@@hoardhog3812 yes, they drank contaminated water. The governor i think it was that had slowly put contaminated zombieblood into the groundwater from the outside. Which then contaminated the water that Cellblock used. Ironicly rest of the show gladly ignores all risks of contaminations. But if ever a real zombie apocalypse.... then 3rd part contaminations would be a real scenario problemissue. Even flies can spread such contaminations!. But the problrm with TWD, is that they claim all the wotld is allready contaminated. It is only when thry die they get activated. And obvious when bitten they get infected by an "activated blood". So if a bite from an activated blood can infect fast. And a contaminated water with DILUTED activated blood can infect slowly!. Then a fly which spreads activated blood from corpses etc... into whomever the fly bites... would then in realisticly also able to spread the zombie virus!. So that is a huge flawed overseen scenario. Allready in todays world a lot of deadly viruses do spreads through flies etc bites.
To this day, the fish eye view of Morgan’s wife standing on the porch, trying to get back into the house, to get at her family and to make them just like her, and that slowly turning doorknob is FAR more terrifying than nearly anything else on the show.
couldnt have said it better lol. i remember watching this episode as a kid with my dad and i had NIGHTMARES about this exact scene for weeks. it left an impact on me thats forsure😂
Well that Otis fellow was fully fattened up, must’ve tasted like Wagyu beef to the walkers, and there were so many of them, if they didn’t run, they’d miss out for sure.
Doesn’t make sense though given how viral infections and diseases work and how later instances of walkers work, I hope they find a way to make it work though
that was a feasible theory until fear the walking dead release and showed the normal slow walkers in its first season despite it taking place in the first days of the outbreak.
That makes sense. Which would give them the ability to somewhat run. Or just walkers sometimes just randomly mutate, which could make them stronger, intelligent, or run. That makes sense to me in a zombie universe. Personally, I wish this series went that route with their walkers. Man, I really dislike the term “walker”. 🗿
i would have loved for freshly turned Walkers to be more of a threat. faster, some motor skills, random sparks of faint memory etc. that diminish as muscles atrophy and so do neural connections. that way a herd is not just a predictable monolith who's only factor is in numbers. nd also losing someone in your group would be a bigger threat, killing other people would be a more difficult decision. because you make smarter walkers that will mix in with the herd that can change behaviour of the whole group. it would have made the story more interesting. but this very late change of mind makes it the other way around. keep story going to make interesting walkers that feel so disconnected. they have no purpose, just content to consume. "please please keep watching!! look at this shiny new thing"
It would be cool, but I would think that this variant would eventually disappear as the bodies continued to rot and decay - I could see these as more "freshly" turned walkers. With the onset of rigor and such, things would change unless there is some crazy biological reason as to why the virus would be different with these and would inhibit natural decomposition.
@@stevejoyce4765 as long as there are survivors new people get turned all the time. these would mix with existing herds and create a mix of different capabilities. when you fight another group you have to take that into consideration. walkers already do decompose in the show, just a lot slower. why couldnt it be for those skills as well? they do fade with time until they become the walkers we know. but you'd have to study a herd carefully, gauge how long they've been dead, give thoughtto if you want to shoot your enemy, lest you add new walkers that change behavioral patterns and might make your defenses weaker, . it'd make them feel more like remnants of humans than just mindless tools, no more interesting than a hammer. not a drastic black and white, but including a fading echo. i think Fear ot really wild in its last seasons but one of the few interesting aspects to me was Alicia following that walker, seeming to half-remember his path. wondering if he actuaally does or if she's just wishful thinking. more of that as for scientifically, there could be lots more interesting explanations, like the virus infecting muscles as well, hence why they are able to keep going. converting not needed organs for energy, hence they dont really digest food but still have enoughh energy to move around. etc etc. i think they really boxed themselves in with that early explanation. it was too specific, while also not fully explaining some of the how, just the why. they killed any capacity for variation
Kind of surprised that The Governor’s ‘Daughter’ isn’t on this list. She was unique in how she actually wouldn’t attack The Governor and was satisfied with the meat he brought her. (Though he was shown to remove her teeth at one point) Later (remembering from the comic) she saw an ‘intruder’ to her home, and her first instinct was actually to run away and ‘seek help’, or to alert someone to the ‘intruder’. This being a sign of extreme intelligence compared to average walkers, or maybe even the protectors. (Only reason it rivals is because she was NOT the Governor’s daughter, rather it was some sick thing where he betrayed his buddy and then fully deluded himself that his buddy’s daughter was his, so there shouldn’t be any reason she’d be so familiar and child-like with him.)
