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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|Is it weird that a Zombie has haste<ref>This is an ~~"evergreen~~game ~~keyword~~mechanic ~~ability"~~that is flavorfully associated with speed.</ref>? Aren’t they supposed to be slow? Some people in house found it weird, but modern pop-culture zombie storytelling has opened the door to non-[[Zombie Gait\|plodding zombies]], some of which are terrifyingly quick!\|Aaron Forsythe, Director of ''[[Magic: The Gathering\|Magic]]'' R&D.}} A type of zombie<ref>or creature highly analogous to a zombie</ref> [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin\|that is fast]]. ("Fast" here means able to move at a rate equivalent to a normal human running speed -- approximately 8 miles per hour/13 kilometers per hour.) If these zombies are alive, they should count as [[Technically Living Zombie]]s. If you spend most of your first encounter standing there staring at one thinking it's [[Not a Zombie]], your chances for survival are pretty grim. Such zombies may be able to maintain peak speeds almost indefinitely without tiring, unlike humans. Line 15: * The 2004 remake of ''[[Dawn of the Dead]]'' featured this type of zombies. * ''[[Return of the Living Dead]]'' was the [[Trope Maker]]. * All the zombies in ''[[Nightmare City]]'', although according to the director, the "zombies" in this case are infected humans, despite otherwise behaving entirely like zombies. == [[Tabletop Games]] == Line 25 ⟶ 26: {{reflist}} [[Category:Tropes of the Living Dead]]▼ [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] ▲[[Category:Tropes of the Living Dead]] [[Category:Pages Original to All The Tropes]]