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* In the ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' episode "Regeneration", the Borg obviously can't be called the Borg, since it's 200 years before the official first contact in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]''. But the writers seem to go out of their way to avoid even calling them cyborgs. Instead they're referred to as "cybernetic hybrids".
* The "Wizards vs. Angels" arc of ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' features "Angels of Darkness" ([[Our Demons Are Different|demons]]), led by Gorog, an [[Expy]] of [[Satan]].
 
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* The enemies in [[Killing Floor]] are referred to officially as Specimens. Another in-universe name for them is Zeds, but no one who plays the game actually calls them that.
* The [[Resident Evil]] games do use the term, quite a bit. There's even a moment in the fourth one where Leon observes the villagers trying to kill him ''aren't'' zombies, appearing perfectly human (if rather pale) and interacting intelligently with one another, and the first Majini Chris Redfield or Sheva shoots in the fifth, Chris notes that they don't move like any zombie he's ever seen.
** Totally averted in all the rest of the pre-[[R EmakeRemake]] games: ''Everyone'' calls them zombies without hesitation or qualification. Except for [[Mauve Shirt|Marvin]], who refers to them as [[Shaped Like Itself|"zombie-like creatures"]]. Most games that feature zombies made after [[R EmakeRemake]] will have common folks refer to them as "monsters", while those with more knowledge will call them B.O.W.'s (Bio-Organic Weapons). This name is perhaps the only example sillier than the term zombie itself, seeing as biological and organic are synonyms, and saying BOW takes longer. Then again, it may be justified in that BOW encompasses more than just the humans—it includes the crocodile-like creatures, bats, snakes, etc. 
** Although they are the least zombie-like in the new series beginning with 4 and 5, as Capcom wanted to move away from the old "Romero-style slow zombies with a few mutated bosses" set up and moved to the "normal people just converted by Las Plagas" approach. This also marked a [[Genre Shift]] from survival horror to action, though ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' does ''very'' briefly bring Zombies back into the mix; and after going two games without them, it's actually surprising again when they grab you.
** [ResidentEvil:Revelations\] ditches the word "Zombie" almost completely, as Jill and Parker generally refer to the zombie-ish Oozes as simply "things" or "infected" - this gets rather odd, as none of the monsters they encounter have their actual names (ie Ooze, Sea Creeper, Scagdead) ever said. The only exceptions to the Z-word is when Jill calls Rachel a zombie.
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