Lore of World War Z (Zombie Scenario)

Max Brook's World War Z explored an interesting scenario for the zombie apocalypse The world fought back against the plague, and the stories detailed how humanity survived. Since the movie did little to bring this story to light, here is a video explaining the novel itself.
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[@gagaplex]

Remember: Patient X was bitten by something while diving. So either there were zombies in that sunken town or perhaps some kind of vector, perhaps a zombified dog or something. A zoonosis.

[@Learn.The.Hardway]

I love that it's mysterious, but I so badly wanna know what happened in that water with Patient X.

[@yesaterisk5641]

I don't know if the zombie survival guide and WWZ are linked, but it could be that zombies have been in the water for centuries and the boy just happened to stumble upon one near the shore.

[@velocelegion5739]

In the Zombie Survival Guide, which ties into the World War Z novel, both written by the same author, the virus just kills animals, and doesn’t reanimate.

[@animedude34]

@@yesaterisk5641 Exactly, I do believe there was a tie in comic series featuring the zombie plague throughout history, going all the way back when first man huddled in caves

[@apl315]

The kid only got bitten, the father... Well... He was probably already only bones when the kid started to turn into a zombie 😅

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

"Iceland is full of zombies." Plague Inc. players: Impossible.

[@i_am_bored7719]

Ikr, I struggle to get countries like greenland and Iceland, even Madagascar because of the small amount of trade they do with other countries.

[@imjustamemerbro1506]

lmao

[@whybother7632]

thats greenland

[@captaingoji5456]

Relatable

[@captaingoji5456]

@@whybother7632 same thing

[@thetman0068]

So in the book the zombies were slow-moving and unintelligent, and the humans were fast and intelligent? Sooo basically the opposite of the movie?

[@worldofwarcraftman2]

The movie represents nothing of the book in the slightest

[@thetman0068]

asdfghjkl Just started reading the book tonight! Love it so far!

[@BirdRaiserE]

+tman008 I don't see how slow moving zombie apocalypse could ever get off the ground without some sort of auxilary method of transferring the virus, like water or air. In that case, the greatest threat isn't the zombies but the infectious medium. We have guns, ammo is relatively cheap. If you don't live where they'll let you buy guns, buy a bow or a slingshot. If those are somehow regulated, God forbid, get something long with a heavy or sharp side you can swing or stab with. My advice is to throw animal birthing lubricant on all the stairs and put up some warning signs to instruct survivors to use caution. People kill themselves on stairs all the time by slipping and cracking their heads open. Zombies aren't very smart presumably, so I doubt they'll see it coming. Use paint to designate safe routes. If you have the chance, stock up on some sort of heavy object you can throw. My advice is get some rebar and sharpen the ends so it becomes throwing spikes.

[@gamerset0]

+EHW2 i am making a history about a world wide zombie infection that will make you nae nae

[@BirdRaiserE]

Breaking Bread I love it when I nae nae. What's that mean again?

[@nln5035]

"Unspecified Near Future" "Patient X in China" "Election Season" Huh

[@SlyFireVR]

Hey, I've seen this one before. . .

[@korb9664]

Nice hat

[@SlyFireVR]

@@korb9664 nice goggles

[@korb9664]

@@SlyFireVR what

[@nidhogg6344]

It means, the movie is realistic in some ways. It's how it really happens, when it happens.

[@jpatmanid]

the book was so good, with lots of clever and plausible concepts zombie fans haven't seen before, underwater zombies, insane people pretending to be zombies, fighting in pure darkness (no electricity at all), changing politics and military style, realistic battles etc. it's worth reading and so much better than the film

[@tbdonnelly67]

I usually will read a book and then go see the movie. I did it the opposite this time. I thought the movie was actually quite good but I know I would have been horribly disappointed if I had read the book first, then watched the movie. The book was one of the best I have ever read in my life. WWZ would have been much better served as a TV anthology showing all the different stories and then tying them together; much like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad.

[@lalemonani6808]

What intrigues me are the feral children at the end of the book. How they managed to survive

[@joshportal2808]

Remember all the pissed mercenaries that were going to lose their jobs because the times of kill large amounts of zombies for a living was coming to an end. Robinson Crusoes kinds of people also started to show up where the Marines started going town to town.

[@thetruerift]

The battles weren't that realistic. Brooks several times really vastly underestimates how incredibly powerful modern weapons are. A thermobaric weapon wouldn't suck Zombies' lungs out, it would turn their tissues to jello (destroying the brain, obvs)

[@nightmarefreddykrueger121]

Thomas Donnelly Did they adapt the sickness immunity?

[@cympimpin20]

I think World War Z is especially unique in that it's the only zombie story type from the perspective of human civilization having *already won*, and the book is telling it from a hindsight point of view.

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

While somewhat true, there have been several media that explored the aftermath of zombie outbreaks that were more than a SARS epidemic, like Maggie, where zombification was realistic in a span of months instead of minutes, or Dead Rising and Resident Evil where humans treat zombies a little more than walking biohazards with instructions on how to dispose one. But let's face it, not too many people favor the rebuilding part and just wanna see all that gore and things burn.

[@jaqdraco]

I liked Max Brooks reaction to the movie "Oh I loved that it was nothing like the book. It meant I could watch it with no idea what was going to happen"

[@kenkaneki2214]

It's also interesting how in the book, it's stated that the children born after the zombie war were a lot happier than their parents just because they never experienced a life of taken for granted convenience. While prewar survivors suffered from depression and difficulties adapting to a severely damaged society, the new generation are used to the hardships and scarcity of the new world and the fact that they never experienced any of the comfort of life before the zombie war made them a happier generation than the previous one.

[@PJBloop]

H yes so real life

[@yourtimetraveleralara]

Yeah

[@OmegaCorsair]

Reminds me of world war 2

[@bluscout1857]

That’s actually pretty realistic lol, anyone before the zombie apocalypse would probably be contemplating if they should even continue on anymore in a broken world, while the new generation SEES the broken world as literally the world, I feel like they would probably adapt more faster and quickly to the new world

[@DisDatK9]

Reminds me of that one quote, don't remember who said it, but it was about how generations cycle. How prosperity and convenience gives birth to weak men, weak men cause hard times, which in turn creates a generation of strong men who create a world of prosperity and convenience only for the cycle to run again. It's like that, but on steroids.

[@Augmental_Art]

I like World War Z because it gives us something no other Zombie movie has.. ...A competent military

[@Whitebread0101]

Tru XD

[@generalkayoss7347]

I still think even WWZ underestimates the capabilities of the US military. They would have never lost at Yonkers.

[@generalkayoss7347]

Obviously they lost in the book. The fictional book.

[@generalkayoss7347]

Bombs would scramble their fucking brains. I don't care what lame ass explanation the book gives. It's fiction.

[@hecht0520]

GeneralKayoss, They did drop bombs in the book, they didnt work because bombs kill people through concussive force rupturing the eardrums and damaging the brain, the brains in the zombies have already begun to rot and their skulls are full of a type of jelly/goo that protects them from the concussive force of the bombs. The shrapnel and fire from the bombs only created flaming and crawling zombies, which genuinly terrrified the soldiers.

[@ReaverLordTonus]

I still maintain that instead of a movie, we should have gotten an HBO miniseries, each episode dedicated to one or two stories at a time. Some of the stories told in the book would have been interesting to see in live action given how unique the character's perspectives are. For example, the pilot watching from a blimp all the chaos on the highway, the audience would only see things from a birds eye view same as him. Or the people of radio free earth having to broadcast information while listening to the many desperate calls for help. We'd still have our action episodes like the battle of Yonkers and the suspenseful survival tales like the pilot who went down in the Deep South, but the series would bring a different type of perspective every episode.

