History ComicBook / ZombiesChristmasCarol

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Scrooge's sister is alternately named Fan or Fran, sometimes differing between consecutive panels.

* DeadPersonImpersonation: Scrooge pretends to be Marley so the gentlemen asking for help will leave.

* ThePowerOfHate: Turned UpToEleven, as Scrooge was ''so'' nasty [[spoiler:his bitterness and hatred nearly ended the world with the zombie plague]].

* DeathByAdaptation: In the BadFuture, Bob Cratchit dies instead of Tiny Tim, who instead becomes a zombie who ''can't'' die. In the present day, [[spoiler:Scrooge himself dies after saving the day]].

** Jacob Marley was one of the first recorded victims, and also helped spread the plague through his own bitterness and greed.

* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:The horse biting Scrooge when he tried to help it nurtured his hate and evil, leading him to nearly doom the world]]. Notably, Scrooge lampshades how petty an event it really was after his reformation.

* PatientZero: [[spoiler:Scrooge contracted the Hungry Death from a horse, which rotted after administering the bite, and then he became the carrier to the rest of the world]]. Jacob Marley was one of the first recorded victims.

One Christmas Eve, as a plague of zombies inexorably sweeps through London, Scrooge refuses to help anyone affected by the circumstances, including his nephew Fred, his clerk Bob Cratchit, and especially the Hungry Dead themselves. He's visited by the zombie of his former partner, Jacob Marley, who warns Scrooge that he will be visited by three other spirits in his only hope of changing himself and saving the world. For Scrooge has much more to do with this plague than he'd care to admit, and humanity's time is almost up...

* JacobMarleyWarning: With the twist that Marley is not a ghost, but a zombie.

''Zombies Christmas Carol'' is a limited miniseries published by Creator/MarvelComics in 2011. While not connected to their ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'' line, it has themes in common with the work, featuring renowned characters battling the zombie apocalypse--in this case, Ebenezer Scrooge of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.

* PatientZero: [[spoiler:Scrooge contracted the Hungry Death from a horse, which rotted after administering the bite, and then he became the carrier to the rest of the world]]. Jacob Marley was one of the first recorded victims, however.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The ghostly hearse and horses leading it, a random event in the original novel, makes Scrooge dwell on [[spoiler:the infected horse bite he got as a young man]].

* ArtShift: The past scenes are drawn in a different style than the present day, and the issue covers are drawn in a more gritty, realistic style than the comic itself.

* PatientZero: [[spoiler:Scrooge contracted the Hungry Death from a horse, which rotted after administering the bite, and then he became the carrier to the rest of the world]].

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: Even with the presence of zombies, the story is a fairly straight reimagining of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' and keeps to its themes of helping others.

* BadFuture: The vision the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come shows Scrooge is definitely this, with the majority of the population being undead with all their reasoning gone, the few remaining humans hold out futilely in Scrooge's empty house, Fred's whereabouts are unknown, [[spoiler:Bob Cratchit is murdered by his zombified family, and an undead Scrooge rises to lead the zombies]].