History YMMV / WorldWarZ

* BrokenBase: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=t3hYKPt0uJQ first preview of the movie]] seems to have divided opinions rather sharply due to the questionable cgi on the hordes of zombies, the fact the zombies are "Runners", the fact that a combination of both questionable cgi and running zombies leads to rather Narmy scenes of zombies falling over each other en masse as they charge at people, let alone the fact the movie seems to be changing the story of the books even more than previously thought
** The main fans are having issues are the "runners" as the books specifically debunk that theory, the fact that the trailer's making it look like "Brad Pitt saves the world" instead of numerous people who did important things in the interviews, and ''really'' bad cgi for the hordes (which might have been better if say, the hordes were ''moving slower'').

* HateDumb: This is less of a matter of opinion because there's not an element of America and humanity in general that Brooks doesn't rip into angrily. Chances are you disagree with something here.

* CrazyAwesome: Lobotomizer: Shovel-Axe. 'Nuff said
* HateDumb: this is less of a matter of opinion because there's not an element of America and humanity in general that Brooks doesn't rip into angrily. Chances are you disagree with something here.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Depends on what wigs out the reader, but there's a wide selection.
** The people receiving infected organs via transplants and transforming into zombies days, weeks, even ''months'' later.
*** The implication of all those women being infected after receiving donated ''eggs'' and/or ''sperm'' is even worse.
**** Are you thinking that those women got pregnant with zombie fetuses? Don't worry, according to the zombie survival guide, all zombies are sterile so none of those women could have gotten pregnant. But they all died or turned into zombies though.
** North Korea. The entire population moves underground to escape the zombies. Either they're still alive and think everyone on the surface is dead, or they've all become zombies and are trying to dig their way back up to the surface. [[MortonsFork You choose your own nightmare.]]
** Don't forget the description of fighting in the Catacombs under Paris. Difficult to breathe, unable to see, never knowing when a zombie will grab you and drag you to a watery grave . . .
** The baby zombie, still tied up in the carrier, snapping at the woman as she passed by.
*** When did that happen?
**** During the crashed pilot's story.

* CrazyAwesome: Lobotomizer: Shovel-Axe. 'Nuff said.

* CrazyAwesome: Lobotomizer: Shovel-Axe. 'Nuff said.

** Could be considered averted if you factor in the sheer quantity of people that have to make insanely moronic decisions over a very long period of time to get those results. Israel's plan boiled down to "a wall" and "houses on stilts."
** Also, the zombies are resistant to pressure enough to walk across the ocean floor, but not enough to withstand a hard blow to the head. You'd have to bend the laws of physics as well.

* HilariousInHindsight: Barack Obama is implied to be the "first choice" for Vice President of the bipartisan war-time U.S. government, but is passed over in favor of Howard Dean. Two years later in the real world, Obama is elected President of the United States.
** Minor and slightly debatable example in the book's description of Cuba. [[spoiler:Fidel Castro clung onto power throughout WWZ and only submitted when social reforms turned Cuba into a post-war Iceland, economically speaking.]] Of course, he calmly relinquished his position to his brother temporarily the same year the book was released, and permanently two years after that.
* NightmareFuel: Depends on what wigs out the reader, but there's a wide selection.

** The astronauts.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Brooks does a pretty good job of avoiding this for a lot of the book, but the amount of pro-Israel rhetoric forced in is annoying.

** Don't forget the descripiton of fighting in the Catacombs under Paris. Difficult to breathe, unable to see, never knowing when a zombie will grab you and drag you to a watery grave . . .

* TearJerker: The feral kids. Todd Wainio said that nothing screams louder than a feral who had been shot with a PIE round. Those kids spent years on their own, having been starved and watching their parents die, only to die a painful death.

* {{Squick}}: A lot. Particularly the descriptions of "digested" human remains found inside the zombies. And the infection-by-organ-transplant vignette.

* Anvilicious: Brooks does a pretty good job of avoiding this for a lot of the book, but the amount of pro-Israel rhetoric forced in is annoying.

* {{Squick}}: A lot. Particularly the descriptions of "digested" human remains found inside the zombies. And the infection-by-organ-transplant vignette.
* UncannyValley: People couldn't handle living there 24/7. See PrimalFear above.

** Also, the zombies are resistant to pressure enough to walk across the ocean floor, but not enough to withstand a hard blow to the head. You'd have to bend the laws of physics as well.