History Main / IncongruouslyDressedZombie

* In ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}'', the Werewolf of Fever Swamp wears blue lycra jogging shorts and running shoes with white laces, the toes and ankles ripped out by his transformed feet.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has a lot of these. Sometimes, it's PlayedForDrama, as the clothing occasionally protects zombies from attack, causes the characters to react differently to them, or raises [[FridgeHorror disturbing implications]] about how they died.

** The show ''starts out'' with a little girl zombie dressed in a robe, pajamas, and bunny slippers, carrying a bear, combining NightmareFuel and AdultFear.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'': The titular zombies are pirates, Civil War soldiers, and 19th-to-20th century tourists who were past victims of the movie's BigBad.

* ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' boasts a host of zombified VivaLasVegas stereotypes, including a bachelorette party (complete with male strippers), showgirls, and an ElvisImpersonator.

** In ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'', one of the zombies that invade the military base is dressed in a clown costume. One of the zombies in the bunker paddock is an older woman in a shower cap, and a zombie drum majorette in a huge puffy hat gets a close-up in the city scene.
** In ''Film/LandOfTheDead'', the zombie "leader" Big Daddy wears a gas station attendant's denim jumpsuit, with a patch that bears his name. Other examples include another zombie clown, an undead boy in an upper-class school uniform, a marching band complete with instruments, and a zombie cheerleader still clutching her pom-poms.

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* All the discarded damaged robots in the "Flesh Fair" scenes of ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'' are essentially this, due to robots being created as worker replacements: there is a nanny (missing most of her head), a welder, a doctor, a chef, a prostitute, a factory worker, a hairdresser, a chaffeur, a headless and completely blackened robot after being burnt to a crisp, a legless ''Film/{{Terminator}}''-like metal skeleton with a police cap... [[TheCameo and]] Creator/ChrisRock.

* All the discarded damaged robots in the "Flesh Fair" scenes of ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'' are essentially this, due to robots being created as worker replacements: there is a nanny (missing most of her head), a welder, a doctor, a chef, a prostitute, a factory worker, a hairdresser, a chaffeur, a headless and completely blackened robot after being burnt to a crisp, a legless ''Film/Terminator''-like metal skeleton with a police cap... [[TheCameo and]] Creator/ChrisRock.

*** One of the zombies wears plain clothes but he grabs the assault rifle of one of the SWAT as they try to get behind a door, forcing the officer to let it go. Through the rest of the film, the zombie keeps holding onto the rifle as he lumbers towards the characters, never dropping it, nor pointing it to anyone.

*** Many zombies in the early collapse scenes are in their pajamas and underwear. They get replaced by normally dressed people after the main evacuation camp falls. Still, the second batch of survivors from the camp includes an infected obese, middle-aged woman in her underwear.

*** This is even [[ExploitedTrope exploited]] when the survivors are bored and decide to kill time by telling Andy to shoot zombies that resemble celebrities, such as "Creator/JayLeno" (a well-groomed zombie with white hair and a blue business suit) and "Creator/BurtReynolds" (a mustached zombie in some kind of brown uniform).

* There are a few examples in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', although perhaps 'distinctively dressed' would be the better description. The first zombie Shaun and Ed interact with is dressed in a supermarket uniform, complete with name-badge. Also qualifying is Zombie!Tyres - a zombified cameo of ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' character Tyres, in his full, brightly coloured bicycle-courier gear (and cap) amongst the otherwise drab dead walking the streets. And he's ''still raving''.
** The first zombie that Shaun and Ed ''know'' is a zombie (they think the supermarket cashier is just drunk) is a [[WeddingSmashers wedding groom]] with a large, yellow flower over his left breast.

** When the crowd passes through a crowd of zombies (by pretending to be zombies themselves), the zombies include a biker in a bright red suit and helmet, a wheelchair-bound woman, and two twins dressed in the same clothes.

** This became an issue during the airing of the anime since said zombie had a remarkable resemblance to a famous Korean actor, which combined with the nationalistic undertones of the story and the general antagonism between Korea and Japan caused a kerfuffle.

* ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'': the film boasts a host of zombified VivaLasVegas stereotypes, including a bachelorette party (complete with male strippers), showgirls, and an ElvisImpersonator.