[@ezekielcoronado700]

I prefer the walking dead

[@ZaZa-kp9gt]

Could’ve just done the damn movie the way it is in the book. As a series of interviews that switch between flashbacks. The movie isn’t that bad but it’s just not an adaptation of the book. Pitt should’ve been interviewing people the whole movie and listening to people’s story’s with the interviewees narrating there own flashbacks.

[@ZaZa-kp9gt]

How the battle of Yonkers wasn’t in the movie is insane

[@howardhoward5878]

@@ZaZa-kp9gt Yes!

[@nickimbasciani7920]

My favorite would be the Asian guy who climbed down his apartment or the blind man

[@Anemoia22]

yo this was supposed to be fiction

[@j.r.2674]

Ha.

[@then00brathalos]

God : Reality can be whatever I want

[@JohnSmith-qz6xb]

Well satire

[@exicutioner161]

God really needs to devolve his Plague Inc. virus now

[@Abrams_Enjoyer]

Well don't get infected by...uhhhhhhhhhh covid 19. KZbin:demonize time

[@kenkaneki2214]

To explain why Iceland is filled with zombies. During the outbreak, thousands of people fled to Iceland which at the time was zombie free making it a refuge country. Ironically, because of its zombie free status, it attracted a lot of people and of course some infected were with the other passengers and so the outbreak then reached Iceland and now everyone there is a zombie and no one goes there.

[@crististefanescu8169]

Considering Iceland is a small country, why didnt they attack it after the war ended?

[@readingking1421]

@@crististefanescu8169 The refugee population outnumbered the natives. Invading a small, lifeless, strategically unimportant island that is crawling with undead wasn't exactly the top priority. I think it's alluded to that the UN or whatever were planning on invading soonish even if that's ten years after the main fighting was 'over'.

[@toweypat]

Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded (with zombies).

[@josephdawson8073]

Also since it was demilitarized and the US had long since left they had no weapons to fight off the hordes. Same fate that almost befell Japan but they managed to evacuate enough people in time.

[@kaliyuga1476]

@@readingking1421 thats what they are doing to europe

[@domchubs5836]

0:10 I love how a zombie outbreak isn't even Australia's biggest concern

[@memelover6917]

Spiders are infinitely more scarier than zombies

[@shakiranelson2296]

Spiders > Zombies in Australia

[@Skiivin]

They got drop bears to worry about

[@shakiranelson2296]

@@Skiivin true, oh god

[@batstoast3560]

@@Skiivin They have what?

[@epic3893]

I just love how at 0:10, every country in the world is fighting zombies and Australia is fighting giant spiders

[@AGVortex]

I didn't even notice that haha

[@michaelpothoven1041]

Every country except France, anyway... :D

[@seapeoplesdidnothingwrong1307]

+Michael Pothoven haha the white flag. probably how it would go down

[@gabrielm.942]

+Michael Pothoven Damnit I was going to say that!!!

[@gabrielm.942]

+Carolus Rex well that's probably because white flags don't make very good weapons.

[@NoOneAsk]

The guy who wrote WWZ, Max Brooks, is now making Minecraft books. . . Let that sink in.

[@docb1as]

...Creeper

[@suwinkhamchaiwong8382]

Minecraft is the second most top-selling game of all time, only behind Tetris.

[@hansolo5912]

@@suwinkhamchaiwong8382 and?

[@metal3545]

@@hansolo5912 Good market

[@SorcererAC0]

Is it at least a good book?

[@zacharysuero9012]

I never interpreted the Chinese boy to be patient 0. He was clearly bit, he was missing a toe if I recall. And his dad disappeared, clearly killed. And when the doctor calls his friend, the friend is clearly aware what is happening, and the military arrives soon after, in hazmat gear and engaging in established protocells. So the Chinese boy was an early case, but certainly not the first.

[@drago939393]

You forgot the most important part, the invention that allowed the militaries to defeat the zombies: *Shovels*

[@emperorkiron3470]

...and underwater mech suits...

[@nickstersss]

Death of Korp of Krieg of Warhammer 40k intensifiessssssss

[@hairydave82]

The lobo. Great idea. That and cherry pie ammunition.

[@noahlapointe4332]

@@nickstersss Happy gas mask noises !

[@cdelcarmen90]

What about BDUs?

[@TheHero136]

Instead of a movie, World War Z should be adapted into an anthology TV series, like Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

[@JLax-jd4tl]

TheHero136 yeah they should call it “The Walking Dead”

[@patrikgajcevic8123]

@@JLax-jd4tl dude that's a sick name, how did you come up with it?

[@JLax-jd4tl]

Patrik Gajcevic its a gift

[@ynog0978]

@@JLax-jd4tl let's hope it works

[@djkaibaxter419]

1 episode for each country, 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇨🇳🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇱🇮🇹🇯🇵🇰🇷🇰🇵🇷🇺🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇳🇵🇦🇳🇿🇸🇪🇪🇸🇫🇮

[@josephmatthews7698]

Just move to greenland. That spots a pain in plague inc.

[@august6604]

necroa virus much?

[@lurker1245]

True, Greenland is a fucking nightmare depending on what difficulty you have the game set on

[@dogthirteen8661]

i mean yeah but they would starve to death because there wont be enough food

[@raviothethief8292]

shadowlink04 fishing?

[@r.chamaemorus8025]

@SnivyLink How would they? It is an island?

[@bigguyarmybruh8204]

4:04 after having re read the book, in actuality the "Safe Zones" in the Redeker plan we encouraged to be well protected and armed against the zombies. They weren't used at bait, rather well armed and protected pockets to draw the hordes away from the actual safe zone.

[@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer]

still kinda bait...more distraction but..eh similar enough

[@deanfirnatine7814]

So at least they took out a lot of Zombies before falling

[@kayladunaway7101]

Oh no, they where still very much so bait. You just have to keep your bait well armed *when possible* so they can continue to BE bait. The point was that these bait settlements where considered expendable compared to the main settlement.

[@chinsaw2727]

@@kayladunaway7101 So it’s the equivalence to putting a steak in a bear trap, still bait, still dangerous

[@kayladunaway7101]

@@chinsaw2727 Yes?? That's what I'm getting at?? Though less steak and more live bait....

[@Cypress74651]

This seems like it would have been a better movie, like a ton of sequels

[@randomcrandom3680]

It would of been better.

[@creativecookbook]

more like the daily shows where each season explores overarching themes while each episode details the stories of each survivor in the theme.

[@Dixio]

Right? It would have been an awesome TV show.

[@creativecookbook]

***** but instead we get the walking dead show which is either a hit or miss

[@KKazumai]

+Utkarsh Pandey You should watch Z nation

[@Rednecksith5]

The scariest thing about the book is that the reactions of various governments were surprisingly believable. Max Brooks (yes, the son of Mel Brooks for those who may wonder) did a fantastic job. He obviously put a lot of thought into it, and probably quite a bit of research to boot. Of course as you pointed out, Hollywood said, "That kind of complexity makes our brains hurt, let's just fill it with A-list actors and CGI zombies that run like track stars!" It's the biggest high-budget butchering of a novel by Hollywood since The Relic, IMO.

