History VideoGame / StubbsTheZombie

** Even though the uniformed cops are defending an authoritarian town and defending Andrew Monday's tyrannical status quo, they are still horrified by you possessing people using your hand. To the point that some cops would even say in a saddened tone "He can't control you now" after killing a possessed person, implying that those cops did so as a mercy-kill.

** The BigBad Andrew Monday's not exactly a villain per say, but he is heavily implied to be incredibly greedy, only seems to care about his city in the sense that being the mayor means he's the richest man in the city, treats the city like it's his play-place, and cares more about property damage than the death-toll Stubbs is causing, leaving him as a AntiVillain at best. Also, he's incredibly authoritarian judging from how much control he has of the city and how authoritarian the cops under his control are.

** And poor Maggie Monday is apparently oblivious of the corruption of her five allies, aside from Skegness' perviness, her father’s murderous ways, and her son's shady behaviour, all of which she somehow tolerates to an extent.

''Stubbs the Zombie in: Rebel Without A Pulse'' is a 2005 ZombieApocalypse third-person action game for Platform/{{Xbox}}, [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and [[Platform/MacOS Mac]] with a twist - rather than playing as a human survivor, you are [[PatientZero the first zombie]], and the entire game basically consists of you lurching around eating brains and expanding the extent of the zombie outbreak. Its developer, Wideload Games, was formed by a group of seven former Creator/{{Bungie}} employees, including one of its co-founders, responsible for ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', and it uses the same UsefulNotes/GameEngine (the only game other than ''Halo'' itself to do so).

''Stubbs the Zombie in: Rebel Without A Pulse'' is a 2005 ZombieApocalypse third-person action game for UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}, [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] and [[UsefulNotes/MacOS Mac]] with a twist - rather than playing as a human survivor, you are [[PatientZero the first zombie]], and the entire game basically consists of you lurching around eating brains and expanding the extent of the zombie outbreak. Its developer, Wideload Games, was formed by a group of seven former Creator/{{Bungie}} employees, including one of its co-founders, responsible for ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', and it uses the same UsefulNotes/GameEngine (the only game other than ''Halo'' itself to do so).

In 2021, the game was rereleased for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and PC via [[Website/GOGDotCom GOG]] and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} with modern controller support and modern resolutions, as well as the option to toggle off the post-processing "old film" distortion effects for a crisper image.

** And poor Maggie Monday is apparently oblivious of the corruption of her five allies, aside from Skegness' perviness and her son's shady behaviour, which she somehow tolerates to an extent.

* FiveManBand: Andrew Monday, Mr. Skegnis, Chief Masters, Dr. Wye, and Maggie Monday are a mostly villainous variation of this trope, except for Maggie Monday, who ironically is the only good person in this quintet. The details are better explained with this list:

* FiveManBand: Andrew Monday, Mr. Skegnis, Chief Masters, Dr. Wye, Otis Monday, and Maggie Monday are a mostly villainous variation of this trope, except for Maggie Monday, who ironically is the only good person in this quintet. The details are better explained with this list:

** Otis Monday is already a murderer, and his paranoia has presumably only worsened in the years since to the point where he's rallied a dangerous militia. This also qualifies him as an AntiVillain in that he's a WellIntentionedExtremist who thought Stubbs was a threat to Maggie when Stubbs was alive and thinks his militia is defending the town from the zombies (too bad he punished the then-living Stubbs for something as minor as pre-marital sexual relations and he's defending a town ruled by a tyrannical NominalHero known as Andrew Monday who, because of his (Andrew Monday's) authoritarian actions, leans more on the Nominal part).

* FiveManBand: Andrew Monday, Mr. Skegnis, Chief Masters, Dr. Wye, Otis Monday, and Maggie Monday are a villainous variation of this trope.

* HighPressureBlood: A stream of blood spurts out when a brain gets eaten. It appears to be a slightly longer spurt compared to a cop's second favorite arm being ripped off.

* BullyingADragon: Ted, the guy who throws a tantrum when Stubbs steals his hot dog as he rises from the grave. Needless to say, he's the first human you get to kill.

* BigBad: Andrew Monday, the mayor, founder, and tyrant of Punchbowl. He rules Punchbowl with an iron fist, he cares more about the status quo then of human life, does NOT lift a finger to actually help the citizens of his city, and he willingly allows his city’s police officers to use excessive force aka police brutality as implied by the propaganda in the police station, the police chief’s order to shoot first and as no questions whatsoever, and the riot cops’ shields saying “Welcome To Punchbowl”, and he’s also the main human villain Stubbs goes up against, even though Stubbs is just as much a villain as Andrew.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Upon witnessing you eating someone's brains, Monday's scientists will sometimes remark "Even I wouldn't do that, and I have no ethics!".

