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13* Why would supposedly savvy Columbus let other people get the drop on him twice? He knows all about zombies, ''not'' people.
14* In Columbus' flashback, he is shown playing ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. Close examination shows that he played as a Night Elf, a race belonging to the Alliance. Apparently Columbus has been battling the Undead long before they came to his doorstep.
15--> "Help Zombies are after me."\
16[[ComicallyMissingThePoint "I'll bring my hammer!"]]
17* Columbus didn't have Rule 31 (Check the Backseat) until after the incident in Garland. Because Rule 32 is something he picks up not long after with Tallahassee.
18* Combined with ShoutOut, the climax is a send-up of zombie games - there's Tallahassee on the rail shooter sections on the roller coaster and the tilt-a-whirl, Columbus in the claustrophobic survival horror section in the haunted house, and the girls on the high ride with the co-op HoldTheLine-style game.
19* In the beginning of the movie, there's a few people seen who are zombified in tons of different, seemingly unlikely situations. Given the apocalypse supposedly started due to tainted meat, a lot of these unlikely scenarios make sense if we can assume it came from eating and had a time delay not present in bite victims.
20** The bride suddenly appearing tackling to her groom in the middle of a wedding. Perhaps she ate something before the wedding to hold her over until the reception. Something meaty, perhaps?
21** The men running from a stripper at a club. And the fact she has bills in her waist, indicating she was in the middle of working. Perhaps she ate some tainted meat before she got to work, and she turned during her job.
22** The father-son three legged racers running from three legged racing zombies takes place at a park. When people have parties in the park, what is common to take place? Barbacues, with meat on the grill, and they all would have eaten around the same time. It could be that the father-son running away from them all simply didn't partake of the infected meal.
23** The birthday party full of little girls in princess outfits. One would assume if a zombie got a hold of a little girl, it would be game over from the get go. So little meat on them and they can't run as fast as a grown zombie full tilt sprinting. So, much like the picnic example above, what is usually served at birthday parties for small children? Burgers. Unfortunately made of infected meat in this case.
24** It might seem confusing that a prisoner in a prison facility would be able to get zombified by bite in such a scenario as a fortified prison. Unless the prisoner ate infected meat as one of the prison food meals.
25* Tallahassee seems weirdly okay with giving Wichita the gun to put down a (seemingly) bitten Little Rock, given his later established trust issues. [[spoiler: He, of all people, would know how important it might be to someone to put down an infected family member personally.]]
26* Why did the girls take Tallahassee and Columbus with them the second time, instead of abandoning them after getting their new car? Well, this time if they abandoned them, they'd be leaving them alone in an empty grass field with nothing around for miles. The last time, they abandoned them in a supermarket full of food and other supplies. The girls may be used to being con artists, but it seems even they draw the line at dropping people in a place they're ''certain'' not to survive.
27* Tallahassee's mission throughout the movie is to find the world's last remaining Twinkies, to the point it becomes a minor obsession. Could be random, but recall the Ghostbusters scene that plays when Little Rock and Columbus are in the theatre: the scene where Egon uses a Twinkie to illustrate spectral energy. It's possible Tallahassee likes Twinkies so much because they got a shout-out in a film his all-time favourite actor starred in.
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30* TheReveal about [[spoiler: Tallahassee's son]] is worse than initially apparent. [[spoiler: Consider how unlikely a clean or quick death would be.]] And consider [[spoiler: [[OffingTheOffspring who would have]] [[MercyKill to put the resulting zombie down]].]]
31** Alternatively, the zombies swarmed [[spoiler: Talahassee's son]] to feast on his flesh, which means that Tallahassee would have been forced to watch the zombies eat [[spoiler: Buck]] alive.
32* Colombus' family were neglectful about Columbus in that their habit of isolating themselves due to paranoia caused them to NOT care about him. One wonders how long they were like this towards him.
33** Columbus expresses little sadness when he realizes his parents were dead due to never being very close to them, and mentions near the film's end that he never had a family before meeting Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock. It also becomes clear that his list of phobias and social awkwardness is a result of their own paranoia. It's quite possible that his parents may have been abusive in some way.
34* We see survivors, and we see zombies, but we never see any animals--no stray dogs, no crows eating fallen zombies, nothing. The best-case scenario? The virus killed them all instantly instead of turning them like with humans. The worst case? Well, zombies are opportunistic hunters...
35* Little Rock and Wichita were con-artists even after the zombie apocalypse, and they were worse than they were pre-apocalypse since they stole important resources from survivors. One wonders how many survivors they left for dead before the events of the movie.

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