Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

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

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