Why does ZOMBIE MEDIA not say the word ZOMBIE?? (And the MANY different ZOMBIE terms)

Zombie shows, movies, games and comics love to call the undead anything but "zombie." But why? AND HOW!?
0:00 Intro
0:48 Why doest media call it zombie?
4:53 The Walking Dead's Walkers
5:46 Romero's Ghouls
7:33 WWZ's Zekes
8:28 State of Decay's Zeds
9:29 Warm Bodies' Corpses
10:19 The Girl With All The Gifts' Hungries
11:20 The Simpsons' Munchers
11:49 Comics Zuvembies
12:43 High School of the Dead's Them
13:54 I Am a Hero's ZQN
15:10 House of the Dead's Creatures (Resident Evil)
16:33 ZombiU's Blighters and Sunset Overdrive's OD
17:10 Z Nation's Z's
18:02 Some zombies are just InfEcTeD (28 Days)
19:07 The Last of Us' infected and clickers
19:26 Back 4 Blood's Ridden/Planet Terror's Sickos
20:06 Days Gone's Freaks/Freakers
20:44 Left 4 Dead
21:08 The series that DO know about zombies
24:33 Special Zombies!?
25:27 The Zombie Rap
26:57 Outro
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[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

You do not have the z-word pass

[@GEF38]

but i do so....

[@Francesco-gf1sv]

Zombny dont liek steriotypes, liek... That we zombny liek brens... Hug a fellow zombny ❤

[@Couchpotato993]

yes the concept of zombies does exist in their universe In one of the later seasons in an abandoned store the one where the helicopter falls through the roof Michonne cuts a cardboard zombie cutout that says in big letters either zombie or brains (can’t remember honestly could be both) in half

[@Munchsomelunch]

Zigga zigger zegro zolored person

[@chessgaming9942]

Zigga

[@squarepickle]

People in zombie movies: "Oh my God! It's a walking corpse! Some kind of living dead!". People in Werewolf movies: "Oh f***! A werewolf!".

[@heyfell4301]

Tbf, how else can you refer to a Werewolf? Garou is copyrighted and Furry is too broad, so...

[@planetbob6703]

Because -"Demon- Zombie can be an offensive term. Please refer to them as mortally challenged."

[@L1mp1nB1zk1t]

Lol

[@jamesvanhelsing6331]

I too am mortally challenged

[@imaybestupid2045]

Lmfaoo

[@youtrades]

Noice!😂

[@CV-TNAA]

They certainly did challenge mortality. Some may even say they won with how long they live... wait...

[@gamingmoth4542]

A game I like called "Project Zomboid" just refers to them as "Infected", but fans like to refer to them as "Zomboids" because that's the title.

[@SmolFemboyShark]

I heard some even use the term “dubious little creatures”

[@Dvailen]

@@SmolFemboyShark A fellow fan of Beaver, I see

[@Tenebris-]

@@SmolFemboyShark I now want every piece of media to call their zombie "dubious little creatures."

[@wolfegaming2505]

I was call them Idiots when I play. I find myself really getting into the RP of a KY resident in the midst of a zombie outbreak.

[@Couchpotato993]

yes the concept of zombies does exist in their universe In one of the later seasons in an abandoned store the one where the helicopter falls through the roof Michonne cuts a cardboard zombie cutout that says in big letters either zombie or brains (can’t remember honestly could be both) in half

[@cheatsykoopa98]

"we need a mutated zombie to differenciate us from other series" >fat zombies that explodes

[@alface935]

Football Zombie with Football Armour

[@kidflasher]

​@@alface935pvz moment

[@Espartanica]

Halo: Fat zombies that explode... into little zombies that make people into normal zombies

[@Darwin-sama]

Zombies with guns

[@alface935]

@@Darwin-sama That is just Resident Evil 5

[@dwmlue9299]

"I can see them shortening down 'Zombies' to 'Zs'." ZEES NUTZ

[@superravioli6702]

That was dumb and you should feel bad

[@AI.Holiday]

I commend your enthusiasm for humor, Sir. I bid you good day.

[@darthbooman]

While I did not laugh at your joke, although I rarely laugh ever. I can appreciate your dedication and your thinking to find ways to make people laugh and maybe bring them a chuckle by shorterning the word "zombies" to the first letter to make a "deez nutz" joke. Have a good day sir, madam, or whatever term you prefer to be used. This did make me have a small smile though.

[@Couchpotato993]

yes the concept of zombies does exist in their universe In one of the later seasons in an abandoned store the one where the helicopter falls through the roof Michonne cuts a cardboard zombie cutout that says in big letters either zombie or brains (can’t remember honestly could be both) in half

[@RuyVuusen]

​@@superravioli6702_That ain't very kind..._

[@Khalith]

The zombie paradox, we see so many stories where the characters don't know what these creatures are. Meaning these movies/stories all take place in parallel dimensions where zombie movies, video games, etc. don't exist.

