Line #89 Manga/KillMeBaby


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3	Despite the [[DeathbringerTheAdorable disturbing title]], ''Kill Me Baby'' (or ''Baby, please kill me'' depending on the translator, though the anime adaptation uses the former as the main title, and both in the eyecatches), is a {{Yonkoma}} gag strip created by Kaduho and serialized in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Carat'' since 2008, revolving mostly around slapstick humor.
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5	Yasuna Oribe is an airheaded high school girl who tries to greet a new student one day, only to discover that she's brutally efficient at twisting her arm, putting her in a chokehold, and using other painful methods of submission. She later learns that the girl's name is Sonya, and she works for an unnamed organization as an assassin. As the manga continues, Yasuna fluctuates between trying to warm Sonya up to living the life of a normal schoolgirl and occasionally trying to one-up her in various tests of skill. Both methods often end in failure, but it doesn't stop Yasuna from trying.
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7	An anime adaptation started airing on January 5, 2012.
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9	Everybody who is a fan of dark slapstick comedy should check this out.
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11	Creator/SentaiFilmworks acquired the licensing rights for the show and released an English dub.
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14	!!Tropes presented by the series:
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16	* ActionGirl: Sonya and Agiri. In the manga, Yasuna attempts to be this too.
17	* AllegedLookalikes: An audio variant in episode 4. One of the fake Yasunas ''looks'' exactly like the original, [[CuteButCacophonic but definitely doesn't]] [[EvilBrit SOUND like her.]] Sonya still has trouble telling her apart from the other two.
18	* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: Chapter 89, heavily implied to be OrWasItADream]]
19	* AlternateUniverse: All the volume prologues are this. So far they've parodied MagicalGirl shows, Momotaro, Dracula, TheWestern, Literature/TheWizardOfOz and the SpaceOpera genre.
20	* AmusingInjuries: A LOT. 99% of them fall on Yasuna. The few times Sonya does get hurt though, Yasuna tends to laugh. Which then gets Sonya mad, and she further punishes Yasuna for it. And in the manga they can become outright deadly [[StatusQuoIsGod (by the show's standards, that is)]].
21	** InstantBandages: And as a result she usually is found with these by the next panel, or even during a punch. They are also seen falling off as if they are just oversized pieces of paper.
22	* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: In the Japanese version of Chapter 75 of the manga Sonya loses her voice due to a canker sore. The translations have changed this to a sore throat.
23	* AssassinOutclassin:
24	** Sonya and Yasuna escape from an assassin in episode 4. The assassin is then stopped with the help of Agiri.
25	** They run into another one in episode 9, while looking for a "hammer spawn", a type of legendary snake. Yasuna then accidentally trips and hits a camouflaged man, who happens to be using said name. Sonya however manages to stop him after he chases after Yasuna for being annoying and falling into one of the latter's traps.
26	* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Huge versions of Yasuna and Sonya appear in episode 4 as eye catches.
27	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Sonya and Yasuna have a few moments like these (like in the last episode of the anime), and their rarity only adds to their sweetness.
28	* BatmanGambit: In episode 8 Yasuna actually manages to pull one on Sonya when she convinces her to play darts by making hitting the inner circle a failure.
29	** Yasuna also tricked Sonya at one point into dodging a shot from a water gun...because she was intentionally aiming for Sonya's lunch.
30	* BeachEpisode: Chapter 10 (episode 5 in the anime), absent fanservice.
31	* BearsAreBadNews: Chapter 9 (Episode 2 in the anime), a bear escapes from the zoo and makes trouble for Yasuna and Sonya.
32	* BlackComedy: The show runs on this, as any violence depicted is PlayedForLaughs. And the manga can get quite gruesome at times.
33	* BlankWhiteEyes: Displayed on Sonya and Yasuna from time to time. Specially Yasuna.
34	* BlueWithShock: Both Sonya and Yasuna have this look occasionally.
35	* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Most of the chapters involving Sonya and Yasuna usually play out like this.
