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* CloudCuckooLander: Ms. Crumble qualifies as this as a Ghoulie, being very absent-minded.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Ms. Crumble qualifies as this as a Ghoulie, being very absent-minded. Though she gets better over time.
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** Josh's narration is reminiscent of [[Series/SavedByTheBell Zach Morris' audience asides]]. Or [[Film/FerrisBeullersDayOff Ferris Beuller's]].
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** Josh's narration is reminiscent of [[Series/SavedByTheBell Zach Morris' audience asides]]. Or [[Film/FerrisBeullersDayOff [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Beuller's]].Bueller's narration]].
** The gamer group uses [[Series/GameOfThrones Dothraki]] as a code language for entrance into their van and play VideoGame/Overwatch most of the time.
** One faction is based solely on following in the footsteps of [[Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians the Kardashians]], though they only directly appear once.
** Wesley references a lot of karate and kung fu movies, including some that are not existent even in-universe.
** Angelica specifically mentions the vibe she wants her episode's narration to have to be more similar to the likes of Film/Goodfellas or other Scorsese works than Josh's BreakingTheFourthWall style.
** When Josh attempts to cut off his arm to avoid becoming a Ghoulie, Angelica calls him out by pointing out that [[ThisIsReality this isn't]] [[Series/TheWalkingDead The Walking Dead]].
** Turbo uses a figurine of [[WesternAnimation/HeMan Skeletor]] to indicate who the traitor is in his diagram of the battle at the mall.
** The duel between Wesley and Turbo sees them using flintlocks that turn out to be Josh's souvenirs from Theatre/Hamilton that can only shoot confetti.
* ShowWithinAShow: 'American Ninja Idol', the half reality show, half Thunderdome event the jock tribe regularly enjoys where 'contestants' are placed on a platform with a backup band. They stand on top of a trap door and if Turbo gives their performance a thumbs down, they are dropped into a pen of Ghoulies and either devoured or simply executed if they manage to escape. No individual depicted managed to walk away alive.
* TheStoner: Wesley smokes weed when stressed.
** One faction is based solely on following in the footsteps of [[Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians the Kardashians]], though they only directly appear once.
** Wesley references a lot of karate and kung fu movies, including some that are not existent even in-universe.
** Angelica specifically mentions the vibe she wants her episode's narration to have to be more similar to the likes of Film/Goodfellas or other Scorsese works than Josh's BreakingTheFourthWall style.
** When Josh attempts to cut off his arm to avoid becoming a Ghoulie, Angelica calls him out by pointing out that [[ThisIsReality this isn't]] [[Series/TheWalkingDead The Walking Dead]].
** Turbo uses a figurine of [[WesternAnimation/HeMan Skeletor]] to indicate who the traitor is in his diagram of the battle at the mall.
** The duel between Wesley and Turbo sees them using flintlocks that turn out to be Josh's souvenirs from Theatre/Hamilton that can only shoot confetti.
* ShowWithinAShow: 'American Ninja Idol', the half reality show, half Thunderdome event the jock tribe regularly enjoys where 'contestants' are placed on a platform with a backup band. They stand on top of a trap door and if Turbo gives their performance a thumbs down, they are dropped into a pen of Ghoulies and either devoured or simply executed if they manage to escape. No individual depicted managed to walk away alive.
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** Eli often takes a Trumpian tone towards new arrivals to the mall, outright referring to the new arrivals as 'bad hombres' and comparing himself to the modern (post-apocalyptic) version of ICE. And these moves are treated as him being an entitled Jerkass.
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* ApocalypseHow: Not totally clear where on the scale this one falls. In one episode, the gamers mention playing ''VideoGame/Overwatch'' online with people around the world, which indicates what remains of Glendale is not the last bastion of humanity, but they do not say if the other players' countries are intact or in a similar state. In theory it could be a Class 0 where only California was destroyed but has been quarantined, a Class 1 planetary societal disruption with only the direct participants in the war fully collapsing or a Class 2 scenario where the whole world is in the same disastrous state.