[@julianmatheney977]

I kinda find it it odd that even d&d style undead don't get talked about either in some of these settings too...

[@zeebeeplayz]

Not really what a paradox is. More of just an interesting thought.

[@jcartiii]

@@zeebeeplayzi think he is saying its a paradox bc zombies can only exist in planes where people dont know what zombies are

[@godzillaprime]

@jcartiii only?

[@randallbesch2424]

@@jcartiii THEY AREN'T ZOMBIES TO BEGIN WITH. Find a new name for them.

[@Polish-Phoenician]

Gotta say 'Guts & Blackpowder' has a great excuse, its the Napoleonic Area, 1810s, the word zombie doesn't even exist yet, so the undead are just "Mad Cannibals"

[@Bacxaber]

Did it not? I thought witchdoctors were referred to as "zombies". It didn't mean "undead cannibal" but still.

[@JackedUpEntertainment]

1819 is actually the first recorded instance of Zombie being used in English, so there would presumably be a few who know of the term

[@JackedUpEntertainment]

​@@Bacxabera Zombie in Haitian folklore refers to a reanimated corpse specifically reanimated via magic or witchcraft

[@darthbooman]

Or the undead, but never zombies. Also Guts & Blackpowder is a Goated game, almost have 300 hours in it.

[@SpecsWitched]

Most normal people know the Zombies to be "Mad Cannibals", but they're considered demons iirc by priests and people in high power.

[@DukeOfGumby]

I love L4D for acknowledging what zombies are, because it reinforces the idea that those games are set in the “real world” and the survivors are just representations of (slightly above) average people. Some lines and graffiti even acknowledge how the infected are different than stereotypical zombies

[@jeremychicken3339]

"the survivors are just representations of (slightly above) average people." No... No. They are bumbling idiots.

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Despite the fact that "zombies" there are infected, not zombies

[@DukeOfGumby]

@@NiCoNiCoNiCola Average L4D graffiti wall "There's zombies outside" "They're not zombies you idiot! It's a viral infection." "⬆I bet this guy's a zombie now"

[@KatKat32]

In left 4 dead 2 the government and CEDA calls them "Infected" but the survivors usually call them zombies on the voicelines, they call them infected to avoid panic and because the host is still alive, the flu is an airbone and far more deadly rabies if you think about it.

[@al-imranadore1182]

Flu doesn’t cause encephalitis(nerve damage) like rabies.

[@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt]

Niko!!

[@mrosskne]

​@@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt?

[@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt]

@@mrosskne the person who posted this comment has a niko oneshot profile picture and i like pointing that out

[@al-imranadore1182]

@@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt Oneshot was a long time ago.

[@ejvirgo1]

dying light did a good representation of them knowing zombies

[@randallbesch2424]

Both in X-files and Kolchak: the Night Stalker tv series portrayed classic zombies.

[@Conk4668]

I was just about to comment this

[@radiocaster2k]

It made the backstory more interesting because you couldn't make any assumptions based on the name. They just called em "zombies"

[@ninjireal]

@@radiocaster2kOh yeah, and I just realized that calling them zombies makes you think they’re just zombies, rather than.. Fucking horrors.

[@Dinosaurman34]

“Oh no the living dead biting walkers are causing that man to become a mortally challenged rotter!”

[@CaseyMendez-xz3dn]

I like that in Dying Light you can find a GRE TV Broadcast in Brecken's room informing kids on how to stay safe and deal with zombies. The broadcast also explicitly says zombies in it. It also says that the infected people are still citizens and unprovoked attacks against them will be prosecuted.

[@KincaidCalder-vn6bo]

Maybe it’s for the best that crane got infected then, or else he would have something on the order of 1,000,000 murder counts.

[@CaseyMendez-xz3dn]

@@KincaidCalder-vn6bo The Broadcast says that the Zombies lose their citizenship and rights when they attack people, so I guess Crane doesn't have to worry about too much.

[@KincaidCalder-vn6bo]

@@CaseyMendez-xz3dn well yeah, but what about the innocent zombies that were just so easily punted through the sky?

[@CaseyMendez-xz3dn]

@@KincaidCalder-vn6bo I don't know. Maybe the GRE gives Crane a pass since he works for them, or used to.

[@mrosskne]

​@@KincaidCalder-vn6boyou mean the zombies that got feebly slapped with a crowbar sixty times before going down? god that was such a trash game

[@thepie193]

The witch is looking a lot healthier than im used to.

[@Villey]

Good to know the horny will prevail no matter the situation

[@The1stAngryRaccoon]

I think something looks different idk man

[@The_Republic_of_Ireland]

​@@The1stAngryRaccoonyeah I'm taking a long *hard* look and just can't make out what's changed about her

[@PuerkinDaBori]

It's an R34 model

[@Wholesome_Man]

Feels like she had two massive changes to her, but I just can't put my finger on it.

