History PlayingWith / ItCanThink

* '''PlayedForHorror''': Bob finds himself at the mercy of Alice the KillerRobot. She would have given him a quick and efficient death before moving on to another human as he thought in his last seconds. [[FromBadToWorse Unfortunately for him]], the robot decides to take delight in prolonging his demise, laughing as she [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slowly tears his limbs apart and beat him into a pulp, all while keeping him alive long enough for him to feel the excruciating pain]].

** Alice and Bob are being chased by a T. rex, when Bob says that it can’t see them if they stand still, the T. rex suddenly pulls out a cup of tea, puts on a monocle, and complains about how offensive that stereotype is in a posh British accent,

* '''Conversed''': “I think those producers realized the heroes wouldn’t have gotten close to dying anytime soon without a serious upgrade in zombie smarts.

%%* '''Implied''': Alice lumbers along a corridor that leads near where Bob is. We are not told whether or not she sensed him there.
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Averted''': Alice is nothing more than a braindead, flesh-hungry zombie.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice, despite being a rotting Zombie, knows Shakespeare, still retains the ability to speak coherently, and is a winner of the Nobel Prize despite her infected state.

* '''Parodied''': Alice is smarter undead than she was alive.

* '''Deconstructed''': Because Alice's mind is active, she's more vulnerable to distraction and indecision than a mindless shambling corpse would be.

** TheVirus dosen't affect the brain as much as the other parts of the body, allowing her to retain a portion of her intelligence.

** TheVirus hasn't affected her brain as badly as the other zombies, allowing her to retain a portion of her intelligence.

* '''Exploited''': A ragtag band of misanthropic misfits who believe this is what humans deserve discover Alice’s behavior, and begin modifying the virus to increase zombie intelligence.

* '''Enforced''': The cast regularly face many powerful types of zombies, but not smart ones. The executives want to take advantage of this.

* '''Defied''': Out of boredom, a MadScientist decides to make a virus he can test on human subjects. However, he explicitly avoids making zombies smart because he wants the humans to have a slight chance.

%%* '''Implied''': Alice lumbers along a corridor that leads near where Bob is. We are not told whether or not she sensed him there.

* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Double Subverted''':...but was circling around for a surprise attack.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Inverted''': ???

* '''Justified''': TheVirus hasn't affected her brain as badly as the other zombies, allowing her to retain a portion of her intelligence.

* '''Played For Drama''': Bob hears of the infected's ability to think by a survivor recalling that his survivor group had tried to save themselves by locking themselves inside a room that requires a keycard to open, after which one of the infected who were banging on the door stops, examines the fallen keycard on the floor and uses it to attempt to unlock the door. They succeed, and the zombies swarmed in and killed everyone, with the guy recalling it the SoleSurvivor.

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Enforced''': The virus evolves to make the zombies intelligent hunters in order for their chances of catching and infecting more victims and thus spreading the contagion to increase.

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Enforced''': ???

%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Because Alice's mind is active, she's more vulnerable to distraction and indecision than a mindless shambling corpse would be.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Since when did they start becoming clever!?"

'''Basic Trope''': An animalistic creature or monster possesses more intelligence than it appears to be capable of.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Why is something so stupid so smart!?"

'''BasicTrope''': An animalistic creature or monster possesses more intelligence than it appears to be capable of.

* '''Downplayed''': Despite being and acting like a rotting, shambling zombie most of the time, occasionally she does shows that there is a little more going on upstairs than "Bite, kill, destroy."
* '''Justified''': TheVirus hasn't affected her brain as badly as the other zombies, allowing her to retain a portion of her intelligence.