Zombie Anatomy – The character has the form and/or characteristics of a zombie. Zombie Anatomy is also known as Dead Guy Mimicry, Dead Man Walking, Homo Necrosis Zombifis Physiology (Humans Only), Walking Dead, Zed Mimicry, Zed Physiology, Zombie Mimicry and Zombie Physiology.
Literary Critique of Zombie Anatomy
Anime
Corpse Princess – Shikabane Hime
Is This a Zombie – Kore Wa Zombie Desu Ka
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress – Koutetsujou no Kabaneri
Kyoufu! Zombie Neko
Sunday Without God – Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi
Comics
I have a theory about comics and zombies. Comics are a little bit different from television and movies in that one of the core audiences is assumed to be children especially in the case of the DC and Marvel brand names. There is a reason Marvel is owned by Disney! My theory is that DC and Marvel want to make money from zombies, and there is mony to be made with zombies, but don’t want to cross the line and have zombies that display too much mindless violence. This means when dealing with mainstream DC and Marvel characters, revenants are used not zombies whatever they may be called. The DC and Marvel zombies look like zombies which makes for hot selling action figures but don’t act like zombies which I assume would scare off parent from these brands. However, the indie comics have no such compunctions. If you are looking for some gritty zombie action then I would recommend Avatar and Image as being the place to look!
’68 (Image) is a mix of zombie stories set in the Vietnam War in 1968.
Afterlife with Archie a reboot of the cheerful Archie series which is actually pretty good.
Black Lantern Corps (DC) are revenants rather than zombies and very similar to the Marvel Zombies which are also revenants not zombies despite the name. Marvel Zombies was done more for fun and are a better series. DC Zombies would have had a better ring than Black Lantern Corps. The name of the DC revenant event is Blackest Night. Compare Blackest Night with names like Z-Day and Zombie Apocalypse and one understands why the better names and better executed Marvel Zombies was far more successful.
Blackgas (Avatar)
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Cryptocracy #5 (Dark Horse) has zombie servitors and advanced tech to store them.
Deadworld (IDW) has gone through several publishers.
Defoe (2000 AD) presents a grim-faced zombie hunter that is kind of Judge Dredd in the 17th century.
Drums (Image)
Empire of the Dead (Marvel) is based on Romero’s film of the same title.
Escape of the Living Dead (Avatar)
G.I. Zombie (DC) first appeared in Star Spangled War Stories v2 #4.
I Am a Hero an otaku everyman who rises to the challenge of a zombie outbreak.
IZOMBIE (Vertigo)
Jesus Hates Zombies (Alterna)
Judge Dredd – “Darkside” – 2000 AD #1022
Marvel Zombies are have led to several miniseries. Despite the name, the Marvel zombies are more revenants than zombies. However, the Marvel Zombies do eat the living unlike the DC counterparts and their zombie eating habits are done for laughs very effectively. Much better than the DC version, Black Lantern Corps.
Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness
Necrosha (Marvel) the zombies are not mindless zombies but revenants and are ex X-Men. Necrosha builds on the Pet Semetary idea that revenants are jealous of the living. Furthermore, the revived ex X-Men generally blame the living X-Men for being dead in the first place even when this causal link is very tenuous. I guess death can have a detrimental effect on logic!
Purple Zombie seems to be the first zombie hero. The Purple Zombie appears in Heroic #1 (Eastern Color, 1940). As you can see the Purple Zombie is not purple.
Reanimen are corpses turned into robots in Official Handbook of the Invincible Universe #2.
Sinister Dexter – “Smoke and Mirrors” – 2000 AD #1121
Solomon Grundy (DC) is a revenant type of zombie that has been a prominent super villain since the Golden Age of comic books (Who’s Who in the DC Universe #5).
Supersoldaten 46 – The Art of Wolfenstein-The New Order (Dark Horse)
Tales of the Zombie (Marvel) introduced Simon Garth as the zombie hero and was totally mindless unlike the Marvel Zombies that came much later.
The Last of Us: American Dreams (Dark Horse)
The New Deadwardians (Vertigo) has working class zombies doing the scuttle work for upper class vampires!