[@SomeInternetGuy]

I like how on the map Five on Black Ops John F. Kennedy calls them zombies and he's so chill about it like he knew they were coming to the Pentagon

[@tedparkinson2033]

The dude was just happy his planning wasn't for nothing.

[@MintMilk.]

"Do not pray for easier lives, my friends, pray to be... stronger men" -JFK

[@MereelSkirata]

T-Virus victims in Resident Evil are not reanimated corpses, the infected are very much still alive. The G-Virus however can reanimate the dead.

[@randallbesch2424]

And they are just background a side issue to all the other monsters in the game.

[@al-imranadore1182]

​@@randallbesch2424Resident evil still used the word "Zombie,"

[@MrMuchZombies]

I mean, Capcom can say that they're infected living people, but the Raccoon City Cemetery in RE3 and the prison cemetery in Code: Veronica both show that is very much not the case.

[@MereelSkirata]

@@MrMuchZombies Actually background information proves this wrong. The outbreak in Raccoon was in swing for a very long time, from around the Mansion Incident to the leak in the sewers people were being infected and spreading it. It's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that those infected who were in a bout of unconsciousness were mistaken as dead and buried only for the infected to wake up and try to get out. In CV it was mentioned during the initial attack on the island, many soldiers and prisoners were both killed by the bombings and infected, those infected who were again unconscious or appeared dead simply later came out of the shallow graves they were put in. The real reason for this was very likely gameplay mechanics and not meant to be interpreted as actually happening. It was for a jumpscare to scare the player.

[@MrMuchZombies]

@@MereelSkirata The problem with all of this for Capcom's attempts to retcon the whole 'still alive' thing is *when* did anyone have time to have funerals or even dig shallow graves, especially in CV. The attack had *just happened* on the island right after Claire wakes up in her cell, so they didn't have time to dig graves for the people who just died. The Keeper' ls infamous "itchy, tasty" diary even shows that the timeline for infection rates is very much too short for a proper funeral, which typically take a week or two, and the Keeper was still awake and conscious for a week before turning proper. I'm not claiming you're wrong, or your fact-checking is bullshit. I'm more just venting because it's a stupid retcon that is disproven in its own games.

[@nado1908]

Reminds me of House of Ashes where the cast is fighting blood hungry monsters who die in sunlight. One character keeps insisting on calling them vampires and when questioned on it basically said "They're vampires so I'm calling them that."

[@EpicGamerTrustMe]

My favorite type of zombie is the GnB “Cannibals”. They’re human souls who went to hell, but hell is full, so they return to their body, but their body and brains has already rotted, so they become cannibals with the same traits as they were when they were alive. (Ex: soldiers have more health than peasants, sappers are really strong and can tank more hits, lamp lighters carrying the lamps they lit, and gunpowder workers carrying a barrel.) Since the Cannibals are humans who went to hell, if you’re a priest, or you get blessed by a priest while infected, you won’t turn into a Cannibal after you die because you aren’t going to hell (But you still die). And since the game takes place in 1812, the only weapons you have against them are napoleonic guns and melee weapons.

[@specsamhain_909]

Damn, didn't expect G&B here

[@trongnguyenhuu3404]

WE MAKING IT OUT OF KAUB WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@MedicatedGaming]

What is gnb? I'm interested after hearing this lmao it sounds awesome

[@yuukibr5959]

@@MedicatedGaming Guts and Blackpowder

[@Some_Guy_8888]

​​​@@MedicatedGaming Guts and Blackpowder, it's a zombie game on Roblox.

[@UserBa]

In World War Z they call them Zeke because soldiers use stereotypical names to refer to soldiers from other countries. there are numerous examples of this throughout history, but "Ivan" or "Fritz" might ring a bell for a few. If im not mistaken, this is statet in the book, or at least speculated by one of the interviewed soldiers.

[@yipflaptheexecutioner6519]

Don't forget "krauts" as in sauerkraut

[@KincaidCalder-vn6bo]

That is one of the few things the movie kept from the book. However, they were called Zack in the books, which I personally prefer to Zeke.

[@andy_infinity]

Not Zombies but "InFeCtEd"

[@sideshowbrowny4595]

I heard this

[@randallbesch2424]

Carriers.

[@al-imranadore1182]

they have to be fully dead to be zombies.

[@princekiro1596]

However in Telltale's The Walking Dead, there were two times where Lee used the word "zombie" and nobody called him out on it.

[@billybob-wb9wy]

that's in the comic universe, which freely uses the term 'zombie'. unlike the show, where they're called 'walkers'

[@AnimeOpZombie]

​@@billybob-wb9wyI feel Like ive heard doc and Murphy from Znation specifically say Zombie Multiple times.

