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Why doesn't anyone ever try to use the power of fire?

CrazyGeorgeCrazyGeorge Banned
in The Walking Dead
Instead of using guns, why not have the characters fight the zombie herd in a bigger way, know a building is infested with corpses? Burn it down.

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  • Everyone'sClemInTimeEveryone'sClemInTime
    Where's the fun in that?
  • CrazyGeorgeCrazyGeorge Banned
    You trap the zombies in a building, burn it down, done. It just seems silly that no one ever thinks outside the box in this franchise.
    Everyone'sClemInTime posted: »

    Where's the fun in that?

  • xWallyxWally
    You can do that when you're on the bridge with omid on S1 E3 it doesn't do much though
  • CrazyGeorgeCrazyGeorge Banned
    that scene was such a disappointment, i was expecting a huge explosion.
    xWally posted: »

    You can do that when you're on the bridge with omid on S1 E3 it doesn't do much though

  • themadeiramagicianthemadeiramagician
    who knows, sounds practical but how difficult would it be and would it be worth risking your life. my zombie idea is to fortify a square perimeter making a fence with dead walkers and dead walker blood. that way they would possibly ignore us
  • BigBlindMaxBigBlindMax Banned
    You know what's worse than a bunch of walkers shambling towards you? A bunch of walkers shambling towards you while on fire.

    Fire was used to flush out infantry because it's extremely painful and terrifying. Walkers can feel neither, so what's the point?
  • ClementineCultistClementineCultist
    But couldn't it destroy the brain, if used right? It's hella scary and really inefficient, but you really don't have much of a choice other than dying.
    BigBlindMax posted: »

    You know what's worse than a bunch of walkers shambling towards you? A bunch of walkers shambling towards you while on fire. Fire was

  • BigBlindMaxBigBlindMax Banned
    edited July 2014
    It would probably take a while and be inefficient. From what I've read about it's use in Vietnam, shock (immediate or otherwise) is what killed most of the people hit by napalm and such (another moot point against walkers). You'd be better served grabbing a rock and beating the walker to death with it.
    ClementineCultist posted: »

    But couldn't it destroy the brain, if used right? It's hella scary and really inefficient, but you really don't have much of a choice other than dying.

  • leatherwolf89leatherwolf89
    Lighters, matches, and gasoline are probably sparse and have more use for things like cooking and keeping warm than killing walkers.
  • TyranitarTyranitar
    Idk. Walkers are attracted to light.
  • Chuck DalyChuck Daly
    I'm not a medical physician, but I do know fire and heat would have a negative effect on the movement of human tissue, be it live or necrotic. I would have a hard time believing the shambling zombies of TWD or NOTLD would make it more than a few paces after being set on fire. I use to think accelerants would be hard to come by, but given how gasoline is only good for less than year, old gasoline would be easy to come by. Fire would be the best way to kill groups of zombies pushing on a fence or barrier.
  • SarangholicSarangholic
    edited July 2014
    See number 6 my friend:
    http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-famous-zombie-movie-weapons-that-would-get-you-killed/

    Wait, did something happen where they took our links away again...

    Edit Cracked 7 Famous Zombie Movie Weapons that would get you killed (minus pics): #6. Flamethrower
    "Why it's awesome:
    They're the ultimate in crowd control as long as you remember to laugh maniacally and do air quotes for "control." Because the Geneva convention doesn't give shit about zombies. Flamethrowers kick so much ass that even countries who've decided they're going to spend the next few years murdering each other -- but it's totally cool with every other country because they called it first (war is weird) -- agree not to use them.

    After World War II, even the people who'd just fought through World War II thought "Jeez, maybe those things were a bit much."

    The usual downside is carrying a huge flammable tank on your back but zombies can't take advantage of that. It's like an alien spaceship boss finally fighting a colorblind pilot: massively overpowered weapons and they can't see your weak point! The zombies' only advantage are numbers, and that only makes your Flamesgiving Day bonfire that much brighter!

