History Film / WarmBodies

* CannibalismSuperpower: With [[BrainFood brains]] come memories, and more intellect and motor control, [[spoiler:and a higher chance to undo the infection.]]

That all changes when R, leading a zombie horde, finds a group of survivors near his daily hangout, an airport. While attacking the survivors, he is struck by his first inkling of a feeling for a unknown female. R being undead, he eats the flesh of the man who shot him, a man named Perry.

As he bites and chews into his brains (they're the tastiest part), he absorbs the memories and love of Perry who just happened to be Julie, the unknown girl's ex. Strengthened by a mix of his own feelings for her and the ones he's just consumed, he feels the need to protect her from his undead cohorts. Fortunately for R., Julie is nearby and hasn't seen him consume the flesh of Perry. Unfortunately for R., he's a zombie. Zombies eat people. People shoot zombies. That's a fact. But R. has this need to take and protect Julie from the others, leading her to an abandoned plane and sheltering her, all the while attempting to get closer. Somehow. Love finds a way, right?

That all changes when R, leading a zombie horde, finds a group of survivors near his daily hangout, an airport. R being undead, he eats the flesh of the man who shot him, a man named Perry.

As he bites and chews into his brains (they're the tastiest part), he absorbs the memories and love Perry had for his girlfriend, Julie. Fortunately for R., Julie is nearby and hasn't seen him consume the flesh of Perry. Unfortunately for R., he's a zombie. Zombies eat people. People shoot zombies. That's a fact. But R. has this need to take and protect Julie from the others, leading her to an abandoned plane and sheltering her, all the while attempting to get closer. Somehow. Love finds a way, right?

* YouCantFightFate: A suited zombie initially comes to the realization that R. is hauling around a living being, and tries to force him to eat her ('''EAT!'''), but realizes something is off about this and wants to see them together, and lets them go - saving them from the Boneys not too later. This is a recurring theme in the film, with the zombies struggling to shrug off their braindead animalism to become human again, despite the danger of doing so, and the Boneys attempting to enforce animalism.

* PrecisionFStrike: Played for laughs, by M.
-->"Bitches, man..."

* CannibalismSuperpower: With [[BrainFood brains]] come memories, and more intellect and motor control.
* {{Comforting Comforter}}: R gives Julie a blanket on the night of their first meeting. This is the first sign for her that he is kind.

* PrecisionFStrike: Played for laughs, by M. Also, M's comment of "...bitches... man..."

* LoveHurts: Halfway through the film, as Julie and R. make their way towards the Wall, Julie and R. share a tender night together, and Julie admits that R. is one of the nicest people she's met since the ZombieApocalypse. [[spoiler:Julie takes off in the morning, leaving a hurt R. to wander back towards his home, wishing he was truly undead, so he didn't have to feel loss and sorrow and getting dumped. M. showing up and telling him that the Boneys are massing and heading for the survivor compound makes him realize he was foolish.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: R and Julie, whose names are a reference to {{RomeoAndJuliet the most famous star-crossed couple}}. In their case, they're kept apart by the fact that R is, y'know, not completely alive. Julie's family and friends don't really approve.

* StarCrossedLovers: R and Julie, whose names are a reference to {{RomeoAndJulet the most famous star-crossed couple}}. In their case, they're kept apart by the fact that R is, y'know, not completely alive. Julie's family and friends don't really approve.

* NoZombieCannibals: Played with. Zombies don't actively attack each other, but Boneys can and will, if only to intimidate. Even them, they don't do much but shriek at zombies with a bit of life in them threateningly, or pin them to the ground.

* DemBones: "Boneys", zombies who are completely rotted to just sinew, skin, and bones. They're far more zombie-like, predatory, and animalistic than the regular zombies, who are mostly interested in shambling around.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombies are mostly the classic Romero type, and when they're not busy hunting for food, they're repeating what they remember of their life. They can also use tools. They appear to be able to think rationally as time goes on, they realize old features of their past life, and they eat more brains, as R.'s inner monologue is far, far more intelligent than his grunts and groans and half-sentences. [[spoiler:Eventually, they're able to overcome their HorrorHunger as emotions and memories come back to them, which begins to start to undo their zombification, namely being slowly less and less zombielike until they regain motor control and bloodflow.]] However, there are Boneys, animalistic, deadly predators who have rotted enough to just be sinew, skin, and skeleton, and are far beyond reversal. Zombies also need to eat, or they'll die, suggesting a form of metabolism, and are impervious to anything but headshots. [[spoiler:By the end of the film, the remainder of the Boneys waste away, while the zombies are on the path to humanity.]]

