Undead Index

Tropes having to do with the undead and undeath. Not necessarily related to Undead Horse Tropes. Not to be confused with The Living Dead, which is about living actors portraying corpses.

Not to be confused with Back From the Dead.

Compare Skeletal Tropes.

Sub Indexes:


 * Tropes of the Living Dead (all things zombie)
 * Vampire Tropes (all things vampire)
 * Haunted Index (all things ghost)

Assorted creature and character tropes


 * Boy Meets Ghoul
 * Dem Bones
 * Dracolich
 * Flesh Golem
 * Frankenstein's Monster
 * Headless Horseman
 * Mummy
 * Necromancer
 * Non-Human Undead
 * Our Banshees Are Louder
 * Our Ghouls Are Creepier
 * Our Liches Are Different
 * Our Wights Are Different
 * Undead Child

Assorted general tropes


 * Animate Dead
 * Big Boo's Haunt: Generic RPG "haunted house" level.
 * Came Back Wrong: Can be the reason for undeath.
 * Chill of Undeath
 * Dead All Along
 * The Disembodied: Can be argued to be a form of undeath.
 * The Dead Can Dance
 * Vampire Dance
 * Fate Worse Than Death: Undeath in general is often depicted as this.
 * Fearless Undead
 * Ghost Lights
 * Ghostly Chill
 * Glowing Eyelights of Un-Death
 * Horror Hunger
 * I Love the Dead
 * Level Drain: Common effect of undead enemies in RPGs.
 * The Necrocracy
 * Necromantic
 * Non-Human Undead
 * Perpetual Motion Monster: Despite often craving blood, braaains, Life Energy or other foods, the undead don't need to eat and can keep going until permanently killed.
 * Removing the Head Or Destroying The Brain: The go-to method for killing zombies.
 * Revive Kills Zombie: Not limited to zombies or the undead, but "white" magic harming undead creatures is one of the most common forms of this.
 * Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration: Some undead rot, others don't, and some can heal.
 * Suicide By Sunlight
 * Turn Undead
 * The Undead
 * Undeath Always Ends
 * Undeathly Pallor
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?: Eternal undeath can be just as sucky as eternal life.