Fanservice Slashed Throat Adorkable An Aesop Loads and Loads of Characters This Is Gonna Suck Trailers Always Spoil A Father to His Men Retired Badass Butt-Monkey Asshole Victim There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Brute Determinator aka: The Determinator Failed a Spot Check Suspiciously Similar Substitute Large Ham All Girls Want Bad Boys Mama Bear British Films French Films Sacrificial Lion Ambiguous Ending Hidden Depths Riddle for the Ages Race Lift Manly Tears Cool Shades Nice Hat I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Broken Pedestal Good Is Not Nice Danny Peary Cult Movies List Red Oni, Blue Oni Cool Guns Properly Paranoid Action Prologue Shipper on Deck Left the Background Music On Film Series No Name Given Actor Allusion Artistic License – Biology Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Silence Is Golden "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Stalker with a Crush Evil Plan Mystery and Detective Films In Name Only Important Haircut My God, What Have I Done? Better to Die than Be Killed Lock and Load Montage Scenery Porn Took a Level in Jerkass Pet the Dog Big-Bad Ensemble Captain Obvious The Vamp Dual Wielding In the Back Foreshadowing The Cavalry Adaptational Villainy Only Known by Their Nickname Daylight Horror Leave the Camera Running The Oner Tempting Fate Bilingual Bonus Disguised in Drag Love Triangle Aside Glance Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Slasher Movie Lampshade Hanging It's Personal Breaking the Fourth Wall Artistic License – Geography Only Sane Man The Load Captain Ersatz Kids Are Cruel Cluster F-Bomb Four-Temperament Ensemble Leaning on the Fourth Wall Evil Is Hammy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Not Using the "Z" Word The Reveal Evil Counterpart Dutch Angle Spiritual Successor Canon Foreigner Adaptation Expansion Taking the Bullet Didn't Think This Through Dropped a Bridge on Him Fake Shemp True Companions Grey and Gray Morality Dogged Nice Guy Italian Films Wham Shot Darkest Hour Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bittersweet Ending Unresolved Sexual Tension Badass Normal Dumb Blonde Informed Ability Ascended Extra Yandere Getting Crap Past the Radar Double-Meaning Title Bloodless Carnage The '90s Animal Title Index No-Sell Death Glare Depraved Bisexual The Quiet One Imagine Spot Outrun the Fireball Television Movie Index Chase Scene Idiot Ball Creepy Child Disney Death Dark Is Not Evil Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Big Bad Our Zombies Are Different Mind Screw Shell-Shocked Veteran Very Loosely Based on a True Story Peek-a-Boo Corpse Take That! Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Based on a True Story Precision F-Strike Instant Death Bullet Never Trust a Trailer Redemption Equals Death Offscreen Teleportation Mr. Exposition Unwitting Instigator of Doom Brick Joke Eye Scream Off with His Head! Earn Your Happy Ending Film Noir Index Vomit Discretion Shot The Ditz Daddy's Girl Every Car Is a Pinto Bad "Bad Acting" Bloodier and Gorier Parental Substitute Dramatic Gun Cock Those Two Guys The Musical The Lost Lenore Thriller Obviously Evil Even Evil Has Standards Those Two Bad Guys Stealth Hi/Bye Serious Business Our Vampires Are Different Expy Undying Loyalty Gender Flip Older Than They Look Author Appeal An Axe to Grind La Résistance Exactly What It Says on the Tin Mugging the Monster Product Placement Title Drop Sole Survivor Break the Haughty Took a Level in Badass Made of Iron Genre Shift Adapted Out Rule of Symbolism Vampire Fiction Mercy Kill Naïve Newcomer Evil Is Petty What You Are in the Dark The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Abhorrent Admirer Fish out of Water Interrupted Suicide Needs Wiki Magic Love Race Against the Clock Stock Footage Get Out! B-Movie Pimped-Out Dress Badass Boast Suspiciously Specific Denial Did Not Get the Girl Cold-Blooded Torture Cowboy Cop Overprotective Dad Oh, Crap! Revenge The Dragon The '80s I Have Your Wife Sports Stories Adaptational Attractiveness Batman Gambit Big "NO!" The Bully Insistent Terminology Extremely Short Timespan Ms. Fanservice Dying Moment of Awesome Stuff Blowing Up Reckless Gun Usage Extreme Doormat Fourth Date Marriage Fate Worse than Death Cloudcuckoolander Demoted to Extra The '60s Time Skip Your Head A-Splode