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* The original ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire'' has a whole town (aptly named Romero) full of the walking dead. Though they don't try to harm you, [[VillainByDefault it still becomes your duty to put them back into the ground.]]
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* ''{{Borderlands}}'': The first DLC will have zombies.
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* In ''OddJobJack'', Leo creates an army of zombies to out-evil Jack, but the city accepts them, finding the swarm preferable to meter maids. Heck, many even find their presence and improvement!
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* On ''InvaderZim,'' Zim breaks into the mall to return a video tape, leading the security guard to release his zombie army. PlayedForLaughs in that the zombies just sort of stumble around aimlessly, mostly bumping into each other and ignoring Zim completely.
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* In ''OddJobJack'', Leo creates an army of zombies to out-evil Jack, but the city accepts them, finding the swarm preferable to meter maids. Heck, many even find their presence and improvement!
* In ''OddJobJack'', Leo creates an army of zombies to out-evil Jack, but the city accepts them, finding the swarm preferable to meter maids. Heck, many even find their presence and improvement!
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* ''{{House}}'' featured Zombies in a fantasy sequence during the seventh season episode "Bombshells." House killed zombie versions of Foreman, Chase, Taub and Masters with a cane that doubled as a shotgun and axe.
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* ''{{House}}'' ''Series/{{House}}'' featured Zombies in a fantasy sequence during the seventh season episode "Bombshells." House killed zombie versions of Foreman, Chase, Taub and Masters with a cane that doubled as a shotgun and axe.
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* [[SCPFoundation SCP-008]]. The world accessible through SCP-093 suffered what's essentially a ZombieApocalypse under the application of a truly ''epic'' instance of OurZombiesAreDifferent. They fit the archetype of the endlessly hungry, seemingly-mindless hordes of the restless dead, but... well, when the ''smallest'' difference is that they're up to ''six stories'' tall, you know you're dealing with something weird here.
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* [[SCPFoundation [[WebOriginal/SCPFoundation SCP-008]]. The world accessible through SCP-093 suffered what's essentially a ZombieApocalypse under the application of a truly ''epic'' instance of OurZombiesAreDifferent. They fit the archetype of the endlessly hungry, seemingly-mindless hordes of the restless dead, but... well, when the ''smallest'' difference is that they're up to ''six stories'' tall, you know you're dealing with something weird here.
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* ''KoreWaZombieDesuKa'' has a zombie as the main character WITH A HAREM.
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* There's even a book titled ''Theories of International Politics and Zombies'' by political scientist Dan Drezner, which studies real-life international politics through the lens of a ZombieApocalypse--because [[RuleOfCool why the hell not?]]
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* [[Tara T-ara]] made three versions of the music video for their song "Lovey Dovey" that included a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUoFqGNW0E zombie version]]. It comes complete with a nod to "Thriller" by MichaelJackson.
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* [[Tara T-ara]] {{T-ara}} made three versions of the music video for their song "Lovey Dovey" that included a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUoFqGNW0E zombie version]]. It comes complete with a nod to "Thriller" by MichaelJackson.
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* {{Tara}} made three versions of the music video for their song "Lovey Dovey" that included a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUoFqGNW0E zombie version]]. It comes complete with a nod to "Thriller" by MichaelJackson.
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* {{Tara}} made three versions of the music video for their song "Lovey Dovey" that included a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUoFqGNW0E zombie version]]. It comes complete with a nod to "Thriller" by MichaelJackson.
* {{Tara}} made three versions of the music video for their song "Lovey Dovey" that included a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcUoFqGNW0E zombie version]]. It comes complete with a nod to "Thriller" by MichaelJackson.
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* In Austin, TX, pranksters broke the locks on highway construction signs and altered them to read: [[ZombieApocalypse THE END IS NEAR]]! ZOMBIES AHEAD! RUN! [[WorldWarZ RUN TO COLD CLIMATES]]! [[DeadSnow NAZI ZOMBIES]]!
** Unfortunately, this happened once during a hurricane evacuation. Nobody panicked, thankfully, but it could have been a lot worse with the evacuees who were already under stress from the possibility of having lost most of their Earthly possessions.
