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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Manchild Authority Equals Asskicking Villain with Good Publicity Pay Evil unto Evil Sci-Fi Horror The Bully Happily Married More Dakka Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Chekhov's Skill Sole Survivor It Can Think And Starring Dramatic Gun Cock B-Movie Actually Pretty Funny Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Curb-Stomp Battle Those Wacky Nazis And the Adventure Continues Kids Are Cruel Captain Ersatz Maybe Ever After The Ace Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Chekhov's Gun Arc Words Improvised Weapon Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Antagonist Title Artistic License – Military Offscreen Moment of Awesome Bad Boss Superhero Suspiciously Similar Substitute Made of Explodium Pre-Mortem One-Liner Almost Kiss Trailers Always Spoil Retirony Jerk Jock Truth in Television Epic Movie I Need a Freaking Drink Evil Brit Badass Grandpa Storming the Castle Demoted to Extra Non-Indicative Name Bar Brawl Fatal Family Photo Major Injury Underreaction The Mole Would Hurt a Child Plot Hole Black Comedy Rape Villain Opening Scene Author Avatar Redshirt Army Red Shirt Match Cut Bond One-Liner Manly Tears Reality Ensues Alliterative Name Black Best Friend Crazy Jealous Guy Call-Back The Great Depression Red Oni, Blue Oni Only Sane Man Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Punny Name Film Noir Failed a Spot Check Anti-Hero Mind Screw Badass Bookworm The '70s Small Name, Big Ego Adorkable Say My Name Catapult Nightmare Spared by the Adaptation Corpsing Morality Pet Your Head A-Splode Break the Haughty "Well Done, Son!" Guy One Steve Limit Hooker with a Heart of Gold She Cleans Up Nicely Getting Crap Past the Radar Works Set in World War II Beta Couple Christmas Movies Index Made of Iron Aside Glance Auto Erotica Hate Sink Heel Realization Death by Adaptation Sequel Escalation Becoming the Mask The Stinger Bury Your Gays Hidden Depths Continuity Nod Awesome, but Impractical Corrupt Corporate Executive Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Break the Cutie Unreliable Narrator The Ditz Slasher Movie Product Placement Get Out! Does This Remind You of Anything? Logo Joke Shirtless Scene Psychopathic Manchild Stepford Smiler Naked People Are Funny Fingore Fish out of Water Really Gets Around Jerkass Deus ex Machina A God Am I Bloodier and Gorier Despair Event Horizon What the Hell, Hero? "The Reason You Suck" Speech Novelization Facial Horror The Hero Dies The '80s The Dragon Missing Mom Famous Last Words Shell-Shocked Veteran Neck Snap Idiot Ball Bare Your Midriff An Aesop The End... Or Is It? 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Batman Gambit Cool Car Not What It Looks Like Noodle Incident Covers Always Lie Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Show Within a Show Cruel and Unusual Death Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience folderlabel Real Life Cluster F-Bomb I'm a Humanitarian Meet Cute Establishing Character Moment Daylight Horror Dirty Coward Fanservice Market-Based Title Artistic License – Gun Safety Big "NO!" Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Dual Wielding Mercy Kill Kick the Dog Car Fu Male Frontal Nudity Only One Name Narrator Real Life Writes the Plot Suspiciously Specific Denial Evil Is Hammy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Man on Fire Crucified Hero Shot The Un-Reveal Took a Level in Jerkass Breaking the Fourth Wall Daddy's Girl Fun with Acronyms Double-Meaning Title The Oner Amoral Attorney Re-Cut Irony Blatant Lies Loophole Abuse Decoy Protagonist Adaptational Badass Distracted by the Sexy The Place Abusive Parents Jerkass Has a Point Knife Nut Dirty Old Man Animal Motifs Driven to Suicide Dirty Cop Flashback Madness Mantra As the Good Book Says... 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Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Serious Business She's Got Legs Token Minority Henpecked Husband Five-Man Band Blood from the Mouth Accidental Misnaming Anachronic Order Music Stories Aluminum Christmas Trees Hoist by His Own Petard Historical-Domain Character Sequel Hook Evil-Detecting Dog The Smurfette Principle Together in Death Handicapped Badass Manipulative Bastard Cain and Abel Self-Deprecation NO INDOOR VOICE Television Movie Index Bi the Way No-Sell Our Zombies Are Different Cool Guns All Men Are Perverts Bloody Hilarious Creator Cameo Good Is Not Nice Cowboy Cop This Is Gonna Suck Precision F-Strike Catch-Phrase Everyone Has Standards Australian Movies Married to the Job Wham Shot Early Installment Weirdness Children Are Innocent My God, What Have I Done? Important Haircut Adaptation Expansion Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Girl-on-Girl Is Hot In the Back Skewed Priorities N-Word Privileges Fantasy Films Ambiguous Ending 20 Minutes into the Future You Killed My Father Big Fancy House Rule of Funny Canon Foreigner Early-Bird Cameo Up to Eleven Affectionate Parody Rule of Three Disguised in Drag Vampire Fiction Zombie Stories Mugging the Monster Pyrrhic Victory The Casanova Villain Ball Big Applesauce Calling the Old Man Out Dying Moment of Awesome Tagline Anti-Villain MacGuffin Closed Circle timeperiod Bavarian Fire Drill No Celebrities Were Harmed Exact Words Setting Update Dumb Blonde Cold-Blooded Torture Drives Like Crazy Kick the Son of a Bitch All Just a Dream Death by Irony Not Even Bothering with the Accent Unresolved Sexual Tension Horror Films Psychological Thriller Pretty in Mink Dark Reprise Hero of Another Story Celebrity Paradox The X of Y Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Shown Their Work Hollywood Law French Films Mr. Exposition The '60s Overprotective Dad Bullying a Dragon Guile Hero Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Action Genre Face–Heel Turn Slashed Throat Adaptation Distillation Laughing Mad Obviously Evil Demonic Possession Not So Different Silence Is Golden Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Is Serious Business Last-Name Basis Eureka Moment Heroic BSoD Alas, Poor Villain Guns Akimbo Jump Scare Kubrick Stare The Mafia Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Red Right Hand Funny Background Event The Lancer Cat Scare Bunny-Ears Lawyer Fantastic Racism Whole Plot Reference Film Noir Index Broken Bird Award-Bait Song World of Ham Ax-Crazy Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Animal Title Index Unusually Uninteresting Sight Darkest Hour Jerk with a Heart of Gold Offscreen Teleportation Darker and Edgier Evil Is Petty Defrosting Ice Queen The Stoic Meaningful Echo Never My Fault The Sociopath Russian Films Accidental Murder Meaningful Background Event No Ending Downer Ending Politically Incorrect Villain Brutal Honesty Hair-Trigger Temper Did Not Get the Girl Parental Incest Dramedy Bad "Bad Acting" Grievous Bottley Harm Dark Is Not Evil Attempted Rape Age Lift As You Know Wham Line Mooks Heroic Sacrifice Race Against the Clock Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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