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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Historical Villain Upgrade Big Fancy House The Voiceless Rule of Cool Chekhov's Gunman Gender Flip No Celebrities Were Harmed Bunny-Ears Lawyer Bittersweet Ending Obfuscating Stupidity Broken Bird Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Red Oni, Blue Oni Truth in Television Antagonist Title '80s Hair Historical Hero Upgrade The Mole Plot Hole Did Not Get the Girl Serial Killer The '70s Madness Mantra Riddle for the Ages And I Must Scream Oh, Crap! 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The Sociopath Bloodier and Gorier Yandere Psychopathic Manchild Undying Loyalty Older Than They Look The Remake Hong Kong Films Smoking Is Cool All for Nothing Posthumous Character Shout-Out Bavarian Fire Drill Guns Akimbo Heroic Sacrifice Driven to Suicide Cloudcuckoolander Nothing Is Scarier Everyone Has Standards Captain Ersatz Awesome, but Impractical Conspicuous CG Karma Houdini An Arm and a Leg Stuff Blowing Up Mighty Whitey Our Vampires Are Different Informed Ability Unreliable Narrator Kubrick Stare Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Deus ex Machina Every Car Is a Pinto Gorn Hope Spot All Just a Dream Affably Evil Breaking the Fourth Wall Victoria's Secret Compartment And the Adventure Continues Black Comedy Rape Soft Glass Fire-Forged Friends Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dirty Coward Sassy Black Woman Drives Like Crazy Big Applesauce Freeze-Frame Bonus Fake Shemp From Bad to Worse Cool Car Rated M for Manly Fatal Flaw Calling the Old Man Out Punny Name Up to Eleven Shut Up, Hannibal! Soundtrack Dissonance Product Placement Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Market-Based Title Those Wacky Nazis Air-Vent Passageway Naïve Newcomer The '50s All There in the Script Red Herring Villainous Breakdown Determinator aka: The Determinator Suddenly SHOUTING! Shell-Shocked Veteran Scenery Porn Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Works Set in World War II Imagine Spot Henpecked Husband Skewed Priorities Obviously Evil Scenery Gorn The Stoic Greater-Scope Villain Token Minority Love Triangle Only Sane Man Zombie Stories Random Events Plot