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* In Austin, TX, pranksters broke the locks on highway construction signs and altered them to read: [[ZombieApocalypse THE END IS NEAR]]! ZOMBIES AHEAD! RUN! [[WorldWarZ RUN TO COLD CLIMATES]]! [[DeadSnow [[Film/DeadSnow NAZI ZOMBIES]]!
**ZOMBIES]]! Unfortunately, this happened once during a hurricane evacuation. Nobody panicked, thankfully, but it could have been a lot worse with the evacuees who were already under stress from the possibility of having lost most of their Earthly possessions.
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* IDW Comics is planning a {{Crisis|Crossover}} CrossThrough miniseries called "[[http://trekmovie.com/2010/10/08/idw-infestation-series-to-mix-zombies-with-star-trek-other-licensees Infestation]]", crossing ''Zombies vs. Robots'' over with ''StarTrek'', ''{{Transformers|Ongoing}}'', ''GIJoe'', and ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' (but not said four licensed properties with each other), with canonical consequences for everyone involved. ''Trek'' and ''{{Transformers}}'' fan reactions has been... [[RuinedFOREVER about as expected]].
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* Draugrs from ''Skyrim''.
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* Every game in the ''SaintsRow'' series has at least one homie who ends up dying in a cutscene, who you then have the option of bringing back as a zombie. ''The Third'' finally makes them part of the actual storyline when [[spoiler:the Boss accidentally unleashes a virus over one of the islands of Steelport, resulting in the bridges to it being raised and everybody within becoming zombies for the rest of the game.]]
* Every game in the ''SaintsRow'' series has at least one homie who ends up dying in a cutscene, who you then have the option of bringing back as a zombie. ''The Third'' finally makes them part of the actual storyline when [[spoiler:the Boss accidentally unleashes a virus over one of the islands of Steelport, resulting in the bridges to it being raised and everybody within becoming zombies for the rest of the game.]]
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* MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fangame ''Fanfic/StoryOfTheBlanks'' has Apple Bloom stumbling into a TownWithADarkSecret, [[spoiler:and all the ponies there were cursed in ages past following a murder, becoming zombies. Apple Bloom barely escapes becoming one herself (if you win).]]
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* MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fangame ''Fanfic/StoryOfTheBlanks'' has Apple Bloom stumbling into a TownWithADarkSecret, [[spoiler:and all the ponies there were cursed in ages past following a murder, becoming zombies. Apple Bloom barely escapes becoming one herself (if you win).]]
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* Threed in ''{{EarthBound}}''.
** ''{{Mother 3}}'' also had some zombies in the beginning of Duster's chapter, who were (coincidentally) [[spoiler:Hinawa and Claus]] like.
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* Threed in ''{{EarthBound}}''.
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**''{{Mother ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' also had some zombies in the beginning of Duster's chapter, who were (coincidentally) [[spoiler:Hinawa and Claus]] like.
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* ''{{Hellboy}}'' had a small eastern European town beset by a horde of zombies. [[HeroicBystander The townsfolk took care of it.]]
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* ''{{Supernatural}}'' didn't have a Romero-style zombie until the fifth season, although there was a second-season episode with a "classic necromancy" form of zombie. At one point Sam tricked Dean into going on a personal mission by claiming they had to go zombie-hunting, and Dean really seemed to be looking forward to it. Although the victims of the [[TheVirus Croatoan virus]] are zombie-like.
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* As if being hounded by Jason Voorhees himself in ''Game/{{Friday the 13th}}'' wasn't enough, there are also zombies of his past victims shuffling around the campsite.
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** The original zombie skin has been re-released as an equippable item; it's worth noting that this was the only act in Gaian history to be unanimously well-received by the UnpleasableFanbase.
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* In the [[Series/DoctorWho Second Doctor]] story "The Web of Fear", the evil Great Intelligence operated chiefly through the body of [[spoiler:Staff Sergeant Arnold]], KIA early on in the emergency. Similarly a character in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" gets reanimated by the bad guys for no apparent reason except RuleOfCool.
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* Black Butler manga, chapter 53. From the setup, one would have initially expected Frankenstein's Monster.
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* Key antagonists in the battle on the Plains of Death in ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached''. Paul loves them because destroying them doesn't compromise his [[ActualPacifist Actual Pacifism]].
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* ''Fido'', wherein people keep zombies as pets.
