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** Julie grabs Curt's crotch...on a motorcycle that's moving on a highway...which causes Curt to swerve to avoid being hit by a truck, flinging Julie off the bike and breaking her neck... [[WhatAnIdiot Yeah...]]

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** Julie grabs Curt's crotch...on a motorcycle that's moving on a highway...which causes Curt to swerve to avoid being hit by a truck, flinging Julie off the bike and breaking her neck... [[WhatAnIdiot Yeah...]]neck.
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* HumanPincussion: Julie becomes one after impaling herself with numerous spikes and blades to stave off the hunger.

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* HumanPincussion: HumanPincushion: Julie becomes one after impaling herself with numerous spikes and blades to stave off the hunger.
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* HumanPincussion: Julie becomes one after impaling herself with numerous spikes and blades to stave off the hunger.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Curt gets infected, and rather than spend their lives as zombies, he and Julie decide to kill themselves]].
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* HorrorHunger: The hero's (undead) girlfriend develops painful hunger pangs, but none of the snacks that he procures for her will sate her appetite. Her zombie cravings cause her to mutilate herself in order to drown out the hunger... but she feels much better after she munches on a couple of street toughs.

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* HorrorHunger: The hero's (undead) girlfriend develops painful hunger pangs, but none of the snacks that he procures for her will sate her appetite. Her zombie cravings cause her to mutilate herself in order to drown out the hunger... but she feels much better after she munches on a couple of street toughs. As the film goes on, even mutilating herself starts to fail to stave off the hunger. It gets so bad that at one point, she even attacks Curt.

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* FanDisservice: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body. Not to mention the fact that she also kills a few people along the way.

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* FanDisservice: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body. Not to mention the fact that she also kills a few people along the way. Although she ''is'' still fairly attractive.


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* KickTheMoralityPet: At one point, when zombie Julie gets ''really really'' hungry, she attacks Curt, who is forced to fight her back.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The whole movie takes place over the course of a single night.
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* MythologyGag: Brian Peck makes his third appearance in the series, this time as one of the men in hazmat suits testing on the dead body at the beginning.

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* MythologyGag: Brian Peck makes his third appearance in the series, this time as one of the men in hazmat suits testing on the dead body at the beginning. Unlike his other appearances, he doesn’t die this time.
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* MythologyGag: Brian Peck makes his third appearance in the series, this time as one of the men in hazmat suits testing on the dead body at the beginning.

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* AttractiveZombie: Julie remains as attractive as when she was alive (albeit turning more "dominatrix-like") as the LoveStory is crucial to the plot. Even prompting a [[AttemptedRape rape attempt]] from one of the villains.

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* AttractiveZombie: Julie remains as attractive as when she was alive (albeit turning more "dominatrix-like") as the LoveStory love story is crucial to the plot. Even prompting a [[AttemptedRape rape attempt]] from one of the villains.



* {{Fan Disservice}}: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body. Not to mention the fact that she also kills a few people along the way.

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* {{Fan Disservice}}: FanDisservice: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body. Not to mention the fact that she also kills a few people along the way.



* TooDumbToLive: Curt causes the deaths of countless people through his adamant efforts to preserve his zombie girlfriend. How he stays alive as long as he does is a mystery.

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* TooDumbToLive: TooDumbToLive:
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Curt causes the deaths of countless people through his adamant efforts to preserve his zombie girlfriend. How he stays alive as long as he does is a mystery.
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* DecapitationPresentation: After one of the Mexican hoodlums [[TooDumbToLive tries to rape zombie Julie]] offscreen, she comes back and throws his decapitated head at his buddies.

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* DecapitationPresentation: After one of the Mexican hoodlums [[TooDumbToLive tries to rape zombie Julie]] offscreen, she comes back and throws dragging his decapitated nearly severed head at back to his buddies.friends, though his spine still seems to be attached to his head and torso.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: A rare gender flip version; Colonel McCord (Curt's father) does not see Julie as a good influence on his son and Curt is not pleased to hear that his family is moving again. Therefore, he runs away to be with Julie...only for her to die in an accident.

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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: A rare gender flip version; Colonel McCord [=McCord=] (Curt's father) does not see Julie as a good influence on his son and Curt is not pleased to hear that his family is moving again. Therefore, he runs away to be with Julie...only for her to die in an accident.

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* LoveMakesYouDumb: Curt probably wouldn't have caused all hell to break loose (twice in fact), plus not have died himself in the end, if he hadn't loved Julie as much as he did.



** Julie grabs Curt's crotch...on a motorcycle that's moving on a highway...which causes Curt to swerve to avoid being hit by a truck, flinging Julie off and breaking her neck... [[WhatAnIdiot Yeah...]]

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** Julie grabs Curt's crotch...on a motorcycle that's moving on a highway...which causes Curt to swerve to avoid being hit by a truck, flinging Julie off the bike and breaking her neck... [[WhatAnIdiot Yeah...]]

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* DarkerAndEdgier: This film is not only much more serious that the more light-hearted, comedic second film, but also drops the BlackComedy the original had.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: This film is not only much more serious that than the more light-hearted, comedic second film, film but also drops the BlackComedy the original had.had.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: A rare gender flip version; Colonel McCord (Curt's father) does not see Julie as a good influence on his son and Curt is not pleased to hear that his family is moving again. Therefore, he runs away to be with Julie...only for her to die in an accident.


