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== Background ==
== Background ==
Shaun is a 29 year old sales adviser at Foree Electric in London, England.  He is in a relationship with [[Liz (Shaun of the Dead)|Liz]] and his mother is [[Barbara (Shaun of the Dead)|Barbara]] and his stepfather is [[Philip]].  Shaun lives at house no. 8 at Weston Park.  Shaun went to the World DJ Championship in 2001.
Ben is a resident of Pennsylvania.


== During the events of [[Shaun of the Dead (2004)]] played by [[Simon Pegg]] ==
== During the events of [[Night of the Living Dead (1968)]] played by [[Duane Jones]] ==
Shaun is at the Winchester Tavern with Liz, [[Ed]], [[Dianne]] and [[David (Shaun of the Dead)|David]], when [[John (Shaun of the Dead)|John]] calls for last orders.  Liz tells Shaun she thinks they should spend more time as a couple.  She brings up how Shaun always invites Ed to hang out with them, while she in turn always invites Dianne and David to come out.  As they are talking, David butts in and starts to speak for Liz.  Liz says she wants to do more than just come to the Winchester every night and Shaun promises to make them dinner plans for just the two of them.
[[Barbra]] runs outside and headlights flash onto her.  Ben gets out of the car and they both go back into the house.  He asks Barbra if she has a key for the gas pump outside, but she doesn't answer.  He goes to look for food and Barbra asks him what is happening.  They hear a noise of shattering glass and see [[Venus Space Probe Zombie|Zombies]] trying to destroy Ben's truck.  Ben goes outside and kills the Zombies attacking his vehicle.  One Zombie gets inside the house and Ben kills that one also.  More start to walk towards the house and Ben drags the Zombie from inside the house and sets it on fire outside.  He tells Barbra to gather some wood so they can board up the house, but she is initially too much in shock to be effective.  She eventually helps Ben and they start boarding up the house.  He tells her about how he came across the truck he was driving and how he first saw the Zombies chasing a fuel truck and how he learned that the Zombies were afraid of fire.  Barbra then tells him about her encounter with the Zombies.  She starts saying that they need to go and find [[Johnny (NOTLD)|Johnny]] and when Ben tries to stop her she slaps him and he hits her back and she faints.  He puts Barbra on a couch and listens to the radio where the [[News Reporter 1|News Reporter]] briefly talks about an epidemic of mass murders in the Eastern part of the United States.  The News Reporter then urges listeners to stay home and not to venture out.  As the radio broadcast goes on, Ben continues to board up the house.  The broadcast continues that the murders started two days ago near Gulfport, Louisiana and has not extended beyond the western side of the Mississippi River except for a southeastern portion of Texas.  Ben finds a rifle in a closet and also finds a box of bullets.  He tells Barbra about the gun and tries to boost her morale, but she stares blankly at the ground.  While Ben is upstairs, the basement door opens and [[Harry (NOTLD)|Harry]] and [[Tom (NOTLD)|Tom]] come out.


