Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

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

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