All Variants Explored | The Walking Dead Universe

Today I take you through every naturally occurring, or man made variant walker I could find in The Walking Dead Universe.
If there are more variants I forgot to mention let me know in the comments below!
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[@Swell-Films]

Roamers - 0:43 Climbers - 3:47 Lurkers - 5:45 Environmental - 6:56 Pets - 8:18 Protectors - 9:14 Irradiated - 10:05 The Embalmed - 11:04 The Taxidermic - 11:41 Burners - 12:09 Cohorts - 12:56 Hybrids - 14:57 The Walker King - 15:58

[@paulruano1903]

Which are runners?

[@appleroad112]

Walker king made me think of call of duty zombies and some other video games

[@hoardhog3812]

Was there ever any explanation for the sick ones at the prison?

[@paulruano1903]

@@hoardhog3812 yes, they drank contaminated water. The governor i think it was that had slowly put contaminated zombieblood into the groundwater from the outside. Which then contaminated the water that Cellblock used. Ironicly rest of the show gladly ignores all risks of contaminations. But if ever a real zombie apocalypse.... then 3rd part contaminations would be a real scenario problemissue. Even flies can spread such contaminations!. But the problrm with TWD, is that they claim all the wotld is allready contaminated. It is only when thry die they get activated. And obvious when bitten they get infected by an "activated blood". So if a bite from an activated blood can infect fast. And a contaminated water with DILUTED activated blood can infect slowly!. Then a fly which spreads activated blood from corpses etc... into whomever the fly bites... would then in realisticly also able to spread the zombie virus!. So that is a huge flawed overseen scenario. Allready in todays world a lot of deadly viruses do spreads through flies etc bites.

[@waccamawscout5566]

​@paulruano1903 GET OUT 🗣️

[@jamesm3471]

To this day, the fish eye view of Morgan’s wife standing on the porch, trying to get back into the house, to get at her family and to make them just like her, and that slowly turning doorknob is FAR more terrifying than nearly anything else on the show.

[@householdgambler]

It really is

[@erinw.9256]

Honestly tho!!

[@vsluj3508]

it was a bit cheesy

[@pre55ure]

couldnt have said it better lol. i remember watching this episode as a kid with my dad and i had NIGHTMARES about this exact scene for weeks. it left an impact on me thats forsure😂

[@2551987ezio]

Use to freak me out alot back then, that whenever I open a door in a dark room, I imagine her on the other side 😂

[@CircleOfInevitability]

I always just thought s1 walkers were "smarter" because they were fresher.

[@Amartin-mu6oj]

He pointed out that it's a common theory in the video

[@vincentgingerich]

I Never gave it much thought at all

[@wingting7830]

Doesn’t make sense though given how viral infections and diseases work and how later instances of walkers work, I hope they find a way to make it work though

[@spongedog0013]

that was a feasible theory until fear the walking dead release and showed the normal slow walkers in its first season despite it taking place in the first days of the outbreak.

[@13lueBomber]

That makes sense. Which would give them the ability to somewhat run. Or just walkers sometimes just randomly mutate, which could make them stronger, intelligent, or run. That makes sense to me in a zombie universe. Personally, I wish this series went that route with their walkers. Man, I really dislike the term “walker”. 🗿

[@ebygz4755]

I remember how when shane and otis get into the school the walkers straight up start running

[@HorneIius]

Imagine your hiding from walkers thinking it's easy peasy cuz they slow and the mfs start bolting💀

[@grum-eq4il]

fr bro nobody talks abt that

[@jamesm3471]

Well that Otis fellow was fully fattened up, must’ve tasted like Wagyu beef to the walkers, and there were so many of them, if they didn’t run, they’d miss out for sure.

[@Notfakeultra]

@@jamesm3471more like pork

[@amandawalker7739]

Just rewatched this ep and no one talks about it ever

[@Rosie-yt8nd]

i would have loved for freshly turned Walkers to be more of a threat. faster, some motor skills, random sparks of faint memory etc. that diminish as muscles atrophy and so do neural connections. that way a herd is not just a predictable monolith who's only factor is in numbers. nd also losing someone in your group would be a bigger threat, killing other people would be a more difficult decision. because you make smarter walkers that will mix in with the herd that can change behaviour of the whole group. it would have made the story more interesting. but this very late change of mind makes it the other way around. keep story going to make interesting walkers that feel so disconnected. they have no purpose, just content to consume. "please please keep watching!! look at this shiny new thing"

[@jaxturner7288]

Hope you write the scripts someday. 🙏

[@stevejoyce4765]

It would be cool, but I would think that this variant would eventually disappear as the bodies continued to rot and decay - I could see these as more "freshly" turned walkers. With the onset of rigor and such, things would change unless there is some crazy biological reason as to why the virus would be different with these and would inhibit natural decomposition.

