History Webcomic / BoyfriendOfTheDead

* PlotHole: Despite the ZombieApocalypse, cell phones work, the Internet works, there is power and running water.

* ButtMonkey: N

* OneLetterName: N. See below.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: N can't kill Alex because he needs to wait three days to make sure she's not diseased. For her part, Alex (who doesn't know N view(ed) her as essentially livestock) reasons that N is useful and she can easily kill him if he turns on her.

* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Ella heavily blames herself for the zombie outbreak due to creating the virus and causing someone to get infected.]]

-->'''Einz''': [[DeadpanSnarker How old are you?]]

--->'''Einz''': Why would you want to eat humans when there're cakes???

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The source of the outbreak was a fungus created by Ella. When she found a member of her team stealing it, a fight broke out and someone got infected. While she doesn't say it, the person in the back-flash clearly shows a human N fighting off the infected while Ella hid.]]

** Lady ([[spoiler:the mother of the baby girl zombie]]) agrees with Zwei on this one, to Einz's irritation.

* TookALevelInKindness: Max, Claire, and Doc all wind up befriending the group after initially starting as antagonists

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** ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' is referenced a lot. N gets an Elsa doodle board to communicate, and one human character is a girl named Elsa [[NeverHeardTHATOneBefore who hates references]] to ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''.

** ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' is referenced a lot. N gets an Elsa doodle board to communicate, and one human character is a girl named Elsa [[NeverHeardTHATOneBefore who hates references]] to ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''.

** There's also the chef [[spoiler:who tried to incite a restaurant full of zombies to eat Alex which leads to N admitting afterwards that he wanted to eat her]]

!!''Boyfriend Of The Dead'' contains examples of:

* ActionSurvivor: The 'human girly' Alex is as badass as they come, with a zombie kill count well over 117. Note that this number may refer solely to the zombies killed while applying makeup. Most zombies now flee from her on sight, with only the most determined considering her a threat that must be eradicated for the safety of zombie-kind.

-->'''N''': Sorry, I've mistaken you for a girl this whole time.

* TheGadfly: Several characters in the series do this to the main couple, mostly towards Alex than N.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: It is basically impossible to talk about the current plot without revealing that the zombie gourmet's name is N and the human girly's name is Alex, and that they are now an OfficialCouple.

-->'''N''': It's like reverse discrimination!!!

** ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' is referenced a lot. N gets an Elsa doodle board to communicate, and one human character is a girl named Elsa [[NeverHeardTHATOneBefore who hates references to Frozen]].

-->'''N''': Sorry, I've mistaken you for a girl this whole time-

* Names of characters. As the names, or lack there of, for inidividual characters share themes, their tropes are included here instead of the characters page.
** NoNameGiven: True of every character until Episode 28, when we learn the names of the two main characters, or at least the name of one and the first initial of the other. Alex first and then N. After that, we learn the names or an initial of other character, or at times, they are given a name,
** NameAmnesia: All zombies suffer this as part of their GhostAmnesia. Most clearly shown with K, who indicates he knows his name and other personal information is on his phone, but it's weird for him because he doesn't remeber the information himself (though not entirely consistent because when he points out his real name is Josef and he's always gone by K, when Claire questions what's with the zombie initial naming scheming. He seems to remember that much). His experience is most telling because he turned during the story and on camera and forgot these things almost immediately.
** LineOfSightName: When Alex and N first meet Lily, she has GhostAmnesia the same as all other zombies and has not picked a new name yet. Alex points to the Lily prints on Lily's dress and suggests that as a name and Lily agrees.

** NameAmnesia: All zombies suffer this as part of their GhostAmnesia. Most clearly shown with K, who indicates he knows his name and other personal information is on his phone, but it's weird for him because he doesn't remeber the information himself (though not entirely consistent because when he points out his real name is Josef and he's always gone by K, when Claire questions what's with the zombie initial naming scheming. He seems to remember that much).

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-->'''Einz''': How old are you?

* CerebusSyndrome: While the webcomic still remains largely comedic, with a few serious moments, [[spoiler: N accidentally revealing to Alex about wanting to eat her before]] may shift the tone of the webcomic into dramatic territory.

* BlandNameProduct : N mentions to a lot of real life pop culture reference, such as Twibright, Harvest Noon, etc.

* GhostAmnesia: Zombies typically can't remember anything before zombification. N gets occasional flashbacks, and the impression that he was incredibly lonely while alive; other zombies probably have similar experiences. We see one such new zombie forget the name of a person he wanted to say goodbye to.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Being bitten by a zombie causes near instantaneous clinical death and reanimation as a zombie (to the point that they won't necessarily fall over if standing during the conversion). Although the disease has damaged the parts of their brains that deal with speaking, all zombies seem to retain their full intelligence, the ability to understand each others' groans like speech, and at least some of their personality... [[TranshumanTreachery plus a compulsion to devour uninfected humans upon smelling them]]. Initially act like Romero Zombies, slow and shambling, but going long enough without eating humans apparently restores their full speed and balance.

* ShoutOut: The Twins invoke CreepyTwins to reenact a scene from Film/TheShining.
** Frozen is being referenced a lot.

* BlandNameProduct : N mentions to a lot of real life pop culture reference, such as [[Twibright Literature/Twilight]], [[Harvest Noon VideoGame/HarvestMoon]], etc.

* ShoutOut: The Twins invoke CreepyTwins to reenact a scene from Film/TheShining.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Being bitten by a zombie causes near instantaneous clinical death and reanimation as a zombie (to the point that they won't necessarily fall over if standing during the conversion). Although the disease has damaged the parts of their brains that deal with speaking, but other than that all zombies seem to retain their full intelligence, the ability to understand each others' groans like speech, and at least some of their personality... [[TranshumanTreachery plus a compulsion to devour uninfected humans upon smelling them]]. Initially act like Romero Zombies, slow and shambling, but going long enough without eating humans apparently restores their full speed and balance.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Due to GhostAmnesia N has no idea what his name was while alive. He does have a business card with his face on it, but a combination of being ripped up then taped back together and covered in bloodstain's has rendered it illegible, save for the first letter of his name: "N". So that's what they call him.