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''Day of the Dead'' is a series airing on Creator/{{Syfy}}. A modern day reimagining of [[Film/DayOfTheDead the classic film of the same name]], the series follows six strangers as they try to survive the first 24 hours of a zombie outbreak in a small town in Pennsylvania.

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''Day of the Dead'' is a series airing on Creator/{{Syfy}}. A modern day reimagining of [[Film/DayOfTheDead [[Film/DayOfTheDead1985 the classic film of the same name]], the series follows six strangers as they try to survive the first 24 hours of a zombie outbreak in a small town in Pennsylvania.

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Vengeful Widow is merged to Crusading Widow per TRS


* CrusadingWidow: [[spoiler:Amy kinda loses her shit after having to kill an entire store full of zombies and ''then'' finding out that poor Jai died. She ends up carrying a chainsaw because the others really don't want to entrust her with a gun]].



* VengefulWidow: [[spoiler:Amy kinda loses her shit after having to kill an entire store full of zombies and ''then'' finding out that poor Jai died. She ends up carrying a chainsaw because the others really don't want to entrust her with a gun]].
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* CorruptHick: Mayor Paula Bowman has been distracting the locals of Mawinhaken with red-meat issues like open-carry while selling the town's land to a fracking company.

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* DieHardOnAnX: "Death Comes to Paymart" features a brief version of this when [[spoiler:Sarah breaks into a factory and takes out some of Rhodes' marines trying to find others who have been taken there to be gassed]].



** [[spoiler:Jai later performs one saving Cam, Lauren, Trent, Luke, Paula, and other survivors.]]

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** [[spoiler:Jai later performs one saving Cam, Lauren, Trent, Luke, Paula, and other survivors.]]survivors, deliberately crawling into a vent and exposing himself to a lethal amount of gas so that the others can get out after him]].



** Luke is the spoiled-brat son of the mayor, and gleefully exploits his status to get away with all kinds of jerkass behavior.

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** Luke is the spoiled-brat son of the mayor, and gleefully exploits his status to get away with all kinds of jerkass behavior. That said, [[spoiler:as events unfold his reasons for this attitude are explored and he becomes a more likeable person]].


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* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: In "Death Comes to Paymart", [[spoiler:Sarah confronts one of Rhodes' marines, and manages to stab him with her knife while he's trying to get his gun]].
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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original film, Dr. Logan was mostly good, if insane. This series' version is a cold-blooded MadScientist.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original film, Dr. Logan was mostly good, if insane. This series' version is a cold-blooded MadScientist.MadScientist, albeit with [[spoiler:the sympathetic motive of trying to use her discoveries to help her daughter]].

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* SkewedPriorities: As the zombies attack Jai and Amy's wedding, her "man of honor" Shawn tries to propose to her, even though they broke up years ago and there is an army of undead outside.



* VengefulWidow: [[spoiler:Amy kinda loses her shit after having to kill an entire store full of zombies and ''then'' finding out that poor Jai died. She ends up carrying a chainsaw because the others really don't want to entrust her with a gun.]]
* VisionaryVillain: Logan wants to study the zombies to create a cure for death [[spoiler:in the hopes of saving her own dying daughter.]]

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* VengefulWidow: [[spoiler:Amy kinda loses her shit after having to kill an entire store full of zombies and ''then'' finding out that poor Jai died. She ends up carrying a chainsaw because the others really don't want to entrust her with a gun.]]
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* VisionaryVillain: Logan wants to study the zombies to create a cure for death [[spoiler:in the hopes of saving her own dying daughter.]]daughter]].
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* ActionDressRip: Amy cuts off the hem of her wedding dress so that she can more easily run from the zombies if she has too.

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* ActionDressRip: Amy cuts off the hem of her wedding dress so that she can more easily run from the zombies if she has too.to.

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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:The ending of "Choke on 'Em!" features Cam and his zombified father looking and grabbing onto to one another with Luke declaring that his father won't hurt him, but it's left rather vague on what could happen next.]]

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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:The ending of "Choke on 'Em!" features Cam and his zombified father looking and grabbing onto to one another with Luke Cam declaring that his father won't hurt him, but it's left rather vague on what could happen next.]]



