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''Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?'' is a [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] book about, well, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|surviving the]] [[Zombie Apocalypse]]. You are a 25-year-old man living and working a crappy corporate job in Manhattan. However, at 10:40 on a hot, humid July morning, your morning meeting is interrupted and the world goes to hell. Now you can make all the same mistakes you scream at [[Genre Blind]] horror movie heroes not to make, flee the city, or survive to make war on the zombie threat. It all depends on your choices.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Yakuma, a [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana-wielding]] Japanese stripper who slaughters zombies with ease.
* [[Action Survivor]]: You, although you can get tougher over the course of the book.
* [[AFGNCAAP]]: Averted. The introduction states up-front that you're 25 years old, and one path has you visiting the small town where you grew up. Several pages later identify you as male.▼
* [[Badass Biker]]: You can join the Hells Angels.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Walter
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* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Common with various people and weapons.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]
▲* [[AFGNCAAPFeatureless Protagonist]]: Averted. The introduction states up-front that you're 25 years old, and one path has you visiting the small town where you grew up. Several pages later identify you as male.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: The Zombie Walk participants have an extensive knowledge of zombies, and the geeks at the New York Comic-Con are also quite well versed in zombie lore. Also, one of the endings sees you holing up in a bookshop which is doing a promotion on zombie books; you decide to start with ''[[The Zombie Survival Guide]]''.
* [[Happy Ending]]: Several.
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* [[Ninja]]: Yes, there is a real, honest-to-God ninja in the book. An effective one.
* [[No Name Given]]: The curator in the museum, and the kid who you rescue from the train tracks in another path.
* [[Pretend WereWe're Dead]]: The Zombie Walk participants use their incredibly realistic makeup, extensive knowledge of zombies, and guts from a slaughterhouse to pass themselves off as zombies (you stay in the middle of the group so as not to draw attention). The zombies, while mostly accepting of you, are somewhat suspicious, with one investigating closely...until someone snaps and tries to run, triggering a mass panic/feeding frenzy. The paint also doesn't help your life expectancy when trigger-happy soldiers are around.
* [[Raising the Steaks]]: {{spoiler|One ending has you and Yakuma encounter - and subsequently be killed by - zombie lions.}}
* [[Removing the Head Oror Destroying Thethe Brain]]: As usual, the only way to kill a zombie.
* [[Samurai]]: Not quite, but you get to don samurai armour in one path.
* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Though in fairness, zombies would put stress on anybody.
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