[@yohhh6715]

still can't over the whole "We're the Walking Dead" shi 😭

[@mcboyrules7894]

@@billybob-wb9wywhen Rick meets tyreese in the comic they actually briefly joke about how it took them awhile before they could say it with a straight face

[@ainadagurmawth6616]

In the Organ Trail (zombie version of the Oregon Trail) there is a scene you can come across that is almost identical to the Bubba reference. Just some survivor talking to you listing off every name he's heard for the zombies, with his personal favorite being 'those f%^ers!'

[@trickster20644]

I laughed so hard when you hadn't mentioned PvZ the whole video, then randomly name drop the Gargantuar in the zombie rap.

[@DeepdishBK]

Out of any zombie related media, Plants Vs. Zombies probably uses the word “zombie” the most by far. Especially considering how large the franchise is, you’d think it would be mentioned earlier on.

[@silverbird1639]

Glad to see this comment, I was about to comment about PvZ as it refers to them almost exclusively as zombies.

[@fortysvideoarchive]

in the show "soundtrack to my teenage zombie apocalypse" the Australians collectively refer to the undead as "undies" and if thats not the most australian term for zombie i dont know what it

[@callamastia]

romero called them zombies in dawn. when the bikers broke in peter’s like “there’s gonna be a thousand zombies in here” 🤓

[@randallbesch2424]

The only time. One character.

[@Whispersmith646]

​@@randallbesch2424 still contradicts when he was moaning that "we never even referred to them as zombies"

[@buttbuttson737]

@@Whispersmith646 I think he meant just in the first movie.

[@Dimitri9511]

Robert Kirkman: I dont called them Zombies because of X and Y thing. *Also Robert Kirkman: Showing on many issues of his comics they called the Walkers Zombies as well*

[@KotuWasHere]

i remember in an interview he said that the reason the word zombie is said in the early issues is because he genuinely just forgot that he couldnt use the word lmao

[@gummyneighborino7217]

​@@KotuWasHere yknow what? Dont blame him, i wouldve too lmao

[@asahearts1]

I really liked the scene in Snapcube's RE2 Remake fandub, when they realize they have the chance to name the zombies and there's a dramatic pause... and Claire says they'll call them... "Eaters." 😂

[@TheAkrillion]

Brother, that thumbnail is gonna make me act unwise.

[@PuerkinDaBori]

Fun fact: The witch in the thumbnail is an NSFW model.

[@theanimatronicgamerreturn7785]

​@@PuerkinDaBoriNo shit Sherlock.

[@rusteh1373]

Because a zombie show where people know what zombies are would last a week.

[@InevitableMayo]

Never heard of Z Nation then. They knew about them from the beginning

[@RongusCongus]

​@@InevitableMayoand Z Nation is garbage, what's your point?

[@InevitableMayo]

@@RongusCongus how good the show is isn't the point. Nobody here said that.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

​@@RongusCongus Z Nation started out pretty good, but went off the rails later on.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

​@@InevitableMayoZ Nation doesn't exactly count. It was more a Satire of Zombie Shows than an actual Zombie Show. They tried to make it a real show later on, but thats when it started to suck.

[@RaptorKingRaptorKing]

Why does the witch in your thumbnail have big badonkadoodleZz

[@mikadosannoji553]

green site model

[@mojaxon23]

In the WWZ game, some of the characters do just call them zombies in some of their voice lines. I did notice, and it was kind of odd hearing a character refer to a zombie as a zombie. The characters seem to know what zombies are and how to deal with them.

[@randallbesch2424]

Movie "zombies" not the real thing.

[@ASulkyTyranid]

@@randallbesch2424there is no real thing though? Zombies aren’t real

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

Robert Kirkman's logic on not using the word zombie appeals to me. If people know what zombies are most problems associated with the unknowns of zombies can easily be avoided from the get-go. Making the movie/tv show kinda lame. *Except when the specific media starts with time skip several years after an initial infection. Land of the Dead for example.

[@ibraheemshuaib8954]

Project Zomboid, a game, kinda solves this issue by not even having zombies be the main threat. the main threat is your own overconfidence, which kills almost every player, players which survive for months or even years randomly die cause they got too comfortable with the dead.....although, the game never uses the term zombie either, but that doesn't matter.

[@Nathan_Coley]

It's because they can't copyright it

[@langdonledwig3734]

In the Walking Dead it is because there was no zombie shows or movies in that universe so ofcourse none of them would know they are zombies

[@chiapets2594]

Garbage excuses

[@julianmatheney977]

To me at least, It's this oddball unspoken universal rule that most zombie shows or movies have no concept of zombies at all just to justify danger and people constantly dying like idiots left and right. Video games.... it depends.

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

​​@@chiapets2594Thats not a garbage excuse, it is how Kirkman wanted it. That is the internal logic of his series.

[@EmperorD99]

​@@chiapets2594 if something dosent exists in your universe then how would would you know what to call it?