[@Rosie-yt8nd]

@@stevejoyce4765 as long as there are survivors new people get turned all the time. these would mix with existing herds and create a mix of different capabilities. when you fight another group you have to take that into consideration. walkers already do decompose in the show, just a lot slower. why couldnt it be for those skills as well? they do fade with time until they become the walkers we know. but you'd have to study a herd carefully, gauge how long they've been dead, give thoughtto if you want to shoot your enemy, lest you add new walkers that change behavioral patterns and might make your defenses weaker, . it'd make them feel more like remnants of humans than just mindless tools, no more interesting than a hammer. not a drastic black and white, but including a fading echo. i think Fear ot really wild in its last seasons but one of the few interesting aspects to me was Alicia following that walker, seeming to half-remember his path. wondering if he actuaally does or if she's just wishful thinking. more of that as for scientifically, there could be lots more interesting explanations, like the virus infecting muscles as well, hence why they are able to keep going. converting not needed organs for energy, hence they dont really digest food but still have enoughh energy to move around. etc etc. i think they really boxed themselves in with that early explanation. it was too specific, while also not fully explaining some of the how, just the why. they killed any capacity for variation

[@jerrylancaster256]

Z nation did that

[@definitelyahumannotabot]

This aint dying light

[@Commander_Raveth]

I remember when Rick found a lonely, crazy Morgan that he mentioned "whispering walkers." At first, i thought it was a variant, but later, it turns out he met the Whisperers early on. Those face wearing dead herding freaks.

[@porkeywings]

Its obvious that wasnt the intention though, Morgan was crazy and couldnt tell the difference between the living and dead. The whisperers weren't written until later

[@straightfuckingwater389]

​@@porkeywingspretty sure whisperers are in the comics soooo

[@porkeywings]

@@straightfuckingwater389 whisperers hadnt appeared in the comics yet when that episode aired soooo

[@aspectnato8077]

Shame though because I genuinely got spooked by that before finding out they're people in disguise! Had me thinking the walkers were evolving

[@shaunpaulsen7960]

Could have been foreshadowing.?

[@tiporosso]

The environmental walker that blinded Aaron (with poisonous vines) on the original Walking Dead was kind of unique.

[@Swell-Films]

Absolutely! Great catch

[@Halterin11]

When was that?

[@xuonivVi]

@@Halterin11 episode 3 of season 10 i believe

[@jacobpritchard256]

I think later than that as he was with Negan

[@xuonivVi]

@@jacobpritchard256 i started rewatching twd like a few weeks ago and yeah it was episode 3 lol

[@Norinia]

Kind of surprised that The Governor’s ‘Daughter’ isn’t on this list. She was unique in how she actually wouldn’t attack The Governor and was satisfied with the meat he brought her. (Though he was shown to remove her teeth at one point) Later (remembering from the comic) she saw an ‘intruder’ to her home, and her first instinct was actually to run away and ‘seek help’, or to alert someone to the ‘intruder’. This being a sign of extreme intelligence compared to average walkers, or maybe even the protectors. (Only reason it rivals is because she was NOT the Governor’s daughter, rather it was some sick thing where he betrayed his buddy and then fully deluded himself that his buddy’s daughter was his, so there shouldn’t be any reason she’d be so familiar and child-like with him.)

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

She kept trying to eat him

[@spicybeantofu]

​@@twilightgardenspresentatio6384 was gonna say she did lunge and snap

[@kaelith2607]

Maybe the reason for her to display such level of intelligence despite being a walker was because she has been fed and cared for by governor thus in return making her body and even brain to maybe still function long enough for her to display intelliegence.

[@inshal6420]

@@kaelith2607it’s basically how people tame wild animals. It tolerates you but its not like a domestic pet.

