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{{quote|'' "The undead require very little maintenance and rarely demand a salary or benefits. What they lack in speed and agility they more than make up for in persistence and can-do attitude. You won't hear any sass or whining from the undead! Since the victims themselves are transformed into walking undead, these henchmen are a smart investment that will grow your organization even when you are busy with other tasks." ''|'''How to Be a Villain''', Neil Zawacki}}
[[The Undead|Undead]] mooks are a staple of video games, [[Tabletop Games]] and live-action alike, and the entire point of the [[Zombie Apocalypse]]. May be [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombies]], [[Dem Bones|skeletons]], or even [[Mummy|mummies]]. An extreme form of [[Faceless Goons]], in that while it's pretty hard to identify with someone with no face, it's basically impossible to sympathize with a corpse.
May be spawned from [[Clown Car Grave
If you really want to find these guys, look in the designated [[Big Boo's Haunt]]. [[Raising the Steaks]] can be considered a [[Sub-Trope]] of this.
Compare [[Everything's Deader
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[
* The standard mooks in ''[[
** More than that, anyone bitten by a ghoul invariably becomes a ghoul him/herself. Though the Millennium vampires' bite create ghouls whether the victim was or not a virgin. It's implied that this is because the process that makes them undead isn't as good as the proper way.
*** Likely intentional. They did make the ghouls able to function after the "parent" vampire's death. Accidentally creating a vampire that could act against them would not be very practical either.
* The revived dolls in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', fueled by Philosopher stones. Though when they activated, [[It Got Worse|they didn't behave]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|like they expected....]]
** The corrupt military didn't know. Father, on the other hand, [[Batman Gambit|probably knew]] and let the [[
* The "cultivated humans" used by early villain Suzaku against Yusuke and his friends in ''[[
* The Shikabane (or Corpses) of ''[[Shikabane Hime]]''.
* The Tao family in ''[[
* An army of zombies had overrun a town in ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* Turning characters who are dead ([[Death Is Cheap|at the time anyway]]) into undead minions is an old comic book cliche, most recently seen in ''[[Blackest Night]]''. Often leads to (at least some of) them being brought back to life fully.
** The [[Death Is Cheap]] issue is actually addressed in ''[[Blackest Night]]'' when [[
== Fan Works ==
* On the Plains of Death in ''[[
* ''[[
** Interestingly, these zombies have sentience and some degree of free
== Film ==
* ''[[Evil Dead
* Somewhat averted in ''[[
== Literature ==
* The [[Old Kingdom|Abhorsens]] are constantly fighting undead [[Mooks]].
* In ''[[
** It turns out Harry ''really'' doesn't like people who use zombies, first because he considers it [[Complete Monster|beyond the pale]], and second because he doesn't really have a fall-back defensive ability when fighting them. For example, the defensive wards on his apartment will kill anyone that attempts to enter without fail. However, he did not anticipate a lot of people willing to sacrifice themselves to gain entry, or rather, someone controlling a lot of undead people that he was willing to sacrifice to breach the wards.
* Chloe from ''[[Darkest Powers]]'' has the ability to create an army of the dead almost effortlessly, but since the process involves ''taking the spirits of people and shoving them back in their rotting corpses,'' she understandably tries to avoid summoning zombies as much as possible.
* In the [[The Laundry Series|Laundryverse]], zombies are more like low-class [[Eldritch Abomination
* ''[[The Zombie Survival Guide]]'' recounts several experiments by the Imperial Japanese, Russians and Chinese to try and train zombies to create their own undead army. {{spoiler|They did not end well. AT ALL.}}
* Towards the end of the novel ''[[
== Live Action TV ==
* Season 3 final in ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'': all soldiers are turned into something closer to zombie invasion than regular soldiers. Being killed only by Excalibur, they definitely count as undead
== Tabletop Games ==
* [[Warhammer
* Similarly, the Necrons of ''[[Warhammer
** And then there's [[Zombie Apocalypse|what happens if you make Nurgle angry...]]
*** Oh, no. Grandfather Nurgle [[Body Horror|smiles on his children]], [[Blessed
* The undead often show up in games built on the [[Dungeons
** 4th edition removes all of these restrictions. Undead now simply have resistance to one specific type of damage. Sneak attacks work just fine on them, and there's no longer any such thing as "mind-affecting spells", "death magic", or "piercing damage".