[@lapure2220]

I think it's like that in most zombie movies

[@theanomalyfactory2649]

"There's a lot of theories... but all I know for sure is that this place is crawling with zombies." -Marvin Branagh RE2 remake

[@gbladewarrior6884]

The Walking Dead franchises biggest mistake was that when they hit tock bottom, they kept digging down. It would have been more interesting if they had shifted midway to how society rebuilds after a zombie apocalypse. But intead we just kept getting humanz are the worst, every season and it just got tiring.

[@mongooseunleashed]

_Resident Evil characters shooting zombies several times in the head, and they don't die._ RE character: "Those movies LIED!!!"

[@werevin649]

zom 100 bucket list of the dead does it, All of us are dead does it, it just needs to be a world where they know zombies exist.

[@isolodias4030]

in all of us are dead they reference train to busan 😭😭

[@werevin649]

@@isolodias4030 they do, its interesting

[@randallbesch2424]

@@KatKat32 they aren't zombies and infected is terrifying enough.

[@chaossnowkitsune6377]

Honestly wasn't expecting Highschool of the dead to get mentioned. Glad it was though. Also thank you for the zombie rap. That was hilarious.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

High School of the Dead was great...except for some of the weird sexual stuff and the Teacher chick.

[@randomcomrade6826]

Maze Runner uses the word "Crank" which I love. it perfectly describes how the look and move, almost cranking their bodies around.

[@onedude1389]

Reminds me of those guys from TMNT

[@blackops7809]

I actually saw a terrible zombie movie one time, and one of the characters had written a book on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. He was the first to die

[@ibraheemshuaib8954]

knowing how to survive is kinda pointless when the apocalypse happens when you weren't paying attention

[@blackops7809]

@ibraheemshuaib8954 That was the funny part he was so excited to be the important one that he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings that when he was grabbed and getting pulled, he said "I can't die first, I wrote the book' or something like that

[@ibraheemshuaib8954]

@@blackops7809 as the beginning of the game Project Zomboid tells you "This is how you died". the game focuses on how overconfidence is what truly ends up killing you.

[@blackops7809]

​@ibraheemshuaib8954 Never played it, but I have heard of it. That is a good concept to use against the player

[@GeepeBrow]

Funny is, the criminals and bad guys were the one who survive longer than the others. Good people always die first.

[@derp489]

Really missed you when you took a break. Glad youre back.

[@nerozone_]

that witch got me acting unwise

[@GmNdWtchr96]

Of all the things to retain from this video, you referring to the act of "doing it" with a zombie as being necrophilia certainly answered a question I was morbidly curious about that I probably wouldn't have asked out loud.

[@renedog23]

I swear i remember in the book of WWZ they called them zombies somewhere from the US civilian interviews. Alot of the nations in the book listed their own names and in their own languages such as Japan in the novel. It was either the cilvian interviews. Or the Aussie interview. But i remember it. As Zeke came into the book shortly once the military began their operations against them.

[@mustafaomg1021]

Why is the Witch Looking Kinda..?😏

[@Man77772]

Is that the person on the thumbnail?

[@PuerkinDaBori]

​@KatKat32 The one in the thumbnail isn't the "less scrawny thicker witch", it's an actual NSFW model made by mr.tucket who makes stuff on the funny green website.

[@NX_K]

Starnes, for the life of me, I dunno how you passed the psyche profile.

[@samfire3067]

Because now almost every Woman in The us IS unstable as The witch

[@AHappyCub]

​@@PuerkinDaBori You got the sauce chief, ya know, for research purposes

[@jocosesonata]

Thicc Witch is something I never knew I needed until now. Tell me there's a mod already.

[@annpyingshek4693]

13:30 That reminds me of We're Alive where MC avoids using "zombies" and calls them, well, "them". Even though other characters did use "zombies" and many other terms.

[@ZelphTheWebmancer]

I like how Dying Light does it. They do called them both zombies and infected, having specific names for each special zombie (like those shown in the video). There is even a character known as The Witch which she talks about the zombies like they are undead even if Dying Light zombies are still alive.

[@Conk4668]

Dying Light continues to be a really good game, even 9 years after it came out.

[@USERZ123XD]

LOL the witch from l4d in the thumbnail, but left 4 dead they actually do say Zombies in a lot of character lines, even though technically they are not reanimated corpse, the green flu is like a super rabies.

[@jacobefaber4952]

Wow such bars!!! 😂 legit started cracking up when you started rapping lmao thank you

[@HadesOrso92]

In Resident Evil they do refer to the zombies as zombies and in some of the games that don't have zombies they call them infected, such as RE4 in the files you read, RE5 in both dialog and in notes found, RE6 for the J'avo, RE Rev2 for almost every enemy, RE7 with the Bakers and Molded since they do have human remains in their bodies and are created when corpses of people have become infected with the Mutamycete, and RE Village since they use the Megamycete as a virus along with the Cadou parasite so the 4 lords have the ability to control the infected and the notes and dialog in the game confirm this as well

[@BaranZenon]

In Resident Evil 4, after Leon kills the first Ganadoo, if he inspects the corpse he notice that he was not a zombie, but something diffrent. So like in RE4 there were zombies.