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->'''Random Guy''': Doctor, my sister has cancer.....ZOMBIE CANCER!
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->'''Steve:''' All right. What's with the Zombies?\\
'''Eric:''' Oh them. [...] They only come up here when they're bored.
-->-- ''[[http://www.radioactivepanda.com Radioactive Panda]]''
->'''Random Guy''': Doctor, my sister has cancer.....ZOMBIE CANCER!
-->-- ''[[AwesomeSeries Awesome Center: Under the Awesome]]''
There's a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Romero-style]] zombie shambling around, but it's not a ZombieApocalypse. So what's it doing here? [[RuleOfCool Because zombies are cool]]. Whether it's to set up a LowFantasy setting with necromantic {{Horror}}s, add an element of comedy, or simply to add variety, some works of fiction feature Zombies in a less than central position. It doesn't even have to have a reason. The zombie is there just because.
This is something of a popular advertising gimmick for games, MMORPG's, and ComicBooks these days. Just like slapping [[WolverinePublicity Wolverine]] on the cover adds to sales, a "zombie invasion", "Halloween Episode", or other stunt can drive up sales and give a fun BreatherEpisode from more plot heavy story arcs.
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* Halloween specials and events used to mean a variety of monsters. Now it just means a zombie episode or zombies spawning in {{MMORPG}}s everywhere.
* This ad [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBvMuMOV-aM]] from Puerto Rico for the Toyota Highlander. "Just as they adapted to a world of zombies, the Highlander adapts to your life." Possibly the most off-topic ad ever.
* There's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EifYFtMxFZw a "turn off your cell phone" advisory that runs in certain movie theaters]] depicting a TooDumbToLive woman talking on her phone who nearly gets caught in a ShowdownAtHighNoon, and [[TheWarSequence a battlefield]], before finally being overwhelmed and devoured by a horde of zombies.
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* In a Toshiba laptop commercial, an inferior laptop triggers a chain reaction of mishaps involving a power station, a nationwide blackout, and spoiled milk, culminating in a horde of zombies.
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* One episode of ''ExcelSaga'' (which throws in ''a lot'' of things just for the hell of it).
* The NegativeContinuity Halloween episode of ''SamuraiChamploo'' had zombies in it.
* The "Thriller Bark" Arc of ''OnePiece'' has an army of zombies and their creators as the major antagonists. Of course, being ''[[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness One Piece]]'', these zombies are considerably [[RuleOfFunny more comedy flavored than usual]].
* The enemies of ''[[AllThereInTheManual StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'', a special Sound Drama of the ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' series featuring a mini-arc set between the third and fourth season? The [[NightOfTheLivingMooks Mariage]], an army of [[ActionBomb Kamikaze]] SuperSoldier [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Cyborg Zombies]].
* Sid Barret from ''SoulEater''; an awesome, blue zombie -- with tattoos! Actually, he's only seen alive in one of the first three episodes where the series is running through its DebutQueue, after that he's killed and well... a zombie. He's not just slight comic relief with his "That's the man I used to be" lines, but he's also an extremely skilled fighter and weapon technician.
* ''DGrayMan'' has the Order Relocation Arc, which is started off with a faux ZombieApocalypse when MadScientist Komui gives the Science Team members "Komuvitamin D".
** Komui created the Komuvitamin D, but it was the ghost that gave it to poor Arystar Krory and started the whole mess.
* ''KoreWaZombieDesuKa'' has a zombie as the main character WITH A HAREM.
* Ling-Ling from ''RosarioToVampire'' is a zombie, and she makes a point to remind everyone that [[CatchPhrase she's already dead]].
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* Topps has a card range called Hollywood Zombies.
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* ''{{Hellboy}}'' had a small eastern European town beset by a horde of zombies. [[HeroicBystander The townsfolk took care of it.]]
* ''BlackestNight'' shows that the only thing worse than a horde of intelligent zombies is a horde of intelligent zombies with ''GreenLanternRing''s.
* [[DCUniverse Solomon Grundy]], named after the nursery rhyme.
* CarlBarks and DonRosa [[WaltDisney Scrooge McDuck]] stories have Bombie the Zombie, a zombie who chases Scrooge around the world. He's a bit slow, so it may take years for him to catch up after a defeat.
