"Zombie Animals?" Topic

Should the zombie plague affect animals?

well the dogs and birds were cool in movies

*Maybe* other primates, but other than that, no. And, yeah, that means no zomb ie rottweilers.

For one thing, there are very few diseases that can spread between species, let along different animal phyla or kingdoms. Unless your zombie plague is based on some kind of super-rabies . . .

For another thing, one of the things I *didn't* like about "Return of the Living Dead" was the presence of undead animals, including reanimated mounted butterflies. If you think about it, if every dead insect in the world were to become reanimated, humanity wouldn't last long enough to fill a Funny or Die video, let alone a feature-length movie. Not to mention all the other vermin, from dust mites to head-lice to tapeworms to rats.

No, zombie humans are enough for me.

For awhile, they were going to use zombie animals in the Dawn of the Dead remake. But the zombies would only attack their own species.
In Land of the Dead, they were going to use zombie rats but they A. Ran out of money, and B. Realized that zombie rats would've wiped everybody out.

Sure, why not.

(I am going to be using that phrase for a while now in poll threads where I don't have a dog in the fight. Please bear with me.)

No, what for?

Perhaps certain larger mammals if you're talking about a virus (think West Nile or some strains of influenza). From a dramatic standpoint, having a virus that could infect and/or reanimate the dead of all species would be overkill since I don't see how anyone or anything could survive it.

Rabies is supposed to affect all mammals. Do whales get rabies? Can whales be zombies?

Read Brian Keene's "Dead Sea."

No animal zombies. It's hard enough to survive just the human ones.

I would say that this comes down to your setting and your personal choice. this is like asking any gaming board wht the best system for a particular genre is. Everyone has an opinion, but do those opinions really matter all that much? I use zombie animals in my games because they are FUN and a nice change from the shambling masses.

It's my choice and I wouldn't try to say boo as to is it the RIGHT way to do a zombie story or not.

I thought zombie cows in 'They Hunger' were pretty cool.

But yes, limit them to only larger species.

Anything smaller than a dog, however, would be too menacing though. Or how about a zombie virus which would infect only certain animal species, but *not* humans (in that it for example would only kill humans, or not affect them at all..other than that the zombified animals would be aggressive and dangerous in that way)

How about Zombie sharks?!?

'Zombie sharks with $#!!*%! laser beams on their heads!'

Ever read "Red Tide"? Sort of like the 28 Days Later rage virus, but it affects every animal in the sea.

By the end of the book, humanity's days seem numbered…

Since I became intersted in zombie gaming via "Resident Evil",I'm going with zombie dogs and crows.

I am telling you…

Nazi Zombie Bears would kick *ss!
I am already working on stats for them on AE:WW2…

I'd stick to people only and keep everything else on the menu.

Brian

Nazi Zombie Bears?

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Dis-like the whole idea of zombie animals in movies or games.

Noticed in the "Resident Evil" movies that the zombie people move very slow, but the dogs a zip'n right along.

Dumb.

And I really like the first movie and some parts of the other two.

Intereting question.

personally I don't like them. However biology being what it is, I think it would depend a lot on how you figure the zombie virus appears. If just from one guy then spreads, then someone would have to bit a monkey. If scattered from space then maybe.

But personally I would limit it to very lcose speicies to humans such as apes (!) monkeys, pigs… although one would think zombie birds could not fly….

and think about running into a pig farm where the feed had run out a while ago…. what a scenerio! hundreds of smells grunitng dead 200 pound hogs….

It comes down to your own preference. Trying to argue for or against reanimated animal corpses, especially using reanimated human corpses as your frame of reference, is like arguing whether Thor could beat Superman based on real world physics. The entire concept of a reanimated human corpse (as found in most zombie fiction) is so ludicrous to begin with, how can you attempt to argue for or against other reanimated animals using rational arguments? It baffles me…

(BTW: Wanna know why the dogs in RE were fast and the butterflies in RotLD flapped their wings? I'll tell you the same thing I tell my fiancee: because the director said so. He made them do it because he thought it was cool, not because it was scientifically feasible. If you want scientific feasibility, why on Earth are you watching a zombie flick? )

It's fiction – do as you please.

Z

Zenwired. Duuuuude. You're being way to sensible for this thread! :)

"too", of course… a zombie rat ate the extra "o".

You're being way to sensible for this thread! :)

Yeah, don't know what I was thinking. Zombie hamsters musta' ate my brain.

I don't think about it too hard. Zombie dog and zombie gator minis look cool.

If I have to apply some handwavium, I'd say that dogs are prone to eating dead things (and crows too, but the minis aren't as cool cause they're too tiny), gators are prone to eating people. Once they eat infected people, dead or alive ones, they catch the bug.

If small vermin catch the bug by eating zombies, they don't last long enough to be a strategic menace, their little bodies fall apart too quickly.

There's some Zombie Sloths working in the local Somerield.

Somerfield, even. Meh.

Oddball,
Dogs run faster than people.

I was disappointed in the first RE movie but liked the other two.

Zombie Kangaroos, anybody?

"Huh. Hey guys,I think we just got an untapped market…"

Well, the great Australian movie, Undead, did have zombie fish flapping around in the boat. No roos appeared in the film, but they would have been zombies too.
imdb.com/title/tt0339840

I think zombie dogs are cool… I would not get too crazy having alot of different species of animals. However if you zombie outbreak is the result of 'experimentation' then you could also include the zombie dogs or wierd mutant zombies but those would be very limited in numbers…

I think zombie dogs are cool… I would not get too crazy having alot of different species of animals. However if your zombie outbreak is the result of 'experimentation' then you could also include the zombie dogs or wierd mutant zombies but those would be very limited in numbers…

You know an edit feature would sure be nice here… instead of having to delete and redo the post. Perhaps my next paypal donation can be put toward that feature.