Zombies: dead or infected?
Ok so we all aware of how zombies work and how you turn into one but what are zombies?
In the Romero films he says " God has changed the rules, and somehow this thing is happening."Where as in the walking dead it's a virus that causes you to came back. Which honestly makes no sense when you think about it but I guess it doesn't have to. Anyway, the same rules apply get bitten and you turn, die and you turn unless you kill the brain. So what do you think zombies should be? The living dead or infected people? Have the rules changed or is there a virus?
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the virus kill you then takes over your dead corpse. well in twd world that is.
Yeah fixed it.
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Considering that the zombies rot they are DEFINITELY dead. If they were infected and there was a cure they would be missing limbs or flesh meaning they are most likely to die after being cured, unless they are rushed to hospitals which could possibly all be full IF there was a cure
They are dead. The virus only turns people that have died into zombies.
I thought that it was the diseases, viruses and infections that are carried by the dead corpses that kill you, which is why a scratch or bite kills you since they sink into your skin, and then the Zombie virus itself causes reanimation after death, but doesn't kill you since in the TWD universe everyone has the virus within them.
Yep.
Little do they know is that humans can bite walkers to turn them back into humans.
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the infection takes over your cerebral cortex(that operates movement)its in the brain stem,everthing else is dead.everything that makes you human is gone
Right
They're dead, or it appears so. If you were hit by a car and killed, you'd reanimate. So, I think they're dead.
Mmm hmm
hehe
I'm also dreading the next full moon after the Sam incident.
It doesn't make sense because it's not a virus. Even the guys at the CDC couldn't find out what it was while examining brain tissue.
"It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, fungal"
"Or the wrath of God?"
"There's that"
So it's just the omnipotent infection like in Romero's films
Sadly this will never be explored because Kirkman likes to rehash plots instead of adding new interesting things into the TWD universe.
The infection slowly kills you by entering your bloodstream. As it does, it makes it's way up to the brain and when it fully does, you die from the infection. Since your body is dead, everything starts back up except for the brain. Your brain waves, memories, thoughts and your mind are no longer living. You start back up from the brainstem and the rest of your body follows, your only instinct is to eat.
That just about explain it?
Romero's films are good but he constantly takes pot shots at The Walking Dead series because it's more popular
The walking dead wouldn't exist without romero.
They're rotting corpses. There's no way they can ever come back to life. The brain is mush, their organs are non-functional, their limbs falling off, their skin almost gone...
In other words, they're almost how zombies should be. The only problem is that they're not very menacing anymore. Kirkman hasn't done what Romero's done and tried to make the zombies gradually smarter, so what we're getting is the walkers being a static threat rather than a growing menace.
Yeah I'm not sure if zombies should be smarter but they should definitely be more of a threat.
Romero decided to make characters out of his zombies, which is actually not a bad thing. A theme that continued throughout his first four films was the growing intelligence and sophistication of the zombies, to the point that the fourth movie featured a leader who led his fellow zombies to coordinate a sneak-attack on an island. They still remained dumb, slow-moving cannibals, but their ability to communicate with each other and make a plan made them a greater danger to the living.
Humanizing zombies would provide further moral dilemmas and add for more drama when you can see the zombies as victims and individuals rather than just a bland, non-descript horde. Think about a zombified Lee pursuing Clem while struggling to fight his instincts. Unfortunately Kirkman hasn't done this, so I don't think Telltale will be able to implement any surprise development regarding the nature of the zombies.
Yeah that's pretty cool and I would like to see the zombies become more of a real threat(I said this before)but they will probably be sticking to the formula.
Well, the walking dead walks a fine line, because they don't turn until they actually die. So by definition, they actually should be considered zombies, not infected.
Reanimate unless you got your head smashed in that is.
Very true
But Romero doesn't exist in the TWD universe.
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The infection only revives you, the bacteria in the mouths or zombie blood kill you.
Yeah sadly.
Yep.
I should feel bad for these bumps.
The infection is within you, everyone has it. When you die, the virus restarts your brainstem, and thats it. Like infinitedawn said, your only instinct is to eat.
What a bite contains, are diseases like salmonella and whatever you get from eating raw, not to mention uncooked human flesh, and other bad diseases a walker may have before they died..
Those diseases slowly kill you unless you cut off the limb to cut off the diseases entering your bloodstream.
Basically, They're Dead and Infected
wow i thought this thread was done.