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

[@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... Edit: ok, I gotta admit I had forgotten about the term "Lycanthrope" when I wrote this comment. That's a good name, although there's something to be said about it sounding way too... I dunno, clinical? Like "OH GOD, A LYCANTHROPE!" is like looking at a grizzly bear and screaming "RUN, IT'S AN URSUS ARCTOS HORRIBILIS!"

[@tdgkt88]

​@@heyfell4301wolf man.

[@dr.stronk9857]

@@heyfell4301lycanthrope, which I’ve heard means wearwolf that can do it on command but it still works

[@mrosskne]

oh fuck, a deviantart OC!

[@zephyr8072]

People in alien movies: “Oh no! An alien!” “Hey! I got my citizenship.” “Not you, Juan!”

[@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."

[@wolfesmediaden]

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.

[@Vigorous_Potato]

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

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

You do not have the z-word pass

[@dellconagher12]

but i do so....

[@Francesco-gf1sv]

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

[@Vigorous_Potato]

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

[@cheatsykoopa98]

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

[@alface935]

Football Zombie with Football Armour

[@ChainsawMixx]

​@@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

[@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.

[@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"

[@Crab20665]

Theres this one graffiti in a restroom where a lady hangs a phone number asking for sex, and then theres more graffiti under it saying that shes now a zombie

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

@@Crab20665 so... Is she still available?

[@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...

[@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.

[@Vigorous_Potato]

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..._

[@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

[@salseren1152]

Kicked ass 😂 honestly

[@Dinosaurman34]

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

[@ywer3455]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@ultradeathboy]

​@@ninjirealDying Light zombies are the Shin Godzilla of the zombie genre. The person behind that infected husk of a body is still alive, suffering. Virals, which are newly infected, beg for death or mercy. Biters literally roam around in the sun all day, which must be excruciating, since the virus has a weakness to UV rays, and as a result the infected do too. People experience seizures and faints before turning. Bombers have mutated to have their entire stomach and guts exposed, and literally self eliminate themselves just like Drowners. Volatiles have some of their ribs inverted and stabbing outwards from their body, and their mouths are split into mandibles, just like Shin Godzilla when he's using his atomic breath. One Volatile even screamed out in pain from the sun, saying how much it hurt and wanted mercy. Spitters have much higher levels of acid in their bodies. Howlers have high levels of toxins in them that boil inside their bodies, causing them to release a giant howl, also like Shin Godzilla. Goons literally have a giant rebar stabbed and molded into their hands, and also a split mouth. Along with rotting away, these things get burnt at even the smallest bit of UV light It's truly horrifying

[@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.

[@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

[@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."

[@AlaiasAlias]

I love it when the media try to break Vampire from handsome/beautiful CEO of sex stereotype.

[@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,"

[@KingCaptainDrProfessorKRool]

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]

@@KingCaptainDrProfessorKRool 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.

[@KingCaptainDrProfessorKRool]

@@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.

[@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.

[@stargazer-elite]

@@silverbird1639Dr Zomboss literally embraces the concept and uses it as his brand Z this, Z that etc 😂

[@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.

[@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!'

[@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

[@nagitokomaeda161]

@@yohhh6715Coral, we *are* the walking dead!

[@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

[@ItsAsparageese]

Lmao I'm sorry WHAT 😂 Do people in Australia not also use "undies" as short for "underwear"?

[@fortysvideoarchive]

@@ItsAsparageese yes

[@rebel6301]

@@ItsAsparageese we do

[@sunburnteggandstuff]

A bunch a undies

[@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.

[@falconstudios146]

​@@KincaidCalder-vn6boYeah, Zack is better. Got a better kick to it.

[@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." 😂

[@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

[@TheMrGmk]

Also in the og re2 the weapons shop owner call them explicitly “zombies”

[@MsSumoon]

I find it so funny because here in my country, Brazil, the dubs are not afraid and USE the word ZOMBIES with no problem at all. Including the Walking Dead, because Walkers would be something like “Andarilhos”, “Andantes”, it wouldn't sync with the dumb, Zombie, or ZUMBI(as it's the word in Portuguese), it's a much shorter word does sync with it, because dubbing is like that, they have to adapt it. Fun Fact- Zumbi, is also the name of a important Brazilian national figure, Zumbi dos Palmares.