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* ApocalypseHow: Not totally clear where on the scale this one falls. In one episode, the gamers mention playing ''VideoGame/Overwatch'' VideoGame/Overwatch online with people around the world, which indicates what remains of Glendale is not the last bastion of humanity, but they do not say if the other players' countries are intact or in a similar state. In theory it could be a Class 0 where only California was destroyed but has been quarantined, a Class 1 planetary societal disruption with only the direct participants in the war fully collapsing or a Class 2 scenario where the whole world is in the same disastrous state.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Burr is killed, the nuke he attempted to detonate was shot into the atmosphere and Ms. Crumble survives her apparent HeroicSacrifice...but Josh DidNotGetTheGirl and it's implied that [[HereWeGoAgain Sam is going to reign as the new authoritarian warlord of the region]].region]] with the acclaim of all but Josh's Daybreakers.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: RZA's narration in Wesley's head gives him one, calling him out on his samurai schtick essentially being bullshit and on [[spoiler: his planned betrayal of Josh.]]
** Sam gives one to [[spoiler: Josh over asking her about her sexual history.]]
** Sam gives one to [[spoiler: Josh over asking her about her sexual history.]]
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** Episode 9 sees this reach its apex and features Eli intruding on Josh's flashbacks and running through various other people's flashbacks (including ones neither he nor Josh witnessed) calling Josh a douchebag.
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* ApocalypseHow: Not totally clear where on the scale this one falls. In one episode, the gamers mention playing ''VideoGame/Overwatch'' online with people around the world, which indicates what remains of Glendale is not the last bastion of humanity, but they do not say if the other players' countries are intact or in a similar state. In theory it could be a Class 0 where only California was destroyed but has been quarantined, a Class 1 planetary societal disruption with only the direct participants in the war fully collapsing or a Class 2 scenario where the whole world is in the same disastrous state.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Burr is killed, the nuke he attempted to detonate was shot into the atmosphere and Ms. Crumble survives her apparent HeroicSacrifice...but Josh DidNotGetTheGirl and it's implied that [[HereWeGoAgain Sam is going to reign as the new warlord of the region]].]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ms. Crumble seems to be on the cusp of pulling one in the finale, willingly staying behind to get rid of Burr's nuke. However, she herself does not think this is the case and claims she will survive by turning into mist...whether she did that or not, this trope is Subverted with her managing to survive the missile's launch.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: After the whole season of effort to find and be with Sam, Josh ends up being rejected by Sam, who decides to focus on asserting herself as the new ruler of Glendale.]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: After the whole season of effort to find and be with Sam, Sam and facing much hardship along the way, Josh ends up being rejected by Sam, who decides to focus on asserting herself as the new ruler of Glendale.]]
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* WorldWarIII: How the apocalypse happens. Details are sparse, but China and Russia were on the same side against the US and things are bad enough nobody has attempted to reclaim the region.
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** [[spoiler: The nuclear blast in the mesosphere does not seem to have the real-life EMP effects one would expect.]]
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* EliteZombie: Ms. Crumble is this compared to the bulk of the Ghoulies. She is capable of thinking and holding a conversation. She also resists the urge to commit cannibalism by eating foods high in iron.
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* EliteZombie: Ms. Crumble is this compared to the bulk of the Ghoulies. She is capable of thinking and holding a conversation. She also resists the urge to commit cannibalism by eating foods high in iron. [[spoiler: This gets to the point that she basically becomes a TokenGoodTeammate for the Ghoulies and she manages to ''avoid being incinerated by the rocket fuel of a nuclear missile that would certainly doom a normal human.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseNuclearPhysics: The nuclear blasts depicted would be enough to give every survivor radiation sickness, but that doesn't occur. And mutations occur much more rapidly and in unrealistic ways.
* BigManOnCampus: Sam is a rare female example of this trope.
* BodyHorror: Ms. Crumble's jaws unhinging in episode 2 is rather disturbing. [[spoiler: And then Burr has an arm grow out of his stomach in the finale.]]
* BodyHorror: Ms. Crumble's jaws unhinging in episode 2 is rather disturbing. [[spoiler: And then Burr has an arm grow out of his stomach in the finale.]]
* ChildProdigy: Angelica is one. DeconstructedTrope, however, as her intelligence and her parents attempting to challenge her intellect led to her being bored, lonely and pushed her to engage in activities like drug dealing.
