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Shaun of the Dead is a 2004 "romantic comedy with zombies" — a "RomZomCom", if you will — directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and written by Wright and Pegg.A young man named Shaun (Pegg) is dumped by his girlfriend Liz because he lacks motivation and doesn't put enough effort into the relationship. Shortly after Shaun decides to reform in order to win her back, his plans are interrupted by the Zombie Apocalypse. In the wake of the mounting chaos, he and his even more deadbeat friend Ed (Frost) embark on a daring journey to rescue Shaun's mother and stepfather, as well as Liz and her annoying flatmates, and take them to the safety of the local pub, The Winchester.Alternately hilarious, scary, and heartbreaking, the film can be seen as either a parody of zombie movies or a romantic comedy that happens to use a zombie apocalypse as its setting.The film is the first part of Wright's Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, followed by Hot Fuzz and The World's End.
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Artistic License – Gun Safety
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Artistic License – Gun Safety: The Winchester's Winchester rifle is placed in plain sight where anybody and their dog could get their hands on it (the shells are a harder thing to find in a hurry, though) and in very clear violation of British gun laws, which is why when Shaun and Ed first talk about it, they argue the rumor that it's a functional firearm with Shaun firmly on the "deactivated" side. Even funnier/unsafe, it turns out that the Winchester rifle is loaded with a shell in the chamber and it goes off when Shaun pulls the trigger to demonstrate it's deactivated after bludgeoning a zombie with it.
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And Then John Was a Zombie
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And Then John Was a Zombie: Ed gets turned into a zomb...er...thing at the end.
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The Millstone
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Ed pretty much was The Millstone throughout the film with his carelessness exasperating the situation more than once, but he redeems himself by staying behind to guard Shaun and Liz's escape as he lays dying after being bitten by Pete, even going so far as to tell them I Will Only Slow You Down.
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One Last Smoke
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One Last Smoke: Shaun and Liz. Averted, as the light from the cigarette lighter reveals the controls for the escape hatch they had believed to be jammed. Liz and Shaun also leave Ed with a cigarette dangling from his lips.
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Pretend We're Dead
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Pretend We're Dead: Done by the main characters to get to the pub. Their cover is blown when Ed gets a call on his mobile.
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Instantly Proven Wrong
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Phillip's zombie shuts off the music he hated right after Shaun was convincing his mother that it wasn't Philip anymore.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Shaun has one, when the talk stops being about escape and starts being about ending it quickly.
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Heel–Face Door-Slam
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: David, who was an asshole the entire movie, and is totally unsympathetic to Shaun having to kill his own mother, is killed rather gruesomely before he gets a chance to apologize. There was an alternate version of the scene where he's killed just after he apologizes, but the creators decided it was more shocking if he never redeemed himself. People in the test audiences cheered.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: Shaun concludes that he and Ed are safe in the house. Cue zombie smashing the glass door. Both these lines towards Pete: "Next time I see him he's dead" and "Ed and I are going to the Winchester. You're free to join us if you feel better."
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: A British magazine published three short tie in comics that explain a few off scene events that tie up loose ends in the story, like, how did Shaun shake the zombies after leading them away from the pub? How did Ed end up in Shaun's tool shed? And what exactly happened to Dianne? These stories were inserted into the DVD complete with narrations by the characters. Also, Mary, the zombie girl in the garden, has her own back-story which was published in 2000AD as a tie-in.
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene: This is an Edgar Wright comedy, but it tugs at the heartstrings when Shaun is forced to kill his zombified mother.
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Full-Frontal Assault
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Full-Frontal Assault: Pete is completely naked as a zombie, having transformed during a shower. He shows up in the film's climax to bite Ed.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: A fantastically in-jokey scene where the gang run into a very similar gang headed by Shaun's friend Yvonne (played by Jessica Hynes, Simon Pegg's co-star and co-writer on Spaced). The alternative gang are all played by well-known British comedy actors (Martin Freeman from The Office (UK) note who a minor role with more lines in Hot Fuzz and finally played a main character in The World's End and then in an obscure and niche fantasy movie, Tamsin Grieg from Black Books, Matt Lucas from Little Britain, Reece Shearsmith from The League of Gentlemen and Julia Deakin from Spaced) even though they're only on screen for seconds. They synchronise man-for-man with Shaun's gang. The implication is that Yvonne's the main character in a movie with a much higher budget, or at least with a smarter lead character. All of the TV presenters & news reporters seen when Shaun's flipping through the channels are actual TV presenters & news reporters from the UK. Coldplay also appear briefly in the sequence at the end of the film being interviewed. Chris Martin also cameos as a zombie outside the Winchester when Shaun and Liz escape, the one moving very slowly at the right of the screen. One of the zombies outside The Winchester looks an awful lot like (and is) Bill Bailey A zombified Tyres (the drugged-up courier from Spaced) is among the zombies that Shaun leads away from the Winchester, technically also counts as Death by Cameo.
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Green-Eyed Monster: David is not-so-secretly in love with Liz and is deeply jealous of Shaun for being with her.
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Obstacle Exposition: Shaun plots out their every move to Ed once they've realized they're in a Zombie Apocalypse as a monologue over hilarious footage of him carrying out each act, calmly and with panache. As Ed reminds him about something else Shaun amends his previous plan to accommodate it. From then on they, of course, have trouble each step along the way.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Shaun and Ed. Life and death partners, anyway.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: Di. Despite her name, she survives!
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Everyone is in this mode on reaching the Winchester, and it's hard to blame them.
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Reveal Shot
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Reveal Shot: In the movie's opening scene, we're treated to a view of a pair of shuffling feet, while their owner groans in a zombie-like fashion. Zooming out, we see it's just Shaun, half-asleep and yawning after getting out of bed.
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Two Shots from Behind the Bar: The Winchester has the gun hidden in plain sight, but Shaun and the others initially think it's just a prop.
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Failed a Spot Check: As a result of being severely hungover, Shaun goes to get some breakfast from the off licence across the street and utterly fails to notice the Zombie Apocalypse raging around him. Also, when checking the street: Neither Shaun or Ed really notice that the world is coming to an end around them, that the guy shambling towards them outside the pub is a zombie and not a drunk, or that the girl in the garden is actually undead until they accidentally put a huge hole right through her guts and she shrugs it off.
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Headache of Doom
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Headache of Doom: As Pete inadvertently reveals, one of the earliest symptoms of the zombie plague is a splitting headache: having been bitten in a "mugging" on the way home from work, Pete loses his temper at the racket Shaun and Ed are kicking up at four in the morning and makes it abundantly clear he isn't in the mood thanks to his headache. A few hours later, he's found to have succumbed to the infection and become a zombie in the shower - resulting in a Full-Frontal Assault.
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Chekhov's Gag: When Shaun first encounters Pete as a zombie, he nervously stammers out that Pete's welcome to join everyone at the Winchester if he feels better. Pete shows up, but he's not feeling better that's for sure.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Literally, in the form of a Winchester rifle that's behind the bar that the characters mention and wonder if it works. It does. "That's the second album I've ever bought!" The Jaguar’s child locks first annoy Shaun but later prove to be a life saver when they help keep the zombified Philip in the car. The pack of cigarettes that Shaun left at Liz' place and which pop up again at the end to be used for One Last Smoke.
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Immediate Self-Contradiction
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Immediate Self-Contradiction: Shaun berating his co-worker for not being able to keep work and social life apart. Ring! Liz is on the phone and wants to talk to Shaun.
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The same gag is echoed later on in a spot of Soundtrack Dissonance: The jukebox in the pub, now facing an onslaught of zombies, randomly picks Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now".
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Genre Deconstruction
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Genre Deconstruction: The film makes it very clear just how relatively helpless a group of scared, lower middle class twenty-something Londoners would be in a zombie outbreak. Firearms are illegal in the UK so Improvised Weapons are the only option, and even if they came across a working example, nobody is likely to have any experience using it. But the UK is a much smaller country than the US and so the Army is never far away.
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Devoured by the Horde: Before he can apologize to Shaun for a rude comment after Shaun has just had to execute his zombified mother and trying to shoot him in a fit of anger, David is torn apart by zombies reaching through the Winchester's glass windows. Attempting to pull him back in, his girlfriend ends up holding his leg and using said leg to beat her way into the zombie horde in a futile attempt to rescue him.
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Only Sane Man: Shaun, once he's convinced himself that, yes, it is zombies they're dealing with, starts to deal with it pragmatically. Everyone else seems either intent on denying the crisis, in the belief that if they just sit around this silliness will blow over, or going into hysterical and useless rants (Dave). Ed goes too far in the other direction, becoming a bit too keen putting the others in danger for thrills. Liz also has her head screwed on fairly well throughout the movie, and in the Mexican Stand Off almost everyone else gets into at the climax she's the only one trying to act as the voice of reason by pointing out that they kind of have bigger fish to fry at the moment.
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Your Television Hates You
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Your Television Hates You: Inverted into Your Television Really Wants You to Know You're in Danger. When Shaun turns on the TV and completely fails to notice the Coincidental Broadcast, every channel he turns to regardless of its contents continues explaining to him the danger going on outside.
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Unwanted Assistance
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Unwanted Assistance: Friends' help is just as likely to hurt, to the point of a Running Gag. During Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" scene, Dianne 'helps' Shaun fend off a zombie bartender by throwing darts, with mixed success.
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Unfolding Plan Montage
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Unfolding Plan Montage: Shaun and Ed devise a plan to collect Shaun's friends, mum, and stepdad, and find safety "until this whole thing blows over." Then the plan changes and a revised montage plays accordingly.
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Death of a Child
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Death of a Child: Seen through a blink-and-you-miss-it family running from their zombified mother, who proceeds to drag her son back into the house. Additionally, the football-kicking child doesn't escape zombification either. The Winchester patron with metal pointed boots is eaten by a pack of zombie children, and there is another little zombie girl among a group waiting to cross the road.
