Zombie Apocalypse: Difference between revisions

* Surprisingly enough, someone managed to make a ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' zombie apocalypse [[Alternate Universe]] fanfic, which you can find [[Watchmen (comics)/Fanfic Recs|here]], that really kicked ass. {{spoiler|Probably because Rorschach is just about the only character that would wind up happier and saner upon becoming one of the flesh-craving undead.}}

* Several [[SCP Foundation|SCP objects]] could potentially trigger this, especially [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-008 SCP-008], which specifically invokes the trope. Additionally, SCP-093 allows access to a world where something like this has already happened; {{spoiler|though the "zombies" are faceless, legless [[Cosmic Horror|horrors]], produced by a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]], that have absorbed so many people that by this point they're the size of ''buildings''.}}

 

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** Plague zombies have been part of 40k background for almost as long as the Chaos powers, and are a playable gang in the spinoff skirmish game Necromunda.

* Card Game ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has had zombies since the first set, but the plane of Grixis, one of the Shards of Alara, is in a successful Zombie Apocalypse, albeit with necromancers and demons at the forefront, caused by the crapping out of two types of magic good at fighting them off. In any case, humanity is boned on the plane. Note that in ''Magic'', zombies are ''not'' [[The Virus]]; they cannot create more of their own kind through infection, but are instead created from corpses by [[Evil Sorcerer]]s.

** The latest Innistrad block takes this [[Up to Eleven|way over eleven]], by introducing a good old fashioned zombie apocalypse, [[Vampire Tropes|vampires]] and [[Big Badass Wolf|werewolves]], [[Mad Scientist|mad scientists]] and their [[Eldritch Abomination|abominations]], demons, and central to the block's story, [[Beyond the Impossible|all of these at once]].

*** Name-dropped in the Dark Ascension card [http://media.wizards.com/images/magic/tcg/products/dka/3zfb3i9bkw_en.jpg Zombie Apocalypse], which brings back all of your zombies then destroy all humans in play.

* In ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'', {{spoiler|Vordred creates this in the Doomwood Part 1 finale if the hero chooses to betray Artix and let Vordred become the Champion of Darkness}}.

** Also, {{spoiler|in ''Doomwood Part 2'', Drakath grants Gravelyn's wish to bring her father back by sending her and everybody else to an alternate past created by him where he never intervened with King Alteon and Sepulchure's duel. There, this is what happens when [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Sepulchure kills Death]]}}.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'': [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/zombie-apocalypse/ Discussed]

* ''[[Squid Row]]'' : [http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=429 here] in an [[Imagine Spot]]

* ''[[Zombie Ranch]]'' takes place over two decades since the dead began to walk. In this case humanity not only managed to survive the disaster—they have adapted so thoroughly to the reality of the undead that they not only have new laws and customs regarding them, but have managed to turn zombies into a prized consumer commodity.

* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209193157/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3523 Tomie insists on ending a book like this.]

** A bad case of pink eye was going around. Due to some Worcestershire sauce being used to embalm Kenny, he comes back as a zombie and starts infecting people. The local doctor, when visited by some of the infected, mistakes the condition for pink eye and prescribes some topical cream. Stan, Kyle and Cartman, with the help of Chef (who does a great Thriller bit) attempt to stop the zombie threat.

** Another episode displays some homeless people as zombies in a parody of 2004's ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)|Dawn of the Dead]]''. Though they're more an inconvenience then a threat ([[Too Dumb to Live|doesn't stop the adults from treating it like one though]]).

* Mad Snail Disease in ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', though it was entirely fake.

* In a season 3 episode of ''[[Transformers]]'', the Decepticons are tricked by the Quintessons into releasing a powerful creature called the Dweller. The Dweller drains the energy of any transformer it can capture, turning them into an "energy vampire". Despite this title, they behave almost exactly like zombies - they move slowly, though not quite shambling, and drain the energy from others to make more energy vampires. They even lose all color, becoming gray and lifeless in appearance.

* [http://zombiehunters.org/ Zombie Squad] is a disaster-preparedness group that uses the metaphor of a Zombie Apocalypse to encourage people to prepare for real-life emergencies, on the principle that if one is prepared for the dead to rise from their graves en masse to feed on the living, and the collapse of civil order that would inevitably ensue, that dealing with something as prosaic as an earthquake or hurricane is small potatoes.

** "Zombie Apocalypse" is a common brainstorming scenario for first responders because it's widespread enough to implicate all of the major disaster relief agencies, but also fictional so it doesn't flare up the usual interservice rivalries.

* The [[Humans vs. Zombies]] massively multiplayer live-action tag game.

* Most nerds/geeks/etc. have put some amount of thought into the subject. Pretty much all of them have plans.

** [http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly)] debunks the lethality of a zombie apocalypse, showing how it would never get very far. A notable example is pointing out how rabies doesn't exactly sweep through the world, so why would zombie infections? That and maggots and gut flora would devour the undead.

** Covering all the bases: in the event that it does happen, [http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-famous-zombie-movie-weapons-that-would-get-you-killed/ this article] discusses how [[Hollywood Tactics]] would promptly get you zombified.

** Other organizations have done the same as the spread of a zombie apocalypse apparently models highly infectious epidemics pretty well.

* It's possible that zombie tropes may be partially rooted in rooted events during [[The Black Death]] or similar [[The Plague|plagues]]. Mass graves were used at times, and high fevers can cause delirium or even brain damage. So if someone was buried haphazardly but recovered from the plague enough to free themselves, witnesses would see an inarticulate, clumsy person covered with sores leaving a graveyard, which would look a lot like a "zombie" even when the [[Unbuilt Trope|trope was unbuilt]].