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* WeaponOfChoice: Dekalb and the Somali warrior girls are armed with the Soviet AK-47 and Makharov PM pistols.
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* ''Literature/Monster Nation'': A [[JustBeforeTheEnd prequel]], which deals with the source of [[TheVirus the plague]].
* ''Literature/Monster Planet'': A TimeSkip sequel, focusing on Sarah and Ayaan's battle against the liches [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture twelve years later]].
* ''Literature/Monster Planet'': A TimeSkip sequel, focusing on Sarah and Ayaan's battle against the liches [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture twelve years later]].
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* ''Literature/Monster Nation'': ''Literature/MonsterNation'': A [[JustBeforeTheEnd prequel]], which deals with the source of [[TheVirus the plague]].
*''Literature/Monster Planet'': ''Literature/MonsterPlanet'': A TimeSkip sequel, focusing on Sarah and Ayaan's battle against the liches [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture twelve years later]].
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* ''Monster Nation'': A prequel, which deals with the source of the plague.
* ''Monster Planet'': A TimeSkip sequel, focusing on Sarah and Ayaan's battle against the liches twelve years later.
* ''Monster Planet'': A TimeSkip sequel, focusing on Sarah and Ayaan's battle against the liches twelve years later.
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* ''Monster ''Literature/Monster Nation'': A prequel, [[JustBeforeTheEnd prequel]], which deals with the source of [[TheVirus the plague.
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*''Monster ''Literature/Monster Planet'': A TimeSkip sequel, focusing on Sarah and Ayaan's battle against the liches [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture twelve years later.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent
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* RaisingTheStakes: We get to see undead pidgeons attack the main characters in Grand Central Terminal.
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* RaisingTheStakes: [[RaisingTheSteaks Raising The Steaks]]: We get to see undead pidgeons attack the main characters in Grand Central Terminal.
* WalkingTheEarth: The characters travel from Somalia to New York City on board a tugboat.
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* TheNecrocracy: The Tsarevich's cult. Not too malevolent, either, specially considering the Gray and Gray/Black and Gray nature of the setting
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* TheNecrocracy: The Tsarevich's cult. Not too malevolent, either, specially considering the Gray and Gray/Black and Gray nature of the settingsetting.
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* AfterTheEnd: Takes place six months after the zombie apocalypse decimates much of the world. Only a few countries with tons of weapons such as Somalia remain safe.
* AlternateHistory: Reading in between the lines puts the outbreak beginning in March 2005 while the story itself takes place in September 2005.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Dekalb seeks refuge in Somalia with his daughter Sarah in exchange for getting AIDS medication all the way from New York.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The AK-47s the Somali girls use is impractical in the U.S. setting since ammunition for it would be scarce. Delkalb even suggests Ayaan switch her AK for an M4 Carbine but Ayaan declines politely.
**The group finds a functioning Stryker APC in the streets of New York and are tempted to commandeer it as it would provide protection, but later leave it behind knowing the streets of NYC were clogged with roadblocks and abandoned vehicles, the fact that it would require refueling, and the noise would attract every undead in the area.
* AlternateHistory: Reading in between the lines puts the outbreak beginning in March 2005 while the story itself takes place in September 2005.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Dekalb seeks refuge in Somalia with his daughter Sarah in exchange for getting AIDS medication all the way from New York.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The AK-47s the Somali girls use is impractical in the U.S. setting since ammunition for it would be scarce. Delkalb even suggests Ayaan switch her AK for an M4 Carbine but Ayaan declines politely.
**The group finds a functioning Stryker APC in the streets of New York and are tempted to commandeer it as it would provide protection, but later leave it behind knowing the streets of NYC were clogged with roadblocks and abandoned vehicles, the fact that it would require refueling, and the noise would attract every undead in the area.
* BoringButPractical: The DHS's agents M4 Carbine would have been practical since 5.56x45 mm ammunition is plentiful in the U.S.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Jack is a U.S. Army Ranger.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Jack is a U.S. Army Ranger.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Ayaan points her AK-47 at an infected Dekalb, shouting at him to give her the order but Dekalb had better plans to keep Gary from attempting World Domination again.]]
