
Undead Fossils: When long-extinct animals turn into zombies.Nonhuman Undead/ Undead Counterpart: When other monsters/cryptids contract the zombie plague.Raising the Steaks: When humans aren't the only species affected by the Zombie Apocalypse.Possessing a Dead Body: Reanimated by an intelligent spirit - though not the soul who originally owned that body (as that would be a Revenant Zombie).Parasite Zombie: For when the infection comes in the form of large parasites instead of microbes.Often overlaps with Flesh-Eating Zombie and/or Technically Living Zombie. They have the ability to turn their infected victims into more zombies. Plague Zombie: Created by The Virus or other such communicable disease.They are closely related to friendly vampires and ghosts. Friendly Zombie: The opposite case a benign zombie who has no Horror Hunger and means no harm to living people.They are usually mindless, feral ghouls who are driven only by their instinct to find live prey. Flesh-Eating Zombie: Zombies that eat the flesh of the living.Elite Zombie: There's regular zombies, slow or fast, and then there's these zombies, stronger than regular ones and often sporting enhanced abilities or unusual mutations to make them harder to take out.Elemental Zombie: Zombies that have elemental powers or an elemental theme/association.Attractive Zombie: A zombie who retains their good looks in spite of being a living corpse.Frankenstein, who is common enough in pop culture to have his own trope. Frankenstein's Monster: The famous creation of Dr.Artificial Zombie: Reanimated by science!.The most common zombie archetypes are as follows: Zombie canon was turned on its head with the release of the video game House of the Dead in 1996 and the film 28 Days Later in 2002, which heavily influenced and popularized the modern trend of super-fast, super-angry zombies (usually infected sort-of-alive humans as opposed to the reanimated dead) that has carried over to numerous works of fiction and entertainment. The Russo canon in particular ( Return of the Living Dead) is the reason most people will respond with " Braaaiinnnns" when zombies come up in conversation, and most depictions along those lines are references to it. Most zombie movies mix-and-match conventions from the Romero and Russo canons.

While Romero is responsible for most of the "general" zombie conventions, the more specific and visible zombie tropes are more often inspired by the later works of John Russo, Night's co-writer. Most zombie invasion stories, even those not explicitly based on Romero's films, follow the same conventions, though there are major points of contention.
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(Note, however, that the flesh-eaters in that movie are never referred to as "zombies," and Romero himself didn't consider them zombies, preferring " ghouls.")Īs Night was accidentally entered into the Public Domain due to an error in the end credits, it quickly became the object of imitation and emulation by many other directors. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) attached the word to the living dead who eat the flesh of the living. However, it wasn't until the 1960s that George A.

(Some of the oldest aspects of zombie appearance are actually symptoms of tetrodotoxin poisoning, a neurotoxin that may have been used in certain voudon rituals, though the Other Wiki dismisses the possibility on the grounds of not enough similarities between the two.) In this form, it has been known in America since the late 19th century. The word "zombie" originated in the Vodou beliefs of Haiti, referring to a body "revived" and enslaved by a sorcerer.
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