Tom Buchanan’s crude masculinity is toxic enough in The Great Gatsby, but as a zombie, it is apocalyptic. Soini does not have to work too hard Tom is still arrogant, violent, and power hungry. But now he is also a representation of destructive control in a world breaking down under the power of males. Tom survives not through empathy or comprehension, but through brute strength. He accumulates resources, subjugates people, and reasserts former hierarchies while the world burns around him. He is the zombie incarnation of privilege still dominant, still lethal, and still unwilling to recognize the need for change. In a way, Tom is the true villain of this hybrid narrative. The zombies are dumb but Tom chooses violence. He lives for anarchy because it vindicates his strength. Soini’s version of Tom helps reinforce a key message: the apocalypse doesn’t create monsters it reveals them. And in Tom’s case, the monster was always there.