36	* BrainBleach:
37	** Sonya and Yasuna's expressions after opening Agiri's boxes in the wrong order in the last episode. Agiri is shown to have recovered the end of the last segment.
38	** Chapter 89.
39	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Upon hearing a bear has escaped from the zoo and may be lurking nearby:
40	-->'''Sonya''': Ah!! I just had a really bad feeling! Some idiot just activated some really [[EventFlag bad flags]]!
41	* ButtMonkey:
42	** Yasuna thanks to her stupid antics which irritate Sonya to no end, and promptly gets hit for it.
43	** The unused character in the anime, who complains she doesn't even have a name, vows revenge on Sonya and Yasuna, then keeps missing the two when she tries to approach them at school in episode 3.
44	* CatGirl: The second Yasuna puppet in episode 5.
45	* CastOfExpies:
46	** The main duo act as superficial lookalikes to the leads of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''. Not only does Sonya look almost exactly like a SuperDeformed version of Fate, her background and relationship with Yasuna also mirror Fate's ones with Nanoha in a tongue-in-cheek way. Yasuna is clearly meant to be the Nanoha to Sonya's Fate, although not as dramatically similar in design and personality (she still shares her brown hair, simpler hairdo, sweet personality and role in the plot, however).
47	*** Following the ''Lyrical Nanoha'' line, Agiri's character design and absurdly calm personality make her resemble an exaggerated, stoner-like version of Suzuka. Even her status as a ninja might be a reference to Suzuka's astonishing athleticism in the ''Nanoha A's'' manga.
48	*** Unused Character is a solid one of Vita: a short-tempered, redhead girl with a braid and an IdiotHair who intrudes as a rival later into the plot (well, she tries) and definitely doesn't like not to be taken seriously.
49	* CloudCuckooLander: Yasuna (see above). Agiri, oh is she ever.
50	* ClusterFBomb: A somewhat mild form happens when Yasuna gets frustrated.
51	-->'''Yasuna''': "Kuso! Kuso!"
52	* ColorFailure: Yasuna and Sonya in the first episode after they look at a picture taken in the abandoned classroom, and spot some ghosts in the picture.
53	* CompanyCrossReferences: In the magical girl parody, Yasuna uses a "Carat Max Forward Miracle" magic spell. Individually, these words are the names of the ''Manga Time Kirara'' magazines other than the main subtitle-less one that serializes this manga.
54	* ConfrontingYourImposter: Subverted. Yasuna actually joins forces with her imposters!
55	* ContinuityNod: After Yasuna wakes up from a nightmare about Sonya assassinating her stuffed rabbit Pyonsuke, we see that Pyonsuke is still tied up in a knot from when Sonya messed around with him chapters before.
56	* CranialEruption: Comes with a majority of Yasuna's AmusingInjuries.
57	* CrossPoppingVeins: Displayed from time to time, mostly on Sonya when reacting to something idiotic Yasuna says or does.
58	* DancingTheme: The anime's ending theme features Yasuna and Sonya doing dance moves in their gym uniforms that come [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=456054 straight out of the manga]]. Many of these are physically impossible to pull off in real life.
59	* DeadHandShot: In the original manga version of Killtaro, we see a dead unused character's hand, as well as a pool of blood, showing that Sonya killed her. This got AdaptedOut of the anime.
60	* DelayedReaction: One occurs in episode 9 while looking for a legendary snake known as the "Hammer Spawn". Yasuna instead finds a pit viper, and it takes her and Sonya a few seconds to realize it's a dangerous snake and run off.
61	* DemotedToExtra: At the end of the first volume, the manga's creator mentioned that Yasuna was initially supposed to play the "straight" girl to contrast with Sonya's HairTriggerTemper, and a third unnamed child assassin with braided hair and a Chinese fighting style was going to play TheDitz. However, Yasuna [[CompositeCharacter eventually absorbed the third girl's personality]] and became the crazy girl to Sonya's relatively "straight" role, while the other girl was relegated to the extra material outside of the story. She instead becomes a rarely appearing MauveShirt in the anime, due to being voiced by Creator/RieKugimiya. And all of her appearances are PlayedForLaughs while utilizing this trope.
