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1'''Basic Trope''': The EldritchAbomination is undead in nature.
2* '''Straight''':
3** Romero is a grotesque god-like entity that takes the form of an amorphous [[BodyOfBodies conglomeration of rotting bodies]] and is described as being beyond our definition of life and death.
4** {{Dracula}} is a monstrous vampiric entity with powers and immunities alien to other vampires, other vampires being mere watered down copies of himself.
5* '''Exaggerated''':
6** Romero is an undead Great Old One/Outer God who is the physical incarnation of the concept of death itself.
7** {{Dracula}} is a Great Old One/Outer God who [[CompleteImmortality cannot die no matter what]], whose [[WalkingWasteland very presence brings death and disease to the land around him]] and shatters the minds of mortals. The first vampires, who he [[MonsterProgenitor created]] by [[TheVirus turning humans]], have powers and immunities that are alien to other vampires, and all other vampires are their (and, by extension, his) descendants.
8* '''Downplayed''':
9** Romero is an undead [[StarfishAlien Starfish Alien]].
10** Romero is a very old undead who has changed his body using science or forbidden magic, and [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody as his body became less human]], [[TheCorruption so did his mindset]].
11** {{Dracula}} is a VampireMonarch, but his demeanor and his strange powers suggest that he's more than what he appears, [[HumanoidAbomination and those who look at him get the feeling that something's really off about him]] even if there are no [[GlamourFailure obvious signs]] to point at.
12* '''Justified''':
13** Romero was originally a regular god that was afflicted with undeath.
14** Romero is the [[TheGrimReaper god of death]].
15** Romero was an EldritchAbomination [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth that got infected by a]] [[TheVirus zombie virus]].
16** {{Dracula}} was a normal vampire that enhanced himself with sorcery, science or both.
17** {{Dracula}} is the MonsterProgenitor of the vampire-race.
18** Life and death are opposites, and being undead essentially entails being both at once; just as one cannot go left and right at the same time without [[AlienGeometries flagrantly violating the laws of physics]], one cannot be in a state which is both living and dead unless the laws of nature no longer apply to them.
19** Romero was [[WasOnceAMan once]] [[TranshumanAbomination a human being]] who died, but was resurrected using magic [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow that man was not meant to meddle with]], causing them to ComeBackWrong.
20* '''Inverted''':
21** Romero is the embodiment of life.
22** {{Dracula}} is the sole human on a planet of vampires, thus his immunity to sunlight and garlic makes ''him'' the supernatural one. Not only that, but since these vampires have never partaken in Earthling human blood, feeding on him will turn ''them'' into humans instead of turning him into a vampire.
23* '''Subverted''': 
24** Romero can be killed with the right kind of AncientArtifact.
25** {{Dracula}} can width-stand a lot of things that would normally kill a vampire, but you hit at him hard enough and he will eventually stay down.
26* '''Double Subverted''': 
27** If you manage to find a way to kill Romero, it will cause his dying body to inflict an undead curse upon the world creating a ZombieApocalypse for it to rebuild its body.
28** {{Dracula}} can be killed, but he is resurrected soon after.
29* '''Parodied:'''
30** Romero disassembles his grotesque BodyOfBodies into a small army of zombies... who then go on to reenact Michael Jackson's ''Thriller''.
31** Dracula is a unique type of vampire... since he is the only vampire with traditional vampire powers from fiction.
32* '''Deconstructed:''' Being a bunch of dead bodies lumped together, Romero is super-vulnerable to the ailments that dead bodies suffer from. Lack of internal body heat causes him to freeze in below-freezing temperatures. If the weather is too hot, then the bodies bloat from internal gas and may even explode, the bacteria in its system causing decay to accelerate. Its rotting body attracts carrion-feeding birds, lizards and other animals, with the maggots and worms in its body devouring its flesh. As it moves, its lack of regenerating cells causes its muscles and joints to slowly atrophy, and thus Romero will eventually be robbed of all strength and mobility. Within a few weeks (if not days) of manifesting, all that will be left of Romero is an immobile collection of skeletons along the road.
