Tropescilloscope: Our Zombies Are Different

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