%%* BigBad: A rare NominalHero example in the form of Andrew Monday, the mayor and founder of Punchbowl City. Unfortunately, Andrew Monday leans more on the "Nominal" part, which is why he still qualifies as the BigBad. %%In what way does Andrew cause the bad happenings in the story?

** The BigBad Andrew Monday's not exactly a villain per say, but he is heavily implied to be incredibly greedy, only seems to care about his city in the sense that being the mayor means he's the richest man in the city, treats the city like it's his play-place, and cares more about property damage than the death-toll Stubbs is causing, leaving him as a NominalHero at best. Also, he's incredibly authoritarian judging from how much control he has of the city and how authoritarian the cops under his control are.

** EvilGenius Dr. Wye does not care that he accidentally started the zombie outbreak, and sees everyone else except for himself and his fellow scientists as expendable in the name of science, leaving him as an AntiVillain at worst.

* BigBad: A rare NominalHero example in the form of Andrew Monday, the mayor and founder of Punchbowl City. Unfortunately, Andrew Monday leans more on the "Nominal" part, which is why he still qualifies as the BigBad.

** And poor Maggie Monday (the closest thing this band gets to a DarkChick) is apparently oblivious of the corruption of her five allies, aside from Skegness' perviness and her son's shady behaviour, which she somehow tolerates to an extent.

* FiveManBand: Andrew Monday, Mr. Skegnis, Chief Masters, Dr. Wye, Otis Monday, and Maggie Monday are a villainous variation of this trope.
** TheBigBad: Andrew Monday, in that he's a greedy man who treats the city like it's his play-place and cares more about property damage than the death toll, and he's also a tyrant in terms of how much he is in control of the city. That, and he's literally the leader of this villainous group.
** TheDragon: Mr. Skegnis, in that he's Andrew Monday's right-hand man and the most loyal member in this FiveManBand to Monday. Him being a bodyguard means that he often next to him in order to do his job protecting Andrew Monday and fitting his position as TheDragon he obeys most of Monday's orders.
** TheEvilGenius: Dr. Wye, in that he's the smartest member of this group since he's a scientist. Combined with TokenEvilTeammate, as it should be noted that he's even evil than his allies, due to his AntiVillain status unlike his NominalHero allies.
** TheBrute: Chief Masters, in that he loves to solve most of his problems with violence. More so than the other members of this band. In fact, he encourages the police officers directly in his command to "shoot first and ask no questions whatsoever", in other words he encourages his men in his direct command to use brute force first no matter what, further demonstrating why Chief Masters deserves to be labelled TheBrute.
** TheDarkChick: Maggie Monday. She counts as a Dark Chick because she associates with this villainous FiveManBand, is the only woman in this band, and supports their efforts, though she will still call out problematic things she notices such as Mr. Skegnis’ unwanted advances and her son caring more about property damage than people dying. However, this is combined with TokenGoodTeammate as she is the most kind-hearted character in this game until her zombification-induced FaceHeelTurn (and even then, she's still kind-hearted enough to persuade Stubbs into letting their son live), and she's oblivious to most of the corruption of the other members of this evil FiveManBand.
** TheSixthRanger: Otis Monday doesn't directly work with the other villains, but is the entire reason the game happens in the first place and isn't the most stable of individuals following the zombie attacks. He's TheSixthRanger in that he's the obligatory sixth addition to this five-man band, does not fit the other five positions in this band, and he helps this evil FiveManBand by fighting for a town ruled with an iron fist by this sinister five man band's leader.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: The game has several discs; the most notable ones are Otis Monday, the man who killed Stubbs, and Dr. Hermann Wye, the scientist who accidentally started the zombie apocalypse that reanimated Stubbs.

* ToiletHumour: One of Stubbs' abilities is to knock out the enemies around him by [[{{Fartillery}} farting]], plus there is one point in the game where the objective is to contaminate Punchbowl's water supply by peeing in it.

* WolfpackBoss: Mr. Skegness, who confronts you just before your final confrontation with Andrew Monday, is no tougher than any other of Monday's bodyguards (meaning that he barely qualifies as a boss fight , but has 3 other bodyguards backing him up.