History Main / ZombieGait

* Both ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' games feature varying classes of zombies that fit the trope perfectly. In ''Diablo II'', some of them will poison the player with each hit and/or release a cloud of poison gas upon death, though this poison will not [[TheVirus turn the player or his/her minions into zombies]].

** The same applies in Mira Grants' ''Feed''. The "zombies" moan deliberately in order to draw more zombies to the "meal".

* In an episode of ''MrMeaty'', a horde of zombies advance on the eponymous fast food restaurant, substituting "meat" for "brains". The same scene also parodies this.
-->'''Hippie Zombie''': ''Tofuuuu... I mean, meeeat...''

* In WarmBodies, the zombies generally move slowly (though they can lunge, from time to time...) but as they age into the skeleton-and-beef-jerky Bonies, strangely enough become ''faster''.

* Walkin' Dead in ''DeadLands'' RPG are smarter than they look (being demons from hell animating corpses). So they pose as slow, stupid zombies... And then they eat your brain out.

* Walking Dead in ''DeadLands'' RPG are smarter than they look (being demons from hell animating corpses). So they pose as slow, stupid zombies... And then they eat your brain out.

* In older editions of ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'', zombies (but not most other undead) tended to be specifically slower than living beings, which was reflected in such zombie-specific rules as always losing initiative or only getting partial actions each turn. Even in Fourth Edition, which mostly does away with these special-case rules, humanoid zombies tend to have a lower base ground speed than the living -- though for example the gravehound from the ''Monster Manual'', a zombie dog, still runs just as fast as a living dog or wolf.

* Course the zombies in ''DeadRising'' feature this. But Frank can also do this to keep zombies from bothering him. It slows him down and doesn't work on human enemies.
** In ''DeadRising2: Off the Record'', Frank includes a completely deadpan "Brains, gimme brains."

* Lampshaded in ''Webcomic/{{Bug}}'': [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/zombie-week-4/ "Quick! Everyone saunter away!"]]

* Averted in the tag/LARP-combo game HumansVsZombies, where the "zombies" are just as agile as the humans they hunt. Nevertheless, zombie who've been hunting nonstop will often exhibit this trope fairly straightly as exhaustion and straining catches up with them.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', being [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a show about zombies]] plays with this. While an average zombie can only shuffle or, at most, break out at a disjointed jog, and therefore be outrun, the main problem is they ''do not get tired''. In late season 2, [[spoiler: Andrea]] is overcome with exhaustion and jumped by a single [[NotUsingTheZedWord walker]], after being forced to fight and flee for hours on end.

* The zombies of JonathanCoulton's "Re: Your Brains" are well-spoken and intelligent, but are still quite insistent about eating your brains. (There is at least one zombie groaning and mumbling in traditional fashion during the chorus, but even he manages to keep in tune.)
* FridgeBrilliance on LMAFO's "Party Rock Anthem" video, which presents the band's song infecting people a la a zombie apocalypse. Every day, they ''are'' shufflin'!

Nevertheless, these zombies can often jump at protagonists from BehindTheBlack in a DeadlyLunge. See also and compare MarionetteMotion, where a human body (shaped object) moves as if it were a puppet on a string.

* Zombies in ''CanYouSurviveTheZombieApocalypse'' shuffle around until they sense food, at which point they start to sprint.

* In ''TheZombieHunters'', the typical groan-and-shamble zombie is just one of [[OurZombiesAreDifferent seven possible classes]].[[NightOfTheLivingMooks Crawlers]], [[BreathWeapon Spitters]], [[EvilEye Basilisks]] and [[MakeMeWannaShout Howlers]] all shuffle about. [[MercyKill Mercies]] move like particularly graceful [[SubvertedTrope humans]]. [[TheBerserker Berserkers]] and [[SuperPersistentPredator Hunters]] however, are [[SuperSpeed faster]] and [[SuperReflexes more agile]] than humans, with the Berseker in particular [[InvertedTrope outclassing human sprinters]].

Zombies usually shuffle around with both arms out in front of them, groaning "[[BrainFood Braaaaaains]]" or something similar.[[note]]The groan depends on the zombie; vegetarian zombies usually say "graaaaaains", for instance, while zombie plumbers say "draaaaaains", zombie jockeys say "reeeeeeins" (or [[TheHyena lots of hideous laughter]], [[VideoGame/Left4Dead2 depending on the species]]) and theoretical physicist zombies say "braaaaaanes". It's normally brains, though. [[GratuitousFrench Or]] [[AllHeEverWanted Cerveeaauuuux.]][[/note]] Aside from the groaning, this is not unique to zombies. [[{{Mummy}} Mummies]] usually do this as well, and even Frankenstein's monster has been seen to lurch in this variety of the UnflinchingWalk.

** Reg Shoe from the City Watch sub-series, whose debut appearance was also in ''Reaper Man'', is implied to be a little stiff but otherwise capable of a fair turn of speed when needed; we eventually learn in ''Discworld/NightWatch'' that he's had some thirty to forty years to get a handle on the same problem Windle was grappling with. [[note]]He also happens to be a very different ''[[OurZombiesAreDifferent kind]]'' of zombie, a type that carries on into undeath from [[{{Determinator}} sheer bloody-minded willpower]], where as Windle's case is... well, kind of complicated; see the work's own page for the details.]] Mr Slant is never described a moving quickly but that's a matter of choice rather than capability. As one of Ankh-Morpok's three most senior lawyers (the other two are vampires), other people wait for his convenience.

** Reg Shoe from the City Watch sub-series on the other hand is implied to be a little stiff but otherwise capable of a fair turn of speed when needed. Mr Slant is never described a moving quickly but that's a matter of choice rather than capability. As one of Ankh-Morpok's three most senior lawyers (the other two are vampires), other people wait for his convenience.

* In the recent zombie invasion stage in ''WorldOfWarcraft'', players infected by the virus become zombies... who move very, very slowly. However, they do have an ability, "Lurch!" that removes snares and other movement-speed reducing effects, and allows you to run for a short period of time. Additionally, they have "Zombie Groan!" which draws near-by NPC zombies to you, as long as they are not in combat.

* The zombified Stalkers in ''{{STALKER}} - Shadow of Chernobyl'' are slow, but still remember how to use their assault rifles and are annoyingly accurate with them.