* IDW Comics is planning a {{Crisis|Crossover}} CrossThrough miniseries called "[[http://trekmovie.com/2010/10/08/idw-infestation-series-to-mix-zombies-with-star-trek-other-licensees Infestation]]", crossing ''Zombies vs. Robots'' over with ''StarTrek'', ''{{Transformers|Ongoing}}'', ''GIJoe'', and ''{{Ghostbusters}}'' (but not said four licensed properties with each other), with canonical consequences for everyone involved. ''Trek'' and ''{{Transformers}}'' fan reactions has been... [[RuinedFOREVER about as expected]].
* The second issue of the FunnyAnimal [[TheStoner Stoner]] comic ''{{Horndog}}'' was based uround a zombie invasion.
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* In ''AnAmericanCarol'', Malone has a vision of the [=ACLU=] as relentless zombies.
* Film/{{Rumpelstiltskin}} summons zombies to help him to claim the soul of the baby Johnny.
* In ''Deathstalker II'' the ... hero? ... let's say protagonist stops to rob a tomb he's travelling past, and has to fight off a zombie horde for his troubles.
* After being a supernatural SlasherFilm most of its run, ''Film/TheDeadPit'' throws zombies into the mix.
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* Book 2 of the ''LoneWolf'' series, ''Fire on the Water'', has a whole ghostly fleet maned by undeads as the last obstacle of the story, including zombie crewmates. Since this is just after Lone Wolf gains [[InfinityPlusOneSword the Sommerswerd]], the ultimate weapon against the living deads, they really aren't much of a threat.
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* [[ZombiesVsUnicorns Team Zombie]] thinks so.
* Zombie appear in ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'', but they are simply undead instead of dangerous. They tend to be emotionally upsetting since they are ambulatory beings in a state of continuous rot, but the {{Power of Love}} can help them regain their humanity until they are indistinguishable from living persons.
* ''PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies''. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** Seeing the rights for this book were being disputed by Hollywood, a Brazilian movie magazine parodied this trope by suggesting/creating other stories [[RecycledINSPACE WITH ZOMBIES]]: ''KramerVsKramer vs. Zombies'', ''[[DeadPoetsSociety Undead Poets Society]]'', ''[[{{WALL-E}} ZOMB-E]]'', and ''[[GoneWithTheWind Gone with the Zombies]]''.
** And Brazil also saw its own version: classic novel ''[[PosthumousNarration The Posthumous Memoirs]] of Bras Cubas'' became ''The Undead Memoirs of Bras Cubas''.
* There IS a short story titled "Everything's Better with Zombies".
* {{Discworld}}'s zombies, seeing as they're basically the same person's mind and body, just... dead, aren't usually plot-central. One member of the City Watch, Reg Shoe, is a zombie, for example, and a reasonably okay guy. The only "bad" zombie is Mr. Slant, but that has more to do with him being an AmoralAttorney than a zombie.
** The ''Discworld'' novel ''Discworld/ReaperMan'' details an actual zombie apocalypse (or more precisely, an undead apocalypse... with zombies!) caused by Death being fired for taking too much of an interest in his work. {{Hilarity ensues}}.
*** There's zombies in ''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment'' as well, and they're the more classic variety, but still don't eat any brains, they're just restless dead followers of the Duchess. Reg Shoe, who's accompanying Vimes on a diplomatic mission, regards them as an embarrassment (although this is the same guy who gives lectures to graveyards).
* The Cauldron-Born in the ''PrydainChronicles'' are reanimated corpses that exist only to slay for BigBad Arawn.
* ''ColtRegan: Demon Hunter'' contains a section where zombies show up, for almost no reason, which [[WordOfGod the author]] will tell you was in there because zombies rule.
* The Inferi from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' are zombies in everything but name (with the Frankenstein monster's PopCulturalOsmosis fear of fire).
** It should be noted that Romero zombies are also scared of fire, as seen in ''Night of the Living Dead'' when they use fire to keep the ghouls from entering the house.
* There's a Kelly Link short story called "The Hortlak" about a convenience store patronized by the undead; they're not actually carnivorous, but the clerks find them unsettling.
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* ''FraggleRock''. Doc is excited about one of the games for his new computer.
