Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

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

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