[@HadesOrso92]

@@BaranZenon No, RE4 didn't have zombies, they were infected because the parasite needs a living host in order to survive and take control of the body. Meaning the Ganados were still humans, and since they still required sustenance and actually still used human thinking and intelligence they are by all means infected and not zombies.

[@BaranZenon]

@@HadesOrso92 I said there "were" as there are not anymore.

[@HadesOrso92]

@@BaranZenon No, they were never zombies at any point at all, the parasite needs the host alive in order to survive, Idk what logic you're trying to use but again, at no point were the ganados ever zombies at all, because the Las Plagas parasite does not kill its host, it keeps its host alive and takes control of the body and so it may survive

[@Xenotaris]

@@HadesOrso92 I think BaranZenon meant were as in the Raccoon City and Arklay outbreaks back when zombies were still around. but on a lore note, technically even the zombies both T-zombies and C-zombies are still living humans just heavily mutated by the T-virus and C-virus.

[@punishedmisty]

"we've seen those walmart willys wearing those don't get bit shirts" its me im walmart willys

[@Villey]

Bro got exposed and owned it, respect.

[@punishedmisty]

@@Villey i used to have a shirt with michonne and her walkers. some guy i went to class with thought she was a clan member cause of the hood

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

The existence of Walmart Willys implies the existence of Costco Willys.

[@Thurston86]

9:19 Canadians also say ‘zed’. And Canada isn’t far from Ohio. Maybe some of us came south (probably after all the Americans were killed off) and brought our Z with us? 🇨🇦

[@geofff.3343]

It's weird because I'm currently reading a book series called Dead Meat and the characters know they're dealing with zombies pretty much from the jump, they reference zombie media as recent as Dying Light. It doesn't help, and in a post-COVID world I can tell you the author's probably right. A lot of people just aren't going to see them as things that need destruction, they're going to try and get them medical attention. People are going to make dumb emotion based decisions. One girl who knows she has to stop the zombies feels so guilty that a boy brining back her purse after she drunkenly kissed him the night before she refuses to just bash his brains in before he turns, strangles him to death, then he turns, but she's removed the plastic bag. It's sad, but I could see someone doing that even with knowledge of what they're dealing with. The series takes place in Denmark too and not only are guns just not as prevalent as they would be in the US, but people seem less inclined to even try and craft weapons and armor, and they seem again, less prone to try and destroy the infected. The point though is that even if someone knows what they're dealing with they may miss something small. It turns out even if that girl had done everything right a cat stepped in the blood of a zombie and scratched its owner. Owner bit spouse, the two of them attack a bus full of highschoolers and it gets out of hand. But even if you did kill everyone that doesn't mean the police wouldn't lock you up and you couldn't guarantee you got all of them first. There's a long-standing belief among writers that for zombie stories only work because zombie fiction doesn't exist in the setting; all that is to say I think the series does a good job of explaining that (especially again in a post-COVID world) that just because you have a setting with established zombie media and call a zombie what it is, it doesn't mean you're going to stop a lot of people from dying or stop the end of the world. Weird spoilers for the series below: It uses basically the standard zombie template (i.e. slow moving, uncoordinated, one bite or skin-breaking scratch, person dies roughly within a day, reanimates.) but (spoilers, spoilers, spoilers, just in case) apparently caused by voodoo magic and I'm just not sure of the point of that. It operates like viral, but has no viral component. So it's implied to be magical, and I'm not sure why. Maybe to keep people from rationalizing it has a cure? *Shrugs*

[@Dvailen]

"September 28th. Daylight. The Monsters have overtaken the city. Somehow... I'm still alive." - Jill Valentine (Resident Evil 3: Nemesis original)

[@thedoomlord8618]

Always love your beef with the term Infected lol

[@randallbesch2424]

Calling them zombies pisses me off.

[@vincentveryvile5051]

In my zombie story I'm creating, everyone knows what zombies are, but because there were three different zombie pandemics over the decades, and 4 different zombie viruses, they had to categorize the zombie types. In the late 80s and early 90s, everyone called them zombies. Then a new zombie virus came up during 2014-2016, but they were running so they started calling them the infected. Then the third pandemic comes up in the near future. Two different zombie viruses, one made out of bioterrorism, the other made to combat against it but was unintentionally released out into the civilian population without further improvement of genetic and viral modifications.

[@jakeschnare3120]

Another interesting aspect about every group having a different term in the walking dead. When they join up with other groups and societies and are trying to convince people they're not a liability, you can see as people start warming up to them they change the term they use to walkers. Showing they're gradual conversion to trusting the main cast or even preferring them over their original group

[@SillyDragon41]

On the subject of The Walking Dead, in the first Telltale game, Lee does say the word "zombie" once in what I believe was an oversight of the writer(s)

[@lemonjuice2597]

Dammit, I just posted this same thing. He actually said it twice, which i think makes it a lot harder to justify.