Historical Hero Upgrade Arch-Enemy Brutal Honesty After the End Wretched Hive Hope Spot Armor-Piercing Question Neck Snap Truth in Television Betty and Veronica Self-Deprecation Face–Heel Turn And Starring Broken Aesop Dressing as the Enemy Award-Bait Song You Have Failed Me Wounded Gazelle Gambit It Will Never Catch On Ripped from the Headlines Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Be Careful What You Wish For Faux Affably Evil Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Defiant to the End Police Brutality Accidental Murder Naked People Are Funny Jitter Cam Spared by the Adaptation The Mafia Refuge in Audacity Rewatch Bonus Silent Movie Smug Snake Kubrick Stare Works Set in World War II All There in the Manual Redshirt Army Romantic False Lead Christmas Movies Index Storming the Castle Death by Sex The Chick Hollywood Darkness Dwindling Party Hate Sink Disproportionate Retribution Chekhov's Skill Retcon NO INDOOR VOICE Famous Last Words No Ending Meaningful Echo Made of Explodium Shirtless Scene Foil Faking the Dead Death of a Child The Starscream Foregone Conclusion Artistic License – Gun Safety Air-Vent Passageway Dirty Old Man Hypocritical Humor A God Am I Dirty Coward Deadpan Snarker Impaled with Extreme Prejudice You Killed My Father It Can Think Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Moment Killer As Long as It Sounds Foreign Immune to Bullets The Casanova I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Power of Love Would Hit a Girl Early Installment Weirdness Curse Cut Short Wham Line Married to the Job "The Reason You Suck" Speech Visual Pun Serial Killer Kill 'em All Black Comedy Rape The Hero Dies The End... Or Is It? Anguished Declaration of Love Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Suddenly SHOUTING! Hollywood Law Hooker with a Heart of Gold Babies Ever After Establishing Character Moment Black and Gray Morality All Just a Dream Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Woman in White Crapsack World Film Noir Badass Grandpa Fan Disservice Market-Based Title Badass in a Nice Suit And I Must Scream Improbable Weapon User Fantastic Racism Not So Different Make It Look Like an Accident Gorn Real Life Adult Fear Neck Lift Mundane Made Awesome Kill It with Fire Death by Irony Twist Ending Plucky Comic Relief Continuity Nod Demonic Possession Epic Movie Black Best Friend Ghost Fiction Up to Eleven Heel–Face Turn Whole Plot Reference Shower Scene Drives Like Crazy Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Due to the Dead It's All About Me Horror Comedy Mistaken for Gay Rousing Speech The Mole Heroic Sacrifice Black Comedy Freeze-Frame Bonus Straight Gay Exact Words The Faceless Zombie Stories The Smart Guy Tagline Scary Black Man Action Genre The Dog Bites Back Canadian Movies The Bad Guy Wins The Chessmaster Woman Scorned All for Nothing Even Evil Has Loved Ones Frame-Up Obstructive Bureaucrat Green-Eyed Monster Manic Pixie Dream Girl Skewed Priorities Jump Scare Domestic Abuse Annoying Younger Sibling Dissonant Serenity Broken Bird Five-Man Band Red Eyes, Take Warning Improvised Weapon Adaptation Dye-Job Fatal Flaw Anachronism Stew Random Events Plot Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Mexican Standoff Cat Scare The Dreaded Spell My Name with an "S" Here We Go Again! Well-Intentioned Extremist Reasonable Authority Figure Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Cameo The Big Guy Deliberately Monochrome Not Quite Dead timeperiod Gainax Ending The Alcoholic Re-Cut Reality Has No Subtitles Politically Incorrect Villain Ironic Echo And the Adventure Continues Enemy Mine Small Name, Big Ego Pretty in Mink Determinator Bury Your Gays A.I. Is a Crapshoot Sinister Minister Sadistic Choice Back from the Dead Alas, Poor Villain Training Montage Abusive Parents Bolivian Army Ending Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Laser-Guided Karma Authority Equals Asskicking Apocalypse How Flipping the Bird Almost Kiss Say My Name Bottomless Magazines Unusually Uninteresting Sight Paper-Thin Disguise Hero Antagonist Eldritch Abomination Bound and Gagged Chiaroscuro Motor Mouth Intrepid Reporter Belligerent Sexual Tension Tap on the Head Darker and Edgier Bare Your Midriff Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Nice Guy Blood Knight Hong Kong Films Death