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The Team cleanup: Indentation, ZCE, FMB


%%* TheTeam:
%%** TheLeader - Juan. He is the one who issues orders, and who in the end, opts to stay behind and fight back.
%%** TheLancer - Lázaro
%%** TheBigGuy - El Primo. Despite his fear of blood, he can fight off the "dissidents" with his bare hands.
%%** TheSmartGuy - California. He appears to be smarter than his dad and is ambitious enough to plan a future that will allow him to see the world yet remain a slacker.
%%** GirlyGirl - La China starts out as a CampGay who can turn a slingshot into a deadly weapon. Later Camila.

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* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: It is specifically stated that the zombies have to be killed by damaging the brain. The first zombie that Juan and friends try to kill keeps on attacking even though as a "vampire" it is stabbed with a wooden stake multiple times.

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* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain:
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It is specifically stated that the zombies have to be killed by damaging the brain. The first zombie that Juan and friends try to kill keeps on attacking even though as a "vampire" it is stabbed with a wooden stake multiple times.times.
** Juan is leading a community workshop on how to deal with the "[[NotUsingTheZWord dissidents]]" and he asks if they know how to kill them. When he asks if they know ''why'' it works, nobody knows, disappointing him because he wanted to find out.
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* MacGyvering: The gang decides their only option is escaping to Florida. They turn a convertible into a flotation device by attaching empty oil drums.
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%%* Five Man Band:
%%** TheHero - Juan

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%%* Five Man Band:
TheTeam:
%%** TheHero TheLeader - JuanJuan. He is the one who issues orders, and who in the end, opts to stay behind and fight back.



%%** TheBigGuy - El Primo
%%** TheSmartGuy - California.
%%** GirlyGirl - La China, later Camila

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%%** TheBigGuy - El Primo
Primo. Despite his fear of blood, he can fight off the "dissidents" with his bare hands.
%%** TheSmartGuy - California.
California. He appears to be smarter than his dad and is ambitious enough to plan a future that will allow him to see the world yet remain a slacker.
%%** GirlyGirl - La China, later CamilaChina starts out as a CampGay who can turn a slingshot into a deadly weapon. Later Camila.
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%%** TheChick - La China, later Camila

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%%** TheChick GirlyGirl - La China, later Camila
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* FightingWithChucks: Juan uses nunchucks as a backup weapon while fighting the zombies.
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* ProfaneLastWords: [[spoiler:BadassPreacher Preacher Joe]] is just about to explain his grand plan to deal with the zombie invasion when he is interrupted by a harpoon to the chest. He manages a "Fuck" before collapsing.

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* DualWielding: Lázaro wields a rusty machete in each hand. Camila opts for a small axe and a claw hammer.



* WaifFu: Juan returns from his arrest, worried sick about Camila. To his surprise, she is dispatching "dissidents" quite easily, even [[spoiler:vaulting upon a zombie's shoulders and sinking her axe into his skull]], then walking away without looking back at the carnage.

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* WaifFu: Juan returns from his arrest, worried sick about Camila. To his surprise, she is dispatching "dissidents" quite easily, even [[spoiler:vaulting upon a zombie's shoulders and sinking her axe a claw hammer into his skull]], then walking away without looking back at the carnage.
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* AllegedCar: Juan and the rest find an abandoned Lada (a Russian export) and he manages to get it started just as they get surrounded by zombies. The car advances a few meters and the motor stalls, making Juan release a ClusterFBomb on Russians for exporting Ladas to Cuba in the first place.

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* AllegedCar: TheAllegedCar: Juan and the rest find an abandoned Lada (a Russian export) and he manages to get it started just as they get surrounded by zombies. The car advances a few meters and the motor stalls, making Juan release a ClusterFBomb on Russians for exporting Ladas to Cuba in the first place.



%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Juan, pretty much.

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%%* * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Juan, pretty much.much. He exploits the situation for profit and he has a tendency toward ComedicSociopathy. This is the same guy who helps his elderly neighbor negotiate steps and a faulty elevator, and later saves a little boy from his zombified dad.
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* AllegedCar: Juan and the rest find an abandoned car (a Russian export Lara) and he manages to get it started just as they get surrounded by zombies. The car advances a few meters and the motor stalls, making Juan release a ClusterFBomb on Russians for exporting Ladas to Cuba in the first place.