[@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

[@MyEarsHurts]

0:14 "explicit gore" and it's just zombies giving him a massage

[@damunzy]

A nice relaxing time

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

I like how the special zombies in Left 4 Dead are named as such because of the characters naming them as such. In the first levels you can hear the survivors calling them names like "the jumping guy" or "the acid one". Later levels have them formulating actual callout names for like "jockey" and "spitter".

[@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.

[@Fanimati0n]

I actually like how HotD handles not using "zombie". They basically say "yes, they're zombies. You know they're zombies, we know they're zombies, but 'zombies' is silly & makes them sound like less of a threat"

[@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.

[@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

[@blackops7809]

@GeepeBrow the movie I'm talking didn't have any criminals or a villain, just people in a zombie apocalypse, only two people survive and one of them was a midevil chuunibyou who was wearing knight armor

[@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.

[@TheTyranidHiveMind]

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

[@opadrip]

Even in different Fire Emblem games, zombies get different names. Awakening calls them Risen, Echoes calls them Masks and Revenants, Fates calls them Faceless, etc. It's not exactly a zombie franchise but it's still interesting to mention.

[@AstraCrits]

They also get called Revenants in Sacred Stones, though that one's actually quite a plausible term in a medieval setting--it can refer either to a ghost or a reanimated corpse depending on the folklore.

[@elivcdxv1852]

Oh no, the corrupted! I wish i could play awakening for the first time again, got me into FE and I've enjoyed nearly every game since I've gone back and played through everything.

[@striker8961]

I see your hypothesis and raise you JFK very casually saying "Zombies."

[@DerpityEllis]

What I love is that Ellis himself has a voice lines saying: "Man if these were REAL zombies, going through this graveyard would be like death." "These here aren't "real" zombies, so we're safe." "They're INFECTED." -Ellis "world225", "world226", and "world227" when they cross through the graveyard in The Parish :P

[@mongooseunleashed]

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

[@vyor8837]

Wait, what zombies can survive that?

[@mongooseunleashed]

@vyor8837 You never played a Resident Evil game, huh?

[@vyor8837]

@@mongooseunleashed I've played all of them apart from the RE3 remake. The heads go pop

[@mongooseunleashed]

@vyor8837 No, they don't. If you played the games, you would know it takes several headshots to kill those zombies. They only pop from crits or a strong enough weapon.

[@vyor8837]

@@mongooseunleashed gameplay story segregation. Cutscenes show them to be as vulnerable as humans are

[@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.

[@Nathan_Coley]

It's because they can't copyright it

[@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.

[@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.

[@GanymedeXD]

@@Whispersmith646Bullshit! If one character says zombies then the movie itself does not necessarily refer ti them as zombies!

[@Whispersmith646]

@@GanymedeXD not what I said mate. In *his* movie, the term zombie was used. Therefore it's dumb that he complains about the term when he greenlit it being said

[@InfintyShorts]

Not Zombies but "InFeCtEd"

[@sideshowbrowny4595]

I heard this

[@randallbesch2424]

Carriers.

[@al-imranadore1182]

they have to be fully dead to be zombies.

[@zephyr8072]

@al-imranadore1182 No. No they do not.

[@al-imranadore1182]

@@zephyr8072 Look at dictionary definition of zombie.

[@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

[@SolarDolphin]

The cranks are not exactly zombies atleast in the books. In the movies yes since a bite infects you but in the books it is fully airborn and just slowly turns you into a crank over time some it takes longer and others shorter time.

[@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.

[@ANG3LOFDAD3AD]

I remember Kyle Crane calling the Zombies in Dying Light, a Zombie. He actually says it when reporting to Rahim about the first guy you say in the prologue. I never really noticed it till looking at the fact that zombies are never called zombies in most cases for some reason.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Neskess]

​@@PuerkinDaBori🙄

[@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.

