Land of the Dead: Difference between revisions

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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Riley and his crew pull one off at the end.

* [[The Big Guy]]: Pillsbury. And how.

* [[Boom Headshot]]: But of course. A notable example isn't even on a zombie - it's on a fleeing midget, in the middle of a crowd, through a stand of bleachers.

* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: But of course. A notable example isn't even on a zombie - it's on a fleeing midget, in the middle of a crowd, through a stand of bleachers.

* [[Bury Your Gays]]: Once the Zombies make it to the city, who are the first people we see eaten? A pair of lesbians [[Death By Sex|making out.]]

* [[The Cameo]]: [[Shaun of the Dead|Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright]] briefly appear as zombies chained to a wall in a photo booth, where the living can have their pictures taken alongside them. Pegg bears a striking resemblance to Bub from ''Day''.

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* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: Kaufman at the end when Big Daddy gets his payback.

* [[It Can Think]]: The zombies are shown to have somehow become sentient enough to form a coherent group and fight against the human survivors.

* [[Look Behind You]]: "Watch Out! Get Down! Quick!" {{spoiler|as Kaufman executes the poor bastard trying to question why Kaufman is running off with all their money.}}

* [[Look Behind You!]]: "Watch Out! Get Down! Quick!" {{spoiler|as Kaufman executes the poor bastard trying to question why Kaufman is running off with all their money.}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Paul Kaufman. The Kaufmann family is very prominent in [[Pittsburgh]] where the first [~~http~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Kaufmanns Kaufmann's Department Store] was before expanding into a long running chain and eventually being absorbed by [http://www.macys.com/index.ognc Macy's]. The name Kaufman literally means "merchant" in German.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Paul Kaufman. The Kaufmann family is very prominent in [[Pittsburgh]] where the first [[wikipedia:Kaufmanns|Kaufmann's Department Store]] was before expanding into a long running chain and eventually being absorbed by [http://www.macys.com/index.ognc Macy's]. The name Kaufman literally means "merchant" in German.

** Also, Fiddler's Green, which is described in myth as an afterlife that has earthly pleasures, but isn't heaven. One poem places it "halfway down the trail to hell."

* [[Mercy Kill]]: Big Daddy performs two: First on a zombie that has been reduced to a severed head (he smashes it), and then on a flaming zombie, who he shoots with a machine gun.

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* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Kaufman's butler abandons him during the zombie attack.

* [[Storming the Castle]]: The zombies attack on Fiddler's Green.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Pretty much everybody when outside of Fiddler's Green. You'd think that, years after the zombie invasion, people would have gotten more skilled at fighting them, even if only through sheer selection pressure. People still spray small-caliber rounds in the general direction of zombies that are only stopped by head shots, fail to properly clear out infested buildings, [[Let's Split Up Gang|split up the gang]] etc.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Pretty much everybody when outside of Fiddler's Green. You'd think that, years after the zombie invasion, people would have gotten more skilled at fighting them, even if only through sheer selection pressure. People still spray small-caliber rounds in the general direction of zombies that are only stopped by head shots, fail to properly clear out infested buildings, [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|split up the gang]] etc.

** Of particular note is the military guarding the Green. One of whom takes a clip and a half to kill an immobilized zombie. Another is in a guard tower when the zombie invasion occurs. He looks down, and sees his tower is ''completely surrounded'' by a mob of zombies. None of those zombies are even trying to climb up and get him. So what does he do? [[What an Idiot!|He fastropes down to the ground, and is immediately eaten]].

** In an overlap with Too Greedy To Live, {{spoiler|Kaufman could have gotten away much sooner if he hadn't stopped to fleece the joint on the way out. Especially considering there was little-to-nothing outside of Fiddler's Green that would have made his plundered riches worth anything.}}