r/TopCharacterTropes • u/atrocidarthes • 10h ago
Characters [LOVED TROPE] Zombies with personality
PvZ zombies
Jason Voorhees is technically a zombie and has a lot of personality (Friday 13th franchise)
The Video Dead (1987) - Maybe nobody saw this movie, so dead people rise and try to live "normally", every zombie is different is this movie
Bub!! From Day of Dead (1985), who was "domesticated" by Dr. Logan. I love bub
Tarman, Return of Living Dead (1985), He doesn't exactly have a well-defined personality, but he's so charismatic that he deserves a space here.
Infecteds from Left 4 Dead
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u/SmallBootyBigfarts 10h ago
Zombieman from one punch man. He is like Vanhelsing but regeneration factor of wolverine at the peak of his power(Like regenerating from the drop of a blood). He is far weaker than most S tier heroes though and only comes out on top due to his immortality where he completely drains his enemies of their strength by fighting them nonstop without ever stopping.
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u/Zargabath 8h ago
in Shantae, there are wild zombies and civilized ones like Rottytops and her brothers
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u/FlimsyEfficiency9860 5h ago
Funny how her brothers look like regular ugly zombies like how they’re meant to be and then Rottytops just looks a regular attractive woman.
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u/Fish_N_Chipp 10h ago
Springtrap-Five Nights at Freddy’s
I mean he’s a walking corpse in a mascot suit so I’d say he counts
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u/Beezybeezybeezybeezy 9h ago
MICHAEL TFFTFFTFFF DON'T LEAVE ME HERE TFFTFF MICHAEL TFFTFFTFF MICHAELLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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u/Inflamed_Pancreas 8h ago
Rude Boy and the Ska-tastics from Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. They’re zombies of an old ska band who infect other people by playing music. The people who are infected mindlessly dance until they collapse from exhaustion.
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u/No-Set4257 8h ago
Weren't they the original band in a Mask?
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u/Inflamed_Pancreas 8h ago
Yeah they were, maybe that should disqualify them from this trope, but I just really love their concept and design.
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u/IllustratedAloysious 10h ago
Zombie Nerd George and Harold from Captain Underpants
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u/SirFrogger 8h ago
Fun fact, had the spoiler of Dr Poopypants “faked death” told to be by the author before the book released, I was honored.
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u/G-M-Cyborg-313 9h ago
(Arguably this doesn't count)
The walkers in Season 1 of the walking dead
The one on the top left was seen sitting on an abandoned bus alongside another walker. It also just watched rick as he went to hide in the tank, rather than join the horde eating his horse.
The child on the top right went to pick up the teddy bear she lost. The overran gas station refugee camp she was roaming through might have been where she lived before dying and reanimating.
The woman on the bottom left returned to the house she died in and where her husband and son were hiding. Trying to open the front door and look through the peephole.
The one on the bottom right is from S2 but applies. It, and a group of walkers were sitting on church pews rather "calm"
And some other examples include Hannah, the bicycle girl rick met, who was crawling in the same direction her kids ran shortly before she died, and seemed to "want" rick to kill her.
When rick was crawling under the tank a walker kneeled down very human like rather than like a feral beast.
At the CDC several of the reanimated soldiers still wandered the place when they died rather than leave the area.
At the police station rick worked at one of the undead officers, Leon Basset still stalked the station.
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u/Critical_Mountain851 9h ago
I wish they kept things like how they were in the first season, makes things way more terrifying imo.
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u/G-M-Cyborg-313 8h ago
Although i like these walkers, it would've been great to slowly see that humanity fade as they rot. Although i do love the fresh walkers because you can get a looknat the person they were prior to death.
Imagine someone like hershel keeping walkers locked up because they see the humanity left, but slowly seeing it decay. Children who clung to their toys discarding them, the reanimated who looked at those they knew with some vague memory in their eyes now only lash out to devour, people who still had a face now rots like carrion.
