Tropescilloscope: Our Zombies Are Different

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