Tropescilloscope: Our Zombies Are Different

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