-->'''Doc:''' ''Zombie Attack''! "Chase the alien enemy zombies from outer space, hurling flaming marshmallows!" Oh, yes, Sprocket! It sounds like a challenge!
* "[[DegrassiTheNextGeneration Degrassi of the Dead]]"
* The "Green Men" from the ''DarkTower'' series by Stephen King, though they're [[OurZombiesAreDifferent actually mutants]].
* One episode of ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Dead Man's Party'' had a mask that was making a bunch of people come back as homicidal zombies, which had no real relevance to the ongoing plot about Buffy returning after having run away from home. ("Look at my mask. Isn't it pretty? It raises the dead. Americans!") Also, in an episode of ''{{Angel}}'', ''Habeaus Corpses'' an evil law firm was being destroyed by a terrible monster, and for no apparent reason most of the lawyers turned into zombies.
** It was a supernatural safeguard against unwelcome intruders. After all, Wolfram & Hart is led by very old demons who do not want to share their secrets. And fortunately for Gunn, they left out the "Bite makes a convert".
** In the episode ''The Zeppo'', Xander ran into a guy who somehow had the ability to reanimate dead people with a special charm. They still kept their intelligence, but they also kept their wounds.
** In the ''{{Angel}}'' episode ''Provider'', there was also one guy who was a zombie, and all he wanted to do was hook up with his ex-girlfriend. It's unknown what exactly brought him to undeath.
*** The girlfriend poisoned him. He died. He came back as a zombie. She forgave him for cheating. He forgave her for killing him. They kissed and made up.
** In an earlier episode, ''The Thin Dead Line'', Angel and [[FairCop Kate]] discovered a police chief had raised all the dead cops in a particular bad area of LA as zombie policemen.
* ''{{Supernatural}}'' didn't have a Romero-style zombie until the fifth season, although there was a second-season episode with a "classic necromancy" form of zombie. At one point Sam tricked Dean into going on a personal mission by claiming they had to go zombie-hunting, and Dean really seemed to be looking forward to it. Although the victims of the [[TheVirus Croatoan virus]] are zombie-like.
* In the [[Series/DoctorWho Second Doctor]] story "The Web of Fear", the evil Great Intelligence operated chiefly through the body of [[spoiler:Staff Sergeant Arnold]], KIA early on in the emergency. Similarly a character in "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" gets reanimated by the bad guys for no apparent reason except RuleOfCool.
** The Ninth Doctor, Rose and ''CharlesDickens'' teamed up to fight zombies in Victorian Cardiff on Christmas Eve in "The Unquiet Dead".
* The Charmed Ones in ''{{Charmed}}'' have to fight against zombies created by a necromancer and Zankou.
* In the 2010 Halloween episode of ''{{Community}}'' the students and staff of Greendale Community College had to deal with a mysterious fever that seemed very similar to that of a stereotypical zombie virus. Their memories were conveniently wiped at the end of the episode, and it will likely [[InternalRetcon never be mentioned again.]]
* ''{{House}}'' featured Zombies in a fantasy sequence during the seventh season episode "Bombshells." House killed zombie versions of Foreman, Chase, Taub and Masters with a cane that doubled as a shotgun and axe.
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* TheUndertaker, a wrestling zombie introduced during TheNineties which went on to become one of the most successful [[TheGimmick gimmicks]] in the business, remaining one of the most prominent wrestlers in ''{{WWE}}'' [[TheArtifact even though his presence contrasts sharply with the more normal gimmicks of today]].
* It what may have been evidence that the {{WWE}} version of {{ECW}} was indeed a FranchiseZombie, the very first wrestler to compete was... the Zombie.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Quarantine Mode in ''CombatArms''.
* ''Warcraft'' games have plenty. The first campaign in ''{{Warcraft}} 3'' was about trying to stop a ZombieApocalypse, the second had you playing the other side and continuing where the first one left off. Following campaigns also had you fighting against the undead. In the Frozen Throne Expansion the Night Elves campaign had a visit into a zombie-infested lands, Blood Elves campaign begun with trying to stop a massive wave of undead. And of course there was an Undead campaign in which you continued to crush the remaining bastions of humanity before first pausing for a civil war and later leaving for Northrend.