* EmotionsVsStoicism: The zombies (and R. and Julie) versus the Boneys and Julie's father's security force, the former of whom try to learn to live again, while the Boneys aren't concerned with anything but eating people, and the Army doesn't realize that the zombies are regaining their humanity back, and are far, far too used to desperate survivalism and mindless corpses. Emotions also are the first step to [[spoiler:reversing zombification.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombies are mostly the classic Romero type, and when they're not busy hunting for food, they're repeating what they remember of their life. They can also use tools. They appear to be able to think rationally as time goes on and they eat more, as R.'s inner monologue is far, far more intelligent than his grunts and groans and half-sentences. [[spoiler:Eventually, they're able to overcome their HorrorHunger as emotions and memories come back to them, which begins to start to undo their zombification, namely being slowly less and less zombielike until they regain motor control and bloodflow.]] However, there are Boneys, animalistic, deadly predators who have rotted enough to just be sinew, skin, and skeleton, and are far beyond reversal. Zombies also need to eat, or they'll die, suggesting a form of metabolism, and are impervious to anything but headshots. [[spoiler:By the end of the film, the remainder of the Boneys waste away, while the zombies are on the path to humanity.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Zombies, given enough time and recollections of their past lives (and brains), will eventually become conscious enough to resist HorrorHunger and enough to protect loved ones from other zombies. They begin to develop empathy, as well. This leads to a zombie that initially tried to get R. to eat Julie to [[spoiler:save him from Boneys, and manages to awaken enough zombies to lead a horde to rescue the human survivors from the Boneys.]]

* MakeupMontage: Done by Nora and Julie to R., in order for [[spoiler:him to look human enough to get to the General to warn him of the large horde of approaching Boneys, and that the corpses want to help.]]

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombies are mostly the classic Romero type, and when they're not busy hunting for food, they're repeating what they remember of their life. They can also use tools. They appear to be able to think rationally as time goes on and they eat more, as R.'s inner monologue is far, far more intelligent than his grunts and groans and half-sentences. [[spoiler:Eventually, they're able to overcome their HorrorHunger as emotions and memories come back to them, which begins to start to undo their zombification, namely being slowly less and less zombielike until they regain motor control and bloodflow.]] However, there are Boneys, animalistic, deadly predators who have rotted enough to just be sinew, skin, and skeleton, and are far beyond reversal. Zombies also need to eat, or they'll die, and are impervious to anything but headshots. [[spoiler:The remainder of the Boneys waste away, while the zombies are on the path to humanity.]]

* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: During the MakeupMontage by Nora and Julie to [[spoiler:make R. look human enough]], Nora cranks up "Pretty Woman", by Roy Orbinson. Julie doesn't find it funny.

* RaceLift: Nora is dark-skinned in the books. In the movie, she's far whiter.

* RaceLift: Nora is dark-skinned in the books. In the movie, she was [[MonochromeCasting predictably]] white.

* EmotionsVsStoicism: The zombies (and R. and Julie) versus the Boneys and Julie's father's security force, the former of whom try to learn to live again, while the Boneys aren't concerned with anything but eating people, and the Army doesn't realize that the zombies are regaining their humanity back. Emotions also are the first step to reversing zombification.

* LoveHurts: Halfway through the film, as Julie and R. make their way towards the Wall, Julie and R. share a tender night together, and Julie admits that R. is one of the nicest people she's met since the ZombieApocalypse. [[spoiler:Julie takes off in the morning, leaving a hurt R. to wander back towards his home, wishing he was truly undead, so he didn't have to feel loss and sorrow and getting dumped. M. showing up and telling him that the Boneys are massing and heading for the survivor compound makes him regain his composure.]]

* BlackBestFriend: The black soldier that Julie knows and lets her into the safe zone.

* EmotionsVsStoicsm: The zombies (and R. and Julie) versus the Boneys and Julie's father's security force, the former of whom try to learn to live again, while the Boneys aren't concerned with anything but eating people, and the Army doesn't realize that the zombies are regaining their humanity back. Emotions also are the first step to reversing zombification.

* NoZombieCannibals: Played with. Zombies don't actively attack each other, but Boneys can and will, if only to intimidate. Even them, they don't do much but shriek at zombies with a bit of life in them threateningly.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombies are mostly the classic Romero type, and when they're not busy hunting for food, they're repeating what they remember of their life. They can also use tools. They appear to be able to think rationally as time goes on and they eat more, as R.'s inner monologue is far, far more intelligent than his grunts and groans and half-sentences. [[spoiler:Eventually, they're able to overcome their HorrorHunger as emotions and memories come back to them, which begins to start to undo their zombification, namely being slowly less and less zombielike until they regain motor control and bloodflow.]] However, there are Boneys, animalistic, deadly predators who have rotted enough to just be sinew, skin, and skeleton, and are far beyond reversal. Zombies also need to eat, or they'll die, and are impervious to anything but headshots.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Zombies are mostly the classic Romero type, and when they're not busy hunting for food, they're repeating what they remember of their life. They can also use tools. They appear to be able to think rationally as time goes on and they eat more, as R.'s inner monologue is far, far more intelligent than his grunts and groans and half-sentences. [[spoiler:Eventually, they're able to overcome their HorrorHunger as emotions and memories come back to them, which begins to start to undo their zombification.]] However, there are Boneys, animalistic, deadly predators who have rotted enough to just be sinew, skin, and skeleton, and are far beyond reversal. Zombies also need to eat, or they'll die, and are impervious to anything but headshots.

* YouCantFightFate: A suited zombie initially comes to the realization that R. is hauling around a living being, and tries to force him to eat her ('''EAT!'''), but realizes something is off about this, and lets them go - saving them from the Boneys not too later. This is a recurring theme in the film, with the zombies struggling to shrug off their braindead animalism to become human again, despite the danger of doing so, and the Boneys attempting to enforce animalism.