I need help to understand Zombies.

I don't think anyone else has mentioned this, but aren't zombies generally considered 'undead' rather than dead i.e in a state between life and death? So their bodies function differently to how we might expect living or dead bodies to function (not sure function is the right word for a corpse, just that if zombies are not actually dead, maybe maggots etc can eat their flesh).

I liked the Mira Grant NewsFlesh series because it had an actual thought out zombie apocalypse.
Mainly I like the Novella and short stories around it.
“The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell” is the best and most disturbing back story to a minor character I’ve read.

The author of World War Z has also written a handy book called "the Zombie Survival Guide." It's very useful although I would die on day 1. I have neither the skills nor equipment needed.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll - best response yet 🤣🤣🤣

It's quite easy to outwit them. All you have to do is play a cd of Michael Jackson's Thriller on repeat - they all start dancing and forget about chasing you.

What happens when there's no one left to infect?

They really haven't thought it through, have they...?

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Not sure on a lot of these questions but I do know I’ve told my husband that if he ever turns into a zombie I’d have no hesitation killing him 🤣

The zombies in World War Z are proper scary because they are so speedy.

I prefer a slow moving zombie me.

How does breeding with a zombie work? If I bonked a zombie, would my baby be human, zombie or mixed?

I havent RTFT only the first page. It all depends on what film/programme you are watching and their take on what it was that caused it. In World War Z it is a mutation of rabies that has caused it so they they are basically rabid humans on the rampage hence why they can, it's the same in 28 days/28 weeks later. It was a lab made virus that cause the outbreak, they can run and any that were eaten don't come back as they are dead and it doesn't reanimated corpses.
Re eating animals in some such as Dawn of the Dead, they do not eat animals only humans, but in the Walking Dead they do eat animals as seen when they eat the horse Rick was riding and Ezekiel's tiger Shiva amongst other wild animals, again it is all down to creative licence and what makes sense in that world.
Generally speaking though OP, in the majority of Zombie films even those that have been eaten will still reanimate even if they have been devoured as long as their brain is intact. Even if they are beheaded, the body will stop moving but the head will still be reanimated until you destroy the brain as the brain stem is the only thing still functioning.

Humans can in theory get it by eating infected meat and brain tissue they just haven’t had a notified human case... Yet.
(It’s been proven that primates can be infected with CWD)

My oldest ds asked me what I would do if there was a zombie apocalypse and he was horrified when I said I would kill all my children first, then kill myself. I have given it some serious thought and it just seems like the best option.

I spend far to much time wondering how vampires get erections

@Cocolapew I spent a long time previously wondering if Vampires use the toilet? They drink the blood and digest it, so it makes sense that they’d need to expel the waste. Yes I can’t imagine Count Dracula taking a dump.

If you really want to scare yourself, Google ‘deer wasting disease’. It is the start of the zombie apocalypse. It’s only a matter for time before it mutates across to humans.

DP and I have these conversations regularly (I am a big fan of the walking dead and zombie films , no idea why,i don't really watch much else....DP thinks i have mildly aggressive tendencies and zombies would be a legitimate way for me to become an aggressive ass kicker )

So we have come up with this.

As above even if you are eaten you are still a zombie until your brain is eaten , you just can't move . Many examples of half eaten zombies wandering around with bits missing.

The moving thing is basically two canons....fast and slow. 28 days later v the walking dead. We decided it was just different forms of the virus and length of infection. Older zombies (since being zombies no relation to biological age ...keep losing bits so harder to move)

Need to bite is more about incpnciois virus spread. A primal impetus like an instinct rather than a conscious need. No conscious need at all.. because zombie. Definition of instinct driven behaviour.

We also regularly discuss that there are two worlds. One where people have zombie films an done where they don't. On the grounds that many start with a shuffling , blood covered , growling , ill looking attacker and the victim is all confused and thinks they are on drugs or whatever. When in reality anyone who has seen the walking dead would instantly think " Bloody hell it's a zombie" run like hell ,change into suitable leather and canvas apocalyptic clothing and start arming the DC.

So some must be set in a world where they have never seen a zombie film to be confused as to what this clearly zombie like individual who is trying to bite them is.

We may or may not have over discussed this in 2020