** In WorldOfWarcraft the free-willed zombies are one of the playable races for the Horde. There also were two zombie invasions. First one heralded the introduction of Naxxramas. The second unleashed [[TheVirus the plague of undeath]] on the lands -- you could become infected and, if not cured in time, transform into an evil[[hottip:* :not the normally playable one]] zombie and spread TheVirus further. The second invasion heralded the Wrath Of The Lich King expansion, in which the players task is to venture into the Northrend, infested with undead from top[[hottip:* : {{Big Bad}}s EvilTowerOfOminousness is the highest point of the continent]] to bottom[[hottip:* : the ruins of arachnid's civilization, conquered and converted by the undead]].
*** ''Warcraft'' likes zombies a ''lot''.
* ''{{Starcraft}}'': ''Wings of Liberty'' had a mission where you had to fight off colonists who were infested by the Zerg. They were zombies in all but name.
* As did ''CityOfHeroes''. In addition to the Zombie invasions in CityofHeroes, there are zombies in pretty much every flavour wandering about as antagonists, or, if you're a villain, as ''minions''.
** Nothing prevents you from stopping crime and protecting the innocent as a zombie ''hero'' either.
* ''{{Nox}}'' had zombies as standard monsters mid-game (and they get upgraded later), but it was justified by the fact that the hero's primary enemies were necromancers.
* ''GrandTheftAutoIV'' has a "viral" achievement called "Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie" which you get be killing someone who has it already (the developers started with it, so it spread from them). It unlocks the ability to play as a zombie in a speedo. No joke.
* Threed in ''{{EarthBound}}''.
** ''{{Mother 3}}'' also had some zombies in the beginning of Duster's chapter, who were (coincidentally) [[spoiler:Hinawa and Claus]] like.
* ''[[CallOfDuty Call of Duty: World at War]]'' now has four bonus levels featuring -- [[ThoseWackyNazis what else]] -- ''NaziZombies''.[[hottip:* :Okay, one level has you fighting ''Japanese'' zombies, but "Nazi Zombies" is more fun to say]]. Some of them even goosestep instead of shambling.
* ''{{Fallout}}'' has ghouls, unfortunate folks who got a lethal dose of radiation and didn't die. Many of them are quite sane, if a little worse for wear, but are the new victims of bigotry in a world where human slavery is colorblind, and are often forced to eke out an existence separate from the rest of society. Why? Because in the end, every last one of them will degenerate into the feral zombies that gives the civil ones such a bad name. The sad irony is, the isolation and forced habitation in radioactive areas is the very thing that accelerates the process.
* ''HalfLife 2'': "We don't go to Ravenholm..."
** Apart from that rather infamous level, both ''HalfLife'' games had zombies as fairly weak, slow opponents that were only really threatening in large numbers or small spaces. Apart from (in the second game) the fast ones. And the poison ones. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Brr]].
** Notably, the creatures which cause the zombies are, in the sequel, loaded into artillery and used as offensive weapons.
* The DLC for RedDeadRedemption ''[[RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare Undead Nightmare]]'' uses the original setting of game, but throws in a zombie plague to create instant awesome.
* The Dustmen in ''PlanescapeTorment'' use zombies as laborers and offer people large amounts of money in exchange for use of their body after they die.
* ''{{Diablo}}''. Certain monsters can resurrect the undead. In Act V of the second game, Reanimated Horde-type monsters have a random probability of resurrecting themselves, and can do so up to three times.
* Some of the ''VideoGame/ArmyMen'' games have zombies thrown in just for the hell of it.
* Most of the baddies in the ''{{Doom}}'' games are demons, but there's no shortage of undead. Most of these are soldiers that can fire their guns at you, but ''3'' introduces the classic, flesh eating, slow shambling variety.
* ''SoulCalibur'''s Cervantes is one, while Astaroth is a "Golem" (read: Frankenstein's Monster).
* The original ''Game/{{Breath of Fire}}'' has a whole town (aptly named Romero) full of the walking dead. Though they don't try to harm you, [[VillainByDefault it still becomes your duty to put them back into the ground.]]
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade: Bloodlines'' had a cemetery level full of zombies at one point, in direct homage to Romero films. The exact reason for their appearance has never been explained, considering that [[spoiler:no Gehenna actually happened]]. There are two other major zombie sequences in the game -- one caused by a virus and the other caused by vampire necromancy. Despite the stark difference between the origins of the three zombie groups in the game, they all move, act, and are essentially the exact same things.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'', a TowerDefense game where [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you fight off invading zombies with an army of plants.]]
