Disney/Marvel define zombies.

[Parazight 1599]

Disney/Marvel had an episode on their streaming service this week that was based on zombies.  It all started when one person got a virus.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/What_If..._Zombies!%3F

And to think that I always thought that zombies were undead.  Should we be meme-ing Disney right now because they are zombie-lore noobs?  Are they right?  Who'd be the expert on this subject?

 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2021 by Parazight

[nemorus 265]

"Fallout" has zeds based on fungus and it works. In fact it's very convincing because in reality it is possible, but in different scale. Who said that zombies must be an evil creation of a necromant? Well, whatever Disney/Marvel did it's propably garbage. It's their main product lately.

[mathieu mauron 12]

this episode based on https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Zombies / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Zombies by Robert Kirkman, you should read this alternative great comics

Edited September 9, 2021 by mathieu mauron

[drgullen 596]

10 hours ago, Parazight said:

And to think that I always thought that zombies were undead.

You're right, they are.

Let's face it, Disney/Marvel couldn't hit the water if they fell out of the boat.

[Tonyeh 454]

Since George Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' in 1968 we've come to accept that a zombie is a reanimated corpse that feeds on the flesh of the living. Before Romero's movie, zombies appeared in films like 'I walked with a Zombie' or 'White Zombie', neither of which featured flesh eating corpses, but voodoo reanimated "living" people. Usually in films before 1968, "zombies" were creatures under the "spell" of someone who would set them various tasks. In Hammer's 'The Plague of the Zombies', they were set to work in a tin mine for example.

But it was Romero's films that set the tone of what a zombie was for nearly 30 years. More recently, the likes of '28 Days Later' muddied the waters a bit. But even Danny Boyle said that the infected people in his film were not "zombies".

As for DayZ, the "zombies" in it are more akin to the infected of '28 Days Later' than the reanimated corpses of, say, 'Dawn of the Dead'. Personally, I grew up with Romero's zombie, so that's what it will always be to me.

[William Sternritter 449]

I'm perfectly fine with multiple possible resons and thus zombie variations coexisting across various fictions. When this stuff happens IRL it won't matter as much who got it right anyway 😉

[Tonyeh 454]

39 minutes ago, William Sternritter said:

I'm perfectly fine with multiple possible resons and thus zombie variations coexisting across various fictions. When this stuff happens IRL it won't matter as much who got it right anyway 😉

I can see it now....

"Phew, they don't want to eat me. They just want to beat me to death."