Character page for Zombieland and Zombieland: Double Tap.
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Columbus
Columbus
Played By: Jesse Eisenberg
"I avoided people like they were zombies before they were all zombies. Now that they are all zombies... I kinda miss people."
The protagonist of the film, a college student trying to return to his family in Columbus, Ohio.
- Absurd Phobia: While zombies would put anyone on edge, he seems to find clowns much worse. Then near the end of the film he has to deal with a clown zombie. This has not gotten any better by Double Tap, where he has since learned to make sport of zombie killing like the rest of the group.
- Action Survivor: He's a go-to example of this trope. He's an ordinary scrawny dork who is one of the last living people on the planet, all because he's smart and has got a long list of rules to help him survive.
- Apologetic Attacker: When putting down 406. Also counts when he apologizes after shooting Bill Murray after realizing that Bill's wearing a zombie costume.
- Badass Bookworm: He created the list of rules he uses to survive in the Zombie Apocalypse, and they do seem to work.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Friendly he might be, zombies are his willing targets. Just ask the clown zombie.
- Combat Pragmatist: Rule #2: Double Tap.
- Crazy-Prepared: Columbus has a fairly long and exhaustive list of rules for surviving the apocalypse such as "Know Your Way Out," "Beware of Bathrooms" and the famous "Double Tap."
- Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments.
- The Hero: The film's main character and the one who pulls the foursome together.
- Heroic BSoD: He has a minor one when Wichita tells him that Columbus, Ohio is in ruins, meaning that his parents are probably dead.
- Hikikomori: Columbus before the Zombie Apocalypse.
- The Leader: He more or less pulls the foursome together by telling them they have to work together if they are all to survive.
- Love Makes You Dumb: He insists on pursuing Wichita even after she stole his shotgun twice and then kidnapped him. It continues at the end after she again steals the Hummer and goes off to Pacific Playland with Little Rock though if he hadn't gone after her, she and Little Rock probably wouldn't have survived.
- Mercy Kill: When Madison apparently gets bitten by a zombie, he has the task to put her down so she won’t be zombified. Subverted since he never shot at her, just above her to make her scram, plus Madison's "zombification" was just an accidental Self-Induced Allergic Reaction from almonds in her trail mix.
- Nice Guy: He's a sweet guy who manages to keep his anti-heroic group together.
- No Name Given: He only refers to himself as "Columbus," which is where he's from.
- Odd Couple: With Tallahassee, before the introduction of Wichita and Little Rock.
- Older Than They Look: Much like Eisenberg himself, he is around 36 years old as of Double Tap, yet he still looks no different than a 20-something college student.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue Oni to Tallahassee's Red Oni. He's timid and rational while Tallahassee is somewhat unstable.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: As his allies gather up submachine guns and semi-automatic shotguns, Columbus insists on sticking with his IGA Coach double-barrel shotgun. By the sequel, he still totes a shotgun, but has upgraded to a pump action.
- Socially Awkward Hero: He's a zombie-killing survivor who follows a ludicrous amount of rules in order to survive and can be quite awkward when dealing with other people.
- Token Good Teammate: Out of the four, he's the one with the most conscience.
- 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.
- Zombie Apocalypse Hero: Columbus represents the Action Survivor variant, being a Loser Protagonist and The Everyman who was thrown into the carnage.
Tallahassee
Tallahassee
Played By: Woody Harrelson
"My momma always told me someday I’d be good at somethin'. Who'd have guessed that somethin' would be zombie killin'?"
A man who took one look at the zombie apocalypse and realized he'd been waiting for it his entire life.
- The Ace: Out of the entire group, Tallahassee is the best at killing zombies and the most badass.
- Action Hero: An oddity for a zombie film character, but yes, especially when he single-handedly wipes out a horde of zombies at Pacific Playland.
- Almighty Janitor: A deleted scene showed that he was once a sign spinner.