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Mythology Gag: "How's that for a slice of fried gold?" refers to a comment frequently made between members of the Spaced production team. Tyres from Spaced is in the crowd of zombies around the Winchester (easily spotted because he's wearing his yellow hat and courier get-up), apparently STILL raving. (In fact, according to some accounts, they just invited Michael Smiley back to be a zombie, but he decided to come back in character as Tyres himself.) The first meeting between Shaun and Yvonne, played by Jessica Stevenson aka Daisy, refers back obliquely to their work on Spaced. The entire Zombie episode of Spaced (where Tim hallucinates a zombie attack after getting high and playing Resident Evil 2 all night) was apparently the inspiration for the whole movie. Including a throwaway remark about someone getting beaten to death with a pool cue. That ice cream 'Cornetto' also appeared in Hot Fuzz as the blue 'Classico' to represent the police force, and because Shaun of The Dead is themed with blood, Shaun bought a strawberry (red) one, making this the first in the 'Cornetto' or 'Blood & Ice Cream' Trilogy. This also relates to the line "Want anything from the shop?" which appears in both films. It's mentioned in the commentary that the location of Shaun and Ed's home is just up the road from Tim and Daisy's. They even speculate that Yvonne and Shaun are some kind of alternate universe's Tim and Daisy. The recurring argument that Shaun and Ed often get into about the ability of dogs to look up is apparently based on an actual argument that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost had during the filming of Spaced. The shopping trolley outside the house was also in Spaced.
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Funny Background Event
 Shaun of the Dead / int_26eb6287
comment
Funny Background Event: Tons, but the topper has to be the lovers necking in the alley by the bar. The second time we see them, the man's head is bitten off. Talk about "necking".
 Shaun of the Dead / int_26eb6287
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_26eb6287
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1.0
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Shaun of the Dead / int_26eb6287
 Shaun of the Dead / int_292d1ccd
type
Everyone Went to School Together
 Shaun of the Dead / int_292d1ccd
comment
Everyone Went to School Together: Parodied. The flatmates Shaun, Ed and Pete and respectively Liz, Di and David went to school together.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_292d1ccd
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_292d1ccd
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Shaun of the Dead / int_292d1ccd
 Shaun of the Dead / int_294ed981
type
Bilingual Bonus
 Shaun of the Dead / int_294ed981
comment
Bilingual Bonus: During the second "walk to the shop" sequence, as Shaun gets inside the cheerful Indian music on the radio is suddenly interrupted by a rather frantic-sounding person urgently delivering what sounds like a rather important message about what's going on that Shaun might want to listen to... except it's in untranslated, unsubtitled Hindi. Of course, even the most lazy viewer has probably picked up enough of the Meaningful Background Events in that particular sequence to figure out exactly what the message is...
 Shaun of the Dead / int_294ed981
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_294ed981
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1.0
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Shaun of the Dead / int_294ed981
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2a090d00
type
Lampshade Hanging
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2a090d00
comment
After getting sick of constantly going to the Winchester, Liz finally breaks up with Shaun. Cue the apocalypse the next day, and Liz soon finds herself heading to the Winchester with Shaun. This is even lampshaded viciously:
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2a090d00
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Shaun of the Dead / int_2a090d00
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2e0c6c38
type
Eskimos Aren't Real
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2e0c6c38
comment
Eskimos Aren't Real: A Brick Joke is an argument between Shaun and Ed whether or not the rifle at the Winchester is real. The owner says it is, but he also says dogs can't look up. After the rifle fires, proving Ed right...
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2e0c6c38
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2e0c6c38
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Shaun of the Dead / int_2e0c6c38
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f187e89
type
It Works Better with Bullets
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f187e89
comment
It Works Better with Bullets: David's last hop over the Moral Event Horizon is when he panics and pulls the trigger on Shaun. *Click*. Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f187e89
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f187e89
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Shaun of the Dead / int_2f187e89
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f5790f5
type
I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f5790f5
comment
I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: When Shaun, Liz, David, Dianne, Barbara, and Ed run into the alternative "gang" as they make their way to the Winchester, there are quite a few comedy partnerships brought together again. Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes - Tim and Daisy. Lucy Davis and Martin Freeman - Dawn and Tim. Dylan Moran and Tamsin Greig - Bernard and Fran. Julia Deakin and Nick Frost are, of course, in Spaced too, as Marsha and Mike.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f5790f5
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f5790f5
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Shaun of the Dead / int_2f5790f5
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f62653b
type
Borrowed Catchphrase
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f62653b
comment
Borrowed Catchphrase: Shaun uses Ed's "two seconds" before he visits Ed's zombie in the shed.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f62653b
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2f62653b
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Shaun of the Dead / int_2f62653b
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2fc21a19
type
Distaff Counterpart
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2fc21a19
comment
Distaff Counterpart: Yvonne seems to be one for Shaun. (See The Cameo above)
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2fc21a19
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_2fc21a19
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Shaun of the Dead / int_2fc21a19
 Shaun of the Dead / int_31cd5fe7
type
Apologetic Attacker
 Shaun of the Dead / int_31cd5fe7
comment
Apologetic Attacker: Shaun apologizes to his zombified mother when he prepares a mercy kill: "Sorry, mum..." Played for laughs when Shaun and Ed are planning how to rescue their friends and families. Philip, Shaun's stepdad dies in all three iterations of the plan, with the apology getting less and less sincere with each iteration.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_31cd5fe7
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_31cd5fe7
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Shaun of the Dead / int_31cd5fe7
 Shaun of the Dead / int_331d9f32
type
Silent Snarker
 Shaun of the Dead / int_331d9f32
comment
Silent Snarker: The zombies occasionally emit signs that even they're dumbfounded by the antics of the survivors.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_331d9f32
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_331d9f32
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Shaun of the Dead / int_331d9f32
 Shaun of the Dead / int_336c1a31
type
Kinda Busy Here
 Shaun of the Dead / int_336c1a31
comment
Kinda Busy Here: Averted with Ed who cheerfully takes a phone call while being surrounded by zombies in front of the Winchester. Shaun is not amused and slaps the phone out of Ed's hand.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_336c1a31
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Shaun of the Dead / int_336c1a31
 Shaun of the Dead / int_337a0f4
type
TrailersAlwaysLie
 Shaun of the Dead / int_337a0f4
comment
Trailers Always Lie: The trailers tended to play up the comedic aspects and downplay or ignore the more serious and horrific elements.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_337a0f4
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_337a0f4
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Shaun of the Dead / int_337a0f4
 Shaun of the Dead / int_35a858b3
type
Cluster F-Bomb
 Shaun of the Dead / int_35a858b3
comment
Cluster F-Bomb: Shaun (hilariously) drops one on Ed, after getting fed up with his constant mobile usage, in front of a zombie crowd. For their part, the zombies just stare, possibly just as surprised as everyone else at the outburst. Pete drops one when he's woken up by Shaun and Ed's "stupid hip hop" four hours before he has to go to work. Hilariously Averted by the "clean" version of that scene which appears in the DVD extras and replaces "fuck" and "prick" with "funk" and "prink".
 Shaun of the Dead / int_35a858b3
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Shaun of the Dead / int_35a858b3
 Shaun of the Dead / int_37faae83
type
Noble Shoplifter
 Shaun of the Dead / int_37faae83
comment
Noble Shoplifter: Shaun does this unknowingly. When the entire town is deserted, he just goes about his daily business and goes to the convenience store to shop for groceries. When he notices the shopkeeper isn't there, he puts his money on the counter rather than wait for him. He notes that he doesn't quite have enough ("I owe you fifteen p."), and the shopkeeper later comes to collect the rest — unfortunately, he's a bit dead by that point...
 Shaun of the Dead / int_37faae83
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_37faae83
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1.0
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Shaun of the Dead / int_37faae83
 Shaun of the Dead / int_38d3a0f7
type
Pac-Man Fever
 Shaun of the Dead / int_38d3a0f7
comment
Pac Man Fever: Averted in the sense that actual footage of a TimeSplitters 2 gaming session being shown. The exception to this was the addition of a voice saying "Player X has joined/left the game", added for comedic purposes.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_38d3a0f7
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_38d3a0f7
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Shaun of the Dead / int_38d3a0f7
 Shaun of the Dead / int_392fe295
type
Supporting the Monster Loved One
 Shaun of the Dead / int_392fe295
comment
Supporting the Monster Loved One: Happens to Zombie Ed by the end of the movie.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_392fe295
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_392fe295
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Shaun of the Dead / int_392fe295
 Shaun of the Dead / int_39684516
type
Kill the Ones You Love
 Shaun of the Dead / int_39684516
comment
Kill the Ones You Love: Shaun is forced to shoot Barbara when she becomes a zombie.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_39684516
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Shaun of the Dead / int_39684516
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3b4e5e81
type
Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3b4e5e81
comment
Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: Used a few times, once by Ed and another using the TV.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3b4e5e81
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3b4e5e81
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Shaun of the Dead / int_3b4e5e81
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3c0a4666
type
Noodle Incident
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3c0a4666
comment
Noodle Incident: Shaun alludes to one where Ed apparently shot his sister in the leg — hence why Ed is no longer allowed to handle actual firearms.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3c0a4666
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3c0a4666
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Shaun of the Dead / int_3c0a4666
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3c111ce6
type
Pistol-Whipping
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3c111ce6
comment
Pistol-Whipping: Ed tosses a Winchester rifle to Shaun near the start of the climactic showdown in the Winchester Pub. However, under the impression that the rifle is only a prop rifle made to hang over the bar, he uses it to bash a zombie's head in before learning that it actually does fire bullets.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3c111ce6
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3c111ce6
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 Shaun of the Dead
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Shaun of the Dead / int_3c111ce6
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3d2c6d30
type
Skewed Priorities
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3d2c6d30
comment
Skewed Priorities: Ed, who even casually answers a phone call while surrounded by zombies. And not even to talk to a friend. No, he's selling drugs. Philip, despite having been bitten on the neck by a zombie after already being bitten on the hand, is more concerned with Ed recklessly speeding and driving like a maniac while blasting heavy metal music at full volume. To be fair, he thought the zombies were actually drug addicts and did not know that their bites are fatal.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3d2c6d30
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3d2c6d30
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 Shaun of the Dead
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Shaun of the Dead / int_3d2c6d30
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3d4d3dc9
type
Humans Are Bastards
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3d4d3dc9
comment
Humans Are Bastards: The stupid tasks they give the remaining zombies after the living take the world back shows that no one really cares about disposing of once-living people in a more dignified way.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3d4d3dc9
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_3d4d3dc9
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 Shaun of the Dead
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Shaun of the Dead / int_3d4d3dc9
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3eb0f889
type
Pun-Based Title
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3eb0f889
comment
Pun-Based Title: Compare Dawn of the Dead (Wright and Pegg freely admit this is an awful gag, but were too attached to it.) Pegg has also joked about making a sequel - From Dusk Till Shaun. One of the bonus features is an It's A Knockout-style game with zombies as the contestants — called "Dead Fun", thus playing on two meanings of "dead".
