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How did the apocalypse happen?

Bad_Luck_BenBad_Luck_Ben
edited July 2013 in The Walking Dead
That's one question the game need to answer in season 2. I mean for such a huge apocalypse, assuming worldwide, i wonder why nobody in the game question that. How could the government let it become that big and nobody, even the media, noticed ? During the first season, the group have been staying for three months with a military woman and an airforce guy but they didn't bother asking them about cause of the apocalypse. And where was the military? i thought it was strange that seeking the government's help wasn't the first thought they had.
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  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited July 2013
    We will never know, and it does not matter.
  • HudomonkeyHudomonkey
    edited July 2013
    My bet is on Le Chuck and some evil Voodoo curse
  • BlueCitrusBlueCitrus
    edited July 2013
    I don't think we'll ever know. But it's fun to come up with theories! :D
  • HudomonkeyHudomonkey
    edited July 2013
    Or Maybe it was T.H.E.M!
  • OnmensOnmens
    edited July 2013
    Romero's explanation is as good as any;
    When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
    catchy oneliners > science.
  • HudomonkeyHudomonkey
    edited July 2013
    Or maybe it was Preston...
    He may just be a robot dog but he's smart and I think if his programming is wrong he could have decided to cause the apocalypse...
  • Rock114Rock114
    edited July 2013
    One day Ben was one his way home from school, when he crossed the street at the wrong moment. A tanker truck, carrying with it the zombie virus was forced to swerve out of the way, where it then careened off the road, and finally crashed and exploded in the local cemetery. The dead rose in the graveyard that night, and the rest is history.
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited July 2013
    I knew it was Ben, he more them likely did not even tie his laces and that is why the truck crashed, BEN!!!
  • Nate the GreatNate the Great
    edited July 2013
    Ben tripped on a pebble, fell, angered the corpse beneath the ground, it rose from the dead, and the rest is history.

    Ben, ruining everyone's lives since 1994
  • TeamKennyAlwaysTeamKennyAlways
    edited July 2013
    Goddamn it Ben!!!! :mad:
  • HiggsBoson2142HiggsBoson2142
    edited July 2013
    Kirkman said he will never state how the infection started. That's why our protagonists are always knocked out/secluded during the beginning of the apocalypse unless we meet them later.

    Then again we could always use the Romero version of the meteor and the satellite. Or Herschel's theory: God brought back the dead!

    Or we could use the best theory of them all.
    plan_9_from_outer_space.jpg
  • master psychicmaster psychic
    edited July 2013
    IT WAS THE VOODOO LADY ! DUN DUN DUN !
    When Morgan Leflay gave her the remains of Lechuck , she smiled evily at it . She extracted the pox from Lechuck's remains and unleashed it on Atlanta in a form of a virus so then she can the potential of Lee Everett . And now that Lee is dead , she is going to turn him into a new Lechuck known as " Leechuck " and it's gonna be up to Guybrush to defeat Leechuck and turn him back to normal .
  • CrixusCrixus
    edited July 2013
    Bioshock Infinite WD wrote: »
    We will never know, and it does not matter.

    This
  • NEGANNEGAN
    edited July 2013
    Kirkman said he won't never say it, because it would be too much sci-fi.
  • BubbaFightsUnlimitedBubbaFightsUnlimited
    edited July 2013
    Well, I think that a person probably wanted to make a cure for cancer in the US. During the research, the effects had shown negative on test subjects. It would actually cause the cancer cells to duplicate, and created a new immortal(as in able to "live forever", unless killed, but still dead) lifeform under the influence of mutated cancer cells. Trying to get rid of the failed cure, they tried to dispose of it when Ben tripped over a rock and the driver swerved, spilling all the failed cure into a graveyard. That's how it happened. ;)
  • BubbaFightsUnlimitedBubbaFightsUnlimited
    edited July 2013
    It also became airborne because of a pilot above flying more failed cure to be disposed, when he saw the crashed truck and Ben, with wings. It was his imagination, and he said, "WTF?" And hit the 'dispose of in air' button. It made the whole cure airborne. That was my theory. :rolleyes:
  • TeamKennyAlwaysTeamKennyAlways
    edited July 2013
    BubbaFightsUnlimited you are a genius.
  • StalkerWalkerStalkerWalker
    edited July 2013
    Yeah kirkman has said he never plans to explian it, prolly coz he has no good explination but i prefer that, in a real situation like this would you go out ur way to figure it out or would you focus on survival?
  • BubbaFightsUnlimitedBubbaFightsUnlimited
    edited July 2013
    TeamKennyAlways wrote: »
    BubbaFightsUnlimited you are a genius.