[@rygirlsmith]

@@inshal6420idk if I’d even call it “taming” as that still implies a sense of control and “social domestication” of sorts, as it seemingly was more like… how if you brought in a hyena, it might consider you a part of it’s “pack” to a degree… but you have to be careful bc they know you ain’t really one of them, but for now they tolerate you

[@bdnews-wo3wy]

I always interpreted the walker hordes as just shambling groups attracted by the sound. Having like 100 walkers in a close proximity would probably be pretty loud. So, logically, it just draws in more walkers. Like the quarry in season 6 (i think its season 6). There couldve been 10's of thousands of walkers in the quarry so you could probably hear it from a long distance away which causes stray walkers and other walker hordes to join the bigger group. Just follow the sound, not some pack mentality. But its interesting to see the animalistic nature of it.

[@dukekessler6292]

They also seem to be attracted by smell as well. I mean how else is covering yourself in walker skin/guts supposed to protect you from detection?

[@captinundies6049]

There is one thing everybody always leaves out. Vast majority of the walkers have been ar po und for some time. To the point they shouldn't even be able to move or function and I am thinking about the brain and how quick it would turn to mush and be destroyed by rot which is end of the line. Most people have figured out that people turn when they die and that hitting them in the head kills them. So there are not going to be mass hoards of zombies. 28 days later had the right Idea how long until they starve to death in this case how long will it take for decomposition to kill the zombies off. Unfortunately it doesnt work for the story bit the show turned to shit and the spin offs all sound like a joke. It seriously feels like they think their viewers are idiots and I think they might be right.

[@tamamonomae7465]

The expressions on roamers faces says all for me, especially the ones using the rocks to break the glass in the department store episode. That one had a look of pure rage on its face.

[@mattias969]

A beneficial relationship between two entities is called symbiosis the non beneficial is parasitical.

[@mediocrecontent2449]

Isn’t it that mutualistic if it’s good for both? While symbiosis is just the interactions between two entities?

[@alicevaz5474]

Symbiosis just means that its a close, long term interaction between 2 species, it can be mutualistic (good for both), parasitic (good for 1, bad for the other) or commensalistic or wtv its called lmao (good for 1, irrelevant to the other)

[@Legionaer666]

Idk if you can call it a variant but there was the super strong walker in FTWD who pulled a soldier through a hole in the wall. Maybe it was bench pressing for months until it was disturbed.

[@ethandulaney89]

I hate that they never explained that.

[@adammckay852]

There were several walkers pulling him in at the same time

[@onetallpheeesh]

Those are in fact variants.

[@onetallpheeesh]

Fear had more variants showcased than the main show tbh

[@jonny_skatez]

What season was this?

[@chicknman9890]

I'd say climbers we're probably people who turned while running from a horde, their panic and goal of getting away keeping the motor function and obstacle avoidance parts of their brain running

[@Krunchyz]

I can imagine some crazy groups testing this theory out by throwing some people and zombies into a large ditch and see if the people attempting to climb show that trait after being zombified

[@MistarZtv]

Wow martinez. Or. What's his name that gabenor killed 😭

[@mrsdixon4494]

​@@MistarZtvMilton Mamet?

[@stevenkoenig7356]

Walking around a corner in a dark ally and seeing a walker eat a body, turning around to look at you and screaming as loud as possible „HEEELLP HELP ME OH GOD PLEASE HEEEELLLP!!!“

[@silkmoth7951]

I really liked the ideia of the Roamers, at least how they were presented Those limited memories really add an terror layer to the zombies

[@fracturedzone7225]

Zombies are scary in a cosmic horror sense too. Having something thats so close to you a human be violent and be a canablia adds to the fear. Most movies ignore the stillness of a corpose of a loved one by turning it into a action movie

[@silkmoth7951]

@@fracturedzone7225 YES exactly That's one of the reasons I was (and sometimes I kinda of still am) terrified of zombies

[@princesspupcake1269]

I think Rad-Walkers are possible-ish, they obviously wouldn't be bothered much by the Radiation since they're... y'know... already dead. But if the dose and exposure was high enough, they'd most likely absorb and emit that radiation for a long time -- though I don't think it'd be nearly enough to be lethal to the living, unless they're literally hugging the walkers for a few minutes at a time. I'm pretty sure instead of bubbly and boil-covered skin, said skin would most likely fall off entirely... that's what happens w/ living bodies, anyways, which could've been a REALLY cool visual; just rotting skinless walkers shambling around.

[@JaxTheFound]

Not just skin. Muscle, Organs, Everything. It would boil down and literally slough off the bones. It liquifies you from heat.