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3eb0f889
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3eb0f889
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Shaun of the Dead / int_3eb0f889
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3ed23024
type
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3ed23024
comment
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: A rare example in a Zombie Apocalypse movie that averts Militaries Are Useless. In a normal situation zombies that movie with a very slow gait and can only attack by biting would get mowed down like weeds by trained professionals with automatic weapons — which is exactly what happens in the finale when the military arrives. It's implied that they crushed the outbreak in London in a single day.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3ed23024
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_3ed23024
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Shaun of the Dead / int_3ed23024
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3fa77b51
type
Head Smashes Screen
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3fa77b51
comment
Head Smashes Screen: The zombified landlord of the Winchester pub is sent head-first into a jukebox, consequently "killing the Queen."
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3fa77b51
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_3fa77b51
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Shaun of the Dead / int_3fa77b51
 Shaun of the Dead / int_40bb59d0
type
Blatant Lies
 Shaun of the Dead / int_40bb59d0
comment
Blatant Lies: "Two seconds!" Spoken by Ed whenever he's about to do something which will take longer than two seconds.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_40bb59d0
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_40bb59d0
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Shaun of the Dead / int_40bb59d0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_40cc0c7e
type
Bittersweet Ending
 Shaun of the Dead / int_40cc0c7e
comment
Bittersweet Ending: Though his mother, stepfather (with whom he reconciled) and best friend have turned into zombies and he was forced to perform a Mercy Kill on his mother, Shaun survives the zombie attack, gets back together with his girlfriend and keeps zombie Ed in the shed to play video games with. Also in the Plot Hole Extra, Dianne revealed to have survive the zombie hordes, but has since moved in with her aunt and is now on a Christmas card relationship with Shaun and Liz.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_40cc0c7e
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_40cc0c7e
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 Shaun of the Dead
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Shaun of the Dead / int_40cc0c7e
 Shaun of the Dead / int_45a9f0c3
type
New Parent Nomenclature Problem
 Shaun of the Dead / int_45a9f0c3
comment
New Parent Nomenclature Problem: Has the recurring line, "He's not my dad, he's my stepdad" from Shaun about his stepfather Phillip. It stems from Shaun viewing Phillip as a Jerkass, rather than the Jerk with a Heart of Gold he is. Before turning into a zombie Phillip tells Shaun he's always loved him and Shaun finally acknowledges Phillip as his dad - without the "step-dad" qualifier tacked on.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_45a9f0c3
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_45a9f0c3
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Shaun of the Dead / int_45a9f0c3
 Shaun of the Dead / int_45bdaa0e
type
Just Ignore It
 Shaun of the Dead / int_45bdaa0e
comment
Just Ignore It: Shaun does this when he fixes a fuse and notices zombies right outside the nearby window; his response is to turn off the light and to lower the blinds.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_45bdaa0e
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_45bdaa0e
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Shaun of the Dead / int_45bdaa0e
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4781adbb
type
Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4781adbb
comment
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ed is a biblical pain in the arse, but he's the one who tries to cheer Shaun up when he's dumped and makes the Heroic Sacrifice for him at the end. Along with the fact he clearly held Barbara in high regard, not coming across as abrasive when he talks to her, openly in tears just as much as Shaun when she dies, and pointing a broken bottle at David when he tries to shoot her corpse. Pete could be argued to be this as well. While clearly frustrated with Ed's mooching and Shaun's lack of direction, he's still fairly cordial and patient with Shaun. Notably, when Shaun mentions that he and Liz broke up, Pete immediately backs off, politely asking them to keep it down (despite being awakened at 4 in the morning); it's only when Ed can't resist insulting him when he's leaving that he finally snaps.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4781adbb
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_4781adbb
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Shaun of the Dead / int_4781adbb
 Shaun of the Dead / int_47fea76b
type
Butt-Monkey
 Shaun of the Dead / int_47fea76b
comment
Butt-Monkey: Shaun, David, and Pete get the worst of these moments. David and Pete die.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_47fea76b
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_47fea76b
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Shaun of the Dead / int_47fea76b
 Shaun of the Dead / int_49f20c6a
type
Gory Discretion Shot
 Shaun of the Dead / int_49f20c6a
comment
Gory Discretion Shot: Shaun and Ed bludgeoning the zombies in the garden.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_49f20c6a
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_49f20c6a
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Shaun of the Dead / int_49f20c6a
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4baebbc8
type
Soul Fragment
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4baebbc8
comment
Soul Fragment: A personality quirk or two survives the zombification process. Examples include the football kid continuing to play football, several people working menial jobs before the outbreak continuing in those jobs after zombification, and Ed living in the shed after being zombified, still playing video games.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4baebbc8
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_4baebbc8
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Shaun of the Dead / int_4baebbc8
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4c733c0c
type
You Leave Him Alone!
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4c733c0c
comment
You Leave Him Alone!: Shaun when Pete starts berating Ed at the start of the film. This gets an Ironic Echo when zombie-Pete attacks Ed at the end.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4c733c0c
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_4c733c0c
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Shaun of the Dead / int_4c733c0c
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4cf1658
type
Commander Contrarian
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4cf1658
comment
Commander Contrarian: David, who does very little but naysay Shaun's ideas. He's quite often got a point, but he's still not good at offering any constructive alternatives or keeping people's morale up.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4cf1658
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4cf1658
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Shaun of the Dead / int_4cf1658
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4eb2ef02
type
Vehicle Vanish
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4eb2ef02
comment
Vehicle Vanish: Shaun sees a man picking up and eating a pigeon in the park. Then a bus blocks his view and the zombie is gone.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4eb2ef02
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_4eb2ef02
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Shaun of the Dead / int_4eb2ef02
 Shaun of the Dead / int_508d91a2
type
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
 Shaun of the Dead / int_508d91a2
comment
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Subverted. Just as the zombies break into The Winchester, Shaun levels his rifle and says, "Sorry, we're closed!" but the gun jams, prompting a hysterical little squeak of panic from Shaun and several seconds of flustered flapping about from the characters before they can actually start shooting. Played straight in one instance: when Pete throws his electro-inspired late-night tantrum and tells Ed to "go and live in the shed", Shaun tells Pete to leave Ed alone. Later on in the Winchester as Ed is getting chewed into by Zombie Pete, Shaun catches Pete's attention by screaming a single line before promptly shooting him through the eye as he advances.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_508d91a2
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_508d91a2
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 Shaun of the Dead
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Shaun of the Dead / int_508d91a2
 Shaun of the Dead / int_525df529
type
Not Using the "Z" Word
 Shaun of the Dead / int_525df529
comment
Not Using the "Z" Word: Where the title came from, and the readiest example.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_525df529
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_525df529
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 Shaun of the Dead
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Shaun of the Dead / int_525df529
 Shaun of the Dead / int_53407671
type
Action Survivor
 Shaun of the Dead / int_53407671
comment
Action Survivor: Most members of the group survive by sheer luck, although Shaun and Liz stand out in particular.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_53407671
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_53407671
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Shaun of the Dead / int_53407671
 Shaun of the Dead / int_53d302c
type
Vertigo Effect
 Shaun of the Dead / int_53d302c
comment
Vertigo Effect: Used when the zombies break through the barricade.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_53d302c
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_53d302c
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Shaun of the Dead / int_53d302c
 Shaun of the Dead / int_54533ce6
type
Impromptu Fortress
 Shaun of the Dead / int_54533ce6
comment
Impromptu Fortress: Shaun is convinced that The Winchester pub is the best place to hide out during the outbreak.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_54533ce6
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_54533ce6
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Shaun of the Dead / int_54533ce6
 Shaun of the Dead / int_54f999c
type
AlternateCharacterInterpretation
 Shaun of the Dead / int_54f999c
comment
Alternate Character Interpretation: Invoked in-universe, as Shaun and Ed make up stories about the barflies, casting them in roles like mobsters and ex-prostitutes.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_54f999c
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1.0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_54f999c
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Shaun of the Dead / int_54f999c
 Shaun of the Dead / int_55172a70
type
Zombie Gait
 Shaun of the Dead / int_55172a70
comment
Zombie Gait: Parodied quite frequently. Zombies in the world of the film are slow, to the point that characters frequently get into arguments or lengthy conversations as the zombies shamble towards them in the background. In fact, Shaun is able to get through his whole morning routine without being attacked, as he simply treats the zombies like pedestrians and walks briskly while not making eye contact, which is enough to evade them completely.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_55172a70
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Shaun of the Dead / int_55172a70
 Shaun of the Dead / int_55404918
type
Knuckle Tattoos
 Shaun of the Dead / int_55404918
comment
Knuckle Tattoos: Briefly seen on the bartender at the Winchester. Partly the reason Ed thinks he's part of The Mafia.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_55404918
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_55404918
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Shaun of the Dead / int_55404918
 Shaun of the Dead / int_581f6468
type
Hero of Another Story
 Shaun of the Dead / int_581f6468
comment
Hero of Another Story: The doppelganger group led by Jessica Stevenson.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_581f6468
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Shaun of the Dead / int_581f6468
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5941d75
type
Beta Couple
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5941d75
comment
Beta Couple: Dianne and David. And they're not a happy couple either. It ends when David gets devoured by the horde and Dianne disappears into them trying to save him (and apparently she survives!).
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5941d75
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Shaun of the Dead / int_5941d75
 Shaun of the Dead / int_597dc052
type
What Happened to Mommy?