- Anti-Hero: He is the least heroic character out of the four main characters. For example, he threatens people over the most minor things and does not really care about the others at first. However, he gets better, at least in regards to his allies.
- Ax-Crazy: When it comes to killing zombies and finding a Twinkie, both of which are obsessions for him.
- Badass Boast: Very often. Mostly in the form of boasting how much he can kick ass. He backs it up too.
- Berserk Button: In Double Tap, pacifists and hippies disgust him to the point that simply hearing of one named after the infamously liberal city of Berkeley sends him to a screaming rage.
- Beware the Silly Ones: He's goofy and childish the majority of the time, but when it comes to killing zombies, he's the best around.
- Big Brother Mentor: Is this to Columbus and then to Little Rock, especially when he teaches her how to properly shoot.
- The Big Guy: In both size and age. He's the oldest of the four, (old enough to have fathered a young son) and the tallest.
- 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: Despite being undeniably badass, Tallahassee is clearly a man broken by the world he lives in. Because he's a man who has outlived his son.Columbus: (Voiceover) Take away a man's son, you've truly given him nothing left to lose.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A skilled zombie hunter who is also batshit insane.
- Catchphrase: "Time to nut up or shut up!"
- Celebrity Paradox: Double Tap sees Wesley Snipes' pardon list White Men Can't Jump — which co-starred Woody Harrelson.
- Combat Pragmatist: Of the Improvised Weapon variety. Just take the supermarket scene where he uses a banjo, aluminum baseball bat, and hedge clippers to off zombies.
- Deadpan Snarker: He's a pretty snide individual. This is particularly shown in Double Tap with Madison.
- Decoy Backstory: Early in the movie, Tallahassee tells the story of how he lost his dog to zombies. The story is coupled with flashback shots of him with his dog. Later in the movie, though, it is revealed that his 'dog' was actually his son, and the shots are shown again with a little boy in place of the dog.
- Does Not Like Spam: Tallahassee can't stand Sno-Balls, due to the coconut. It's not the taste, it's the consistency.
- Doting Parent: It's clear that Tallahassee absolutely adored his son, and losing him drove Tallahassee over the edge. When he starts treating Little Rock as his own daughter, he continues to dote on her even after she is is an adult.
- Flipping the Bird: He gives Wichita and Little Rock two middle fingers the first time they carjack him, and later uses a dismembered hand to playfully flip off Columbus.
- Guns Akimbo: Carries two handguns for his Last Stand.
- Gun Twirling: After surviving his Last Stand.
- Heartbroken Badass: There's a reason he hates zombies. You know Buck, his puppy? Buck wasn't a puppy. Buck was his son.
- Humble Goal: Tallahassee's Twinkie obsession.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Tallahassee is besieged by sixty zombies and has sixty rounds of ammo for his pistols, and makes every shot count.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be quite brash and surly at times, but starts to care about the others, sees Little Rock as a Replacement Goldfish for his dead son and it's thanks to his Last Stand that Columbus is able to save Wichita and Little Rock at the end.
- Knight in Sour Armour: He kills zombies because they killed his puppy. Or so Columbus thinks, before Tallahassee reveals it was his SON, not his puppy.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Upon meeting Bill Murray, Tallahassee becomes a squeeing fanboy.
- Double Tap shows he's also a huge fan of Elvis.
- Large Ham: Particularly involving his Berserk Buttons, Woody Harrelson is often very over-the-top as Tallahassee.
- Last Stand: A quite magnificent one at that. Subverted in that he survives.
- Manchild: Lampshaded by Columbus a few times.
- Moment Killer: He's a professional at it according to Columbus since he keeps interrupting him and Wichita.
- No Name Given: He only refers to himself as "Tallahassee," which is where he's from.
- Odd Couple: With Columbus. Tallahassee is a badass zombie slayer, while Columbus is just a scrawny Action Survivor.
