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[[File:hitman zombienight 330 809.jpg|link=Hitman (Comic Book)|frame|Zombie Night at Gotham Aquarium]]

 

 

Sometimes the [[Zombie Apocalypse]], unlike the bird flu, can carry to other species.

In video games, these animals are often a [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Night of the Living Mooks]], but not always.

 

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* In ''[[Creature Tech]]'', the blood of Christ in the [[Public Domain Artifact|Shroud of Turin]] can heal wounds and raise the dead. When the shroud accidentally comes into contact with some meat in a butcher shop, the various cuts assemble themselves into a sentient Meat Man.

* Happened in [[Grant Morrison]]'s [[Seven Soldiers]].

* One of the stories in the ''[[Halo]] Graphic Novel'' involves a Flood infestation on a Covenant station. They completely wipe out and assimilate the onboard wildlife reservation.

* ''[[Hitman (Comic Book)|Hitman]]'': Tommy and friends experience "Zombie Night At Gotham Aquarium," which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].<ref>''Hitman'' #13-14</ref>

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'', Moro's severed head is briefly reanimated upon contact with the Forest Spirit's black goo...whereupon it proceeds to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|lunge at Lady Eboshi and bite off her arm]].

* In ''[[28 Days Later]]'' the <s>[[Not Using the Z Word|zombie]]</s> Rage virus was originally tested on and spread by chimpanzees.

* In ''[[I Am Legend]]'', The vampires have dogs to follow them, though this is strange since the vampires are supposed to be mindless animals. anyways. Also, for some reason the main character hunts a deer that is not infected, so supposedly it only works on humans and canids, unless the deer is an imune.

** Not to mention the lion either

* ''[[The Gamers]] 2: Dorkness Rising''- After defeating [[The Dragon|Mort Kemnon]] and realising he was not the [[Big Bad]], sorceress Luster hands a note to the DM: "Raise Dead on the turkey". That they were roasting over their campfire. It [[Running Gag|kills the bard]] before getting eaten (and still zombie'd).

* In ''[[Daybreakers]]'', there's mention of ''vampire'' animals. Apparently, they keep igniting in the sun, leading to forest fires.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** Not clear if they're technically undead or not, but Green's ''[[Ghost Finders|Ghost of a Smile]]'' has a room full of animated black-market ''transplant organs'' attack the heroes and try to [[Orifice Invasion|get inside them]].

* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Pet Sematary]]'', there's a special burial ground and anyone buried there will come back to life. Burying animals there is fairly common, and the zombie animals are mostly harmless (the main character has a zombie cat, and his neighbor used to have a zombie dog), but human zombies aren't nearly as nice.

* One of the [[Magic A Is Magic A|rules]] of necromancy in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' is that it's often not worth it to raise a zombie animal, as animals leave shallower "psychic footprints" than humans and thus don't have as much power when raised (consider that a human zombie, in deference to tradition, is typically as strong as the Terminator). Harry, however, being [[Crazy Awesome]], latches onto two of the other rules—first, that is is ''technically'' not illegal to raise animals, and second, that the older something is, the deeper its "footprint" becomes—and applies these rules to {{spoiler|[[Tyrannosaurus Rex|Sue, the 65 million year old T. rex skeleton at the Natural History Museum]]}}. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesomeness ensued.]]

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', anything killed by the Others will rise as a wight. This includes horses (often described as riding around with [[Squick|frosted entrails clinging to their bellies]]) and [[Everything's Worse with Bears|bears]].

* A pack of zombie hyenas appears in ''Iron Dawn'', as products of the demonist's corrupted magic.

* In the humorous [[Magitek]] fantasy novel ''The Case Of The Toxic Spell Dump'', a seamstress removes a fresh bloodstain from a piece of cloth by having her pet vampster lick it clean. Yes, that's a vampire ''hamster''.

* A vampire version of this appears in [[Christopher Moore]]'s trilogy about vampires in San Francisco, ''Love Bites'', ''You Suck'' and ''Bite Me''. Under the series' [[Our Vampires Are Different|rules of how vampirism works]], anything that has a vampire's blood in its system, and then dies, comes back as a vampire. Since many animals instinctively fight by biting their attacker, animals get vampirized very easily. At one point in the story there are ''clouds'' of mist made of vampire cats flying around.

** {{spoiler|Fortunately, [[Undeath Always Ends]]. The further removed vampires in that setting are from the original vampire, the quicker they die naturally or self-destruct psychologically somehow, which is seem with formerly human vampires. Protagonists manage to kill the first vampire cat, and it might never be explicitly stated but we can assume that all animals of a lower "generation" than him fall apart on their own somehow. At one point a flock of vampire parrots bursts into flame in the morning sun simply because they don't know they need to stay away from sunlight.}}

* [[David Drake]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Isles]]'' features a lot of necromancers who, in their bid to take over the kingdom, love to raise the dead. Their armies include undead infantry, undead cavalry on undead horses, and even undead shock troops in the form of undead ''woolly mammoths''. Undead cyclopses have also been known to appear.