[@NightlostLP]

No ... the Amount of Radiation would simply boil there brain and they would fall dead after a short while ... specialy since the radiation walkers come from the literally blast crater of the Bombs if i got the show correctly in which they definetly would not survive . since shown in the series that the bombs werent like explodet mid air like the hiroshima and nagasaki bombs but much closer or on impact , sitting in the blast crater of that thing would basically be like hugging the elefants foot in Chernobyl

[@ursadabear2810]

I could definitely see rad-walkers generating from the fallout afterwards. Cuz you’re absolutely correct, walkers don’t give a damn about things like radiation and that crossed thru the area sometime after would be radioactive as hell. Plus all the walkers for miles around would be wandering towards the brightest and loudest thing they’ve ever seen.

[@fracturedzone7225]

Like the skeletons from the movie Warm Bodies?

[@Shannon-vv6rr]

Tbh even a touch from something that's directly radioactive will kill a human being or make them extremely unwell at least. That's why x-ray technicians have to wear full suits of iron and rad check meters to level their radiation by even being in the room (my mom was one)

[@Mihael_Keehl31]

The french women in the post credit scene of world beyond is shot in the back, not head... But it`s the most interesting variant i`m curious about, i was expecting them to show some of them in daryl spin off, but they didn`t....yet. Maybe in season 2 :D Anyway, seeing dr Jenner again was super cool, that post credit scene was the best thing of world beyond :))

[@TrippieFox]

Funny how people like you only care about endings

[@Mihael_Keehl31]

@@TrippieFox funny how people like you, that don’t know shit about me, have an opinion about me…but you don’t know me…and don’t know what I care about…

[@topsdaily_productions]

​@@Mihael_Keehl31I think you're an asshole lol

[@straightfuckingwater389]

​​@@Mihael_Keehl31people can interpret things based on how you speak

[@Nick-yx5xd]

Season 5 when Daryl and Carol are in the city looking for Beth after they flip the van- there was a walker laying down (lurker) with a machete fully gripped in its hand and it doesn’t let go before Carol or Daryl kill it 👀👀

[@OliveOil176]

Could of been Rigor mortis

[@TrippieFox]

Couldve been nothing. Not every walker is a game changer especially one whos laid out anyways

[@Nick-yx5xd]

@@TrippieFox can’t y’all just humor me here instead of being contrarians 😭

[@ethandulaney89]

You have a valid point. Everyone has to be so critical over a fictional scenario 😒

[@tadhgmcelligott3693]

​@@OliveOil176 Except Rigor Mortis is only temporary, it goes away after 12-24 hours and only happens after a body has ceased moving, when someone dies they turn into a walker and get up and start moving before rigor mortis can take effect

[@RicardoHernandezGTX]

I like how the book the rot and ruin did their zombies with freshly dead 1's an older 1's having differences and how zombie hoards would slowly head downhill and congregate in valleys

[@GirlWithAnAddiction1]

The scientist in the WB post credit scene was shot in the back, not the head. The most surprising thing about her turning was how fast it took, as well as the speed and strength.

[@jyggalag2863]

Shane turned quickly after dying as well. I think for Shane it was because how aggressive he was. Not sure about that lady though.

[@RadekCrazy1]

To me the most surprising fact was that she knew where to run like she remembered where her killer went even though he was no longer there and the door were closed.

[@JStack]

In b4 plot twist that the organization was testing it on themselves

[@literallyinsanelycool28]

i read somewhere that angela kang said the variants are regional, that's why they only just now made their appearance in s11

[@Its_Me_Romano]

Its just dookie writting

[@KendooXD]

That makes no sense since they appeared in plenty of other regions aswell, making them not only "regional".

[@JohnnyCage-td5ud]

​@@Its_Me_Romanoshut up

[@JohnnyCage-td5ud]

​@@KendooXDshut up

[@jamesnichols3366]

@@KendooXDit’s not unlikely that the zombie virus mutates differently depending on the environment and/or rate of transmission. Real life viruses mutate differently depending on a multitude of factors, one being transmission rates (surprisingly enough). So it doesn’t seem illogical for the zombie virus to start mutating as transmission slows due to the living human population dropping. So it starts mutating into allowing some portions of the brain to function normally like an athletic section or a more active motor function section. This is all purely my interpretation of the virus, and until we have some sort of understanding of the type of virus and a general explanation on its mutation process we can only speculate

[@Blastpheme13]

Your videos are top tier. I love that someone can actually go in depth in this crazy universe. Can't wait to see more content. I can't even explain how you are so underrated. It's crazy

[@Swell-Films]

Thanks for the support mate!