 Shaun of the Dead / int_597dc052
comment
What Happened to Mommy?: One of the few things played absolutely straight.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_597dc052
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_597dc052
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Shaun of the Dead / int_597dc052
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5a3b8032
type
The Un-Reveal
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5a3b8032
comment
The Unreveal: The true cause of the Zombie Apocalypse is never revealed. A very much in the background radio broadcast near the beginning of the film would imply that something from a downed US satellite caused the zombies. When Shaun is watching television at the end of the film, a news program says that the theorized cause was "use of"...something. Shaun changes the channel a moment too early.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5a3b8032
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_5a3b8032
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Shaun of the Dead / int_5a3b8032
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5b565147
type
Meaningful Background Event
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5b565147
comment
Meaningful Background Event: In the beginning of the film, there are many, many obvious hints of the oncoming Zombie Apocalypse, but it all takes place in the background while the main focus of the story is on Shaun's mundane, rundown life. Shaun and those around him are completely oblivious to the zombie outbreak until half an hour into the film, when Shaun and Ed finally decide to pay attention to the news reports... and only after they've unwittingly fought two zombies, wandered around an abandoned London, and obliviously think the zombies are drunkards.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5b565147
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Shaun of the Dead / int_5b565147
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5ce7dbb9
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Central Theme
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5ce7dbb9
comment
Central Theme: No matter how long you stagnate or try to hold on to the past, life moves forward. There are times where you have to let go of the things that hold you back and step outside your comfort zone.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5ce7dbb9
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Shaun of the Dead / int_5ce7dbb9
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5e6305c0
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The Power of Acting
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5e6305c0
comment
Dianne is a failed actress, but her experience comes in handy when she has to instruct the group in pretending to be zombies.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5e6305c0
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_5e6305c0
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Shaun of the Dead / int_5e6305c0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5fc68f05
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There Was a Door
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5fc68f05
comment
There Was a Door: Round the back of The Winchester, so David didn't need to smash the front window.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_5fc68f05
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Shaun of the Dead / int_5fc68f05
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6023a9bc
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Bloody Hilarious
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6023a9bc
comment
Bloody Hilarious: After all, it is a Black Comedy featuring zombies.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6023a9bc
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_6023a9bc
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Shaun of the Dead / int_6023a9bc
 Shaun of the Dead / int_60414102
type
Zombie Apocalypse
 Shaun of the Dead / int_60414102
comment
Zombie Apocalypse: Well, duh. Subverted in that the military mops it up pretty quickly, and life goes on with zombies just being a part of society.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_60414102
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Shaun of the Dead / int_60414102
 Shaun of the Dead / int_61b576af
type
I Take Offense to That Last One
 Shaun of the Dead / int_61b576af
comment
I Take Offense to That Last One:
 Shaun of the Dead / int_61b576af
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Shaun of the Dead / int_61b576af
 Shaun of the Dead / int_627264e0
type
Death Glare
 Shaun of the Dead / int_627264e0
comment
Death Glare: Barbara levels one at Shaun after he tries to claim that Phillip molested him as a child.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_627264e0
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Shaun of the Dead / int_627264e0
 Shaun of the Dead / int_62f9d08e
type
Freeze-Frame Bonus
 Shaun of the Dead / int_62f9d08e
comment
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Shaun tells Liz that he's going to take her to "the place that does all the fish". When he opens the phone book you can see that the restaurant is literally described as 'The Place That Does All the Fish'. The name of the restaurant is "Fulci's," an Inspiration Nod to Italian film director Lucio Fulci (best known for his gore films and referred to as "The Godfather of Gore").
 Shaun of the Dead / int_62f9d08e
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Shaun of the Dead / int_62f9d08e
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6377d6e6
type
Grievous Harm with a Body
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6377d6e6
comment
Grievous Harm with a Body: As David is torn apart by zombies, his legs come off and are then used as clubs.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6377d6e6
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Shaun of the Dead / int_6377d6e6
 Shaun of the Dead / int_643618e5
type
Replacement Goldfish
 Shaun of the Dead / int_643618e5
comment
Replacement Goldfish: Dianne is resigned to the fact that she was David's consolation prize after he tried (unsuccessfully) to get with her friend Liz at university, as well as to the fact that he's still in love with Liz.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_643618e5
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Shaun of the Dead / int_643618e5
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6439de78
type
Heroic Sacrifice
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6439de78
comment
Ed is a biblical pain in the arse, but he's the one who tries to cheer Shaun up when he's dumped and makes the Heroic Sacrifice for him at the end. Along with the fact he clearly held Barbara in high regard, not coming across as abrasive when he talks to her, openly in tears just as much as Shaun when she dies, and pointing a broken bottle at David when he tries to shoot her corpse.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6439de78
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Shaun of the Dead / int_6439de78
 Shaun of the Dead / int_67792344
type
Grievous Bottley Harm
 Shaun of the Dead / int_67792344
comment
Grievous Bottley Harm: This is how the group prepares for the Zombie Bar Brawl.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_67792344
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Shaun of the Dead / int_67792344
 Shaun of the Dead / int_680f950
type
Gilligan Cut
 Shaun of the Dead / int_680f950
comment
Gilligan Cut: Twice. Shaun grimly looking at the knife in his hand and then over to his infected step-dad. The audience knows, a Mercy Kill is imminent, especially with Phillip's words regarding Shaun's immaturity, "Sometimes, you have to be a man". Cut to them all leaving the house together, Shaun visibly bitter about his lack of courage. David: "You're not suggesting we walk [to the pub]?" Cut to the group doing exactly that.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_680f950
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Shaun of the Dead / int_680f950
 Shaun of the Dead / int_68148dc
type
Militaries Are Useless
 Shaun of the Dead / int_68148dc
comment
Militaries Are Useless: A memorable aversion, where the military just comes in and mows down the zombies in less than a day, with complete ease and not so much as a single casualty. They rescue the protagonists and peace is quickly restored.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_68148dc
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Shaun of the Dead / int_68148dc
 Shaun of the Dead / int_68f6e811
type
Made of Plasticine
 Shaun of the Dead / int_68f6e811
comment
Made of Plasticine: Like a lot of zombie movies, human bodies get torn apart relatively easily.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_68f6e811
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_68f6e811
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Shaun of the Dead / int_68f6e811
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6a2ae11f
type
Improbable Weapon User
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6a2ae11f
comment
Improbable Weapon User: Played absolutely straight in that the heroes use anything they can get their hands on to fend off the zombies, starting with the use of Shaun's record collection against two zombies in his garden. When given a Swingball to fend off a zombie, Shaun's first instinct is to use it as an Epic Flail... and the tennis ball bounces pathetically off its head. Cue Di and Liz making stabbing motions.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6a2ae11f
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Shaun of the Dead / int_6a2ae11f
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6b05b601
type
Jerkass Has a Point
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6b05b601
comment
Jerkass Has a Point: David, a few times. He's right that Shaun hasn't really thought his "plan" through at all, and that they'll just end up "sitting in the dark eating peanuts". The crowning example is his preparing to shoot Barbara as she's dying from a zombie bite, saying they have to do something before she revives and tries to kill all of them. After a rather heated and tense stand-off, Liz notes that she can understand what David is getting at, but he's still being "a twat" all the same. David is also right that they should have holed up in the apartment. This is probably a shoutout to the original Night of the Living Dead, in which Harry Cooper the Jerkass says that they should barricade the basement while Ben says they should defend the house. Ben's the hero and Harry's the jerkass but Harry was right, and David's right in this movie. Deconstructed as while David is right about Shaun's ill-thought plan, the other characters point out Shaun at least is trying while all that David does complain and doesn't actually do anything to really help their situation, and the reason he even went along with Shaun's plan is that he didn't know what else to do. They also point out that his criticism of Shaun stems from his own personal dislike of him. Pete is still an asshole, but wouldn't you be pissed if your roommates were constantly leaving the front door open overnight and playing loud music at four in the morning when you had to work? This is arguably why Pete is an asshole, since he's clearly long gotten sick of both having Ed mooch around the place leeching off them and making it into a tip without contributing anything to the house in turn (except for a little bit of money he gets from selling weed) and to a lesser extent Shaun's weak-willed refusal to grow up a bit and stop enabling Ed. It's telling that Shaun's epiphany comes when Pete confronts him with the implication that he keeps hanging around Ed to feel less like a loser and that he should "sort [his] fucking life out, mate!"
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6b05b601
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Shaun of the Dead / int_6b05b601
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6bda9a30
type
Meaningful Name
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6bda9a30
comment
Meaningful Name: Each of the main characters' names rhymes with their eventual fate. Well, except for Dianne, who is actually confirmed to survive offscreen by hiding up a tree.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6bda9a30
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Shaun of the Dead / int_6bda9a30
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6c6f5a7
type
The Jaywalking Dead
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6c6f5a7
comment
The Jaywalking Dead: Shaun and Ed ends up running over a zombie, much to their relief (since they weren't sure if the person was dead). "Oh thank God for that."
 Shaun of the Dead / int_6c6f5a7
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Shaun of the Dead / int_6c6f5a7
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7040b6bc
type
Understatement
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7040b6bc
comment
Understatement: "If we don't get out now, they'll come up here and tear us all to pieces. And that is really going to exacerbate things for all of us."
