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1''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5560041/1/Just_Like_Last_Tuesday_Except_With_Zombies Just Like Last Tuesday, Except with Zombies]]'' is a ''Series/{{Glee}}'' fanfiction by angel-dawes, picking up very shortly after [=S1E12=] ''Mattress''.
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3The day starts out normally, but it soon becomes obvious that the dead have risen and Lima is completely overrun. The Glee Club, along with Sue, Jacob, and Emma, hole up in the school and prepare to face them, all the while dealing with other trials leftover such as teen romance, revenge, and pregnancy.
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5The story manages to keep a dark sense of humor throughout, but is can be very dark when it needs to and and isn't afraid to [[AnyoneCanDie punch you]] [[TearJerker in the gut]].
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7!Tropes Include:
8* AchillesHeel: Zombies are weak to bright light.
9* ActionSurvivor: The whole cast
10* {{Adorkable}}: Artie and Tina.
11* AmazonBrigade: Sue has been subliminally training the Cheerios to be one of these. She also used to be part of one.
12* AnyoneCanDie
13* ApocalypticLog: Will finds one [[spoiler: in the middle school]].
14* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Brittany got bored waiting for Sue to come back from checking on Jean, so she decided to go play in the pretty flowers. [[spoiler: [[ZombieInfectee It didn’t end well for her]]]].
15* [[AscendedExtra Ascended Extras]]: Mike and Matt even {{lampshade}} it.
16* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: it is implied that Puck and Rachel started their own family after the events of the story. Plus Quinn and Puck manage to raise their daughter.]]
17* BadassTeacher: Sue, who eventually [[spoiler: walks from Lima to Canada, leaving “a swath of destruction across the U.S. unlike anything ever known to man”]].
18* BattleCouple: Puck and Rachel.
19* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: After zombies surround Puck and Rachel around her house, they seem done for until the school bus containing everybody else plows through and opens fire]].
20* BodyCountCompetition: Between Rachel and Puck. And eventually Kurt.
21* BroYay: Between Finn and Puck.
22* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Brittany’s cut that she keeps scratching.]]
23* ComingOfAgeStory: In a lot of ways, the fic is one for Puck as he goes from immature JerkAss to the hero the group is depending on. The story gives similar arcs to Rachel, Quinn, Santana, and Kurt.
24* CrazyPrepared:
25** Finn and Puck have stashes of water and baseball bats in their houses for when this happens. Sue has pistols, shotguns, and ''uzis'' hidden at the school.
26** Kurt is prepared in a more...Kurt-like way. He plans his wardrobe a week in advance, and convinced his father to set up a college fund when he was eight. At 13 he decided to avoid people named [[Creator/JeffGoldblum Jeff]] after watching ''Film/JurassicPark'' and ''Film/IndependenceDay''.
27* DoesNotLikeGuns: Mercedes.
28* EnemyMine: Sue and Will manage to put their differences aside to protect the kids.
29* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Cillian Murphy is all hot and everything, which Puck is completely and without embarrassment willing to admit.
30* FateWorseThanDeath: Emma considers dying from Zombies to be the worse kind of death due to her mysophobia. She begs Will that if that ever appears likely to happen to kill her immediately.
31* GeekyTurnOn: Puck ‘’really’’ likes how good Rachel is at zombie killing.
32** He similarly gets turned on when he sees Quinn holding a gun and [[PregnantBadass very pregnant with his child]].
33* GenreSavvy: Puck and Finn have been preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse since they were ‘’eight’’. Eventually, it turns out all of the kids have been watching zombie movies and know how to handle the situation.
34* HeroicBSOD: Quinn after [[spoiler: Finn’s death]].
35* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Matt, Artie, and Tina]].
36* HiddenDepths: Santana watches ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'' and is a fan of Russell Tovey
37* ImprobableAimingSkills: Rachel has been practising to be a crack shot in order to seem more “all American” to some of her dad’s relatives.
38* ItsAllMyFault: Quinn initially believes the zombies are God’s way of punishing her for getting pregnant out of wedlock. [[spoiler: Sue blames herself for Brittany getting infected. Kurt blames himself for Finn's death]].
39* InvincibleHero: Let's be honest, there was no way Quinn was going to die
40* {{Jossed}}: The title of chapter 12.
41* JerkAss: Sue, obviously, but most people are surprised that it carries through the Zombie Apocalypse.
42* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Brittany, Artie, and Tina]].
43* TheLoad: Jacob. It really says something when a boy in a wheelchair is more competent at surviving the apocalypse than you.
44* MamaBear: Sue taught all the Cheerios close-combat self-defense to stop boys from taking advantage of them.
45* PapaWolf: Finn’s entire reason for surviving the Zombie Apocalypse is to protect his unborn child.
46* ParentalAbandonment: Puck's mother and sister leave him behind.
47* PregnantBadass: Although she isn't as Badass as most of the others, Quinn manages to hold her own against the Zombies.
48* RousingSpeech: Puck gives one to Santana [[spoiler: after Britany’s death]].
49* SelfMadeOrphan: Kurt.
50* ShootTheDog: Most characters have to pull this.
51** Artie and Will had to kill Terri.
52** Finn had to kill Quinn’s parents.
53** Kurt had to [[TearJerker kill his own Dad]].
54** [[spoiler: Sue had to kill her sister Jean]].
55** [[spoiler: Santana kills Brittany right after she turns]].
56* ShoutOut: Multiple to ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' and most zombie movies. Most of the geeky references come from Artie and Tina.
57** There is a character named Ballard in reference to {{Series/Dollhouse}}.
58** When looting with Rachel and Schue, Puck suggests they get TV on DVD suggesting WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy and 'hot chick action show' Dollhouse. He later mentions that Dollhouse was somewhat zombie-ish.
59** Puck attempts to reference ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' by responding to Rachel "I know". She takes this to mean he loves her. Later, Puck regrets making the reference when he thinks he is about to die.
60** Lots of 28 Days Later references.
61* StepfordSmiler: Rachel is constantly smiling, even though everybody knows she has little to smile about these days.
62* TheStoic: Mike and Matt.
63* TakeUpMySword: The ''real'' Sue Sylvester was actually the commander of our Sue in an all-female military unit.
64* ThisIsReality: The group agrees that discussing the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the military in zombie movies is not the best idea, and they need to stay positive. [[spoiler: Then Rachel points out to Puck that zombie movies [[DownerEnding never]] [[KillEmAll end well]]]].
65* ThoseTwoGuys: Subverted and lampshaded with Matt and Mike.
66* TookALevelInBadass: Rachel is probably the best killer in the group.
67* TheVirus: Artie’s Argument for what’s causing the zombies.
68* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The kids are quite proud of killing the zombies, and through the fic care less and less about the fact that they were people once.
69* ZombieApocalypse
70* ZombieFic
71* ZombieGait: Averted, the zombies can run here.

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