Seeker Bar Brawl Deliberate Values Dissonance Action Survivor Fat Bastard Villain with Good Publicity Rule of Funny Men Are the Expendable Gender Lighter and Softer Spiteful Spit Super Strength Anti-Villain Scare Chord Smoking Is Cool Break the Cutie Adaptation Distillation Improbable Aiming Skills Easily Forgiven Biopic Match Cut Heel Realization Country Matters All There in the Script Boom, Headshot! Fatal Family Photo Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Mighty Whitey Camp Gay Rich Bitch Superhero Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Same Language Dub One-Man Army Together in Death Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Sexy Discretion Shot He Who Fights Monsters Not So Above It All Artistic License – History Off-into-the-Distance Ending Black Dude Dies First Setting Update Facial Horror Evil Sounds Deep Beta Couple Evil-Detecting Dog Drowning My Sorrows The Stoic Adults Are Useless Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Gratuitous English Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Femme Fatale Greater-Scope Villain Too Dumb to Live Video Credits Creative Closing Credits Composite Character Contrived Coincidence Playing Gertrude Monumental Damage Adaptational Heroism Manchild Groin Attack An Arm and a Leg Historical Villain Upgrade Sanity Slippage Posthumous Character Obfuscating Stupidity Running Gag Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Light Is Not Good The Great Depression No Antagonist Catch-Phrase Kick the Dog Spanner in the Works My Greatest Failure O.O.C. Is Serious Business Non-Indicative Name One Steve Limit Shut Up, Hannibal! Jerk Jock Fiery Redhead Friend to All Children The Stoner Man on Fire Guile Hero Never Found the Body Sequel Hook Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Kick the Son of a Bitch Never My Fault Horror Films Bloody Hilarious Line-of-Sight Name Destination Defenestration Book-Ends Eiffel Tower Effect Logo Joke Names to Run Away from Really Fast Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bland-Name Product Slap-Slap-Kiss The '50s Amusing Injuries Comically Missing the Point Token Minority Unusual Euphemism From Bad to Worse Artistic License – Military Villain Protagonist Hell Is That Noise Call-Back Action Girl For the Evulz Henpecked Husband Bunny-Ears Lawyer Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas N-Word Privileges Ambiguously Gay Laughing Mad Becoming the Mask Antagonist Title Dark and Troubled Past Bi the Way Drill Sergeant Nasty Diabolus ex Machina The Un-Reveal Flashback Knife Nut Bavarian Fire Drill Humiliation Conga Expository Hairstyle Change Jerkass Has a Point Call-Forward Parental Abandonment Amoral Attorney The Sociopath Cain and Abel Drugs Are Bad Dies Wide Open Sir Swears-a-Lot Credits Gag Totally Radical Department of Redundancy Department Insult Backfire Villain Song She's Got Legs Corpsing Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Does Not Like Shoes Australian Movies Dark Reprise Bond Villain Stupidity Affably Evil Shown Their Work Ax-Crazy Tranquil Fury Historical In-Joke Adaptation Name Change Half the Man He Used to Be Heroes Want Redheads Damsel in Distress As the Good Book Says... Ambiguous Disorder Meaningful Background Event Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Sealed Evil in a Can He Knows Too Much Ass Shove Only One Name No Good Deed Goes Unpunished I Need a Freaking Drink Bowdlerise A Minor Kidroduction For Want of a Nail Despair Event Horizon Deconstruction War Is Hell Show Within a Show Crucified Hero Shot A Date with Rosie Palms Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Martial Arts Movie German Films Implacable Man Dull Surprise Dramedy Your Cheating Heart Empathic Environment Dark Action Girl Stealth Pun Villainous Breakdown Ship Tease Affectionate Parody Toplessness from the Back Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Blatant Lies Reality Ensues "Shaggy Dog" Story Slasher Smile Bait-and-Switch Cat Fight Attempted Rape Pragmatic Adaptation Cool Old Lady Once More, with Clarity! Madness Mantra Gold Digger The Remake Ominous Latin Chanting Real Life Writes the Plot Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Wicked Cultured Fun with Acronyms folderlabel Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Brother–Sister Incest Romantic Comedy