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Professor Burr]] pulled one of these after the apocalpse. [[spoiler: He goes from a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who attempts to help children grow to a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] warlord who is TheDreaded of the setting.]]
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Professor Burr]] pulled one of these after the apocalpse. [[spoiler: He goes from a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who attempts to help children grow to a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] warlord who is TheDreaded of the setting. Though ultimately it's conversed that his activities were driven more by self-aggrandizement than compassion, making him only a NominalHero to begin with.]]
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* AdultsAreUseless: All adults still alive by the time of the series are either Ghoulies or [[spoiler: Baron Triumph. Though Ms. Crumble, while insane, is an exception to this trope.]]
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* DwindlingParty: The golf team's members get killed off systematically throughout the series.
** [[spoiler: Burr is hinted to be an even more elite one of these.]]
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* HufflepuffHouse: there are a number of warlord factions like the Clans of Kardashia and the 4H Club who barely appear at all, with the jock tribe, Cheerizons and Daybreakers being the main factions depicted.
* ImAHumanitarian: The Ghoulies devour uninfected victims. A human example is the Baron Triumph [[spoiler: really Principal Burr]] who captures and traps survivors to consume them. [[spoiler: His ultimate plan involves leading the jack gang to a more remote area to serve as a larder for him in the long run.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: The Ghoulies devour uninfected victims. A human example is the Baron Triumph [[spoiler: really Principal Burr]] who captures and traps survivors to consume them. [[spoiler: His ultimate plan involves leading the jack gang to a more remote area to serve as a larder for him in the long run.]]
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Ghoulies qualify. Only adults were turned and Ghoulies tend to repeat the last things on their mind endlessly. Their bites do not spread the virus (though Josh does not realize that this is the case until he cuts his own finger off). Their cannibalistic hunger is specifically a desire to consume blood. And that's not even getting into the unique traits possessed by [[EliteZombie Ms. Crumble]].
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Ghoulies qualify. Only adults were turned and Ghoulies tend to repeat the last things on their mind endlessly. Their bites do not spread the virus (though Josh does not realize that this is the case until he cuts his own finger off). Their cannibalistic hunger is specifically a desire to consume blood.blood and individuals bleeding serves to draw them to the targets. And that's not even getting into the unique traits possessed by [[EliteZombie Ms. Crumble]].
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** There are a few occasions where Turbo has subjected someone to a public performance-based punishment and gets genuinely moved by the person in question only to kill them anyway.
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* GambitPileUp: The attempt by the STEM Punks to assassinate Turbo falls victim to one of these, as Turbo has a golf team member stand in for him.
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* CloudCuckooLander: Ms. Crumble qualifies as this as a Ghoulie, being very absent-minded.
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* TheWorfEffect: The Cheerazons are generally depicted as proud, powerful Amazon warriors, but [[spoiler: in the final episode they are taken down instantaneously via Triumph detonating a surviving missile while they do yoga.]]
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* TheWorfEffect: The Cheerazons are generally depicted as proud, powerful Amazon warriors, but [[spoiler: in the final episode they many of them are taken down instantaneously via Triumph detonating a surviving missile while they do yoga.close to them, weakening them greatly.]]
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* AtomicHate: How the apocalypse starts. [[spoiler: Baron Triumph attempts to finish off Glendale with an unexploded nuke in the finale.]]
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* TheDreaded: The Baron Triumph is this for the rest of apocalyptic Glendale. He kidnaps and is believed to eat children. His identity is implied to be Hoyles [[spoiler: but is actually Principal Burr.]]
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* TheDreaded: The Baron Triumph is this for the rest of apocalyptic Glendale. He kidnaps and is believed to eat eats children. His identity is implied to be Hoyles [[spoiler: but is actually Principal Burr.]]
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* StrawFeminist: The 'Cheerazons' embody this trope, wanting to kill all men (well, at least until Angelica convinces them that [[TwoferTokenMinority gay black man]] Wesley is even more marginalized than they are.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Angelica before the apocalypse was a ''drug dealer'', manipulating her therapist into prescribing her pills and placing them in edible slime to sell without anyone noticing. She openly declares she admires Griselda Restrepo, the female leader of the Medallin cartel.
