Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

Stories that have zombies. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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