History Series / IZombie

* CanadaEh: Liv's first major flashback is absurdly Canadian.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Sebastian breaks down in tears when he reveals that he killed and ate his aunt when he got hungry and lost control after becoming a zombie. While he was an AxCrazy hitman its hard not to feel bad for him.]]

* DropTheHammer: "Brother Love's" signature weapon is the hammer he used to chisel out of his CementShoes. He's almost never seen without it [[spoiler:and even dies clutching it in one hand.]]

** Also present in the episode where Liv eats the brain of a pregnant woman who was about to give birth. It comes through as Liv scolding people for misbehaving, making sure Ravi has eaten, etc... but those are more learned patterns by raising a child then they are instinctual. If she ate the woman's entire brain, it's the pregnancy hormones that would have hit her - having to pee every 20 minutes, chances of her getting a linea nigra, an urge to scrub her house from top to bottom, huge hormonal shifts and crying one minute and laughing the next, painful breasts, and other things... and it may have even made her look more human, as blood volume doubles during pregnancy. It was a cute episode, but it might've been funnier if she'd had to deal with the real stuff.

* HeroesWantRedheads: This was actually Gilda's (Rita's) plan for manipulating Major; by forming a relationship with him, she can convince him that he's doing a heroic duty by slaughtering the zombies or "donating" them to depraved research.

* IsntItIronic:
** Blaine initially turned his clients intentionally for profit. Liv, the protagonist, is the one character he didn't intentionally turn (he was both high and in full on zombie model) and the only one who doesn't need to turn to him for her brain supply.
** Liv initially holds a grudge against Blaine for turning her into a zombie, though later on her animosity is mostly in regards to his body count. In the Season Two finale it's revealed that the zombie outbreak is caused by mixing Max Rager with the tainted Utopium from the boat party. Blaine was on Utopium when he first met Liv, and she threw her drink in his face when he sexually harassed her. The tablecloths at the boat party bear the Max Rager logo, implying it was the drink Liv had thrown into Blaine's face... thus she is the one who initially turned him into a zombie.
%%** NOTE: While it's unconfirmed if having the Max Rager thrown in one's face is sufficient to trigger the transformation; the season 2 finale reveals the mixture of the two causes zombie transformation instantaneously. Had Blaine drank the Max Rager, he would have been a zombie before he even encountered Liv. It's unlikely he drank some after their altercation, as the massacre was already starting and he would have likely tried to escape. The editing of the scene makes it difficult to tell if Blaine transformed automatically upon contact with the Max Rager; Liv turns from him to notice the massacre unfolding before it cuts to her recounting the story to and when the flashback resumes Liv is hiding under a table and Blaine has already transformed and is in full on zombie mode. During interviews on the iZombie podcast, those involved with the series production have cheekily refused to confirm/deny anything in regards to this.
%% NOTE: The drink used in the season 2 finale is Supermax, a related but different drink.
** It's also ironic that the creator of Utopium itself (also the creator of the 'tainted' strain, which was revealed to just be an experimental new formula of the drug) was [[spoiler: Liv's own father!]]

** "Der Kommissar" starts playing on the Meat Cute jukebox while Blaine's lackeys have dinner, and continues in the background as [[spoiler:Major escapes, then returns with his shotgun and grenade to lay waste to the staff and the shop]]. It keeps going until [[spoiler:Blaine]] shows up, at which point it becomes diegetic again and he and switches the jukebox off.