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Columbus

• A Man Is Not a Virgin: Averted. It’s heavily, heavily, heavily implied.
• Action Survivor
• Apologetic Attacker: When putting down 406.
• Badass
  • Badass Bookworm
• Combat Pragmatist
• Genre Savvy: His list of rules to survive the Zombie Apocalypse, ranging from "double tap" to "always wear your seatbelt".
• The Hero
• Heroic BSOD: He has a minor one when Wichita tells him that Columbus, Ohio is in ruins, meaning that his parents are probably dead.

• Hollywood Nerd: He is a shut-in who, like Zoey, wasted all his time in his apartment, guzzling junk food and dreaming about the Girl Next Door. Though he was less preoccupied with watching Zombie B-Movies than playing World of Warcraft, and was surprisingly limber for a nerd.
• The Leader
• Love Makes You Dumb
• Sensitive Guy: To Talahasee's Manly Man
• No Name Given: He only refers to himself as "Columbus", which is where he's from.
• Odd Couple: With Tallahassee.
• Shut In: Before the Zombie Apocalypse. He describes his parents as "paranoid shut-ins" as well.
• Took a Level in Badass: Before the film he was a shut-in spending all his free time on World of Warcraft, but becomes a competent survivor by the time we meet him and ends up a big damn hero.
• Weapon of Choice: As his allies gather up submachine guns and semi-automatic shotguns, Columbus insists on sticking with his IGA Coach double-barrel shotgun.

Tallahassee

• The Ace
• Action Hero
• Anti-Hero
• Ax Crazy
• Badass
  • Badass Boast: Very often.
  • Badass Moustache
  • Heartbroken Badass: There's a reason he hates zombies.
• Bald of Awesome
• Big Brother Mentor
• The Big Guy
• Blood Knight: Tallahassee loves him some zombie killin'. Columbus notes that he has some sort of chip on his shoulder for them that goes beyond "it's okay to kill zombies". That's because they killed his son.
• Broken Ace: Quite clearly.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A skilled zombie hunter who is also batshit insane.
• Catchphrase: "Time to nut up or shut up!"
• Combat Pragmatist
• Crazy Survivalist
• Deadpan Snarker
• Does Not Like Spam: Tallahassee can't stand Sno-Balls (due to the coconut). It's not the taste, it's the consistency.
• Guns Akimbo: Carries two handguns for his last stand.
• Humble Goal: Tallahassee's twinkie obsession.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Tallhasse is besieged by sixty zombies and has sixty rounds of ammo for his pistols, and makes every shot count.
• Jerkass
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• Knight In Sour Armour
• The Knights Who Say Squee: Upon meeting Bill Murray, Tallahassee basically becomes a squeeing fanboy.
• Last Stand: A quite magnificent one at that. Subverted in that he survives.
• Man Child: Lampshaded by Columbus a few times.
• Nice Hat: His Stetson.
• Manly Man: To Columbus' Sensitive Guy
• Moment Killer: He's a professional at it according to Columbus since he keeps interupting him and Wichita.
• Nice Hat
• No Name Given: He only refers to himself as "Tallahassee", which is where he's from.
• Odd Couple: With Columbus.
• Pop Cultured Badass
• Pragmatic Hero
• Sacrificial Lion: He appears to become this at the climax of the movie. Except that he's such a Crazy Awesome Badass, he survives.
• Team Dad: Ends up becoming this.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Twinkies. He's obsessed with finding some throughout the whole movie.

Wichita Aka, Christa

• Big Sister Instinct: If you are not Little Rock, then it's going to take some very extenuating circumstances for Wichita not to rob you blind and leave you for dead if she gets the chance. If you threaten Little Rock, you've got about the same chance of not being shot.

• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Something she completely acknowledges, and even plays with it at the end of the movie when she pretends to be leaving without Columbus and Tallahassee again.
• Con Woman: Even before the Zombie Apocalypse, when she and Little Rock scammed people for money.
• Jerkass/Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For most of the movie. She disarms the guys and leaves them for dead twice, kidnaps them once, and steals their only transportation three times over the course of the film. She gets better over the course of the movie, with the scene where she dances with Columbus being particularly sweet of her..

• No Name Given: Following the pattern set by Columbus and Tallahassee, she takes the name of the place she is from. Until the end of the movie.

Little Rock

• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: To a lesser degree than her sister, as she feels bad about doing it.

• Little Miss Con Artist: Like Wichita, she scammed people before the Zombie Apocalypse as well.

• No Name Given: Following the pattern set by Columbus and Tallahassee, she takes the name of the place she is from.

406

• The Can Kicked Her: She forces Columbus to put her down using a combination of the bathroom door, shower curtains and finally a "double tap" across the skull with a toilet tank lid.
• Genre Blind: Sadly only sees a crazed "feverish homeless cannibal" when the more Genre Savvy would see a zombie.

• Killed Off for Real: She was the first zombie Columbus killed.
• No Name Given: Columbus never learned her name, so he just calls her by her room number when telling others what happened to her.

Bill Murray

• As Himself: Yes, that is Bill Murray playing himself as the character with the most screen time other than the main four heroes.
• Celebrity Survivor: Bill Murray is living out the Zombie Apocalypse in his Beverly Hills mansion, using his acting talents to go outside without being eaten.

• Didn't Think This Through: Scaring people whilst dressed like a zombie is not wise at all, and it gets him killed.

• Hoist by His Own Petard: Little too convincing in his role as a zombie, which gets him shot fatally.
• Late Arrival Spoiler: Murray's surprise cameo and shocking death are near impossible to avoid.
• Master of Disguise: He disguises himself as a zombie to fool zombies enough to go outside once in a while. It works a little too well on humans.

• Old Shame: Maybe Garfield.
• Too Dumb to Live: Sneaking up on people who have a shotgun while pretending to be a zombie turns out to be a bad idea.