[@lunarhexagon8108]

special variants of zombies are thing I like, especially if implemented well into story or gameplay surprisingly, Minecraft has few variants named zombie, is standard baby zombie, is kid version of zombie that is fast those be not really other terms but these are husk, desert zombie that is immune to sunlight (unlike zombie in game) drowned, zombie that is located in water, and can swim chicken jockey, baby zombie riding and controlling chicken then it has some other zombified creatures in fallout are feral ghouls, they are not exactly zombies but they are basically zombies actually, just created by radiation, one special version I can recall from it is "glowing one"

[@randallbesch2424]

Ghouls are not zombies since zombies do not eat.

[@lunarhexagon8108]

@@randallbesch2424 in half of zombie media I seen they do eat, and ghouls basically behave about same as such zombies, they hybernate when nothing is to do for them, they smash and bite you, and they seem to just live till killed

[@TurtleMan2023]

The more deadly the zombies are in a piece of media, the easier you can get away with the people of that world knowing about zombies before the outbreak. For example the people of Left 4 Dead knew about zombies like we do before the outbreak but we don't question why everybody died to them because we know even we wouldn't be able to survive an outbreak like that.

[@memesxy95]

It's actually refreshing when media like project zomboid actually call zombies zombies

[@Dinomanion]

I was not expecting a song. Loving it.

[@latviandragon2718]

in the twd comics they call them zombies

[@mattdriver6875]

For state of Decay, you mention that only in the UK and Australia do people say the letter "Z" as Zed, but actually only Americans say it as "Zee" so it wouldn't be unheard of in the lore if say it was a Canadian who coined the term "Zed" even though the game takes place in Ohio (y'know a state that borders Ontario in Canada via Lake Erie)

[@endanarchy]

Dude, that Baba Shrimp bit gave me a good laugh. You made my heart smile.

[@TheIrishTexan]

I don't hate "Infected" as much as many other people do. I think it gives a hopeful spin to things, especially if they're genuinely infected and not dead. Infections can be cured. Calling the "Infected" implies a sense of hope that someday, somehow, there's a chance they could be cured.

[@AntwaineHorton]

Absolute banger video, and that rap at the end was pure gold.

[@AngyStormz]

Am I the only one that got a weird nostalgia from that

[@AntwaineHorton]

@@AngyStormz no, this reminded me of the pokemon rap.

[@AngyStormz]

@@AntwaineHorton I forgot that existed

[@_Hamler]

Calling them zombies is immersion breaking for most folk. It takes them out of the movie and are reminded of the fact that they're watching a piece of fiction. That's why they go with "infected" or "undead".

[@kingol4801]

This ^

[@ReleaseZeKrakken]

Ngl when I hear "infected" and "undead" that's even more immersion breaking because a random person isn't going to just start calling them infected. The average person is 100% going to call it like they see it and just say zombie.

[@mattd5240]

I find the opposite to be more immersion breaking.

[@tarotreadingsbysteven8545]

Yeah I agree with other commenters them refusing to say zombie is like seeing a cop in a cop show refer to his taser as an electronic tickle machine.

[@iBkKiD19]

I was JUST thinking about this and your video popped up, thank you good sir

[@jarrodswanger6975]

Dude I love your work may your channel never die just like the zombies we all love

[@shadowkion.]

That's actually a very good question, man. Why don't they call them "zombies"? 🤔

[@Babbleplay]

The cynic in me veers toward money. 'White Walker', or whatever, can be copyrighted, while the word zombie can't belong to any one entity.

[@lapure2220]

Because such thing didn't exist in the univers of the movie concerned

[@Hamsteranimator-gx5mg]

“InFeCTEd”

[@maximilienrobespierre7927]

In the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games they're called Zombified. Granted, they're completely different from zombies in pretty much all other media, being the result of people affected by psi-abomalies and psi-mutants.

[@manuelcanals8022]

Have you considered covering some zombie books? I think it will be a great opportunity to discover some hidden gems on zombie literature

[@FIRE_BOMB1]

I’m am writing a zombie book where the main characters specifically don’t say zombie as they are somewhat responsible for it and are trying to avoid guilt

[@marioagainsttheworld6248]

I can't see any other explanation other than pretentiousness and wanting to be different

[@ColombianThunder]

It's definitely because they think the word itself sounds silly when they're trying to do something serious

[@hottracl27]

Great video. In regards to Resident Evil, there was one time they were referred to as "Zombies" in Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles by Wesker in the intro. But that game was an on rails shooter on the Wii and pretty much is non canon so *shrugs*.

[@hollowheaded9319]

Jill calls the mutated Rachael a zombie in Revelations.

[@burnttoast.2017]

Leon also calls T virus infected zombies in 4 when he notices the plaga infected villager is not in fact a zombie.

[@its_renren7292]

I suppose a reason could've been that Zombie doesn't roll off the tongue as well as "Infected", "Walker" or "Biter".