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7040b6bc
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_7040b6bc
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7040b6bc
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7286e96d
type
Idiot Ball
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7286e96d
comment
The blazing row that Shaun and Ed have after Ed answers his phone in front of a crowd of zombies when they're supposed to be acting like zombies to escape notice - apparently, the zombies are too surprised to attack.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7286e96d
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7286e96d
 Shaun of the Dead / int_728d704f
type
Idiot Plot
 Shaun of the Dead / int_728d704f
comment
Idiot Plot: A rare invoked example. Much of the plot revolves around Shaun struggling to balance his reasonable judgement against his old habits as an alcoholic slacker.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_728d704f
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_728d704f
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Shaun of the Dead / int_728d704f
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7315fd38
type
Covers Always Lie
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7315fd38
comment
Covers Always Lie: The poster seen in the page image above shows Shaun on an Underground train full of zombies. The Underground isn't seen at all in the film (although the stations appear in Deleted Scenes) It's meant to convey the theme of people such as Shaun living their lives like zombies before the zombie outbreak occurs.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7315fd38
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7315fd38
 Shaun of the Dead / int_73470774
type
Similar Squad
 Shaun of the Dead / int_73470774
comment
Similar Squad: The gang meet up what appear to be a group undergoing the same plot but with a slightly more expensive cast. Each of the gang's double actually corresponds to a comedy double they'd shared in the past. Like Pegg and Frost, Jessica Hynes worked on Spaced, Martin Freeman worked with Lucy Davis on The Office (UK) and Tasmin Greig worked with Dylan Moran on Black Books.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_73470774
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Shaun of the Dead / int_73470774
 Shaun of the Dead / int_73f7b5a5
type
Total Party Kill
 Shaun of the Dead / int_73f7b5a5
comment
Total Party Kill: Heavily implied with Yvonne's group.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_73f7b5a5
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Shaun of the Dead / int_73f7b5a5
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7464705c
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Arc Words
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7464705c
comment
Arc Words: "You've got red on you".
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_7464705c
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7464705c
 Shaun of the Dead / int_79a0e313
type
Bolivian Army Ending
 Shaun of the Dead / int_79a0e313
comment
Bolivian Army Ending: Shaun and Liz plan this at the climax, but The Cavalry saves them.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_79a0e313
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_79a0e313
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Shaun of the Dead / int_79a0e313
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7a2a34ef
type
Not With the Safety On, You Won't
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7a2a34ef
comment
Not With the Safety On, You Won't: David's first thought when the gun doesn't work. An exasperated Ed points out It Works Better If You Cock It.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7a2a34ef
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7a2a34ef
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7a81a554
type
Incongruously-Dressed Zombie
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7a81a554
comment
Incongruously-Dressed Zombie: The zombie horde around the Winchester includes a wheelchair-bound woman, two biker twins, Tyres from Spaced, and the fully nude Pete.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7a81a554
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7a81a554
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7b4cbce1
type
Headbutt of Love
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7b4cbce1
comment
Headbutt of Love: A platonic version between Shaun and Ed before Shaun and Liz make their escape.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7b4cbce1
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7b4cbce1
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7c4f6612
type
Comic-Book Adaptation
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7c4f6612
comment
Comic-Book Adaptation; 2000 AD did a single-issue prequel called There's Something About Mary, focusing on the Mary zombie from Shaun's back garden. IDW Publishing did a four-issue adaptation of the movie.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7c4f6612
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7c4f6612
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7cda47b
type
Dying Declaration of Love
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7cda47b
comment
Dying Declaration of Love: Shaun is given one by his dying step-dad.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7cda47b
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 Shaun of the Dead / int_7cda47b
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7cda47b
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7d49d74a
type
Cultural Translation
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7d49d74a
comment
Cultural Translation: Despite changing the genre to a Romantic Comedy, the plot ticks most tropes of your average Zombie Apocalypse movie except for the settling being a residential neighborhood in London instead of Everytown, America. The most evident consequence is that guns are incredibly hard to come by for the characters and they are replaced by improvised blunt objects.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7d49d74a
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7d49d74a
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7fbb2a3
type
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7fbb2a3
comment
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ed does this twice, firstly when he objects to Shaun's original plan to hide out in Liz's flat just because he wanted to be allowed to smoke, and later when he unwittingly turns on the loud slot machine and subsequently hits the jackpot, alerting the zombies outside The Winchester of the group's presence inside. Dianne when she lets the zombie horde in so that she can rescue what's left of David. Granted, by that point the zombies were already breaking through the windows and the backdoor, so she just sped the process up slightly.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_7fbb2a3
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Shaun of the Dead / int_7fbb2a3
 Shaun of the Dead / int_81414673
type
AM/FM Characterization
 Shaun of the Dead / int_81414673
comment
AM/FM Characterization: Among Shaun's vinyl records that they use to attack the zombies are New Order (he gets upset that an original pressing of "Blue Monday" gets chucked), Dire Straits (Brothers in Arms gets chucked without hesitation), Prince (he keeps Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times, but chucks Batman (1989)) and The Stone Roses (he keeps both their albums, even defending Second Coming). He and Ed drunkenly sing Duran Duran's "White Lines". Liz has a copy of Sade's Diamond Life, which gets chucked.
 Shaun of the Dead / int_81414673
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Shaun of the Dead / int_81414673
 Shaun of the Dead / int_83a8d697
type
Oblivious Guilt Slinging
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Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Right after Shaun is dumped by Liz, his mother calls and tells him how she cannot wait to finally meet Liz in person.
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Mexican Standoff
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Liz also has her head screwed on fairly well throughout the movie, and in the Mexican Stand Off almost everyone else gets into at the climax she's the only one trying to act as the voice of reason by pointing out that they kind of have bigger fish to fry at the moment.
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Mexican Standoff
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Mexican Standoff: Involving a rifle, two broken bottles, and a corkscrew. And a lampshade.
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Easily-Overheard Conversation
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Easily-Overheard Conversation: Liz calls Dianne and David "a failed actress and a twat" (albeit quoting Shaun) while both are in earshot. In fact, they're sitting at the same table as them.
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Newscaster Cameo
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Newscaster Cameo: Several, Jeremy Thompson from Sky getting the best line.
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Establishing Character Music
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Establishing Character Music: The main characters are introduced in the Winchester to "Ghost Town" by The Specials.
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Stiff Upper Lip
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Stiff Upper Lip: Deconstructed. The English tendency to keep quiet and not make a fuss through suffering and tragedy is put through its paces when people start hiding their zombie bites. Most tragically, Shaun's mother Barbara.
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Cool Car
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Exhibit B: Previously, he "accidentally" crashed their car so he had an excuse to drive the Jag instead.
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Deconstruction
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Deconstruction: Being an example of a zombie movie before the likes of running zombies and Zombieland, the film pokes fun of the Zombie Apocalypse and the metaphors it tries to represent. Since zombies are supposed to be like flanderized human beings, the slowly encroaching zombie invasion goes completely unnoticed by the main characters until they become unavoidable, the manifesting zombies being confused for drunkards, junkies and crazy homeless people. Since zombies are slow and stupid, the main cast tend to be more caught up with their personal issues than the immediate threat and are able to fool the zombies into ignoring them by pretending to be zombies themselves. While society collapsed due to how sudden the numerous zombies are, by the end the army shows up, disposes of the horde and the film ends with society back to the way it was, zombies being used as cheap labor, entertainment and pets for their still-human loved ones.
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Our Zombies Are Different
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Our Zombies Are Different: Over the course of the film, it's shown that they degrade to an animal-like sentience, will still answer to their names, retain certain habits (e.g., Philip turning off the stereo, that kid playing football, Ed playing video games), and can be trained like domesticated animals, which is a Shout-Out to Day of the Dead (1985).
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Didn't Think This Through
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Didn't Think This Through: For all his plans to dispose of an infected Philip, Shaun clearly didn't take into account how his mum feels about him being rude towards/about her husband, let alone trying to kill him in front of her. After risking their lives to break into the Winchester, tension immediately flares up among the group when it becomes obvious just how unsupplied and unsafe their shelter is.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: David was indifferent towards Shaun being forced to kill his zombified mother, tries to kill Shaun when he rightfully retaliates, and is just a general asshole. Reportedly, test audiences actually cheered when the zombies disembowel him. Downplayed with Pete and Ed. The former's dickish attitude was largely provoked rather than generally part of his character, while the latter is still fairly likable despite his vulgarity. Either way, the two of them end up turning into zombies by the end of the film.
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Sickeningly Sweet
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Sickeningly Sweet: When Shaun and Liz are professing their love for each other while hiding from the zombies, a bitten Ed mutters, "That's it. I'd like to be shot, please."
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Lethally Stupid
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Lethally Stupid: Ed's insistence on going to the Winchester caused some people (including himself) to die. Ed takes this to new levels and plays it for laughs. The characters need to get past a horde of zombies, and do so by acting like zombies to avoid drawing attention. When they are nearly to apparent safety, Ed's phone goes off... and he answers it and starts cheerfully talking on the phone, less than ten feet from dozens of zombies. Previously, he had "accidentally" crashed their first car, giving him an excuse to drive a Jaguar instead. Following after the cellphone incident, the electricity comes back on and he starts playing a pub fruit machine, which draw the attention of a zombie in the same building as them. Shaun himself also fits this. What exactly made the Winchester any safer than Liz's apartment? While it's got big heavy doors and a rifle on the wall and Ed knows where all the exits are (and he can smoke), they actually probably would have been safer in the apartment, because the window was above ground level (Shaun could climb up to it, but he wasn't a zombie) and you couldn't even get into the building without being buzzed in. Even if the zombies somehow got in through that door, they could have barricaded the apartment door fairly easily. But they also wouldn't have had half so much booze. Frankly, the entire group lives and breathes this trope, making stupid decision after stupid decision, but Ed really is the king.
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Bloody Handprint
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Bloody Handprint: Two of the clues of the zombie apocalypse that Shaun overlooks.
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Karmic Death
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Karmic Death: Downplayed. Pete biting Ed almost comes off as revenge for the latter refusing to stop being such an ungreatful freeloader.
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Arc Number
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Arc Number: Minor example, but 29. Shaun is 29 years old, and at the film's climax, the group only has 29 bullets to hold off the zombies with.
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Inspirational Insult
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Inspirational Insult: An angry rant by Pete, the main character's frustrated roommate (even more frustrated than usual after having been unknowingly bitten by a zombie and having his dumb flatmates play records extremely loudly in the wee hours of the morning), ends on "Sort your fucking life out, mate!" The next morning, "Sort your life out" is on Shaun's to-do list, and it becomes the film's theme.
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Defiant to the End
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Defiant to the End: After Barbara succumbs to her infection and turns into a zombie, her last act before Shaun puts her down is to snarl at David when he speaks up.
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Black Dude Dies First
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Black Dude Dies First: Though not the first character to die, Nelson, the Hindi store owner, is the first person of color who we see has become a zombie.
