History Characters / ZombieArmyZombieHorde

* TheHeavy: Throughout the first two episodes of ''Trilogy'', Hitler has not actually been resurrected yet. As such, the zombie hordes are led by the Occult Generals for two thirds of the game until his return.

* BigBad: Of the second DLC mission trinity ("Damnation Valley", "Alpine Blitz" and "Dead Zeppelin") and "Terminal Error".

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler: When Baron Umbra is close to being destroyed completely, he starts trying to {{invoke|dTrope}} this by claiming he is the only one with the knowledge on how to stop Project Ragnarok. [[DefiedTrope Schweiger and Alpha Squad kill him anyways]], unwilling to let a tyrant like him be allowed to live any longer.]]

[[folder:The Ragnarok Kommandant ('''Massive Spoilers''')]]

Shrouded in darkness for most of ''Dead War'', they finally step into the light in the "[[GrandFinale Ragnarok]]" [=DLC=], which reveals that the cult is mostly comprised of clones connected to each other through occult magic.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Of the "Ragnarok" [=DLC=] and the true masterminds behind the series as a whole.

* FauxAffablyEvil: They are remarkably polite towards the Survivor Brigade in the final confrontation, but that's mostly because they are confident that there is nothing they can do to stop Project Ragnarok. They still want to kill them all.
* HijackingCthulhu: In order to ensure the success of Project Ragnarok, Arnold decides to merge with the void bomb and personally unleash its power unto the world.

* OmnicidalManiac: What Project Ragnarok is really all about. They intend to trigger the [[DoomsdayDevice void bomb]] contained within the Ragnarok fortress to end all life on Earth completely and rule over Hell by remaking it InTheirOwnImage.

* YouAllLookFamiliar: They [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this in Part I of "Ragnarok", pointing out that nobody ever seemed to notice that the members of the Hell Cult were all so similar. Turns out there was a good reason for this.

** Finally, the "[[GrandFinale Ragnarok]]" [=DLC=] introduces "Divers", zombies wearing old-school diving outfits with metal helmets that make getting headshots impossible.

* MoreDakka: The second part of the Ragnarok chapter introduces a Hellish version of these enemies who carry assault rifles instead of the typical Gewehr 43, and fire in bursts rather than single shots. Unlike their more common brethren, these snipers sport red laser sights instead of cyan.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The second part of the "Ragnarok" [=DLC=] features snipers whose eyes and aura glow red instead of green. These are more dangerous than their regular counterparts, as they can fire rapidly instead of just once.

As part of Projekt Ragnarok, numerous zombified great white sharks are juiced up with hell energy and then mulched up into paste to fuel an improved generation of blood batteries. Although these sharks can be found in European waterways during the Dead War, they are mostly manufactured in Hell.\\

One very large mechanized specimen, the Megalodon, is fought as the FinalBoss of the first half of the "Ragnarok" [=DLC=].

* ChekhovsGun: Zombie sharks are established very early on in ''Dead War'', first appearing in the background of the "Death Canal" mission. They have very little relevance throughout the rest of the game, only occasionally showing up as traps that you can use to bite dozens of zombies to death. "Ragnarok" reveals that they are incredibly important to the series as a whole, as [[EliteMook Elites]] are created by the infusion of processed shark blood.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The Megalodon is fought at the end of Part 1 of the "Ragnarok" [=DLC=].

Zombies that have been crudely nailed, bolted and welded into makeshift suits of armor from heavy plate lying around. Renamed "Armored Giants" in ''Dead Army''.

[[folder: The Ragnarok Kommandant ('''Massive Spoilers''')]]

* AttackItsWeakpoint: In the original releases of ''Nazi Zombie Army 1'' & ''2'', skeletons were a lot more durable than they appeared. The only way to consistently kill them was to shoot the glowing hearts in their chest, which made them.

[[folder: Elites/Heavies]]

* MakeMeWannaShout: Downplayed. When they sense a survivor, they let out an ear-piercing howl before beelining towards them. This doesn't inflict damage, but ''is'' an InterfaceScrew, rendering the survivors temporarily immobile and unable to attack as they clasp their ears in pain.

An occult-empowered ArtificialIntelligence created by Baron Umbra's cult after witnessing Dr. Schweiger's success in using a Z5 computer to decode the Sagarmatha Relic prior to the unleashing of Plan Z.