[@Yunghamz]

Agreed, replace zombies with a contagious disease and we would get the same reaction. Even if Hollywood had good intentions, I don't think this would work as a movie. I think what would do it justice would be a 1 season tv show with each episode focusing on each chapter of the book. It would be styled sort of like band of brothers was, short interviews preceding the dramatised actions with elements of the television drama Threads included.

[@misterdoctor8389]

Hamdi Ahmed I think a TV series could work, but an episode per chapter is much too little. Each chapter should have it's own season and have each episode be either one or two interviews. Unless you're referring to each individual interview as a chapter, then that makes sense.

[@christiandauz3742]

We would only lose several thousand people to zombies, mostly Republicans and religious people Even Ancient Civilizations would have no problem dealing with zombies Hit-n-run tactics would eradicate even the biggest zombie horde

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

I think this would make a good Documentary style movie

[@mitte90]

the real danger in the book was bad government tactics and misinformation. the zombies was only the igniting blow. think most died by the hand of living humans.

[@haaamez3145]

0:11 Australia's fighting a spider... So pretty much nothing's changed over here. Business as usual

[@eightbait06]

👍 :D

[@slimmynimmymusic3475]

Yup lol

[@pixel6854]

Lord_Hamez the kangaroos chase the zombies in hordes of kangaroos

[@johntulppo4484]

yep

[@gamingconnoisseur67]

France is surrendering as well and japan is using swords

[@aceasimpasa012]

Just to clarify, the Honolulu conference actually took place aboard the USS Saratoga ( an aircraft carrier ), because Hawaii was too crowded for a proper meeting to take place. Also, North America was not fully clear because the northern regions of Canada and Alaska were still not cleared after 10 years, and Canadians are still finding frozen Zombies.

[@WaterHose47]

So in theory you can wear a bomb suit and walk through a horde of zombies in the book?

[@connorbaird8596]

Yeah or even motorbike leathers will do the job, but the sheer weight of the horder would push you over and you'd be trampled to death but wearing thick clothing would be a really good tactic but media never has characters use any common sense cos "ooo suspense".

[@cwreber580]

Nah in the book they basically do that but it’s ineffective as if a zombie has you pinned they will eventually tear through you

[@connorbaird8596]

@Guillotine Yes I actually mentioned this in another comment but honestly you've got to be pretty dumb/really unlucky to be in a situation which involves you trying to fight a horde of zombies on your own.

[@yerboytoad6458]

They go into this and basically say the zombies eventually find a way to tear apart the weak joint points

[@connorbaird8596]

@@yerboytoad6458 You can't tear apart motorbike leathers or chainmail. It's impossible for a human to do so. You could just get crushed by the amount of bodies though if you were really stupid enough to try and fight through a horde but dealing with individual zombies or smaller groups you're basically invulnerable.

[@justhere9731]

I guess it depicts humanity's ability to... Come back from the dead

[@craploaf3655]

thats eggsalent and it cracked me up and its pretty punny hahahahahahahahahahahaaa kill me

[@johnquaviousjinglewood]

HUEHUEHUE

[@Bobbobson69420]

It seems more like people were "Left4Dead" to help save some others.

[@garonw2001]

Jimmy how many times have you died I lost count around 300

[@Bobbobson69420]

marco greene Heya, it's just a pun, pal, and I reject the Suicide offer.

[@Super-Shafs]

I kinda want to see a zombie apocalypse in the medieval or prehistoric or dark ages

[@Super-Shafs]

@@shivermetimbers6128 I don't have Netflix. Anything else?

[@obamaobama1056]

Shiver MeTimbers have to check it out, thank you :)

[@Super-Shafs]

@@nielsw8523 - thanks for that too

[@JC19171]

@@nielsw8523 such a good fucking movie

[@LOWERCASEJOKE]

There is a game coming out that is exactly that Its called black matter

[@emperorkiron3470]

WWZ is one of my favorite books of all time in how realistic it's plot is. Of _course_ governments would try to cover up or explain away Solanum, of _course_ the rich and wealthy would join up in their glass fortresses, hoping their bodyguards would fight off the zombies for them, of course a zombie virus would spread through illegal human trafficking and organ trade. Everything is completely believable, and that's what is scarier than the viru itself; the incompetance of modern man. Oh yeah, there was also a side book called 'Closure Limited' that introduces Vampires into the mix. The Vampire story may sound dumb, but it's handled really well.

[@baronvonjo1929]

I thought the Suburban house wife was super interesting. I mean every story is. But it made me realize with stories about aliens, monsters, zombies,etc. We the audience get tunnel vision and know what's happening. We don't see every little aspect of the charcters life. During covid or any other big event that seems to happen. Like right now all this bank business (watch nothing happen)I realize have so many other things to worry about I am not about to drop everything to prepare for something idk. I get tunnel vision with work and literally anything else. While maybe a bit dramatized her "excuses" on why they barely prepared just seemed really realistic in a way.

[@newil_yovac]

I mean, man has always been incompetent. The only reason older civilizations might have survived is because civilizations wouldn't be connected to one another, so they would die out in their own groups instead of rushing to others and spreading it faster. And not being able to jump continents would've kept everywhere except Asia, Europe and Africa safe.

[@stephaniecoady4787]

How to stop a zombie apocalypse 1. Kill the first zombie 2. No zombies

[@shawnsbeard596]

That's the thing though, all people that were initially infected my the first person were killed off. However, more infected people began to pop up throughout China, without being bitten.

[@ShinoSarna]

Well, if we assume Max Brooks' previous book, Zombie Survival Guide as being canon with WWZ, it is implied that zombie virus has existed in isolated pockets for a while, normally only encountered in isolated incidents.

[@RuiOliveiraTV]

but how they do not speed?

[@omidtajik7858]

I would beat the shit out of a lonely zombie

[@AP-fo5cf]

Just wait for them to rot and fall apart.

[@ItsCamille735]

A bit of a theory, Patient X got the virus when he was swimming to try and find treasure when he was bit by something. These zombies have been shown to hide on the ocean floor so could that mean a zombie outbreak could have happened before and gotten forgotten by history?

[@Goraka91]

Previous, though less serious, outbreaks are outright confirmed in the previous book 'The Zombie Survival Guide' stuff like Roman Legionnaires taking down some zeds. Surprised that isn't a movie.

[@christiandauz3742]

Parthian Horse Archers can kill every zombie without losing a horse/camel or rider

[@lalemonani6808]

There was a theory that patient x is not the actual first zombie, but rather the first known recorded zombie. There might have been a few people already infected at that time. But they don't know the actual cause of it. It was stated that he was with his father at that time and something got his father only him to survive (if I remember correctly)h

[@user-ve8ry1xw8v]

Goraka91 I loved that book.

[@raviothethief8292]

Maya Zulf wasn’t there a mini story in the book talking about Japanese zombies in the Philippines

[@karimo05]

"A child in china gets sick because of an unknown virus" Laughing in corona virus

[@ÀngryŊoodle]

The Crayola virus

[@バベル-e9y]

You mean coughing in corona virus

[@commentpolice4694]

What?

[@marlarki5280]

Neo Floridian Virus

[@mariafaimous8931]

Everything is made in china lol

[@j4kyboi13]

The teams that were deployed were called the Alpha Teams, though they never got deployed due to the fact that the virus was to far ahead to be effective. These kill zones are described near the end of the book where the guns are made of old furniture and stamped sheet metal. They used a specific round called a Cherry P.I.E, which was pyrotechnical and if the mixture wasn’t made properly it would make the zombies eyes glow red.

