Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

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

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