History Main / IncongruouslyDressedZombie

** In ''Film/LandOfTheDead'', the zombie "leader" Big Daddy wears a gas station attendant's jumpsuit. Other examples include another zombie clown and an undead boy in an upper-class school uniform.

* In webisode clips spun off ''TheWalkingDead'', two child zombies wear paper birthday-party hats. Another (adult) zombie wore the day-glow yellow vest of a parking-meter reader.

** Later in that same episode, Daryl points out that one of the zombies in the prison is clearly a civilian, thereby raising fears that the prison might not be as secure as they had hoped.

** Later in that same episode, Darryl points out that one of the zombies in the prison is clearly a civilian, thereby raising fears that the prison might not be as secure as they had hoped.

** Other examples include hospital patients and staff, Midnight Rider fans, wedding guests, and airport personnel.

** Odd clothing on zombies actually has plot implications when the survivors take over the prison, as some of the walkers there are wearing prison riot-gear and therefore have helmets to protect their brains.

* Non-zombie example: Some of the recently-dead from the afterlife waiting room in ''{{Beetlejuice}}'' are dressed in amusingly-odd outfits (a headhunter, a Vegas showgirl).

* In ''Porn of the Dead'', one of the zombies was apparently a mental patient, and is still stuck struggling with a straitjacket.

* ''PlantsVsZombies'' has several examples. Common zombies all wear the remnants of a shirt, suit coat and tie, but the "special" zombies all are dressed in a way that identifies their particular attack method. The "dancing" zombie ''used'' to look like a ''Thriller''-era Michael Jackson, up until he died and his family requested that they change his appearance. He's now a "disco" zombie with bell-bottom pants and big hair. The crazy Jack-In-The-Box zombie wears a straightjacket and carries an exploding Jack-in-the-box with him. The [[IncrediblyLamePun Zomboni]] is a guy driving around a Zamboni, and the ice he lays down is used by Bobsled Zombies, who carry their bobsled with them and wear identical team uniforms, zombies who attack over water wear snorkels, digging zombies have carbide lamp helmets and so on....

* Chances are, if a superhero or villain is brought back as a zombie or something, they will wearing their costume (or what's left of it). See ''MarvelZombies'' or ''ComicBook/BlackestNight''.

* The mob of extras made up as zombies as a foundation challenge on season 4 of ''Face Off'' were mostly dressed in everyday street clothes, but one wore surgical scrubs.

* There is a zombified topless stripper very briefly seen in ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse''.

* The [[NotUsingTheZWord only-technically]]-[[DemonicallyPossessed not-zombies]] from ''Film/{{Legion}}'' had a few funnily dressed "zombies", such as an ice-cream truck driver.

* Two appear in ''{{Film/Legion}}''. The first appears to be a sweet old lady who [[AffablyEvil orders a steak and chats up a young couple]] before [[FauxAffablyEvil cursing said young couple and telling a pregnant woman her baby is going to burn]]. The second, an ice cream truck driver in a bright yellow suit, which just clashes in the most horrible way possible when he [[BodyHorror starts to change.]]

* Two appear in ''{{Film/Legion}}. The first appears to be a sweet old lady who [[AffablyEvil orders a steak and chats up a young couple]] before [[FauxAffablyEvil cursing said young couple and telling a pregnant woman her baby is going to burn]]. The second, an ice cream truck driver in a bright yellow suit, which just clashes in the most horrible way possible when he [[BodyHorror starts to change.]]

If an undead creature's clothes look odd because they're old-fashioned, that's OutdatedOutfit. If the outfit was goofy ''back then'', these tropes overlap.

* One ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' arc had a slasher who [[RaisingTheSteaks resurrected a bunch of dead animals]] as zombies, including [[DancingBear a circus bear in a tutu]].