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* AllegedCar: Juan and the rest find an abandoned car Lada (a Russian export Lara) export) and he manages to get it started just as they get surrounded by zombies. The car advances a few meters and the motor stalls, making Juan release a ClusterFBomb on Russians for exporting Ladas to Cuba in the first place.
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* AllegedCar: Juan and the rest find an abandoned car (a Russian export Lara) and he manages to get it started just as they get surrounded by zombies. The car advances a few meters and the motor stalls, making Juan release a ClusterFBomb on Russians for exporting Ladas to Cuba in the first place.

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* LethallyStupid: Lázaro manages to [[spoiler: accidentally murder Yiya, and Preacher Jones, just before he reveals his plan.]]



* MassOhCrap: Soldiers detain Juan and the rest and handcuff them all, along with other survivors, one of whom is infected. All of a sudden, the infectee bites another survivor. Screaming ensues.



* TakingTheKids: Camila's backstory: her mother got so tired of Juan doing things like dressing up little Camila in rags and having her beg money from tourists that she moved to Spain with her daughter.



* TooDumbToLive: Lázaro. [[spoiler: He somehow survives until the Bolivian Army Ending.]]



* WellDoneDadGuy: Juan and Lázaro keep trying to connect with and impress their children.

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* WellDoneDadGuy: Juan and Lázaro keep trying to connect with and impress their children. Juan has a harder time, as Camila grew up away from him and sees him as irresponsible. She is the reason why Juan agrees to waive the fee for a community workshop on killing zombies.
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** Finally, Lázaro reveals he's been bitten. [spoiler:Subverted in that the bite never broke the skin, so he'll live]].

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** Finally, Lázaro reveals he's been bitten. [spoiler:Subverted [[spoiler:Subverted in that the bite never broke the skin, so he'll live]].

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* DwindlingParty: Subverted. [[spoiler:China]] is bitten at some point and makes it back to Juan's building, only to die, turn, and need killing. Then Primo, proud of his great strength, breaks open a shelter, which turns out to have already been full of zombies. They drag him in. Then Lázaro reveals he's been bitten [[spoiler:but it never broke the skin, so he'll live]].

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* DwindlingParty: Subverted. DwindlingParty:
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[[spoiler:China]] is bitten at some point and makes it back to Juan's building, only to die, turn, and need killing. killing.
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Then Primo, [[spoiler:Primo, proud of his great strength, strength,]] breaks open the doors to a shelter, which turns out to have already been unaware it was full of zombies. They drag him in. Then
--->''' Lázaro''': Juan, enough of your genius plans! We have gone from an orchestra to a band!
** Finally,
Lázaro reveals he's been bitten [[spoiler:but it bitten. [spoiler:Subverted in that the bite never broke the skin, so he'll live]].
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* BatterUp: What California uses to fight the zombies. He mostly just bashes their heads in, but he also hits a baseball hard enough that it sinks into a zombie's forehead.



* HighPressureBlood: When [[spoiler:El Primo is dragged in by the zombies in the shelter and]] killed, Juan gets literally sprayed with blood.



* LudicrousGibs: When [[spoiler:El Primo]] dies, Juan gets literally sprayed with blood.
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Juan and Lázaro need to get zombies to come out of hiding. Simple screaming does not do it. Lázaro tries name-calling, shouting "Iconoclasts!" and "Bastards!" Zombies don't appear until he yells "ANARCHO-DISSIDENTS!"


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* LimitedWardrobe: Juan is never seen wearing anything other than his cut-off jeans and sleeveless undershirt. The shirts are always immaculate, considering how often he ends up covered in blood.

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* CampGay: La China is a flamboyant drag-queen.

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* CampGay: La China is a flamboyant drag-queen. He even flirts with the soldiers who detain them.



* ElevatorFailure: The elevator in Juan's building tends to get stuck between floors. Juan is seen helping his elderly neighbor climb up to her floor. [[spoiler:Later, Juan and his pals are getting rid of a body when it suddenly reanimates. The elevator gets unstuck, slicing the body in half. They still need to kill the half still in the elevator.]]



** Lázaro accidentally kills the zombie that he and Juan find at sea, [[spoiler: elderly neighbor Yiya, and the aid-worker]] with a spear-gun.

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** Lázaro accidentally kills the zombie that he and Juan find at sea, [[spoiler: elderly neighbor Yiya, and Preacher Jones, the aid-worker]] with a spear-gun.

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