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** This being a Disney movie, the zombie outbreak as caused by a spill of lime soda at a power plant and affecting victims with a green noxious haze, ensuing in TechnicallyLivingZombies.

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** This being a Disney movie, the zombie outbreak as caused by a spill of lime soda at a power plant and affecting victims people with a green noxious haze, ensuing in TechnicallyLivingZombies. each victi being a TechnicallyLivingZombie.

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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: This movie portrays zombies as having pale white skin and green hair that makes them all look like ComicBook/TheJoker with the SerialNumbersFiledOff. Oh, and they don't want to eat your brain, thanks to special bracelets created to keep them sane.

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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: OurZombiesAreDifferent:
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This movie portrays being a Disney movie, the zombie outbreak as caused by a spill of lime soda at a power plant and affecting victims with a green noxious haze, ensuing in TechnicallyLivingZombies.
** There are also different generations of
zombies that weren't alive during the initial outbreak, meaning that children are born as having zombies.
** The zombies are also shown with
pale white skin and green hair that makes them all look like ComicBook/TheJoker with the SerialNumbersFiledOff. Oh, and they don't want to eat your brain, thanks SerialNumbersFiledOff.
** Thanks
to special bracelets created by the government, zombies are able to keep them sane.stay sane and lead relatively normal lives without craving brains.

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* GirlishPigtails: Zed's sister Zoey wears her hair in pigtails.



* InstantlyProvenWrong: Zed goes on for a little bit about how he was wrong about Addison. Two seconds later she sneaks away to see him.

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* InstantlyProvenWrong: InstantlyProvenWrong:
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Zed goes on for a little bit about how he was wrong about Addison. Two seconds later she sneaks away to see him.



* MissingMom: Zed and Zoey are raised by their dad and there's no mention of what happened to their mother.



* PopularityFoodChain: This particular food chain goes like this: Cheer Squad/Human Athletes, Human Kids, Nerds/Oddballs, Zombies.

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* PopularityFoodChain: This particular food chain goes like this: this:
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Cheer Squad/Human Athletes, Athletes
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Human Kids, Nerds/Oddballs, Zombies.Kids
** Nerds/Oddballs
** Zombies



* ThemeNaming: All of the zombie characters have names with Zs in them.

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* ThemeNaming: ThemeNaming:
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All of the zombie characters have names with Zs in them.them.
** The members of Bucky's primary posse: Tracy, Stacy, and Macy have rhyming names.
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* NoNameGiven: Other than Principal Lee, the cast list doesn't show last names for any of the characters.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvienience: It's most noticeable in the sets and costumes but the human citizens of Seabrook are in pastel hues of pink, green, and blue. The zombie citizens are dressed in darker shades of red, green and navy.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvienience: ColourCodedForYourConvenience: It's most noticeable in the sets and costumes but the human citizens of Seabrook are in pastel hues of pink, green, and blue. The zombie citizens are dressed in darker shades of red, green and navy.
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* ColourCodedforYourConvienience: It's most noticeable in the sets and costumes but the human citizens of Seabrook are in pastel hues of pink, green, and blue. The zombie citizens are dressed in darker shades of red, green and navy.

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* ColourCodedforYourConvienience: ColorCodedForYourConvienience: It's most noticeable in the sets and costumes but the human citizens of Seabrook are in pastel hues of pink, green, and blue. The zombie citizens are dressed in darker shades of red, green and navy.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvienience: It's most noticeable in the sets and costumes but the human citizens of Seabrook are in pastel hues of pink, green, and blue. The zombie citizens are dressed in darker shades of red, green and navy.

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* ColourCodedForYourConvienience: ColourCodedforYourConvienience: It's most noticeable in the sets and costumes but the human citizens of Seabrook are in pastel hues of pink, green, and blue. The zombie citizens are dressed in darker shades of red, green and navy.
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* ColourCodedForYourConvienience: It's most noticeable in the sets and costumes but the human citizens of Seabrook are in pastel hues of pink, green, and blue. The zombie citizens are dressed in darker shades of red, green and navy.
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* MrExposition: Zed and Addison explain Seabrooks ideals, how the zombie outbreak started, and everything that ensued fifty years later in their opening narratives.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Bree appears to be the only character that wears glasses onscreen.

