Tropes of the Living Dead

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Tropes:

Main tropes:

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Attractive Zombie: A zombie who is beautiful and attractive in spite of being undead.
Beware the Living
Cavalry of the Dead
Clown-Car Grave
The Dead Have Eyes: The undead either still have functioning eyes or are able to see without eyes.
Deadly Lunge
Dead Weight: Obese zombies.
Devoured by the Horde
Elite Zombie
Episode of the Dead
Everything's Deader with Zombies
Fearless Undead
Friendly Zombie
Glowing Eyelights of Undeath
Hemo Erotic
Horror Hunger
Incongruously Dressed Zombie: A zombie wears clothes that makes them stand out more than the other undead corpses seen.

Marionette Motion
Mistaken for Undead
Nazi Zombies: Undead Nazis.
Night of the Living Mooks: The villain uses the undead as their foot soldiers.
No FEMA Response
Not a Zombie: It takes a while for someone to realize a zombie is a zombie in spite of the obvious clues.
Not Using the "Z" Word: A zombie isn't directly called a zombie.
No Zombie Cannibals
Picky People Eater: Zombies only eat specific parts of people.
- Brain Food: Zombies eat brains.
  - Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal: Zombies aren't interested in eating the brains of stupid people.
Pretend We're Dead
Raising the Steaks: Zombie animals.
Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Revenant Zombie: A zombie that is more intelligent and aware of how they were in life than most depictions of the walking dead.
Room Full of Zombies
Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration
SoYouWantTo.Write A Zombie Apocalypse
Spirit-Possessed Zombie

Stages of Monster Grief
Technically Living Zombie: A monster that has everything in common with the typical depiction of a zombie except for the fact that they are not undead.
Title of the Dead
Undead Barefooter: Zombies that don't wear shoes.
Undeathly Pallor
Voodoo Zombie
You Can't Kill What's Already Dead
Zombie Apocalypse
Zombie Gait
Zombie Infectee
- Patient Zero
Zombie Puke Attack