1 | ''The Iliad With Zombies'' is, well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. A low budget film project which hit Youtube in 2011. Following the trend of ''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'' and ''Jane Slayre'', the story retells a nearly incomprehensible classic with a supernatural/horror twist. |
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3 | The story opens in the fifth year of UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar, where [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Hades]], at the prompting of [[DeadpanSnarker Persephone]], intends to spite Zeus by refusing to let souls into the Underworld. The results are [[ZombieApocalypse predictable]]. Things then fast forwards to the ninth year of the war, where the story as usual is told... just with zombies, demons, and ghosts (Oh my!) in the background. |
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6 | !!Tropes used in this work: |
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8 | * AchillesHeel: The subject of numerous puns. |
9 | * AchillesInHisTent: Obviously, though he doesn't exactly ''stay'' there... |
10 | * AppealToObscurity |
11 | -->'''Achilles''': I could end up like Paris.\ |
12 | '''Patrocles''': Who the hell is Paris?\ |
13 | '''Achilles''': Exactly my point. |
14 | * BreakingTheFourthWall |
15 | * CatchPhrase: Oh, so many. |
16 | ** Achilles and Patrocles: "Cousin!" |
17 | ** Achilles: "I mean everything I ever say." |
18 | ** Briseis: "I just want to go home to my mom!" |
19 | ** Odysseus: "Not to break up your {{subtext}}..." |
20 | ** Xylon: "My soul is merged with all that is dead and all that will die...!" |
21 | * DeadpanSnarker: Basically everyone expect Paris, at some point or another. |
22 | * DevilInPlainSight: Saying [[spoiler: Menelaus']] name causes a thunderclap. |
23 | * TheFightingNarcissist: Achilles himself, on and off the battlefield. |
24 | * GenderBender: Goes hand in hand with the EconomyCast. Achilles, Apollo, Hades, Patrocles, and Diomedes all get this treatment. |
25 | * {{Metaphorgotten}} |
26 | --> '''Patrocles''': Basically, this is turning out a lot like ''Literature/ToKillAMockingBird''... but with a lot less black people and a lot more spears.\ |
27 | '''Odysseus''': Maybe you should have left a trail of breadcrumbs before starting off down that metaphor. |
28 | * NeatFreak: Hades can't stand the pile of clothes that Persephone has let pile up. |
29 | * OnlySaneMan: Hector, and Odysseus to a lesser extent. |
30 | %%* OurMonstersAreDifferent |
31 | %%* OurAngelsAreDifferent |
32 | %%* OurBansheesAreLouder |
33 | %%* OurDemonsAreDifferent |
34 | %%* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame |
35 | %%* OurElvesAreBetter: Or so they seem to think. |
36 | %%* OurFairiesAreDifferent |
37 | %%* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: They have a serious problem with being mistaken for orcs. |
38 | %%* OurGodsAreDifferent: |
39 | %%* OurOrcsAreDifferent: |
40 | %%* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: And cuddlier! |
41 | %%* OurGhostsAreDifferent: |
42 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampires are basically people with a taste for blood, who try their best to [[LargeHam ham it up]]. |
43 | %%* OurZombiesAreDifferent: "Brians. Briiiiiaaaaanssss..." |
44 | %%* ShoutOut: Let's try to count... |
45 | %%** ''Literature/ThePrincessBride'' |
46 | %%** ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' |
47 | %%** ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' |
48 | %%** ''AVeryPotterMusical'' |
49 | %%* SurroundedByIdiots: Alas, poor Hector. |
50 | %%* {{Understatement}}: "So, you're having a bit of day." |
51 | %%* ValleyGirl: Helen, and, possibly to a greater extent, Paris. |
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