Watch out! Undead Ahead!
Zombies fall precisely into the Uncanny Valley. That's why they're so scary and so fun to kill. This is an index of tropes about them.
Braaaaains...
Compare Vampire Tropes.
Ironically, The Living Dead is not an example.
Tropes:
- Attractive Zombie
- Beware the Living
- Cavalry of the Dead
- Clown-Car Grave
- The Dead Have Eyes
- Deadly Lunge
- Dead Weight
- 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
- Marionette Motion
- Mistaken for Undead
- Nazi Zombies
- Night of the Living Mooks
- No FEMA Response
- Not a Zombie
- Not Using the "Z" Word
- No Zombie Cannibals
- Our Zombies Are Different
- Picky People Eater
- Pretend We're Dead
- Raising the Steaks
- Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
- Revenant Zombie
- Room Full of Zombies
- Sliding Scale of Undead Regeneration
- SoYouWantTo.Write A Zombie Apocalypse
- Spirit-Possessed Zombie
- Stages of Monster Grief
- Technically Living Zombie
- Title of the Dead
- Undead Barefooter
- Undeathly Pallor
- Voodoo Zombie
- You Can't Kill What's Already Dead
- Zombie Apocalypse
- Zombie Gait
- Zombie Infectee
- Zombie Puke Attack
- Zombie Stories