[@detritus3676]

The alpha teams were deployed. The only problem is they weren’t meant to be a solution but only a method to slow down the infection while the US military prepared for Phase 2, which involved drafting and conscripting military recruits. Unfortunately it was too expensive and congress did not view the zombie virus as much of a threat at the time, so the plan didn’t take off and phase 2 was never begun.

[@j4kyboi13]

@@detritus3676 thanks for the correction

[@BUckENbooz]

Wow I wish the movie covered stuff like this I want to read the book now

[@stevepaul9389]

The book is so much better then that crappy movie. The book has the possibility to be into 10 part series, like True Detectives. So much they could of incorporated in a series.

[@BUckENbooz]

+Steve Paul I ended up reading the whole thing, by far the best REALISTIC zombie story I ever read, no joke!

[@Vapor817]

I wouldn't say it's realistic but Brooks did do a good job at using the zombie apocalypse to offer commentary on people in general.

[@jimmu8689]

BUckENbooz it's quite realistic but it's a long shot to happen

[@434444334]

Steve Paul I'd watch a mini series of this book

[@Tribune_of_Italia]

0:10 Australia has more troubling problems than zombies apparently...

[@fallowfrog]

Spiders are terrifying here. I remember finding a spider on my towel in the shower, although it was a tiny spider. It looked like a Red-Backed Spider though...

[@lll-kd3mp]

+Staffaynu same with south america

[@lll-kd3mp]

+Staffaynu same with south america

[@Tribune_of_Italia]

clay fuller lol

[@_Xerota_]

+That One Penguin On KZbin I live in Australia and only yesterday morning I woke up with a Huntsman Spider on my chest.

[@homingice6444]

How to survive every apocalyptic scenario. Step 1. Panic.

[@jamesyap8364]

@@Water11118 better than ignoring

[@ITSMYSTERYPLAYS69]

Become the camera man

[@monkeybusiness673]

Step 2. ??? Step 3. So, ultimately, this is a story of how humanity prevails and we fought back the apocalypse. Woop-Woop!

[@majapahitnationalist9813]

No we will dead since white girls would start a “Zombies are human too” campaign

[@Drheims]

@@majapahitnationalist9813 Oh my fucking god I can totally see that happening.

[@NoriMori1992]

Some of my favourite parts of the book were accounts of people just trying to survive the societal collapse, where zombies were the least of their concerns and they were literally just struggling to eat. Also the way society had to adapt to the new conditions: For example, because crimes like looting were a much bigger deal, shame-based punishments like pillories became necessary, because mere imprisonment wasn't enough of a deterrent.

[@sud1881]

Imprisonment was not used because it wasn’t effective but because there were no spare resources or people to store criminal. The public whipping was used because the sense of cooperation among people had made public shame a stronger tool than before.

[@mutantmaster1]

I can't help but think of God playing Plague Inc above this earth and failing at the zombie level

[@thereisnousernorname]

"Dammit humanity, let me *eND YOU-*"

[@Random-wo6xq]

lol

[@net28573]

mutantmaster1 According to mythology, he already tried with the floods and plagues.

[@nightmarston2156]

net28573 why you gotta say that here oh god no the triggered catholics are coming run!!!!!!

[@kellywilson-lawson1857]

+night marston (grabs shotgun flips a table and ducks behind it)

[@Krosstic]

I'm pretty sure the only thing the movie took from the book was Israel walling its borders off.

[@franciscopereira2341]

also people coming back from the dead, I guess.

[@dashdaniels2685]

Francisco Pereira no, that wasn’t even really in the book; it was more of just a virus semi-killing people

[@bobesponja7791]

actually the only closed jerusalem,or am i wrong?

[@lucashogland8815]

And the name

[@JuwanBuchanan]

Of course they did

[@moon.7144]

I've lived near NYC my entire life and as a kid these types of movies always made me scared to go to New York. Usually everything bad in movies happens in the cities! Like why? At this point New York has survived robots, Godzillas, zombies, black outs, outbreaks, terrorism, mass destruction, poisoning, quarantine, major crime, etc etc lol

[@robzonefire]

Robots? in new york? wut?

[@shinsenshogun900]

moon. Enjoy it while it lasts, moon. Anything happens in the greatest city of the world

[@ericmartin3448]

New York survived Zillas. Not Godzillas. That's Tokyo.

[@brokebutfunctioninggarage]

New York is an "A typical" hub city for the american audiences to relate too. It shows a HUGE cross section of people, religions and ethnicity. thats why its usually used in films... L.A., London, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, all major films shot with "world altering" events are shot in these type cities.. (or at least they are SET in these type cities) bc it shows a larger cross section of the population. The same can be said with small towns in film. They're always shown to be isolated and cut off from the world and any form of "help" that could be offered... while in reality, most small towns are within a short driving distance from at least a moderate sized city. there are many that wouldnt fit this category but in the over all scheme of things, most are nearby other larger municipals.

[@donkeydog7688]

moon. +one of those first movies was chud,radioactive cannibals living in new yorks sewers.

[@abraham2172]

I like the book actually covers the whole world and not just America. It was really interesting seeing different countries fight in unique surroundings and with unique weapons and tactics. Most other films/series/books etc ignore the rest of the world completely.

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

If the movie was to be lore accurate, then you know China wouldn't have allowed it and the director really wanted that money. I mean they could just make it a limited HBO TV series with mockups of China like the Beijing embassy in Mr. Robot and it would have been more successful.

[@mr.slimeyt]

@@thientuongnguyen2564 only if netflix can show it cuz they didnt care about the evil representation of CCP when showing the 3 body problem series

[@roberteckert7891]

Armies in Zombie movies: Oh no! Zombies, better get out of my GIANT ARMORED VEHICLE

[@darkzircon8165]

Robert Eckert Yeah and let's shoot 'em in the body but no in the head!

[@darkzircon8165]

TableGT TDM Yeaahh but, even if later they know that the only way to destroy the undead is with a headshot, in many movies the army and police have a shitty aim xD (even if the zombies are slow, those zombies are just an easy target)

[@Imnotagangster]

Most soldiers are trained to aim for center mass.

[@christiandauz3742]

It would only take less than an hour for humanity to realize that zombies need headshots to be killed (Thank the Internet!) Riot Police, Guerilla Fighters and the Air Force would be very effective against zombies

[@fulcrum2951]

Or just drive over them with dem armored vehicles

[@Oxide_]

"The Australia Is Fighting With Spiders Not Zombies." Interesting....

[@Oxide_]

Maybe Because Their Spiders Are So Deadly

[@BirdRaiserE]

+Soap MacTavish Haven't you ever played resident evil? If we had those spiders in our sewers, imagine what the aussie's have to deal with

[@Oxide_]

Yeah.

[@Engineer1998]

+Soap MacTavish Wait, aren't you suppost to be dead?!

[@Oxide_]

Im Only Dead In That Game. Not In Life. (JK IM NOT TH REAL ONE XD)

[@VincentIrkallaOfficial]

they *infecc* they *attacc* but more importantly they *snacc*

[@leonardoolindol5158]

Vincent Irkalla Dude what the fuck 😂

[@doopboop8359]

Thot version?

