History Literature / TheExtinctionParade

** The narrator gets off some jabs at ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' when discussing how some vampires in the West literally call their human servants [[TheRenfield "Renfield"]]. Also, when she describes human love as "an apologetic perfume for the stench of human lust", one of the images used is of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

* ZombieApocalypse

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The vampires are this compared to the zombies; while they see humans as a food source and nothing more, they at least have personalities, which makes it possible to root for them, unlike the mindless zombies.

* MilitariesAreUseless: Several scenes in the comic depict the different armies of the world attacking zombies only to be mutilated and torn apart. In the 4th Book, there are scenes where both police and the Malaysian Army fight a horde of zombies in Kuala Lumpur. The military uses techniques such as [[CoolPlane jet planes]], [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]], [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/CoolGuns/AssaultRifles assault weapons]], and other tactics that are meant to kill humans but not zombies. However, it should be noted that some soldiers were seen shooting and rifle-butting zombies in the head.

* CoolVersusAwesome: Vampires versus a ZombieApocalypse.

'''''The Extinction Parade''''' is a story by Max Brooks, author of ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'' and ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', about {{vampire|Tropes}}s in a ZombieApocalypse battling to save their food source from being devoured by the less glamorous kind of undead. It features many of the same themes that ''World War Z'' used, namely the world's (especially the Western world's) dependence on fragile supply chains that are vulnerable to [[PostPeakOil resource shortages]], ClimateChange, and other disruptions, only this time in an UrbanFantasy setting with "the First World" and "oil" swapped out for "vampires" and "human blood".

'''''The Extinction Parade''''' is a story by Max Brooks, author of ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'' and ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', about {{vampire|Tropes}}s in a ZombieApocalypse battling to save their food source from being devoured by the less glamorous kind of undead. It features many of the same themes that ''World War Z'' used, namely the world's (especially the Western world's) dependence on fragile supply chains that are vulnerable to [[PostPeakOil resource shortages]], GlobalWarming, and other disruptions, only this time in an UrbanFantasy setting with "the First World" and "oil" swapped out for "vampires" and "human blood".

''The Extinction Parade'' began life as [[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/01/14/max-brooks-original-zombie-story-from-world-war-z-author.html a short story]] published by ''The Daily Beast'', and was later adapted into a comic book published by Creator/AvatarPress with artwork by Raulo Caceres.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The MustBeInvited rule is a load of bull, though the narrator and Laila do make a pretense towards it in one instance, just to make the hunt more interesting.

* ChildImmortality: Horribly {{Averted}}. Zombie children can be seen roaming around with the undead horde.
** In one of the first pages of the first book, [[spoiler: there is a zombie pregnant woman with torn apart belly, ''complete with an undead fetus inside.'']]
** When the vampires attack a rooftop full of refugees trying to ride out the zombie outbreak in KL, children were seen [[spoiler: before they killed them all. There were no survivors.]]

* CreatorProvincialism: Averted. While ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'' and, to a lesser extent, ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' both heavily focused on the United States, ''The Extinction Parade'' is set entirely in Malaysia.

* {{Hold the Line}}: One safe zone which house a refugee center has only a bridge as its passage. The bridge is blocked with two buses and several trucks. [[TheRemnant Remaining Malaysian Army soliders, SWAT, police officers, and civilian volunteers]] attempt to fight off the zombie horde, only for it to form a [[spoiler: HumanLadder and spillover right through the barricade.]]

* TheRenfield: The vampires use human servants to manage and put a living human face on their finances, as well as to cover up their misdeeds. Most of them are recruited through promises of wealth or eternal life, or through simple intimidation. The narrator and her partner Laila have one that they call Willem (real name Mohammed Ishak), whose family has served them in this capacity for several generations.
* SceneryGorn: This how Kuala Lumpur looks like when the Vampires revisit the overrun city. Burned out buildings, dead and decaying bodies of zombies and victims torn apart, discarded weapons and equipment, broken cars and what not litter the lifeless streets.

* YourVampiresSuck: The narrator gets off some jabs at ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' when discussing how some vampires in the West literally call their human servants [[TheRenfield "Renfield"]]. Also, when she describes human love as "an apologetic perfume for the stench of human lust", one of the images used is of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

* WretchedHive: What becomes of Kuala Lumpur after being overrun with zombies. One of the vampires mentions Singapore also looks like this. At this point, it is safe to assume that ''all'' major cities in the world is one.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The VampireInvitation is a load of bull, though the narrator and Laila do make a pretense towards it in one instance, just to make the hunt more interesting.

* {{Hold the Line}}: One safe zone which house a refugee center has only a bridge as its passage. The bridge is blocked with two buses and several trucks. [[TheRemnant Remaining Malaysian Army soliders, SWAT, police officers, and civilian volunteers]] attempt to fight off the zombie horde, only for it to form a {{HumanLadder}} [[spoiler: spillover right through the barricade.]]

* ShownTheirWork: Max Brooks was able to accurately portray Malaysia in his story. In one chapter, a SWAT officer asks the vampires to show their MyKads, a type of citizen ID for Malaysian citizens.

* NoNameGiven: The narrator, to the point where it's only in the comic where her gender is made obvious.

* CanonForeigner: Willem, the narrator and Laila's [[TheRenfield human servant]], was introduced in the comic book.

* VampiresAreRich: Goes hand-in-hand with a populist, anti-elitist streak. The narrator describes vampires as parasites who contributed nothing to society while exploiting its weakest and most vulnerable members, targeting poor people as food because their disappearance wouldn't arouse as much suspicion. She laments the fact that vampires grew fat and lazy subsisting on easy prey rather than learning how to live off of tougher prey in the form of the rich and middle-class; instead, they treated killing rich people as [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame a mere sport]].

* NotUsingTheZedWord: Vampires call zombies "subdead" (at least in the comics).

* TheRenfield: The vampires use human servants to manage and put a living human face on their finances, as well as to cover up their misdeeds. The narrator and her partner Laila have one that they call Willem (real name Mohammed Ishak), whose family has served them in this capacity for several generations.

* YourVampiresSuck: The narrator gets off some jabs at ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' when discussing how some vampires in the West literally call their human servants [[TheRenfield "Renfield"]].

''The Extinction Parade'' began life as [[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/01/14/max-brooks-original-zombie-story-from-world-war-z-author.html a short story]] published by ''The Daily Beast'', and was later adapted into a comic book published by Avatar Press with artwork by Raulo Caceres.