Zombie Apocalypse: Difference between revisions

** 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.

* The board game ''Zombies!!!'', which seems to owe some influence to ''[[Resident Evil]]'' (the players have to shoot the zombies, and they win the game by escaping in a helicopter).

* The ''[[GURPS]] Infinite Worlds'' setting has the Gotha timelines. Those are about twenty known parallel worlds where civilization was wiped out by the "Gotha Plague": a mutant disease that causes infectees to behave like the ''[[28 Days Later]]'' variety. It specifies that the Plague has trouble establishing itself in small communities, so civilization on these worlds is in small enclaves.

== Other ==

* For their April Fools 2008 issue, The University at Buffalo's ''Spectrum'' college newspaper reported, among other things, about the emergence of the Necro-Animatory Syndrome virus, and the rise of the ambulatory dead ("zombie" being an "outdated and offensive term," though Bush is quoted as nearly using it) out of Cape Canaveral, where the NAS virus had apparently come back with a space shuttle crew. Articles included general information, survival guide, how to recognize an NAS sufferer (not very hard), and what to do if you're bitten (die with dignity, and with a friend to take you out immediately).

* Some smart-ass hacker in Austin[["London, England" Syndrome|, Texas]] broke into the controls of two electronic road signs in January 2009, replacing their usual notices about upcoming construction with warnings of, among other things, "Zombies ahead!". Drivers were amused; city safety officials were not.

* And then there's this [http://jalopnik.com/5587000/la-county-zombie-control-keeping-socal-safe-for-brains joker]

** While nearly every (pick your term) has put some amount of thought into it, there is now an entire nerd subculture dedicated to zombies in the same way trekkies are primarily dedicated to Star Trek, with the amount of thought put into their discussions making the Zombie Survival Guide look like Plan 9 From Outer Space.

* [http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf Mathematical modelling of an outbreak of zombie infection] produced by the University of Ottawa, published in the academic journal Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress, which basically comes to this conclusion unless the undead are eradicated quickly.

** The author of the article, Dan Drezner of the Fletcher School for Diplomacy (aka the best foreign affairs school in America), has published a monograph called Theories of International Relations and Zombies. It covers the major paradigms of IR theory and the "corpus" of zombie literature and film. It's an excellent introductory text to IR theory for beginners, and the results show that while a zombie apocalypse would suck, it's unlikely to be the end of humanity. It's also really damned funny.

* [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/02/2784139.htm Any day now...]

** There may have even been plagued victims supposedly "attacking" random people, uninfected or not. Though this is all likely due to severe Hallucinations and clumsy walking.And of course, no Plague infected people would actually eat people they came in contact with.

* There is also a group called the Zombie Research society dedicated to fact gathering (as such) about zombies.

 

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