    You're now a zombie because:

    Burning sucks for people because it uses up all the air (which zombies don't need) and causes incredible pain (which zombies can't feel). A real burning human body doesn't melt away like an ambulatory enemy candle, either. If you are fighting a tinder-dry undead monster which ignites like it's been wrapped in kindling, you're fighting a mummy. And dead, because all you've done is burn them down to a Cursed Charred Skeleton which is +5 invulnerable to your fire.

    Zombies are gooey so you need to keep applying external flame to keep them lit, and unless you're using an oxacetylene torch you're not actually getting rid of any zombie in the process. You're just making sure they enjoy flame-grilled flesh when their burning jaws bite your face off. You'd be better off handing them primed grenades and hoping you've run away before they work out how to drop them. Oh, and since you also tend not to fight zombies in space or underwater, now the entire area is on fire and you can't see or breathe. But that won't be problem for long."
  • ClementineCultistClementineCultist
    Why would old gasoline be an accelerant?
    Chuck Daly posted: »

    I'm not a medical physician, but I do know fire and heat would have a negative effect on the movement of human tissue, be it live or necroti

  • ClementineCultistClementineCultist
    Yeah, it was because of the spoilers
    Sarangholic posted: »

    See number 6 my friend: http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-famous-zombie-movie-weapons-that-would-get-you-killed/ Wait, did something happ

  • Everyone'sClemInTimeEveryone'sClemInTime
    If you're gonna go through the trouble of herding a horde of walkers in a building (assuming there's a building close by) then keeping them in there while you burn it down, you might as well just've kill them with a gun or blunt object for all the trouble you've just went through. If you're talking flamethrowers however...

    THEN HELL YES!
    CrazyGeorge posted: »

    You trap the zombies in a building, burn it down, done. It just seems silly that no one ever thinks outside the box in this franchise.

  • SarangholicSarangholic
    Yeah... Cruising around I noticed that... Actually, I try to avoid the forums (unsuccessfully as you can tell) after the trailer, because I don't even like to see that...
    ClementineCultist posted: »

    Yeah, it was because of the spoilers

  • CrazyGeorgeCrazyGeorge Banned
    Yeah you would plan and execute some sort of trap, It doesn't even have to be a building, if you were able to get them into a ravine, you would be set. What is stopping zombies from just walking off the edge of a cliff, what would happen if you put a bird in a cage, just outside the zombies reach on the edge of a cliff. Would the whole herd fall off the edge?
    Everyone'sClemInTime posted: »

    If you're gonna go through the trouble of herding a horde of walkers in a building (assuming there's a building close by) then keeping them

  • CrazyGeorgeCrazyGeorge Banned
    i don't think it would be difficult at all. I think you can easily lure zombies somewhere by sound, so to get them to go where you need them to go would be simple. Instead of just dealing with them, why not exterminate them.
    themadeiramagician posted: »

    who knows, sounds practical but how difficult would it be and would it be worth risking your life. my zombie idea is to fortify a square perimeter making a fence with dead walkers and dead walker blood. that way they would possibly ignore us

  • CrazyGeorgeCrazyGeorge Banned
    edited July 2014
    What do you mean, to kill them. How else would you kill a field of locusts? The human body is made up of 97% water, i would say a zombie is significantly less. They would be flammable.
    BigBlindMax posted: »

    You know what's worse than a bunch of walkers shambling towards you? A bunch of walkers shambling towards you while on fire. Fire was

  • CrazyGeorgeCrazyGeorge Banned
    me as well. I couldn't stay away though
    Sarangholic posted: »

    Yeah... Cruising around I noticed that... Actually, I try to avoid the forums (unsuccessfully as you can tell) after the trailer, because I don't even like to see that...

  • That1GuyThat1Guy
    Fire wouldn't be such an effective way, as seen in the end of Long Road Ahead, where if you try to burn the herd, they just keep walking towards the train while they're on fire.
  • TeamKennyAlwaysTeamKennyAlways
    If I had a flamethrower, I'd go all Pyro on those walkers ass'.
  • CrazyGeorgeCrazyGeorge Banned
    I think that scene was not realistic, in my opinion i think if you have a leaking tanker, and then fire. Its going to go boom.
    That1Guy posted: »

    Fire wouldn't be such an effective way, as seen in the end of Long Road Ahead, where if you try to burn the herd, they just keep walking towards the train while they're on fire.

