Tropescilloscope: Zombie Stories

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

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