62	* DreamEpisode: All of the parody segments in Episode 11 act as these, since they are soon after revealed to be New Year's dreams Yasuna had.
63	* DualWielding: The Volume 1 cover shows Sonya wielding [[GunsAkimbo 2 pistols]] and Yasuna wielding an eggplant and a banana.
64	* DumbassHasAPoint: For all of Yasuna's incorrect assumptions, her inquiry about Sonya hurting the wrong people if they so much as innocently touch her has some merit to it since Yasuna herself was the victim of her reflexes, even when she wasn't trying to prank her or get on her nerves. A Halloween chapter also shows Sonya almost hurting a trick-or-treater because they got too close to her.
65	* EpicFail:
66	** In episode 2, Sonya tosses a volleyball at Yasuna after the latter laughs at her when some crows steal their lunch. However, the latter dodges it, and the ball bounces off the wall, smacking Sonya in the head. Yasuna then accidentally trips on the nunchuks she brought to school.
67	** And in a later skit in the same episode, Sonya throws some small knives at a baseball, although it doesn't stop it from hitting her. As Yasuna laughs at her and saying she would've just dodged it, a soccer ball hits her in the head.
68	* EveryEpisodeEnding: While the manga chapters end wherever they feel the joke should end, the anime's episodes (with the exception of Episode 12) always end with Yasuna and Sonya coming home from school.
69	* EyesAlwaysShut: Zigzagged with Agiri. She does open them from time to time, though her default expression is the closed eyes look.
70	* FacelessMasses: Used liberally in the anime, heavily enforcing the MinimalistCast.
71	* FestivalEpisode: Chapter 24/Episode 5, where they stumble upon a street festival on the way home.
72	* FleetingPassionateHobbies: Yasuna has a tendency to go and buy the latest thing she sees on TV, or the latest fads she sees, such as attempting to perform psychic acts after watching one on TV.
73	* FracturedFairytale:
74	** The Wonderful Wizard of Kill, which parodies ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.
75	** One chapter covers a parody of ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter'', with Yasuna in the role of the Cutter and Sonya in the role of Princess Kaguya. The story ends before it can even properly begin, since the Bamboo Cutter marvels over the glowing bamboo before losing interest and only recalling it to a friend (played by Agiri) a year later. Meanwhile, poor Kaguya is stuck in the bamboo shoot, having grown to adult proportions.
76	** A retelling of ''Literature/{{Momotaro}}'' has the titular character (renamed ''Kill''taro) kill the Dog for being annoying, eschew the Pheasant's assistance, and ignore the Monkey completely. Killtaro also takes the place of several other Japanese folktale characters on the way to Onigashima, such as Urashima Tarou and Isshun-bosshi, before becoming the ''reason'' Onigashima is named such after killing the entirely benign human population of the island for condemning his theft of one of the island's peaches. Sakata Kintoki is among the humans Killtarou slaughters.
77	* TheGadfly: Agiri, who tends to have Yasuna do or buy silly things whenever she shows up.
78	** Yasuna herself enjoys constantly getting on Sonya's nerves one way or another.
79	%% * Getting Crap Past The Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
80	* GivingUpTheGhost: Yasuna in episode 2 after Sonya puts her to sleep to help her get rid of her hiccups. It happens numerous other times across the series.
81	* GoryDiscretionShot: Agiri has a trio of boxes that are meant to be stacked in a particular order. When they are, they open and a person will appear. When Yasuna's birthday happens, Agiri gives her a second stack of these boxes, but Yasuna messes the order up and gets...''something''...gruesome in the box instead. Thankfully, the audience doesn't get to see what it is.
82	* GratuitousEnglish: ''Kill Me Baby'' and ''Baby, please kill me'', of course. The anime has many other instances too.
83	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Yasuna, in the anime, particularly in the opening scene as a form of CouchGag for the first three episodes.
84	--> '''Yasuna:''' [[GratuitousGerman Guten morgen!]]
85	--> '''Yasuna:''' [[GratuitousGerman Danke schön!]]
