Night of the Mini Dead story
In an episode presented entirely with sped-up miniatures, a pair of lovers defile a church and cemetery at night, accidentally raising the dead and causing a zombie apocalypse. Hordes of zombies quickly overrun population centers across the planet, wiping out most of humanity. As the world devolves into anarchy, the remaining humans try to fight back but instead give rise to giant mutant zombies when a nuclear power station is destroyed. Unable to stop them, the President of the United States eventually launches every nuclear missile in the American arsenal, which triggers other nations to launch their respective nuclear missiles as well. The short ends as the obliteration of the Earth is depicted as little more than an insignificant fart on the scale of galactic events. Directed by: Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon. Story by: Jeff Fowler and Tim Miller.
6 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| monster apocalypse | choice | The story follows a zombie apocalypse from its humble beginnings in a local cemetery to the point where the zombies have overrun the entire earth. |
| human vs. unnatural being | major | Zombies overran the earth. |
| humanity's place in the universe | major | The story concluded with the obliteration of the Earth which was depicted as little more than an insignificant fart on the scale of galactic events. |
| zombie | major | Zombies overran the earth. |
| irreverence | minor | A lewd couple besmirched a church by having sex in the graveyard, defiling a statue, and accidentally breaking it. Their actions somehow caused the zombie apocalypse to begin, and they got their just desserts by becoming its first victims. |
| nuclear holocaust | minor | The story (somewhat incongruously) ends with human civilization blowing itself up in a nuclear conflagration. In a final scene, it was made clear that humanity went out with the sound of a "pftt" in the Milky Way, from a galactic perspective. |