[@pog8629]

what episode does he say this? might revisit the season 1 for this

[@SillyDragon41]

@@pog8629 I think it's the second episode but I'm not sure, it's when they're in the store before it gets overrun

[@its_renren7292]

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

[@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.

[@RaptorKingRaptorKing]

Why does the witch in your thumbnail have big badonkadoodleZz

[@mikadosannoji553]

green site model

[@B1_224]

Last of Us call them by many names for each stage Runners (a few days after infection) stalkers (roughly 2 weeks after infection) clickers (months or years after infection) bloaters (special infected that have not turned into spores after decades of infection) shamblers (bloater variant weaker than a bloater but stronger than a clicker) Ratking (ground zero variant)

[@ocularcavity8412]

I always liked the way "The Walking Dead" had multiple different names for the Zombies that varied from group to group it felt more realistic. Where I grew up the kids used to call Possums, Bay Rats and I was like what the HELL is a Bay Rat? When they showed one to me I was like dude that is a possum, not a rat, but that is how people are if they don't know what something is they give it a name, just like Cougars and Mountain Lions being the same animal just being called different thing by different folk

[@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]

@@ywer3455 they aren't zombies and infected is terrifying enough.

[@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.

[@derp489]

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

[@frankkennedy6388]

16:07 Well, technically, in Resident Evil everything is referred to as "Bioweapon"

[@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.

[@NFProphet]

my 3 personal favorite names for them are from cod zombies, more specifically tank dempsey, (even though it primarily referring to them as zombies) those being from his lines, "Back off, meat mouth!", "K to the I to the A Zombitch!", and "Die you undead flesh addicts."

[@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.

[@ledanoir1239]

Humanimals (Metro) Ghouls again (Fallout) Gonome (Opposing Force)

[@monkeeboy830]

Well in fallout they arent really zombies as they cant infect people and are caused by a large amount of radiation as opposed to something spreadable like a disease or fungus

[@thedoomlord8618]

Always love your beef with the term Infected lol

[@randallbesch2424]

Calling them zombies pisses me off.

[@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!

[@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.

[@EmperorXCIX]

​@@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

[@Minecraftgaming2632]

I Like how in State of decay in every start they call “zombies” something different “bitters” “infected” and so on and so forth

[@GilliganTF2]

10:10 fun fact, Warm Bodies' in spanish is titled "my boyfriend is a zombi"

[@Anmatgreen]

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.

[@jocosesonata]

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

[@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

[@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

[@5P_OFFICIAL]

A bit off topic but imagine zombie game/movie where zombies don't scream or groan when they see prey (which they do in every zombie media) but instead make laughing sound Just a random concept I had today,

[@austinclements8010]

the thing about there not being romero movies in the walking dead universe is that the earliest concept of a carnivorous reanimated corpse is the translated 1700s ghul from arabic, basically zombies but instead of a virus its an evil spirit so if you think about it, their history must be ridiculously different from ours if they got butterfly effected from the 1700s

[@Projolo]

For the concept of Zombie to not exist trans atlantic slave trade should never happen. Ghouls are demons or monsters but not undead.

[@NATHANRERAILED]

The problem is that in TWD Telltale game AND comic series say "Zombie" multiple times. So I guess it just doesn't exist in the show.

[@Warpee]

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

[@thedeadrazor6186]

In State of Decay in the intro, Ed even says something like “You mean, they’re zombies?” But for some reason they do tend to say “Zed” or even just “Z” there are voice lines that say zombie but not many as far as I remember. I’ve always wondered though why it turned into Zed as being the near universal term.

[@Dinomanion]

I was not expecting a song. Loving it.

[@chameleonx9253]

It's probably just because they didn't call them Zombies in the original Romero movies, so it became a genre staple, like the jump scare, the "cat fake-out," the promiscuous teens, etc.

[@nerozone_]

that witch got me acting unwise

[@PracticallyBlind]

I always assumed they never called the just zombies because normally there are different types and to better describe them they give zombies unique names

[@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.