The next day, Shaun wakes up and when he sits down to play a video game with Ed, Ed brings up that Shaun has work.  As Shaun is getting ready for work, [[Pete (Shaun of the Dead)|Pete]] accuses Ed of leaving the door open overnight.  Pete starts critiquing Ed, while Shaun defends Ed and Pete finally asks when Ed is going to move out.  Before leaving for work, Pete asks Ed to do simple chores around the house and Ed repeatedly mumbles he will, but then tells Shaun he won't do anything Pete asked.  As Shaun is leaving, Liz calls and leaves a message asking Shaun to change the reservation time to 8 o'clock.  As Shaun is walking to the store, [[Football Kid]] hits him with the soccer ball and [[Homeless Man (Shaun of the Dead)|Homeless Man]] asks Shaun for some change.  Shaun enters Weston Park Groceries and grabs a soda as [[The Usher]] stands nearby looking for something to buy.  As Shaun is waiting for [[Nelson (Shaun of the Dead)|Nelson]] to come to the register, he reads the headlines on the newspapers on the counter which have reports on mutilations and a mystery virus.  While Shaun is riding the bus to work, he sees a woman on the street suddenly collapse. At work, Shaun has a meeting with the other salespeople including [[Noel]] and [[Danny (Shaun of the Dead)|Danny]] and tells them he will be in charge due to Mr. Sloman and Ash being sick.  During his meeting, Noel's phone rings and he answers the phone and tells them he doesn't have any marijuana and neither does Ed.  After Shaun's speech, he tells Noel to turn his cellphone off and Noel insinuates Shaun is old.  Before walking away, Noel tells Shaun his red pen is leaking.  As Shaun is showing customers a television he flips past the channel with [[Woman on Trisha]] and [[Trisha Goddard (Character)|Trisha Goddard]], and continues flipping as [[Grave Scientist]] tells the public there is no cause for alarm and [[Distraught Vox Pop]] tells a reporter about someone that was shambling towards her.  Noel interrupts Shaun and tells him Philip is there to see him.  Philip reminds Shaun that tomorrow is his bi-monthly visit to see him and Barbara and reminds Shaun about the flowers he forgot to bring Barbara on Mother's day.  As Shaun watches Philip leave the store, he sees a group of military vehicles drive by.  Noel asks Shaun why he can have Philip at the store, but he can't talk on the phone, and as Shaun tells him he can separate his work life from his private life, the phone rings and Danny tells Shaun, Liz is on the phone.  As Liz talks to Shaun, he ignores what she is saying and says yes to everything to try and fool Noel into thinking it is work related.
Barbra screams and Ben runs back downstairs.  Ben asks them why they didn't help and Harry lies and says he couldn't tell what was going on.  Harry thinks they should all go back downstairs to the basement, They argue about the best course of action and Tom thinks they should use the basement as a last ditch effort.  As Ben goes to look how many Zombies are at the back of the house, he is grabbed through a window by a Zombie.  He kills it with the help of Tom and when Harry again insists they go down into the basement, he tells Ben to go down to the cellar.  Tom calls [[Judy]] upstairs and then Harry goes down into the basement and bars the door.  Tom calls down to Harry that Ben found a television and [[Helen]] offers to come up with Harry if Judy watches over [[Karen (NOTLD)|Karen]].  They get the television working and News Reporter reports that the killers are creatures feeding on the flesh of the living and they are those unburied that have recently died.  The News Reporter then advises people to seek out safety at Civil Defense shelters.  He tells the audience that a theory of what is causing everything is the recent return of a probe sent to Venus.  The broadcast goes to a live feed from Washington D.C., where [[Washington Reporter 1|Washington Reporter]], [[Washington Reporter 2|Washington Reporter]] and [[Washington Reporter 3|Washington Reporter]] are questioning [[Washington Scientist]] Washington Scientist states there is a definite connection between the Venus Probe and the rise of the undead, which the high ranking military official next to him quickly denies and says there is no definitive proof.  The News Reporter interviews [[Dr. Grimes]] who urges anyone that is injured to seek medical attention.  Dr. Grimes tells about a cadaver they had at the university that had all of its limbs amputated, but moved its trunk, even though it was dead.   