[@notyourwaifu7944]

Dumbb thicc zombiezz

[@notyourwaifu7944]

@Boom Boy18 due your wierdd

[@notyourwaifu7944]

Duhh

[@arthurwatts1680]

Brooks gave an interview shortly after the book was launched where he made it clear that he has little faith in the ability of governments to respond to any form of pandemic. At the time, he based his opinion on various natural disasters such as Katrina and the historical record going back to the Black Plague. Fast forward to 2021 and, sadly, he was right in almost every country on earth - even Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have had to deal with second and third waves.

[@handlethisshitainttwitternigga]

there's a difference between actual walking, violent, cannibalistic corpses. and something that you cant see, might kill you if you're unhealthy enough. or just unlucky. im sure people would react differently irl.

[@vardiganxpl1698]

That is the sad reality, that we may not really be ready for a real pandemic of zombies

[@arthurwatts1680]

@@vardiganxpl1698 fentanyl is the zombie epidemic and they seem powerless to contain that.

[@Hitithardify]

Just so everyone knows if you don’t..... There is a super kick ass audiobook version of the novel that you can get with many cool people voicing the characters, like Mark Hamill, Alan Alda, Henry Rollins, Simon Pegg, and many more. Totally worth checking out if you think you might want to read the book.

[@obamaobama1056]

Connor Burnett mark hamill? HECK YES!

[@scrapper3494]

Echo this. The audiobook is AWESOME!

[@juanvillalobos9616]

Where can I listen?

[@Hitithardify]

juan villalobos It’s on audible if you have that, or you could just buy the physical cd of the audiobook from whatever website. I know Amazon has it.

[@julienvalley28]

Hell yeah! Alan Alda!

[@kommissar4472]

80% of comments: CoROnA VirUs 10% of comments: wwz is good 9% of comments: questions 1% of comments: the country balls at 00:10

[@Phoenix_The_HeroHater]

6:31 this too

[@UnorthodoxIndividual]

it's honestly just funny that Australia is fighting a spider

[@MrlspPrt]

@@UnorthodoxIndividual Australia being Australia.

[@commentpolice4694]

The hell is “Corona virus”

[@Jacksiloution]

Australia fighting spiders

[@pantheon4481]

Your missing one thing Canada should be fighting the zombies with hockey sticks

[@pantheon4481]

+Jaispyslime exactly you get it

[@geekymetalhead5112]

While Riding on Moose pulled wagons with Miniguns

[@DaKussh]

No lobos for them XD

[@jeyanthisivasambu8656]

Is this a insult to Canada?

[@pantheon4481]

+Jeyanthi Sivasambu nah m8 tru Canadian right here

[@PinataFreaks]

I think the most fascinating part of the book to me will always be what happened to North Korea. The fact that the entire nation just vanished one day is such a perfect mystery left unanswered. By fan theory is that the virus actually started in North Korea, and that it was a bioweapon that they either lost control off or set off deliberately. Either way once the virus was out they quickly hid themselves in bunkers to protect themselves and emerge later as the world's new masters. And they're either still down there or, as the book suggests, the virus followed them down there. The book says that patient zero was a boy in the Chinese countryside. But when the doctor calls it in it becomes very clear that China all ready has a protocol in place to deal with this exact situation. Rapid response doesn't begin to cover it. They even know to ask if someone's been bit. That kid may be the earliest case that you can still find documents about, but he was not the first case the Chinese government encountered. And on top of that, something bit the kid to begin with. So until Max Brooks writes something that proves otherwise, I am just going to think North Korea created a virus that then spread to China. And they hid themselves away before the zombies could attack them as well.

[@ar0568]

I think Cody left out that the nuclear protection bunkers are still closed and there’s evidence that thats where the North Korean ran to. I like how no one wants to open those bunkers to see if anyone is still alive for fear of another WWZ so for all we know there could still be people in those bunkers thinking the zombies are still there

[@charlieputzel7735]

So, apparently Brooks also wrote a book titled "the Zombie survival guide" that pretty much describes the disease in WWZ, with it being much much older. In the guide it's stated that trace evidence of the virus was found in Egyptian mummies, with an archaeological site in central Africa showing possible signs of zombie activity much earlier (several caved in skulls and a cave painting of one person eating another). So it was definitely known about before, it just never had an outbreak on this scale. Also, I agree that it's very interesting that no one wants to open up North Korea for fear the bunkers might be packed full of zombies. It creates an interesting scenario where it's a sort of ticking time bomb, sooner or later the bunkers will get breached and all hell could break loose.

[@shooterDisease]

I did always like movie explanation they gave for North Korea and how they removed the teeth of every civilian in a DAY Probs the one interesting bit in that whole movie. Wonder if it’s canon to the book.

[@asiangaming8409]

How would Australia be overrun by zombies, the emu’s would of taken them out already

[@jorgeacosta974]

Oversimplified emu war

[@z0orb]

If the zombies ate the emus, ZOMBIE EMUS. THOSE ARE THE ONES WIPING OUT AUSTRALIA

[@asiangaming8409]

@@z0orb my . . . GOSH

[@monkeybusiness673]

@@jorgeacosta974 What?! Too soon? x'D

[@asiangaming8409]

@@monkeybusiness673 sup, reply to someones commet when this waas posted like 11 months ago

[@somerandomdude3729]

In any zombe apocalypse... Run fast, think fast and follow the rules in the movie zombieland

[@KOLDBLU3ST33L]

WW Z definitely did NOT follow the book. Shame, that story needs a top quality movie. Still, Max Brooks himself, being perplexed by the actual story being ignored, had expected the movie to suck...it did NOT. He praised it. I agree.

[@stealmysunshine]

It was a good zombie movie. Just not WWZ

[@drakashrakenburgproduction5369]

It was good but it was not a good adaptation. I still liked enough to buy it on blue-ray. I recommend the unrated extended cut.

[@obamaobama1056]

I liked the movie in its own light. Speedy zombies that are kinda smart are hella cool. And I liked just following brad Pitt while he tried to be all science. And while none of it added up, it was cool to watch. But yeah, the books deserve a better adaptation.

[@zachhecita]

@@obamaobama1056 If the film was released under a different title and not marketed as an adaptation of the book, it would prove to stand as it's own thing. This tells me, the studio was unwilling to a bankroll a movie without a popular brand, and that studio execs thought (or cared if) a faithful adaptation wouldn't work.

[@eigelgregossweisse9563]

@@zachhecita Even the film failed on it's own logic. Brad Pitt, is a UN war reporter or agent. He should've acted the part...

[@mr.p215]

"A mysterious new disease that popped up in a rural town in china, which got supressed by the government. " Boy, I am happy this took my mind of the news.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Except Covid started in a Level 4 lab

[@matthewjones39]

“Rural town” sure.

[@AlternateHistoryHub]

For those wanting to see a map of this world. th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/099/6/8/world_war_z__aftermath_by_quantumbranching-d3dlt1p.png

[@minihjalte]

fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/099/6/8/world_war_z__aftermath_by_quantumbranching-d3dlt1p.png Thats in full size

[@TheRellz]

We need more episodes bro !!! And i always ask this question "What If Asia came together as one nation (cause of there cultural similarities) and start an hostile takeover against the world" Please so this !!!

[@TheRellz]

***** i kno thats what makes it interesting (Evil Laugh) Hahahaha

[@jacobdunn6625]

what if war of the worlds really happend

[@williamzona3119]

this vid is astounding,can you try a battle for LA scenario in your next vid

[@DualWieldedEggrolls]

At least the military isn't dipected as incompetent cannon fodders.

[@spec7441]

Semi-competent.