* HijackingCthulhu: In order to ensure the success of Project Ragnarok, Arnold decides to merge with the void bomb

[[folder:Baron Umbra]]
A Transylvanian nobleman who discovered a profane enlightenment that revealed to him the secrets of magic and the existence of the reality-shaping power hidden at the center of the HollowWorld. Granted immortality through his dark knowledge, he founded a cult to aid him in reaching the HollowWorld and activating that machine, allowing him to recreate the world in a new "Golden Age" of his own design.

* EnemyCivilWar: [[spoiler:Files in the first half of the "Abaddon Asylum" mission hint that the Baron's own cult turned against him and imprisoned him in the titular asylum. In the second half, he confirms that his cult ironically became subverted by Hitler's own cult of personality, which led to infighting which the Hitler-worshippers won, causing them to seal Umbra and his loyalists away in St. Abaddon Asylum.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: Without his occult research, Hitler would have never been able to initiate Plan Z and escalate World War II into an apocalyptic hellscape.

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: After his cultists betrayed him for Hitler, Umbra and his loyalists were ritualistically sealed within the St. Abaddon Asylum.]]

[[folder:Occult General]]
Encountered three times throughout ''Zombie Army Trilogy'', an Occult General is a powerful summoner that leads the zombie menace while Hitler has yet to rise from the dead.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's not entirely clear if there is just one Occult General or if you encounter three separate entities. The fact that all three have the exact same voice and appearance on top of one directly talking to you suggests that it's the same one, but the achievements for defeating one switches between "the" and "an" Occult General.
* DeathOfPersonality: Seems to happen when becoming an Occult General. At the end of ''Nazi Zombie Army 2'', we meet a Nazi general or SS officer in the middle of being turned into a new general, but he seems to be actively fighting the process. While the four Summoners around him perform the ritual, the man begs the heroes to help him and that he can't hold on much longer. Once the transformation is complete, he behaves like the other Generals before him.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Their voices are incredibly deep and seek to ravage the world with their zombie armies.
* EvilLaugh: The summoning of a new wave of zombies is marked by their distinctive demonic laughter.
* DemBones: They have the appearance of skeletons wearing SS uniforms.
* FinalBoss: In the original releases of ''Nazi Zombie Army 1'' and ''2''.
* FlunkyBoss: In the most extreme way possible. Occult Generals have no offensive abilities at all, their only offensive measure being the summoning of increasingly massive zombie hordes.
* TheHeavy: Throughout the first two episodes of ''Trilogy'', Hitler has not actually been resurrected yet. As such, the zombie hordes are led by the Occult Generals for two thirds of the game until his return.
* KingMook: To the Summoners, since both do nothing but spawn endless waves of additional zombies. However, while the Summoners are limited to spawning regular zombies, Occult Generals are fully capable of summoning elites.
* ShieldedCoreBoss: Occult Generals are shielded by a set of flying skulls orbiting around them. As long as these skulls remain intact, the Generals cannot be harmed.
* StationaryBoss: For whatever reason, Occult Generals never move from the spot they rise out of, which is good since it makes shooting their skull shields a lot easier than it otherwise would be.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: One of the many aspects of their unholy nature. It's even accompanied by the creepy giggling of children sometimes.

[[folder:Zombie Snipers]]

[[folder:Zombie Officers]]

* PlayingWithFire: The Fire Spitter from the "Return to Hell" level throws fireballs.

As part of Projekt Ragnarok, numerous zombified great white sharks are juiced up with hell energy and then mulched up into paste to fuel an improved generation of blood batteries. Although these sharks can be found in European waterways during the Dead War, they are mostly manufactured in hell, and one very large mechanized specimen is fought as the FinalBoss of the first half of the Ragnarok chapter.

* FeedItABomb: The zombie Megalodon boss is defeated by Schweiger jamming a large explosive down its gullet, that is then blown up by Alpha Squad.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: When the Survivor Brigade sabotages its weapons so it can't launch its bombs anymore, the Z5 core decides that the entire zeppelin has been compromised and sets a course for Paris, intending to ram it into the city and kill as many people as possible.

* DraggedOffToHell: Well, more accurately he's thrown into Hell, but the principle still applies. After the final battle with his giant avatar, he confronts you personally ([[ZeroEffortBoss or at least tries to]]), only to be kicked down and tossed into the {{Hellgate}}, damning him to an eternity in Hell forever.
* GeneralFailure: Hitler is portrayed as quite incompetent, having succeeded in the early stages of the war largely through luck and bravado, but now crumbling in the face of competent resistance; it was sheer desperation that led him to fallo back on Plan Z.

