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[[Stubbs the Zombie]] is a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] third-person action game with a twist - rather than playing as a human survivor, you are the first zombie, and the entire game basically consists of you lurching around eating brains and expanding the extent of the zombie outbreak. Was made by the same development team responsible for [[Halo]].▼
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* [[Action Commands]]: Used during the {{spoiler|dance-}}battle against the police chief.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]
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* [[Dirty Communists]]: [[Crazy Survivalist|Otis']] perceived cause of the [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
* [[The Dragon]]: Dr. Hermann Wye.
* [[Grievous Harm
** He can also [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|tear off his opponent's arms and beat people to death with them.]]
* [[Hot Mom]]: Maggie Monday. Even Stubbs falls in love with her. {{spoiler|A little something from when he was living. He was a Traveling Salesmen, after all.}}
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** [[Grand Theft Me]]: using his severed hand as a mind control device
** Exploding bowling ball head
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: {{spoiler|Stubbs is actually Andrew Monday's father.}}
* [[Mythology Gag]]: [[Night of the Living Dead|A zombie outbreak in Pennsylvania.]]
* [[Night of the Living Mooks]]: Every one of your or or your minions' victims, bar the [[Grand Theft Me|possessed]] humans.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Stubbs himself is essentially a somewhat-intelligent superzombie. The many zombie Mooks you create subvert the big zombie rule by being able to keep fighting even after they've gotten their heads blown off.
** Indeed, a disembodied torso with one arm will still crawl around trying to catch humans.
* [[Pre
* [[Raygun Gothic]]: In 1959, billionaire philanthropist Andrew Monday founds the town of Punchbowl, Pennsylvania; '''''THE CITY OF TOMORROW!''''' and the setting for the game.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: You are a zombie, eating the brains of everyone in sight with brief cutscenes of them begging for their lives (with some ''intensely'' funny pleas) before you chow down and turn them into mindless zombie minions. And it's hilarious!
** {{spoiler|At one point you are given the opportunity to pee in the local water supply to make more zombies. "Press 'R' to Pee".}}
*** You fight the police chief {{spoiler|in a cheap DDR-lite contest. And no, it isn't a case of "using DDR mechanics to control combat," oh no, you actually have a DANCE duel.}}
* [[Shout
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The music choice during a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] is ...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAuNPj-eoyM interesting]. It ''does'' fit the [[Raygun Gothic]] setting though.
** The tunes include "Earth Angel", "My Boyfriend's Back", "Mr. Sandman", "If I Only Had a Brain" and others, covered by current alt bands. The trope is played entirely straight with such upbeat tunes playing while you eat peoples' brains and turn them into mindless zombie minions. Subverted in that, if you notice, ''all'' of the song titles and lyrics could have alternate, ominous meanings in the context of the game. Further subverted in the the whole ''point'' of the game is to be an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the zombie genre and the [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] helps make it all the more silly.
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* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Stubbs was probably a real stand-up guy before the whole desire to consume the flesh of the living bit.
** A traveling salesman to be precise.
** To explain, in a [[What Did I Ever Do To You?]] scenario, Stubbs has ruined an eco-friendly paragon-model city (sabotaging most of it's future expansion plans), killed thousands of people, zombified at least one, {{spoiler|ruined his self-made multimillionare son's dreams and killed his own wife}}. The city was in no way responsible for his death, as it was built by someone who wasn't even born when Stubbs died.
*** [[Acceptable Targets|So...Disregard first statement, right?]]
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: And guess who gets to cause it all?
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