Die Another Day/Tropes

A

* **Adapted Out:** All guest characters from the original have been removed.
* **Adored By The Network:** Seriously. This story is Alex's flagship story, with regular updates, nine completed seasons, a tenth that's currently ongoing, over 100 episodes, a spinoff which itself has five completed seasons, another upcoming spinoff, a miniseries, and more to come in the future.

B

* **Back From The Dead:** Kyron, Riley, Evan, Wesley, and Kari returned after initially being presumed dead.
* **Body Horror:** The fusion zombies are this, considering that they are made up of multiple zombies that have been joined together. In fact, each of its heads must be put down for it to be truly dead.

C

* **Canon Foreigner:** Many of the characters, like Seth, John Creighton, Barry, Claire, etc. were created for this version who were not present in the original story.
* **Celebrity Survivor:** This series contains a number of celebrity characters, including Gerard Welch who was a cartoon creator, Maria Welch who was a former actress, Claire Celi who was a former child actress, and Zane Wild who was a college football player for the University of Georgia.
* **Children Are Innocent:** Casey, Miles, and Tory are examples. Izzy, Melanie, Riley, Olivia Holt, and Claire are notable inversions.
* **Complete Monster:** Jack, Brian, Olivia, and John Creighton are some examples of ruthless villains seen throughout the series.
* **Crossdressing Voices:** In Universe: Claire was mentioned to have voiced the male character Oliver in a cartoon called Time Kids. This is understandable given Claire's tomboyish nature and the fact that she often pretends to be a boy in real life. It's implied that she did this and Crosscast Role frequently.

D

* **Darth Vader Clone:** Antonio is one. Like Darth Vader Antonio served as The Dragon to the main villain, was formerly a hero but turned evil out of desperation, was eventually revealed as the father of one of the series' protagonists, and he was also eventually redeemed and turned back to the side of good.
* **Downer Ending:** Season 4 ends with Olivia dead, but also Victor is dead and the group is now at a resort away from their friends and the Creighton Family is now after them.
* **Dwindling Party:** The Season 1 characters. By Season 9 all that remains are Izzy, Ryan, Olivia, Evan, and Riley. And Izzy is the only character who (so far) has appeared in all 9 seasons.

F

* **Fake American:** Quite a few of the actors are not American, including Rafe Spall (Ben) and Daisy Ridley (Olivia), who are British, Hayden Christensen (Daniel Moore), who is Canadian, and Tim Campbell (Evan), who is Australian.
	+ Notably in an inversion, Scottish character Abigail Miller is played by Alexa Davalos, who is an American actress who was born in France.
* **Fallen Hero:** Olivia Holt turned evil after her brother Ryan was killed.

G

* **Gender Flip:** Tory Miller and Victor were female in the original story.
	+ On the flipside, Alexandria Celi was a man in the original story.

L

* **Last Episode, New Character:** The Creighton Family and its leader, John Creighton, were introduced in the final episode of Season 4.

M

* **Meaningful Name:** Benedict is named after infamous Revolutionary War-era traitor Benedict Arnold, reflecting his decision to betray Phantom and join the protagonists' group (which was a plot thread that was planned for the original story, but scrapped).
* **Meaningful Release Date:** Both the episodes *Overcast* in Season 3 and *A Shocking Reunion* released on July 3rd. This date is the anniversary of the publishing of the final issue of the Walking Dead comics, *Issue 193*.
	+ Additionally, the episode *Secret Keeper* released on the birthday of Hallie, one of Alex's closest friends. Because of this he decided to have Izzy Welch, her favorite character, celebrate his birthday in that episode.
* **Milestone Celebration:** The series marked 100 episodes with a special talk show that imagines the series as an actual show airing on TV, with Josh Hutcherson (the actor for Ryan Holt) hosting, with many other actors from throughout the series being interviewed.

N

* **Not Quite Dead:** Kyron, Riley, and Evan returned after initially being presumed dead.

O

* **Older Than They Think:** The Season 2 Finale of World Beyond revealed the existence of walker variants that are faster, resilient, and more dangerous than the standard zombie. This series already did that concept with the Stalkers who appear periodically.
* **Only One Name:** Plenty of characters are only referred to by their first names and have no confirmed surname.

R

* **Race Lift:** Several characters were changed to Latinos, including Ryan, Olivia, Izzy, Chrissa, and Kari. However, all of them barring Chrissa are only half-Latino.
	+ Tai, Tory, and Molly were also made Asian.

S

* **Shout Out:** Casey got his name from the original planned name for Ash Ketchum from the Pokémon anime.
	+ This series is full of these, especially to Star Wars.
* **Spared By The Adaptation:** As of Season 7, Olivia, Melissa, Jack, Jacob, Kelly, Ryan H., Gabe, Abigail, Roy, Ivan, Benedict, George, Wanda, Aidan, Noah, Roland, Tobias, Hannah, Lex, and Ryan K. have all outlived their original counterparts.
* **Sweet Polly Oliver:** Claire is a girl who poses as a boy.

T

* **The Remnant:** Riley is the last surviving member of his family, until Evan's surprise return in Season 9.
	+ Also, Claire is the last surviving member of Phantom who appeared in Seasons 3 and 4.
* **The Reveal:** There are plenty of these.
	+ Kyron is alive.
	+ Olivia is running a violent insurrection within Phantom.
	+ Riley is alive.
	+ The NRA is doing testing on living humans.
	+ Evan is alive.
* **Transplant:** Aiden and Baize were originally from Cut-Throat.

W

* **What Could Have Been:** There are many examples of scrapped plans.
	+ Tai was planned to be moved to At Merchiston's Mercy, but when that story didn't start in an available window he was killed off instead.
	+ Claire was originally intended to be a full on antagonist and would not have survived Season 4. This was scrapped when the fifth episode was written and it was decided that her mother, Alexandria, would die at the hands of Olivia. Also, she was originally supposed to not be a tomboy at all and actually be disgusted at the idea of posing as a boy.
	+ Riley was not originally planned to die in Season 5's finale, but his death was added after it was decided that he would be the one to kill Alicia. He would later return in Season 8 however.
	+ Ryan Holt was planned to die in Season 6's fifth episode, but his death was scrapped as the author was not ready to kill him off.
	+ Kelly was originally planned to be a pike victim, but she was switched out for Abigail to avoid the dreaded "Bury Your Gays" trope, as she would be the third LGBT character to die in Season 6 after Aidan and Noah.
* **What Happened To The Mouse?:** Billy, Barry, Casey, and Olivia left the series to join the cast of a spinoff. Olivia would eventually return to the main cast full time in Season 9, while Barry would make three more appearances in Seasons 8 and 9.