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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Is a Crapshoot Sequel Escalation Pragmatic Adaptation Male Frontal Nudity Woman in White Paper-Thin Disguise Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Destination Defenestration The Smurfette Principle Jerkass Well-Intentioned Extremist Canon Foreigner Guns Akimbo Expository Hairstyle Change Death Glare Age Lift Tap on the Head Posthumous Character Nothing Is Scarier Annoying Younger Sibling Freudian Excuse Slashed Throat Country Matters Villain Protagonist Spell My Name with an "S" Bunny-Ears Lawyer Plucky Comic Relief Shipper on Deck Does This Remind You of Anything? Faux Affably Evil Flipping the Bird Reality Has No Subtitles Guile Hero Offscreen Moment of Awesome Documentary Madness Mantra Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Red Herring Large Ham Even Evil Has Standards Token Minority Eye Scream Flashback Japanese Films The Dragon Action Genre Stalker with a Crush Lampshade Hanging Abhorrent Admirer Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Ambiguous Ending Smoking Is Cool The Lancer Get Out! 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Is Serious Business Framing Device Have a Gay Old Time Award-Bait Song From Nobody to Nightmare Punch-Clock Villain Brutal Honesty Red Shirt Honor Before Reason Took a Level in Jerkass Retired Badass Adaptational Attractiveness Breaking the Fourth Wall Cold-Blooded Torture Every Car Is a Pinto Ass Shove Bond One-Liner The Chessmaster Unusual Euphemism Body Horror Rewatch Bonus Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Eiffel Tower Effect Setting Update The Place Lighter and Softer Dogged Nice Guy Martial Arts Movie Awesome, but Impractical NO INDOOR VOICE Jitter Cam Adaptational Villainy Cat Scare Author Avatar Riddle for the Ages Artistic License – History Reasonable Authority Figure The Cavalry Comically Missing the Point Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Adaptational Badass Small Name, Big Ego The Atoner The Bad Guy Wins Show Within a Show Extreme Doormat Insistent Terminology No Ending Shoot the Shaggy Dog How We Got Here Sci-Fi Horror Scary Black Man Ms. Fanservice Covers Always Lie Foil Central Theme Ungrateful Bastard Action Prologue Maybe Ever After Imagine Spot Anti-Hero Fate Worse than Death Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Revenge Due to the Dead B-Movie Too Dumb to Live Batman Gambit As Long as It Sounds Foreign Slasher Movie No-Sell Corrupt Corporate Executive Cloudcuckoolander Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Break the Haughty Fantasy Films Star-Crossed Lovers What the Hell, Hero? 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It Will Never Catch On Sadistic Choice Left the Background Music On Interrupted Suicide Wham Shot Early Installment Weirdness Sequel Hook He Who Fights Monsters Bare Your Midriff Dark Reprise Off with His Head! Damsel in Distress Twist Ending Author Appeal Badass Boast Conspicuous CG Agony of the Feet Insane Troll Logic Mad Scientist Romantic False Lead Nice Hat My God, What Have I Done? Arranged Marriage Epic Movie Reckless Gun Usage Dies Wide Open Historical Villain Upgrade Distracted by the Sexy "Shaggy Dog" Story Mugging the Monster Eureka Moment