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* ProphetEyes: His eyes are completely white. Most of the time at least, there have been moments where he possessed pupils, making this a bit of a {{Downplayed}} example.
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* NamesTheSame: As Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', which is referenced InUniverse as a RunningGag.
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* AnAxeToGrind: One of her signature weapons. She can throw the thing across the room into a wall with enough force to lodge it.
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* {{Nerd}}: Just as nerdy as N, although he doesn't show this side many times.
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Too many things to make them angry for any one to be considered a button.


* BerserkButton: Many things are shown to tick N off. Bad table manners or bad zombie behavior, or [[NotUsingTheZWord even calling zombies anything but zombies]] greatly upset him. He also doesn't seem to be fond of people [[WouldHurtAChild who beat up little kids]] [[WouldHitAGirl or are disrespectful to women]].
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* HiddenDepths: As it turns out, she's trained with a firearm since the age of ''fourteen,'' and apparently has trained in Kendo.

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* HiddenDepths: As it turns out, she's trained with she learned how to use a firearm since at the age of ''fourteen,'' and apparently has trained in Kendo.
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* HiddenDepths: As it turns out, she's trained with a firearm since the age of ''fourteen,'' and apparently has trained in Kendo.
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* [[spoiler: AbusiveParents: Fron what little we know of his childhood, his mother apparently berated him for not getting straight A's. This included making him stand outside of the family apartment, test in hand, and also included yelling at him for getting the test crumpled.]]
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* CrushBlush, which is also a LuminescentBlush.

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A young teenager who was part of the experiment that eventually led to the zombie outbreak. While initially hostile towards the group, he's since become a friend.

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A young teenager who was part of the experiment that eventually led to the zombie outbreak. While initially hostile towards the group, he's since become a friend.friend of the group.
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* BreakTheCutie: Used to be the sweet big brother of the other sick patients in the experiment, only to be the only one to wake up from the fungal cure and ordered to be destroyed. Given extremely powerful abilities and only one chance to revive his former friends, he quickly turned into a brutal monster.



* {{Expy]]: Of ComicBook/{{Venom}}. It's even referenced InUniverse.

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* {{Expy]]: {{Expy}}: Of ComicBook/{{Venom}}. It's even referenced InUniverse.InUniverse.
* UndeadChild: Teenager, technically, but he was turned into [[HumanoidAbomination what he is]] by scientists.

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* BigBrotherInstinct: Appears to be so towards Zombie Baby and to an extent Eins and Zwei.

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* BigBrotherInstinct: Appears to be so have this towards Zombie Baby Baby, and to an extent Eins and Zwei.



** Elsa is later shown to be attracted to Alex.



* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:When N is kidnapped. Her response is to cheerily bring her army of zombie friends.]]

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* TranquilFury: [[spoiler:When N is kidnapped. put in danger. Her response when he was kidnapped is to cheerily bring her army of zombie friends.friends, and after he's separated from her by the mutated zombies she waterboards the person responsible for it.]]



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Quite heavy on the jerk part, but Eins does worry for his friend’s well being underneath, even if he's not the nicest to them.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Quite heavy on the jerk part, but Eins does worry for his friend’s well being underneath, even if he's not the nicest to them.



* BabyOfTheBunch: She's so far the youngest character in the show, appearing to be the age of a toddler.

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* BabyOfTheBunch: TheBabyOfTheBunch: She's so far the youngest character in the show, appearing to be the age of a toddler.



* ShipTease: With [[spoiler: Max]] after they meet again. Claire did not seem too happy about it.

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* ShipTease: With [[spoiler: Max]] after they meet again. Claire did not didn't seem too happy about it.



* AmbiguouslyBi: She has shown notable interest in Alex, and even after N and Alex reconcile she still teases N by telling him that if he screws up with her again, she'll steal her from him. However, she has also had a bit of ship tease with K.

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* AmbiguouslyBi: She has shown notable interest in Alex, and even after N and Alex reconcile she still teases N by telling him that if he screws up with her again, she'll steal her from him. However, she has also had a bit of ship tease with K.K, and when she initially rejected him she said it wasn't about orientation, but about her lingering feelings for Alex.



* MeaningfulName: She was initially named by Alex because of the flowers on her skirt, but her gentle nature and [[YuriGenre interest in Alex]] fit her name quite well.



* ShipperOnDeck: Despite having feelings for Alex, she ultimately decides to help get her and N back together.



* VegetarianVampire: He was a vegetarian in his human life, and refuses to eat humans in his new zombie life.




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A young teenager who was part of the experiment that eventually led to the zombie outbreak. While initially hostile towards the group, he's since become a friend.
* CameBackStrong: The fungus 'cure' implanted into him by the scientists relieved him of the pain he felt while alive, along with giving him the ability to control anything he infected like puppets.
* ConvenientTerminalIllness: The reason behind his initial turning. He and the other patients in the wing were infected with the zombie fungus allegedly as an attempt to cure them, but in reality in an attempt to make super soldiers of them.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: After Alex soundly defeats and then subjects him to ColdBloodedTorture to try and find N, he's left terrified and skittish around her, only warming up to her after she feeds him mac and cheese.
* {{Expy]]: Of ComicBook/{{Venom}}. It's even referenced InUniverse.
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* NamesTheSame: As Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen}}'', which is referenced InUniverse as a RunningGag.

