Lewis Dinkum's various antics, especially the Bloody Hilarioustaking out a guy with a flare gun.
Not to mention the telephone pole incident.
Old innocent-seeming Mrs. Salazar blasting a mook right out a window with her rifle for trespassing.
"Put the hurt on 'em, Ray!"
Later on, when she's talking to the FBI:
(indignantly) "That's why I shot him!"
"How are ya, Sheriff?" "Old"
The Brick Joke of "Well, next time don't park it in the fire zone."
When Ray and the Big Bad are racing through the cornfield, they get split up, stop their cars, and there's a tense moment where they both sit and wait, trying to figure out where the other is. Then it cuts to a wide shot, showing that they're maybe ten feet away from each other.
At the end of the film, Ray is driving what remains of the Camaro back to town, with Cortez tied to the rear bumper, hopping along on one foot because he's had his own dagger jammed into his leg.
Guzman: Hey, that was a cool movie, man! That motherfucker was a badass!
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After a while, the helpful sticky notes giving you useful information are replaced by sticky notes saying "Remember to write tomorrow's note" and "Call Mum if I live."
The first game at one point notes "Now the fatties are running, great".
At one point in the first game you can knock down a zombiefied reporter and his cameraman. The diary makes a note of this.
This Just In: Pretty sure I just topped the local roving reporter. Wonder if I'll make the news tonight.
Although most of the descriptions of weapons in Union City are plain and uninteresting, there are a few Joke Weapons here and there: the highlights include the Cricket Bat ("Pretty sure the Australians invented this"), the Hockey Stick ("Some kind of Canadian Egg Flipper") and, of course, the Golf Club (simply listed as "FORE!!!").
Upon arriving at the hospital in Union City you find a note scribbled on the wall (Right next to a HERC Quarantine Notice).
Tony, I called the pizza place but got some really weird answer so I'm going down there to get the pizza.
In a case of Read the Freaking Manual, some players of Dead Zone will accidentally equip a challenge book, only to find that it is too much to handle. The problem is that some of these challenge books, like the Underequiped book, can't be removed until a time limit has passed - with the aforementioned book having a timer of at least twelve hours, and increases the level requirements for weapons and gear by at least 6. Good luck if one isn't smart enough to save some of the lower leveled weapons in that case. Things can get worse from there. On the other hand, some, like the Blind Mice, are fairly easy to deal with and are just a minor annoyance. But, every so often, someone will complain about some issue, only to get asked if they read the description on the challenge book.
In Dead Zone, the survivors will say various quotes, depending upon the situation. Sometimes they can be rather hilarious. For instance - a rush occurs, but the survivors have weapons that are good enough to wipe the infected out without incurring so much as a scratch, which is awesome, only for someone to say "Jeeze! That was close/insane!". Then there's the old waiting in the green safe zone, farming for experience, with thirty seconds on the clock, and someone says "We can't just sit here." Then there's when the survivor finds something that the player considers not worth the effort, but the survivor says "Things are looking up."