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* [[spoiler: ApocalypseCult: Burr ultimately forms one after taking over Turbo's tribe and deciding to destroy Glendale to make room for a new world.]]
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* JerkJock: They form the post-apocalyptic BadassBiker gang that dominates the remnants of Glendale. Wesley was this before the apocalypse, but ultimately seeks to make up for this.
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** Eli often takes a Trumpian tone towards admission to the mall, outright referring to the new arrivals as 'bad hombres' and comparing himself to the modern version of ICE.
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* BaitTheDog: [[spoiler: Hoyles manages to escape being eaten by Burr, only to get mauled to death by a mutated pug days later]].
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* TheDreaded: The Baron Triumph is this for the rest of apocalyptic Glendale. He kidnaps and is believed to eat children. His identity is implied to be one of Wesley's old friends Hoyles [[spoiler: but is actually Principal Burr.]]
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Both Josh and Turbo are revealed to be this.
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* ImAHumanitarian: The Ghoulies devour uninfected victims. A human example is the Baron Triumph [[spoiler: really Principal Burr]] who captures and traps survivors to consume them.
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** [[spoiler: Eli]] gets one of these towards the end of episode 9 [[spoiler: just before his death]].
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** [[spoiler: Burr seemingly pulls one in episode 8. It doesn't last to the end of episode 9.]]
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** Episode 9 gives this to Eli, who previously had been a HateSink.
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* NotHisSled: Episode 4 is narrated by Principal Burr, who says that he is dead and is responsible for creating [[TheDreaded Baron Triumph]], implicitly due to his lenient treatment of Hoyles, a smug and privileged JerkJock. [[spoiler: In fact, he ''is'' Baron Triumph and said JerkJock was a factor behind him reaching the conclusion that he ought to kill and eat people.]]
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: A large portion of the cast gets to do this-Josh is the standout example who even physically moves between flashbacks, but Angelica, Wesley, Burr and even Turbo get the chance to acknowledge the fourth wall and discuss what is occurring with the audience.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: A large portion of the cast gets to do this-Josh is the standout example who even physically moves between flashbacks, but Angelica, Wesley, Eli, Burr and even Turbo get the chance to acknowledge the fourth wall and discuss what is occurring with the audience.audience.
** Episode 9 sees this reach its apex and features Eli intruding on Josh's flashbacks and running through various other people's flashbacks (including ones neither he nor Josh witnessed) calling Josh a douchebag.
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* NotHisSled: Episode 4 is narrated by Principal Burr, who says that he is dead and is responsible for creating [[TheDreaded Baron Triumph]] due to his treatment of a privileged JerkJock. [[spoiler: In fact, he ''is'' Baron Triumph.]]
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* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Principal Burr]] qualifies as this post-apocalypse. [[spoiler: He speaks calmly and politely even after become a feared cannibal warlord.]]
** [[spoiler: Turbo]] also has vibes of this in the episode focusing on him.
** [[spoiler: Turbo]] also has vibes of this in the episode focusing on him.
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* DecoyProtagonist: While he is a core character and key connecting thread, Josh is OutOfFocus for much of the series, with quite a few episodes serving as ADayInTheLimelight for the rest of the cast.
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* ButtMonkey: The golf team as a whole qualifies as such.
** Eli to an extent also qualifies.
* CosyCatastrophe: Josh at the start seems to think so, using the apocalypse as an excuse to get everything he ever wanted-his journey for Sam being to complete that goal. Even aside from that, the mall Eli took over still has electricity and functioning amenities and a lot of places likewise still function-some kids are even still able to play Overwatch.
* CryForTheDevil: Episode 6 gives some increased depth to Turbo Bro Jock, a brutish warlord post-apocalypse and a JerkJock before it. [[spoiler: It reveals he genuinely loved Wesley and was a WellDoneSonGuy to his ultra-humanitarian father who neglected his personal life.]]
** Eli to an extent also qualifies.
* CosyCatastrophe: Josh at the start seems to think so, using the apocalypse as an excuse to get everything he ever wanted-his journey for Sam being to complete that goal. Even aside from that, the mall Eli took over still has electricity and functioning amenities and a lot of places likewise still function-some kids are even still able to play Overwatch.
