Kookie215What's your plan for the Zombie Apocalypse?
bitofaramblerI’m of the firm “no magic zombies” camp.
If the zombies aren’t magic, they aren’t going to last long, whichever form of zombie they are. Wait inside a few days, most of them should be dead or immobile.
If a zombie loses blood, they aren’t going to keep walking, their muscles won’t work without blood.
If you have a strong door, zombie arms will break before the door breaks.
Dehydration. Organisms need water to function at all, let alone move, and zombies aren’t big on water fountains.
I see zombies as dangerous for a few days, with their senses failing so they can’t track you effectively for the majority of the outbreak, then it’s over.
Anything other than that scenario is a magical zombie, who can move without energy, function without a body, or unrealistically mutate.
I love zombie movies and comics, but for real real, no magic zombies.
Match!!what about the nonmagic zombie situation where the plague spreads slowly and through typical viral pathways so that it becomes an endemic where people trying to go about their regular life will occasionally keel over and come back up as berserk monsters
that sounds like a magic zombie scenario and the aforementioned guidelines apply.
if they die and that are functioning after their death and that tissue is dead, it will break apart and decompose very rapidly, and dehydration will prohibit any complex movement after a few hours to maybe a day.
if reanimations are moving their dead bodies around without connective tissue or the fuel/maintenance needed to work those bodily systems, that’s magic.
the closest thing we have to a non-magic zombie but still similar to zombies in movies is rabies, and the person becomes violent but extremely uncoordinated, aquaphobic, and then dies because the human body doesn’t function without the constant ingestion of water and fuel sources.
expecting non-magic zombies to be able to chase someone or gather in a horde is like expecting a car to run without any fuel, engine, or drivetrain.
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