I need help to understand Zombies.

[Cocolapew]

In Zombie films if a Zombie bites you, you become one, but what about the people who Zombies devour? Surely they can't become a Zombie with missing limbs, how would they chase anyone if they had no legs?

@summerstorms

I spend far to much time wondering how vampires get erections

I’m not too fussed about the how - especially if spending a night with Eric from True a blood 😂🧛🏼‍♂️

@MusicalTrifleMonkey

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

I think this was covered in the Z Nation series - think the baby was mixed. I haven’t finished watching it though, so am not sure of the final outcome re said baby.

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 🤣

Sorted

ZOMBIE THREAD!!!

ZOMBIE THREAD!!!

ZOMBIE THREAD!!!

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

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

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.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll - best response yet 🤣🤣🤣

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll 👏👏👏

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.

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.

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).

*maybe maggots CAN'T eat their flesh

I always sort of wondered what if zombies got really into eating soleros or something, what would happen to the soleros?

Oozing gaping wounds are going to be maggotville. Like how sheep get fly blown.

How successful evolutionarily would a virus be if it kept killing off its hosts so quickly?

Surely you’d eventually get people immune or develop Natural resistance to infection. (Like some people have to HIV)
You’d never know if you didn’t stop shooting them in the head straight away.

Or people who would develop reservoir conditions to protect the host from the Virus.

Zombies like living people can starve to death.

If you've been ripped apart and half eaten, you can't get food for yourself, so you starve and die. That's why the only ones attacking are intact ones.

But it does largely depend on the writer.

In brain dead body parts continue to attack people. There's a stomach and intestine attacking people.

Zombie Jellyfish are real!

One kind of jellyfish, which might be termed the zombie jelly, is quite literally immortal. When Turritopsis dohrnii “dies” it begins to disintegrate … But then something strange happens. A number of cells escape the rotting body. These cells somehow find each other, and reaggregate to form a polyp. All of this happens within five days of the jellyfish’s “death,” and weirdly, it’s the norm for the species.

Have you seen that stand up comedian’s bit about why are we afraid of zombies they still only have human teeth which are rubbish just wear leather all over and they can’t get to you?

I quite liked the Mitchell and Webb zombie(ish) series of sketches where it became clear that the zombies (or whoever they were) were capable of mocking the still living. Although possibly too close for comfort now :(

@Catsup

Plus you never see zombie cats? But I'm guessing that's because they're just quietly sitting and plotting world domination for when they evolve opposable thumbs. It's probably the cat apocalypse vs the zombie one that we really need to worry about.

The humans have eaten them, along with the rats.

Or they've evolved into a tree dwelling species.

Has anyone seen Train to Busan? It's the best Z nation film and I've seen them all and let's face it most of them are shite

Well done people were immune in wwz, fear the walking dead are apparently experimenting with that as well now

In the first episode of TWD there's a zombie with just the top half of its body dragging itself along waiting for some poor unsuspecting twat to fall over it and get bitten

@Catsup

I always assumed a 'bite' as in Shaun of the Dead would turn you, but if they 'feast' on you while alive then you can't 'turn' as you'd still need to be technically alive enough to become 'infected'? Soo, those who munched are screwed vs those who are a bit chomped on and then become zombies? Is this not the same remit as vampires? Those who are drained are dead. Those who get sucked on a bit become vampires? I couldn't get my head round 'canine zombies' in I am Legend. How does that work? Do the doggos just bite other doggos and then fuck off? And why are there zoo animals skipping around the city? Surely they'd be an easy meal? It's all highly confusing

Nope, nope, nope. You don’t know your vampire lore! As Buffy quite clearly explains in S1Ep1:

“To make you a vampire they have to suck your blood. And then you have to suck their blood. It's like a whole big sucking thing. Mostly they're just gonna kill you.”

@KaptainKaveman

Has anyone seen Train to Busan? It's the best Z nation film and I've seen them all and let's face it most of them are shite

Have you seen Busan 2? Very different, but still entertaining.

The only one I have failed to get through because it was so inutterably shite was Zombeaver. I really tried, but it was more boring/slow than the start of Human Centipede (which I detested, btw).

@Mypathtriedtokillme
"How successful evolutionarily would a virus be if it kept killing off its hosts so quickly?"
But normally when a virus kills its hosts quickly they stop moving around and therefore trnasmitting the virus as much. Therefore the virus' r rate goes down. In the case of zombiism as a virus (or virus type illness) the victims run around bitey-biting everything for ages. So the normal rules dont apply.