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== Anime and Manga ==
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* The standard mooks in ''[[Hellsing]]''. If a vampire sucks the blood of a virgin, they become another vampire; if they suck the blood of a non-virgin, they become a mindless ghoul who serves their creator.
** 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.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'s Tomb Kings and Vampire Counts are entire armies of these.
* 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 with Suck|bestowing his many gifts with beneficence]] [[Lovecraftian Superpower|and joy]].
* 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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*** 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]]s equip ordinary zombies, skeletons, and other corporeal undead with an un-Mookish diversity of powers.
* [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 tokens—then comes back to do so again, [[Awesome but Impractical|if you have enough mana]].
* Given the prevalence of Deathlords, the Abyssals, and shadowlands, zombies are common in ''[[Exalted]]''. To aid matters, the Midnight Caste of the Abyssals have the ability to raise a corpse as a zombie with a touch, and there are several necromancy spells that pretty much raise anything dead as a zombie.
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** There are also two enemy factions in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' - the Vazhilok and the Banished Pantheon - that are almost entirely made up of undead mooks.
*** And come Halloween, [[Holiday Mode]] ensures the city is overrun with zombies, ghosts, witches and werewolves...
* The Hell chapters of ''[[The Darkness (video game)|The Darkness]]'' are filled with zombified souls of soldiers consumed by the titular quasi-demonic entity during [[World War
** The German zombie soldiers are the mooks, obviously.
* Every so often, ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' will send a massive horde of zombies at you. Unfortunately, the timing and the location of the [[Mook Maker]] are more-or-less ''randomized'', so one never knows precisely when a pack of them will come running around the corner.
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* Every ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]'' game features an undead faction.
* In ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'', your army of plants fight nothing but an army of zombies. [[Our Zombies Are Different|Zombies that do pole vaulting, play football, ride dolphins, go bobsledding, and bungee jump amongst other things.]] Even the final boss is a zombie in a huge ''[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|zombie]]'' ''[[Humongous Mecha|robot.]]'' {{spoiler|The only exception here is the Zomboni, which is actually a space ogre mistaken for a zombie in a Zamboni.}}
* ''[[
** ''[[Mother 3]]'' has zombies in the early part of Chapter 2, too.
* ''[[MadWorld]]'' had an entire zombie stage. The zombies were basically your everyday Mooks, but out of ALL the ways you could kill them, giving them horizontal cuts kept them alive.
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* ''[[Dragon Age]]'', with all the gorramed corpses you have to fight in Redcliffe. Note that undeath, in this setting, is usually reserved for spiritual manifestations (ghosts), not zombies. The Zombies in Redcliffe are corpses that have had demons implanted into them, making each type a slightly different fight.
* ''[[Borderlands]]'' has the ''Zombie Island of Dr. Ned'', which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Its got everything from regular zombies to midget zombies to giant lightning-throwing Frankenstein-esque zombies. For even more old-horror feeling, its got [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Wereskags!]]
* ''[[Serious Sam]]'': The various beheaded units, including the iconic [[Action Bomb|Kamikazes,]] are all slain Sirian soldiers raised with an LCU (Life-Control Unit) and given either piss weak pistols with infinite ammo, a chainsaw, or grenades. As is appropriate for a fragile zombie with no armor, they are extremely weak. There's also the kleer skeletons, magically resurrected skeletons of some [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502142100/http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111129084960/serious/images/6/6c/Kleer_3.png weird race] that look like a combination of horses and humans, with horns on their heads and scythes for hands. They are some of the most common enemies ''ever''.
** ''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 ''[[Soulcaster]]'' and ''Soulcaster II'', zombies make up the bulk of the waves of enemies that attack you.
* In addition to occasional dungeons with undead, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' uses every type of undead in the ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[Red Faction]] II'''s second act features "Processed" zombies, and one mission has you fight through a [[Clown Car Grave]]yard of them.
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