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One of the protagonists has a friend or loved one infected with [[The Virus]] during a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] or similar situation. In a fit of loyalty, they attempt to keep the poor victim alive [[Zombie Infectee|and the infection secret,]] despite the fact that it has been confirmed irreversible by [[The Professor|authoritative, bespectacled, labcoat-wearing scientists]] across the surviving globe.

 

** The DVD extras also had a short called "Remembering Z Day" which included an advert for a child who had to "fight off his entire zombified family".

* The first ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]'' movie also had this happen with Rain, who turns at the absolute worst moment.

** There was also a priest in ''[[Resident Evil: Apocalypse|Resident Evil Apocalypse]]'' whose sister had been bitten. His solution was tying her up so she couldn't hurt him, and then killing people to feed and nourish her. By [[Resident Evil: Extinction|the third movie]], we find out the bit where he fed her was pointless as zombies don't actually require the meat they devour. Of course, how was he supposed to know that?

* ''[[Braindead]]''/''Dead Alive'' has Lionel's mother be the first zombie to turn... and plays it for all the black humour it possibly can. Peter Jackson was ''twisted'' before ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.

* In ''[[The Evil Dead]]'', Ash has to kill zombified versions of his girlfriend, his sister, and two other friends. By ''Army of Darkness'', he's gotten completely used to it ("Baby, you got ''real'' ugly."). Then again, the girl in ''Army of Darkness'' is magically okay at the end of the movie anyway, probably as a consequence of the series moving from straight horror toward comedy.

* A cruel subversion occurs in the Australian comedy-horror movie ''Undead''. Towards the end of the film, it is revealed there actually ''is'' a cure for the zombie outbreak (distributed by friendly aliens via rainwater), and cured, human-again former zombies even end up dying from the gunshots they sustained from the protagonists during the film. However, the cure misses a single infected man, who ends up starting the zombie outbreak all over again. The film ends with the protagonist forced to round up the zombie villagers in a large outdoor pen and shepherd over them in the hopes the aliens will return with the cure again (which is unlikely to happen, since they have no way of knowing a second outbreak occurred).

* ''[[28 Days Later|28 Weeks Later]]'': In this case mom was a carrier, she had a gene that allowed her to remain sane while infected with [[The Virus]], unfortunately when her husband broke into quarantine and kissed her he became infected and not only killed her but also infected almost everyone else.

** Let's face it, everything in that film could have been avoided by shooting those stupid children at the beginning.

* Subverted in "The Case", the [[Show Within a Show|Amateur Film Within A Film]] from ''[[Film/Super Eight|Super Eight]]''. When the detective's wife {{spoiler|becomes a zombie, he manages to inject her with an antidote and cure her without being bitten or forced to shoot her.}}

 

* In the novel ''[[World War Z]]'', it's implied that this was one of the contributing factors for the quick spread of the zombie virus, often with refugees from Third World countries taking their infected loved ones with them in the hopes of finding a non-existent cure in the more industrialized / wealthier First World nations.

** Less "implied" and more "openly suspected by one of the interviewees," really.

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

{{quote|'''Bart''': Dad, you killed the zombie Flanders!

'''Homer''': He was a zombie? }}

{{quote|'''Grampa''': Quick! We must kill the boy!

'''Marge''': How did you know he was a vampire?

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