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

@@hollowheaded9319 To be fair she did die and leave a corpse before mutating from the T Abyss Virus. Like you watch her get splatted into a wall if i remember correctly, and what's unique about her is she turned into a ooze which in lore only males did that the females usually turned into Sea Creepers. Also since it is a altered strain of the T Virus calling them zombies does make sense as it does turn bodies into zombies as long as the body was not dead for long Though the Chrysalid Virus zombies are interesting since they literally can not turn others as the person can only turn by the titty monster Lepotica or Haos due to the gas otherwise if they are injected they turn into a J'avo

[@hollowheaded9319]

@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena One problem with this though is that Rachel is still alive after she is attacked. You read her journal where she describes her eye falling out and her arm splitting in two, she managed to survive the attack and over the next couple of hours slowly and painfully turned into an ooze. Side note, she along with the Comms Officer and Jack Norman are able to speak after their transformations, so it seems that some of the ooze are still able to speak and still have some awareness of what's going on.

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

@@hollowheaded9319 Truth be told it has been years since i last played the game and the last i played it was on the Original release 3DS, so my memory is very fussy as i don't remember her journal or that she had one unless that was added in the releases on other platforms. Also it has been shown in the series that people who turn shows some signs of sense of self for a bit before finally succumbing to the virus. So at least with Rachel you could say it was the early stages of the mutations taking over which is why she could still talk, granted the girl is a unique one as usually women infected with the T abyss virus turns into Sea Creepers not Oozes Now the Comms Officer it could be said that his last thoughts were so strong they still linger which has shown to actually happen with many people infected with many viruses in the series And with Norman you literally see him mutate into The Ultimate Abyss right in front of your eyes, however him and his men did resist the virus for some time implying if your will is strong enough that you will not turn or when you mutate you will have your memories and some control over your new form

[@lordaniolist]

Wow you got a lot more than I'd have the patience for Just to add: Halo's Flood Warframe's Infested also Oblivion called them Zombies, but Skyrim has Draugr, which they sort of have different lore so makes sense

[@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)

[@biswajitnath804]

Don't you forget in State of Decay lily ritter was a radio opertor and probably she kept using the word z for the undead, thats how people learnt it... Also they called them zombies sometimes... Probably they were well aware of the zombie lore, so it makes sense

[@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

[@PhallicPhantom2]

Zombie Media: Walker, Groaner, Biter, Roamer, Rotter, Creepers, Corpses, Infected, Geek, Shambler, Freaks, Lukers, The Dead and Undead Most games including Dead Rising and COD Zombies - JFK: Zombies.

[@Elkantar_Rostorgh231]

I know you don't like COD Zombies all that much, but they deliberately call them out as Zombies, and even in the intro of Five, JFK immediately identifies the undead as Zombies.

[@hitmanmonaghan6633]

I like how in the Resident Evil book, in Chris’s inner monologue he just flat out says, “Well, these are clearly zombies. Something out of a late night movie.”

[@latviandragon2718]

in the twd comics they call them zombies

[@lipaogamerfelipeeugenio8204]

I've always attributed the lack of the use of the word zombie as the fear of the people in that media to refer to the zombies as something fictional that became real

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@HadesOrso92]

Also for The Last Of Us, even though you kept it short, you forgot that the infected start out as Runners and will first turn into Stalkers before turning into Clickers, Clickers will also turn into Bloaters or they will turn into Shamblers if they exposed to water when mutating into Bloaters, and the last mutation is the Rat King which is an amalgamation of other infected, such as Runners, Stalkers and Clickers that have fused with a Bloater due to the Cordyceps fungus mutating and fusing them together due to them being dormant in close proximity of each other, however it is to note that this mutation only happens by chance is not guaranteed to happen.

[@kalajel]

Because they don't want to pay royalties to The Cranberries.

[@_.Lucifer_Lightfall._]

In the WWZ book we find terms from all over the world. "Zed Head" "Grabbers" "Gs" shorten from "Ghouls" "Biters" "Zeke" "Zachs"

[@MrAeral]

I heard a theory that everyone calls them "Infected" to not offend them cuz there is "still" can be a human inside. Also, why didn't you include Dying Light into the video? I am happy to see L4D but DL deserves some attention too.

[@Dvailen]

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