Maybe the reason for her to display such level of intelligence despite being a walker was because she has been fed and cared for by governor thus in return making her body and even brain to maybe still function long enough for her to display intelliegence.
@@inshal6420idk if I’d even call it “taming” as that still implies a sense of control and “social domestication” of sorts, as it seemingly was more like… how if you brought in a hyena, it might consider you a part of it’s “pack” to a degree… but you have to be careful bc they know you ain’t really one of them, but for now they tolerate you
The expressions on roamers faces says all for me, especially the ones using the rocks to break the glass in the department store episode. That one had a look of pure rage on its face.
I remember when Rick found a lonely, crazy Morgan that he mentioned "whispering walkers." At first, i thought it was a variant, but later, it turns out he met the Whisperers early on. Those face wearing dead herding freaks.
Its obvious that wasnt the intention though, Morgan was crazy and couldnt tell the difference between the living and dead. The whisperers weren't written until later
My biggest problem plot hole with this whole franchise is that with the time jumps, we see the world 10+ years after the initial outbreak. Yet even a decade later, there were still hoards of hundreds of thousands or millions of walkers. But regardless of a re-animation infection or not, being exposed to the elements on a daily basis for several years would result in all of the dead decomposing down to skeletons. Skeletonization can happen as quick as a few months to as long as a couple years. But either way, once this society reached the 10+ year mark, there would be virtually no walkers left.
I always interpreted the walker hordes as just shambling groups attracted by the sound. Having like 100 walkers in a close proximity would probably be pretty loud. So, logically, it just draws in more walkers. Like the quarry in season 6 (i think its season 6). There couldve been 10's of thousands of walkers in the quarry so you could probably hear it from a long distance away which causes stray walkers and other walker hordes to join the bigger group. Just follow the sound, not some pack mentality. But its interesting to see the animalistic nature of it.
There is one thing everybody always leaves out. Vast majority of the walkers have been ar po und for some time. To the point they shouldn't even be able to move or function and I am thinking about the brain and how quick it would turn to mush and be destroyed by rot which is end of the line. Most people have figured out that people turn when they die and that hitting them in the head kills them. So there are not going to be mass hoards of zombies. 28 days later had the right Idea how long until they starve to death in this case how long will it take for decomposition to kill the zombies off. Unfortunately it doesnt work for the story bit the show turned to shit and the spin offs all sound like a joke. It seriously feels like they think their viewers are idiots and I think they might be right.
Symbiosis just means that its a close, long term interaction between 2 species, it can be mutualistic (good for both), parasitic (good for 1, bad for the other) or commensalistic or wtv its called lmao (good for 1, irrelevant to the other)
In the case of nature using the walker as a host, one would have to test to see if it was beneficial for the walker in some way as well for it to be used as a host. As it sits from what we see, that isnt the case...actually it seems to disfigure/immobilize them after a while. It in fact would be a parasitic symbiosis.
I'd say climbers we're probably people who turned while running from a horde, their panic and goal of getting away keeping the motor function and obstacle avoidance parts of their brain running
I can imagine some crazy groups testing this theory out by throwing some people and zombies into a large ditch and see if the people attempting to climb show that trait after being zombified
Idk if you can call it a variant but there was the super strong walker in FTWD who pulled a soldier through a hole in the wall. Maybe it was bench pressing for months until it was disturbed.
Imagine how chilling it would be if roamers could speak a little. Not clear sentences but just very small simple words like “it hurts” “help me” “so hungry”. Little Sophia slowly shambling out of the barn: “mom-my?”