- Offhand Backhand: Of the ballistic variety. During his epic standoff with the zombie horde in the film's climax, he shoots several zombies without even looking in their direction. Note that this is not due to superhuman aiming skills; there's just so many zombies that he cannot miss.
- One-Man Army: He's the most capable zombie fighter of the main group, and at the end he faces off against a massive horde of zombies and comes out victorious and completely unscathed.
- Outliving One's Offspring: He outlived Buck, his three-year-old son.
- Pet the Dog: When Wichita is being insensitive to Columbus about what happened to his hometown, Tallahassee nudges her to be a little more respectful.
- Pragmatic Hero: Only sticks with the other protagonists just for strength in number. Later on, however, he starts to lighten up to the other protagonists.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: You wouldn’t think from the usual jovial demeanor he takes in killing any infected he comes across that he was on one until the real reason why he hates zombies with a passion comes to light. They killed his son.
- Real Men Wear Pink: In Double Tap, he opines that it takes a real man to drive a pink Cadillac. And he does at the end of the film.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red Oni to Columbus' Blue Oni. He's borderline unstable while Columbus is timid and rational.
- Sacrificial Lion: He appears to become this at the climax of the movie. Except that he's such an awesome Badass, he survives.
- Squee: When he meets Bill Murray in the latter's mansion, revealing himself to be a massive fanboy.GODDAMNIT, BILL FUCKIN' MURRAY!!!
- Tranquil Fury: A masterful example, giving that he spends every waking moment with absolutely no overt sign or indication of the rage brimming within, maintaining a bombastic and cheery demeanour even when slaughtering any zombie he finds in the most inventively sadistic and merciless manner that he can think of. But at the heart of his Blood Knight exterior lies a grieving, vengeful man, filled with an undying, murderous hatred for his undead quarry for taking his son from him.
- Team Dad: Ends up becoming this.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Twinkies. He's obsessed with finding some throughout the whole movie. At the end, Little Rock throws him one.
- Walking Armory: During the climax, when he carries two machine pistols, two pump-action shotguns and two pistols. And an airhorn to distract the zombies.
- Zombie Apocalypse Hero: Tallahassee represents the Action Hero variant, being a hardened, tough-as-nails, Gun Nut who had no trouble adjusting to the apocalypse.
Wichita
Wichita
Played By: Emma Stone
"You have just survived the zombie apocalypse and drove half way across the country... where are you gonna go?"
A con artist who survived the zombie apocalypse with her little sister.
- Action Girl: As good at killing zombies as the dudes.
- Action Survivor: She never stopped conning people after the Zombie Apocalypse. Columbus survives it by being Crazy-Prepared, Wichita survives by being absolutely ruthless.
- 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.
- Broken Bird: It's never revealed why precisely, but Wichita is a misanthrope with a crapton of trust issues.
- 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.
- Commitment Issues: The reason why she drives off with Little Rock in Double Tap is because Columbus asked her to marry him, having had personal experience with what marriage does to couples and is afraid of settling down (whatever that means in a Zombie Apocalypse). She eventually comes around by the end.
- Con Man: Even before the Zombie Apocalypse, when she and Little Rock scammed people for money.
- Deadpan Snarker: Particularly during Double Tap, as she's frequently annoyed (specially when Madison is involved) and vents off through cruel words.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Wichita starts off as a cold Jerkass, but she gradually thaws due to Columbus's dorky charms. She even winds up happily dancing with him after he relays to her his experience of going dateless for a school dance.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- She was a crooked con artist even before the Zombie Outbreak, and yet is absolutely appalled when she's told that none of the girls in his high school asked the sweet and cheerful Columbus to the Eighth Grade dance in 1997.
- Also, as much as she wasn't fond of Madison, even she felt bad when she was supposedly put down by Columbus after becoming "zombified" (it was really just a Self-Induced Allergic Reaction to almonds in her trail mix and Columbus never shot directly at her).
