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Zombies fall precisely into the Uncanny Valley. That's why they're so scary and so fun to kill. This is an index of tropes about them.

Braaaaains...

Compare Vampire Tropes, Francis.

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Tropes:

• The Dead Have Eyes
• Deadly Lunge
• Dead Weight
• Elite Zombie
• Everything's Deader with Zombies
• Glowing Eyelights of Undeath
• Hemo Erotic
• Horror Hunger
• Marionette Motion
• Night of the Living Mooks
• No FEMA Response
• Not a Zombie
• Not Using the Z Word
• No Zombie Cannibals
• Our Zombies Are Different
• Picky People Eater
  • Brain Food
    • Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal
  • No Zombie Cannibals
• Pretend We're Dead
• Raising the Steaks
• Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
• Room Full Of Zombies
• Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration
• SoYouWantTo.Write A Zombie Apocalypse
• Stages of Monster Grief
• Technically Living Zombie
• Title of the Dead
• Undeathly Pallor
• The Walking Dead
• Zombie Apocalypse
• Zombie Gait
• Zombie Infectee
• Zombie Stories

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Mer Tropes

Index of Fictional Creatures

Vampire Tropes

Mer Tropes

Otherness Tropes

Vampire Tropes

Undead Index

Vampire Tropes

Tropes In Space

Index Index

Tropes On A Bus

Undead Index

Horror Tropes

Zombie Stories