[@gerardmcquade9102]

there was a more capable walker in season 3 who peeled the Woodbury Broken fence open, in the French scene they started it then they made it worse not just made it worse

[@MIXI115]

it’s always the French 😅

[@christopher-vh9qv]

I like how the walking dead just confirms z-nation

[@erinw.9256]

???

[@Asterion_Mol0c]

That was a show that started bad and got worse and worse every season

[@christopher-vh9qv]

@@Asterion_Mol0c stayed true to itself. Didn't take itself seriously and was never boring. Every episode was the equivalent of a season of the walking dead.

[@Asterion_Mol0c]

@@christopher-vh9qv it started decent and every time I thought it was gonna get better it took the other direction and became worse and worse

[@Asterion_Mol0c]

@@christopher-vh9qv it just kept getting more ridiculous and more boring

[@BoneGoddess]

I like to think that roomers were a thing at first when the virus first started but it was able to quickly evolve to entirely eliminate all possibility of the host retaining its mind

[@Ginfeldi]

I like the idea of slow smart-ish zombies that adapt to their enviroment

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

So far the only other movies to depict zombies either retaining some memories or gain intelligence after time are Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Land of the Dead (2004) respectively. Then again, that was the result of space radiation so I dunno why zombies in this show only get dumber saved for extremely rare "uncommon" or "special" infected ones.

[@dekay1428]

You just indirectly just said Fallout writers don't know how radiation actually works and I give you a like on the video

[@theragingrodent__]

I've always liked the theory that the roamers just degenerate over time, but my headcanon is that maybe there's a difference in whether someone turns before or after dying of other causes. Like maybe there's some crossover between when the zombie instincts take over and the person instincts fade away where they're both present in the consciousness?

[@barneyrubble4293]

I think the walkers remembering makes sense. It's your brain, it's not gone, it's just dead. It's also much more interesting than the extremely predictable walkers from later seasons.

[@sarahrogers1271]

You deserve more attention! So much detail in these it’s awesome

[@kyosuke_unbox8909]

Don’t forget the Spiked Walker that Rick fought at the Garbage place. But it’s basically just a normal Walker that had its body with metal wielded on it

[@TheScottishMutt]

We know that the walker pathogen is systemic to every person on Earth, but it didn't kill everyone or make everyone sick, even though it does reanimate everyone who dies; so there's definitely variation in how the infection affects people. The roamers were definitely retconned due to a change in writing direction, but I like to think that they were quickly "selected against," just like mutants in any population of organisms. Roamers that could pick up rocks or climb fences were undoubtedly the first walkers to be killed during a herd stampede: they were almost always the first into the fray, so they were an immediate threat to any survivors and were put down before any other walker. Eventually there are no more roamers because that particular mutation was removed from the population of walkers. Kind of like beetles in a forest: the ones with a mutation that changes their color and makes them stand out among the rest get removed from the population first, until you're left with a more homogenous population.

[@Shannon-vv6rr]

In season 1 Jim was given antibiotics which prolonged his life for days by lessening the side affects of the bite. Twd forgot their own rules tho..

[@josukehigashikata5397]

⁠@@Shannon-vv6rrDidn’t he refuse the antibiotics? I’m pretty sure they have him fever reducer and pain reliever like ibuprofen. Anyways, in the show he only lasted 1-2 days after infection, which isn’t ridiculous because he wasn’t bitten in an immediately fatal spot. In the games, they left clementine in a shed overnight because they were scared of her turning, even hours later. The fever is the thing that actually kills the person, I’m sure it’s some sort of encephalitis that swells and inflames the brain. I wish they would’ve been more realistic about it. Seizures, mouth foaming, they did make Jim puke but I think it was motion sickness from the RV. In my opinion, depending on where you were bitten, it would probably take 4-12 hours for someone to turn granted they didn’t die from bloodloss or other substancial damage.

[@ghostmasterghpm]

I feel like roamers can be explained as a stage of zombie instead of a variant, because in a way, Matt Pats theory on this a while ago makes sense, the show first started, and so the zombies would maybe still be somewhat “alive”. But that’s just a theory.