[@drearyplane8259]

Apart from the Grunt in the Great Panic title.

[@RamdomView]

When Life Smacks You In The Face Nope, they still are inept. for example, at Yonkers the US army lost due to somehow running out of ammo and forgetting about the existence of airburst fragmentation artillery.

[@imasepan]

*Cough cough* Yonkers

[@Batchall_Accepted]

Yet people in the favelas in Brazil survive because ooh the gangs and drug dealers are able to fight off the zombies better than trained soldiers somehow. Oh yay favelas being miserable shitholes actually worked in their favor! I love the book but there were bits like that that annoyed the absolute fuck out of me. Not bringing enough ammo is the weakest fucking excuse for them getting beaten and the fact that wed evening be using infantry to deal with them in the first place when you have access to helicopters, gunships, drones and tanks is laughable

[@jakefaulkner8381]

When the zombie virus started in China and the government tried to suppress information about it, and you're reading this in the middle of the corona virus outbreak

[@Metamind149]

just have fun you idiot

[@twiddlerat9920]

sad part is the same thing happened in real life

[@editmor8554]

When i was eating my dinner that night.. i switched on the news.. i saw a new sort of disease break out in a chinese city?, a few months or something passes bye... i then go home from school after it ended due to a worldwide pandemic.. i then watch the news as chaos rages on for the rest of the year... BLM riots, wildfires etc.. untill.. the year ended..... *"why are there still people dying.."*

[@RandomRothbardian]

Texas-ification incoming

[@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer]

watched this video first during corona when i lost nearly all zombie fears...and guess what..i was like.."is this just a wierd corona...or have i been to long in lockdown?"

[@ImperialWarrior6490]

With The Walking Dead over, I'd love a World War Z show based on the book. Yes, we are getting The Last of Us, but WWZ is a very in depth story of the world and the struggles of both famous and ordinary people. An anthology series or something like Interview with a Vampire could work for a style of show. There are so many stories from the book I want to see adapted to the screen: Yonkers The Chinese Submarine Sharon and the Church Radio Free Earth Cape Town Kondo Tatsumi's escape from his apartment complex This could be such a great anthology series! We just need somebody with the knowledge and balls to do it!

[@Aviationlord7742]

you forgot to add the fact that Saudi Arabia, for some unknown reason destroyed its oil fields. Also Russia 'Liberated' Belarus and parts of Eastern Europe. Apart from that, great video

[@GUNSLINGER47L]

and ksa got destroyed and a bedoun nation rises somehow the make barely a percentage in whole of arabia let alone ksa and how did russia 'liberate' belarus?

[@Aviationlord7742]

GUNSLINGER47L according to the book, Belarus was so depopulated that Russia simply marched their army in and annexed them

[@AlternateHistoryHub]

I was going to, but without much context to it, it seemed out of place and silly. Sorry.

[@133163chen]

AlternateHistoryHub it,s ok

[@KevVIII]

To someone who knows the book... a question: What happened to South Korea? Did it disappear like the North? It sounds silly (actually.... dear beloved leader fleeing while rest of NK's population suffers... that sounds about right) that NK just disappear, but I would like to know a bit about my home country and whatever happened to it.

[@jamesmelt]

Read the book as a teen when it first came out. 20 now. Saw the film. It would have been okay if it had have had any other name. But it insulted one of my favourite childhood books by existing.

[@christiandauz3742]

The book itself is not realistic enough No way we would lose more than five thousand people, and most of them are Republicans

[@zingy1811]

You realise a lot of republicans have guns right? And noone asked for your ignorant political comment

[@theretrorobot2282]

the Great Panic started because of large, uncontrolled pockets of zombies sprung up and the public mostly panicked. it wasn't just the zombies we would have had to deal with but civil unrest as well.

[@obiwaankenobi4460]

Christian Dauz Get politics out of here. No one asked for that, shithead.

[@insertsomethingfuni2617]

@@christiandauz3742 who asked

[@icyknightmare4592]

2:38 That poor grunt, stuck in the wrong universe. At least zombies are way less dangerous than Flood.

[@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer]

zombies : couldnt take over a nearly dead planet if the planets forces where cordinated enough and intelligent enough flood : IS SO DANGEROUS A SPECIES MORE ADVANCE THAN ANY OTHER IN HISTORY HAVE TO US A GALAXY DESTROYING WEAPON TO DESTROY IT..EVEN THAN NOT GETTING RID OF IT FOREVER AS IT DEVESTATES THE GALAXY AGAIN

[@Z.O.M.G]

What I like about WWZ is that governments don't just crumple as soon as there are some undead milling about, the military actually does shit and zombies are appropriately easy to remove with the firepower human armies have. In a ton of zombie stories, the army, governments or even secured major population centers are no where to be seen

[@davidnievas2243]

The book contains many other stories such as what happened in India (the creation of the Raj-Singh maneouver or the infantry square tactic), Japan (holy warriors fending off zombies with melee weapons and smart tactics), Europe (people survived using medieval castles as refuge and strongpoints for retaking the ground) and even outer space (the gallant crew of the ISS maintaing a net of satellites for surveillance and military operations exposing themselves to the consequences of a insanely large period of space life). This book is just MARVELOUS.

[@bigbrotheriswatching1190]

lol, australia fights a giant spider. that's better than having to deal with horses of flesh eating zombies.

[@willitsucc9142]

Horses what a great autocorrect

[@bigbrotheriswatching1190]

GOD DAMN IT

[@teku6678]

Horses xD

[@J-BiRTH]

Undead horses would be pretty fucking scary XD

[@rurushu8094]

+RedRogueWulf Undead anything is terrifying

[@ijent3819]

* Zombie invasion * * Humans kill each other * * What *

[@drakashrakenburgproduction5369]

Dumb how Pakistan and Iran destroyed each other rather than work with each other.

[@Anemoia22]

@@drakashrakenburgproduction5369 ^the middle east in one sentence^

[@raycom201]

No, the entire world in one sentence

[@Anemoia22]

@@raycom201 I was referring more to the Pakistan-Iran comment, but yeah

[@SuperAzoz99]

Humans kill each other regardless.

[@Liam_Daly]

This is probably one of the best books ever. Took me a while to get through and Im not going to lie, i was terrified. I have big fears about distopian era books like 1984 and nuclear warfare, but i LOVE geopolitics and these are the books that cover it. Due to this i picked up a copy about 6 months ago and read it in a fear enduced frenzy. It is crazy cool to see how it mirors real life, such as ebola in 2014, and Covid in 2020 the disbielif the fear, the misinformation, but most importantly, humanity surviving.

[@bootybangjr]

"This is called 'The Great panic" (Shows Halo Grunt Running)

[@BreadboiEVA01]

I mean like in halo combat evolved the grunts SHIT THEIR PANTS if they're the last one standing

[@sirfijoe450]

Kim Jong Un problably found a portal to another planet millions of light years away, and so him and his people left earth...

[@Newtype93]

Wow...just wow...

[@Superbl0bby]

Nah, he obviously used the portal and killed everyone else

[@sirfijoe450]

Superblobby oh yeah, my bad

[@marcluu2433]

+Nigel S. And then he launch an attack on the earth and wins He declare president of the world for live and writes a book about it

[@sirfijoe450]

Marc Luu You get an A+ young man for studying for your history test!

[@lightbenderga2017]

0:10 Oh France, how typical of you.