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* BlackBestFriend: Bree to Addison. Also Eliza to Zed and Bonzo.



* OneHeadTaller: Zed is noticeably taller than Addison.



* ThemeNaming: All Zombie names have Z in them.

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* ThemeNaming: All Zombie of the zombie characters have names have Z with Zs in them.
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** Eliza and those who think like her are almost as bad about Humans.

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* PushedTooFar: [[spoiler: After spending her whole life feeling like she has to keep herself hidden, then watching Zed do the same and get dragged off the jail for it, Addie decides not to put up withe Seabrook's repressive standards or hide who she is anymore starting with tearing off her wig.]]
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* AdultFear: It's a common worry that your children won't fit in or be accepted by their peers, though Addie's parents take it to extremes of making her tie her sense of self worth to other's opinions.


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* DanceOfRomance: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yy-dKTmyOo&t=118s Someday]].
** Also parts of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmWORPV7fKk BAMM]]


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** Zed: "We're in a real school. No more classes in a dingy basement." Scene cut to a makeshift classroom in a dingy basement.


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* PrimalFear: All Zombies are afraid of Fire, though Bonzo seems to have it more than most.
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* PushedTooFar: [[spoiler: After spending her whole life feeling like she has to keep herself hidden, then watching Zed do the same and get dragged off the jail for it, Addie decides not to put up withe Seabrook's repressive standards or hide who she is anymore starting with tearing off her wig.]]
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* GoodParents: Zed's family.

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* GoodParents: Zed's family.family, and Eliza's mom.
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* ButYourWingsArebeautiful: [[spoiler: Zed thinks Addison's "freakish" white hair is beautiful.]]

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* ButYourWingsArebeautiful: ButYourWingsAreBeautiful: [[spoiler: Zed thinks Addison's "freakish" white hair is beautiful.]]



* OurZombiesAreDifferent: This movie portrays zombies as having pale white skin and green hair that makes them all look like ComicBook/TheJoker with SerialNumbersFiledOff. Oh, and they don't want to eat your brain.

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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: This movie portrays zombies as having pale white skin and green hair that makes them all look like ComicBook/TheJoker with the SerialNumbersFiledOff. Oh, and they don't want to eat your brain.brain, thanks to special bracelets created to keep them sane.
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''Z-O-M-B-I-E-S'' is an 2018 Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie. The film premiered on Disney Channel on February 16, 2018. The film stars Meg Donnelly and Milo Manheim.

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''Z-O-M-B-I-E-S'' is an a 2018 Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie. The film premiered on Disney Channel on February 16, 2018. The film stars Meg Donnelly and Milo Manheim.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: An oppressed minority forced to live behind a wall because the people who built it think they're dangerous. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

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-->"I'm not a monster, I'm a Zombie. You're a cheerleader."



[[caption-width-right:185:Which side are ''you'' on?]]

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[[caption-width-right:185:Which [[caption-width-right:185:[[HiddenDepths Which side are ''you'' on?]]
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* AdvertisingByAssociation: This film is marketed as by the creators of ''Film/{{Descendants}}''. Doing an IMDb search on this movie will show [[BlatantLies that this is not true.]]

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* AdvertisingByAssociation: This film is marketed as by the creators of ''Film/{{Descendants}}''. Doing an IMDb search on this movie will show [[BlatantLies that this is AbusiveParents: Addison's. Though not true.]]as bad as some, they do shame her into believing she has to hide who she is down to her natural hair color and be just like everyone else.
* AffectionateNickname: Those who actually care about Addison can be identified by calling her "Addie".



* AlmostKiss: Zed and Addison after the ballad reprise of “Someday”. They are interuppted by the janitor, who announces the zombies skipped their curfew.



