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Can zombies be friendly?

These zombies are typically intelligent enough to have rationality and emotions, remaining as Inhuman Humans, and often will have avoided experiencing a Loss of Identity that their more mindless cousins are subjected to. This in turn makes them capable of being benign and friendly.

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Why eat brains when you can eat ice cream with friends?

Gretchen: But you're a zombie.

Sawyer: Sure I'm a zombie, but I still got a heart. Camp Lakebottom But you're a zombie.Sure I'm a zombie, but I still got a heart. While zombies come in all sorts and types, one thing they typically share in common is a hunger for human flesh. They can't be reasoned with and the only way to put a stop to these walking corpses is to put a hole in their head. But it turns out, not all zombies are like that. Sometimes a state of undeath has not been accompanied by Horror Hunger. A specific form of Our Zombies Are Different. These zombies are typically intelligent enough to have rationality and emotions, remaining as Inhuman Humans, and often will have avoided experiencing a Loss of Identity that their more mindless cousins are subjected to. This in turn makes them capable of being benign and friendly. Though that isn't to say the more stereotypical mindless zombies can't be harmless in some cases. Such instances are very likely to be an Attractive Zombie; after all, Beauty Equals Goodness and it would be a lot easier to make friends with something that didn't thoroughly repulse you. If this is the result of a Zombie Infectee who succumbed to their condition then this is And Then John Was a Zombie. The inclusion of such a character in a cast may be an instance of Everything's Deader with Zombies. May overlap with Revenant Zombie, though while these zombies are intelligent they are not necessarily benign. Furthermore, another distinction is that Revenant Zombies typically avoid the cliché of rotting and falling apart, while this is a very widespread occurrence for Friendly Zombies due to Rule of Funny. For the trope applied to different supernatural species, see Chummy Mummy, Friendly Ghost, Friendly Skeleton, Friendly Neighborhood Vampire, and Wonderful Werewolf.

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Comic Books

Arcana Comics's hero Kade was the prophesied hero who would free the world from the demon Apollyon. When word of the prophecy reached Apollyon, he had every boy born under the Black Sun a.k.a Eye of God (a special eclipse) killed. Kade's mother was murdered during this period and baby Kade died from exposure. But the supernatural energies of the Black Sun had re-animated Kade's body and trapped his soul inside of it. So growing up for 21 years, Kade never realized he's actually dead, just that he doesn't feel any physical sensation. Kade would later the Black Sun has made him the champion against evil and as an undead, he won't age and will only die if killed with violence. Kade learns to repress his rage at his lack of sensation, as well he's grown kinder to others. Lori Lovecraft: Horatio, one of the hosts/caretakers at Voodoo Mansion, is a decent blue-collar guy who just happens to be dead (but still mobile). He has a healthy and loving (if a wee bit odd) relationship with his human girlfriend Zelda, and his worse habit (apart from the occasional body part falling off if he isn't paying attention) is that he is obsessed with pro sports. Played with in Marvel Zombies. While most zombies are flesh-eating monsters, they retain their intelligence and are able to act rationally so long as they keep their Horror Hunger in check. Certain zombies also possess altruistic qualities such as Zombie Spider-Man who constantly has My God, What Have I Done? moments and eventually turned on his fellow zombies to side with the humans, while Zombie Colonel America still retains a degree of honor and promises to let survivors die painlessly first. Dead Girl from X-Force is a mutant whose power is to return from death as a Revenant Zombie. She's not only friendly but also a superhero who protects her friends and even starts a romantic relationship with one of her teammates.

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Films — Animation

Emily is the titular Corpse Bride, a living corpse, who is also a sweet and kind girl. She's also in love with Victor and takes him to the Afterlife to have a wild honeymoon. In fact, the dead in general are pretty friendly and fun-loving, ironically being much more full of life than the very boring and dour living: even characters like Mayhew the sickly and unhappy coachman and Finis's grandfather who was every bit as bitter as he become much more happy and cheerful people once they've passed on. Played with in Hotel Transylvania. Drac has zombie staff running the hotel and performing tasks such as moving luggage or serving food. While they are relatively harmless, they are still pretty slow and dimwitted like standard zombies. Though human guests can rest assured that they will never be attacked by them during their stay. In Paranorman, this is a twist with Judge Hopkins and the other zombies of the jurors who sentenced Agatha to die. They arent evil and dont want to harm humans- far from it. They simply want the curse Agatha placed upon them to be dispelled so they can properly get to the afterlife. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island: While the zombies on the island aren't necessarily intelligent and are certainly scary, they aren't trying to hurt the gang, they're just trying to warn them to leave the island and escape the real villains. Wreck-It Ralph features a zombie (based on Cyril zombies from The House of the Dead) who attends the Bad-Anon. While he's a pretty stereotypical dimwitted, shambling zombie, he's in all other aspects a nice and friendly guy. Zombie: Labels no make you happy. Good! Bad! Errr! You must love you.