[@TheEnchatedIronaxienAxeth]

Day 1 of me asking you to cover the Zombies in the roblox game “Guts and Blackpowder”

[@your_god_lucifer2386]

Zombie = dead/undead. Infected = host is still alive. Its really just that simple

[@ZelphTheWebmancer]

Infected is a specific term. Zombie can be both specific and general. So both infected and zombies are zombies.

[@your_god_lucifer2386]

@@ZelphTheWebmancer no actually all zombies are infected but not all infected are zombies. Just like how all wyverns are dragons but not all dragons are wyverns

[@ZelphTheWebmancer]

@@your_god_lucifer2386 Actually, that is completely wrong. The difference between dragon and wyvern is only relevant in English, Scottish and Irish heraldry, and pedantic comments. The terms dragon, zombie, vampire, werewolf, and many others are metonyms for the general archetype popular culture built based on many distinct real world legends, so yes all zombies are infected AND all infected are zombies in a broad sense, same with dragons and wyvern. This distinction doesn't apply to all contexts just because popular media _vibes_ with the distinction sometimes.

[@MrMeat788]

Great video. I feel like "The Crazies" Trixie virus from 1973 film and it's 2010 remake should have been included somewhere in this video.

[@randallbesch2424]

They aren't zombies either. Especially in the remake.

[@rose.t.j]

Loved the video. The research behind it was well done. Pokemon ending superfunny

[@jaredrobinson7071]

Laziness is the answer.

[@TheDweller77]

Would it not be more lazy to just call them zombies?

[@jaredrobinson7071]

@@TheDweller77 Did you not listen to their excuse? They literally say they just don't want to deal with the fact that the people already have zombie cannon, if they call them zombies.

[@ZelphTheWebmancer]

@@jaredrobinson7071 Whom's excuse? And zombie doesn't have a canon, no fictional creature that exists only on popular media has a single "canon". They might have common tropes, but there are at least one (and usually several) that break some or all of the tropes.

[@jaredrobinson7071]

@@ZelphTheWebmancer tell me you don't pay attention without telling me.

[@ZelphTheWebmancer]

@@jaredrobinson7071 Me not magically knowing whom you are talking about means I didn't pay attention? Or are you referring to Robert Kirkman's statement, which doesn't change a thing I said? In fact, it makes your whole statement way worse, it would actually be way lazier to just shrug it off and use the term any way Kirkman actually took the time to think that wouldn't make sense in universe and decided to make a new term for zombies in his series. That is effort, the opposite of laziness. I'm not the one that needs to pay attention to what people are saying.

[@nik_5487]

That zombie in the thumbnail has some MASSIVE honkers

[@towlie4029]

Good episode enjoyed it 👍

[@lemonjuice2597]

I might be wrong, but I believe I remember Lee saying “Zombie” a single time during episode 1 of Telltale’s The Walking Dead. It was at the pharmacy if I recall. Edit; yes. He did at least twice. The lines were “ The keys are on that zombie out on the street.”, and “I think Doug's not great around zombies”. I don’t know why I remembered such random things from a game I haven’t played in probably 12 years. Really weird considering it’s the same continuity as the show though.

[@digitaal_boog]

‘The Enemy’ book series is great for this. You see a lot of debates about what to call them, everyone calls them something different and these names are often explained and rationalised. Zombie is a name that is also briefly addressed

[@justafoon]

In the manga of Highschool of the Dead, they do use the word Zombie

[@Mary18782]

I didn't even noticed that until you mentioned it!

[@zionleach3001]

In Larry Correia's Monster Hunter books the characters do in fact call vampires, werewolves, and zombies thier names. The only use names to describe different ones. Like walking dead, running zombies, lich's, wights, and ghouls.

[@UnswimmingFishYT]

There's an obscure book series that called their zombies VMs (victus mortuus) or sometimes fectos, which was also used to refer to bitten people who hadn't turned. They also had a variant that kept their mind intact called HFVM or high functioning victus mortuus.

[@EggBalds]

Fun fact: Even though this isn't canon in the twd tv show (but canon in the comic), Lee has mention "Zombies" a couple of time in the game!

[@ATypicalDayHere]

short answer: the world in which zombie movies take place in has no concept of zombies

[@endorneyodera4366]

The one game that comes to mind where they call them zombies without any hesitation is the CoD series The scene that comes to mind is the opening scene to the map Five.

[@func_e]

I like salt and sanctuary 's way of referring to zombies, as they are called only what situation the zombies are in. The first ones you meet are called "drowned men" because they were drowned and their bodies now roam the earth in search of meaning. It's clever because the game takes place in a fantasy world.

[@jakelowe3441]

Yooo the forest Gump clip had me rollin that’s too good😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@Warpee]

In state of decay they also call special zombies "freaks"

[@laurentritton3106]

TWD has one exception, Telltale’s Lee knows the word zombie and uses it to describe his brother