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* BiTheWay: The Player Character will normally default to dating the opposite gender but if you pick "date someone else" enough they can also date and get married to someone of the same gender.
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* BiTheWay: The Player Character will normally default to dating the opposite gender but if you pick "date someone else" enough they can also date and get married to someone of the same gender.


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* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: A downplayed example with Hendrick Van Nooten who did try to infect Gretchen with zombieism but likely didn't expect and would be horrified at having inadvertently caused the apocalypse.]]
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* WomanScored: Hendrik is a RareMaleExample. [[spoiler: The zombie apocalypse was caused by him trying to get back at Gretchen for cheating on him.]]

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* WomanScored: WomanScorned: Hendrik is a RareMaleExample. [[spoiler: The zombie apocalypse was caused by him trying to get back at Gretchen for cheating on him.]]
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* TypoidMary: [[spoiler: Gretchen Van Nooten who is also PatientZero. She is an asymptomatic carrier of zombieism who accidentally spread the disease over the world.]]

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* TypoidMary: TyphoidMary: [[spoiler: Gretchen Van Nooten who is also PatientZero. She is an asymptomatic carrier of zombieism who accidentally unknowingly spread the disease over the world.]]
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* OrphansOrdeal: Rufus, the leader of St. Michael's Gang, is an orphan whose father died during the outbreak. If you finish the Wenatchee questline, he can be adopted by the Luddie leader.


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* TypoidMary: [[spoiler: Gretchen Van Nooten who is also PatientZero. She is an asymptomatic carrier of zombieism who accidentally spread the disease over the world.]]


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* WomanScored: Hendrik is a RareMaleExample. [[spoiler: The zombie apocalypse was caused by him trying to get back at Gretchen for cheating on him.]]
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** The "Rebellious" trait icon looks like the [[Film/StarWars Rebel Alliance Starbird]].

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** The "Rebellious" trait icon looks like the [[Film/StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars Rebel Alliance Starbird]].
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* StatGrinding: In the second game, each survivor has five skills that they can be trained in. Skills can be trained by studying at a schoolhouse or by going on a mission that requires that skill. Killing zombies improves combat, researching improves science, and so on. This is averted in the first game, where each survivor can only have one skill at a time.
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* ColorCodedCharacters: All factions that aren't you (or the solo Gustav) have their territory under these following colors:
** St. Michael's School For Boys - Light Blue
** The Luddies - Green
** The Last Judgment Gang - Red
** The Granville Riffs - Yellow
** The Church of the Chosen Ones - Purple
** The Government - Dark Blue
** The Rotten - Light Brown
** The [=1337cREw=] - Teal
** The Pig Farmers - Brown
** The Dahlias - Pink
** The Pharmacists - Orange
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* BadassDriver: [[CaptainObvious Survivors with the "Driver" perk]].

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* BadassDriver: [[CaptainObvious Survivors with the "Driver" perk]].perk.
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* NoEmpathy: Your player background could be that of a Gang Member, which means that you don't feel loss happiness as a result of death or injury.

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* NoEmpathy: Your player background could be that of a Gang Member, which means that you don't feel loss your fort won't lose happiness as a result of death or injury.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: You can let a woman and her dog stay the night in your fort, and they'll leave the next day. Later on, your scavengers get trapped and they'll come to your rescue.


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* LeaveBehindAPistol: You can encounter a pair of survivors during a recruitment run, one of them being sick. A leader with high enough level can convince them to leave the sick one behind. When that happens, the explicitly mention this trope.


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* NoEmpathy: Your player background could be that of a Gang Member, which means that you don't feel loss happiness as a result of death or injury.
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* FriendlyZombie:
** The Rotten are a faction of zombies who haven't lost their higher brain functions, and banded together for mutual protection. They can be negotiated and even allied with.
** There are a few story events that allow you to recruit intelligent zombies into your own band of survivors, and these smart zombies can even train their leadership and pick related perks to become very outgoing and popular in your fort.