The Walking Dead (Image) is by far the most important zombie comic book title since this comic book led to the television show of the same name.
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
The Zombies That Ate The World (Humanoids)
T-Ray (Marvel) in Cable & Deadpool V1 #48
Victorian Undead (Wildstorm) is basically Sherlock Holmes versus zombies!
XXXombies (Image) #4
ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction
Zombie Girl – Ravenous #1 (Night Phoenix Press)
Zombie Tramp (Action Lab) – Danger Doll Squad #3 (2017
Zombies vs Robots (IDW)
Zombies! Eclipse of the Undead (IDW)
Zombo (2000 AD)
Television
I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse
Movies
28 Days Later (2002)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
A Little Bit Zombie (2012)
A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)
Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (2012)
After Sundown (2006)
Alien Dead (1980)
All Souls Day (2005)
American Zombie (2007)
Army of Darkness (1992)
Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Autumn (2009)
Baron Blood (1972)
Bath Salt Zombies (2013
Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay (1991)
Battle of the Damned (2013)
Battlefield Baseball (2003)
Beneath Still Waters (2005)
Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989)
Beverly Lane (2010)
Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
Big Tits Zombie (2010)
Bio Zombie (1998)
Biohazardous (2001)
Black Demons (1991)
Black Magic 2 (1976)
Black Sheep (2006)
Black Swarm (2007)
Bled White (2011)
Blood Creek (2009)
Blood of Ghastly Horror (1972)
Blood of the Beast (2003)
Bloodsuckers from Outer Space (1984)
Bone Sickness (2004)
Bong of the Living Dead (2017)
Bowery at Midnight (1942)
Boy Eats Girl (2005)
Brain Blockers (2007)
Brain Dead (2007)
Braindead (1992)
Bride of Re-Animator (1991)
Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror (1981)
Burying the Ex (2014)
C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. (1989)
Cargo (2013)
Caustic Zombies (2011)
Cell (2016)
Cemetery Man (1994)
Children of the Living Dead (2001)
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972)
Choking Hazard (2004)
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1991)
City of Rott (2006)
City of Rott 2 (2014)
City of the Living Dead (1980)
Cockneys vs. Zombies (2012)
Colin (2008)
Condemned (2015)
Contracted (2013)
Contracted: Phase II (2015)
Corpses Are Forever (2003)
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
Creepshow (1982)
Curse of the Maya (2004)
Dance of the Dead (2008)
Dark Floors (2009)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Day of the Dead (2008)
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)
Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2018)
Days of Darkness (2007)
Dead & Breakfast (2004)
Dead & Buried (1981)
Dead 7 (2016)
Dead Air (2009)
Dead Alive (1992)
Dead and Deader (2006)
Dead Before Dawn (2012)
Dead Heat (1988)
Dead Meat (2004)
Dead Men Walking (2005)
Dead Moon Rising (2007)
Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)
Dead Sands (2013)
Dead Snow (2008)
Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead (2014)
Dead Space: Downfall (2008)
Dead Within (2014)
Deadgirl (2008)
DeadHeads (2011)
Deadlands: The Rising (2006)
Deadly Friend (1986)
Deathdream (1972)
Deathgasm (2015)
Deathwatch (2002)
Decay (2012)
Deep River: The Island (2008)
Descendents (2008)
Detention of the Dead (2012)
Devil’s Playground (2010)
Diary of the Dead (2008)
Die You Zombie Bastards! (2005)
Die Zombiejäger (2005)
Die-ner (Get It?) (2010)
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Doc of the Dead (2014)
Doctor Blood’s Coffin (1961)
Doghouse (2009)
Don’t Go in the House (1980)
Doom (2005)
Dorm of the Dead (2007)
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011)
Eat Me! (2009)
Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
Edges of Darkness (2008)
Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980)
Evil (2005)