[@DeadfishKing]

There were a lot of fresh ones throughout the series

[@CodenameHaswelly]

roamers and all that is so easy to design, a fresh walker/roamer has signs of personality and better movement while the older ones shamble and sit around very slowly, i feel like that makes logical sense

[@Dealerofdeath1998]

Great video i love videos on the walking dead lore been a fan since day 1 and its good to see more videos on the variants

[@Swell-Films]

Appreciate the support mate!

[@Dealerofdeath1998]

@@Swell-Films no problem buddy

[@mortem-tyrannis]

Another entertaining and interesting video my dude, thanks.

[@CWM-xl8ki]

Awesome video! I love TWD so much, I just very recently found your channel, you are criminally under subbed! I’m sure it won’t be long until you are huge. The quality of your work is great, can’t wait to see what you do next. 🙂

[@Swell-Films]

Thanks so much! Those are very kind words

[@centric3125]

You did forget Winston, which was a walker in a junkyard arena who had been impaled with metal pieces and spikes, and then wrapped in bits of scrap metal, including a helmet. He went from ordinary walker to bullet resistant, headshot-proof juggernaut who doesn't even have to bite or grab you to kill you. He can just run at you and if he gets too close, you get impaled to death.

[@13lueBomber]

*@TySwell* 🧟‍♂️ I mean, having *SOME* walkers run and show a tad bit of intelligence, which would be very rare. I think that would be cool, like walkers can sometimes mutate . That just makes sense to me in a “zombie” universe.

[@mommajenjm]

Just found you ,i love that you include everything in the universe , all the parts count even if most people dont think anything but the flagship matters ! You even remembered bicycle girls story and everything from tales ! Great job! I will be subscribing and looking for more stuff from you ! ❤

[@Swell-Films]

Thanks so much for the support!

[@Welsen971]

I've been waiting for a video like this after watching all the twd shows, thanks bro

[@SebastianWasserberg-dk3bs]

The intro of the walker king with the many limbs was so badass!

[@Neptune-Ghost]

I would say the idea of intelligent roamers would be a good possibility for the first few months and start fading out as the non active parts of the brain would slowly start decomposing.

[@avidion6274]

radiation walkers arent impossible, if they have radioactive material stuck to them (dust etc) theyll be radioactive

[@josesol2186]

My man what an spectacular video I am impressed you are a king 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@user-dz8wg5ny3n]

Well done and thanks for all these awesome videos!

[@coecludd]

Very informative. Many thanks (subscribed) 🙂

[@big.boi_v1795]

You forgot about that one walker in fear that pulls a man through an air vent and crunches up his body

[@Goldstandard_1]

I think that if you shoot certain parts of the brain, they might be able to turn, cause remember, they only need a small section of it, so if the rest was damaged, they might be fine

[@cade4505]

First vid ive seen from you!! Love that happy mask salesman poster in the back! Keep grinding my dude!

[@Swell-Films]

Thanks so much mate!

[@KenzoGT]

I'd like to think that roamers are just normal zombies but in the early stages. With time (season 2-3) they became less and less intelligent due to degradation and eventually decompose until there's nothing left.

[@adamafall7319]

there was also a super strong varient that punched through a solid wall

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

Variants might be caused by the person having a virus when they get infected with the zombie virus- the two viruses mutate when they meet and you get a variant. Different kinds of viruses might produce different variants.

[@fracturedzone7225]

lmao aids zombies?

[@mattias969]

The kid that picks up the teddy bear was a dream it never happened. Also this is what is called a romero zombie they act on old habit patterns. Like going to a mall playing football or playing an instrument this is nothing but a ghost of who they once were.

[@countchompula1896]

Imagine how chilling it would be if roamers could speak a little. Not clear sentences but just very small simple words like “it hurts” “help me” “so hungry”. Little Sophia slowly shambling out of the barn: “mom-my?”

[@kingdevin_]

My favorite variants of walkers are definitely the Walker king from Dead City and the hybrid walker from Daryl Dixon show because of not only their look but behavior as well! I like the names you gave some of these walkers. It would be interesting to see some of the France variants invade the States but we’ll have to wait and see about that one

[@desont2384]

i mean one explanation for the climbers in season 11 is the virus mutated in certain people allowing them to be a climber. now it could be argued that it really should have mutated earlier but hey it's tv

[@IntrusiveThoughts838]

In other words bad writing and seriously, just giving them the ability to climb? What a lame mutation to show off

[@KendooXD]

Actually they already had the ability to climb in season one, when Glenn and Rick lose their walker disguises in the rain, some walkers climb over a fence.