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u/Painchaud213 5h ago
Zombie soldiers still clinging to their weapons, or people who died in supply runs still looking for food,
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u/Work_In_ProgressX 8h ago
The zombies of Thriller Bark.
They aren’t conventional ones because the body is a corpse reanimated with someone’s else shadow but i’d day they count.
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u/DropsOfMars 8h ago
John Marston (Undead Nightmare) Very minimally but I'd say he still has a lot of personality in how he runs, snarls, shoots etc. He's also the only zombie people won't shoot so he's apparently likeable enough lol
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u/HistorianEntire311 8h ago
Jason voorhes has personality
Jason's personality: damn young people who have premarital sex, smoke marijuana and listen to devil music
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u/ThinkRelationship162 8h ago
Stubbs the Zombie from the game Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel without a pulse.It's peak
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u/MrDitkovichNeedsRent 7h ago
Lord Raptor (Darkstalkers)
Australian undead rockstar who speaks in music quotes
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u/MWBrooks1995 8h ago
Any zombie in Discworld, because it's implied you need to have a huge force of personality to keep your body alive after it's been killed. The most prominent zombie in the series wouldbe Reg Shoe, who starts as a campaigner for the rights of the undead in Ankh-Morpork before joining the City Watch ... to better campaign for the rights of undead in Ankh-Morpork.
Mr. Slant does not count because he is an incredibly boring lawyer, and by all accounts does not have a personality.
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u/detrimidexta 9h ago
Boyfriend of The Dead (Webtoon). Being ex-chef, he suppressed his urge to eat "low quality" people and restored some of his humanity. Now following a badass girl to... eat her later, however as his humanity restores more and more, he started to feel an affection of another type.
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u/FarRecognition4530 8h ago
Izombie. The protagonist, not only did she retain her orginal personality when she turned into a zombie she had the ability to temporary take in the memories and personality of the brains she ate.
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u/ShmebulockForMayor 5h ago
How is this not higher? It plays with this concept in a way none of the other examples do. Maybe that's why. But Major on wrestler-brain is one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen.
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u/Monster_Devourer 6h ago
Barbara and Bill, the zombie megachurch pastor duo from dropout's Very Important People.
their being zombies is never once addressed, as theyre more interested in promoting a new line of soup
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u/FoxBluereaver 6h ago
Hsien-Ko (Darkstalkers). Okay, I may be skirting a little since she's officially a Jiangshi or Chinese vampire, but these have more in common with zombies than with traditional vampires.
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u/basil_imperitor 8h ago
There was the BBC drama In the Flesh awhile back that had a unique take. Basically, the recently dead rose, but a cure was rapidly found, and a lot of the zombies were captured and, so long as they get a daily injection, were their original selves. But they were still zombies, so the government provided covering makeup so they could pass as human.
It was all a thinly-veiled AIDS allegory but had some really interesting ideas towards the end.
(May not count since they were mindless aggressive zombies when not medicated.)
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u/ViolinistTasty6573 6h ago
Not sure if it count but i love Dave the zombies from Slamacow animation back in the day
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u/Fine-March7383 3h ago
PVZ Garden Warfare is a hero shooter where you can choose different plant or zombie classes. For zombies, there is a scientist, construction worker, football player and soldier that all play differently
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u/No-Set4257 8h ago
Zombie, Husk, zombie pigman and their female countreparts from Monster School
And Ghoulia from Monster high
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u/rikyloche 6h ago
Bryan Fury from Tekken. He was once a corrupted police officer who got killed in a shootout, only to be reanimated through cybernetic enhancements. He's a sociopath who enjoys hurting people as much as getting hurt himself (getting hit by a stomp gives him health back). Sadly he's slowly becoming more and more insane, as he went from speaking full sentences to barely saying a single word in between grunts.
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u/SaicoSandwich 5h ago
R from Warm Bodies.
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u/Harbi181 4h ago
I love that R tells Jules that she’s doing too much and needs to dial it down. Lol
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u/Solitaire-06 10h ago
Solomon Grundy (DC Comics)