History Film / TheIliadWithZombies

-->'''Achilles''': "I could end up like Paris."
-->'''Patrocles''': Who the hell is Paris?"
-->'''Achilles''': "Exactly my point."

--> '''Patrocles''': "Basically, this is turning out a lot like ''Literature/ToKillAMockingBird''... 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."

* OurMonstersAreDifferent
** OurAngelsAreDifferent
** OurBansheesAreLouder
** OurDemonsAreDifferent
** OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame
** OurElvesAreBetter: Or so they seem to think.
** OurFairiesAreDifferent
** OurGoblinsAreDifferent: They have a serious problem with being mistaken for orcs.
** OurGodsAreDifferent:
** OurOrcsAreDifferent:
** OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: And cuddlier!
** OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires are basically people with a taste for blood, who try their best to [[LargeHam ham it up]].
** OurZombiesAreDifferent: "Brians. Briiiiiaaaaanssss..."
* ShoutOut: Let's try to count...
** ''Literature/ThePrincessBride''
** ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''
** ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
** ''AVeryPotterMusical''
* SurroundedByIdiots: Alas, poor Hector.
* {{Understatement}}: "So, you're having a bit of day."
* ValleyGirl: Helen, and, possibly to a greater extent, Paris.

** OurGodsAreGreater:

The story opens in the fifth year of TheTrojanWar, where [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Hades]], at the prompting of [[DeadpanSnarker Persephone]], intends to spite Zeus by refusing to let souls into the Underworld. The results are [[ZombieApocalypse 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.

''The Iliad With Zombies'' is, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. 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 TheTrojanWar, where [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Hades]], at the prompting of [[DeadpanSnarker Persephone]] intends to spite Zeus by refusing to let souls into the Underworld. The results are [[ZombieApocalypse 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.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation

--> '''Patrocles''': "Basically, this is turning out a lot like Literature/ToKillAMockingBird... but with a lot less black people and a lot more spears."

** ThePrincessBride
** Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail
** Series/{{Supernatural}}
** AVeryPotterMusical

--> '''Patrocles''': "Basically, this is turning out a lot like ToKillAMockingBird... but with a lot less black people and a lot more spears."

** {{Supernatural}}

* AchillesHeel: The subject of numerous puns.

** OurGodsAreGreater:
** OurOrcsAreDifferent:

* {{Metaphorgotten}}
--> '''Patrocles''': "Basically, this is turning out a lot like ToKillAMockingBird... 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."
* TheFightingNarcissist: Achilles himself, on and off the battlefield.
* NeatFreak: Hades can't stand the pile of clothes that Persephone has let pile up.
* OnlySaneMan: Hector, and Odysseus to a lesser extent.

** MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail

''The Iliad With Zombies'' is, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. 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 TheTrojanWar, where [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Hades]], at the prompting of [[DeadpanSnarker Persephone]] intends to spite Zeus by refusing to let souls into the Underworld. The results are [[ZombieApocalypse 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.
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!!Tropes used in this work:

* AchillesInHisTent: Obviously, though he doesn't exactly ''stay'' there...
* AchillesHeel: The subject of numerous puns.
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation
* AppealToObscurity
-->'''Achilles''': "I could end up like Paris."
-->'''Patrocles''': Who the hell is Paris?"
-->'''Achilles''': "Exactly my point."
* BreakingTheFourthWall
* CatchPhrase: 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...!"
* DeadpanSnarker: Basically everyone expect Paris, at some point or another.
* DevilInPlainSight: Saying [[spoiler: Menelaus']] name causes a thunderclap.
* GenderBender: Goes hand in hand with the EconomyCast. Achilles, Apollo, Hades, Patrocles, and Diomedes all get this treatment.
* OurMonstersAreDifferent
** OurAngelsAreDifferent
** OurBansheesAreLouder
** OurDemonsAreDifferent
** OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame
** OurElvesAreBetter: Or so they seem to think.
** OurFairiesAreDifferent
** OurGoblinsAreDifferent: They have a serious problem with being mistaken for orcs.
** OurGodsAreGreater:
** OurOrcsAreDifferent:
** OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: And cuddlier!
** OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires are basically people with a taste for blood, who try their best to [[LargeHam ham it up]].
** OurZombiesAreDifferent: "Brians. Briiiiiaaaaanssss..."
* {{Metaphorgotten}}
--> '''Patrocles''': "Basically, this is turning out a lot like ToKillAMockingBird... 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."
* TheFightingNarcissist: Achilles himself, on and off the battlefield.
* NeatFreak: Hades can't stand the pile of clothes that Persephone has let pile up.
* OnlySaneMan: Hector, and Odysseus to a lesser extent.
* ShoutOut: Let's try to count...
** ThePrincessBride
** MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail
** {{Supernatural}}
** AVeryPotterMusical
* SurroundedByIdiots: Alas, poor Hector.
* {{Understatement}}: "So, you're having a bit of day."
* ValleyGirl: Helen, and, possibly to a greater extent, Paris.
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* ValleyGirl: Helen, and, possibly to a greater extent, Paris.

''The Iliad With Zombies'' is, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A low budget film project expected to hit youtube in late August of 2010. Following the trend of ''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'' and ''Jane Slayre'', the story retells a nearly incomprehensible classic with a supernatural/horror twist.