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Rewatch Bonus
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Rewatch Bonus: In the climax of the film, David tries to shoot Shaun after he had outed David's feelings for Liz and after Shaun punched him. This makes the scene in the garden develop a sinister tone while watching it again. Did David refuse to help because he was scared? Or did he refuse to help because David wanted Shaun to die so he could be with Liz?
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Took a Level in Badass
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Took a Level in Badass: Shaun, motivated by getting his girl friend back, turns into a hero during the course of the Zombie Apocalypse.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: So very, very much, once you know where to look... See Ironic Echo below. The outbreak itself gets some standard foreshadowing, with newspaper headlines blaming mysterious illnesses on genetically modified crops or a super flu, people being visibly ill or off sick, one particular businessman fleeing from something in terror down the high street, a woman collapsing at a bus stop, and lots of missing person ads. According to Word of God in the DVD commentary, when Ed attempts to cheer Shaun up at the Winchester with plans of binge drinking, he is actually summarizing the events of the next day (Z-day) entirely in drinking references. Pete warns Ed to stop leaving the front door open. Guess what uses it as a way in later? Shaun tells the football kid "you're dead" and Ed says Pete's dead the next time he sees him. Guess who later turn up as zombies. Barbara is complimented on her zombie impression, but reveals she was actually just not paying attention. This might be because she had just been bitten. On a similar note, look carefully at Barbara in the background in some scenes. She's wincing in pain and looking at her wrist. Even better - watch what she's doing just after Shawn impales a zombie to a tree with a pole. Barbara is coming out of the house with a peach-colored napkin, the same one that Liz removes when she finds out Barbara was bitten. When Pete is ranting at Ed for keeping him awake with his electro music, he drops the line "You want to live like an animal? Go live in the shed, you thick fuck!" When we last see Ed, he's a chained-up zombie living in Shaun's shed indefinitely. Shaun is wearing his tie like a bandana — which is how he's wearing it at the climax. Pete hurls an album out the window similar to how the duo will be throwing them later at a zombie. Both of these lines said to Pete before Z-Day: "Next time I see him he's dead" and "We're going to the Winchester. You're free to join us if you feel better." Ed attempting to console Shaun at the Winchester immediately after the breakup. The whole time he speaks, we see a shadow staggering up to the door behind him. As soon as Ed finishes, the zombie moans and bangs on the glass. When Dianne tells David that she knows they're only together because after Liz rejected him in college she was there to pick up the pieces. Guess what two things happen in the next five minutes. The Zombies actually holding a little bit of their memories is foreshadowed, With not only Philip turning the stereo off, but when Barbara turns, she doesn't attack Shaun at all, just stares at him, it's only when David shouts "DO IT" that she snarls, and if you notice she turns her head, she is snarling at David not Shaun, seems even Barbara didn't like him.
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: Somehow, Shaun manages to not only survive getting hit in the skull with a dart, even rips the damn thing out and doesn't outright die on the spot. Even with the potential explanation of an adrenaline surge and/or Shaun just plain refusing to die until everyone's safe, that's still a sharp implement in the skull and brain. Honestly, he's lucky he's the protagonist of a zombie movie.
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Suspiciously Apropos Music
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Suspiciously Apropos Music: In the pub at the start, just after Shaun has broken up with his girlfriend and the jukebox begins playing "If You Leave Me Now". Lampshaded as Ed says "Who the hell put this on?" "It's on random." "Oh, for fuck's sake!" The same gag is echoed later on in a spot of Soundtrack Dissonance: The jukebox in the pub, now facing an onslaught of zombies, randomly picks Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now". Speaking of appropriate zombie-bashing tunes, this combines with a Shout-Out after Shaun drives off relieved that he only ran over a zombie. The first line out of the stereo when he starts the car again is "I think my head is gonna explode!" ... from the song Meltdown, by Northern Irish band Ash.
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Draw Aggro
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Draw Aggro: Shaun draws off a huge crowd of zombies before they can break into the group's bolthole by running off and screaming to get their attention.
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Homage
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Homage: The Romero and Russo zombie movies, particularly David's death scene, which is modeled off the death of Captain Rhodes Rickles and Torrez in Day of the Dead (1985). The Shout-Out "We're coming to get you, Barbara!" from both Night of the Living Dead (1968) and the remake, Night of the Living Dead (1990). Which Romero didn't notice or recognize as a reference. Every Romero zombie film had one nude zombie. Pete fills the role in this one.
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Killed Mid-Sentence
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Killed Mid-Sentence: David is pulled through the window and eaten, right in the very middle of saying "I'm sorry" to Shaun.
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Rapid-Fire "No!"
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Rapid-Fire "No!": David's last words.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: The first half of the film is an affectionate parody/pastiche of the zombie genre, but everything goes to hell in a grocery trolley when Shaun is forced to kill his own infected mother, David is torn limb from limb and eaten by zombies, Dianne disappears, and Ed becomes a zombie. Fortunately, Shaun and Liz manage to escape by the skin of their teeth, and Dianne is revealed in a DVD extra to have survived. The aforementioned death and zombification of Shaun's mother takes place literally five minutes after the "invoked Don't Stop Me Now" sequence. It's also done literally: about to turn into a zombie, Philip delivers a touching speech about fatherhood to Shaun, who is moved to tears. Shaun tells Ed to pull over, and he spins the car to a screeching halt. The gang is not pleased. Ed's inability to take anything seriously causes one as Shaun tearfully says goodbye to his best friend before leaving him to die in a basement.
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Rule of Three
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Rule of Three: "Glad somebody made it" and "Dogs can't look up", especially, although there's several other examples.
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Status Quo Is God
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Status Quo Is God: Hilariously subverted. There are still zombies all over the place at the end of the film, only they've now become a part of everyday life and life goes on pretty much as it did before.
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Gray Rain of Depression
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Gray Rain of Depression: It starts raining immediately after Liz dumps Shaun.
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Juggling Loaded Guns
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Juggling Loaded Guns: A running argument between Ed and Shaun on whether or not The Winchester's namesake gun (mounted over the bar) has been deactivated:
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Separated by a Common Language
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Separated by a Common Language: Averted. Shaun says that Mary the zombie is "so drunk" instead of the more British "so pissed" to avoid confusing American audiences, as "pissed" more commonly means "angry" in the USA. Played straight with the trope naming line, "...the 'zed' word." Across the pond it would have been pronounced, "the 'zee' word."
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Two Scenes, One Dialogue
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Two Scenes, One Dialogue: A variant appears when Shaun flicks through television channels in the first halfnote which replicates the radio broadcast from Night of the Living Dead (1968):
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My Local
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My Local: The Winchester pub.
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Slept Through the Apocalypse
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Slept Through the Apocalypse: Shaun and Ed after a long night of heavy drinking.
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Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
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Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Shaun and Liz's reaction to Ed winning the Jackpot on the noisy slot machine (see Nice Job Breaking It, Hero below).
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Weirdness Censor
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Weirdness Censor: Shaun takes an awfully long time to notice the zombie apocalypse.
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Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
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Relationship-Salvaging Disaster: Shaun refers to Liz as his "girlfriend" near the end, and she replies tongue-in-cheek:
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Chekhov's Skill
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Chekhov's Skill: Dianne is a failed actress, but her experience comes in handy when she has to instruct the group in pretending to be zombies. Subverted with Ed. His ego-shooter skills are shown to be excellent. However, he is not able to transfer this skill into real life when being handed a rifle to protect the group from zombies at the pub.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: Shaun and Ed in their backyard, when the zombie girl rises from being Impaled with Extreme Prejudice and they finally realize what is going on around them. Shaun gets another when luring away the zombies outside the Winchester. He suddenly realised what he was doing: Shaun gets a big one when he turns on the lights and realizes how many zombies are outside the back door. Shaun gets an even bigger one when he goes up the ladder to check the coast is clear...and discovers it's very much not.
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Super-Persistent Predator
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Super-Persistent Predator: Pete managed to get all the way to the Winchester and bit Ed.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: David, much to the annoyance of pretty much everyone around him.
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Mickey Mousing
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Mickey Mousing: Happens twice. The intro credits sequence is choreographed and edited around the music in the background. When the heroes are whaling on the bartender to the sound of Queen.
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A Simple Plan
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A Simple Plan: "How's that for a slice of fried gold?"
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: The Sky newsreader's zombie-killing advice is the Trope Namer.
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Coming of Age Story
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Coming of Age Story: The late bloomer variety for Shaun. Shaun has to grow out of his stagnation in order to mature and find motivation without the safety net of his parents to fall back on. He also learns that his parents were never perfect as they were people too and equally flawed. In the end, he finally matures but at the cost of his childhood friend and parents. He finally takes the next step with Liz and takes responsibility for himself.
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Take That!
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Take That!: The LPs that Shaun is willing to destroy to fight Mary. Wright and Pegg don't think too much of the Batman (1989) soundtrack, apparently. The final news report after the Zombie Apocalypse is ended, a reporter says "...and reports that the virus was caused by rage infected monkeys is bull-"
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: Shaun's mother. What did she think would happen after opening the door to a zombie? David standing right in front of the pub window, seconds before he gets eaten. Ed. Repeatedly. Exhibit A: The characters need to get past a large horde of zombies and decide to try acting like zombies to go through. As they're almost to safety, Ed's phone begins ringing and he answers it and starts cheerfully chatting to his friend, with the zombies less than ten feet away. Exhibit B: Previously, he "accidentally" crashed their car so he had an excuse to drive the Jag instead. Exhibit C: Following the phone incident, when the group are cowering in the pub and the electricity suddenly kicks in, Ed decides to play a very loud fruit machine, which of course alerts a horde of zombies to their presence. The entire human race in the epilogue qualifies. Civilisation reasserts itself but some zombies are still kept around and used as cheap labour and cheaper entertainment, and they aren't even muzzled.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: Liz in the Winchester when everyone's got weapons pointed at one another:
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Mirror Scare
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Mirror Scare: Played straight, then echoed. Like everything else in the movie.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: When Shaun discovers that Pete has turned, Pete merely stares at him and makes no effort to attack until Shaun says he and Ed are borrowing his car. Based on what Ed says as Shaun is fleeing down the stairs, Ed having anything to do with Pete's car was a big no-no while he was alive.