Evil Dead (2013)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Evil Head (2012)
Evil: In the Time of Heroes (2009)
Exhumed (2003)
Exit Humanity (2011)
Extinction (2015)
Fading of the Cries (2011)
Fido (2006)
Flesheater (1988)
Flick (2008)
Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane (2007)
Forbidden Siren (2006)
Forest of the Dead (2007)
Frankenhooker (1990)
Frankenstein Island (1981)
Freaks of Nature (2015)
Frozen Scream (1980)
Gallowwalkers (2009)
Gangs of the Dead (2006)
Garden of the Dead (1974)
George: A Zombie Intervention (2009)
Germ Z (2013)
Ghost Brigade (1993)
Go Goa Gone (2013)
Goal of the Dead (2014)
Gory Gory Hallelujah (2003)
Grave Mistake (2008)
Graveyard Alive (2004)
Hell of the Living Dead (1981)
Here Alone (2016)
Hide and Creep (2004)
Hood of the Living Dead (2005)
Horror Express (1973)
Horror Rises from the Tomb (1972)
Horrors of War (2006)
House of the Damned (1996)
House of the Dead (2003)
House of the Dead II (2005)
House of the Living Dead (1973)
Hysterical (1983)
I Am a Hero (2016)
I Am Legend (2007)
I Am Omega (2007)
I Eat Your Skin (1964)
I Sell the Dead (2008)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987)
I Was a Zombie for the F.B.I. (1982)
I, Zombie (1999)
Insanitarium (2008)
Invisible Invaders (1959)
Isle of the Snake People (1968)
JeruZalem (2015)
Juan of the Dead (2010)
Junk (2000)
Killing Spree (1987)
King of the Zombies (1941)
Kiss Daddy Goodbye (1981)
Kung Fu Zombie (1981)
L.A. Zombie (2010)
La Morte Vivante – The Living Dead Girl (1982)
Land of the Dead (2005)
Last of the Living (2008)
Legion of the Night (1995)
Les Raisins de la Mort (1978)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
Life After Beth (2014)
Livelihood (2005)
Machine Head (2000)
Maggie (2015)
Make-out with Violence (2008)
Maniac Cop (1988)
Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
Maniac Cop 3 (1992)
Mansion of the Living Dead (1982)
Meat Market (2000)
Meat Market 2 (2001)
Messiah of Evil (1972)
Miruthan (2016)
Miss Zombie (2013)
Monstrosity (1963)
Mortuary (2005)
Mulberry Street (2006)
Mutant (1984)
Mutants (2009)
My Boyfriend’s Back (1993)
Necropolis Awakened (2002)
Netherworld (1991)
Night Life (1989)
Night of the Comet (1984)
Night of the Creeps (1986)
Night of the Dead (2006)
Night of the Living Deb (2015)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation (2012)
Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn (2015)
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated (2009)
Night of the Living Dorks (2004)
Night of the Seagulls (1975)
Nightmare City (1980)
Ninjas vs. Zombies (2008)
Nudist Colony of the Dead (1991)
Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
Oh! My Zombie Mermaid (2004)
Ojuju (2014)
One Dark Night (1983)
Open Grave (2013)
Outpost (2008)
Outpost: Black Sun (2012)
Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz (2013)
Ozone (1993)
ParaNorman (2012)
Pathogen (2006)
Patient Zero (2017)
Pet Sematary (1989)
Pet Sematary Two (1992)
Plaga Zombie (1997)
Plaga Zombie: Zona Mutante (2001)
Plaguers (2008)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Planet Terror (2007)
Pontypool (2009)
Pop Punk Zombies (2011)
Portrait of a Zombie (2012)
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
Premutos: The Fallen Angel (1997)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies (2013)
Quarantine (2008)
Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011)
Raiders of the Living Dead (1986)
Rammbock (2010)
Re-Animator (1985)
REC (2007)
REC 2 (2009)
REC 3: Genesis (2012)
REC 4: Apocalypse (2014)
Redneck Zombies (1987)
Reel Zombies (2008)
Re-Kill (2015)
Remains (2011)
Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings (2011)
Resident Evil (2002)
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Resident Evil: Damnation (2012)
Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017)
Return of the Blind Dead (1973)
Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993)
Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis (2005)
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave (2005)
Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)
Revenge of the Zombies (1943)
Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
Rise of the Zombies (2012)
Ritual (2002)
Route 666 (2001)
Santo vs. the Zombies (1962)
SARS Wars (2004)
Schoolgirl Apocalypse (2011)
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
Seoul Station (2016)
Severed: Forest of the Dead (2005)
Sexykiller (2008)
Shadow: Dead Riot (2006)
Shaolin vs. Evil Dead (2004)
Shatter Dead (1994)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Shock Waves (1977)
Sick: Survive the Night (2012)
Silent Night, Zombie Night (2009)
Sint (2010)
Slither (2006)
Special Dead (2006)
Splinter (2008)
Stacy (2001)
Stag Night of the Dead (2008)
Stalled (2013)
State of Emergency (2011)
Steve Niles’ Remains (2011)
Stitches (2012)
Sugar Hill (1974)
Surf II (1984)
Survival of the Dead (2009)
Swamp Zombies (2005)
Tales of Terror (1962)
Teenage Exorcist (1991)
Teenage Zombies (1959)
Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965)
The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse (2012)
The Astro-Zombies (1968)
The Battery (2012)
The Beyond (1981)
The Boneyard (1990)
The Burning Dead (2015)
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
The Children (1980)
The Cross of the Devil (1975)
The Crypt (2009)
The Curse of the Doll People (1961)
The Dead (2010)
The Dead 2: India (2013)
The Dead and the Damned (2010)
The Dead and the Damned 2 (2014)
The Dead Hate the Living! (2000)
The Dead Inside (2013)
The Dead Next Door (1988)
The Dead One (1961)
The Dead Outside (2008)
The Dead Pit (1989)
The Devil’s Daughter (1939)
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Fog (1980)
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
The Ghost Galleon (1974)
The Ghouls (2003)
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
The Hanging Woman (1973)
The Horde (2009)
The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
The House by the Cemetery (1981)
The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964)
The Kirishima Thing (2012)
The Last Days on Mars (2013)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1973)
The Mad (2007)
The Night Eats the World (2018)
The Plague (2006)
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
The Quick and the Undead (2006)
The Rape After (1986)
The Ravenous (2017)
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
The Returned (2013)
The Revenant (2009)
The Rezort (2015)
The Roost (2005)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
The Sky Has Fallen (2009)
The Stink of Flesh (2005)
The Supernaturals (1986)
The Video Dead (1987)
The Vineyard (1989)
The Zombie Diaries (2006)
The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)
The Zombie Farm (2011)
The Zombie King (2013)
The Zombinator (2012)
They Came Back (2004)
They Walk (2010)
Tokyo Zombie (2005)
Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
Tormented (2009)
Toxic Zombies (1980)
Trailer Park of Terror (2008)
Train to Busan (2016)
Trip Ubusan: The Lolas vs. Zombies (2017)
Uncle Sam (1996)
Undead (2003)
Undead or Alive (2007)
Undead Pool (2007)
Uniform SurviGirl I (2008)
Valley of the Zombies (1946)
Vampires vs. Zombies (2004)
Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)
Versus (2000)
Violent Shit III (1999)
Viral (2016)
Virus Undead (2008)
Voodoo (1995)
Voodoo Dawn (1990)
Voodoo Island (1957)
Voodoo Man (1944)
War of the Dead (2011)
War of the Zombies (1964)
Warm Bodies (2013)
Warning Sign (1985)
Wasting Away (2007)
Waxwork (1988)
Waxwork II: Lost in Time (1992)
What We Become (2015)
White Zombie (1932)
Wicked Little Things (2006)
Wilczyca (1983)
Wild Zero (2000)
Within the Woods (1978)
World War Z (2013)
Wyrmwood (2014)
Yoroi Samurai Zombie (2008)
Z Island (2015)
Zeder (1983)
Zibahkhana (2007)
ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009)
Zombeavers (2014)
Zombi 2 (1979)
Zombi 3 (1988)
Zombibi (2012) – Kill Zombi
Zombie 4: After Death (1988)
Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1991)