As Shaun is at the florist, [[Distressed Man]] runs by in a hurry.  Shaun then buys flowers from the [[Florist (Shaun of the Dead)|Florist]].  He looks outside the window of the Florist and sees [[Pigeon Man]] grab and seemingly eat a pigeon.  While riding home, a large amount of the people on the bus with him appear to be sick.  He walks home past a a traffic jam caused by a driver dead in his car blocking traffic.  He runs into [[Yvonne]] who tells him she recently bought a house and asks him if he is still with Liz.  Shaun then realizes he forgot to make reservations.  Shaun calls Fulci's restaurant to make reservations, but they are all booked up.  Shaun asks Ed what he should do and Ed suggests taking Liz to the Winchester.  Liz calls and after suggesting they go to the Winchester due to him not making reservations, she hangs up on him.  He runs to Liz's apartment and tries to climb up the wall to the 2nd story after Dianne and David tell him Liz doesn't want to see him, but fails.  He then calls back and Dianne lets him in.  Shaun pleads with Liz to go out with him, but she tells him she is going out with Dianne and David.  David tells Shaun his luck is up and Shaun accuses David of liking Liz.  Shaun gives Liz the flowers he bought for Barbara, but she realizes he bought them for Barbara and she breaks up with him after telling him she needs to make changes.  As Shaun is walking to the Winchester Tavern he sees a couple outside in an embrace and throws the flowers in the trash.  Ed tries to cheer up Shaun and comes up with interesting back stories for the people in the Winchester including [[Snakehips]], [[Spinster]], John and [[Bernie (Shaun of the Dead)|Bernie]].  Ed then tells Shaun, Liz breaking up with him isn't the end of the world.  Just then someone bangs on the door to the Winchester and moans.  As Shaun and Ed leave the Winchester the woman that was embracing outside chews the neck off of her lover.  They go back to their house and play Electro music loud on their record player until Pete comes downstairs and throws out the record.  He yells at them for being loud and tells them he has to go to work in the morning due to everyone calling in sick.  Shaun tells Pete he broke up with Liz and as Pete is walking away, Ed calls him a prick.  Pete yells at Ed to go live in the shed and accuses Shaun of keeping Ed around so he doesn't seem as much of a loser and yells at Shaun to sort his life out.  Ed notices a bandage on Pete's hand and Pete tells them some crackhead bit him.  Shaun stumbles over to his refrigerator, jots down a few notes and then passes out on a chair.   
Dr. Grimes advises everyone to cremate within minutes anyone that dies.  Ben comes up with an idea to gas up the truck and then leave after picking everyone up, and Harry tells him about the large key chain with keys in the cellar which might unlock the gas pump.  After Henry tosses Molotov cocktails, Tom jumps into the truck while Ben stands nearby with the rifle.  Judy runs outside and gets in the truck with Tom and they and Ben drive to the gas pump.  While Tom is trying to put the gas pump into the truck, he sprays gasoline on the side of the truck.  The truck catches on fire and as Tom is driving away from the gas pump, the truck explodes, killing him and Judy.  Ben makes it back to the house, but finds the door locked.  He yells for Henry, but Henry walks towards the basement instead of letting him in.  Ben kicks the door open and after securing it again, starts to punch Henry.  The Zombies walk to the burnt truck and start eating the remains of Tom and Judy.  Helen and Harry tell Ben that a Zombie bit Karen in the arm.  Ben turns the television back on and News Reporter says that the mysterious radiation levels are increasing.  The News Reporter then shows a taped report from the field after telling viewers that the Zombies can be killed by a blow to the head.  [[News Reporter (NOTLD)|News Reporter]] interviews [[Sheriff McClelland]] who tells News Reporter he expects to defeat the Zombie outbreak.  The power suddenly goes out in the house and the Zombies grab tools and start to attack the house.  Ben asks Harry to help him hold the boards against the window and when Ben drops the rifle, Harry takes it and points it at Ben.  Ben charges him and he and Harry fight over the rifle before Ben shoots Harry in the stomach.   