* CryForTheDevil: Episode 6 gives some increased depth to Turbo Bro Jock, a brutish warlord post-apocalypse and a JerkJock before it. [[spoiler: It reveals he genuinely loved Wesley and was a WellDoneSonGuy to his ultra-humanitarian father who neglected his personal life.]]
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*StrawFeminist: The 'Cheerazons' embody this trope, wanting to kill all men (well, at least until Angelica convinces them that [[TwoferTokenMinority gay black man]] Wesley is even more marginalized than they are.
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*YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Gratuitously used throughout the series.
*YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Gratuitously used throughout the series.
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* AdamWesting: ZigZaggedTrope. [[Creator/WuTangClan RZA]] provides narration in episode 5, but is intended to be the narration Wesley always wanted for his life. He is explicitly meant to be the voice of RZA however.
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* TheApunkalypse: Contains a lot of the tropes associated with this. The band of ex-JerkJocks led by Turbo Bro Jock in particular embodies this trope.
* TheAtoner: Wesley seeks to make up for his high school career as a JerkJock by embracing the samurai bushido code and pacifism.
* TheDreaded: The Baron Triumph is this for the rest of apocalyptic Glendale. He kidnaps and is believed to eat children. His identity is implied to be one of Wesley's old friends [[spoiler: but is actually Principal Burr.]]
* EliteZombie: Ms. Crumble is this compared to the bulk of the Ghoulies. She is capable of thinking and holding a conversation. She also resists the urge to commit cannibalism by eating foods high in iron.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Professor Burr]] pulled one of these after the apocalpse. [[spoiler: He goes from a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who attempts to help children grow to a [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] warlord who is TheDreaded of the setting.]]
* GenreShift: Parts of the seventh episode are structured like scenes from a stereotypical sitcom and blur the lines between Ms. Crumble's pre-apocalypse life and her present-day post-apocalypse status as a Ghoulie.
* HeelFaceTurn: Wesley made one of these post-apocalypse. [[spoiler: It took him until after Turbo Bro Jock began mass murdering people over jealousy to do so and he does backslide a bit before finally solidifying.]]
* NotHisSled: Episode 4 is narrated by Principal Burr, who says that he is dead and is responsible for creating [[TheDreaded Baron Triumph]] due to his treatment of one of the JerkJocks. [[spoiler: In fact, he ''is'' Baron Triumph.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The Ghoulies qualify. Only adults were turned and Ghoulies tend to repeat the last things on their mind endlessly. Their bites do not spread the virus (though Josh does not realize that this is the case until he cuts his own finger off). Their cannibalistic hunger is specifically a desire to consume blood. And that's not even getting into the unique traits possessed by [[EliteZombie Ms. Crumble]].
* ShoutOut: Quite a few.
**The jock tribe's schtick is lifted directly from Film/MadMax.
**Josh's narration is reminiscent of [[Series/SavedByTheBell Zach Morris' audience asides]].
**Ms. Crumble, an EliteZombie, is originally referred to as 'the Witch.' Which [[VideoGame/Left4Dead should sound familiar]].
*TakeThat: A few directed at Donald Trump.
**Josh specifically says that 'megalomaniac leaders who can start a war with a tweet' were among the factors that led to the apocalypse.
**Eli often takes a Trumpian tone towards admission to the mall, outright referring to the new arrivals as 'bad hombres' and comparing himself to the modern version of ICE.
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''Daybreak'' is a horror-comedy-drama Creator/{{Netflix}} original series created by Brad Payton and Aron Eli Coleite, based on the comic book of the same name. ''Daybreak'' is set AfterTheEnd in Glendale, where a nuclear war and biological warfare have rendered the region a TeenageWasteland. The series centers on 17-year-old high school student Josh Wheeler searching for his missing girlfriend Sam in the wasteland. He is joined by [[LittleMissSnarker Angelica]], a pyromaniac 12-year-old girl and former JerkJock turned pacifist samurai Wesley. Along the way they have to contend with [[OurZombiesAreDifferent the Ghoulies]], mutants and various factions who [[TheApunkalypse have embraced post-apocalypse stereotypes.]]
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