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** ''Portrait of Ruin'' [[AvertedTrope averts]]; the zombies only ''seem'' like they endlessly reform.

* Tombstones regularly pop up in the player's backyard (sometimes behind your own lines of defense) in ''PlantsvsZombies'' during nighttime levels. They produce additional zombies whenever a wave of attack takes place, unless they're destroyed.

* Oh, ''PlantsVsZombies,'' how I love thee... what with your virtually endless supply of zombies that can be beaten by [[PunnyName peashooters, Snow peas,]] and the like, you provide hours of entertainment for those of us with nothing better to do.

* Plan9FromOuterSpace featured a clown car tomb in which BelaLugosi/Guy Who Replaced Bela Lugosi was interred. Quite a few mourners pour out of the tiny crypt, including, as indicated by the RiffTrax gang, an unintentional cameo by ''[[{{Cheers}} Norm!]]''

** On that note, graveyards in WorldOfWarcraft tend to be treated in one of two ways: either they're the location of a spirit healer (who resurrects dead players) and therefore safe havens, or they're avoided like the Plague (pun not intended) because they're zombie factories.

* Tombstones regularly pop up in the player's backyard (sometimes behind your own lines of defense) in PlantsvsZombies during nighttime levels. They produce additional zombies whenever a wave of attack takes place, unless they're destroyed.

* In {{Starcraft}} 2, Meinhoff has that problem. Initially, it makes sense: A refugee camp-turned city will have a lot of people. Hence the waves and waves and waves of infested terrans are understandable. But when there are a few buildings left and they still spawn hundreds of infested terrans ''every night''...well things get a bit odd.
* Oh, PlantsVsZombies, how I love thee... what with your virtually endless supply of zombies that can be beaten by [[PunnyName peashooters, Snow peas,]] and the like, you provide hours of entertainment for those of us with nothing better to do.

* "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned" DLC for {{Borderlands}}, despite being a logging camp that looks like it could only hold a few hundred workers has a hundreds of ''thousands'' of zombies that just keep crawling out of the swamps. Somewhat averted with [[spoiler: Dead Haven, as a good deal of corpses were already there (back when it was Old Haven), especially after you tore through there in the main story.]]

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* The very first stage of ''[=~Ghosts 'n Goblins~=]'' seems to qualify.

* In ''KingsQuest IV'' not only was it instant death if you walked in there without the scarab, but there were way more zombies than graves. The whole mess got {{Lampshaded}} during the fan remake of ''King's Quest 2''.

* Wild {{Pokemon}} battles can only be triggered in patches of tall grass, in caves, or in the water. It's pretty believeible that there'd be a ton of [[ComMons bats in a cave or jellyfish in the sea]], but it's a bit hard to believe there are several dozen animals living in a 5x5 section of grass (especially when the animals in question are fairly large).

** This comes out to 6.28 square meters per zombie. To put this in another perspective, were the spell cast upon a graveyard the size of Arlington National Cemetery it would produce approximately 402,000 undead. The real Arlington National Cemetary has 300,001 gravesites but also has large memorials and decorative landscaping. Given these numbers, it seems easily feasible that a lower class medieval fantasy graveyard could be as densely packed as the spell claims.

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* Wild {{Pokemon}} battles can only be triggered in patches of tall grass, in caves, or in the water. It's pretty believeible that there'd be a ton of [[ComMon bats in a cave or jellyfish in the sea]], but it's a bit hard to believe there are several dozen animals living in a 5x5 section of grass (especially when the animals in question are fairly large).

* ''NeverwinterNights'' has a dungeon with a sarcophagus that will spawn a mummy when an item is removed... or ''added''. This troper used that to fight an easy (for his character, an undead killing Cleric) high level enemy several times to level quickly. In hindsight, that coffin must have a [[HammerSpace hidden basement or twenty]]. Damn those cheap [[strike: Egyptians]] [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Mulhorandi]] sarcophagus makers.
** Earlier in that same area, the graves above the catacombs spawn zombies, so it's possible to get several dozen zombies after you by just running around.
** Oddly, this sort of thing never seemed to happen at the ''actual'' mass graves located in some crypts.

** that is probably more a ShoutOut to the good ol' ZombieApocalypse films than anything else, in addition to providing a suitable backdrop for Father Grigori's CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

** And in Link's Awakening two screens just keep pouring out zombies ad infinitum, just slightly northeast of the village.
** Shame on you for forgetting Hyrule Field from ''Ocarina of Time''. After dark, of course.

* In ''Zombies Ate My Neighbors'', there's an infinite supply of zombies, though fortunately, there seems to be a limit as to how many of them can be on the map at any given time. The same goes for various other monsters in the game.

Compare HammerSpace, MookMaker.

** Of course, they are also all directly hired to kill sixteen mindless undead in the nearest vicinity. Assuming only a hundred thousand undead PCs which don't kill anything they aren't given a quest for, this would mean the town has been plagued by 1.6 million of Undead by now. To compare: In medieval times the large city Cologne had 50000 inhabitants...

* All playable undead characters in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' rise from the same exact plot of dirt.

** To be fair, ''everything'' in Warcraft III spawned out of nowehere, regardless of being alive, undead or whatever.
** On that note, graveyards in WorldOfWarcraft tend to be treated in one of two ways: either they're the location of a spirit healer (who ressurects dead players) and therefore safe havens, or they're avoided like the Plague (pun not intended) because they're zombie factories.

** This comes out to 6.28 square meters per zombie. To put this in another perspective, were the spell cast upon a graveyard the size of Arlington National Cemetary it would produce approximately 402,000 undead. The real Arlington National Cemetary has 300,001 gravesites but also has large memorials and decoratative landscaping. Given these numbers, it seems easily feasible that a lower class medieval fantasy graveyard could be as densely packed as the spell claims.

** Played straight with bottomless spawn points, but averted with PCs/monsters who can raise the dead. There needs to be a body before your necromancer can create a skeleton; and though enemy necromancers can raise the same corpse as many times as you can kill it, they're still limited to the same number of bodies they started with. Hence the usefulness of the Corpse Explosion spell.

* This troper is ''astonished'' that nobody's mentioned the original arcade game ''Gauntlet'' in this regard. The monsters spawned fast enough on some levels where, if the player didn't start for (and kill) the monster spawn points immediately upon entering a level, the ''entire level'' would be wall-to-wall monsters, making the level Unwinnable on a single coin. The fact that the player's "health" decreased as a factor of both taking damage AND time didn't help, either.

*Baldur's Gate 1 had a cave containing 2 flesh golems. If you try to sleep in the cave, 95% of the time, you'll be "Awakened by stomping feet approaching", and discover a golem is attacking. Said golems are extremely easy to kill with summons, thus for some XP this troper spent an afternoon killing them. By the 200th golem, it was safe to say the cave had a pretty freaking huge basement.
* All playable undead characters in ''World of Warcraft'' rise from the same exact plot of dirt.