- Hypocrite:
- In Double Tap, she's upset by Little Rock abandoning her, ignoring that she constantly did the same thing to Columbus and Tallahassee in the previous film. Both Columbus and Tallahassee inform her on this, but she constantly tries to justify it.
- Jerkass: 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, when she tells Columbus her name is Krista.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: She uses an Mossberg Maverick Model 88 pump-action shotgun (a cheaper version of the Mossberg 500) as her main weapon, and a Walther PPK pistol as a backup.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She warms up to Colombus's charms. Contrary to her sister stating Wichita falls for "bad boys."
- Tomboyish Ponytail: She has one in Double Tap, fitting enough for a snide, dark-dressed Action Girl.
- Ungrateful Bitch: Subverted. It seems that, even after Tallahassee and Columbus save her from a hoard of zombies, she decides to abandon them again. Turns out she was just trolling with them.
- Unscrupulous Hero: She is a con artist, and was one before the outbreak.
Little Rock
Little Rock
Played By: Abigail Breslin
"I'm going to Pacific Playland! Woo!"
Wichita's little sister and fellow con artist.
- Action Girl: With empashis on "girl" given her young age. And nevertheless she's very good with firearms.
- The Baby of the Bunch: In the first film she's the group's only child character; in the second they are all still protective of her.
- Catchphrase: In Road Trip, she tries using "Little Rock the vote" as one, much to her sister's embarrassment.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: To a lesser degree than her sister, as she feels bad about doing it.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: In the sequel, Tallahassee, who is practically her new dad, is completely furious when she is in a relationship with a guy who checks three things on his hate list; he's from Berkeley, he's a musician and a pacifist.
- Demoted to Extra: Subverted. While she didn't get a ton of focus in the first film and gets more in the sequel, her amount of screentime is less as the film spends most of the second act focusing on the rest of the characters looking for her after she runs off, with her featured in very little screentime in the middle part of the movie.
- Little Miss Badass: She gets the drop on Columbus and Tallahassee in the Hummer when Tallahassee fails to check the backseat, which is where she was hiding.
- Little Miss Con Artist: Like Wichita, she scammed people before the Zombie Apocalypse as well.
- Little Miss Snarker: Whenever she's with the men, Little Rock will make sure she'll deliver some nasty zings.
- Morality Pet: Her older sister, Wichita, genuinely adores her, which makes Little Rock the sole person alive Wichita will put before herself.
- No Name Given: Following the pattern set by Columbus and Tallahassee, she takes the name of the place she is from.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: In the first movie, she doesn't know both Bill Murray and Gandhi. In the sequel, she subverts it by showing that she knows Berkeley is trying to pass other people's songs as his own.
- Replacement Goldfish: Becomes one to Tallahassee for his son.
- She Is All Grown Up: Thanks to the 10-year
Sequel Gap between the first movie and Double Tap. It actually forms a part of her character arc in the sequel, where she wants to find her independence away from the group and settle down with people her age. - Smitten Teenage Girl: She's in her early twenties by the time of Double Tap but her attraction to Berkeley is played this way; she swoons over his songs and runs away with him, to the rest of the group's consternation.
- Wise Beyond Their Years: Is able to drive despite being far too young to earn a license. Because it's during a zombie outbreak, who cares?
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406
406
Played By: Amber Heard
"That's not even the worst part!"
Columbus' next-door neighbor at college. She became a zombie and tried to kill him.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: 406's eventual fate, as the first zombie Columbus ever killed.
- Attractive Zombie: Subverted. She's "insanely hot" as Columbus states, but once zombified, it's Fan Disservice.
- Brainless Beauty: Gives that impression.
- The Can Kicked Him: 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.
- Girl Next Door: Was this for Columbus before becoming a zombie, as he calls her 406, and she calls him 408.
- 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.
- Zombie Infectee: When she was bitten by her assailant, she neglected to mention that she didn't come out unscathed. She turns while Columbus is asleep, and he is forced to kill her.