[@redactedagentdataexpunged9431]

Light Bender Yuo were of greatest until 1945

[@lightbenderga2017]

Cain Arathoon are you saying I’m a Nazi?

[@supersayan8951]

I'm French and this funny but we did better than the US, somehow......

[@operandwriter]

You didn't see the French charge into their catacombs to empty them of the zombie filth.

[@naughtyskywalker9292]

*HAHAHA SOO TRUE!*

[@FishtownRec]

It’s insane all they took was the name after paying tens of millions for the rights to Max’s brilliant novel

[@chrisc3421]

I love how everyone has their own weapon at 0:10 like for example, france is surrendering

[@shinsenshogun900]

Daddy Stalin Hey, at least they have a war hero in the novel, sucks to fight the Parisian Catacombs if you're that guy

[@soyhugo390]

and brazil is "hue hue hue hue" latam is more safe than eeuu because the type of huose we have

[@dannypock2948]

I like how Australia is defending against spiders

[@raviothethief8292]

Daddy Stalin nothing new nothing to see here people

[@raviothethief8292]

DJ Rice zombie spiders my good man

[@OrbitOnceAround]

I didn't read the book but after watching this, I'm gonna grab the copy from my bookshelf and read the first sentence and put it back

[@locke180]

Even though that's true it doesn't have every story in the audiobook there is one story I. The book about people who used expo suits in the ocean it's awesome .

[@mattsika8518]

The beginning seems quite a bit like the current coronavirus

[@godsonalvarado6656]

It’s all fun and games until the virus causes dead people to reanimate. 0_0

[@ogchipotle]

Not true. Wuhan isn’t a rural city. And it was 60 yr old who first got infected, I think. And China didn’t suppress news of corona. And the US did not ignore it.

[@Dankdalorde]

i chew liquid no the news was surprised and didn’t leak until a Chinese healthcare worker leaked it

[@genghiskhan5701]

@@ogchipotle Yea no the CCP suppress the virus as early as November

[@lennoxdiaz9070]

I have a feeling something is happening

[@bobdmz6437]

I hate in zombie movie scenarios how the armies of the world never use conventional bombers. Like bro, their moving slowly in large packs with no cover. That’s a bombers wet dream.

[@Agarwaen]

the book does a good job of describing how useless they would be. only killing the brain would guarantee a dead zombie with most conventional bombs working by killing people through the shockwave (there's a fairly grizzly description of zombies walking around with their lungs having been pulled out through their mouths by vacuum bombs, yet otherwise basicly as dangerous as they were before they got bombed).

[@BaoHadir]

One thing: the Safe Zones were meant to be safe for the people there. At least as safe as they could make them. According to Redeker, every zombie at the walls of a safe zone is one not attacking the Safe Zone of the government. If the zones were meant to fail, the zombies would wander off.

[@julian2626]

The Nazi's will be fine with their moon base though..

[@someguyfromotheruniverse]

Julian even though this is like a year old is this a reference to Treyarch zombies of the map moon

[@roflmywaffles1313]

some guy from other universe 115935 yeah

[@imasepan]

some guy from other universe 115935 no, its a reference to Iron Sky and/or possibly the conspiracy nazi theories about the moon.

[@someguyfromotheruniverse]

Hurry Calls thank for clearing that up, to be honest I don't think any of my history teacher told us anything about conspiracy theory about the Nazi being on the moon part.

[@someguyfromotheruniverse]

Quinn anything about a conspiracy theory no

[@dasbubba841]

Perhaps the Australian is not fighting the spider, but telling it to go kill some zombies?

[@meetthebonk155]

Australia: Listen here fucker kill these zombies or I'll kill you! Spider: ok

[@bp837]

+Meet the Bonk Then New Zealand comes and accidentaly stomps the spider.

[@eggsacuteme3456]

Australia: ok so here's the deal, u guys kill all the zombies and we'll give u a dollar. Spider: ok :D

[@dasbubba841]

Australian Dollar.

[@MrCherryzz]

I remember going to the theater to see this and afterwards I was very disappointed. My friends like it and told me I was wrong and it was a good film. I started ranting on all the stories lines, the computer gamer that climb down a 50 stories apartment building and teamed up with a blind monk to kill 300 zeds. I got to admit though, this should of been a tv show.

[@SableZardYT]

It screams for an HBO series

[@ospray1888]

I bet Canada would try to negotiate with the zombies

[@zhongdonianlan8040]

😂 lol yeah we will eventually win them over with poutine ✌️

[@caralho5237]

There would be SJWs protesting to let the zombies in.

[@pyromaniacsoldierr1959]

*canadian charges riding Moose with a fork covered in maple syrup*

[@exocakes4587]

Go North! Just go North!

[@zaksolso7937]

Canada: WOAH DER BUD, CALM DOWN OK? WE GOT SYRUP? YOU WANT SYRUP? Zombies: GRAAHAA Canada: WOOOOAH OK OK, SOURYY BOOT DAT.

[@phantomdude9901]

how to solve a Zed apoc. 1. Get hoards to specified kill zones. 2. Box them in 3. explosions and ammo.

[@nick_a91]

Also use heavy metal to lure them in and psyche you up

[@jaek__]

Broken Pencil, seems like a good idea at first and then you realize Michael bay would f****** blow the entire country up.

[@shadhinov]

@@nick_a91 iron maiden. The trooper!

[@VuLamDang]

explosive would make it harder to clear the zone as the head might not be completely destroyed and thus become bobby trap. It's explained in the book

[@doopboop8359]

Or just pike them at a VERY safe distance

[@houselemuellan8756]

Love how the Aussies are just fighting off giant spiders

[@kaktus575]

giant zombie spiders P.s. they're not actually zombies

[@matthewjones39]

@@kaktus575 That’s what they said.

[@UchuKejiMovan]

This actually made me want to read the book. Thank you for this video

[@v5in88]

0:10 France surrender And Brazil is immune to it

[@BiggusWeeabus]

A zoeira dos brasileiros é demais pros zumbis

[@virgiljianu7166]

@@Renbuscus House security systems?

[@acdclife94]

Ren Buscus cause they all have this disease for being around cat shit to much that counteracts the virus

[@User_Not_Found_110]

He he YoUr RiGhT

[@RobbieRR]

5:40 "Many pockets of zombies,mainly at the ocean floor..." Wait,what?

[@magikarp9718]

The zombies were more undead than zombies; they didn't need oxygen, thus could survive below the ocean. A good idea to not go swimming in that universe.

[@drFocak]

woudnt the watter pressure kill them instantly ?

[@magikarp9718]

At the deep parts, but they could survive in more shallow areas. Not every ocean is miles and miles deep in every place.

[@Dirtnap12]

Some places in the book actually get infected by hordes going full Zombie D-day and just walking out of the sea.

[@shooterDisease]

It's a whole thing. The zombie's 'blood' was more like a thick gel so it's possible that's how they survive under water. It's also why explosives usually did jack shit to then.

[@Evil_Florida]

Thank you China for making fiction reality

[@infamous7223]

Lmao

[@mheckzmusic6105]

Too too true comrade /:

[@TheRealBatCave]

Funny how it sais ignored my tge Americans as well.........

[@bananaspy20]

Oof

[@anselmgademann9407]

As a half Chinese I find this comment kind of racist, true... But it still feels racist

[@darkscorpion8503]

i look at this video now and it still reminds me of 2020

[@151daze]

The most realistic we could ever get to a real zombie apocalypse is a mutated form of rabies in which it spreads through rodents , flies , air , water etc. And also rabies doesn't kill the host .