** Rhodes in "Choke on 'Em!"

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** Rhodes in "Choke on 'Em!"'Em!". After being a violent {{jerkass}} throughout the series, he's left to the zombies by the survivors.



* ChainsawGood: Amy wields one in the final episode.



* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Mrs. French sets fire to her oxygen tank to take out a roomful of zombies, allowing Jai, Lauren, and Cam to escape and ensuring that the zombies don't get any of the other residents at her nursing home.]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: HeroicSacrifice:
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[[spoiler:Mrs. French sets fire to her oxygen tank to take out a roomful of zombies, allowing Jai, Lauren, and Cam to escape and ensuring that the zombies don't get any of the other residents at her nursing home.]]



* LeftHanging: The matter of Lauren's infected arm is still unresolved as of the final episode.



** The season finale is called "Choke on 'Em!", which were Rhodes' last words in the movie.

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** The season finale is called "Choke on 'Em!", which were Rhodes' last words in the movie. Fittingly, this is the episode where he dies, with the same last words.



* PatientZero: The man buried underground, referred to as "Cooper" by the natives, was a white settler who brought the virus to the area centuries ago before being sealed underground.
** [[spoiler: Logan's daughter becomes this at the end of "Choke on 'Em!" in a new city.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Lauren attempts after escaping the funeral home by leaving the city but after seeing zombies everywhere she came back to help.
** Trent is mentioned to done this at the beginning of "Choke on 'Em!" by Luke and and Paula.

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* PatientZero: PatientZero:
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The man buried underground, referred to as "Cooper" by the natives, was a white settler who brought the virus to the area centuries ago before being sealed underground.
** [[spoiler: Logan's daughter becomes this at the end of "Choke on 'Em!" in a new city.Pittsburgh.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
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Lauren attempts after escaping the funeral home by leaving the city but after seeing zombies everywhere she came back to help.
** Trent is mentioned to have done this at the beginning of "Choke on 'Em!" by Luke and Paula.
* SealedEvilInACan:
** The PatientZero of this ZombieApocalypse was chained up
and Paula.buried underground for centuries by the Lenape natives and the region's original European colonists, until being accidentally freed by Cleargenix's drilling.
** In the final episode, [[spoiler: the survivors lure the zombie horde into a mine system and then use explosives to collapse the only entrance]].
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While a jerk about it Herb rightfully pointed out to Jai that they can't save everyone, correctly noted that the patient he was working in Payment wouldn't survive, that Lauren was in fact tempted to take the pain medication she found for said patient for herself, and rightfully pointed out to Amy that her wedding day stopped being about her in the face of zombies.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: While a jerk about it Herb rightfully pointed out to Jai that they can't save everyone, correctly noted that the patient he was working in Payment Paymart wouldn't survive, that Lauren was in fact tempted to take the pain medication she found for said patient for herself, and rightfully pointed out to Amy that her wedding day stopped being about her in the face of zombies.

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** Herb has been repeatedly meddling in his daughter Amy's relationship with her fiancee Jai, and was responsible for sending Lauren to prison for prescription fraud, even though she might have easily gone to rehab instead.

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** Herb has been repeatedly meddling in his daughter Amy's relationship with her fiancee fiancée Jai, and was responsible for sending Lauren to prison for prescription fraud, even though she might have easily gone to rehab instead. instead.
* JerkassHasAPoint: While a jerk about it Herb rightfully pointed out to Jai that they can't save everyone, correctly noted that the patient he was working in Payment wouldn't survive, that Lauren was in fact tempted to take the pain medication she found for said patient for herself, and rightfully pointed out to Amy that her wedding day stopped being about her in the face of zombies.
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:The ending of "Choke on 'Em!" features Cam and his zombified father looking and grabbing onto to one another with Luke declaring that his father won't hurt him, but it's left rather vague on what could happen next.]]


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** Rhodes in "Choke on 'Em!"


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** [[spoiler:Jai later performs one saving Cam, Lauren, Trent, Luke, Paula, and other survivors.]]


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** [[spoiler: Logan's daughter becomes this at the end of "Choke on 'Em!" in a new city.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Lauren attempts after escaping the funeral home by leaving the city but after seeing zombies everywhere she came back to help.
** Trent is mentioned to done this at the beginning of "Choke on 'Em!" by Luke and and Paula.

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