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Why doesn't anybody know what a zombie is?

pwnahpwnah
edited September 2012 in The Walking Dead
Are all zombie movies/games based on real life (as if a zombie invasion were to happen)

Then obviously they would have all seen zombie movies and HEARD of a zombie.


I mean I'm sure any of us, if we saw someone stumbling down the road, or moans (non sexual) coming from somewhere that we'd think zombie in the back of our minds


So why has noone ever heard of them!!!

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  • SaracenarSaracenar
    edited September 2012
    Maybe people are just in a subconscious state of denial about a once-fictional occurrence turning to reality? A very horrifying reality.
  • zivi7zivi7
    edited September 2012
    I watched some Talking Dead episodes the other day. Kirkman explains why the zombies are called walkers: Because in the TWD universe there were no zombie movies and the characters are confronted with something they've never seen before and have to find names for.

    TL;DR In the world of TWD there are no zombie movies etc.
  • Master of AeonsMaster of Aeons
    edited September 2012
    Exactly. No one knows about zombies.
  • chaz99chaz99
    edited September 2012
    It's a figure from Voodoo folklore.. Strictly speaking.

    It's also a cocktail made with rum, liquers and fruit juices. My favorite bar for Zombies is LuWow, in Melbourne. Excellent zombies.

    Zombie.jpg
  • CyreenCyreen
    edited September 2012
    Actually, Lee did use the "Z" word once in episode 1. It was in the pharmacy and I believe it was just after Glenn SOS'd and Lee says something about Doug not being good with zombies, so he'd take Carley and her deadeye. It stood out to me because it was the only time it was used.
  • Master of AeonsMaster of Aeons
    edited September 2012
    The word is used in the show and comic too in very low frequency. I guess no one catches all of them or its real world roots in Haitian Voodoo make it a seldom used name.
  • Rock114Rock114
    edited September 2012
    Like the others said, the zombie culture (like the movies, books, videogames, etc) never came around, or at least were never popular in TWD. Kirkman said he had a hard time writing because the word "zombie" would always slip in once or twice, so I guess that's what happened in Episode 1.
  • XarneXarne
    edited September 2012
    pwnah wrote: »
    Are all zombie movies/games based on real life (as if a zombie invasion were to happen)

    Then obviously they would have all seen zombie movies and HEARD of a zombie.


    I mean I'm sure any of us, if we saw someone stumbling down the road, or moans (non sexual) coming from somewhere that we'd think zombie in the back of our minds


    So why has noone ever heard of them!!!

    Cause that's their marketed term: Zombies
    Like in Gremlins: Nobody in the movie called them gremlins, only us movie goers
  • Magic EmperorMagic Emperor
    edited September 2012
    I believe it's also a song by The Cranberries.
  • N7.N7.
    edited September 2012
    What is Zombie ? kind of apple ?
  • Magic EmperorMagic Emperor
    edited September 2012
    What is a zombie?! *shatters glass* A miserable corpse reanimated! But enough talk. Have at you!
  • N7.N7.
    edited September 2012
    Magic Emperor wrote: »
    What is a zombie?! *shatters glass* A miserable corpse reanimated! But enough talk. Have at you!

    what ? zombie is an apple walker ?
  • GoogolplexbyteGoogolplexbyte
    edited September 2012
    Maybe Zombies are still mythological creatures in their pop culture, and calling them sucks would be as weird as calling them vampires or frankensteins. It's only kinda recently that infected "sciencey" zombies came about so, changing that wouldn't alter history much. Maybe Vampires are way more popular and everyone votes republican.
  • Skythe1908Skythe1908
    edited September 2012
    Genre Blindness

    Ahh, TVtropes.
  • ZeruisZeruis
    edited September 2012
    I think in the comics, the group was saying that it was "silly" to be calling them zombies. Then the term "walkers" came.
  • DreadMagusDreadMagus
    edited September 2012
    Xarne wrote: »
    Cause that's their marketed term: Zombies
    Like in Gremlins: Nobody in the movie called them gremlins, only us movie goers

    Mr Futterman would disagree....
  • CyreenCyreen
    edited September 2012
    Zeruis wrote: »
    I think in the comics, the group was saying that it was "silly" to be calling them zombies. Then the term "walkers" came.

    That's about it. Should there ever actually be a zombie apocalypse, the first words out of most people's mouths will be "No Way!" (with a few colorful adjectives for individuality). Of course those may also be a lot of people's last words.
  • deleted_kyxc7lde962932deleted_kyxc7lde962932
    edited September 2012
    They probably live in a universe where there isn’t any zombie fiction or facts in life. Being which, Night of the Living Dead was never made.

    But, in Volume 1: Days Gone Bye, there is one point where Glenn refers to the walkers as zombies.
  • Master of AeonsMaster of Aeons
    edited September 2012
    Noname215 wrote: »
    They probably live in a universe where there isn’t any zombie fiction or facts in life. Being which, Night of the Living Dead was never made.

    But, in Volume 1: Days Gone Bye, there is one point where Glenn refers to the walkers as zombies.

    You don't read threads, do you?
  • deleted_kyxc7lde962932deleted_kyxc7lde962932
    edited September 2012
    Master of Aeons wrote: »
    You don't read threads, do you?

    No, not really. But I feel people don’t know what zombies are because their parents didn’t let them watch horror movies at a young age.
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