Zombie Apocalypse (2011)
Zombie Ass (2011)
Zombie Bloodbath (1993)
Zombie Brigade (1986)
Zombie Chronicles (2001)
Zombie High (1987)
Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Zombie Honeymoon (2004)
Zombie King and the Legion of Doom (2004)
Zombie Lake (1981)
Zombie Massacre (2013)
Zombie Nation (2004)
Zombie Night (2003)
Zombie Night (2013)
Zombie Night 2: Awakening (2006)
Zombie Nightmare (1986)
Zombie Planet (2003)
Zombie Self-Defense Force (2006)
Zombie Strippers (2008)
Zombie Undead (2011)
Zombie Wars (2006)
Zombie Women of Satan (2009)
Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras (1999)
Zombiegeddon (2003)
Zombieland (2009)
Zombies (2018)
Zombies In Tha Hood (2016)
Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
Zombies on Broadway (1945)
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2007)
Zombiez (2005)
Zone of the Dead (2009)
Zoombies (2016)
Dungeons and Dragons
Amiq Rasol – TSR 2158 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 2
Arch-Shadow – TSR 2158 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 2
Blood Zombie – Creature Collection II. Dark Menagerie
Carcass – Creature Collection III. Savage Bestiary
Charnel Hound – D&D 3.5 – Monster Manual III
Coffer Corpse – TSR 2166 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 3
Crypt Servant – TSR 2145 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 1
Curst – TSR 2158 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 2
Devourer – D&D 3.5 – Monster Manual I
Dread Warrior – TSR 2166 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 3
Dread Warrior (D&D 4th Edition – Monster Manual 3
Ghul Kin – TSR 2158 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 2
Gormul Ghoul – Creature Collection III. Savage Bestiary
Grimweird – D&D 3.5 – Monster Manual III
Kadum’s Leviathan – Creature Collection II. Dark Menagerie
Lacedon – D&D 3.5 – Monster Manual I
Lich – TSR 2140A Monstrous Manual
Lich – D&D 4th Edition – Monster Manual 1
Meatman – Creature Collection II. Dark Menagerie
Mud Zombie – TSR 2173 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 4
Necronaut – D&D 3.5 – Monster Manual III
Pain Doll – Creature Collection III. Savage Bestiary
Poisonbearer Ghoul – Creature Collection III. Savage Bestiary
Psionic Lich – TSR 2145 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 1
Revenant – TSR 2140A Monstrous Manual
Undead Siege Sandman – Creature Collection II. Dark Menagerie
Shadowrath – TSR 2173 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 4
Stone Zombies – Creature Collection II. Dark Menagerie
Tattooed Corpse – Creature Collection II. Dark Menagerie
Tuyewera – TSR 2145 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 1
Undead Dragon Slayer – TSR 2166 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 3
Undead Dwarf – TSR 2145 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 1
Undead Lake Monster – TSR 2145 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 1
Wight – TSR 2140A Monstrous Manual
Wight – D&D 4th Edition – Monster Manual 1
Witherling – D&D 4th Edition – Monster Manual 2
Zombie – AD&D 1st-Monster Manual
Zombie Wolf – TSR 2145 Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume 1
Noob Saibot is probably a revenant according to some sources (Mortal Kombat 9 (2011) Prima Guide).
The WOW universe has a lot less zombies than the D&D universe and include the Ghoul, Kel’Thuzad, Lich King and Zombie (World of Warcraft Monster Guide).
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Bat Doctor Shadow of Undeath
Colonel Wharton, Zombie Master
Doctor Who-Zombie Attack
Dragon Zombie
DUO Zombie Miners
Necrobionic Mutation
Necrobionic Torrent
Necrobionics
Necrodragon Bryzenaga
Necrodragon Galbazeek
Necrodragon Giland
Necrodragon Izorist Vhal
P01-Blender Zombie
Pvt. McAlpin, Zombie
Shadow Ghoul
Super Necrodragon Abzo Dolba
Wormwood
Zombie 1
Zombie 2
Zombie 3
Zombie 4
Zombie 5
Zombie 6
Zombie Carnival
Zombie Lupin
Zombie Tiger
Zombie Troops
Zombies 1
Zombies 2
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