Is Lost Zombies incorrect?
From what I've seen, none of us accept "zombies" as a term that defines the "infected". That means that people that are infected are not undead or zombies. They are simply infected.
With that said, does that mean that the name Lost Zombies is incorrect? With all those arguments I've seen ("Technically, they're not zombies...") denouncing the term, is it correct to call this site Lost Infected?
Yes, you know who you are. The people that say that the infected (e.g. 28 Days Later, Quarentine) are supposedly not zombies and should not ever be coined as zombies. Yet we have this zombie community even though they are actually infected, not zombies. Well, according to you guys.
Can someone correct me and organize this mumbojumbo?
With that said, does that mean that the name Lost Zombies is incorrect? With all those arguments I've seen ("Technically, they're not zombies...") denouncing the term, is it correct to call this site Lost Infected?
Yes, you know who you are. The people that say that the infected (e.g. 28 Days Later, Quarentine) are supposedly not zombies and should not ever be coined as zombies. Yet we have this zombie community even though they are actually infected, not zombies. Well, according to you guys.
Can someone correct me and organize this mumbojumbo?
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Permalink Reply by Omega on -
According to the timeline the infection will inevitably take over the body and cause zombism. So they are zombies by infection they are both infected and zombies. I think the great thing about it is we get to fill in the holes. Hope that helps a little.
http://www.lostzombies.com/page/the-lost-zombies-timeline
Present Day
The Campion Virus has reached its final mutation. The positive is that the virus is only transferable by bite, it is no longer an airborne virus. The negative is that the virus will , inevitably, take over the body and cause zombism. Take over of the body by the Campion Virus does not always result in death, meaning that a living person infected with the Campion virus can turn to a Zombie without dying. These are called Runners. They do not possess problem solving skills or the ability to communicate. They do however possess most of the physical skills they had prior to turning, meaning they can run in most cases. Those individuals who turn after death are slow moving zombies. Present day survivors have spread out across the globe.
You are one of them. Tell us your story.
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Permalink Reply by The Bruin on
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Now this is interesting...I like the question you pose because it seeks to correct a percieved flaw in the context of what we are doing so I will respond...
My PERSONAL opinion is this...
If one wants to be absolutely die hard about what exactly a zombie is, one needs look only to voodoo. In voodoo, a zombie is a person who is given a drug that induces a trance like state after a short period that appears like Death. The term zombies was stolen from voodoo to describe the undead because of certain obvious parallels. That said, I believe that the term zombie has evolved into something more. Romero never really explained his zombies beyond a reference to nuclear power plants and I think that was more to show how quickly people would blame technology for something that was so clearly supernatural. Now Zombies are all "Scienced Up". It's not enough to just be undead, it is represented as a rampant biological infection and now we have the "new" zombies.
Inasfar as the LZ timeline goes, both things apply as so generously pointed out. The same virus that contributes to "Living Zombie" behavior, also reanimates dead humans.
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Permalink Reply by Okota on -
In my videos and writings, I never use the term "zombie". Not for the technical reasons people argue about. I do it simply as a tribute to Romero. None of his movies up until "Land of the Dead" referred to them as zombies.
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Permalink Reply by The Newcomer on -
Ah, that's smart
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on -
They're zombies. While still-living infected runners like in 28 Days may not be technically zombies (since they haven't "died"), the Campion virus infected will inevitably die and reanimate. So there is a difference. (It also helps that they eat human flesh.)
Romero's original idea from Night of the Living Dead, which has since been softened somewhat, was that all dead (mostly recent) would reanimate into flesh-eating walking dead. Yes. All dead. Whether bitten or not. It was afterwards, in later films, that the notion was toned down more to become something like a disease transferred by bite.
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Permalink Reply by Dario on
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In Romero's Diary of the Dead, whatever form of death instantly reanimates the person into a flesh-eating zombie as well.
There are different facets of zombism. I love all these stories.
And like you said - some of the Campion Virus dead are shamblers - they died and then they reanimated, even though some are runners, and did not die and reanimate.
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Permalink Reply by Nerowulf on -
Ya'll are making this too complicated
If it smells like a corpse, looks like a corpse, moves like a stiff walking corpse: My money's down that its a sure thing, Sumbitch is a corpse... and therfore a Zombie. Other then the odd case of those runners, if you can take'm down with a few good rounds into the vital organs; sure enough you'll have another ZOMBIE on your hands. Rule number 2.... Double Tap
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Permalink Reply by Liam on -
If you out rip it's heart and it still wants to kill you that is a zombie, if it drops down dead then it's infected -
destroy the brain it's the only way to kill a Zed-Head
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Permalink Reply by Alpha-17 on -
World War Z describes it best: Zombies may not be the most correct, accurate term, but you'd be hard pressed to find a more universal, recognized, accepted term for them.
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Permalink Reply by The Newcomer on
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That was actually what I'm trying to say
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