History VideoGame / RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare

** Also Mother Superior, who pretty much only appeared to give you something, is now a gun wielding BadAss.

[[caption-width-right:221:[[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou Zombie John Marston Is About To Shoot You]] ''[[OhCrap ...and he's holding a blunderbuss]].]]''

* {{Badass}}: Aside from all the surviving examples from the main game, the DLC has Everett Knox and Porfirio Gutierrez, the doctors who are travelling around New Austin and Nuevo Paraiso respectively.

** The Legend of the Apocalypse outfit has John dressed as Stone from ''{{Deadlands}}''.

* WeirdWest: [[CaptainObvious ... yes.]]

* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Once again, the cover art features this in full force.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: The achievement for killing a sasquatch is titled "Six Years in the Making," a reference to 2004's ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' where players insisted a sasquatch could be found in the forest.

* {{Unicorn}}: It has a rainbow trailing behind it as it runs and butterflies come out under it when it stands still. It has unlimited stamina and is very tough, but can be killed by a blow to the head, but its death is very glitched.

* YouALLLookFamiliar: Subverted, [[spoiler: a few NPCs are revealed to be the same person, the Aztec Goddess Ayauhtéotl, who is trapped on Earth because of the Zombie outbreak.]]

* ImprovisedWeapon: Several. It turns out that [[spoiler:West Dickens' miracle tonic]] makes remarkably good zombie bait, [[spoiler:Landon Ricketts]] devises a rather handy anti-zombie bomb by simply taping a stick of dynamite to a bottle of said bait, and although the blunderbuss is actually a purpose-built weapon, its ''ammunition'' is improvised out of whatever crap you can find lying around - mostly [[GrievousHarmWithABody bits and pieces of your enemies]].

* IndianBurialGround: [[spoiler: It was probably a bad idea to build Abraham Reyes's mansion on top of one.]]

* [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou John Marston The Zombie Is About To Shoot You]] (see image)

* LighterAndSofter: Despite it being a freaking ZombieApocalypse, this DLC is more softer than the main game. Think about it: you're shooting zombies instead of your fellow human beings, there's a lot less ShootTheShaggyDog stories, a lot of the unpreventable deaths happen to arseholes who survived the main game, and while John still gets killed by Ross, [[spoiler: He gets to come back as a zombie.]] When zombies actually make the world better, you know the wild west is a CrapsackWorld!

* PlayableEpilogue: [[spoiler: Like in the main game, John dies (though it isn't shown here)... but instead of taking up his guns as his son Jack, you play as a (sentient) zombie John!]]

* [[spoiler: ShaggyDogStory]]: [[spoiler: After all John goes through to save the world from a zombie apocalypse, Seth goes and steals the mask again, restarting the ZombieApocalypse. This, however, allows John to come back from the dead.]]
* ShoutOut: Killing the chupacabra (yes, there's a chupacabra) earns you the [[Machinima/RedVsBlue "Chupathingy"]] achievement. And there are several nods to horror movies, such as multiplayer characters named for Creator/WesCraven, Creator/SamRaimi, Music/MichaelJackson ([[DudeNotFunny or possibly mean-spirited joke about NBA player Magic Johnson and his disease]]), and yes, even Creator/UweBoll. Beyond that, the Undead Hunter outfit effectively dresses John as [[Franchise/EvilDead Ashley "Ash" Williams]] and the Legend of the Apocalypse outfit has John dressed as Stone from ''{{Deadlands}}''. [[spoiler:And during the post-game free roam, when John is a zombie himself, the outfit's name changes to "Army of the Undead".]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Did the Film Maker really think it was a good idea to set two zombies loose and try filming them only a few steps away from them?]]
** [[spoiler: To be fair, John was with him, and he did cry for John to help him, so he may have thought that John would actually save him]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Mother Superior is the most prominent example, going from an unarmed elderly nun collecting handouts to a gun-wielding zombie slayer. But nearly every survivor, whether it be the bookish doctors from MacFarlane's Ranch and Escalera to the whores from Armadillo's saloon now armed and defending their town, fits this trope. The only ones who don't tend to be badasses in the first place.

* VitriolicBestBuds: When we first see Jack and Abigale, they are playfully trading insults. She does end the conversation saying she's proud of him.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "WE...EAT BERRIES...AND MUSHROOMS, YOU FOOL!"]]

* WhatTheHellPlayer: [[spoiler: The Sasquatch. You spend a stranger quest hunting six of them in the hills, but when you finally find the last one, he's sitting under a tree, crying because his docile species is functionally extinct. And he proceeds to explain this to you ''in perfect English''.]]

-->'''D. S. [=MacKenna=]:''' Yes, quite the hobby of yours, that.
* YouALLLookFamiliar: Subverted, [[spoiler: many of female npcs are revealed to be the same person, an Aztec Goddess trapped on Earth because of the Zombie outbreak.]]

* AllMythsAreTrue: Alongside zombies, there are [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti sasquatches]], chubacapras, unicorns, and the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Four Horses of the Apocalypse]].

* [[spoiler:AndThenJohnWasAZombie]]: [[spoiler:This happens literally to John Marston himself at the end of the game. Ironically though, the name "John" in the trope title explains it all. He rises from his grave not too long after being killed by Edgar Ross' men, and you play as his zombie in free-roam. Kinda makes the cover a SpoilerTitle.]]