Bill Murray
Bill Murray
Played By: Bill Murray
"I was never a very good practical joker."
Bill Murray. Yes, the real one. He's been holed up in his mansion for the duration of the apocalypse.
- As Himself: Yes, that is Bill Murray playing himself as the character with the most screen time other than the main four heroes.
- Benevolent Boss: It was somewhat circumstantial and he didn't quite realize the danger, but During the flashback in the second movie he saves the life of his cameraman by whacking zombies that were grappling with him.
- 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.
- Deadpan Snarker: It's Bill Murray. Of course he’s gonna be one.
- Didn't Think This Through: Scaring people whilst dressed like a zombie is not wise at all, and it gets him killed.
- Easily Forgiven: He holds no ill feelings towards Columbus despite the fact that the latter had shot him. Though justified since Columbus only shot him for mistaking him as a zombie and had sincerely apologized for doing so.
- Face Death with Dignity: Takes his death very well.
- Hero of Another Story: The flashback to Day Zero in Double Tap shows he single handedly fought his way out of a zombie-infested press junket, scoring himself numerous zombie kills, and when he meets up with the main cast he’s been pretending to be a zombie for a while, he probably had plenty of adventures before his tragic death.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: A little too convincing in his role as a zombie, which gets him shot fatally by Columbus.
- 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.
- My Greatest Failure: Played for laughs.Wichita: Do you have any regrets?
Murray: (thinks it over for a bit) ...Garfield, maybe?
[everyone nods in understanding] - Nice Guy: Yeah! Bill is humble in the face of Tallahassee's gushing and welcomes them into his home. He doesn't even get angry about being fatally shot.
- Odd Name Out:
- Out of all the named survivors in the franchise, Bill Murray is one of the only ones who still uses their given names besides most of the people mentioned in the Zombie Kill Awards, most of the other characters taking alias based off of locations.
- Justified for Bill Murray, because his celebrity status even after the apocalypse means that, as demonstrated by Tallahassee, most survivors who've heard of him pre-apocalypse won't bond with him anyways and just think of him in terms of how fanboys/fangirls view him, meaning that the "No attachments" rule is still followed, just in a different way.
- Old Shame: In-Universe. Maybe Garfield.
- Only in It for the Money: In Double Tap, a flashback to a press junket for (the fictional) Garfield 3 has him telling an interviewer that his real reason for doing the films is "Drugs cost money."
- Person as Verb: In Double Tap, "Murraying" has become the term for accidentally killing a human upon confusing them with a zombie.
- Pretend We're Dead: How he survived the zombie apocalypse and also how he gets killed.
- Too Dumb to Live: Yeah, go ahead and scare those two armed kids with your zombie costume. That's not going to backfire on you at all. Especially considering when you met with the two people you're scaring them for as a joke responded to your costume by hitting you with a golfclub full-force in the back.Murray: I was never a very good practical joker.
- Troll: He decides to mess with Columbus by trying to scare him in his zombie makeup. Of course, it does not end up well for him at all.
From Zombieland: Double Tap
Madison
Madison
Played By: Zoey Deutch
A blonde vegan girl who Columbus meets after Wichita briefly dumps him.
- Birds of a Feather: To Berkeley, as he is a vegan just like her and also almost as stupid as her.
- Brainless Beauty: She's attractive but very ditzy. Madison's airheadness even has Tallahassee sardonically claim the only reason she has survived is because she lacks a brain for the zombies to eat.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Spacey she may be, she does hold a good chance against the zombies both during the RV fight and at the climax. Wichita even compliments her on this when she saves the former by pepper-spraying an incoming zombie.
- Disney Death: It was assumed that she turned into a zombie and was shot dead by Columbus, but it later turns out that she just suffered an allergic reaction which she recovered from and that Columbus shot over her head to scare her away.
- Dumb Blonde: She outright personifies this, having a Valley Girl personality, the barest of bare-bone common-sense (which was enough to keep her alive for ten-years in a Zombie Apocalypse) and speaks in air-headed comments. She also seems to be oblivious to most of the sarcasm directed at her.
