History Literature / CanYOUSurviveTheZombieApocalypse

* {{Symbolism}} / TakeThat: The battle at NYCC describes "[[Literature/{{Twilight}} a pretty-boy vampire covered in sparkles]] [getting] his throat slashed by {{Dracula}}."

* ActionSurvivor: You, although you can get tougher over the course of the book.

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* InfantImmortality: Averted. You kill child zombies fairly often, and if you don't help them, [[spoiler:the elementary school children trapped in the trailer all die.]]

* ChooseYourOwnAdventure

'''''Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?''''' is a [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure Gamebook]] by Max Brallier about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin surviving the]] ZombieApocalypse. You are a 25-year-old man living and working a crappy corporate job in Manhattan. However, at 10:40 on a hot, humid July morning, your morning meeting is interrupted and the world goes to hell. Now you can make all the same mistakes you scream at {{Genre Blind|ness}} horror movie heroes not to make, flee the city, or survive to make war on the zombie threat. It all depends on your choices.

!!''Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?'' provides examples of the following tropes:

'''''Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?''''' is a {{Gamebook}} by Max Brallier about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin surviving the]] ZombieApocalypse. You are a 25-year-old man living and working a crappy corporate job in Manhattan. However, at 10:40 on a hot, humid July morning, your morning meeting is interrupted and the world goes to hell. Now you can make all the same mistakes you scream at {{Genre Blind|ness}} horror movie heroes not to make, flee the city, or survive to make war on the zombie threat. It all depends on your choices.

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* BadassGrandpa: Walter.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler:George Romero.]]

* DownerEnding Many, mostly involving your death.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. You kill child zombies fairly often.

'''''Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?''''' is a {{Gamebook}} by Max Brallier about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin surviving the]] ZombieApocalypse. You are a 25-year-old man living and working a crappy corporate job in Manhattan. However, at 10:40 on a hot, humid July morning, your morning meeting is interrupted and the world goes to hell. Now you can make all the same mistakes you scream at GenreBlind horror movie heroes not to make, flee the city, or survive to make war on the zombie threat. It all depends on your choices.

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: Averted. The introduction states up-front that you're 25 years old, and one path has you visiting the small town where you grew up. Several pages later identify you as male.

* BadassGrandpa: Walter

* BigBad: [[spoiler:George Romero]]

* BolivianArmyEnding: Several of the "good" endings are these.

* {{Samurai}}: Not quite, but you get to don samurai armour in one path.

* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: You can become one.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: The only way to survive [[spoiler: three men who have duct taped you to a chair and are threatening to toss you to the zombies you've brought to their doorstep]] is to tell them off, rather than apologize.

* BigBad: [[spoiler: George Romero.]]

* GenreSavvy: The Zombie Walk participants have an extensive knowledge of zombies, and the geeks at the New York Comic-Con are also quite well versed in zombie lore. Also, one of the endings sees you holing up in a bookshop which is doing a promotion on zombie books; you decide to start with ''TheZombieSurvivalGuide''.

''Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?'' is a {{Gamebook}} by Max Brallier about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin surviving the]] ZombieApocalypse. You are a 25-year-old man living and working a crappy corporate job in Manhattan. However, at 10:40 on a hot, humid July morning, your morning meeting is interrupted and the world goes to hell. Now you can make all the same mistakes you scream at GenreBlind horror movie heroes not to make, flee the city, or survive to make war on the zombie threat. It all depends on your choices.

!!This work provides us examples of:

* DeadlyLunge: The zombies perform the sprint variation - they shamble around until they see food, at which point they charge.

* PretendWereDead: The Zombie Walk participants use their incredibly realistic makeup, extensive knowledge of zombies, and guts from a slaughterhouse to pass themselves off as zombies (you stay in the middle of the group so as not to draw attention). The zombies, while mostly accepting of you, are somewhat suspicious, with one investigating closely...until someone snaps and tries to run, triggering a mass panic/feeding frenzy. The paint also doesn't help your life expectancy when trigger-happy soldiers are around.
* RaisingTheSteaks: [[spoiler:One ending has you and Yakuma encounter - and subsequently be killed by - zombie lions.]]

* {{Symbolism}}[=/=]TakeThat: The battle at NYCC describes "[[{{Twilight}} a pretty-boy vampire covered in sparkles]] [getting] his throat slashed by {{Dracula}}".
* TheEnd: All but one of the endings are identified as "An End." Just one, on the very last page, is called "The End", though it's not one of the happier ones.

* WhatTheHellPlayer: Happens multiple times - humorously, if you [[spoiler:tell Kim to go home]] - the book tells you to throw it out the window because you don't deserve it. Less amusingly, it calls you a loser and an asshole if [[spoiler:you let the elementary school kids in the trailer die]].

* InfantImmortality: Averted hard. You kill child zombies fairly often.

''Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?'' is a ChooseYourOwnAdventure book by Max Brallier about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin surviving the]] ZombieApocalypse. You are a 25-year-old man living and working a crappy corporate job in Manhattan. However, at 10:40 on a hot, humid July morning, your morning meeting is interrupted and the world goes to hell. Now you can make all the same mistakes you scream at GenreBlind horror movie heroes not to make, flee the city, or survive to make war on the zombie threat. It all depends on your choices.

''Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?'' is a ChooseYourOwnAdventure book about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin surviving the]] ZombieApocalypse. You are a 25-year-old man living and working a crappy corporate job in Manhattan. However, at 10:40 on a hot, humid July morning, your morning meeting is interrupted and the world goes to hell. Now you can make all the same mistakes you scream at GenreBlind horror movie heroes not to make, flee the city, or survive to make war on the zombie threat. It all depends on your choices.

* {{Symbolism}}[=/=]TakeThat: The battle at NYCC describes "[[{{Twilight}} a pretty-boy vampire covered in sparkles]] [getting] his throat slashed by {{Dracula}}]]".

* BigBad: [[spoiler: GeorgeRomero.]]