Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

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

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