* Several examples (a stripper, a bunch of little girls in ballerina outfits, father-and-son contestants in a three-legged race, one that's [[ManOnFire on fire]]) chase people around in the opening credits of ''Film/{{Zombieland}}''. One of the last ones we see is [[MonsterClown a clown.]]

* The [[NotUsingTheZWord only-technically]]-[[DemonicallyPossessed not-zombies]] from ''Film/{{Legion}}'' had a few funnily dressed "zombies";

* ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' plays this trope for drama. One character recalls seeing a horde of zombies, many of which were naked or in pajamas. He determines that most of them were infected at night, and briefly reflects on the chilling thought of being woken by a ravenous bunch of zombies breaking into one's home.

* The series ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' had one "walker" dressed in a [[BadSanta Santa Claus suit]].

** The show ''starts out'' with a little girl zombie dressed in a robe, pajamas and bunny slippers, carrying a bear, combining NightmareFuel and AdultFear.
* The mob of extras made up as zombies as a foundation challenge on season 4 of ''[[Series/FaceOff [=FaceOff=]]]'' were mostly dressed in everyday street clothes, but a couple of the men wore surgical scrubs, one of the women had on a ragged wedding dress, and a chef's hat is visible in one of the group shots. Contestants regularly dress their own undead creations in odd outfits for spotlight challenges, to make the finished products distinctive and capture the judges' interest.

** Worker zombies in the "Dead Rain" campaign wear bright yellow reflective vests, making them easy to see in the torrential downpour. They also wear personal protection equipment that increases their overall health and ear protectors that mean they neither hear nor chase thrown pipebombs. It can be said that the concrete dust accumulated in their nostrils before they turned makes them unable to smell bile bombs either[[note]]Pipe and Bile Bombs use the same coding, which the Worker doesn't react to. Ironically the entire point of them ignoring Pipe Bombs was to make the Bilebomb more effective on that level[[/note]].

** In The Passing a special Witch is in a wedding dress, sobbing at the altar (apparently the zombie apocalypse happened right on her special day). You have to get past her, but if she's startled it triggers a panic event, causing the zombified party guests to charge you and your party.

* ''VideoGame/ZombiesRun'': Naturally turns up often enough, as it's set in a ZombieApocalypse world where anyone who isn't very skilled and lucky can become a zombie. Zombie scouts, zombie gym rats, and even an entire zombie wedding make an appearance.

* Some of the skeletal troops called up by the Necronomicon in ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' stand out by how they're dressed, such as the bagpipe-players.

* ''All'' the lesser mummies in ''Film/TheMummy2017'' qualify by the standards of typical mummy movies, as Ahmunet creates them by life-draining modern people or re-animating the corpses of Crusaders at the Crossrail tomb site. They are therefore dressed in ordinary street clothes or chain mail and tabards, with not a bandage or hieroglyph to be seen.

* Naked infectees are also incredibly common in ''ComicBook/{{Crossed}}'' as well. Other examples include crossed Hare Krishna monks wreaking havoc on a airport, freshly infected circus performers attacking a nearby town, a group of crossed dressed like different clerical figures (A rabbi, a catholic bishop and a nun, to name a few) hunting down "heretics" in a desolated city. Without a doubt, though, the best example of this takes place on "The Five Bloody Fingers" arc where a Japanese young man tries to get in contact with his friends during the onset of the crossed plague in Japan. This lead him to a Comiket-esque convention... and to fight a seemingly endless horde of crossed cosplayers.

If an undead creature's clothes look odd because they date from a past era, that's OutdatedOutfit. If the outfit was goofy ''back then'', these tropes overlap.

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* In ''Film/BigTitsZombie'', zombies starts showing up in all kings of incongruous outfits, such as stripper costumes and school uniforms.

*** One of the zombies wears plain clothes but he grabs the assault riffle of one of the SWAT as they try to get behind a door, forcing the officer to let it go. Through the rest of the film, the zombie keeps holding onto the riffle as he slumbers towards the characters, never dropping it, nor pointing it to anyone.

* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' has featured some really bizarre undead demons such as the Bodyconian (undead Go-Go dancer), the Drag Queen (undead crossdresser), the Rasta Man (grinning Rastafarian zombie carrying a serrated blade and a bag full of heads) and the Batarion/Obattarion (undead naked woman allegedly based on Trash from 'Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', known as ''Batallion'' in Japan).