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Rebuild is a TurnBasedStrategy Flash game by sarahnorthway in which a group of survivors must take back and [[TitleDrop rebuild]] various cities after a ZombieApocalypse.

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Rebuild is a TurnBasedStrategy Flash game by sarahnorthway Northway Games in which a group of survivors must take back and [[TitleDrop rebuild]] various cities after a ZombieApocalypse.



** The PC can actually be this, if they were a Hobo, Pizza Delivery Guy, or Pro Gamer before the apocalypse.

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** The PC can actually be this, if they were a College Student, Hobo, Pizza Delivery Guy, or Pro Gamer or Shop Clerk before the apocalypse.


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* BareFistedMonk: Survivors with the "Hand to hand" perk are this. They gain a +2 of defense if they aren't equipped with any kind of weapon. With the proper perks and items they can become just as or deadlier than any heavily equipped soldier.


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** If a survivor is equipped with a pet and is facing a rather tough horde of zeds the pet in question may try to sacrifice itself to save it's owner.


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* WalkingShirtlessScene: It's available as a torso option for male survivors with the "bulky" body type, albeit full of scars.


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** Also, a good portion of female survivor faces have unnatural hair colors..
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** Before her GenderFlip during development, Senator Davis was a man whom resembled Benjamin O. Davis Jr., one of the {{UsefulNotes/TuskeegeeAirmen}}, and the first African-American General in the United States military.

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** Before her GenderFlip during development, Senator Davis was a man whom resembled Benjamin O. Davis Jr., one of the {{UsefulNotes/TuskeegeeAirmen}}, Tuskegee Airmen, and the first African-American General in the United States military.

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** Before her GenderFlip during development, Senator Davis was a man whom resembled Benjamin O. Davis Jr., one of the {{UsefulNotes/TuskeegeeAirmen}}, and the first African-American General in the United States military.



** One particular backstory for children, which also gives the same perk listed above, essentially writes the child survivor up as this. When a kid has this backstory, you can have Easygoing[[note]]Makes the survivor's happiness way more difficult to lower.[[/note]], {{Pacifist}}, ''and'' Friendly all in one survivor just by having a child grow up. If that's not what qualifies for TheHeart, then CrapsackWorld could not begin to describe a zombie game better.
* HeroicSacrifice: Survivors with the "Brave" perk[[note]]+1 Combat skill, but may take the hit for another survivor.[[/note]] will often perform these on missions. Although, since mechanically, it essentially prioritizes the Brave survivors over other survivors for injuries and sicknesses, [[ImpliedTrope it's never outright mentioned]].

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** One particular backstory for children, which also gives the same perk listed above, essentially writes the child survivor up as this. When a kid has this backstory, you can have Easygoing[[note]]Makes the survivor's happiness way more difficult to lower.[[/note]], {{Pacifist}}, ''and'' Friendly Friendly[[note]]Allows them to befriend people easier[[/note]] all in one survivor just by having a child grow up. If that's not what qualifies for TheHeart, then CrapsackWorld could not begin to describe a zombie game better.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Survivors with the "Brave" perk[[note]]+1 Combat skill, but may take the hit suffer injuries or death for another survivor.[[/note]] will often perform these on missions. Although, since mechanically, it essentially prioritizes the Brave survivors over other survivors for injuries and sicknesses, [[ImpliedTrope it's never outright mentioned]].



* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If you go to war against an enemy faction and then attempt to negotiate peace, the faction leader will demand you pay "reparations," regardless of whether or not you were the one who instigated the conflict. Refuse to pay? They'll inadvertantly accuse you of a rather well-thought out plan that could weaken their defenses. There's no effect on gameplay, but it's still applicable here, and even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by your peace negotiator.

