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?

@Sn0tnose

I’ve thought this for years but anyone I’ve ever mentioned it to has acted like I’m a nutcase!

You never see a zombie film where one shuffles past because it’s not hungry; they always try and eat people. So why would they only eat enough to turn them, leaving enough for a new zombie?

I agree. This doesn’t make sense in evolutionary terms. It just creates more hungry zombies all competing for the same living humans.

I'm pretty sure this was brought up once in the walking dead. Older zombies are more decomposed and slower than newly zombies. There have been a few without limbs that sort of drag themselves around, even one with just a head before trying to bite people....I have spent time thinking about how we could survive as a family 😂😂

I think it's timing. If you are unlucky enough to encounter a zombie at dinnertime then you're screwed but if you meet one on it's tea break or elevenses it might just be a bit peckish. OK so it's bite might turn you into one of it's undead cohorts of the damned but at least you've still got your intestines, swings and roundabouts. My advice is, if you are cornered by a zombie, mid morning or mid afternoon, try diverting it's murderous purpose by waving Twix or Pepperami at them. I should add that this doesn't work with vampires. I tried diverting one with a Dairylea Lunchable and now I can't go out in daylight.

Walking Dead Zombies: Zombies eat people and animals. If they eat enough of you then you are not going to be a very effective zombie! Though there are just heads that continue to try and bite. Zombies continue to rot and disintegrate so they eventually 'die' themselves. In WD, whatever caused people to become zombies in the first place has infected the whole population, so no matter what the cause of your death, you become a zombie. Damaging the head (shot, blow etc) is the only way to 'kill' an active one. Luckily in WD they are quite slow moving and are not very agile, and tend to move in herds. Scope out good refuges now: prisons and army bases are good....

If i ever win the lottery im gonna build a fort with solar panels and wind turbines and a rooftop garden and 20ft walls covered in barbed wire

Now I think I know too much about Zombies makes escape plans

That's why you aim for the head, destroy the brain.

Well unless you meet a whole load of them trying to attack you you're more than likely able to bash thrm on the head and run away. Yeah you're gonna turn but you'd still be intact

@Mypathtriedtokillme

Dh banned me from watching walking dead with him when I pointed out that the Zombie apocalypse would be over in about a fortnight after the maggots set in. Considering maggots can eat 60% of a human body in a week. But the resulting fly plague would be revolting!!

Lol, a friend banned his DS from watching this when he asked if there was a zombie apocalypse, who was mowing all the lawns. 😂

@Thingsdogetbetter

Best thread ever!!

USA zombie media have too much philosophy and survivor ponderings. UK has gone too far with the comedy. Korean zombies are the best - Last Train to Buscan, Alive and the series Kingdom are amazing.

Agreed. Korean zombies are FIERCE!

There was a very disturbing comic series made a few years back that had a twist on the zombie genre, instead of reanimating the dead it was a virus that compelled all the infected to do the absolute worst, most f*ed up things they could think of. Problem was they were too fond of killing each other for fun as well as the uninfected so they tended not to last too long, but because some of them retained a measure of human intelligence they had various inventive ways of infecting new people (think bullets soaked in body fluids before being shot at long distance targets, launching infected at propellers and air vents, using grenades to booby-trap livestock, the list goes on). One of the bleakest things I've ever read, it was great.

There's also a theory of mind that suggests nanomachines, introduced to the body to help fight certain illnesses, self-replicating and infecting new people while also stopping a lot of the deterioration of the body by healing it repeatedly.

I have a podcast that discusses silly theories and we haven't really done anything about zombies just yet, I must fix that. Any zombie experts fancy guesting on an episode?

"You got red on you" on first reply made me laugh out loud! Epic film!