History Film / ZombielandDoubleTap

* RagnarokProofing: This movie is practically one of the worst offenders of this trope. It's been 10 years since the zombie plague began, yet there is still working electricity, cars with functioning parts and fuel, food long past their expiration dates, buildings still in neat condition and supplies are still plentiful. While the inside of the White House looks like it was untouched by the apocalypse, the Eclipse is now covered with tall grass.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Tallahassee's slapped-together plan to deal with the zombie horde approaching Babylon is explained, so it doesn't work as well as the group hoped.

* AsHimself: TheStinger shows entertainment reporters Al Roker, Grace Randolph (known for ''Beyond the Trailer''), Josh Horowitz and Lili Estefan playing as themselves interviewing [[spoiler:Creator/BillMurray in promotion of ''Garfield 3'' before they are all turned into zombies who Murray kills]].

* MistakenForDisease: Inverted - when Madison undergoes an allergic reaction to having eaten some peanuts, the gang ends up thinking that she's been bitten and is undergoing a zombification. It is only thanks to Columbus being ultimately unable to actually shoot her and choosing to instead shoot right above her head to scare her off that she is able to survive to later explain what was actually going on.

** Averted with cars, apparently, as Tallahassee says "[[RealManWearPink It takes a real man to drive a pink Cadillac]]."

** Madison immediately sleeps with Columbus when she gets the chance because it's been years since she last had human contact. It's understandable that she'd react very strongly to the first guy she's seen in years. Hilariously foreshadowed when she meets up with Columbus in the mall and immediately gives him an OverlyLongHug.

** "Zombie Kill of the Year" is an Italian man toppling the Leaning Tower of Pisa onto a trio of zombies.

** Averted with cars, apparently, as Tallahassee says "It takes a real man to drive a pink Cadillac."

** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homers]] are stupid even by zombie standards, if anything they are an inversion. We see one try to bite a statue, [[TongueOnTheFlagpole get its tongue stuck on it and tear it off]] and another is more preoccupied by a butterfly than the protagonists. Columbus even says don't waste a bullet on it. It is telling that of the three introduced in Columbus's narration, the Homer is the only one to fail to get the human and is killed itself. Notably, all Homers are overweight as well.

** [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homers]] are stupid even by zombie standards, if anything they are an inversion. We see one try to bite a statue, and another is more preoccupied by a butterfly than the protagonists. Columbus even says don't waste a bullet on it. It is telling that of the three introduced in Columbus's narration, the Homer is the only one to fail to get the human and is killed itself. Notably, all Homers are overweight as well.

** [[spoiler:Madison almost dies from a severe nut allergy which causes others to think she's a zombie. It was HER trail mix that got this started and she can be seen picking out and eating almonds individually in the scene. When asked she claimed "I thought trail mix was vegan". She should be dead twice over, once from anaphylaxis and once from being shot by paranoid zombie survivors. Her survival is pure luck.]]

* PinkIsFeminine: ValleyGirl Madison wears a pink parka and tracksuit. She also had pink luggage Tallahassee never loaded into the van.

* RagnarokProofing: This movie practically one of the worst offenders of this trope. Its been 10 years since zombies roam the Earth yet, there is still working electricity, cars with functioning parts and fuel, food long past their expiration dates, buildings still in neat condition and supplies are still plentiful. While the inside of the White House looks like it was untouched by the apocalypse, the Eclipse is now covered with tall grass.

** The guy in Babylon who, in spite of the rule of no group sex, keeps wanting group sex.

** The gang has given code names to specific types of zombies. The slightly slower and fat ones are known as [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homers]], the more intelligent ones are [[UsefulNotes/StephenHawking Hawkings]], and the ones that are harder to kill are [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-800s]].

** Nevada herself is a counterpart of Wichita, in that she is a leader of sorts to her two male allies, is the most emotionally and psychologically mature of her group, and gets along with her group surprisingly well.

