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** Manga: {{spoiler|The Cyclops Army, "lesser homunculi" released by Father. They behave a lot like zombies, but headshots don't kill them.}} They also eat people, beg for "mama" and "daddy", and [[Uncanny Valley|look like]] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|MP-EVAs]].
** Anime: In [[The Movie]], the Gate inexplicably turns a group of Thule Society soldiers into zombies. They also have thick suits of armor. {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad]] has some knowledge of alchemy, and so she's able to control the zombies when she passes through the Gate. This results in armored, machine-gun-wielding zombies with militaristic capabilities.}} [[Badass|Badassity]] ensues. About their only real weakness is that they possess the zombie gait.
* Brutally subverted in ''[[
* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty & Stocking]]'' did this on their eight episode fittingly titled ''[[Title of the Dead|...of the Dead]]'' which parodies most Zombie Apocalypse tropes. {{spoiler|In a surprising aversion. The title characters not only fail to stop the zombie outbreak. But end up becoming zombies themselves. 'Course, as this is a gag show, [[Negative Continuity|things are back to normal the following episode.]]}} It should also be noted that in this universe zombies can [[Shaped Like Itself|zombify]] angels, demons and Ghosts.
* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' has a zombie outbreak on an island {{spoiler|it's actually a disease and they victims are [[And I Must Scream|unable to talk]] }}.
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* ''[[Space Quest]] V'' has the mutant Pukoids fulfilling this trope.
* In the Japanese PS2 game ''The Zombie vs. Kyuukyuusha'' ("Zombie vs. Ambulance", and yes that's the real title), you drive around a zombie-infested city in an ambulance, attempting to rescue people and take them back to the hospital that serves as your home base so you can inoculate them against the zombie plague. If you take too long getting people back to base, they turn into zombies and start damaging your ambulance from the inside. And you can upgrade your ambulance so it can take more damage and more easily plow through hordes of zombies.
** This game is part of the ''Simple 2000'' series of budget titles, which also features a game called ''The Oneechanbara'' ("Zombie Zone" in the West), in which you play a bikini-wearing samurai girl who goes around slicing up zombies. While the gameplay isn't particularly brilliant, the game is definitely fun. It's proven so popular that sequels have been released on the Wii and [[
* ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'''s Walking Corpses, and their level-up, the Soullesses. They follow the Russo rules, for the most part: any unit killed by a Walking Corpse or Soulless becomes a Walking Corpse or Soulless on the side of the Corpse that killed them, simulating The Virus.
* ''[[Postal]] 2: Apocalypse Weekend'' features Mad Cow Tourettes zombies (apparently Tourette's syndrome sufferers who ate mad cow-infected meat). They normally shamble slowly, but can sometimes be seen stumbling forwards quickly (catching the player off-guard); they throw chunks of their own flesh to attack; their heads must be completely destroyed to kill them (merely cutting them off will do no good); and (for no other reason than the fact that the world of Postal 2 is already messed up as it is) you can resurrect dead zombies by ''pissing on them''.
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* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' had the [[The Plague|Gray Plague]], which, as players found out through [[Time Travel]] to [[After the End|Seaside Town, 28 Days Later]], killed the infected population and brought them back as zombies.
* Downloadable PC Game ''[[Zombie Driver]]'' casts the player as an [[Action Survivor|Action]] [[The Taxi|Taxi Driver]] in the midst of an infested city where the outbreak was caused by a chemical explosion. The cabbie must rescue people trapped in various buildings and return them to an extraction point. He gets paid by the mayor for zombies killed and survivors rescued, so he can buy bigger and badder cars and weapons to run down zombies.
* [[
* Though all three [[Diablo]] games featured undead, only [[Diablo III]] features an actual Zombie Apocalypse casted by the Skeleton King New Tristram after a mysterious meteor crashed into Tristram's cathedrale. Whereas in the previous games the zombies were mere mooks that you would meet and kill, this game features them much like a classic example, with them attacking villages and able to turn people they bit into zombies.
* In ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'', {{spoiler|Vordred creates this in the Doomwood Part 1 finale if the hero chooses to betray Artix and let Vordred become the Champion of Darkness}}.
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