History ComicBook / IZombie

A VertigoComics ongoing series about Gwen Dylan, a woman brought back from the dead for mysterious reasons. The series started in July, 2010. Set in Eugene, Oregon, Gwen has to face a preponderance of supernatural threats alongside her twentysomething life. Drawn by ''Comicbook/{{Madman}}'' author Mike Allred and written by Chris Roberson.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Paintball vampires use their business to lure in customers and feed on them but only enough to keep them going and never fully draining their victims so they become vampires. They also try to keep a low profile as best as they can.

The series ended in 2012 due to Vertigo canceling the comic. But giving the story enough lead time to close out properly. TheCW created a Series/{{IZombie}} TV series, loosely based on the comic. [[Series/OnceUponATime Rose]] [[Series/PowerRangersRPM McIver]] is the lead character, and [[Series/VeronicaMars Rob]] [[Series/PartyDown Thomas]] is showrunner.

* TooDumbToLive: Claire who not only got herself bitten and became a vampire, but could never keep a low profile and just attacked whomever she felt like, getting herself staked in the first few opening issues [[spoiler: She got better via a mad scientist.]]\
* TookAThirdOption: Gwen, when faced with the arrival of the EldritchAbomination has a choice. Kill everyone she knows, loves, and cares about, or let the creature end the world. [[spoiler: Gwen deduces correctly that if it eats souls and she can eat them too, she can eat ''it'' -- so she does, becoming a higher being in the process, no longer able to live on Earth]].

* TooDumbToLive: Claire who not only got herself bitten and became a vampire, but could never keep a low profile and just attacked whomever she felt like, getting herself staked in the first few opening issues [[spoiler: She got better via a mad scientist.]]

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Abraham Lincoln was a zombie secret agent. And so are the Dead Presidents, who only bear the names of the presidents.

* FriendlyEnemy: Galatea and Amon. They took tea together a few centuries ago, but they bicker like old buddies despite their diametrically opposed views.

* NobleDemon: Amon. He is a revenant, so must kill every so often to maintain his existence. But he tries always to only rid the world of bad people. When he goes to sacrifice Scott, he is extremely apologetic, and even goes so far to say he's honored that Scott considered him a friend. Averted in the end, in that Gwen was an innocent he convinced to become a Revanant so he would not have to sacrifice himself to save the world from the Big Bad, and had a way of surviving what he was going to make Gwen do.

* FriendlyEnemy: Galatea and Amon. They took tea together a few centuries ago, but they bicker like old buddies despite their diametrically opposed views.

* NobleDemon: Amon. He is a revenant, so must kill every so often to maintain his existence. But he tries always to only rid the world of bad people. When he goes to sacrifice Scott, he is extremely apologetic, and even goes so far to say he's honored that Scott considered him a friend. Averted in the end, in that Gwen was an innocent he convinced to become a Revanant so he would not have to sacrifice himself to save the world from the Big Bad, and had a way of surviving what he was going to make Gwen do.

* FriendlyEnemy: Galatea and Amon. They took tea together a few centuries ago, but they bicker like old buddies despite their diametrically opposed views.

* NobleDemon: Amon. He is a revenant, so must kill every so often to maintain his existence. But he tries always to only rid the world of bad people. When he goes to sacrifice Scott, he is extremely apologetic, and even goes so far to say he's honored that Scott considered him a friend.

* NoBisexuals: Tan and Patel spend the entire series making "he must be closeted gay" jokes at Scott's expense. He starts off the series hopelessly crushing on Gwen, then jealous and sad when she gets boyfriend Horatio, only to end up married to Gwen's brother Gavin. His original romantic feelings for Gwen have been completely forgotten by all concerned.

* MonstrousHumanoid: The "hounds of Xitalu", minor EldritchAbominations that herald the arrival of the big one, possess human bodies, and transform them into these.

* MadScientist: Galatea, who is convinced that if she can trap the EldritchAbomination in human flesh, she can force it to become her wish-granting servant. She is also quite adept at creating {FrankensteinsMonster}s

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Gwen, after Amon shows her just what happens if the LovecraftianMonstrosity gets to come to Earth]].

* [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]]: A revived body with only an undersoul, with a hunger from brains. Gwen is an exception though.

* {{Backstory}}: We get a little for everyone in the story who is known to Gwen and matters to her, but not Gwen herself because of her amnesia.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Paintball girls use their business to lure in customers and feed on them but only enough to keep them going and never fully draining their victims so they become vampires. They also try to keep a low profile as best as they can.

* [[DeadManWriting Dead Woman Writing]]: Inverted. Gwen keeps journals once becoming a zombie, but finishes her story [[[[spoiler: through possessing Francisco]] so "everyone" who wasn't there to see it all, knows how it turned out.

* {{Adorkable}}: Scott.

* ActionGirl: Dixie, owner of Dixie's Firehouse, Ellie and Gwen's favourite hangout. There are rumors about her being a tough woman, but when the ZombieApocalypse happens in Eugene, we get to see just how tough she is.

* InterspeciesRelationship: Played with. Dixie ends up dating [[spoiler: Scott's grandfather Marty, who is inhabiting the body of a chimpanzee]].

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Played with. Gwen and Scott have Detective Chimp in common: it's a cartoon about a chmp who solves crimes. Scott's grandfather was the voice actor for the titular character, and aften took a young Scott to the monkey house at the zoo. And while a chimp is not technically a monkey, [[spoiler: Grandfather ends up possessing a chimp after his human body's death]].

* NoBisexuals: Tan and Patel spend the entire series making "he must be closeted gay" jokes at Scott's expense. He starts off the series hopelessly crushing on Gwen, then jealous and sad when she gets boyfriend Horatio, only to end up married to Gwen's brother Gavin. His original romantic feelings for Gwen have been completely forgotten by all concerned.

* FrankensteinsMonster: Fernando, in fact those with a keen eye will notice him and his girlfriend. Tricia (who likewise becomes a monster via a vampirism and joins the Paintball Girls) in some of the background in the earlier issues.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Not really, the turning process is pretty simple through a standard bite and drain. The body revives with an oversoul but the victim still retains their memories, along with a few cosmetic changes (fangs, pale skin, cat-like eyes, pointed ears, and grown fingernails that give their hands the appearance of claws). They also don't really need to drain their victim, about a pint of blood is all thats needed to sustain the,.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Gwen's nerd friend, Scott, was bitten by a terrier, and transforms on a full moon, but has no significant personality change or bloodlust during the transformation.

* TranshumanTreachery: Self admitted by the Paintball Girls leader before she bites Tricia. [[http://vampyou.com/forums/download/file.php?id=669&sid=fe720016f38de83658a1c83ad1ae475e&mode=view It should be note Tricia made the decision to become a vampire herself.]]

--> '''PB Leader''': I'm not gonna lie to you. Yes, it will. But it's all right (Lunges at the unprepared Tricia, fangs bared) ''After a while you, start to like it!''