  • pander1pander1
    Milton did burn the ones in the pit.
    CrazyGeorge posted: »

    Yeah you would plan and execute some sort of trap, It doesn't even have to be a building, if you were able to get them into a ravine, you

  • Genericname101Genericname101
    I'm sure that if there was an explosion with that much gasoline that Lee and Co. Would be blown up in it too
    CrazyGeorge posted: »

    that scene was such a disappointment, i was expecting a huge explosion.

  • CrazyGeorgeCrazyGeorge Banned
    They could of Action Movie'd rolled them to safety, i just know when i saw the fire hit, my face lit up like a kid at Christmas, in expectation that something big was about to happen. When it didn't i felt like i just opened Grandma's present consisting of socks and underwear.
    Genericname101 posted: »

    I'm sure that if there was an explosion with that much gasoline that Lee and Co. Would be blown up in it too

  • ClementineCultistClementineCultist
    You'd need gasoline to make the napalm, though.
    TeamKennyAlways posted: »

    If I had a flamethrower, I'd go all Pyro on those walkers ass'.

  • Megami_KizukanaiMegami_Kizukanai
    Clementine the Firebender.
  • Chuck DalyChuck Daly
    Fire fighters use the term accelerant to describe chemicals used to accelerate the spread of fire; different from the definition used by chemists. Old gasoline is still very flammable, but would cause problems for today's car engines.
    ClementineCultist posted: »

    Why would old gasoline be an accelerant?

  • Chuck DalyChuck Daly
    Fire warded off and killed zombies in almost all zombie movies. Also, the majority of zombies are clothed, allowing your flammable agent of choice to stick to or soak into them. I too think flame throwers are stupid, but fire bombs and Molotovs would be very effective in baited traps or killing hoards trying to get through a fence.
    Sarangholic posted: »

    See number 6 my friend: http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-famous-zombie-movie-weapons-that-would-get-you-killed/ Wait, did something happ

  • Kenny/LeeKenny/Lee
    That is an idea.
    Tyreese did that in the 3rd season of tv show.
    When the Governor had that pit of walkers he was going to use against the prison, Tyreese snuck in and burn the walkers to a crisp.
  • VinceOrKennyVinceOrKenny
    edited July 2014
    Yeah, well I'm sure it would've looked more like a lame fart than an explosion with those textures ( not that I don't like them, I love them but it just wouldn't have looked cool :[ )
    CrazyGeorge posted: »

    that scene was such a disappointment, i was expecting a huge explosion.

  • WalkingDeadFan1911WalkingDeadFan1911
    Because of plot connivence.
  • ralo229ralo229
    Because it'd attract more walkers. It's easier just to sneak by them.
  • prink34320prink34320
    Kill it with fire!
  • TeamKennyAlwaysTeamKennyAlways

    Dammit.

    I wanted to burn some walkers.

    ClementineCultist posted: »

    You'd need gasoline to make the napalm, though.

  • ShadowTerminateShadowTerminate

    Yeah I like your idea CrazyGeorge!!!

    What if in ep4 or ep5 a fire broke out in one of the buildings they were taking shelter with and its on fire!! and everyone is getting out of there and clem and luke or Kenny are stuck and you have to choose who to save?

    DAMN WHAT JUST CAME OUT OF MY MIND?!

  • ShadowTerminateShadowTerminate

    ALSO!!

    In season 2 tv the final episode have I HUGE amount of walkers come to hershal's farm and rick and carl were stuck in the barn and rick burnt the barn down and killed some o the walkers!!!

    Kenny/Lee posted: »

    That is an idea. Tyreese did that in the 3rd season of tv show. When the Governor had that pit of walkers he was going to use against the prison, Tyreese snuck in and burn the walkers to a crisp.

  • ClementineCultistClementineCultist

    I know the feels bro. #PYROMANIACSFTW

    TeamKennyAlways posted: »

    Dammit. I wanted to burn some walkers.

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