History Film / WorldWarZ

* NoYou: Gerry knows immediately that the person questioning him isn't the head of the CDC in Wales, and correctly addresses the real one.

* ThousandYardStare: On the pharmacist clerk Gerry and Rachel run into -- something of an OhCrap moment as he's wearing a hoodie and pointing a gun at them. Subverted when he just asks what drugs they want and gives it to them free of charge. Gerry has to shoot someone in the store moments later, so the clerk's behavior is entirely understandable. The clerk told them the medicine he gave them worked for his son, then watches Gerry and his daughter leave with barely discernible tears in his eyes. If his son didn't make it, then he's going to give someone else a fighting chance. There's a dead body on the floor of the pharmacy, so it's likely the clerk had to shoot someone just a short time before, explaining his stunned expression.
* TitleIn: New locations get an identifying title in the lower left hand of the screen.

* ParentalAbandonment: Tom's parents end up zombiefied, leaving him orphaned. Gerry's family takes him in as one of them without missing a beat.

* TechnicallyLivingZombie: Despite being described as undead, is clear that at least at first the virus infects and chages living people. Most likely the issue is that the infected persons ''keep moving'' after death.

* ZombieGait: They have the stilted walk, mainly when dormant. Though these zombies are also capable of climbing, crawling, and ''running''.

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: ''Inverted'', when [[spoiler:Dr. Fassbach and the soldiers with him are attacked by zombies. Fassbach, who was explicitly told to keep his finger off of the trigger to avoid any misfires, panics, tightly grips the trigger, and runs up into the plane- before slipping face-first on the wet ramp as he uses his gun hand to try to catch the fall. Finger pulls the trigger, [[BoomHeadshot his brains splatter with the newfound hole in his head.]] There's a damn good reason why running around with your finger on the trigger is a bad idea in the first place.]]

* DoomedTacticalTeam: The Navy SEALS assigned to escort Gerry and Dr Fassbach during their journey don't survive the investigation to South Korea.

* CrowbarCombatant: The weapons given to the protagonists when they sneak into Ward B, so they can kill silently. [[spoiler:The axe gets used to hold a door open, Segen prefers to use her pistol instead of the bat as she's only got one hand (surprise is blown by then anyway) and Gerry has an OhCrap moment when his crowbar gets jammed in a zombie's skull and another one is running towards him.]] With the heavy [[DoesNotLikeGuns restrictions on firearms]] in the United Kingdom, resorting to blunt weaponry is pretty much the ''only'' option left available to them.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Zombies, duh, but also, [[spoiler:The disease only infects healthy humans. The 'vaccine' for the zombie plague involves unfecting a non-zombie with a different life threatening disease. The zombies will ignore them. It's also suggested that immunity can be achieved by limiting the non-zombie's ability to perform as a zombie. Examples: amputating an appendage before the infection sets in, or removing all of a non-zombie's teeth.]]
** Actually averted. [[spoiler:Zombies are explained to behave like predators, and avoid diseased prey. Also, removing non-zombie's teeth does not give immunity from bites, it prevents them from biting other people if they get turned.]]