He wakes up and goes to the store.  As he is walking he doesn't notice the reanimated corpses of the Homeless Man or The Usher or alarms going off everywhere.  He goes into Nelson's store and grabs a Diet Coke and notices no newspapers on the counter.  Shaun returns home and turns on the television and flips through the channels as [[Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Character)|Krishnan Guru-Murthy]] gives a report on religious groups declaring what is happening as judgement day and [[Carole Barnes (Character)|Carole Barnes]] reports on an increasing number of attacks while [[Rob Butler (Character)|Rob Butler]] reports that people were eaten alive.  [[Jeremy Thompson (Character)|Jeremy Thompson]] reports that the attackers appear to be dead.  [[Vernon Kay (Character)|Vernon Kay]] is about to introduce someone when Shaun flips back to Jeremy Thompson.  Ed tells Shaun there is someone in their garden and they go outside and find [[Mary (Shaun of the Dead)|Mary]] shambling around.  Mary grabs Shaun and as he pushes her away, she falls on a table rod and impales herself.  Mary gets back up and Shaun and Ed go back into the house as a [[Hulking Zombie]] shambles into their garden.  Shaun calls 999, but the lines are busy.  He and Ed watch the news and The Usher shambles into the house from the front door Shaun left open.  Ed manages to kill The Usher zombie by smashing it in the head with an ashtray.  Mary zombie and Hulking Zombie break the window and Shaun and Ed at first try to kill them by throwing household objects at them.  Shaun then smashes open the shed and he and Ed kill them using a cricket bat and shovel.  As Jeremy Thompson tells the public to isolate themselves from anyone that may have been bitten, Shaun and Ed look upstairs to Pete's room.  Barbara calls Shaun and tells him Philip was bitten and Shaun and Ed come up with a plan to take Pete's car to pick up Barbara and Liz and then to go to the Winchester until everything calms down. As Shaun goes to the bathroom he sees a now zombie Pete in the shower.
Harry stumbles into the basement and Zombies break open the door and start to grab at Helen.  Barbra runs over with a piece of wood and tries to help Helen who then runs to the basement.  Johnny, who is now a Zombie, breaks into the house and grabs Barbra and brings her out of the house where she is killed.  The [[Cemetery Zombie]] breaks into the house and Ben walks towards the basement and shoves aside Karen who had tried to bite him.  Ben barricades himself in the basement and sees the dead bodies of Harry and Helen, who he then shoots when they become the living dead.  In the morning, Ben hears dogs barking and gunfire and leaves the basement. [[Vince]] sees Ben looking out the window and thinking Ben is a Zombie, shoots him dead.


They drive to Barbara's house and pass by people being attacked by zombies and Ed accidentally runs into [[Grizzled Zombie]], which he and Shaun are relieved when they realize he was dead before Ed hit him with the car.  Ed stays outside while Shaun goes to get Barbara.  He tells Barbara, he and Ed are going to take her somewhere safe and as he goes to kill what he thinks will be a Philip zombie, he finds Philip still alive.  Barbara tells Philip that Shaun wants to take them somewhere and Philip thinks everything happening is due to junkies running around.  Shaun leaves with Barbara and Philip and Ed tells him he crashed Pete's car so they are forced to use Philip's Jaguar.  Philip is attacked by [[Clubber 1]] and bitten in the neck.  Everyone gets into the car and Ed peels out and starts blasting music from a tape.  They drive to Liz's and Shaun climbs up the wall to her apartment.  Shaun tells Liz, Dianne and David he is going to take them somewhere safe and initially David refuses to go until Dianne and then Liz agree to leave with Shaun.  They get into the car and Shaun introduces Liz to Barbara.  Philip dies after telling Shaun he treated him the way he did so Shaun would grow up strong and how he hoped Shaun would look up to him.  Philip then turns into a zombie and everyone runs out of Philip's Jaguar.  As they walk towards the Winchester, Shaun sees Snakehips being eaten by female zombies.  They run into Yvonne's group which consists of [[Declan]], [[Mark (Shaun of the Dead)|Mark]], [[Maggie (Shaun of the Dead)|Maggie]], [[Yvonne's Mum]] and [[Cousin Tom]] and who are heading in the opposite direction.  Shaun hears Barbara scream and as he goes to help her, he is attacked by [[Pyjama Zombie]].  Liz and Dianne help Shaun kill Pyjama Zombie while Ed and David watch.  He checks to see how many zombies are surrounding the Winchester and Shaun asks Dianne to try and teach everyone how to act like a zombie so they can sneak their way to the Winchester. 