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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: If you go to war against an enemy faction and then attempt to negotiate peace, the faction leader will demand you pay "reparations," regardless of whether or not you were the one who instigated the conflict. Refuse to pay? They'll inadvertantly accuse you of a rather well-thought out plan that could weaken their defenses. There's no effect on gameplay, but it's still applicable here, and your negotiator even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by your peace negotiator.lampshades]] this.
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* ConsummateProfessional: The male variant of Gustav's Love Caravan. You can attempt to talk to the men like you can with the women, but whereas the female love caravan opens up a questline involving a PlatonicProstitute, the men will more or less refuse to discuss their situation.
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* TheExpy: Tiff, the leader of the Pharmacists, shares a remarkable similarity to Chloe from ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', on account of her hair style and color, along with her hat.

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* TheExpy: {{Expy}}: Tiff, the leader of the Pharmacists, shares a remarkable similarity to Chloe Price from ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', on given her punk aesthetic, complete with the black beanie and blue hair. This isn't even taking into account of her hair style anarchic world view and color, along with her hat.drug usage.

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A Kickstarter was run and funded in order to develop a third game titled ''Rebuild: Gangs of Deadville''. This game spent some time in Steam Early Access before having its 1.0 release in May 29th, 2015.

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A Kickstarter was run and funded in order to develop a third game titled ''Rebuild: Gangs of Deadville''.Deadsville''. This game spent some time in Steam Early Access before having its 1.0 release in May 29th, 2015.


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* TheExpy: Tiff, the leader of the Pharmacists, shares a remarkable similarity to Chloe from ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', on account of her hair style and color, along with her hat.
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** One of the NPC backstories is for a hardcore {{LARP}}er, who greets you with "Hail and good morrow, Sire!" and refuses to break kayfabe.
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** One of the melee weapons you can equip is a board with nails in it. The description is [[TreehouseOfHorror a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all]].

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** One of the melee weapons you can equip is a board with nails in it. The description is [[TreehouseOfHorror [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E7TreehouseOfHorrorII a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all]].

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* AnyoneCanDie: The game is randomized, so expect some death of characters you may or may not like.


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* AnyoneCanDie: The game is randomized, so expect some death of characters you may or may not like.
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* AnyoneCanDie: The game is randomized, so expect some death of characters you may or may not like.
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*** The Cabin ending (mobile version only) [[spoiler:has [[DirtyCoward your leader]] secretly steal supplies and ultimately abandon the city, using a zombie horde as a distraction and [[UriahGambit sending people to die]] to prevent the secret from getting out.]]
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** The baseball bat's description reads [[MNightShyamalan swing away]].

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** The baseball bat's description reads [[MNightShyamalan [[Creator/MNightShyamalan swing away]].
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** The ax is described as [[MarilynMonroe a scavenger's best friend]].

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** The ax is described as [[MarilynMonroe [[Creator/MarilynMonroe a scavenger's best friend]].
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* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: One of the reports of a successful zombie-killing mission reads
-->'''Survivor''': So we round the corner and there's Zed milling around and I go, "Listen up! You see this? ThisIsMyBoomstick!" I've always wanted to say that.
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I accidentally let an angry mob get out of hand in my game.

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* TorchesAndPitchforks: After the helicopter is sabotaged, you can send a manhunt after the suspect. [[spoiler: The angry mob's interrogation accidentally kills the suspect.]]
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Just what did the Love Caravan do with all those turnips? Never mind, I don't want to know.

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* BrainBleach: One of the "Love Caravan" events has someone complain, "I just had to take a peek. Then I had to wash my eyes out with soap. Now I guess I know why [[HeadTiltinglyKinky they wanted]] all those [[NoodleImplements turnips]]."


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* NoodleImplements: Just what did the Love Caravan do with all those turnips? Whatever it was, [[BrainBleach the poor witness was driven to wash his/her eyes out with soap]].
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* {{Incoming}}: When any horde of zombies first shows up, it'll get reported, its location will be marked with a giant red exclamation point, and an estimation of when it will attack the fort will be readily available.

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