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* In India the tens of thousands of normally functioning individuals have been declared dead by government officials so that others might be able to appropriate their land and property. The problem is so widespread that a pressure group called [[wikipedia:Mritak Sangh|Mritak Sangh]] or Association of Dead People has been formed to advocate on their behalf. Some have even tried running for elected office despite the notable handicap of being dead.
* [[Marvel Comics]] called its Type V zombies "zuvembies" to get around a [[Comics Code]] prohibition (see above). The "zuvembie" name came from a [[Robert E. Howard]] short story, "Pigeons From Hell," and wasn't really all that zombie-like, as summarized on [[wikipedia:Zuvembie|The Other Wiki]].
* ''[[Black Butler]]'' has moving corpses that, lacking souls themselves, are able to sense the souls of the living and home in on them, hoping in vain to fill the void within. So the part about eating flesh of the living is really about trying and failing to eat souls. The moving corpses seem at first to have been created by science, but then it turns out that magic made them work, to the surprise of the zombie-making scientist. There are also more successful specimens that are able to pass as living humans.
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