** On the other hand, the two "holy" classes (Clerics and Paladins) can mow through them with ease - both get spells and abilities whose sole purpose is to kick undead hiney.
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** The Undead are immune to normal mind-control, but there is a Necromancy spell called "Control Undead". However, since it only works on the Undead few Wizards/Sorcerers bother to take it unless they know ahead of time that they will be encountering a lot of Undead. Same goes for the spell "Undeath to Death", which is the only way to bypass their immunity to Death magic.
*** Untrue! All the good undead creation spells are high-level/create standard zombies/skeletons. If necromancers want decent undead horrors at their beck and call, they have to go out and "catch" them. Being a necromancer is a lot like being a Pokemon trainer...
** Subverted by ''Van Richten's Guide to the Walking Dead'', a [[Ravenloft]] supplement which helps [[Game Master
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081002201649/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=129529 Drudge Skeletons] and [
** Then there's [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=229968 Army of the Damned], which creates its own mook army of 13 zombie
* Given the prevalence of Deathlords, the Abyssals, and shadowlands, zombies are common in ''[[
== Video Games ==
* Damn near everything in ''[[Castlevania]]''.
* The Dry Bones (undead Koopas) and Boos from ''[[
* The ReDeads (zombies), Stalfos (skeletons), Gibdo (mummies), and Poes (ghosts) of ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''.
** And the Undead Rats! Don't forget about ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Undead bunnies in the [[That One Level|Meat Circus]] of ''[[
* ''[[Resident Evil]]''.
* Ghosts appear in several ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games, first in Sandopolis Zone of ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles
* ''[[The House of the Dead (
* The headcrab zombies in ''[[Half-Life (
* ''[[Doom (
* The Flood in ''[[Halo (
*** At least one [[Game Mod]], ''Marathon Fell'', had zombified Pfhor infected with a similar bio-weapon in its later levels.
** Most of the armies of The Fallen Lords in ''[[Myth]]''.
* The underlings of a necromancer [[Player Character|PC]] in ''[[Diablo (
* ''[[Metal Slug]] 3'' has quite a bit of these: You have to deal with zombified civilians and soldiers in mission 3, and later on you fight off legions of zombified clones of your previous player character while trying to escape from an exploding spaceship. You can even become a zombie and vomit acidic blood that can take out damn near anything in one shot.
* The zombies in ''[[Nox]]'' who don't die unless you deliver the final blow with a fire-enchanted weapon or a fire spell and regenerate to full health otherwise.
* In ''[[
** In the Frozen Throne expansion a faction of the Scourge splintered off. While they aren't above creating mindless minions to serve them, they generally don't go around converting everyone they kill. Then again, that changes in the Cataclysm expansion.
** In ''[[
*** Oddly it's also become decreasingly effective, as much of Northrend is free of the Undead Scourge in part or in whole, and they seem to have lost that handy ability to raise significant numbers of the Dead, instead favoring the still-not-very-effective plague.
*** This is hinted to be somewhat intended. The Lich King himself, and some of his more intelligent minions, do have this power, and are shown executing it in certain places throughout the expansion, but the fact that they don't is played up as Arthas' human side showing some restraint.
** The Death Knight class has the power to raise an army of ghouls to assist in combat.
* The skeleton in level 3 of the original ''[[
* The zombies in ''[[Quake (
** "Thou canst not kill that which doth not live, but you can blow it into chunky kibbles" :)
* ''[[
* In ''[[City of Villains]]'', a Mastermind player character with the Necromancy powerset gets their own set of undead mooks.