* NighInvulnerable: As you see in the PostFinalBoss fight, Hitler confronts you personally and is completely invulnerable to harm, requiring him to be knocked down and tossed directly into {{Hell}} itself to finish him. [[FateWorseThanDeath He’s likely regretting such a thing deeply now after that, regardless if he survived or not.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Hitler activated Plan Z as a final desperate act to repel the Allies from Germany and turn the tides of the war, but while that part of the plan worked Hitler quickly finds himself on the business end of EvilIsNotAToy as a horde of crazed corpses encroach upon his bunker and kill him gruesomely. Even after coming back, his stupidity hasn’t waned a single bit, as he’s still dabbling in the Occult and now seeking to unleash the wrath of the Hellmouth upon humanity. This gets him a [[DraggedOffToHell one-way trip]] to an eternal FateWorseThanDeath for his megalomaniacal foolishness. [[spoiler:Or not. It just empowers him again, allowing him to take command of his undead army once again...and then he loses again. And is disintegrated by the Agartha Relic, more than likely ''finally'' killing the Führer.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:When encountered at the climax of Abaddon Asylum's second component mission, he has had his jaws broken so his tongue lolls out constantly, his chest carved open to expose his heart, and has literally been welded into the back wall of a cathedral to the point he has spread out across it like a great mass of MeatMoss, with the skinless bodies of other humans visibly incorporated into the sprawling expanse of shapeless flesh.]]

* {{Magitek}}: Created highly advanced machinery, including a primitive ArtificialIntelligence, a gargantuan drill machine/elevator, and devices that could preserve a human as a BrainInAJar, all fueled by occult energy, often using cannisters of human blood as batteries.

* DreadZeppelin: A ''zombified'' zeppelin that rains terror onto the ground below. It's existence is enough of a threat that there are two entire [=DLC=] chapters devoted to bringing it down.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: When the Survivor Brigade sabotages its weapons so it can't launch its bombs anymore, the Rachegeist decides that the entire zeppelin has been compromised and sets a course for Paris, intending to ram it into the city and cause

* MindHive: It is a collective of independent Z5 computers networked together to form a greater whole, though the intelligence that calls itself the Rachegeist is dominant over the others, which are referred to as "slave-cores". When Edie suggests it is a HiveMind the Rachegeist rebukes the theory, angrily remakring that it is more than the sum of its parts. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it is right. While destroying the slave-cores is painful, it ultimately has little impact on its functionality.]]

* MindHive: It is a collective of independent Z5 computers networked together to form a greater whole, though the intelligence that calls itself the Rachegeist is dominant over the others, which are referred to as "slave-cores". When Edie suggests this the Rachegeist rebukes it, angrily remakring that it is more than the sum of its parts. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it is right. While destroying the slave-cores is painful for it, it ultimately has little impact on its functionality.]]

An occult-empowered ArtificialIntelligence created by Baron Umbra's cult after witnessing Dr. Schweiger's success in using a Z5 computer to decode the Sagarmatha Relic prior to the unleashing of Plan Z. Fueled by human blood and outfitted with living human brains to augment its processing abilities, the Rachegeist was created to help run the more impressive occultic wunderwaffen and projects, but it attempts to take revenge on the Allies after its activation.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: The prolonged effort to destroy the Rachegeist involves destroying its human brain-bank slave cores and sabotaging its blood battery supply. Then, in the final confrontation, the players have to destroy its weapon turrets, shoot its brain-based subprocessors, and finally destroy its coolant cores.

* GeniusLoci: The Rachegeist is ''huge'', consisting of a building-sized central core and several smaller but still massive Z5 computer complexes and human brain-banks as "slave cores".

* MindHive: It is a collective of independent Z5 computers networked together to form a greater whole, though the intelligence that calls itself the Rachegeist is dominant over the others, which are referred to as "slave cores". When Edie suggests this the Rachegeist rebukes it, angrily remakring that it is more than the sum of its parts. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it is right. While destroying the slave cores is painful for it, it ultimately has little impact on its functionality.]]

A gigantic airborne menace, created by Baron Umbra's cult under the codename "Project Valkyrie", piloted by a self-aware Z5 core processor. It serves as the focus of the .

* ArcVillain: For the "Alpine Blitz" and "Dead Zeppelin" [=DLCs=]. While it is ultimately just a slave core to the Rachegeist, it is the more immediate threat.