* ArtShift: The prologue is done in the style of a superhero comic book.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Zed and Addison both talk to the audience throughout the movie, explaing what they’re going through.

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* ArtShift: The prologue AdvertisingByAssociation: This film is done in marketed as by the style creators of a superhero comic book.
''Film/{{Descendants}}''. Doing an IMDb search on this movie will show [[BlatantLies that this is not true.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Zed and Addison both talk to the audience throughout the movie, explaing what they’re going through.audience.



* DancePartyEnding: [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWP7GEH3OCE The Cheer Championships]] and the Block Party.]]



* ExpositoryHairstyles: Used as a plot point for Addison.
* ExtranormalPrison: Zombie Containment



* FantasticGhetto: Zombie Town.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Never swipe to the right, that'll corrupt the software.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Never swipe to the right, that'll corrupt the software. "



* FutureSlang: Zombies have their own language called "Old Zombie", which kind of makes sense after two generations of being cut off from most of sentient society.
* IAmBecomingSong: Addison sings “Stand”, as she decides to no longer hide her inner self and show everyone who she really is, [[spoiler: culminating in shedding her blonde wig revealing the white hair underneath.]]

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* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: [[spoiler: Turns out Zoey is the only one Bucky will listen to.]]
* FutureSlang: Zombies have their own language called "Old Zombie", "Zombie Tong", which kind of makes sense after two generations of being cut off from most of sentient society.
* IAmBecomingSong: GoodParents: Zed's family.
* InnocentBigot:
Addison sings “Stand”, has a few moments making offensive Zombie jokes, but it's no where near as she decides to no longer hide her inner self and show everyone who she really is, [[spoiler: culminating in shedding her blonde wig revealing the white hair underneath.]]extreme as a lot of examples.



* LoveConfession: Gar-garziga
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Zed swipes right at exactly the wrong moment to let the cheerleaders who stole Eliza's computer past her fire wall.]]



* ShamingTheMob: The scene surrounding [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecvKEhiDi1c I'm Gonna Stand]].



* TheUnintelligible: Bonzo only talks using zombie gibberish, prompting either Zed or Eliza to translate.



* WorldOfJerkass: Clearly Eliza's perspective.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All the zombies have moss green hair.

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* WorldOfJerkass: Clearly Eliza's perspective.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All the zombies have moss green hair.
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* AdvertisingByAssociation: This film is marketed as by the creators of ''Film/{{Descendants}}''. Doing an IMDb search on this movie will show [[BlatantLies that this is not true.]]



* AlmostKiss: Zed and Addison after the ballad reprise of “Someday”. They are interuppted by the janitor, who announces the zombies skipped their curfew.



* AdvertisingByAssociation: This film is marketed as by the creators of ''Film/{{Descendants}}''. Doing an IMDb search on this movie will show [[BlatantLies that this is not true.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Zed and Addison both talk to the audience.

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* AdvertisingByAssociation: This film ArtShift: The prologue is marketed as by done in the creators style of ''Film/{{Descendants}}''. Doing an IMDb search on this movie will show [[BlatantLies that this is not true.]]
a superhero comic book.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Zed and Addison both talk to the audience.audience throughout the movie, explaing what they’re going through.



* IAmBecomingSong: Addison sings “Stand”, as she decides to no longer hide her inner self and show everyone who she really is, [[spoiler: culminating in shedding her blonde wig revealing the white hair underneath.]]



* TheUnintelligible: Bonzo only talks using zombie gibberish, prompting either Zed or Eliza to translate.



* WorldOfJerkass: Clearly Eliza's perspective.

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* WorldOfJerkass: Clearly Eliza's perspective.perspective.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: All the zombies have moss green hair.

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* {{Anvilicious}}: An oppressed minority forced to live behind a wall because the people who built it think they're dangerous. Why do you suppose that sounds so familiar?