33* '''Reconstructed:''' Romero suffers from the long-term effects of decomposition and rots away... only to reveal that his BodyOfBodies was actually a pupa-esq stage, an obscenely more powerful skeleton-like HumanoidAbomination emerging from the pile of bones and rotten goo that was once its body.
34* '''Zig Zagged:''' Romero can not only turn all dead bodies (including ones he had personally killed) around him into his undead slaves, but he can also assimilate those undead slaves, thus he has a limitless supply of fresh meat to keep himself together, disposing of useless parts and replacing them with usable ones. He also requires to eat the flesh of living beings, but that is only because he is pregnant with what will eventually become the next God of Life... which will die during childbirth and become another Undead Abomination.
35* '''Averted:'''
36** Romero is just another zombie.
37** Dracula was just another vampire.
38* '''Enforced:'''
39** The studio wanted a reason for the ZombieApocalypse to happen because they think that audiences cannot handle an AmbiguousSituation in their introspective Horror movie.
40** Audiences want Dracula to be different from every other vampire and so the studio turned him into a vampire god.
41* '''Implied:'''
42** Scientists have captured and are studying a zombie, discovering that all of the zombies roaming the Earth are not mindless and are acting as drones for a signal being sent from somewhere in the cosmos.
43** Vampire Society has a religion that worships Dracula as a sort of Christ-like savior who will single-handedly conquer the world for vampire-kind.
44* '''Logical Extreme:'''
45** All forms of undead (zombies, vampires, ghouls, mummies, etc.) will become more and more monstrous and unstoppable as time goes by, eventually becoming an unlimited pantheon of twisted gods with enough power to destroy the universe if mankind does not eradicate all of them quickly.
46** Romero is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Zombification as an abstract concept.
47** {{Dracula}} is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Vampirism as an abstract concept.
48* '''Played for Laughs:''' Romero manifests... only to trip because he has so many legs that he does not know how to walk in our dimension. When he hits the ground, his body falls apart in a heap of disembodied parts, his various disembodied heads cursing in frustration.
49* '''Played for Drama:''' ???
50* '''Played for Horror:''' While zombies were a big enough threat on their own, they could have been killed with a quick gunshot to the head and eventually dealt with. When Romero manifests however, he turns all of the zombies into creatures that cannot die even when the brain is destroyed. He then controls the zombies, turning them from a mindless horde into an organized army that can thoroughly outwit the human survivors and eradicate the rest of mankind.
51* '''Exaggerated''':
52** All EldritchAbomination[=s=] were once regular gods who's physical forms were mangled and twisted beyond recognition due to the disagreeable reaction of dying that they endured.
53** Dracula LooksLikeOrlok (and even ''that'' is just a form he takes as to not shatter the mind's fragile hinges) and is not only immune to most vampire weaknesses, but he can slowly inflict vampirism onto any human close by that lacks the faith to fight his influence.
54** Dracula is an incarnation of Nyarlathotep.
55* '''Downplayed''':
56** Romero is a hulking mutant zombie with tentacles that can still be killed if you destroy his brain.
57** {{Dracula}} is more powerful than regular vampires, but he is still vulnerable to weaknesses associated with vampires.
58* '''Lampshaded''': "Corpses walking around are unnatural enough, and now you're telling me that there are things out there that make them look normal?!"
59* '''Invoked:''' [[MadArtist An artist driven mad]] by the ZombieApocalypse manages to capture a bunch of zombies and zombified animals and sews them together into FleshGolem under the delusion that he was creating a vessel for {{God}} in hopes that he could use his divine power to end the ZombieApocalypse.
60* '''Defied:''' "It would have to have been alive in the first place for it to be undead."
61* '''Exploited:''' ???
62* '''Discussed:''' ???
63* '''Conversed:''' ???
64* '''Untwisted:''' ???
65* '''Unparodied:''' ???
66* '''Gender Inverted:''' ???

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