As they make it to the Winchester they find the front door locked and Ed's phone rings and he answers it and tells Noel he still doesn't have any marijuana.  Shaun starts yelling at Ed and the crowd of zombies start to surround the group.  Shaun tells the others he is going to lead the zombies away and find another way in after David breaks one of the windows of the Winchester.  David starts to complain about Shaun and his plan and Shaun walks in.  As the day turns into night, the outside lights turn on and Shaun goes to flip the circuit breakers in the Winchester back on.  He flips on the indoor lights and then flips on an outdoor light, revealing a large group of zombies outside.  Dianne turns on the television and all the channels are offline.  Ed asks Liz for money and then uses it to play a loud casino game.  The zombies start to pound on the windows and zombie John grabs David and the jukebox suddenly comes on.  Shaun, Liz and Ed start whacking John with pool sticks while David goes to turn off the breaker for the power.  Liz hits John with a fire hydrant and then Dianne tries to hit him with darts.  Ed tosses Shaun the Winchester rifle over the bar and Shaun uses it to push John into the jukebox.  Ed tells Shaun he should have shot John and as Shaun pulls the trigger to show Ed the weapon no longer works, he fires a round. 
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Barbara shows Shaun her bite and Ed runs over, followed by Dianne.  Barbara thanks Shaun for the flowers she found in the trash and then dies.  David comes over and cocks the rifle and points it at Barbara and says they have to shoot her.  Shaun and Ed break bottles and threaten to cut David and Shaun says David hates Shaun and is in love with Liz.  David denies it and Dianne tells him she knows it is true.  Liz calms the situation down and Barbara rises from the dead, forcing Shaun to shoot her in the head after telling her he is sorry.  David makes another comment and Shaun punches him in the face.  David takes the rifle and pulls the trigger, but the rifle is out of ammunition.  Everyone is shocked and David tells them he is leaving.  As David is standing by the window, a group of zombies break the window and pull David out, ripping his stomach open.  Dianne chases after the zombies and starts beating them with David's ripped off leg.  The zombies pour into the Winchester and Ed starts making Molotov cocktails.  Ed is grabbed and then bitten by zombie Pete and zombie Bernie and Shaun shoots Pete in the head.  Shaun, Liz and Ed hide behind the bar and Shaun lights the bar on fire using liquor.  They go into the cellar and close the door behind them.  As Shaun and Liz are planning to use the remaining two rounds to kill each other, Shaun finds the controls to the barrel elevator.  Ed decides to stay behind and Shaun apologizes for yelling at Ed.  Shaun and Liz make it to the surface and as they are surrounded by zombies, a group of military trucks pull and troops get out and start shooting the zombies.  Yvonne runs up to them and she tells them the military is taking them somewhere safe.
 
Six months later, the television advertises a program about ten year old Enrique Ramirez who was forced to shoot dead his zombie family.  Krishnan Guru-Murthy talks about the anniversary of the zombie attacks, called Z-Day.  Meanwhile Jeremy Thompson gives his remembrances about Z-Day.  On another channel, Vernon Kay introduces [[Chris Martin (Character)|Chris Martin]] and [[Jonny Buckland (Character)|Jonny Buckland]] who have created the charity music festival Zombaid.  Another channel has a news report about how zombies are being used in the service industry and shows a clip with zombie Noel pushing a loose shopping cart to a cart parking point.  Trisha interviews Woman on Trisha again, but this time due to Woman on Trisha still living and sleeping with [[Trisha Zombie]].  Shaun walks into the living room as Liz is watching a report by [[Keith Chegwin (Character)|Keith Chegwin]] stating that the rumor that the virus was caused by Rage infected monkeys was false.  They make plans for their day and then Shaun goes to the shed to play video games with a chained up zombie Ed.
 
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Revision as of 13:43, 31 October 2020

Ben

Background

Ben is a resident of Pennsylvania.

During the events of Night of the Living Dead (1968) played by Duane Jones

Barbra runs outside and headlights flash onto her. Ben gets out of the car and they both go back into the house. He asks Barbra if she has a key for the gas pump outside, but she doesn't answer. He goes to look for food and Barbra asks him what is happening. They hear a noise of shattering glass and see Zombies trying to destroy Ben's truck. Ben goes outside and kills the Zombies attacking his vehicle. One Zombie gets inside the house and Ben kills that one also. More start to walk towards the house and Ben drags the Zombie from inside the house and sets it on fire outside. He tells Barbra to gather some wood so they can board up the house, but she is initially too much in shock to be effective. She eventually helps Ben and they start boarding up the house. He tells her about how he came across the truck he was driving and how he first saw the Zombies chasing a fuel truck and how he learned that the Zombies were afraid of fire. Barbra then tells him about her encounter with the Zombies. She starts saying that they need to go and find Johnny and when Ben tries to stop her she slaps him and he hits her back and she faints. He puts Barbra on a couch and listens to the radio where the News Reporter briefly talks about an epidemic of mass murders in the Eastern part of the United States. The News Reporter then urges listeners to stay home and not to venture out. As the radio broadcast goes on, Ben continues to board up the house. The broadcast continues that the murders started two days ago near Gulfport, Louisiana and has not extended beyond the western side of the Mississippi River except for a southeastern portion of Texas. Ben finds a rifle in a closet and also finds a box of bullets. He tells Barbra about the gun and tries to boost her morale, but she stares blankly at the ground. While Ben is upstairs, the basement door opens and Harry and Tom come out.