* SuicidalPacifism: [[spoiler: The Babylon community absolutely refuses to have guns inside of its walls, even ordering any newcomers to hand theirs away and melting them to make Peace symbol necklaces. ''In the middle of a ZombieApocalypse''. With a humongous bunch of the absolute worst kind of zombie sub-species shambling nearby. And they like to party so loud that they haven't attracted the attention of a massive horde through sheer dumb luck... until the film's climax. It screams TooDumbToLive so loudly that even a bimbo like Madison can see it, screaming out a BigWhat when she hears about it.]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Madison's turning into a zombie turns out to actually had been a weirdly excessive allergic reaction to eating nuts. Even then, it's not explained how she recovered from having a reaction strong enough to cause her to start vomiting and her skin to start changing color.]]

* CelebrityParadox: ''Film/WhiteMenCantJump'' is shown to exist in the film's universe on Creator/WesleySnipes's pardon.
The same movie also co-starred Tallahassee's actor, Creator/WoodyHarrelson.

* ShoutOut: The gang has given code names to specific types of zombies. The slightly slower and fat ones are known as [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homers]], the more intelligent ones are [[UsefulNotes/StephenHawking Hawkings]], and the ones that are harder to kill are [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-800s]].

** Averted with cars, apparently, as Tallahassee says "It takes a real man to drive a pink Cadillac. "

** Anything heavy dropped from a great height is deadly if it hits you in the head. [[spoiler:Babylon's people dropping heavy things into the horde of T-800's from atop their tower kills several. Adding on to this, the density of the horde means the dropped items ''will'' hit a zombie.]]

** Zombie Kill of the Week gets upgraded into Zombie Kill of the Year (dropping the Leaning Tower of Pisa onto a horde) and later Century (Tallahassee [[spoiler:leading a Great Buffalo Jump of hundreds of zombies off the roof of Babylon's tower]]).

* SimpleYetAwesome: [[spoiler: Tallahassee kills the majority of the horde of T-800's by using himself as bait to trick them into jumping off the top of Babylon.]]
* SoleSurvivingScientist: the opening montage shows a character who appears to be one of these being attacked by a Hawking zombie that figured out how to pull a BorrowedBiometricBypass.

** [[spoiler:Madison almost dies from a severe nut allergy which causes others to think she's a zombie. It was HER trail mix that got this started and she can be seen picking out and eating almonds individually in the scene. When asked she claimed "I thought Trail Mix was Vegan". She should be dead twice over, once from anaphylaxis and once from being shot by paranoid zombie survivors. Her survival is pure luck.]]
** [[spoiler: Not only the survivors of Babylon say no to guns, they practically ring the dinner bell to all zombies in the surrounding area with their brightly lit tower, loud music and worst of all, launching fireworks. If Columbus' group wasn't there, they would have been dinner.]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Columbus addresses the viewer directly in the opening narration.

** Tallahassee's hate of mini-vans carries over into this film (as he completely demolishes one out of frustration of having his Escalade being stolen in the first film, in this one, he kicks one mirror in an attempt to damage it and fails, kicks the second mirror and succeeds at damaging it, and finally finishes off the mini-van with much relief expressed by using a hand grenade).

* CozyCatastrophe: Like the previous film, this zombie apocalypse is very cozy, especially compared to other zombie fiction. The heroes are generally in little danger, and battles against zombies are usually just an excuse to show off sweet zombie kills, to the point that Columbus continues to give out "Zombie Kill of the ____" awards. They're never short on food or resources, never worry about other survivors trying to steal from them, and don't have to worry about gasoline or other scavenges resources running bad.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: While Madison thinking pepper-spray is in any way effective against zombies comes across as her just being an idiot, she would use it to great effect on one going for Wichita as she struggles to reload her gun.

* TheDitz: Madison, despite being found in the Washington D. C. Area, is a pretty brainless airhead smacking strongly of ValleyGirl.

** [[spoiler: Madison and Berkeley are the first to start throwing things off Babylon tower to kill zombies.]]

** {{Ninja}}s are stealthy and get the jump on people. They can do this because they are smart enough to not attack directly and they don't make the animalistic snarls other zombies do. One catches a man by silently running through the halls around him and tackling him from the side when he's convinced he's alone. Another has the tactical sense to [[spoiler: crawl under an RV and bite someone's foot.]]

* BigWhat: Madison's [[DumbassHasAPoint reaction]] to learning that Babylon has no guns.....long after it's been established that they need to plan around this.
* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:Albuquerque claims that the zombie bite on his arm is actually a tattoo...a highly realistic-looking tattoo of a zombie bite.]]