When i first watched TWD and The Wishperers first appeared and i heard the zombies speak i was shocked Its a scary to think some zombies could speak, imagine zombies using words to lure you, like you would go into a building to look for food and all of a sudden you hear "Heelp mee" you rush to the sound a see a zombie
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Former nuclear radiologist w a decade of experience, specializing in meltdown emergency plans and decontamination here! In case anyone is curious, radiated walkers are 100% probable, given that walkers already exist and that they've come in contact with Nuclear radiation. Typically, you'd only see this with people that work in close proximity with the reactor, on the plant, though. When an atom is unstable, it starts giving off particles to try to stabilize itself, and those particles hit other atoms, knocking them free and destabilizing them as well. That's how the entire nuclear process works. Though rare it is possible for this to happen to the atoms that make up a human, and you CAN become radioactive as a result. But the halftime reduces by like, half every seven hours, so depending on the source of radiation that can go very quickly. The radiated effect wouldn't realistically last very long on a walker, unless the walker itself somehow became a fully functioning nuclear reactor that provides a steady amount of new fuel to knock the particles off and destabilize. I'd probably give it a month or two tops, and the radiation would wear off in reality, even the boils that are likely a result of alpha or beta particles being lodged in the flesh. A rain would mostly wash that off (unless it's also contaminated, so that could extend the contamination cycle!), so the only place the radiation could be on them undisturbed is either injected (think stepping on broken glass), consumed, or inhaled alpha or beta particles, as gamma particles cut straight through like xrays, up to a foot of concrete or an inch of led.
Zombies are scary in a cosmic horror sense too. Having something thats so close to you a human be violent and be a canablia adds to the fear. Most movies ignore the stillness of a corpose of a loved one by turning it into a action movie
I like how the book the rot and ruin did their zombies with freshly dead 1's an older 1's having differences and how zombie hoards would slowly head downhill and congregate in valleys
The french women in the post credit scene of world beyond is shot in the back, not head... But it`s the most interesting variant i`m curious about, i was expecting them to show some of them in daryl spin off, but they didn`t....yet. Maybe in season 2 :D Anyway, seeing dr Jenner again was super cool, that post credit scene was the best thing of world beyond :))
@@TrippieFox funny how people like you, that don’t know shit about me, have an opinion about me…but you don’t know me…and don’t know what I care about…
I think Rad-Walkers are possible-ish, they obviously wouldn't be bothered much by the Radiation since they're... y'know... already dead. But if the dose and exposure was high enough, they'd most likely absorb and emit that radiation for a long time -- though I don't think it'd be nearly enough to be lethal to the living, unless they're literally hugging the walkers for a few minutes at a time. I'm pretty sure instead of bubbly and boil-covered skin, said skin would most likely fall off entirely... that's what happens w/ living bodies, anyways, which could've been a REALLY cool visual; just rotting skinless walkers shambling around.
No ... the Amount of Radiation would simply boil there brain and they would fall dead after a short while ... specialy since the radiation walkers come from the literally blast crater of the Bombs if i got the show correctly in which they definetly would not survive . since shown in the series that the bombs werent like explodet mid air like the hiroshima and nagasaki bombs but much closer or on impact , sitting in the blast crater of that thing would basically be like hugging the elefants foot in Chernobyl
I could definitely see rad-walkers generating from the fallout afterwards. Cuz you’re absolutely correct, walkers don’t give a damn about things like radiation and that crossed thru the area sometime after would be radioactive as hell. Plus all the walkers for miles around would be wandering towards the brightest and loudest thing they’ve ever seen.
Tbh even a touch from something that's directly radioactive will kill a human being or make them extremely unwell at least. That's why x-ray technicians have to wear full suits of iron and rad check meters to level their radiation by even being in the room (my mom was one)
We know that the walker pathogen is systemic to every person on Earth, but it didn't kill everyone or make everyone sick, even though it does reanimate everyone who dies; so there's definitely variation in how the infection affects people. The roamers were definitely retconned due to a change in writing direction, but I like to think that they were quickly "selected against," just like mutants in any population of organisms. Roamers that could pick up rocks or climb fences were undoubtedly the first walkers to be killed during a herd stampede: they were almost always the first into the fray, so they were an immediate threat to any survivors and were put down before any other walker. Eventually there are no more roamers because that particular mutation was removed from the population of walkers. Kind of like beetles in a forest: the ones with a mutation that changes their color and makes them stand out among the rest get removed from the population first, until you're left with a more homogenous population.
