Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

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

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