- Dumb Is Good: In contrast to the rest of the group (save for Columbus), she is dim but easily the only sweet member of the group.
- Ethical Slut: She's probably the nicest person surviving the apocalypse, and her first impulse upon meeting Columbus is to do what she can to bed him, and later happily hooks up with Berkeley, not to mention briefly admits she'd be willing to have sex with 'the old dude' (Tallahassee). Justified, as she's been living alone for ten years and hasn't encountered anyone living during that time, so she's quite understandably horny as balls (and given her age, Columbus was quite likely her first time, too).
- Everyone Has Standards: As much as a dunce she is, she's shown to be appalled by Babylon's stupidity in melting all the ammo.
- Expy: She seems to be one of Juanita "Princess" Sanchez from The Walking Dead. Both are introduced as a cheerful, pink-clad Cloud Cuckoo Lander with dyed/bleached hair who may have ended up a little loopy from a lack of unzombified human interaction before they met up with the main survivor group.
- Foil: To Wichita, contrasting the mean, smart, scowling brunette by being a chipper, stupid, Perpetual Smiler blonde.
- Granola Girl: She mentions being a vegan.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde and very sweet-natured.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: While having pepper-spray instead of guns or axes in a Zombie Apocalypse sounds stupid at first, it is later used to great effect at a zombie going for Wichita while she is desperately trying to reload her gun.
- Hidden Depths: As much as a clueless dunce she appears to be, she is proven to be rather smart when it comes to zombie killing.
- Insane Troll Logic: After it’s revealed Madison suffered an allergic reaction to almonds in her trail mix, Wichita asks how she didn’t notice nuts in the trail mix. She responds that she thought trail mix was vegan.
- Kind Hearted Simpleton: Far from the sharpest tool in the shed but easily the nicest of the core cast.
- The Load: Subverted. She initially seems like useless dead weight, but she proves herself useful when she pepper sprays a zombie to buy Wichita a crucial few seconds, and when she and Berkeley start dropping things onto the zombies during the final battle.
- Lots of Luggage: She intends to lug around multiple suitcases and bags, which characterizes her as a ditz. This is of course antithetical to the group's rule of traveling light, so Tallahassee leaves her suitcases behind and Wichita tosses her purse out of the car later on.
- Ms. Fanservice: Downplayed, but her sometimes skimpy tops and tight pants stand out a little in the setting, especially when she's seducing Columbus.
- She also gets a moment of Fan Disservice from her allergic reaction to nuts.
- Nice Girl: Despite her obliviousness and unwittingly irritating the others, she is actually quite a sweet natured girl, so much so that, despite the fact they can't stand her, both Tallahassee and Wichita feel remorse when they briefly mistake her allergic reaction for a zombie infection, voicing that she didn't deserve it. She even steps aside without any ill feelings when it becomes clear Columbus is only into Wichita.
- Nothing Personal: While Wichita clearly doesn't like her since she is unwittingly Columbus' rebound girlfriend, Madison doesn't feel the same way. Even when she figures out the the Hope Diamond was meant for her, she relinquishes it to Wichita and gets together with Berkeley.
- Official Couple: With Berkeley, who she hooks up with after the battle of Babylon.
- Pink Means Feminine: A flouncy blonde valley girl decked out in pink clothes and toting pink bags around. It contrasts her visually with the rest of the team, who wear dark clothing.
- Self-Induced Allergic Reaction: She didn't know that there were almonds in the trail-mix she was eating; her reaction similar to that of zombie infection.
- Technical Virgin: When Columbus is reluctant to have sex with her, she assumes it's for religious reasons. She comments that she knows ways around that and winks at him.
- Too Dumb to Live: Eating almonds which she was highly allergic to since she mistook it as "vegan food." It causes her to both get anaphylaxis and nearly killed by Columbus.