Films — Live-Action

Such zombies develop in Film/Fido. The titular Fido begins the movie as a zombie house servant whose craving for human flesh is controlled by a collar created by company Zomcon. Over the course of the movie, Fido regains aspects of his humanity and becomes part of the human community once more. In Hocus Pocus, Billy, the zombie with his mouth sewn shut, is benevolent. Given that Winnifred murdered him, she shouldn't have been surprised that he turned on her immediately after she raised him, but he also goes out of his way to help the protagonists. Danni even calls him a "good zombie" at one point. When Good Ghouls Go Bad. Uncle Fred dies at the beginning of the movie, but comes back later as a zombie, still retaining the personality with none of that pesky hunger for flesh or brains. Later on the zombies that had been seemingly attacking the residents of the city turn out to be actually friendly and only gathering the townsfolk to help expose the real villain who had lied about a "curse" that the townspeople were so scared of that they had banned Halloween for 25 years. Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018): The premise of the movie is that humans and zombies live together in a segregated society, with zombies as a secondary class. Despite being undead, the zombies are pretty much the same as humans with more strength and speed. The zombie characters in the film are all pretty nice, with their worst actions happening as a result of being mistreated by the human characters. Manny (Daniel Radcliffe) from Swiss Army Man is basically one. He's a living corpse whose strange abilities come in handy to Hank (Paul Dano), who's stranded on a Deserted Island.

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Tabletop Games

Starfinder: The undead planet of Eox is populated almost entirely by Friendly Zombies. There are ghouls, vampires, and liches on Eox, but the vast majority of Eox's population are called corpsefolk, formerly living beings granted undeath near the end of their natural lives. "Friendly" might not be the right word, as they are still evil beings animated by negative energy, but Eoxians are citizens of the Pact Worlds and have relatively normal dealings with the Pact Worlds' other races.

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Monster High: There was a minority of zombie characters in the first few years of the toyline. Ghoulia Yelps and Slo Mo were not the best speakers but they were very smart and kind supporting characters when they were around. And then there was the Zombiecorn Neighthan Rot. He was half Zombie, half Unicorn.

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Web Animation

hololive: Kureiji Ollie is a highschool girl who rose from the dead as a zombie. With her memories still intact, she became a vtuber idol, remaining an upbeat excitable Genki Girl who showers her fans with love, while gushing over her idol senpais. Zombie College: All of the zombies, particularly Zeke are kind to Scott Bardo.

Webcomics

"Friendly" might be stretching it a bit, but Doctor Mittelmind in Girl Genius is for the most part helpful towards protagonist Agatha when their paths cross, and keeps his own "ghost" at the metaphorical controls of his (re-re-)reanimated corpse via the comic's trademarked Mad Science. George in Hungry City has retained his human intelligence, even though his body is that of a standard, rotting zombie. No End: This has been shown to be possible for people bitten by zombies. However, the comic's world also has a policy of shooting people as soon as they are bitten, so the phenomenon is unknown of thanks to those who are subject to it having every interest in hiding it. Stand Still, Stay Silent: One of the features of Plague Zombie monsters is that their approach can be revealed via Evil-Detecting Cat. One chapter has a Plague Zombie whose mind has retained many of its human capacities, and among other things doesn't elicit any reaction at all from the crew's cat. The defunct Questden adventure Bug Castle: The Broken Slumber takes place in a necropolis where random inhabitants have woken up over the past few years. They're mostly all right but a bunch of them go insane when raised. The only living character in the quest is the deuteragonist, a priest sent to investigate the phenomenon. Zombies in Undead Friend are made from making contracts with ghosts in place of a virus, so they completely retain who they are in their new forms. Unsounded: Most animated corpses are mindless things used for labor that will eat anyone who gets too close, but Duane is a kind man who will go out of his way to do the right thing because, unlike the others, his soul is bound to his shambling corpse. He becomes just as dangerous as the others at night though, when his soul slips into the khert. Penelope Mortinez from Violet Zombie is snarky and mischievous, but beautiful and kind-hearted. The title character of Zom Com. Who is a perfectly sweet young lady, despite being a zombie. In Boyfriend of the Dead, one of the protagonists, N, and a few other characters, are friendly.

Web Videos

In Acquisitions Incorporated season 4, Wil Wheaton has to play an audience-selected minion named Stinky the Rotting Zombie: a friendly undead with rudimentary intelligence who follows the Player Party around and attacks people they tell it to attack. Laudna in Critical Role's third campaign is a Hollow One, meaning she died but her body reanimated and retains her personality from life. She has a very creepy appearance, macabre sensibility, and slightly unhinged mannerisms thanks to 30 years of being shunned as an undead abomination, but in general she's a perky and good-natured woman who takes her situation in stride now that she has friends who accept her. Even being stuck in a warlock pact with Delilah Briarwood, the necromancer who killed her and her family doesn't dampen her disposition most of the time.

Western Animation

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