The Iliad With Zombies is, well,
Exactly What It Says on the Tin. A low budget film project expected to hit youtube in 2011. Following the trend of
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and
Jane Slayre, the story retells a nearly incomprehensible classic with a supernatural/horror twist.
The story opens in the fifth year of
The Trojan War, where
Hades, at the prompting of
Persephone intends to spite Zeus by refusing to let souls into the Underworld. The results are
predictable. Things then fast forwards to the ninth year of the war, where the story as usual is told... just with zombies, demons, and ghosts (Oh my!) in the background.
Tropes used in this work:
- Achilles in His Tent: Obviously, though he doesn't exactly stay there...
- Achilles Heel: The subject of numerous puns.
- Alternate Character Interpretation
- Appeal to Obscurity
Achilles: "I could end up like Paris."
Patrocles: Who the hell is Paris?"
Achilles: "Exactly my point."
- Breaking the Fourth Wall
- Catch Phrase: Oh, so many.
- Achilles and Patrocles: "Cousin!"
- Achilles: "I mean everything I ever say."
- Briseis: "I just want to go home to my mom!"
- Odysseus: "Not to break up your subtext..."
- Xylon: "My soul is merged with all that is dead and all that will die...!"
- Deadpan Snarker: Basically everyone expect Paris, at some point or another.
- Devil in Plain Sight: Saying Menelaus' name causes a thunderclap.
- Gender Bender: Goes hand in hand with the Economy Cast. Achilles, Apollo, Hades, Patrocles, and Diomedes all get this treatment.
- Our Monsters Are Different
- Metaphorgotten
Patrocles: "Basically, this is turning out a lot like
To Kill A Mocking Bird... but with a lot less black people and a lot more spears."
Odysseus: "Maybe you should have left a trail of breadcrumbs before starting off down that metaphor."
- The Fighting Narcissist: Achilles himself, on and off the battlefield.
- Neat Freak: Hades can't stand the pile of clothes that Persephone has let pile up.
- Only Sane Man: Hector, and Odysseus to a lesser extent.
- Shout Out: Let's try to count...
- Surrounded by Idiots: Alas, poor Hector.
- Understatement: "So, you're having a bit of day."
- Valley Girl: Helen, and, possibly to a greater extent, Paris.
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