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1	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The book encourages you, when on the move, to keep moving. Carry as little as possible, abandon all luxuries, and don't stop for anything. Except for [[BigDamnHeroes rescuing survivors]]. This line in particular almost feels like a rebuttal to the common attitude in survival fiction that dependent or [[NotBadassEnoughForFans insufficiently-badass]] characters should be abandoned or dispatched because the narrative treats them as [[TheLoad "dead weight"]] that will just drag the other characters down:
2	--> Sometimes, logic must give way to humanity.
3	** This also makes sense. Humans are social creatures, and often, stand a much better chance of survival banded together than alone.
4	* HilariousInHindsight: The guide's author notes that it is unknown if Solanum is sexually transmitted, as nobody has ever been dumb enough to try to have sex with a zombie. In 2008, the movie ''Film/{{Deadgirl}}'' was released, about a bunch of teenagers who do just that.
5	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: For every DownerEnding and ForegoneConclusion, there are several entries where the humans kick SERIOUS undead ass.
6	** [[UsefulNotes/TheGloryThatWasRome The Roman Legions]] being able to crush zombie outbreaks for the majority of their reigning period, before there was Genre to be Savvy by! And the other best thing about them? They aren't virtually scared by zombies in the slightest: in one tale, an old legion veteran simply pushed a frightened mother and her baby aside and sliced off the zombie's head with his gladius, like it was simply a minor annoyance. ''They have balls. Of tempered titanium.''
7	*** Even better, is that after a certain point, the Historical section just states about Roman Zombie attacks, "This was the last Roman Recorded Zombie attack of note, as others were so short or not well enough described to count." Basically, The Romans were ''curbstomping'' zombies so effectively they weren't even taking them seriously anymore. ''Damn.''
8	*** Understated but significant is the sheer existence of Army Order XXXVIII, commissioned by Hadrian and compiled from every scrap of data collected from the first encounter, detailing zombie behavior and the most efficient ways to dispatch them. The Romans ''literally wrote the book'' on dealing with a zombie outbreak.
9	** Elijiah Black, a Lakota man who became a Wild West Zombie Hunter. His one entry has him pick off the entire undead populace of a small town, [[ButNowIMustGo leaving the bewildered survivors behind to kick more undead ass]].
10	** The "Jan. 1993 A.D., Downtown Los Angeles, California" entry is one of the few cases of NoKillLikeOverkill in favor of the humans - after two clashing gangs [[EnemyMine put their differences aside to survive]], they quickly grab the SmartBall, and manage to [[CurbstompBattle kill over a hundred ghouls with no losses of their own]]. However, they're then left with a load of apparently innocent dead bodies on their hands when the police show up...
11	** The Japanese attempt to paradrop zombies on China ends before the zombies hit the ground. Communist Chinese snipers, trained to aim for the head, took them all out. The Chinese never realized that they were under zombie attack.
12	* {{Narm}}: The desperate attempt to pretend that the book is set in the real world by having ''every single person'' who ever fought zombies in an era where it could be easily recorded getting killed before they could tell anyone gets ridiculous very fast.
13	* NightmareFuel:
14	** The Class 4 scenario is especially frightening, as it shows how screwed we really could be if that really happened. The description of the "Total Extinction" scenario is especially chilling.
15	** The ''Recorded Attacks'' companion comic manages to illustrate some of the recorded attacks, including an incident involving a Portuguese slave ship, with all of the slaves chained in the hold as tightly as possible. A sailor got infected and somehow only bit a few of them. Those ones died and reanimated, but were too constrained to do more than nibble on the guys next to them. 24 hours later, the guy getting nibbled on reanimates. Rinse and repeat. Imagine, for a second, being the guy on the end...
16	** Speaking of ''Recorded Attacks'' special mention has to be given to the "1583 A.D., Siberia" entry, where [[CrazySurvivalist a group of Cossacks]] [[ExtremeOmnivore completely devour a small village's food supplies]], [[IAmAHumanitarian before killing and eating several of the villagers as well]]. The part where the "zombie outbreak" starts - [[TooDumbToLive where they try to eat a zombified corpse]] - can easily be considered LaserGuidedKarma at its finest.
17	** The ''concept'' of "Devil Dance", a game played underground in parts of the French empire in the 17th century. One man enters a pit, armed with a very small knife. In the other side of the pit is one of the undead. Up above, the rich place bets on whether the man lives or, more likely, how long he'll last before being eaten. Most of the zombies used in the game used to be former players.
18	** The book was written out of Max Brooks' fear of zombies, as he notes they're not some sort of animal or creature, but a force of nature that simply cannot be reasoned with. He makes this very clear in the first few chapters, comparing zombies to a computer that is only programmed to perform one function and can never be hacked.
19	* NightmareRetardant: The more you know about biology, weapons, sociology and terrain, the less seriously you take the book.
20	** E.g. if you know that Solanum is the scientific name for ''potato''.
21	* ParanoiaFuel: If any murder you hear on the news sounds just a ''bit'' fishy, get ready.
22	** The whole book makes you think that zombies are real and around the corner.
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