- Valley Girl: Despite being found in the DC area, she has many trappings of this trope, such as being a Dumb Blonde decked in pink, a shrill, airheaded accent, (which Zoey Deutch attributed her ability to do because she is from the Valley) and her recurrent peace-signs.
- Zombie Infectee: She's seemingly bitten during the RV fight and turns in the minivan afterwards. Subverted — it was jut a bad allergic reaction, and she later turns up alive.
Berkeley
Berkeley
Played By: Avan Jogia
A hippie whom Wichita and Little Rock meet. Little Rock becomes smitten with him.
- Birds of a Feather: With Madison, as they're both dim vegans.
- The Ditz: He is shown to be just as dumb as Madison, such as when he mistook Tallahassee shouting his name as him being from Berkeley too. He even thinks that Elvis Presley was a fraud. He apparently doesn't notice the dangers of obliterating guns during a zombie apocalypse.
- New-Age Retro Hippie: One of the things about that gets Tallahassee to instantly hate him. He's a pacifist who likes to smoke weed.
- Non-Action Guy: To Tallahassee's fury, he's explicitly a pacifist, and doesn't even carry weapons in a zombie apocalypse. He sits out most of the final fight, but does provide crucial aid when he starts dropping objects onto zombie heads.
- Official Couple: With Madison after the battle of Babylon.
- The Stoner: He carries a bag of weed with him which he shows off when Little Rock asks about it.
- Too Dumb to Live: It's a truly mind-boggling mystery as to how he's still alive years after the world ended when his stupidity, preference for melting guns into symbols of peace and great hesitance to engage in combat of any kind would have seen him killed or infected mere hours or days into the outbreak.
Nevada
Nevada
Played By: Rosario Dawson
A woman who Columbus, Wichita, and Tallahassee meet on their search for Little Rock and Berkeley.
- Badass Driver: Tallahassee could hardly drive the Big Fat Death, opting to go back to the hated minivan instead. Nevada, on the other hand, uses it for...
- Big Damn Heroes: Bails the heroes out in the nick of time with some serious Car Fu.
- Odd Name Out / Last-Name Basis: The only character who goes by a state name instead of a city name. Tallahassee correctly guessing her city (Reno, Nevada) is played as a Given Name Reveal.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: Favours a Single Action Army and likes to fan from the hip. In a Zombie Apocalypse, this is a fairly poor choice of weapon, give its low ammo capacity and slow reload time and rate of fire, demonstrating how badass she is to be effective with it.
- Sixth Ranger: Appears to join the group later on in the film after she gets with Tallahassee, as they drive into the sunset with her.
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Played By: Luke Wilson
A companion of Nevada's who has a similar personality to Tallahassee.
- Advertised Extra: Together with Flagstaff. The scene that features them in the trailer is the start of their one and only scene in the film.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: He is bitten while fighting some T-800 zombies and becomes one himself.
- Jerkass: When it's pointed out that he got bitten, he's quick to throw Flagstaff under the bus.
- Other Me Annoys Me: He and Tallahassee hate each other the instant they meet despite how similar they are.
Flagstaff
Flagstaff
Played By: Thomas Middleditch
A companion of Nevada's who is a lot like Columbus in many ways.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: When everybody notices that Albuquerque was bitten, he points out that Flagstaff was bitten twice. Both of them turn into T-800 zombies and are put down by Tallahassee and Nevada.
- Birds of a Feather: Unlike Albuquerque and Tallahassee, Flagstaff and Columbus get along pretty well because of their similar personalities and interests. Columbus is visibly heartbroken when Flagstaff is revealed to be infected.
- Nice Guy: Especially compared to Albuquerque.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: While Tallahassee and Albuquerque go all out in their animosity towards one another, Columbus and Flagstaff — typical of their awkward, nerdy personalities — try to outdo each other by cordially comparing their rules list (or "commandments" in Flagstaff's case) that basically boils down to dick-measuring.
