Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

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

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