The term "zombie" existed long before "Night of the Living Dead" though. Romero just popularized the modern version of flesh-eating, rotting corpse zombies. They used to be voodoo entranced slaves essentially, they were the original "walking dead". I think Telltale, AMC, and Kirkman are all being a bit silly about refusing to use the term because of the simple fact that it's been around for a very long time. They're going out of their way to not call them zombies and it's not really that big of a deal to use the term. It doesn't really bother me, I just don't get it. It seems unnecessary that's all.
I love how the reasoning in the Skybound/Telltale universe for why they don't call them zombies is that it sounds silly. I'm not kidding, that… more is actually what Rick says in Volume 3. "I guess we've been calling them zombies, though it took us a while to say it with a straight face."
Also Lee calls them zombies once. "You've got your family to look out for, and Doug's not good around zombies."
The AMC universe reasoning is that the old Romero movies that made the word zombie popular never existed. I believe Kirkman said this in an interview or on Talking Dead.
We're used to zombie being the relative non threat because it's only in fiction so if they suddenly were real it somehow wouldn't feel right to underplay the threat like that. I know I'd feel a bit awkward calling them zombies if it happened in real life.
The reason is that they think it sounds silly, which in my mind, it kind of does. Honestly, the people who get annoyed over the fact that they don't call them zombies is more annoying than the fact that they don't call them zombies(Although, in the prequel novels, they never stop calling them zombies throughout the entire series).
The term "zombie" existed long before "Night of the Living Dead" though. Romero just popularized the modern version of flesh-eating, rotting c… moreorpse zombies. They used to be voodoo entranced slaves essentially, they were the original "walking dead". I think Telltale, AMC, and Kirkman are all being a bit silly about refusing to use the term because of the simple fact that it's been around for a very long time. They're going out of their way to not call them zombies and it's not really that big of a deal to use the term. It doesn't really bother me, I just don't get it. It seems unnecessary that's all.
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doubt it.. I don't think it was in her pocket and i didn't see it in her bag
The term "zombie" existed long before "Night of the Living Dead" though. Romero just popularized the modern version of flesh-eating, rotting corpse zombies. They used to be voodoo entranced slaves essentially, they were the original "walking dead". I think Telltale, AMC, and Kirkman are all being a bit silly about refusing to use the term because of the simple fact that it's been around for a very long time. They're going out of their way to not call them zombies and it's not really that big of a deal to use the term. It doesn't really bother me, I just don't get it. It seems unnecessary that's all.
Or maybe because they show up when you least expect it.
DO NOT DENY THE INFINATE BACK POCKET OF CLEMENTINE!
I'm not! haha I even made a thread about it a while ago
We're used to zombie being the relative non threat because it's only in fiction so if they suddenly were real it somehow wouldn't feel right to underplay the threat like that. I know I'd feel a bit awkward calling them zombies if it happened in real life.
The reason is that they think it sounds silly, which in my mind, it kind of does. Honestly, the people who get annoyed over the fact that they don't call them zombies is more annoying than the fact that they don't call them zombies(Although, in the prequel novels, they never stop calling them zombies throughout the entire series).