- people somehow not having obsessively been watching the zombie virus, knowing the names, addresses, and travels of every single one of the first 30 victims - people not hypervigilantly obsessing over news feeds in general
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- protagonists struggling mightily to obey the moral imperative that they must BREAK QUARANTINE LIKE ANY REDBLOODED AMERICAN WOULD
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- post-apocalyptic living spaces not absolutely jampacked with dozens of hobbies, knitting and artwork and bowls of proving dough and such
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- the whole premise that a person in a narratively convenient coma for a few weeks wouldn't seem absolutely alien to people who'd been conscious during that time
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- the curious absence of handwashing or facial protection in rick grimes' group
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- what zombie story have you ever seen where the government's first response isn't to overreact via stormtroopers and nukes, or underreact by coverups, but to bailout the airlines and casinos
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- New York has infrastructure-threatening fatbergs caused by people wiping their asses with, then flushing, pretty much anything that can be used to wipe asses. Your favorite zombie story would never.
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- the idea that people would naturally form post-apocalyptic biker gangs instead of televideo knitting circles and communal cooking groups and ttrpgs
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- an entire political party goes full death cult, to the point where they encourage everyone Get the Virus. Romero never dreamed of that.
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- the absence of unifying gallows humor forged in trauma response. Everyone in rick's group would be talking in tiktok memes like darmok and jalad at tanagra.
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- two grizzled survivors meet in the wasteland. They don't immediately start infodumping at each other about the hobbies they picked up. Neither shows the other the really cool rock they found.
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- the whole timescale of the collapse. "First it was on the news, then in our country, then scratching at our doors." Not when everyone has a crash course in epidemiology and r values and exponential growth rates.
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