* AngelUnaware: [[spoiler: You know that woman you haven't been noticing that appears in a lot of missions briefly? Turns out she's an Aztec goddess that needs your help putting the mask back in its proper place. However, it seems she can't do this herself despite, well, being a goddess.]]

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler: Everything started when your old "friend" Abraham Reyes stole a jade mask from an Aztec tomb beneath his estate, thinking it would make him immortal. The final plot mission has you descend into the tomb to return the mask, ending the curse. At least, until it get stolen ''again'' by your other "friend", Seth...]]

** [[spoiler: Also Reyes, who caused all of this to happen.]]

* {{Badass}}: Everett Knox and Porfirio Gutierrez, the doctors who are travelling around New Austin and Nuevo Paraiso respectively.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Meta-example: [[spoiler: After completing the vanilla game many fans were upset by the [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent ending]], with some even forming petitions for a patch or update that returns John to life. In Undead Nightmare that wish is granted and John rises from the grave... as an unintelligible zombie. Enjoy!]]

* {{BFG}}: The Blunderbuss qualifies. You make ammo for it out of zombie body parts, and it utterly ''vaporizes'' its target.

* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti

* BlackComedy
* CallBack: At the last segment of the game when [[spoiler:John is killing zombies in an indian burial ground, the mysterious girl accompanying him says many of them died in a great battle at that very place (Allende's villa in Mexico) to which John replies "No wonder they don't seem to like me." a reference to his helping the rebels' battle towards Allende in the main campaign.]]

* ChekhovsLecture: [[spoiler: Jack's story about the Aztecs comes back in the end and [[AllMythsAreTrue turns out to be true]].]]
** [[spoiler: This is also a CallBack to a similar event in VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption's single player. Jack discusses a story that he is reading with his father near the end of the game that centers around the plot of a young man seeking revenge for the death of his family. [[ForeShadowing Sound Familiar]]?]]

* GentleGiant: [[spoiler: The Sasquatches don't eat babies, like everyone says... rather, they eat mushrooms and berries, try to avoid human contact, and live a peaceful existence in the forest. Too bad you don't find this out until ''after'' [[YouBastard you've killed five of them, and are facing the only one left.]] And even then, he doesn't attack you for killing his family and friends, but instead cries and begs you to "Make it stop!"]]

* [[spoiler: HereWeGoAgain: What happens at the end of ''Undead Nightmare''. Turns out not so bad for John though...]]

** Death: Instant [[BoomHeadshot headshots]] on any enemies it tramples. Pure white, duh.

* AngelUnaware: [[spoiler: You know that woman you haven't been noticing that appears in a lot of missions briefly? Turns out she's an Aztec goddess that needs your help putting the mask back in it's proper place. However, it seems she can't do this herself despite, well, being a goddess.]]

** Or mabye [[NaziZombies Zombies, Dogs, and Crawlers?]]

* ShoutOut: Killing the chupacabra (yes, there's a chupacabra) earns you the [[Machinima/RedVsBlue "Chupathingy"]] achievement. And there are several nods to horror movies, such as multiplayer characters named for Creator/WesCraven, Creator/SamRaimi, MichaelJackson ([[DudeNotFunny or possibly mean-spirited joke about NBA player Magic Johnson and his disease]]), and yes, even Creator/UweBoll. Beyond that, the Undead Hunter outfit effectively dresses John as [[Franchise/EvilDead Ashley "Ash" Williams]] and the Legend of the Apocalypse outfit has John dressed as Stone from ''{{Deadlands}}''. [[spoiler:And during the post-game free roam, when John is a zombie himself, the outfit's name changes to "Army of the Undead".]]

* AscendedExtra: Some deceased characters from the original story reappear as "boss" zombies when you clear out graveyards..

* CallBack: The achievement/trophy for killing Sasquatch is "Six Years in the Making." Now, take a wild guess as to [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas which game]] made by Rockstar was released in October 2004... HilariousInHindSight, indeed. The French version even calls the achievement/trophy "No need to seek it anymore, CJ."

* DyingLikeAnimals: The survivors John comes across are generally more or less unhelpful, and are more interested in arguing about whether science, God or the government is to blame for the ongoing ZombieApocalypse and who should be their new leader. Of course, this gives the zombies plenty of ample opportunities to sneak up on them.

** Despite how close he was to them, [[spoiler: Seth]] manages to [[PlotArmor avoid]] this fate. Of course Seth isn't an asshole, just crazy.
*** [[FridgeBrilliance Well Seth did say he talked to the corpses he exhumed and was friendly to them. Maybe they're returning the favor?]]

* ShoutOut: Killing the chupacabra (yes, there's a chupacabra) earns you the [[Machinima/RedVsBlue "Chupathingy"]] achievement. And there are several nods to horror movies, such as multiplayer characters named for Creator/WesCraven, Creator/SamRaimi, MichaelJackson ([[DudeNotFunny or possibly mean-spirited joke about NBA player Magic Johnson and his disease]]), and yes, even UweBoll. Beyond that, the Undead Hunter outfit effectively dresses John as [[Franchise/EvilDead Ashley "Ash" Williams]] and the Legend of the Apocalypse outfit has John dressed as Stone from ''{{Deadlands}}''. [[spoiler:And during the post-game free roam, when John is a zombie himself, the outfit's name changes to "Army of the Undead".]]

* EverythingsWorseWithWolves: Zombie wolves, not ''just'' wolves. They're easier to kill, though.