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* AfterTheEnd: The movie is set after a ZombieApocalypse came and went and society got rebuilt. Granted it seems to have done less damage than most instances, but it has apparently been two generations in universe and technology hasn't advance much past where we are now.
* {{Anvilicious}}: An oppressed minority forced to live behind a wall because the people who built it think they're dangerous. Why do you suppose that sounds so familiar?And that's just the tip of the iceberg.



* ButYourWingsArebeautiful: [[spoiler: Zed thinks Addison's "freakish" white hair is beautiful.]]



* EntertaininglyWrong: Addison trying to speak Zombie Tong. The words come out right, but she ends up saying "thanks for rubbing peanut butter on my umbrella".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Zed playing puppy with his little sister because Zombies aren't allowed to have pets.
* FallingIntoHisArms: [[spoiler: Addison into Zed's during the pep rally]]
* FascistsBedTime: All Zombies live under a curfew mandated by law.



* OurZombiesAreDifferent: This movie portrays zombies as having pale white skin and green hair that makes them all look like ComicBook/TheJoker with SerialNumbersFiledOff. Oh, and they don't want to eat your brain.

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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: This movie portrays zombies as having pale white skin ** Eliza and green hair that those who think like her are almost as bad about Humans.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "Never swipe to the right, that'll corrupt the software.
* FreakyIsCool: [[AnAesop The primary Aesop.]]
* FutureSlang: Zombies have their own language called "Old Zombie", which kind of
makes them all look like ComicBook/TheJoker with SerialNumbersFiledOff. Oh, sense after two generations of being cut off from most of sentient society.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: Zed goes on for a little bit about how he was wrong about Addison. Two seconds later she sneaks away to see him.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[ThemeSong A Girl And A Zombie]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[NobleBigot Buckys']] primary concern seems to be that actually accepting Zombies into society will detract from his importance.
* {{Jerkass}}: [[NobleBigot Bucky]]
** [[DrJerk Principal Lee]]
* LoveAtFirstPunch: How Addison
and they don't want to eat your brain.Zed meet.



* OneMansTrashIsAnothersTreasure: Zombie Town is entirely made out of the garbage and ruined buildings left behind after the outbreak. The locals still find ways of making it beautiful.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: This movie portrays zombies as having pale white skin and green hair that makes them all look like ComicBook/TheJoker with SerialNumbersFiledOff. Oh, and they don't want to eat your brain.



* {{Profiling}}: In keeping with the movies FantasicRacism/{{Anvilicious}} Themes, police automatically assume all Zombies are a danger to humans. So does everyone else, but this trope is more focused on cops.

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* {{Profiling}}: In keeping with the movies FantasicRacism/{{Anvilicious}} FantasticRacism / {{Anvilicious}} Themes, police automatically assume all Zombies are a danger to humans. So does everyone else, but this trope is more focused on cops.cops.
* RealMenWearPink: Given that the primary road to popularity is through cheerleading, most of the male human students ware pink or pale blue or other traditionally feminine colors.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: Coach becomes this after getting the nerve to add Zed to the team.]]



* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: The "perfect" plan to get rid of the Zombies and convince everyone they're dangerous? Just turn off the devices keeping them sane. Just one quick thing though. How exactly were you planning on surviving the ensuing bloodbath?]]

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* ThemeNaming: All Zombie names have Z in them.
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: The "perfect" plan to get rid of the Zombies and convince everyone they're dangerous? Just turn off the devices keeping them sane. Just one quick thing though. How exactly were you planning on surviving the ensuing bloodbath?]]bloodbath?]]
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: [[spoiler: Bucky makes Addison choose between either being a cheerleader like she always wanted or being with Zed.]]
* WorldOfJerkass: Clearly Eliza's perspective.

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* {{Anvilicious}}: An oppressed minority forced to live behind a wall because the people who built it think they're dangerous. Why do you suppose that sounds so familiar?



