Tropescilloscope: Our Zombies Are Different

This work has its own rules and conventions about how zombies are portrayed. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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