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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Striker SStrikerS Sound Stage X]]'' , which is [[Time Skip|set 3 years]] after ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'', features the Mariages, [[Lost Technology|mass-production humanoid weapons from Ancient Belka]] that are also known as Corpse Weapons, being artificial soldiers reanimated from corpses that [[The Virus|continue to reproduce itself from the corpses in the area as an instant weapon]].
* 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 4000040,000]]'' are [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Undead Robot Skeleton Mooks.]]
** 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 and& Dragons|D&D]] rules, where they have a host of special rules. They're immune to mind-affecting spells (preventing many of the better spells from working), immune to death magic, (preventing the ''best'' spells from working), immune to sneak attacks (making the Rogue more or less useless), and to top it off, skeletons resist piercing damage since there's nothing ''to'' pierce.
** 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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** 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 OneI]]. Particularly horrible as the Brits cannot die no matter how badly their bodies are mutilated. Fortunately, the [[Narm]] of an arm-less, leg-less face-less moper in the village hospital cheers things up a bit. ...what?
** 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.}}
* ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'': Zombie Mooks are used by Master Belch to overrun the city of Threed. And they come in two flavors: Urban Zombies and Rural Zombies.
** ''[[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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** ''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 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]]yard of them.
 
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