History Film / Braindead

* {{Gorn}}: Raised on a pinnacle and worshiped. Combined with BloodyHilarious.

* LittleBad: Void, the leader of the punks at the graveyard. After getting infected, he becomes the most aggressive and persistent of the zombies. At the party, he gets some of the most brutal kills, and [[{{Determinator}} chases Lionel all through the house]]. [[spoiler:He maintains the chase even after his body has been cut in half, with his legs and upper body moving separately, and even his ''intestines'' move of their own accord and pursue Lionel into the attic. Later on, he quite literally pulls himself together and attacks Lionel one more time after all the other zombies have been destroyed. Lionel is finally able to dispose of him too, just in time for "Mum" to show up...]]

%%* {{Adorkable}}: Lionel.

** The Paths of the Dead in Jackson's ''Film/LordOfTheRings'' was the same location as this film's opening scene.

-->'''Lionel:''' [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore You don’t scare me, Mum!]] All my life... you’ve told me nothing but ''lies''! [[spoiler:That stuff about Dad? None of it was true! You drowned them both, Mum! Dad and that blonde woman, you caught them together and you ''killed'' them, didn’t you?!]]\\

* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling the Old Woman Out]]: Lionel finally stands up to [[OneWingedAngel his zombified, mutated mother]] and confronts her about [[spoiler:[[YouKilledMyFather what really happened to his father]]]].

* [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling the Old Woman Out]]: Lionel finally stands up to [[OneWingedAngel his zombified, mutated mother]] and confronts her about [[spoiler:[[YouKilledMyFather what really happened to his father]].
-->'''Lionel:''' [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore You don’t scare me, Mum!]] All my life... [[spoiler:you’ve told me nothing but ''lies''! That stuff about Dad? None of it was true! You drowned them both, Mum! Dad and that blonde woman, you caught them together and you ''killed'' them, didn’t you?!]]\\

%%* ChainsawGood: Lawnmower '''better.''' (Not enough context. Please expand before un-commenting.)

* WouldNotHurtAChild: At first, Paquita hesitates to kill Selwyn as it wails pathetically in the zombie blender...until [[VomitIndiscretionShot the above trope]] happens and it laughs about it. Then she purées that little bastard (or at least tries to) right then and there.

* UglyCute: The Intestine Monster is honestly kinda cute.

* ChainsawGood: Lawnmower '''better.'''

%%* ChainsawGood: Lawnmower '''better.'''

* BigBad: Vera Cosgrove, Lionel's domineering mother, falls into this even before she's bitten, as she [[EvilMatriarch bullies Lionel relentlessly and sabotages his social life]]. As the first major zombie infectee, she starts off the chain of events that gradually causes other townsfolk to become zombies as well, and Lionel spends most of the film struggling to keep her and the rest of the zombies under control. She truly settles into her Big Bad role at the end, where [[spoiler:she mutates into a horrifying monstrosity and regains some of her sentience, and it's revealed that she drowned Lionel's father and his lover many years ago.]]

* LittleBad: Void, the leader of the punks at the graveyard. After getting infected, he becomes the most aggressive and persistent of the zombies. At the party, he gets some of the most brutal kills, and [[{{Determinator}} chases Lionel all through the house]]. [[spoiler:He maintains the chase even after his body has been cut in half, with his legs and upper body moving separately, and even his ''intestines'' move of their own accord and pursue Lionel into the attic. Later on he attacks Lionel one more time after all the other zombies have been destroyed. Lionel is finally able to dispose of him too, just in time for "Mum" to show up...]]

* BlackComedy: It's essentially a BoyMeetsGirl story...with demonic zombies and a MyBelovedSmother. And it's one of the funniest things you'll ever see.

* LetThePastBurn: The film ends this way, presumably destroying the remaining zombies.

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Vera Cosgrove, Lionel's abusive mother and the leader of the zombies.]]

* EvilMatriarch: Lionel's mother. She bullies him relentlessly and sabotages his social life. After her zombification, she gets worse.

* BreakTheCutie: Happened to Lionel years before the film began when his father died in a swimming accident. [[spoiler:Turns out that was a lie made up by his mother. The real moment came when Lionel witnessed Vera drowning both his father and mistress in the bathtub.]]

%%* AndShowItToYou: Happens to [[spoiler: one poor girl at the party when the zombies break out of the basement.]]

%%* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: Lionel's mother.]]

* NotUsingTheZWord: Nope. The first thing one of the thugs says upon seeing Lionel's mother rise from the grave: "It's a zombie!"

* AndShowItToYou: Happens to [[spoiler: one poor girl at the party when the zombies break out of the basement.]]

* BigBad: Vera Cosgrove, Lionel's abusive mother and the leader of the zombies.

* HighPressureBlood: ''Braindead'' is the bloodiest movie of all time, with blood being pumped at five gallons per second during the lawnmower climax. 'Nuff said.

* BadassPreacher: Father McGruder, the Kung Fu Priest, with the immortal line "I kick arse for the Lord!" Subverted in that [[spoiler:his badass causes his downfall. He kicks a zombie's head off. The zombie head lands right on his shoulder. He gets bitten.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Lionel.

* BadassPreacher: [[TooCoolToLive Father McGruder, the Kung Fu Priest]], with the immortal line "I kick arse for the Lord!" Subverted in that [[spoiler:his badass causes his downfall. He kicks a zombie's head off. The zombie head lands right on his shoulder. He gets bitten.]]

* BloodyHilarious: The gore is so over the top, that it gets to be this way.

* ChainsawGood: Lawnmower '''''BETTER.'''''

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A horrible, infectious disease spread by a nonhuman primate, eh?

* FatBastard: Uncle Les.

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: Lionel's mother.]]
* GagDub: The Italian dub adds all kinds of silly puns by having the zombies "talk" and not only make meaningless grunts and noises. it just makes everything even more hilarious.

* GraveMarkingScene: Too bad it doesn't help.

* HilarityInZoos: The encounter with the Sumatran Rat Monkey.

* IronicEcho: At the beginning of the film, Lionel's mother complains that her son doesn't even know how to use the lawnmower properly. [[ChekhovsGun As it turns out at the end]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome he most]] [[LudicrousGibs certainly does]].
* {{Jerkass}}: Both Uncle Les and Vera.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Vera's actions come back to bite her in the ass

* MyBelovedSmother: Vera, Lionel's mother.

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Vera after she bursts out of the basement at the end.]]

* RefugeInAudacity: [[Film/BadTaste Almost]] [[Film/MeetTheFeebles everything]]. However, zombie nurse making love with zombie priest and then having a zombie baby is wrong on '''''so many levels'''''.

* SuperStrength: For all the decomposition her body goes through, Vera becomes STRONG as a zombie!