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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.
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* On the Plains of Death in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', stepping on a certain part of the Plains (and triggered by an angry Jeft) causes endless ranks of skeletons, zombies, ghouls, and ghasts to rise up from the ground and attack. Oh, and don't forget the wraiths. Paul won't.
* ''[[Inner Demons]]'': [[Necromancer|Necromancy]] is one of the new skills Twilight Sparkle picks up after her [[Face Heel Turn]], and she quickly puts it to use, creating an army of zombie pony warriors to serve her.
** Interestingly, these zombies have sentience and some degree of free
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** 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 ''[[The Keep]]'', {{spoiler|a nasty [[Eldritch Abomination]] who pretends to merely be a vampire uses a group of German soldiers that it has killed to wipe out the rest of the German outpost}}.
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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
* [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=129529 Drudge Skeletons] and [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=21093 Scathe Zombies] are just a few of many undead mook armies a Black using player can summon in ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]''.
** 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 ''[[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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* ''[[Overlord (series)|Overlord]]'' features an area infested with zombies, as a mysterious and agonizing plague turns its victims into the living dead. {{spoiler|In a twist keeping with its tone and sense of humor, it's caused by the proximity of a slutty, disease-ridden [[Horny Devils|Succubus Queen]]; apparently, what's a harmless STD to a demoness is a virulent [[Zombie Apocalypse]]-inducing epidemic for humans.}}
** 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|Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]'' had a whole set of missions pitting you against the undead, and quite a few could be found in the last couple of levels as well.
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* 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 and Dragons|Monster Manual]]'' (especially during Act 3), from zombies to vampire ancients. {{spoiler|He also has a group of six [[Bosses in Mook Clothing]] called Shadow Reavers, slain high-level mages revived with Shadow Weave magic, which are [[Immortality]] until Ammon Jerro or Zhjaeve [[I Know Your True Name|speak their true names]].}}
* ''[[Red Faction]] II'''s second act features "Processed" zombies, and one mission has you fight through a [[Clown Car Grave
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