* ''{{Borderlands}}'': The first DLC will have zombies.
* GuildWars has at least 2 different kinds of zombies (without including necromancer minions).
** There are about 3 major zombie armies, (the Orr zombies, the plague zombies and Joko's zombies) as well as numerous smaller groups. (Unless you count Joko's zombies as mummies.)
* One of the recurring monsters in ''FinalFantasy'' was Zombies. Even in ''FinalFantasyTacticsA2'', a character named [[spoiler:Frimelda Lotice]] used to be a zombie.
* NeverwinterNights featured serveral areas infested with zombies.
* ''MassEffect'' has husks -- basically, cybernetic zombies created by devices known as "dragon's teeth" which are enormous spikes that bodies are impaled on. While impaled, cybernetic implants are put into the body to make it obey orders and give it one of several abilities, most commonly a large electrical explosion. In ''Mass Effect 2'', new variants of the husks appear, including a version that consists of several bodies mashed together and equipped with a huge cannon, a massive amalgam of about thirty corpses turned into an enormous living, flying tank, and a form of husk that is [[IncendiaryExponent on fire.]]
* ''DragonAge'' has corpses possessed by demons; what kind of monster they will be depends on the variety of demon. One corpse might want to simply bash your face in, another might want to chew it off, and still others might melt it off with fireballs. Party member [[DeadpanSnarker Alistair]] collectively refers to them, however, as "brain-eaters."
* [[{{Uncharted}} Uncharted: Drake's Fortune]] is an IndianaJones-style action/adventure that ticks along at an even pace, pitting you against your [[{{Mooks}} rival's hired thugs]], [[DurableDeathTrap ancient death traps]], [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything and a journal full of cryptic instructions]]. Suddenly, Zombies!
* ''MetalSlug 3'' has a zombie level, featuring a contagious outbreak at a civilian crash site. Those who get infected die, get hit by [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning]] and come back to life as a zombie. If this happens to the player, they become less mobile and lose everything but their pistol, but it averts OneHitpointWonder unless they get hit with the substance again. Trying to use a grenade results in them vomiting [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank large amounts of blood across the screen]] at everything in front of them, and it's VERY powerful, able to take down [[AwesomeButPractical bosses in one hit]]. It can be cured with medicine that enemies drop, but why would you do that?
** [[spoiler:And then the [[CloningBlues clones]] of your captured ally get infected during the final mission.]]
* TheLegendOfZelda has Redeads that leave Link paralyzed with fear in order to come closer and suck the life out of him (by apparently [[FreudWasRight leaping onto and humping him to death]]), and ''Link's Awakening'' had actual zombies in the graveyard area.
* ''TheSimpsons'' arcade game had a level in a cemetery. While the ghosts were {{mook}}s in bedsheets, the zombies were real.
* Typically the first {{Mook}} you'll encounter in ''{{Castlevania}}'' games.
* As if being hounded by Jason Voorhees himself in ''Game/{{Friday the 13th}}'' wasn't enough, there are also zombies of his past victims shuffling around the campsite.
* The Zombie in the ''{{Disgaea}}'' series is one of the few monster classes that's present in every single game.
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* In ''HolidayWars'', a zombie t-rex shows up in this [[http://www.th3rdworld.com/web-comic/Holiday-Wars/episode/Holiday-Wars-Episode-47 in this strip]]
* ''SluggyFreelance''. Three words: [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/071029 Zombie]] [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090202 Fun Lab]].
* ''{{Megatokyo}}'' has zombies occasionally pop in to destroy parts of Tokyo. They have to get proper approval just like everyone else, though.
* ''[[http://deadmetaphor.comicdish.com Dead Metaphor]]'' is a comedy set in a world plagued by zombie outbreaks. It seems people have gotten used to zombies, treating them as annoyances and lower-class citizens.
* {...} from ''HannaIsNotABoysName''
* The main characters of ''{{Loserz}}'' all like videogames with zombies, and then there's [[http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/360 this strip]].
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Jonni Rotten in the ''MetroCityChronicles''.