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** Julie grabs Curt's crotch...on a motorcycle that's moving on a highway...which causes Curt to swerve to avoid being hit by a truck, flinging Julie off and breaking her neck... [[WhatAnIdiot Yeah...]]
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* SchrodingersCat: Throughout the movie, Julie may or may not have one, two, or no liprings. She is never shown adding or removing them.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Curt and Julie immolate themselves as lovers rather than let Julie be used as a superweapon.

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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Curt [[spoiler:Curt and Julie immolate themselves as lovers rather than let Julie be used as a superweapon.]]
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* AttractiveZombie: Julie remains as attractive as when she was alive (albeit turning more "dominatrix-like") as the LoveStory is crucial to the plot. Even prompting a [[AttemptedRape rape attempt]] from one of the villains.
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The 1993 sequel to ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead''.

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The 1993 sequel to ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead''.
''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', directed by Creator/BrianYuzna.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: There's actually one major difference that the zombies here have from the previous films: They can actually reanimate their victims, no matter where they're bitten.
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* VampireRefugee: The love interest in the third movie must keep finding new and unique ways to injure herself to keep from succumbing to her zombie hunger.

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* VampireRefugee: The love interest in the third movie Julie must keep finding new and unique ways to injure herself to keep from succumbing to her zombie hunger.
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* ResurrectedRomance

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* ResurrectedRomanceResurrectedRomance: A teenager uses a chemical to bring his dead girlfriend back to "life" as a zombie.

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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The Riverman lives in one.

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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The Riverman lives in one. It's wide enough for a whole group of people to stand in.



* BoyMeetsGhoul: The third movie.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Zombie!Julie.

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* BoyMeetsGhoul: The third movie.
There's a romance between a boy and his zombified girlfriend, whom he resurrected with the Trioxin after she died in a motorcycle accident.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Zombie!Julie.Zombie Julie still looks pretty cute even after she impales most of her body with metal spikes and glass shards to stave off the pain of undeath.


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* DecapitationPresentation: After one of the Mexican hoodlums [[TooDumbToLive tries to rape zombie Julie]] offscreen, she comes back and throws his decapitated head at his buddies.


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* MuggingTheMonster: When the leader of the Mexican gang sees zombie Julie, he takes her to another room where it's implied he was going to rape her. Predictably, he quickly [[OffWithHisHead loses his head]].

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* {{Fan Disservice}}: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body. Not to mention the fact that she also kills a few people along the way.



* {{Fan Disservice}}: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body. Not to mention the fact that she also kills a few people along the way.

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* AssholeVictim: The group of Mexicans that go after Curt and Julie.



* {{Fan Disservice}}: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body.

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* {{Fan Disservice}}: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body. Not to mention the fact that she also kills a few people along the way.
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* {{FanDisservice}}: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body.

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* {{FanDisservice}}: {{Fan Disservice}}: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body.
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* {{FanDisservice}}: Julie is topless for the last portion of the film. But as she continues to zombify, she proceeds to cut rather deep into her body with broken shards of glass, ends up getting covered in blood, and inserts rusty old nails into several parts of her body.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: This film drops the BlackComedy that the first two films primarily ran on.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: This film is not only much more serious that the more light-hearted, comedic second film, but also drops the BlackComedy that the first two films primarily ran on.original had.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: This film drops the BlackComedy that the first two films primarily ran on.
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The 1993 sequel to ''The Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead''.

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The 1993 sequel to ''The Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead''.
''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead''.
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Split the different works off to their own pages.

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The 1993 sequel to ''The Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead''.

When Curt's girlfriend Julie is killed in a motorcycle accident, he uses the zombie gas withheld by the military to re-animate Julie. She retains her sentience but feels compelled to eat brains, trying to stave off her hunger while running with Curt from their pursuers.

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!!This film has the examples of:

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The Riverman lives in one.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Curt and Julie immolate themselves as lovers rather than let Julie be used as a superweapon.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: The third movie.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Zombie!Julie.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Julie can't bear existence as a zombie, and Curt can't bear existence without her, so they both allow themselves to die in a fire at the end.]]
* {{Fingore}}:
** In the beginning, a lab tech's fingers are torn off by a zombie.
** About 2/3 of the way through the film, Julie '''rams a glass shard through her hand'''. She ends up driving several metal spikes (where is she GETTING all this sharp metal?) through her fingertips in order to have really awkward claws.
* HorrorHunger: The hero's (undead) girlfriend develops painful hunger pangs, but none of the snacks that he procures for her will sate her appetite. Her zombie cravings cause her to mutilate herself in order to drown out the hunger... but she feels much better after she munches on a couple of street toughs.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Curt has one with the [[spoiler: Zombiefied Riverman]] near the end of the movie.
* MagicalNegro: The river man.
* ResurrectedRomance
* SchrodingersCat: Throughout the movie, Julie may or may not have one, two, or no liprings. She is never shown adding or removing them.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: Curt gets bitten by one of the reanimated and thus has no future with or without Julie. Rather than become reanimated or made into a super soldier if the base is ever retaken he opts to burn with her so they can be together in relative peace.]]
* TooDumbToLive: Curt causes the deaths of countless people through his adamant efforts to preserve his zombie girlfriend. How he stays alive as long as he does is a mystery.
* VampireRefugee: The love interest in the third movie must keep finding new and unique ways to injure herself to keep from succumbing to her zombie hunger.

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