Barbra screams and Ben runs back downstairs. Ben asks them why they didn't help and Harry lies and says he couldn't tell what was going on. Harry thinks they should all go back downstairs to the basement, They argue about the best course of action and Tom thinks they should use the basement as a last ditch effort. As Ben goes to look how many Zombies are at the back of the house, he is grabbed through a window by a Zombie. He kills it with the help of Tom and when Harry again insists they go down into the basement, he tells Ben to go down to the cellar. Tom calls Judy upstairs and then Harry goes down into the basement and bars the door. Tom calls down to Harry that Ben found a television and Helen offers to come up with Harry if Judy watches over Karen. They get the television working and News Reporter reports that the killers are creatures feeding on the flesh of the living and they are those unburied that have recently died. The News Reporter then advises people to seek out safety at Civil Defense shelters. He tells the audience that a theory of what is causing everything is the recent return of a probe sent to Venus. The broadcast goes to a live feed from Washington D.C., where Washington Reporter, Washington Reporter and Washington Reporter are questioning Washington Scientist Washington Scientist states there is a definite connection between the Venus Probe and the rise of the undead, which the high ranking military official next to him quickly denies and says there is no definitive proof. The News Reporter interviews Dr. Grimes who urges anyone that is injured to seek medical attention. Dr. Grimes tells about a cadaver they had at the university that had all of its limbs amputated, but moved its trunk, even though it was dead.

Dr. Grimes advises everyone to cremate within minutes anyone that dies. Ben comes up with an idea to gas up the truck and then leave after picking everyone up, and Harry tells him about the large key chain with keys in the cellar which might unlock the gas pump. After Henry tosses Molotov cocktails, Tom jumps into the truck while Ben stands nearby with the rifle. Judy runs outside and gets in the truck with Tom and they and Ben drive to the gas pump. While Tom is trying to put the gas pump into the truck, he sprays gasoline on the side of the truck. The truck catches on fire and as Tom is driving away from the gas pump, the truck explodes, killing him and Judy. Ben makes it back to the house, but finds the door locked. He yells for Henry, but Henry walks towards the basement instead of letting him in. Ben kicks the door open and after securing it again, starts to punch Henry. The Zombies walk to the burnt truck and start eating the remains of Tom and Judy. Helen and Harry tell Ben that a Zombie bit Karen in the arm. Ben turns the television back on and News Reporter says that the mysterious radiation levels are increasing. The News Reporter then shows a taped report from the field after telling viewers that the Zombies can be killed by a blow to the head. News Reporter interviews Sheriff McClelland who tells News Reporter he expects to defeat the Zombie outbreak. The power suddenly goes out in the house and the Zombies grab tools and start to attack the house. Ben asks Harry to help him hold the boards against the window and when Ben drops the rifle, Harry takes it and points it at Ben. Ben charges him and he and Harry fight over the rifle before Ben shoots Harry in the stomach.

Harry stumbles into the basement and Zombies break open the door and start to grab at Helen. Barbra runs over with a piece of wood and tries to help Helen who then runs to the basement. Johnny, who is now a Zombie, breaks into the house and grabs Barbra and brings her out of the house where she is killed. The Cemetery Zombie breaks into the house and Ben walks towards the basement and shoves aside Karen who had tried to bite him. Ben barricades himself in the basement and sees the dead bodies of Harry and Helen, who he then shoots when they become the living dead. In the morning, Ben hears dogs barking and gunfire and leaves the basement. Vince sees Ben looking out the window and thinking Ben is a Zombie, shoots him dead.


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