@@Shannon-vv6rrDidn’t he refuse the antibiotics? I’m pretty sure they have him fever reducer and pain reliever like ibuprofen. Anyways, in the show he only lasted 1-2 days after infection, which isn’t ridiculous because he wasn’t bitten in an immediately fatal spot. In the games, they left clementine in a shed overnight because they were scared of her turning, even hours later. The fever is the thing that actually kills the person, I’m sure it’s some sort of encephalitis that swells and inflames the brain. I wish they would’ve been more realistic about it. Seizures, mouth foaming, they did make Jim puke but I think it was motion sickness from the RV. In my opinion, depending on where you were bitten, it would probably take 4-12 hours for someone to turn granted they didn’t die from bloodloss or other substancial damage.
Don’t forget the Spiked Walker that Rick fought at the Garbage place. But it’s basically just a normal Walker that had its body with metal wielded on it
You did forget Winston, which was a walker in a junkyard arena who had been impaled with metal pieces and spikes, and then wrapped in bits of scrap metal, including a helmet. He went from ordinary walker to bullet resistant, headshot-proof juggernaut who doesn't even have to bite or grab you to kill you. He can just run at you and if he gets too close, you get impaled to death.
Season 5 when Daryl and Carol are in the city looking for Beth after they flip the van- there was a walker laying down (lurker) with a machete fully gripped in its hand and it doesn’t let go before Carol or Daryl kill it 👀👀
@@OliveOil176 Except Rigor Mortis is only temporary, it goes away after 12-24 hours and only happens after a body has ceased moving, when someone dies they turn into a walker and get up and start moving before rigor mortis can take effect
@@HoratioXit’s not unlikely that the zombie virus mutates differently depending on the environment and/or rate of transmission. Real life viruses mutate differently depending on a multitude of factors, one being transmission rates (surprisingly enough). So it doesn’t seem illogical for the zombie virus to start mutating as transmission slows due to the living human population dropping. So it starts mutating into allowing some portions of the brain to function normally like an athletic section or a more active motor function section. This is all purely my interpretation of the virus, and until we have some sort of understanding of the type of virus and a general explanation on its mutation process we can only speculate
I actually like the zombies that Frank Darabont made for the first two seasons. It gives the show a different approach and more reasons to the intelligent walkers the group had gone up against. It would have been interesting to see more of the fresh walkers at the start of the show, they looked more human like, allowing their body language to be more threatening.
there was a more capable walker in season 3 who peeled the Woodbury Broken fence open, in the French scene they started it then they made it worse not just made it worse
I like to think that roomers were a thing at first when the virus first started but it was able to quickly evolve to entirely eliminate all possibility of the host retaining its mind
I think the walkers remembering makes sense. It's your brain, it's not gone, it's just dead. It's also much more interesting than the extremely predictable walkers from later seasons.
I feel like roamers can be explained as a stage of zombie instead of a variant, because in a way, Matt Pats theory on this a while ago makes sense, the show first started, and so the zombies would maybe still be somewhat “alive”. But that’s just a theory.
I'd like to say this is (probably) debunked by recently-turned walkers in the later seasons being similar, however, the lack of consistent nutrition in survivors could play a part
So far the only other movies to depict zombies either retaining some memories or gain intelligence after time are Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Land of the Dead (2004) respectively. Then again, that was the result of space radiation so I dunno why zombies in this show only get dumber saved for extremely rare "uncommon" or "special" infected ones.
Walking Dead Director: Hey, y'all remember the Rat King from The Last Of Us Part II? Walking Dead Team: Yeah? Walking Dead Director: Let's do something like that.
The scientist in the WB post credit scene was shot in the back, not the head. The most surprising thing about her turning was how fast it took, as well as the speed and strength.
To me the most surprising fact was that she knew where to run like she remembered where her killer went even though he was no longer there and the door were closed.
@@Asterion_Mol0c stayed true to itself. Didn't take itself seriously and was never boring. Every episode was the equivalent of a season of the walking dead.
roamers and all that is so easy to design, a fresh walker/roamer has signs of personality and better movement while the older ones shamble and sit around very slowly, i feel like that makes logical sense
I've always liked the theory that the roamers just degenerate over time, but my headcanon is that maybe there's a difference in whether someone turns before or after dying of other causes. Like maybe there's some crossover between when the zombie instincts take over and the person instincts fade away where they're both present in the consciousness?