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Improbable Aiming Skills
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Averted as Shaun has never handled a rifle before, and his accuracy suffers accordingly.
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Spoken nearly verbatim by Ed after Shaun uses the Winchester to shove John into the jukebox headfirst.
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Title of the Dead
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Title of the Dead: Parodying "Dawn of the Dead (1978)"
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Dangerous Windows
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Dangerous Windows: When David foolishly stands with his back right against a window, and (predictably, considering his recent actions) the zombies break through and pull him out to eat him.
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Zombie Infectee
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Zombie Infectee: Pete at the very beginning of the film. Ed, Shaun's mum, and his stepdad early on. Barbara hides the fact that she was bitten by a zombie.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": First yelled by both Shaun and Liz when they see Ed win the jackpot on The Winchester's slot machine. Later screamed by Shaun in despair as he sees Ed get bitten by Zombie!Pete.
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Irony
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Irony: After getting sick of constantly going to the Winchester, Liz finally breaks up with Shaun. Cue the apocalypse the next day, and Liz soon finds herself heading to the Winchester with Shaun. This is even lampshaded viciously: The last thing we hear before the day of the Zombie Apocalypse is Shaun's mum on the phone, saying lots of people don't eat meat nowadays. Had Shaun and Ed remained stagnant, everyone (save Phil) could have survived. Shaun and Ed would have only needed to leave to save Barbara and then return home to barricade it once the zombies have spread out or found somewhere else to hunt for humans; their time in stagnation taught them how to stay occupied at home or how to find ways to entertain themselves. The zombies weren't interested in Liz, David and Dianne because it would have been impossible for them to get into their apartment complex (the flat's on the second floor and you would either need to be buzzed in or be able to climb to get to it) . David's attempts to seduce Liz wouldn't have worked since she didn't pick up on it and didn't see him that way, especially since he was with Dianne at the time. Granted, they didn't think the zombie outbreak would only last a day and Shaun was fearing for Liz and Barbara's safety.
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Mocking Music
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Mocking Music: "Who the 'ell put this on?" "It's on random... *sob*" "For fuck's sake!" Used for Ironic Echo value. The first time, the hero is bemoaning his girlfriend dumping him when the jukebox has the nerve to play Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now". The second time, the jukebox pipes up with Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now!"... as the pub the characters are in is being surrounded by zombies and a loud, fast, pumping rock track seemingly designed to attract their attention is the last thing the characters want.
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: We never see how Shaun managed to give the zombies the slip when he comes back to the pub.
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Shout-Out
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Speaking of appropriate zombie-bashing tunes, this combines with a Shout-Out after Shaun drives off relieved that he only ran over a zombie. The first line out of the stereo when he starts the car again is "I think my head is gonna explode!" ... from the song Meltdown, by Northern Irish band Ash.
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Rage Breaking Point
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Rage Breaking Point: After constantly sticking up for Ed and making excuses for his oafishness and stupidity, Shaun finally snaps when Ed answers his cell phone in the middle of a zombie horde, blowing their cover. Made all the funnier because he delivers the rant while still in the middle of the zombies, who look rather nonplussed.
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Shaun and Ed's visualized plan of rescuing friends and family was destined for disaster.
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
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Shaun and Ed in their backyard, when the zombie girl rises from being Impaled with Extreme Prejudice and they finally realize what is going on around them.
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It Can Think
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It Can Think: Phillip's zombie shuts off the music he hated right after Shaun was convincing his mother that it wasn't Philip anymore. At the end of the film, Ed is still able to play video games despite being a stiff. He even stops when Shaun reprimands him for attempting to bite him and doesn't try anything more. Remember when Shaun told zombie Pete he and Ed were heading to the Winchester and that he could join them? He listened. The zombified Barbara noticeably doesn't become hostile until David demands Shaun shoot her, and even then you can see that she turns to David rather than her son. Despite being undead, Nelson the shop owner can be seen holding out his hand as though he was aware that Shaun hadn't paid for his stuff in full.
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Cloudcuckoolander
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Cloudcuckoolander: All throughout the movie, Barbara remains rather blithely unaware of everything that is happening around her. Halfway through the movie, however, this could be seen as her trying not to worry Shaun about the fact that she got bitten.
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Non-Action Guy
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Non-Action Guy: David, originally ("Feel free to step in at ANY TIME!") - later, all David's attempts to be more "proactive" go horribly awry.
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Word of God
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According to Word of God in the DVD commentary, when Ed attempts to cheer Shaun up at the Winchester with plans of binge drinking, he is actually summarizing the events of the next day (Z-day) entirely in drinking references.
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GoshDangItToHeck
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Gosh Dangit To Heck: The DVD includes an extra scene named "Funky Pete" with the swearing removed to show the film on commercial flights, with mixed success: "It's four in the funking morning!" "What a prink!"
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Dude, Not Funny!
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Dude, Not Funny!: Barbara is not impressed when Shaun tries to turn her against Phillip by claiming "he touched me."
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Not a Zombie
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Not a Zombie: For a long time, Shaun and Ed are oblivious to the zombie invasion going on. When confronted with the Zombie girl in the backyard, they mistake her for being drunk and only realize something's up when she falls, gets impaled through the stomach on a pipe, and then stands back up.
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Lampshaded
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In the pub at the start, just after Shaun has broken up with his girlfriend and the jukebox begins playing "If You Leave Me Now". Lampshaded as Ed says "Who the hell put this on?" "It's on random." "Oh, for fuck's sake!"
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CloudCuckooLander
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Shaun's mother. What did she think would happen after opening the door to a zombie?
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Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head
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Big, Stupid Doodoo-Head:
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Shaun being oblivious to the devastation around him on the day of the zombie apocalypse, including not noticing the Bloody Handprints at the corner shop.
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The Cavalry
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The Cavalry: When things are at their bleakest, Yvonne and the Army show up, and blow away every zombie in sight. The British Army arrives at the climax and mops up the zombies. It's implied that they crushed the outbreak in London in a single day.
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Curb-Stomp Battle
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Curbstomp Battle: Zombies vs soldiers at the end. The zombies are wiped out, with the soldiers suffering a total of zero casualties.
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Subverted with "Sorry, we're closed." Played straight with "OK, John - it's time at the bar."
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Room Full of Zombies
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Room Full of Zombies: This happens when they venture to the pub.
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Chekhov's Gunman
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Remember when Shaun told zombie Pete he and Ed were heading to the Winchester and that he could join them? He listened.
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Affectionate Nickname
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Affectionate Nickname: Shaun's mum, Barbara, calls him "pickle" in a few scenes and Diane calls David "Daffs". Both nicknames are later used towards their counterparts in an antagonizing manner during the Mexican Standoff after Barbara dies.
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A Rare Sentence
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A Rare Sentence: Jeremy Thompson says he never expected to say Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain.
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Despair Event Horizon
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Despair Event Horizon: When the last few survivors get to the Winchester's cellar and find the hatch to the street inoperable, Shaun has a Heroic BSoD, then the talk stops being about escape and starts being about ending it quickly.
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Stock Scream
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Stock Scream: The Wilhelm scream can be heard faintly in the background when the soldiers come to the rescue.
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Creepy Blue Eyes
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Creepy Blue Eyes: Once someone becomes a zombie, their eye colour changes to a very pale blue, which only makes them look more disturbing.
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I Will Only Slow You Down
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I Will Only Slow You Down: Ed at the end.
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Thousand-Yard Stare
 Shaun of the Dead / int_e11e88b6
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Thousand-Yard Stare: Barbara displays one of these during Dianne's acting lesson.
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Indy Ploy
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David, a few times. He's right that Shaun hasn't really thought his "plan" through at all, and that they'll just end up "sitting in the dark eating peanuts". The crowning example is his preparing to shoot Barbara as she's dying from a zombie bite, saying they have to do something before she revives and tries to kill all of them. After a rather heated and tense stand-off, Liz notes that she can understand what David is getting at, but he's still being "a twat" all the same.
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Wiper Start
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Wiper Start: Ed when getting Pete's car to start.
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Insistent Terminology
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Insistent Terminology: "It's not hip-hop, it's electro." "He's not my dad, he's my step-dad." And of course, We're Not Using the "Z" Word.
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Hate Sink
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Hate Sink: David is devoid of any apparent positive qualities. It helps pave his way to the most gruesome death, and in not making most viewers feel sorry for him.
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The Load
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The Load: Barbara during the Zombie Apocalypse, Barbara and Ed in the more mundane aspects of his life. Ed's uselessness is lampshaded by Pete.
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The Oner
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The Oner: Done twice, for effect. Early, we see the camera follow Shaun for the entire duration of his walk from the flat to the corner shop to buy a Diet Coke and a newspaper. Along the way, he nearly gets hit by a kid's soccer ball, gives money to a homeless man, and walks in front of a car, getting yelled at by the driver. The day of the zombie invasion, the single-take happens again, as Shaun walks to the corner shop and is so hungover that he doesn't notice zombies in the streets and corpses all over. The second oner is longer, also following Shaun all the way back to the flat.
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Freudian Trio
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Freudian Trio: Ego - Shaun Id - Ed Superego - Pete
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Epic Flail
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comment
When given a Swingball to fend off a zombie, Shaun's first instinct is to use it as an Epic Flail... and the tennis ball bounces pathetically off its head. Cue Di and Liz making stabbing motions.
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Dramatic Gun Cock
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Dramatic Gun Cock: David on Shaun's mum in the pub.
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Jerkass
 Shaun of the Dead / int_eb8ec7c8
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David is also right that they should have holed up in the apartment. This is probably a shoutout to the original Night of the Living Dead, in which Harry Cooper the Jerkass says that they should barricade the basement while Ben says they should defend the house. Ben's the hero and Harry's the jerkass but Harry was right, and David's right in this movie. Deconstructed as while David is right about Shaun's ill-thought plan, the other characters point out Shaun at least is trying while all that David does complain and doesn't actually do anything to really help their situation, and the reason he even went along with Shaun's plan is that he didn't know what else to do. They also point out that his criticism of Shaun stems from his own personal dislike of him.