* OhCrap: The cheerleaders react like this when [[spoiler: they realize they don't know how to protect themselves against the zombie attack they just caused.]]
* PopularityFoodChain: This particular food chain goes like this: Cheer Squad/Human Athletes, Human Kids, Nerds/Oddballs, Zombies.
* {{Profiling}}: In keeping with the movies FantasicRacism/{{Anvilicious}} Themes, police automatically assume all Zombies are a danger to humans. So does everyone else, but this trope is more focused on cops.



* Oh,Crap!: The cheerleaders react like this when [[spoiler: they realize they don't know how to protect themselves against the zombie attack they just caused.]]

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* Oh,Crap!: The cheerleaders react StepfordSmiler: Seabrook was like this when before the outbreak. Now the facade is starting to crack under the pent up feelings.
* TooDumbToLive:
[[spoiler: they realize they don't know how The "perfect" plan to protect themselves against get rid of the zombie attack they just caused.]]Zombies and convince everyone they're dangerous? Just turn off the devices keeping them sane. Just one quick thing though. How exactly were you planning on surviving the ensuing bloodbath?]]
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* Oh,Crap!: The cheerleaders react like this when [[spoilers: they realize they don't know how to protect themselves against the zombie attack they just caused.]]

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* Oh,Crap!: The cheerleaders react like this when [[spoilers: [[spoiler: they realize they don't know how to protect themselves against the zombie attack they just caused.]]
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* StarCrossedLovers: Zed and Addison.

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* StarCrossedLovers: Zed and Addison.Addison.
* Oh,Crap!: The cheerleaders react like this when [[spoilers: they realize they don't know how to protect themselves against the zombie attack they just caused.]]

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* DarkSecret: [[spoiler: Addison has white hair. She was born with it, and there is no way to get it out. Since nobody at Seabrook High accepts differences, Addison has to wear a blonde wig to hide it]].



* StarCrossedLovers: Zed and Addison.
* Tearjerker: Eliza's face when [[spoiler: the wristbands are tampered with, turning them into how zombies used to be before, and they're stopped and lead away in handcuffs]]. Her broken words don't help at all: [[spoiler: "We have no human friends."]]

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* StarCrossedLovers: Zed and Addison.
* Tearjerker: Eliza's face when [[spoiler: the wristbands are tampered with, turning them into how zombies used to be before, and they're stopped and lead away in handcuffs]]. Her broken words don't help at all: [[spoiler: "We have no human friends."]]
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* StarCrossedLovers: Zed and Addison.

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* StarCrossedLovers: Zed and Addison.Addison.
* Tearjerker: Eliza's face when [[spoiler: the wristbands are tampered with, turning them into how zombies used to be before, and they're stopped and lead away in handcuffs]]. Her broken words don't help at all: [[spoiler: "We have no human friends."]]
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''Z-O-M-B-I-E-S'' is an upcoming 2018 Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie. The film will premiere on Disney Channel on February 16, 2018. The film stars Meg Donnelly and Milo Manheim.

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''Z-O-M-B-I-E-S'' is an upcoming 2018 Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie. The film will premiere on Disney Channel on February 16, 2018. The film stars Meg Donnelly and Milo Manheim.

''Z-O-M-B-I-E-S'' follows students from Zombietown who transfer to Seabrook High, a school whose suburban town is filled with uniformity, traditions and pep rallies. When Zombie football player Zed and human cheerleader Addison fall in love, chaos ensues, and the two must lead their groups' to coexistence with each other. [[Film/HighSchoolMusical Sound familiar?]]

Not to be confused with ''Film/{{Zombies}}'', which redirects to ''Film/WickedLittleThings''. When putting a link to this movie on a page, please put all capital letters and dashes between the letters.

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* AdvertisingByAssociation: This film is marketed as by the creators of ''Film/{{Descendants}}''. Doing an IMDb search on this movie will show [[BlatantLies that this is not true.]]
* FantasticRacism: Humans are quite discriminatory towards zombies.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: This movie portrays zombies as having pale white skin and green hair that makes them all look like ComicBook/TheJoker with SerialNumbersFiledOff. Oh, and they don't want to eat your brain.
* StarCrossedLovers: Zed and Addison.

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