Tropes of the Living Dead



Zombies fall precisely into the Uncanny Valley. That's why they're so scary and so fun to kill. This is an index of tropes about them.

Braaaaains...

Compare Vampire Tropes, Francis.

Tropes:

 * The Dead Have Eyes
 * Deadly Lunge
 * Dead Weight
 * Elite Zombie
 * Everything's Deader with Zombies
 * Glowing Eyelights of Un-Death
 * Hemo-Erotic
 * Horror Hunger
 * Marionette Motion
 * Night of the Living Mooks
 * No FEMA Response
 * Not a Zombie
 * Not Using the Z Word
 * No Zombie Cannibals
 * Our Zombies Are Different
 * Picky People Eater
 * Brain Food
 * Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal
 * No Zombie Cannibals
 * Pretend We're Dead
 * Raising the Steaks
 * Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
 * Room Full of Zombies
 * Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration
 * So You Want To/Write a Zombie Apocalypse
 * Stages of Monster Grief
 * Technically Living Zombie
 * Title of the Dead
 * Undeathly Pallor
 * The Walking Dead
 * Zombie Apocalypse
 * Zombie Gait
 * Zombie Infectee
 * Zombie Stories