86	--> '''Yasuna:''' [[GratuitousSpanish ¡Buenos días!]]
87	--> '''Yasuna:''' Nihao!
88	* HandPuppet: Yasuna makes some for chapter 25/episode 5. They were intended to be used in a children's performance, but Yasuna's usual antics leads to Sonya destroying one and keeping another.
89	* HatesBeingTouched: Sonya. Yasuna [[RunningGag repeatedly fails]] [[AmusingInjuries to remember this.]]
90	* HeliumSpeech: One of the gifts Sonya and Agiri give Sonya at her party. They use it to do tongue twisters. The Unused Character finds it later and does the same.
91	* HighlyVisibleNinja: Ridiculed. During Sonya's not-birthday, Agiri (a genuine ninja) gives her a present of a very [[TheThemeParkVersion stereotypical]] ninja outfit that she outright admits she got from a party shop (think ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' Ninja class). Yasuna then mocks and laughs at Sonya's costume, calling it something straight out of a Western comic book. Things obviously end painfully for Yasuna.
92	* HypocriticalHumor: Yasuna, in a rare display of not using any trickery, decides to throw a Christmas party for her friends. Sonya, the assassin who regularly takes out dangerous weapons in and outside of the classroom, chastises her for setting up a hotpot when those aren't allowed on school grounds.
93	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The anime's episode names feature three or four things ("A, B, and C" or "A, B, C, and D") that relate to the episode which, when written in Japanese, are all in 12-character hiragana.
94	* IdiotCrows: The crows that steal Yasuna's lunch. One says Baka and the other says Aho as they swoop in.
95	* InstantBandages: Yasuna often has these on after getting hit by Sonya. Sometimes the bandages fall right off in the next scene after [[IronButtMonkey she gets over]] whatever injury she just suffered.
96	* JapaneseRanguage: The dub occasionally has an overly deep voice read off the eye catch cards in this manner. It's probably on purpose.
97	* {{Jerkass}} [[spoiler: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold With A Heart Of Gold]]]]: Sonya. Yasuna can be quite a passive-aggressive jerk too.
98	** Other than the knee-jerk reactions to being touched, most of Sonya's asskickings are warranted.
99	* KickTheDog: Yasuna left her stuffed rabbit on Sonya's desk to teach her to be nicer. When she returned, Sonya had it twisted into a ball.
100	* KillUsBoth: Parodied. Sonya does this not [[SpottheImposter out of desperation,]] but because she's sick of Yasuna's antics and didn't ''care'' that she was in her way.
101	* KlingonPromotion: Yasuna suggests that Sonya kill her superiors in order to escape from her life of being an assassin. [[HypocriticalHumor Sonya calls her out before she finishes the thought.]]
102	* LamePunReaction: You can count on one hand the amount of times Sonya hasn't throttled Yasuna for making bad puns:
103	** When Yasuna realizes she doesn't have enough snow to make a full snowman, she fashions it into a daruma instead. Feeling proud of herself, she cheerfully states that it's a ''real'' snowman now (in Japanese, they are called ''yuki-daruma''), which makes Sonya destroy it in bad pun-fueled anger.
104	** Yasuna asks Sonya what she herself is holding, and the latter answers a kite (''tako'', which sounds like octopus). Yasuna laughs and says it's actually a squid (''ika''), then proceeds to call her a fool (''ikame'', corrupted from ''bakame'') for it.
105	* LimitedAnimation: Frequently throughout the anime, though it's generally for comedic effect.
106	* MagicSkirt: It's actually one of Agiri's ninja techniques. It applies to her hair, too[[note]]Actually, it's inverted for her hair[[/note]].
107	* MagicalGirl: Yasuna (CuteWitch variant) in the Volume 2 {{omake}} (Episode 11 in the anime).
108	* MasochismTango: Sonya and Yasuna. They seem to be the only people willing to put up with each other, not counting Agiri.
109	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Agiri. Maybe the greatest ninja ever to walk the Earth... or just a good con artist. Most definitely TheGadfly. But if you look at the entry for {{Ninja}}, note comparisons with HighlyVisibleNinja--Not knowing whether it's magic or sleight-of-hand IS Ninjutsu!