[@SeekingElysium]

Roamers are the regular walkers that keep traveling. The ones in 1 and 2 are the climbers that were reintroduced in 11 and I would consider the “protector” as a climber as well

[@tymoteuszstrzeczewski4222]

If walkers stayed as they were in first season, then (I'm trying to avoid spoilers) a certain character keeping their turned family members would make a lot more sense

[@stealthy1498]

The roamer personality concept isn't something I like. The literal definition of a zombie is a decomposing corpse that walks and somehow still needs to eat. It's not an alien or trapped mind thing.

[@luckylink6442]

Flame walkers in the ones who live, Rick sticks his stump in one to seal his wound and his axe blade glows bright red from killing them

[@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek]

Environmental

[@idiotwithpc]

Maggie somehow not dying from the walker king is the most unrealistic thing thats ever been shown on any walking dead show

[@ureverydayblondie5272]

I think the difference between walkers in season 2 and 3 could be caused by deterioration overtime in the walkers bodies, causing them to look more rotted and slower

[@user-rw3gj3un5r]

"Strength buffs." I like the cut of your jib, kid.

[@resistantzero66]

I like how the Last of Us treats zombies as nature, they aren’t some kind of super villain, just here for some food and a good time. Walking dead’s zombies are getting a lil cooky in the later seasons.

[@masoncarter8398]

Great Video!

[@TheLokiBiz]

1:20 - He probably went that way because originally Walking Dead zombies were literally just George Romero zombies - And zombies in Dawn Of The Dead and Day Of The Dead exhibit signs they have vague memories of their past lives.

[@GaZZuM]

This video made me VERY interested in the Daryl Dixon show! All the variants, and the potential of the viruses origins? Sounds awesome!

[@johnmoreno6903]

Realistically, rad-walkers would be completely skinless, which would’ve been rad…-ical, though, compared to a normal walker, they would rot like crazy, they would die from extended exposure as the radiation eventually melts away their brain stem

[@lucasorourke7887]

Climbers were in S1 when Glenn rescued Rick and they went up onto the roof you see walks starting to climb

[@gazzhumbly5433]

Cool vid dude

[@davidgummo3024]

From what ive seen and heard apparently the climber or whatever you called it could lead hordes and see through zombie camouflaged survivors aswell

[@MUSICA-dv1pt]

Wow ! This is so good ! ^_^

[@PsychoC4rnivore]

I always assumed that the change from Roamers to Walkers was just because as time passed they lost motor skills and intelligence due to decay

[@frbrbrgrblgrr7777]

Something funny about the radiation one getting a "May not be real or accurate" as if the Wasps or anything were 100% feasible, lol.

[@Swell-Films]

lol yeah it sounds dumb on a re listen. I was more so referring to how radiation would cling to something like that

[@frbrbrgrblgrr7777]

@Swell-Films nah it just made me chuckle is all. Glad it stayed in. I say shit like that too

[@jamesmorant1406]

Great breakdown of the walkers

[@Junior-mn9vw]

One thing I think you forgot but I think the one that attacked Daryl on the ship was a cohort, you can see how quick he is and smart, incredibly violent too in the way the walker killed that one guy, he turns fast to Daryl and takes a hit to the head but still attacks, this might be something to add or discuss. (Btw it was towards the end of season 1 episode 5 of Daryl Dixon

[@Thatgingerdude15]

It's crazy how many thousands of variants there could be

[@darrenhall6794]

You just earned a sub

[@narniaphuket]

you would still have access to neurons, especially strongly bonded core memories

[@ChangedCauseYT-HateFoxNames]

3:10 "Killing is easy. Notice I didn't say killing people is easy because the second you think of them as people... well it suddenly just gets that much harder."- Aaron "Vangaurd" Keener, Tom Clancy's The Division 2.