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* NamesTheSame: As Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen}}'', ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'', which is referenced InUniverse as a RunningGag.
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* NamesTheSame: As Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/Frozen'', which is referenced InUniverse as a RunningGag.

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* NamesTheSame: As Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/Frozen'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen}}'', which is referenced InUniverse as a RunningGag.



* NotSoAboveItAll: After Max gets saved, he reveals he's not above making bad jokes or even singing "Let it go."

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* NotSoAboveItAll: After Max gets saved, he reveals he's not above making bad jokes or even singing "Let it go.It Go."

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* {{Adorkable}}: If being a zombie who loves Minecraft, Disney Princesses, and doesn't understand girls counts as {{adorkable}}, then yes, yes he is.



* {{Geek}}: He's a zombie who loves Minecraft, Disney Princesses, and doesn't understand girls.



* {{Adorkable}}: Just as nerdy as N, although he doesn't show this side many times.


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* {{Nerd}}: Just as nerdy as N, although he doesn't show this side many times.
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** Taken up to eleven against the mutated teenager. The guy's used to being the biggest fish around, but after their last fight, he's reduced to a quivering, terrified mess. To him, Alex is beyond a lethal threat.

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** Taken up to eleven against the mutated teenager. The guy's used to being the biggest fish around, but after their last fight, he's reduced to a quivering, terrified mess. To him, Alex is a beyond a lethal threat.
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** Taken up to eleven against the mutated teenager. The guy's used to being the biggest fish around, but after their last fight, he's reduced to a quivering, terrified mess. To him, Alex is beyond a lethal threat.
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* ActionSurvivor

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* ActionSurvivorActionSurvivor: Duh. And before you say her shooting skills with stolen pistols are just contrived author shenanigans, look at what Alex did with her father as a hobby before the zombie outbreak happened. They were doing target practice at an American shooting range.



* CuteAndPsycho : Had this moment in episode 172 :

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* CuteAndPsycho : Had this moment in episode 172 :172:



** Do we even have to mention Alex's behavior when she fights the mutant zombie again? She goes to town on him and then nearly kills him in a bleach-filled kiddy pool.



* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: After her break with N, she and Lily have so much ShipTease. It gets to the point where [[HoYay Lily is blushing and stammering after Alex comes out of the shower naked.]]

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* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: After her break temporary breakup with N, she and Lily have so much ShipTease. It gets to the point where [[HoYay Lily is blushing and stammering after Alex comes out of the shower naked.]]



* HorrifyingTheHorror: Zombties see her as a monster, and quickly learn to run far away when she shows up. At one point, dozens of zombies lie down on the ground, playing dead in the hopes she won't notice them.

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* HorrifyingTheHorror: Zombties Zombies see her as a monster, and quickly learn to run far away when she shows up. At one point, dozens of zombies lie down on the ground, playing dead in the hopes she won't notice them.



* EveryoneHasStandards: He may have been zombified, but that doesn't mean he will allow bad behavior in his workplace (especially in the library).

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* EveryoneHasStandards: He may have been zombified, but that doesn't mean he will allow bad behavior in his workplace (especially in the library). He also called his human coworkers and had them yell at the government over the special forces raid.



* NotSoAboveItAll: He's very nerdy. Just look at the traps he set in the garden.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Her reaction to the fact that the government stole her research and wound up starting the zombie outbreak. It gets worse when the latest lab victim turns into a monster.]]



* OnlySaneMan: After realizing that the zombies are by-and-large harmless, he becomes an ally of Alex and N's base. So far, he seems to be the only human outside the base that respects the zombies and treats them as people, in contrast with the trigger-happy guards of the camp.

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* OnlySaneMan: After realizing that the zombies are by-and-large harmless, he becomes an ally of Alex and N's base. So far, he seems to be the only human outside the base that respects the zombies and treats them as people, in contrast with the trigger-happy guards of the camp. Don't worry, the rest of the camp eventually finds that the zombies in the neighborhood aren't interested in eating humans anymore...



* WrongGenreSavvy: Very obviously thinks all zombies are out to eat humans. N has to prove him wrong by talking him down. And many chapters before that, an entire horde of zombies unsuccessfully tried asking Elsa and the doctor to hold N back because they wanted to kill Alex.

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* WrongGenreSavvy: Very obviously thinks thought all zombies are out to eat humans.humans at the start of things. N has to prove him wrong by talking him down. And many chapters before that, an entire horde of zombies unsuccessfully tried asking Elsa and the doctor to hold N back because they wanted to kill Alex.
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