110	* MinimalistCast: Sonya, Yasuna, Agiri and the Unused Character make for a very small cast that never expands. Even the latter two don't appear that much.
111	** In the anime, any walk-on roles are played by the same old man and woman, and even those are few in number. Two other schoolgirls have been shown onscreen but their appearances are very brief.
112	* MoodWhiplash:
113	** The last third of the SeasonFinale - [[spoiler: What starts out as a regular gag sketch of Yasuna trying to disrupt one of Sonya's assassination assignments ends with her [[ItMakesSenseInContext stuck in a pit]] [[TearJerker tearfully begging Sonya not to leave, because she's terrified for the safety of]] [[IJustWantToHaveFriends one of her only friends.]] Cue Sonya helping her out of the pit and claiming her mission was cancelled due to a "change of plans".]]
114	** Chapter 89's ending can be considered as outright ''terrifying''.
115	* MundaneUtility: Sonya's killer reflexes are great for opening bottles.
116	* NewYearHasCome: Yasuna, Sonya and Agiri use the first school day after New Year to hold a combined New Year, Christmas and Halloween Party.
117	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Yasuna throws a stick at a balloon stuck in a tree in episode 2 in an attempt to bring it down. Unfortunately it just causes the balloon to fly into the sky.
118	* {{Ninja}}: Agiri Goshiki, the only other named character so far in the story.
119	* NoNameGiven: The "unused character".
120	* NonLethalKO: Despite the title and Sonya's abilities as an assassin, we never see anyone actually die. Even when assassins from rival groups target her, she only incapacitates them like she would Yasuna.
121	* OnTheNext: Episode previews are announced in the style of poetry, with two 12-character lines devoted to one word in the next episode's title. These poems, save for the one for Episode 13, [[OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase end]] with the catchphrase "Now, what will you do, Yasuna Oribe?" (the last instead says "The answer lies within you").
122	* PaperFanOfDoom: Yasuna gives Sonya one in episode 2, expecting her to use it. Instead Sonya just punches her.
123	* PhenotypeStereotype: Sonya has blonde hair and blue eyes, signaling that she's from... wherever she's from.
124	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Yasuna begs Sonya not to go on her latest mission in episode 13 after being left in the big hole trap they were stuck in. Sonya doesn't seem to care at first, until Yasuna starts saying she may get killed on the job, and then she'd be really lonely without her. Sonya ends up bringing a rope to bring her out, then says her mission was postponed.
125	* PuniPlush: The characters are supposed to be teenage girls in high school, but they're drawn with exaggeratedly short proportions and round faces that make them look much younger. Notably, Kaduho's other big work ''Kagaku Chop'' and his doujin comics often have more regulated proportions.
126	* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: Agiri's hair is black in the coloured pages of the manga, but was changed to a deep purple in the anime.
127	* RightBehindMe: After Yasuna tells Sonya about an escaped bear, the latter freaks out as said bear is standing right behind the former.
128	* SchmuckBait: Agiri tends to make Yasuna buy or do silly things, such as telling her she caught freshwater clams in the ocean, while hiding a grocery bag behind her in episode 5. The narrator then points out that said clams actually live in rivers and lakes as Yasuna attempts to find some by the beach.
129	* ShoutOut:
130	** In Episode 3, Yasuna (using two spoons) and Sonya (imitating the transformation pose) give one to ''Series/{{Ultraman}}''. Yasuna does it again (with a mask) in Chapter 24.
131	** From the magical girl parody, we have Sonya's gym owner character dressed as [[Manga/TomorrowsJoe Danpei Tange]] when she acts as Yasuna's boxing coach.
132	** Yasuna attempts the [[Manga/OsomatsuKun "Sheeeh!" pose]] with a straw dummy at one point.
133	** The aliens from the opening look almost identical to [[VideoGame/MetalSlug the Mars People]].
134	* SingleMaltVision: How Agiri's "clone jutsu" actually works.