    Thanks. :D
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited July 2013
    Ben screws up everything, when my favorite football team loses I am going to say it was Ben's fault.
  • StalkerWalkerStalkerWalker
    edited July 2013
    Bioshock Infinite WD wrote: »
    Ben screws up everything, when my favorite football team loses I am going to say it was Ben's fault.

    lol when ever i strike out with a girl at the pub ( all the time ) i walk away and im like " DAMMIT BEN " trololololo
  • BubbaFightsUnlimitedBubbaFightsUnlimited
    edited July 2013
    Yup, blame Ben on everything. Blame him when your car gets scratched, when you get hurt, when you get mugged, and your last words will be:

    "Damn it, Ben...You killed me- BEEP - BEEP - BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!"
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited July 2013
    That should become a meme, Damn it Ben, (what ever you want) you fucked it up.
  • TeamKennyAlwaysTeamKennyAlways
    edited July 2013
    I fell off my bike taking my dog for a walk "God Dammit Ben, it's all your fault!" (True story)
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited July 2013
    Damn it Ben, the game crashed, you fucked it up again. I am talking about Skyrim.
  • Desmodus87Desmodus87
    edited July 2013
    I like that no explanation is given. To be honest, very few people would actually know what caused it. Especially if it were an act of God. How would you know for certain? There would probably also be more than one reason behind it. Nothing ever comes down to just one mess up. (Or rarely, anyway lol.)
    And like someone else mentioned, would you rather be tracking down (what would likely turn out to be) false leads, or surviving?
    How it began doesn't matter - it's here. The people who knew are probably dead or hiding so securely it wouldn't make a difference. The people who could stop it are probably in the same situation. So that leaves you and everyone else in the same situation - uncertain and in danger. :P
  • BubbaFightsUnlimitedBubbaFightsUnlimited
    edited July 2013
    lolololo meme meme meme template pl0x
    go from here
  • BubbaFightsUnlimitedBubbaFightsUnlimited
    edited July 2013
    olololo finished
    idk how to get correct font
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited July 2013
    That is a good one, well that is the meme I want for the Walking Dead, something to laugh about before the crying starts.
  • EhkayEhkay
    edited July 2013
    Probably a science/military experiment gone wrong.
  • HiggsBoson2142HiggsBoson2142
    edited July 2013
    BubbaFightsUnlimited wrote: »
    lolololo meme meme meme template pl0x
    go from here

    That used to be my avatar on this forum.
  • D28D28
    edited July 2013
    dont know
  • Bad_Luck_BenBad_Luck_Ben
    edited July 2013
    Desmodus87 wrote: »
    I like that no explanation is given. To be honest, very few people would actually know what caused it. Especially if it were an act of God. How would you know for certain? There would probably also be more than one reason behind it. Nothing ever comes down to just one mess up. (Or rarely, anyway lol.)
    And like someone else mentioned, would you rather be tracking down (what would likely turn out to be) false leads, or surviving?
    How it began doesn't matter - it's here. The people who knew are probably dead or hiding so securely it wouldn't make a difference. The people who could stop it are probably in the same situation. So that leaves you and everyone else in the same situation - uncertain and in danger. :P

    The cause does matter. Because it leads to something very important, a cure. In the game, Clementine and Katjaa, and a few others, always mention that they want to get back to the way it was. That's right, surviving alone is not enough, they need hope. And a cure is the hope they need. As it was explained in the game, everybody was infected and now they have to kill their beloved one to make sure they don't turn. Without the hope for a cure, they will break sooner or later, just like Lilly did.
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited July 2013
    Well I would never give up hope, hopefully Clem does not ether.
  • multicoltmulticolt
    edited July 2013
    this is what happens when hell runs out of room. the lost souls start to seep back into our world into a random corpse not knowing how to deal with being alive again and having limited brain function this was the result.
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited July 2013
    That was a good Dawn of Dead reference.
  • VengefulKennyVengefulKenny
    edited July 2013
    Ask Eugene, he knows.
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited July 2013
    At least for sometime he knew.
  • JakeSt123JakeSt123
    edited July 2013
    WalkingDeadFan23 wrote: »
    Ben tripped on a pebble, fell, angered the corpse beneath the ground, it rose from the dead, and the rest is history.

    Ben, ruining everyone's lives since 1994

    Wouldn't he be ruining everyone's lives since 1986? Because if the game is comic canon, the comic started in 2003 and has only been going on the timespan of about two years. This means that if Ben was 17 he would've been born in 1986. It's interesting, to say the least.
  • Bioshock Infinite WDBioshock Infinite WD
    edited July 2013
    He started everything and really did get everyone killed, but I still like the guy, despite everything
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