* Main/HeelFaceTurn: Mael the Bogman and his mummies switch sides to the humans after Gary betrays him. [[spoiler: They later hold the line to protect the humans from the zombies just as the helicopter arrives]].
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* HeelFacedTurn: Mael the Bogman and his mummies switch sides to the humans after Gary betrays him. [[spoiler: They later hold the line to protect the humans from the zombies just as the helicopter arrives]].
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* HeelFacedTurn: Mael the Bogman and his mummies switch sides Main/ImplacableMan: What becomes of Gary. [[spoiler:As a "lich", he unexplainably survives a shot to the humans after head from an AK-47 and ends up gaining supernatural powers to lead an army of undead against the human survivors. In the climax, a bitten Dekalb burns Gary's body and decapitates him but the head remains alive. By the end of the story, Dekalb has Gary's still-living head kept at the United Nations Headquarters so that he won't take over the word but Gary betrays him. [[spoiler: They later hold the line in return uses his supernatural powers to protect the humans from the zombies just as the helicopter arrives]]. make Dekalb guilty.]]
* MoreDakka: In the museum battle, the Somali girls use full auto AK-47s and an M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun against Gary's horde of zombies.
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** Port Authority Bus TerminalTerminal. Once the heroes enter it, they find the remains of countless hastily-packed luggages left behind by New Yorkers trying to evacuate the doomed city.
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* TurnOfTheMillennium: In-between the lines, it takes place around September 2005.
* TheUndead: A truckload of them from zombies, liches, ghosts, and mummies.
* TheUndead: A truckload of them from zombies, liches, ghosts, and mummies.
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* WeaponOfChoice: Dekalb and the Somali warrior girls are armed with the Soviet AK-47 and Makharov PM pistols.
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* ZombieInfectee: Dekalb after being bitten by a reanimated Jack.
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* BigAppleSauce: Takes place in an overrun New York City. The author writes with great imagery about NYC.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The DHS agent arrives in time in a CH-47 Chinook with a school bus attached to save the human survivors from Gary's undead hordes.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The DHS agent arrives in time in a CH-47 Chinook with a school bus attached to save the human survivors from Gary's undead hordes.]]
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* IAmWhatIAm: Initially, Gary tries to act like a normal human. However, his instincts eventually win over and [[spoiler: after supposedly being killed by his human party]], he begins to identify with the undead.
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* GoodGunsBadGuns: The DHS agent stationed in Governor's Island immediately assumes the Somali girls are terrorists due to the fact they were armed with AK-47s while he is armed with an M4.
* IAmWhatIAm: Initially, Gary tries to act like a normal human. However, his instincts eventually win over and [[spoiler: after supposedly being killed by his human party]], he begins to identify with theundead.undead.
* HeelFacedTurn: Mael the Bogman and his mummies switch sides to the humans after Gary betrays him. [[spoiler: They later hold the line to protect the humans from the zombies just as the helicopter arrives]].
* IAmWhatIAm: Initially, Gary tries to act like a normal human. However, his instincts eventually win over and [[spoiler: after supposedly being killed by his human party]], he begins to identify with the
* HeelFacedTurn: Mael the Bogman and his mummies switch sides to the humans after Gary betrays him. [[spoiler: They later hold the line to protect the humans from the zombies just as the helicopter arrives]].
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* NauseaFuel: The East River full of dumped dead bodies is downright about making a person lose his lunch.
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* NothingIsScarier:
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**Seeing Times Square empty and dark is outright disturbing, the author himself describes it in a right way.
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**Seeing Times Square empty and dark is outright disturbing, the author himself describes it in a right way.
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**It is implied that the outbreak is caused by a supernatural force that associated in the form of zombie virus.
* RaisingTheStakes: We get to see undead pidgeons attack the main characters in Grand Central Terminal.
* RaisingTheStakes: We get to see undead pidgeons attack the main characters in Grand Central Terminal.
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