 

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the first zombie raised by mask that houses the demon Ovu Mobani is a cat. It was the one corpse closest to the mask.

 

* Campfire song "Johnny Verbeck's Sausage Making Machine" has this verse:

** Parodied in ''[[Homestar Runner]]''. In the SBEmail [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail141.html death metal], Strong Bad watches a music video for [[Fake Band|Taranchula's]] "The Decoupage", featuring what he describes as "Creeping... rusty... meat."

 

** Indeed, older editions of the game included ''Animate Dead Animals'' as a low-level magic spell, useable by novice necromancers who weren't yet powerful enough to affect humanoid corpses.

** D&D also gives us "Skin Kites," patches of undead skin which fly around and can create more of themselves from the skin of their victims. Then there's the Skulking cyst, a crawling undead tumor. Still other undead include clouds of blood, severed appendages, constructs of bone and an entire graveyard able to come alive like a humanoid golem.

 

* Practically omnipresent throughout the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' games. Zombie dogs have appeared in basically every game to date, and you have also encountered infected crows (very annoying AND dangerous), an alligator (in a sewer!), a giant zombie snake, and a giant Zombie [[Man-Eating Plant]]. Probably others, too, but those are the ones that come to mind...Mentioned in the backstory, with Wesker suspicious of why Spencer had a mansion in the middle of a forest, despite knowing that the virus could infect ''anything'' and from such a location, could end up infecting ''everything''.

** ''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]] File #2'' had the protagonists forced to go through the Raccoon City zoo: You get attacked by zombie hyenas, zombie alligators, zombie elephants, and zombie lions.

** This got to the point that when normal, if aggressive, crocodiles were featured many were speculating on whether or not they were actually infected with anything.

* In ''[[Dead Rising]]'' a zombie poodle is shown during one of the opening [[Cutscene]]s. You don't run in to any other zombie animals in the 360 version. The Wii version features them during the normal game.

** It's debatable if the poodle was even a zombie in the 360 version, it could be the zombies favor human meat exclusively to animals.

** Zombie penguins are mentioned as being an attraction in Fortune City in the tie-in C.U.R.E. website. None are seen in-game, though.

* The Meat Circus in ''[[Psychonauts]]'' features zombie rabbits that attack Lil' Oly during the [[Escort Mission]].

* ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'' has zombie dolphins attack the household.

* In the haunted house level of ''[[Time Splitters]]: Future Perfect'', racks of zombified beef attack you in a kitchen. In another room, a huge mass of flesh bursts out of a wall attached to a stuffed moose head.

* Zombie Carp in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]''. Normal carp are notorious for dragging unlucky dwarves into the water to their doom, but they're generally easy to avoid as long as you stay away from the water. ''Zombie'' carp are a whole new magnitude of "scary," being capable of leaving the water and pursuing the hapless dwarves to their very beds. And this isn't even taking into account the possibility of zombie ''whales''...

** And of course most normal wildlife in the game comes in undead form. Carp are just the worst [[Demonic Spiders]] of the lot.

*** And what's more, the recent update made them ''unkillable''.

** In the latest release dead things and dead ''parts'' of thing in an evil region can be spontaneously raised as undead, including untanned animal hides and the shells of mussels.

** Not technically undead, but a similar idea, are the afflicted cows in the second mission of Factions.

* ''[[Thunder Force|Thunder Force V]]'' has the boss "[[Shout-Out|Iron Maiden]]", a reanimated... animal thingy.

** "It was dead, but alive at the same time"

** In most bodies of water there are swimming schools of fish that serve as decoration. In undead territories, they're fish skeletons.

* The popular ''[[Half Life]]'' mod, "They Hunger", has zombie dogs, bulls, and chickens.

* In ''[[Dead Space (series)|Dead Space]]'' some fish have been infected by Necromorphs and attack each other.

** The Stalkers are implied to be made of both human and animal corpses, namely household pets like dogs and cats.

* ''[[Dark Souls]]'' has the Undead Dragons. They like to spit poison and have an almost-[[Instant Death Radius]].

* In ''[[Cold Fear]]'' is stated that Excell were experimented on animals, including dogs and apes. There's also a dead orca whale which hosted several Infectors, which proceed to attack you.

 

* The [[Character Blog]] of [[Gentleman Adventurer|Othar Tryggvassen]], '''''[[Insistent Terminology|Gentleman Adventurer]]!''''' from ''[[Girl Genius]]'' once had our lovable [[Large Ham]] trying to fight past a horde of undead stoats.

* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] and [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] in ''[[The Zombie Hunters]].'' Animals are explicitly [[The Immune]], which piques the interest of scientists trying to [[Find the Cure]], and prompts jokes amongst the [[Disaster Scavengers|Zombie Hunters]]: "I have ''always'' considered it a blessing that animals don't turn. Can you imagine? [[Super-Persistent Predator|Hunter Zombie]] ''Squirrels?''"

 

* The Carnivorous Undead sheep in the "Most in the Graveyard Halloween ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoon.

 

 

 

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