Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

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

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