Zombie Infectee: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Pride and Prejudice And Zombies]]'', like the above, all dead people are beheaded, because they all rise. Also, {{spoiler|Charlotte Lucas is infected, marries Mr Collins just so she can have "a proper Christian beheading and burial", and slowly transforms into a zombie. This may be taken as symbolic of how, in [[Pride and Prejudice|the original]], she threw away all hope of being truly happy so she could marry a fairly wealthy man and be secure - she's sort of the "living dead". Anyway, in ''[[Pride and Prejudice And Zombies]]'', [[Zombie Gait|staggers around]], speaking weirdly, eating disgustingly, and [[Toilet Humor|nearly having diarrhea in the corner of a parlor]]. It turns out that the reason she transforms so slowly is that Lady Catherine has been dosing her with a [[Failure Is the Only Option|not-so-efficacious antidote]] which only prolonged her suffering.}}

* Completely averted in the [[Newsflesh]] trilogy, because it's very easy to test if someone is infected. All the characters are trained not to go near anyone who's been out in the field until they've had a blood test, and all the characters who get infected (and discovered by the test) simply say their last words and let their teammates shoot them.

* {{spoiler|Beth}} in ''[[The Forest of Hands and Teeth]]'' suffers from a small wound at the hands of one of the Unforsaken. {{spoiler|Her husband, Jed,}} knows about it and has troubles accepting the tragedy. He keeps it a secret from everyone but Mary, who promises to keep silent for the time. {{spoiler|Beth's eventual death is a mercy kill}}.

* There are many in [[Can YOU Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?]]. They can't pretend for long, though, since the time between being infected and reanimating is fairly short.

* ''[[Special Unit 2]]'' has the main character Nick get infected by a werewolf bite. Needing to find the werewolves, he decides to let himself turn, but tells his partner to kill him if he looks like he's lost himself. At the end, he seems to lose control, but by this point they'd developed a cure bullet and shot him with it.

* ''[[Community]]'' hilariously evokes the trope by having ''two'' people, one after the other, reveal themselves as being infectees, and protesting in slurred, growling speech (a symptom that announces the transformation is underway) that they thought they were "special" and could resist the bite through [[Heroic Willpower]].

* Subverted in ''[[Dead Set]]''. Angel is bitten but because none of the housemates are clear on how the virus works, they attempt to treat her. It doesn't work. Later, Alex is bitten and quietly hands her axe over to Riq to dispatch her quickly.