135	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Parodied in episode 4. Sonya asks the [[SpotTheImposter three Yasunas]] what they had for lunch that day. [[TheDitz They're all too dumb to remember.]]
136	* SpotTheImposter: In anime episode 4, two enemy assassins from different groups target Sonya and coincidentally disguised themselves as Yasuna. Their disguises are perfect, down to her stupidity—neither of them actually manage to attack her. The real Yasuna finds them in the spare classroom, and she inexplicably joins them and taunts with them that Sonya can't attack any of them since she can't tell which one is real. They fail to realize that Sonya doesn't care much for Yasuna's safety, so [[KillUsBoth she just attacks them all at once,]] rightly guessing that [[IronButtMonkey the real one would just shake it off.]]
137	* StatusQuoIsGod: Yasuna can be rendered unconscious, be buried alive, have her wrist broken, and smash her head into ice causing her to bleed, and you can bet your socks off she'll be back in the next chapter!
138	* StealthHiBye: Agiri has a tendency to pop up out of nowhere.
139	* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Agiri averts this in chapter 12 (anime episode 4), much to her target's distress.
140	* TemptingFate: Yasuna is constantly doing this. In one example, during episode 2, she sees a newspaper article about an escaped bear from the zoo. Naturally she tells Sonya about it, and sure enough the bear shows up behind her.
141	* TeruTeruBozu: Yasuna attempts to end a typhoon by stringing a chain of these together. The wind snaps it off the line and the old man mistakes it for a dragon god flying in the sky.
142	* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: For assassins and spies, Sonya and Agiri (and apparently the Unused Character) barely do any work onscreen. Even when trouble follows her home, Sonya is never actually shown killing/beating anyone besides Yasuna. Lampshaded in one chapter where Sonya outright asks Yasuna if she forgot that she's an assassin.
143	** It's later narrowly Averted, we see Sonya returning from an underwater mission in episode 5. She also leaves on a mission in episode 13, much to Yasuna's despair.
144	* ThreeShorts: Every episode of the anime has three to four segments, which are said in the title.
145	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Becomes a RunningGag in the manga as it goes on. And while Yasuna is the most common victim, the truth is that no one is safe.
146	* TitleDrop:
147	** The 13th and final episode of the anime is appropriately named "Kill, Me, and Baby".
148	** The volume prologues always include some part of the title in it.
149	* TitleThemeTune
150	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one at school aside from Yasuna seems to bat an eye that Sonya is bringing knives to school. Nor do they seem to care that she casually tosses them at Yasuna from time to time.
151	* VagueAge: [[LampshadeHanging They're probably in high school.]]
152	* TheWildWest: Wasteland Kill Me, the prologue for Volume 6.
153	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes:
154	** Despite being a supposed hardcore assassin, Sonya seems to be afraid of some things, like roaches, stray dogs (she's not good with animals in general) and ghosts.
155	** They run into a literal one during episode 9. Yasuna says that it's just a pit viper, instead of the "Hammer Spawn" legendary snake she was attempting to catch. After a beat, they then realize the danger that creature poses, and promptly run off.
156	* WithFriendsLikeThese: Yasuna would have to be ''very'' lonely to keep coming back to Sonya, who in turn would have to be likewise to not only put up with her for so long, but even rescue her from alien octopuses in the opening sequence.
157	* WorkingThroughTheCold: PlayedForLaughs in chapter 32 (episode 10 in the anime).
158	* WrongGenreSavvy:
159	** Agiri exploits this by throwing things other than shuriken to subvert other people's stereotypical image of ninjas, such as throwing a boomerang in episode 4 to take out the assassin targeting Sonya.
160	** Subverted in the ''Zombie Baby'' chapter, which has Yasuna use herself as a distraction to clear out some zombies, but the weapons she takes with her (a wooden stake, a garland of garlic, and a Christian cross) all correspond to ''vampires'' rather than zombies. [[DumbassHasAPoint She somehow was correct]] in that [[OurZombiesAreDifferent all of the zombies burn away in sunlight]], just like vampires.
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