** There are also two enemy factions in ''[[
*** And come Halloween, [[Holiday Mode]] ensures the city is overrun with zombies, ghosts, witches and werewolves...
* The Hell chapters of ''[[The Darkness (
** The German zombie soldiers are the mooks, obviously.
* Every so often, ''[[
* ''[[
* The zombies in ''[[
* ''[[Overlord (
** In the sequel, people "infected" by magic are exiled to the Wastelands, an area devastated by a [[Apocalypse How|Class 0 magical detonation]] following the protagonist's disappearance in the first game. The exiles are transformed into mutated zombies by their close proximity to the overwhelming amounts of concentrated magic.
* The normal enemies in the ''Siren'' series are all Undead Mooks called Shibito (literally "dead person" or "corpse"). They get more monstrous as time passes from their conversion... and simply can't be
* Inverted in ''[[Stubbs the Zombie]],'' where the infected are instead a [[Redshirt Army]].
* ''[[Wolfenstein 3D
** Second Episode of the original ''Wolfenstein 3D'' had combined this trope by the hands of an [[Mad Scientist|evil professor]] [[Mecha
** The newest installment, ''Wolfenstein'', has the Despoiled, dead Nazis brought back to life as superpowered zombie monsters by the Elite Guards' dark magic.
* Various kinds of undead are a staple of the ''[[
* In the fifth stage of the ''[[
* Whenever [[Our Vampires Are Different|Neclord]] appears in a ''[[
* In ''[[Command
* Every ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** ''[[
* ''[[
** Though, when grabbed by a zombie in the first arena, Death would come in and give you five seconds to escape the zombie's grip, less you get an automatic death.
*** But it wasn't actually Death, it was [[Goddamned Bats|Deathblade]].
* In ''[[
** The backstory of the original game reveals that the entire nation of Orr was destroyed in a magical [[Apocalypse How|Class 0 event]]. The bodies that weren't instantly incinerated have transformed into an undead army that plagues the swamps of nearby Kryta. They are ruled by a Lich who {{spoiler|caused said catastrophe and [[Trick Twist|who you were helping all along]].}}
** And for ''Guild Wars 2'', Orr will be raised from the ocean where it sunk after the catastrophe... by an evil dragon who turns all the corpses still there (plus the corpses of all sailors and pirates that happened to be around at the time) into undead Lovecraftian mooks. Orr just can't get a break, can it?
* The Husks in ''[[
* In ''[[Ratchet: Deadlocked]]'' the planet Catacrom IV actually features ''robot'' zombies.
* Shade Man's level in ''[[
* ''[[
* Undead, and zombies in particular, are the weakest Mooks in ''[[Hellgate
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
** ''Serious Sam 2'' also has the flying kleers (which are [[Captain Obvious|flying kleer skeletons]] armed with [[Fireball]] launchers), and the zombie stockbrokers and zombie soldiers, which are more or less equal to human soldiers, and armed with shotguns and machine guns respectively. [[Demonic Spiders|Their high damage hitscan weapons, decent health, and good accuracy make them quite frustrating in large numbers.]]
* In ''[[
* In addition to occasional dungeons with undead, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[
* ''[[Red Faction]] II'''s second act features "Processed" zombies, and one mission has you fight through a [[Clown Car Grave
== Web Comics ==
* The [[Character Blog]] of ''[[
* In ''[[
* Undead mooks crop up a lot in the armies of Xykon in ''[[
* K'Z'K's army of "Deadels" from ''[[
* Played straight and [[Subverted Trope]], in ''[[The Zombie Hunters]].'' "Crawler" zombies are [[Zombie Gait|slow, shambling]], and harmless unless you get [[Personal Space Invader|within]] arm's [[Deadly Lunge|reach]]. But they can [[Zerg Rush|attack in massed groups]] of several hundred, and their bulk [[Lost in
* Played with in a story in ''[[The
== Web Original ==
* Phase got a faceful of this trope in the ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'': Mozenrath uses creatures that are called mamluks but fit all the requirements for being called a zombie other than eating brains.
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