An occult-empowered ArtificialIntelligence created by Baron Umbra's cult after witnessing Dr. Schweiger's success in using a Z5 computer to decode the Sagarmatha Relic prior to the unleashing of Plan Z. Fueled by human blood and outfitted with living human brains to augment its processing abilities, the Rachegeist was created to help run the more impressive occultic wonderwaffens and projects, but it attempts to take revenge on the Allies after its activation.

* BigBad: Of the second DLC mission trinity; "Alpine Blitz", "Dead Zeppelin" and "Terminal Express".

[[folder: Zombie Grunts]]

[[folder: Zombie Officers]]

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: They use thick shields of spiked metal to ward off attacks and to bash into anyone who gets too close. Killing them requires either sniping them when they poke their head above the shield to find targets, somehow outflanking them, using grenades, or hitting them with an armor piercing attack. Additionally, they are also vulnerable to a Finisher like any other non-Elite zombie.

[[folder: Zombie Sharks]]

[[folder: Zombie Half-Treads/Tanks]]

* MookMaker: Zombies continuously fall out of the back of the Half-Treads, which also shows that it has a ''ribcage'' on the inside.

[[folder: The Hell Machine]]

[[Characters/ZombieArmySurvivorBrigade Survivor Brigade]] | '''The Zombie horde''' -] ]] ]]

!Zombie Grunts

!Special Zombies
!!Introduced in ''Trilogy''
[[folder:Suiciders]]
Referred to as "Suicide Grunts" in the original ''Zombie Army Trilogy'', Suiciders are zombies that have been strapped with explosives and sent careening towards survivors.

* ActionBomb: Their only attack is to blow themselves up in a suicide charge. On the plus side, a well-aimed shot can wreak havoc on any grunts crowding around them.
* BodyHorror: In ''Dead Army'', the Suicider has gone from an intact zombie carrying lots of grenades to a maimed carcass on two legs; the skin and meat has largely been hacked from its body, dynamite or stick grenades have been threaded through its ribs, its arms have been chopped off, and two stick grenades have been impaled through its cheeks to form an X shape.
* HellIsThatNoise: It's easy to tell when Suiciders are approaching because they scream a constant, unending shriek, similar to the Beheaded Kamikazes from ''VideoGame/SeriousSam''.
* ZombieGait: Subverted. Suiciders ''sprint'' and are hands-down the fastest enemy in the game.

[[folder:Zombie Snipers]]
Germany's most elite snipers, revived to resume their offensives against the living.

* {{BFG}}: ''Dead War'' introduces a second flavor to these enemies, one that lugs around a ''Panzerschreck'' instead of a sniper rifle. Due to the large metal shield of the launcher and the obvious lack of optics of any kind, this variant of the Sniper is immune to {{Scope Snip|e}}ing.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: A zombie sniper's eye glows to the point it casts a beam like a laser pointer, allowing players to realize when they are being targeted.
* HellIsThatNoise: Their presence can be distinguished by the creepy laughter they emit.
* InASingleBound: Snipers can make spectacular leaps across dozens of meters to jump from rooftop to rooftop for a better vantage.
* MoreDakka: The second part of the Ragnarok chapter introduces a Hellish version of these enemies who carry assault rifles instead of the typical Gewehr 43, and fire in bursts rather than single shots. Unlike their more common brethren, these snipers sport red laser sights instead of cyan.
* ScopeSnipe: If your aim is true enough, you can re-enact that scene from ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' with these enemies, which will award you with a special "Scope Kill" bonus in ''Dead War''. The Mastery challenge for the Gewehr 43 in that game requires you to do this ten times as well. It's a tricky shot, but aiming for the right eye whilst they have their rifle raised tends to work.

[[folder: Zombie Officers]]
Hitler's personal followers and underlings, now returned from their trip to hell to resume commandership of the damned Nazi regime. In the original ''Zombie Army Trilogy'', these were all Summoners that continuously [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin summon new zombies until killed]]. ''Dead Army'' expands them into their own sub-types called Officers: Necromancers revive slain zombies around them until destroyed, Commanders summon hellish spirits in the form of skulls that possess zombies and turn them into fast-moving "Enraged Zombies", Shadow Demons try to teleport victims into their grasp, and Suicide Generals summon Suiciders.

* EnemyCivilWar: [[spoiler:Files in the first half of the "Abaddon Asylum" mission hint that the Baron's own cult turned against him and imprisoned him in the titular asylum. In the second half, he confirms that his cult ironically became subverted by Hitler's own cult of personality, which led to infighting which the Hitler-worshippers won, causing them to seal Umbra and his loyalists away in San Abaddon Asylum.]]