[@hunter_light_18ncs]

Rabies kills the host after several days.

[@kellywilson-lawson1857]

+FireStyle21 a MUTATED form of rabies

[@LV_427]

The zombie movies that have closest premise to this scenario are REC and its american adaptation Quarantine.

[@keyboardtaskforcephi-3689]

kampusmampus REC is the most unrealistic zombies. It's wasn't even a disease at all. those people were processed by demons

[@heisenbooger]

don't forget the 28 days series. I thought that one had a pretty realistic plot.

[@cactusanal9395]

most zombie corpses would rot and fall apart within a week or 2 right?

[@Hi-hg4ky]

1 year and a half maybe.

[@CowJuice]

I believe that it is explained in the zombie survival guide that the virus the zombies are infected with slows down decay.

[@dellfire8826]

Not necessarily if you take the possibility of "The last of us". The fungus on the zombies could stop degeneration and the decomposing process stoping the corpse from not falling apart. However my theory is if that's true the zombies would be slow from the weight of the fungus and from the build up of fluid as well as from rigor mortis. So as a result you can you just walk right around them without lifting a finger lol.

[@himedo1512]

depending on the location of the climate, you have to wait for black putrefaction stage to kill them. this stage is when the vital organs go, which includes the brain, the thing that needs to die. So based on location i'd give a single zombies life-span 1-6 months and a year maximum, but that's pushing it.

[@SuperG4M3R45]

No. In a different book by the same author, the Zombie Survival Guide, he explains almost everything about zombies, including how they take at best a couple years to decompose. Both books use the same zombies.

[@conradwerth6954]

I have to say, World War Z was probably one of the best zombie novels I ever read. And it wasn't full of zombie action, or should I say, regular zombie action. I loved the "war stories" aspect of it, as it was written as a series of interviews between a reporter and survivors. It was so unique and entrapping that I couldn't put it down. There was even a script written for a movie version that actually followed the model of the book, but that was scrapped because they wanted a version where Brad Pitt could be the big hero, searching for a cure to a zombie plague (which is a dumb idea. Yeah, curing people of death, totally possible.) I think that if a movie had been done following the book, it would have been one of the best movies to ever come out.

[@funveeable]

Who cares about the movie? The book itself is whacky. Why can a slow and mindless horde be able to get past the US military with its flamethrower and bombers while every American has enough guns and ammo to take out a hundred zombies before they join the horde

[@justtheletterV274]

3:00 This aged HORRIBLY well.

[@migueltorres6145]

Plague Inc zombies: never hits iceland. World war Z: stays in iceland.

[@frankg2790]

Miguel Torres Only if you suck at Plague Inc.(I only failed the Bacteria scenario on casual because people did not die fast enough).

[@migueltorres6145]

Frank G it doesn't happen everytime but it happens occasionally.

[@migueltorres6145]

Frank G they are hardcore, they actually execute when it starts to kill the rest of the world

[@frankg2790]

Miguel Torres I doubt a few men on fishing boats are gonna be able to repel hordes of refugees, especially considering the ratio of infected to healthy.

[@THE1gameaddict]

Miguel Torres I always start in Iceland, I have non lethal but highly contagious symptoms so everyone is infected without knowing, and i wait till someone takes a boat to Russia

[@marceloizukawa5347]

just a minor correction: it spread from China to Brazil, not south africa.

[@lalemonani6808]

From china to middle east to africa to brazil (black market) if I remember correctly

[@Quazgarion]

It spread from China to South Africa AND from China to Brazil, the Black Market organ trade was a worldwide operation.

[@BiggusWeeabus]

Caraca, então fomos os primeiros a se fuder

[@callmeastaire5700]

Okay, America is shooting at them with an M16, Russia with an AK-47, Japan is decapitating them with a katana, France is, unsurprisingly, attempting to surrender, Africa is getting all psycho machete slaughterfest on them, Brazil is laughing, and Australia is fighting gigantic spiders with a hunting knife. So for Australia, it's just business as usual, I see.

[@griffinhartlaub2026]

This made me laugh so hard

[@spaceman081447]

@Call Me Astaire I don't recall any mention of battles in Australia, although there was an Australian astronaut who had been stranded on the ISS for several years.

[@dbarebasics6205]

I think the best way to translate the book to the screen would be a miniseries where each episode details a different survivor's story similar to the narrative of the book.

[@ホフマン日向]

The Solunum virus is not new in the wwz universe. It was with humanity dating back to the stone age

[@ktown0173]

ホフマン日向 true, the zombie survival guide is canon in wwz right?

[@ホフマン日向]

@@ktown0173yes, that and the graphic novel series zombie survival guide recorded attacks.

[@apl315]

Yes, i think is mentioned in other stories of max brooks that even romans had tactics to fight against hordes, and i think that links some others with vampire stories in europe actually being zombies

[@aerithofmyore]

@@apl315 yes in the book recorded attacks the virus started all the way back in ancient times. During the course of history the Egyptians purposely got rid of the brain of their mummies so that corpses won't turn into zombies,the Romans fought a huge hordes of zombies in Britain and devised a strategy by digging a trench, putting sharp sticks and covered with crude oil to stop zombies from invading. This tactic was written into official roman military doctrine. After that the French foreign legion fought the zombies while holding out on a siege for three years in North Africa because they didn't know to kill zombies they needed to be shot at the head. The communist guerrillas in China(The PLA) ironically stopped outbreaks from happening because their military doctrine was to always emphasise headshots so they probably didn't even know it was a zombie. A stark contrast to whatever happened in China during modern times in world war z

[@styxart1]

Zombies come Humans:panik “Zombie” vaccine made Humans: kalm Vaccine doesn’t work Humans: P A N I K

[@mobilman3904]

Humans become Titans because of the Vaccine

[@crimsonstrykr]

@@mobilman3904 Panik! Eren says, "I was born into this world." More panik!!

[@bartegexe8182]

Fire: It's time to shine

[@deanfirnatine7814]

1 year after your comment 85% of new Covid cases in Israel are vaccinated and 65% in the UK

[@20thcenturyboy8]

"You all laughed at me then, but who is laughing now"~ wwz book, probably.

[@gwendeerlin]

No way, another youtuber I watch just uploaded a World War Z video today!

[@jomahawk7488]

I genuinely LOVE the book. Both reading it AND listening to it on Audible. (Mark Hamill as Todd Wainio is the absolute best) Hearing it from you, it sounds like a really well played game of Plague Inc., one where the “cure” is the military offensive across the world

[@terrancele3612]

Trump will build a wall to block the zombies off

[@anthonylongoria1832]

LMAO!!!

[@gibby8540]

terrance le aka thr Mexicans

[@shrekniggahestealsyogirl9742]

terrance le 100th like

[@e_nglitched_wolf9880]

anyone notice that Australia was fighting a spider? XD

[@fristnamelastname5549]

E_N Glitched_Wolf Zombie Spiders.

[@13jonash]

E_N Glitched_Wolf even here in Australia, the only thing worse than armies of man-eating Zombies, is a little spider.

[@commandercody1210]

Gotta love 2015 Althistoryhub

[@lljkgktudjlrsmygilug]

I find it quite amusing that you and I are the only two people who commented (likely both in response to the new WWZ video) on this video post release of the aforementioned video. How are so few Cody watchers aware of his previous content?

[@papabray4703]

@@lljkgktudjlrsmygilug You sounds like a redditor