History FanFic / RespawnOfTheDead

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do]] with [[Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead school students and zombies]], or [[LightNovel/IsThisAZombie magical girls and zombies]].

* LoveYouAndEverybody: Medic suggests that the reason Pyro signs a letter to him with "Love, Pyro" is either that it's a strange joke or Pyro just doesn't know the socially acceptable way to write letters to your coworkers. However, it seems entirely possible that it's just because Pyro considers him to be a good friend.

* IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow: Spy's response in the {{prequel}} when Medic tells him he and Heavy are going to go play chess and he can mind his own business.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Medic and Heavy have happy, loving, extremely ''loud'' sex. Unlike most examples of this trope, it's also clearly a bit [[CasualKink kinky]], and they do have their problems at first. [[spoiler:Spy and Soldier are both the villainous side of this trope. Particularly Spy, who actually threatens to rape Sniper.]]

* NotSoDifferent: A more positive version. They've probably got more weird international gay couples like Heavy and Medic than they've got the likes a' Demo, anyway. Also, Demo was initially a bit homophobic, but Medic was initially a bit racist.
** [[spoiler:Pyro feels a kinship with Stumpy because, in his opinion, they're both monsters.]]

* AfraidOfNeedles: Scout. Medic, who really is kind of a sadist, finds it pretty entertaining.

* AllGermansAreNazis: Soldier seems to fervently believe this.
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:New Announcer.]]
* AmIJustAToyToYou: Heavy worries about this in the {{prequel}}.

* AnyoneCanDie: And HOW.

* AxCrazy: Soldier.

* BurialAtSea: [[spoiler:Pyro, rather ironically.]]
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Poor, poor Heavy...]]

* CoveredWithScars: [[spoiler:Pyro. Medic, of course, is not horrified, just intrigued.]]

* LeaveBehindAPistol: [[spoiler: Engineer does this to Spy.]]
* LeeroyJenkins: Goddamnit, Soldier!

* NobodyOver50IsGay: Medic is at least over forty. Scout certainly seems to think he's pretty much the oldest man in the world.

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do]] with [[Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead school students and zombies]], or [[LightNovel/IsThisAZombie magical girls and zombies]].

* HappyBirthdayToYou: Sniper has an EroticDream in which MarilynMonroe was going to [[UnusualEuphemism blow out his candle]].

Can be read [[http://dotchan.com/?p=1634 here]]. And once you're done with that, read the prologue [[http://dotchan.com/?p=1804 here]].

* ActorAllusion: [[spoiler: The Administrator is replaced with [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} an irritable A.I.]] ]]

* [[spoiler: BigGuyFatalitySyndrome]]: [[spoiler: Heavy falls victim to the zombies after he is unable to escape the base.]]

* [[spoiler:BurialAtSea: Pyro, rather ironically.]]
* [[spoiler:BuryYourGays:Poor, poor Heavy...]]

* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: The reason Soldier doesn't get along with Heavy. Or at least one of them; Soldier [[HeteronormativeCrusader disapproves of homosexuality]] even more than Communism.

* [[spoiler:CoveredWithScars: Pyro. Medic, of course, is not horrified, just intrigued.]]

* [[spoiler:DeathFakedForYou: All the surviving characters who have family.]]
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Medic is this in the {{prequel}}, but several of the team members, particularly Heavy, help draw him out of his shell. He still stays a little frosty, though.

* FriendlySniper: Despite being something of a [[IneffectualLoner lone wolf]], Sniper is generally laid-back and easygoing. And he loves his parents.
** Well, his mom, at least.

* Foreshadowing: [[spoiler:When Pyro is setting up the tanks in the BLU intelligence room to blow the base up, he notes how the map in the communications room looks exactly the same as the one in RED. This starts off as a case of meta humor because the bases of the actual 2fort are just copy, pasted and flipped... until it's revealed that BLU and RED had been working together to make profit off the zombie outbreak.]]

* [[spoiler:GodzillaThreshold: The government of the United States ends up nuking the hell out of the southwest.]]

* [[spoiler:TheGrotesque: Pyro was badly scarred and deformed by a fire, which is why he only takes off his mask and suit alone. He seems to have been this way since he was a child, which might explain his childlike demeanor. Typical of the trope, he has a very sweet and endearing personality.]]

* [[HelpImStuck Help I'm Stuck]]: Happens to Heavy twice. One time is played for laughs. [[TearJerker The other...]]

* [[IllTellYouWhenIveHadEnough I'll Tell You Vhen I Haff Had Enough!]]: Medic, to Engineer. Fortunately, he actually doesn't drink any more after that.

* [[spoiler:TropicalEpilogue]]

* [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim What Does He See In Him?]]: In the {{prequel}}, this is Spy's reaction to realizing that Heavy and Medic have become a couple. You can probably guess which one he thinks could have done better (where "better" really means "Spy").

* {{Zombie Infectee}}s: A few, but the most tragic is [[spoiler:Pyro. He asks to be killed before he can become one of the walking dead.]]

* ColdWar: The reason Soldier doesn't get along with Heavy. Or at least one of them; Soldier [[HeteronormativeCrusader disapproves of homosexuality]] even more than Communism.

* NightmareFuel: Many of the BLU team's deaths.
--> The Soldier ans Shovel Scenes. [[spoiler:Shovel seemingly seduces him...]]
--> Imagining [[spoiler: Heavy's Death]]
--> The many Video Reels that shows the BLU medic creating "Immortality" (Codenamed LAZARUS).

* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Heavy, in the prequel. Well, it's not his fault that Medic didn't realize he was almost quoting Greta Garbo word-for-word, but...

* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler:BLU Medic kept a video record of his experiments, eventually filming his own transformation into a zombie.]]

* [[spoiler: BigGuyFatalitySyndrome]]: *sniff*
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Only five of the main characters survive, and what's more, their deaths have been very convincingly faked so those who have families can't go home to them.]]
* BlameGame: So whose fault ''is'' the zombie plague, anyway? [[spoiler:BLU Medic created the virus in the first place, BUT Sniper missed a shot on the BLU Spy, who was infected, BUT Engineer never got around to fixing the hole in the fence said BLU Spy escaped through...]]

* ForScience: said by RED Medic [[spoiler: but the trope is actually fulfilled by BLU Medic, who attempts to re-create respawn technology for no reason other than curiosity.]]

* MonsterSobStory / SympathyForTheDevil: Despite everything that he did, Engineer still feels sorry for the Spy and still regrets [[spoiler:having to kill him.]] The prologue also has a moment like this, where it's revealed that the Spy ''knows'' that his [[PowerPerversionPotential strange use of the disguise technology]] is really pathetic/depraved, and that he's sunk to what he feels are deplorably low depths. It doesn't stop him from coming across as a CompleteMonster, but it stops him from coming across as gleefully evil.

-->“Are you doing[[hottip:*:[sic], I have no idea whether it's a typo or his English is just going rapidly downhill]] to… dark-mail me?” Heavy asked, obviously unsure of his choice of words.