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* BabyOfTheBunch: Ricky Robadella (a student form Novak's gym class during the outbreak) is the youngest and most idealistic of his inner circle, and a NonActionGuy.
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* CoattailRidingRelative: Inez's cousin was Walter's gardener before Inez and Walter got married (following the infection and MercyKill of his first wife) and her cousin got promoted to Walter's inner circle, but given rumors that her cousin put down Walter's first wife when he couldn't do it himself, it's unclear which one of them first came into Walter's favor (Inez for her TrophyWife beauty or her cousin for performing that service) and then managed to get Walter interested in the other one.
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* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Walters chief guard Sakimoto is a judo expert.
* BloodKnight: Pulaski relishes fighting.
* CosyCatastrophe: Downplayed, but it is a former resort town.
* CosyCatastrophe: Downplayed, but it is a former resort town.
* DirtyCoward: Both Walter and Rippey show fear when confronted and accused by an angry Novak and in the backstory when an outbreak breached the gates Riopey was prepared to abandon Devon and Walter remained holed up in the Athena before Novak, Pulaski and Martinez single habdedly cleaned out the zombies inside the gates.
* FireForgedFriends: Novak and Stew were feuding neighbors before the apocalypse brought them together.
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Walter]] enjoys cooking and eating zombies, to Novak’s disgust.
* IOwnThisTown: Walter ran Devon before he outbreak and in the early months afterwards. Reverend Rippey took all of it away form him except for the Hotel Athena after arriving, although he lost The Hill to Novak after he and his group arrived.
* IOwnThisTown: Walter ran Devon before he outbreak and in the early months afterwards. Reverend Rippey took all of it away form him except for the Hotel Athena after arriving, although he lost The Hill to Novak after he and his group arrived.
* NobleTopEnforcer: Ford and Sakiamato are both evenly matched with Novak in a fight, but are both far more moral than the men they serve and don’t necessarily want to fight him.
* OneManArmy: Novak, Pulaski, Stew, Martinez, Sakimoto and Ford are all incredibly formidable against both zombies and humans.
* PapaWolf: Tob Franklin is initially accused of having pinoed out his sleeve year old daughter to one of Walters men but in fact chased the man off with a shotgun and thanks Novak upon hearing he killed him.
* PapaWolf: Tob Franklin is initially accused of having pinoed out his sleeve year old daughter to one of Walters men but in fact chased the man off with a shotgun and thanks Novak upon hearing he killed him.
* SinisterMinister: Reverend Rippey is constantly trying to assassinate his rival, stirs up hate and has child brides.
* SoleSurvivingScientist: Dr Judy Bloch, the last doctor in town works hard to keep the gene pool viable in the limited population and keeps a couple (with their jawbones removed to prevent an outbreak if they get loose) chained up zombies she studies trying to find a way to understand and potentially stop their herd migratory tendencies. The town still isn’t happy when they find out but Novak is able to keep them from lynching her.
* SoleSurvivingScientist: Dr Judy Bloch, the last doctor in town works hard to keep the gene pool viable in the limited population and keeps a couple (with their jawbones removed to prevent an outbreak if they get loose) chained up zombies she studies trying to find a way to understand and potentially stop their herd migratory tendencies. The town still isn’t happy when they find out but Novak is able to keep them from lynching her.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Dr. Bloch remains convinced that humanity can and will bounce back despite their low population. Ricky Robadella obsesses with writing a new US constitution Novak doubts will ever mean anything or comes to pass [[spoiler: and only decided to kill Novak die to feeling he was becoming a dictator, only to change his mind too late when it came down to it]].
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Inez]], who justifies it by saying that otherwise, it would have led to a case it YouKilledMyFather a few years down the road. Novak is far from placated.
* WideEyedIdealist: Dr. Bloch remains convinced that humanity can and will bounce back despite their low population. Ricky Robadella obsesses with writing a new US constitution Novak doubts will ever mean anything or comes to pass [[spoiler: and only decided to kill Novak die to feeling he was becoming a dictator, only to change his mind too late when it came down to it]].
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Inez]], who justifies it by saying that otherwise, it would have led to a case it YouKilledMyFather a few years down the road. Novak is far from placated.
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* FreudianTrio: Novak is the Ego, Pulaski the Id, and Stew the Superego.
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* BittersweetEnding: bear with me here. [[spoiler: Granted, Novak is either dead or [[ZombieInfectee damn sight better off that way]]; however, over the course of the plot he took out all the other town leaders who were, by and large, far bigger scumbags than him. Moreover Stew, Novak's appointed successor and thus most likely to take charge, seems to be both a capable leader and a pretty decent guy.]] Granted, there is the small matter of [[spoiler: a zombie swarm]] but beyond that things just might improve for the community.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Novak uses a hatchet in his dominant hand to split zombie, or "geek," skulls.
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* DropTheHammer: Novak uses a small sledgehammer in his offhand. Additionally, other fighting men are described as carrying "guns and hammers." Makes sense, as after a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie apocalypse]], you take what you can find and there are hammers everywhere.
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Five years after the Zombie Apocalypse, a community of survivors has made a home in the California vacation town of Devon. Glen Novak, one of the town fathers, has been bitten by a zombie head intentionally planted in his home. Now he has 24 hours to find who killed him before he turns. ''[[http://www.captainsupermarket.com/undead-on-arrival.html Undead On Arrival Arrival]]'' is a zombie noir novel.
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* AgentPeacock: Pulaski, Novak's transvestite enforcer, who spends most of the books gleefully cutting people and zombies apart with a katana (and dancing to Michael Jackson). Unlike everyone else in town, Pulaski doesn't use a gun. He doesn't need one.
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* AntiHero: Glen Novak isn't exactly a nice guy. He's the best of a group of bad men.
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* CueTheRain: Devon gets hit by a rainstorm right when [[spoiler: the building zombie horde breaks through the town gates.]]
* Badass: Pulaski, Novak's enforcer, who spends most of the books gleefully cutting people and zombies apart with a katana (and dancing to Michael Jackson). Unlike everyone else in town, Pulaski doesn't use a gun. He doesn't need one.
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