* Mur Lafferty's audio drama ''[[http://www.zombinc.net The Takeover]]''. It's like the American venison of ''TheOffice'' but with zombies. And also funny.
** Oh, and there's a cameo by Johnathan Coulton in the last episode of season 1.
* [[SCPFoundation SCP-008]]. The world accessible through SCP-093 suffered what's essentially a ZombieApocalypse under the application of a truly ''epic'' instance of OurZombiesAreDifferent. They fit the archetype of the endlessly hungry, seemingly-mindless hordes of the restless dead, but... well, when the ''smallest'' difference is that they're up to ''six stories'' tall, you know you're dealing with something weird here.
* ''GaiaOnline'' had its first ZombieApocalypse on Halloween 2004. The zombie avatar skin was supposed to be temporary and was eventually wiped out altogether due to server problems, but the skin was so popular that in Halloween 2005 another race of zombies, the Grombies, were introduced. After a while, newer users who joined after the event complained that they couldn't get a zombie skin, so a Grombie knock-off skin was introduced via the Death Whisper evolving item, and later another zombie skin was introduced via the 2008 Halloween event. Gaia Online members really like zombies, it would seem. The zombies are not usually part of the plot during the rest of the year but the skins are still fairly common.
** The original zombie skin has been re-released as an equippable item; it's worth noting that this was the only act in Gaian history to be unanimously well-received by the UnpleasableFanbase.
* Empire did "[[http://www.totalfilm.com/features/20-movies-improved-by-zombies/battlefield-earth-2000-1 20 Movies Improved By Zombies]]".
* In the official ''{{Lost}}'' podcast, a RunningGag was that after the show's finale in the sixth season, there would be a Season 7, "Lost: Zombies" with "everybody who we've killed off over the years coming back and trying to eat brains." The producers also released a fake script where [[http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Joke_script_pages#Zombies Walt becomes a zombie]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* The "Abracadaver" episode of ''ThePowerpuffGirls''.
* The "Attack of the Zombies" episode of ''CodeLyoko''.
* The "Legacy of Terror" episode of ''StarWarsTheCloneWars''.
* The "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Jack and the Zombies]]" episode of ''SamuraiJack''. [[NightmareFuel Shiver.]]
* One episode of ''TheFairlyOddParents'' has Timmy accidentally reviving a zombie version of his dead pet gerbil.
* Enzo in ''ReBoot'' once became a zombie in a game.
* "Johnny Zombie Tea Party" had Porkbelly's founding fathers as zombies who don't eat brains but love iPods and TV. Although, they do threaten to lower the property value.
* Zombies are one of the many bizarre creatures in ''UglyAmericans,'' with the protagonist's roommate Randall being the main example. They ''do'' like to eat brains, and there ''was'' a war against them in the '60s that may have been some kind of failed ZombieApocalypse, but these days they're mostly just normal people. Randall's finds the ones that still lurch around moaning [[StopBeingStereotypical annoyingly cliché]].
* On ''InvaderZim,'' Zim breaks into the mall to return a video tape, leading the security guard to release his zombie army. PlayedForLaughs in that the zombies just sort of stumble around aimlessly, mostly bumping into each other and ignoring Zim completely.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* In Austin, TX, pranksters broke the locks on highway construction signs and altered them to read: [[ZombieApocalypse THE END IS NEAR]]! ZOMBIES AHEAD! RUN! [[WorldWarZ RUN TO COLD CLIMATES]]! [[DeadSnow NAZI ZOMBIES]]!
** Unfortunately, this happened once during a hurricane evacuation. Nobody panicked, thankfully, but it could have been a lot worse with the evacuees who were already under stress from the possibility of having lost most of their Earthly possessions.
* Of course, [[http://www.zombiewalk.com/forum/ Zombie Walks.]]
* [[http://www.kgw.com/news/Car-accident-victims-dressed-like-zombies-confuse-crash-witnesses-98157894.html In Portland Oregon]], a group of people dressed as zombies for a costume party got into a car accident. In a literal example of everything being deader with zombies, their costumes were so good that bystanders thought their injuries were much worse than they actually were.
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-->'''[[StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf]]:''' Why do you suppose fans like zombies so much?\\
'''Statler:''' Because they don't have brains either.\\
'''Both:''' Do-ho-ho-ho-ho-hoh!