[@pirate303]

I’m so glad I wasn’t the only person to be like see the Walker king and make the connection to tlou, me and my mom were watching dead city and I IMMEDIATELY was like “TLOU DID THIS FIRST”

[@CrazyFaceChico]

Fresh walkers should honestly be able to run

[@keenansudworth9969]

In the ones who live episode 2 when michonne shoots the bomb thing into the mega horde the walkers go to the sound but the gas canister Walker still walks past and against the other walkers going to the sound to still go towards michonne. Could that be a new variant that isn’t distracted by noise? Also in Dixon in Daryl’s dream thing when the kid looks like he’ll get eaten they also do not go towards Daryl while he’s shouting (I know it’s like a dream but still interesting if that was a teaser for the noise ignoring variant in TOWL ). In Dixon also when the kid is hiding under the metal sheet at the Eiffel Tower there’s only one Walker that checks under it all while Daryl and Isabelle are fighting I wonder if that could also be a more intelligent walker because the horde went after the kid first but then went for the other 2 so maybe that one remembered the kid so was checking for him.

[@SJKNOL]

In my opinion a more realistic explanation would be that the gas canister walker was simply deaf before turning, which would cause the walker to also be deaf

[@reinasarnai]

For me, the climbers and ones that pick up things were learning from the whisperers and adapting - they watched these people who looked, smelled, and acted just like them climbing things, and stabbing people for so long that something just clicked and they started doing it themselves

[@wyattyates2303]

With the climbers, I think that it is the body slowly healing and reaching towards homeostasis. Look a the variants in Zombie Land for a better example

[@valthenvega2434]

I would imagine perhaps the original showrunner was inspired to build up the walkers as a dead society like the one from I’m Legend, having the zombies keeping some primitive intelligence then rebuilding their brain from scratch despite what Doctor Jenner researched. But, in another way, despite the show sticking to more brain dead walkers, I find it a rather interesting, more terrifying surprise to think that instead of a variant zombies could be evolving, which sets a precedent to worse things to come in that threatening world

[@SaleemFrazer]

That super Walker during the flashback in Daryl Dixon series that breaks its bonds and runs up the stairs massacring someone next to Daryl was incredible

[@CelticChu]

I always thought of The Walking Dead to be the only zombie show that did not have different types of zombies, but I guess that changed. Also, the Cohorts remind me of the Crimson Heads in Resident Evil.

[@LoWisR0511]

I'd love a walking dead type apocalipse, just me and the homies fucking around with zombies, putting rollerskates on one, put gloves on and have muay thai practice on the walking punching bags, doing a zombieland type of competition for creative kills

[@khangtrieu3600]

bro thinks he's in a game of just kiliing zombies. wbt other aspects like food, shelter medicine etc... no offense but the ones who boasts are the first ones to die

[@Mindsi]

Jet engine - bell on the other side😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Ziggy-hy4fn]

It would make sense to me that the roamers might have been a type that died out as the walkers continued to lose humanity. I don't think they are somehow smarter walkers but rather, as you said, "fresher" walkers that may have had a manner of death or initial resistance to the virus that allowed for that sense memory to stay preserved for a little while longer than in other cases.

[@anniemysweet2085]

the smart walker is a bit of a nod to the original Dawn of the Dead...towards the end of the movie when the zombies get in the mall, one of the main characters gets killed and turns. He then has enough memories to lead the rest of the zombies to the hidden, disguised elevator and are able to get to the survivors on the upper floor...unless the zombies rode the elevator or escalator they were not able to climb stairs so people on higher floors were safe.

[@Cheese_steak_]

I think it would be cool to see the zombies have the aspects of like remembering their past life early on in their infection

[@DustDemonTwilight]

i really want more of the cohorts, suped up super fast hyper aggression and enchanced strength

[@kermitthorson9719]

i think the best explanation of the roamers were that times were still new and their corpse was still fresh. maybe some intact portion is still firing similar to life. but by season 3 all the walkers has so far rotten in their anti fungal state that any ruminants of roamers are now gone

[@Obozo_Gaming]

I've never been a fan of The Walking Dead outside of the TellTale games, love those games, but a Rat King style of Walker is wild.

[@GH.ST_GD]

i think that the cohorts are the most terrifying things in twd, imagine the horde or those walkers, inteligent with ability to run💀

[@FusRoBOB]

Amazing video

[@Thebronzeboot]

I like to think the roamers are like that because they are more fresh and less rotted as well as the virus is still new so they rely on past memories more than they do now

[@S-L-C-03]

I remember in the 2nd episode seeing a walker using a brick to try n break through glass. I still don’t understand why. You don’t rlly see it throughout the rest of the show.