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Dwindling Party
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Dwindling Party: By the end of the movie, only two of the eight team members are still alive.note three thanks to All There in the Manual
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LawOfConservationOfDetail
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Law of Conservation of Detail: The whole film is a masterclass in this trope. All the zoned-out people shown in the opening montage reappear later as zombies.
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Appeal to Obscurity
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Appeal to Obscurity: When Shaun claims that Ed can be funny sometimes, Pete acknowledges one time... that happened five years ago.
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Mundane Utility
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Mundane Utility: The zombies become this at the end. The invasion is stopped in less than a day, and the zombies becomed domesticated, or they're used as a source of cheap labor and entertainment.
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Plot-Irrelevant Villain
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Plot-Irrelevant Villain: David is the closest to being an antagonist in the film, as he does nothing but whine and moan about Shaun. He does a few villainous things in the movie; he doesn't help Shaun when the latter is tackled by a zombie, he tries to shoot Barbara but forces Shaun to do it instead, and he tries to kill Shaun after the latter had outed David's feelings for Liz and punched him for his callousness.
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Balcony Escape
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At first, Shaun fails at climbing Liz's balcony, but later during the Zombie Apocalypse, he successfully pulls the stunt.
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Redemption Equals Death
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comment
Redemption Equals Death: A strange example: when David tries to apologise to Shaun, he is promptly torn apart by zombies before he can actually do so. Ed pretty much was The Millstone throughout the film with his carelessness exasperating the situation more than once, but he redeems himself by staying behind to guard Shaun and Liz's escape as he lays dying after being bitten by Pete, even going so far as to tell them I Will Only Slow You Down.
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Bad "Bad Acting"
 Shaun of the Dead / int_f19e8a55
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Bad "Bad Acting": The group's zombie imitation during the Pretend We're Dead scene is very amateurish but gets the job done. That said, Shaun's act looks quite convincing as pointed out by Ed.
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Vinyl Shatters
 Shaun of the Dead / int_f35db683
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Vinyl Shatters: "'Purple Rain'?" "No." "'Sign o' the Times'?" "Definitely not." "The Batman soundtrack?" "Throw it."
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Mercy Kill
 Shaun of the Dead / int_f3626b09
comment
Mercy Kill: Shaun is forced to do this to Barbara, after she's become a zombie.
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Ignored Vital News Reports
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Ignored Vital News Reports: When Shaun wakes up in the morning he changes the channel every time a news bulletin shows up. Said news bulletins finish each others' sentences (even when switching to and from non-news channels), all talking about the dead coming back from the grave.
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Love Makes You Evil
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Love Makes You Evil: David is at his most obnoxious when he's a) trying to drive a wedge between Shaun and Liz, b) gloating over the fact that they've split up, or c) making extremely feeble denials about having a thing for Liz.
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Last Stand
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Last Stand: At The Winchester. However, Shaun and Liz are saved by the military.
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Darkest Hour
 Shaun of the Dead / int_f91d1d4f
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When things are at their bleakest, Yvonne and the Army show up, and blow away every zombie in sight.
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Running Gag
 Shaun of the Dead / int_f9f2c33
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"You've got red on you." (Referring first to the ink leaking out of the red pen in Shaun's shirt pocket, then to the blood spattered across him.)
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Undeath Always Ends
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Undeath Always Ends: Subverted, zombie Ed not only 'lives' on as a zombie at the end, but is rather poignantly no worse off than when he was alive... Shaun keeps him in the garden shed playing video-games! Indeed, this is true for all the zombies that weren't killed during the crisis, as society managed to adapt and utilize the undead for their own purposes, roping them into reality TV shows, menial labour and chat shows, among other things.
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Lodged Blade Removal
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Lodged Blade Removal: Shaun gets a dart thrown into his head, as a result of Diane trying to help him fight off a zombie. After the zombie is dealt with, Shaun pulls the dart out, and aside from wearing a headband around the wound, does nothing to treat it.
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Dying Reconciliation
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Dying Reconciliation: Shaun was never happy that his mother remarried, and had a rocky relationship with his step-father, Phillip. However, before he dies, Phillip tells Shaun that he was always trying to look out for him, and that it wasn't easy to be a father, and that he'd always loved Shaun, and always thought he had it in him to do well. Shaun is devastated at that point when Phillip dies, knowing the antipathy between them had been unnecessary. He tearfully tells Ed to stop the car, as he mourns Phillip's passing, and even acknowledges that Phillip was his father when he has to explain to his mother that there's nothing left of the man in the creature now locked in the car.
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Brick Joke
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Brick Joke: A lot. Shaun visits the local convenience store just after the Zombie Apocalypse begins (without his noticing). He doesn't find the shopkeeper there, but he yells out that he came up short and will pay him back. Not long later he's surrounded by zombies. One of them is the shopkeeper who has his palm turned up as if to say "You owe me money". Shaun threw the flowers he bought for his mum into the trashcan just outside the Winchester during the first act. They're the first thing to fall out when David dumps it. Shaun's mum picks them up and notices the tag on them, figuring Shaun had bought them for her. At first, Shaun fails at climbing Liz's balcony, but later during the Zombie Apocalypse, he successfully pulls the stunt. Shaun and Ed debating on whether the rifle (a Winchester, natch) at The Winchester is a real gun or not. "Big Al," (who is mentioned, but never seen in the film) claims it is, but also claims dogs can't look up. It turns out the rifle is a real one and perfectly functional. The front door is open, again! While Shaun and Ed were D Jing at 4am, Pete comes in, taking one of the disks and chucks it out the window. Hours later, while Shaun and Ed are dealing with a pair of zombies near their house, Ed spots the same disk nearby and chucks it at them. A more literal one than most: "Player 2 has entered the game." We find out near the start that Ed sells a bit of weed every now and again. When someone named Noodle rings up at exactly the wrong time, one wonders what Ed means when he says he's got nothing. Shaun puts on his nametag and closes the mirror and sees Pete is behind him. Later on, he removes his nametag and closes the mirror and sees zombie Pete's shadow on the shower curtain. Many of the zombies seen individually are shown before they turned earlier in the movie. The following conversation between Shaun and Ed takes place twice in the movie, once while Ed is playing video games and once (with roles reversed) while Shaun is shooting actual zombies: "Cock it!" The bungie cord game show which Shaun says he doesn't know returns at the end, with the contestants replaced by zombies. All of the other TV shows seen earlier on also come back with zombies. "I'm going to the shed." "I said leave him alone!" "Fuck-a-doodle-doo!" "Sorry, we're closed." "How's that for a slice of fried gold?"
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Beauty Is Never Tarnished
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comment
Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Only Shaun (who is hardly a beauty) gets really roughed up after spending the day in a pub fighting zombies. The director's commentary confirms the make-up artist specifically wanted Kate Ashfield to look clean and lovely 'til the end.
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Trick Dialogue
 Shaun of the Dead / int_fecc7486
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Trick Dialogue: Shaun and Liz's brutally frank conversation about Ed, Dianne and David.. where it's finally revealed that all three of them are within earshot.
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Abandoned Playground
 Shaun of the Dead / int_fee034aa
comment
Abandoned Playground: The group comes across one of these on their way to the Winchester.
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Talking Is a Free Action
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Talking Is a Free Action: Shaun and Ed discuss which records to throw at two approaching zombies. Justified by the fact that these zombies are really slow. The blazing row that Shaun and Ed have after Ed answers his phone in front of a crowd of zombies when they're supposed to be acting like zombies to escape notice - apparently, the zombies are too surprised to attack.
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Indecisive Parody / int_c4a7b5d3
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Kill the Ones You Love / int_c4a7b5d3
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Kinda Busy Here / int_c4a7b5d3
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Left the Background Music On / int_c4a7b5d3
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Leno Device / int_c4a7b5d3
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Matchlight Danger Revelation / int_c4a7b5d3
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News Monopoly / int_c4a7b5d3
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Not a Zombie / int_c4a7b5d3
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Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon / int_c4a7b5d3
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Pretend We're Dead / int_c4a7b5d3
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Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain / int_c4a7b5d3
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Secretly Dying / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Shot in the Ass / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Shovel Strike / int_c4a7b5d3
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Similar Squad / int_c4a7b5d3
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The One Thing I Don't Hate About You / int_c4a7b5d3
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The Oner / int_c4a7b5d3
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The Slacker / int_c4a7b5d3
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The Thing That Would Not Leave / int_c4a7b5d3
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There Was a Door / int_c4a7b5d3
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Thousand-Yard Stare / int_c4a7b5d3
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Time-Compression Montage / int_c4a7b5d3
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Title of the Dead / int_c4a7b5d3
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Token Evil Teammate / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Torso with a View / int_c4a7b5d3
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Toxic Friend Influence / int_c4a7b5d3
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Tragic Monster / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Trick Dialogue / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Two Gamers on a Couch / int_c4a7b5d3
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Two Scenes, One Dialogue / int_c4a7b5d3
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Two Shots from Behind the Bar / int_c4a7b5d3
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Undeath Always Ends / int_c4a7b5d3
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Unfolding Plan Montage / int_c4a7b5d3
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Unlikely Hero / int_c4a7b5d3
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Unsafe Haven / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Unspecified Apocalypse / int_c4a7b5d3
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Vertigo Effect / int_c4a7b5d3
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Vinyl Shatters / int_c4a7b5d3
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Voice of the Resistance / int_c4a7b5d3
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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties / int_c4a7b5d3
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We Just Need to Wait for Rescue / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Weirdness Censor / int_c4a7b5d3
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What Happened to Mommy? / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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While Rome Burns / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour / int_c4a7b5d3
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You Leave Him Alone! / int_c4a7b5d3
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You're Not My Father / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Zombie Apocalypse / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Zombie Apocalypse Hero / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
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Zombie Gait / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
hasFeature
Zombie Infectee / int_c4a7b5d3
 shaunofthedead
sameAs
Shaun of the Dead
 Shaun of the Dead
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Staking the Loved One / int_c4a7b5d3
 Shaun of the Dead
hasFeature
Unusual Euphemism / int_c4a7b5d3