Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

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

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