Walking around a corner in a dark ally and seeing a walker eat a body, turning around to look at you and screaming as loud as possible „HEEELLP HELP ME OH GOD PLEASE HEEEELLLP!!!“
@@ethanguest3438honestly if I were a showrunner in TWD(which is HIGHLY unlikely considering I’m not of showrunner age yet) I’d call that variant of walkers “Mimics” because they can mimic human voices, leading to some pretty disturbing and adrenaline inducing moments if a herd’s nearby and managed to hear the mimic’s “genuine cries for help”, and would establish an urgent need to put down the mimic as soon as possible when spotted, to avoid a scenario like that.
I would say the idea of intelligent roamers would be a good possibility for the first few months and start fading out as the non active parts of the brain would slowly start decomposing.
1:20 - He probably went that way because originally Walking Dead zombies were literally just George Romero zombies - And zombies in Dawn Of The Dead and Day Of The Dead exhibit signs they have vague memories of their past lives.
For me, the best explanation for the roamers is the abundance of freshly dead people. Less rotted ones can use more undamaged muscles to move faster and have some grey matter left to do the most basic tasks. There have been examples of people shot/axed in the head who are essentially "dead" but preformed basic tasks because non critical "autopilot" part of the brain, was not damaged.
I think that if you shoot certain parts of the brain, they might be able to turn, cause remember, they only need a small section of it, so if the rest was damaged, they might be fine
My favorite variants of walkers are definitely the Walker king from Dead City and the hybrid walker from Daryl Dixon show because of not only their look but behavior as well! I like the names you gave some of these walkers. It would be interesting to see some of the France variants invade the States but we’ll have to wait and see about that one
i mean one explanation for the climbers in season 11 is the virus mutated in certain people allowing them to be a climber. now it could be argued that it really should have mutated earlier but hey it's tv
Actually they already had the ability to climb in season one, when Glenn and Rick lose their walker disguises in the rain, some walkers climb over a fence.
I like the idea of Roamers turning to husks because it shows a form of decomposition, it's also similar to how the Virals and Shamblers from dying light work
Realistically, rad-walkers would be completely skinless, which would’ve been rad…-ical, though, compared to a normal walker, they would rot like crazy, they would die from extended exposure as the radiation eventually melts away their brain stem
If walkers stayed as they were in first season, then (I'm trying to avoid spoilers) a certain character keeping their turned family members would make a lot more sense
The Swine Flu variant. When that killer flu was going through the prison, when they went out for supplies the walkers had bloody mucus oozing out of their eyes and nostrils.
My theory is that the more the Wildfire virus stays inactive while the human stays alive the more it loses its abilities to give the walkers the human capabilities they once had. (I very well could be wrong ‘cause of FTWD tho, but again it’s just a theory)
*@TySwell* 🧟♂️ I mean, having *SOME* walkers run and show a tad bit of intelligence, which would be very rare. I think that would be cool, like walkers can sometimes mutate . That just makes sense to me in a “zombie” universe.
I'd love a walking dead type apocalipse, just me and the homies fucking around with zombies, putting rollerskates on one, put gloves on and have muay thai practice on the walking punching bags, doing a zombieland type of competition for creative kills
bro thinks he's in a game of just kiliing zombies. wbt other aspects like food, shelter medicine etc... no offense but the ones who boasts are the first ones to die
Roamers are the regular walkers that keep traveling. The ones in 1 and 2 are the climbers that were reintroduced in 11 and I would consider the “protector” as a climber as well
Variants might be caused by the person having a virus when they get infected with the zombie virus- the two viruses mutate when they meet and you get a variant. Different kinds of viruses might produce different variants.
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The wasp one is extremely feasible. Especially if it’s been immobile. It may not spew out wasps the same way. That’s over done. Unless they’re running from gasses coming out of the now animating corpse.
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One thing I think you forgot but I think the one that attacked Daryl on the ship was a cohort, you can see how quick he is and smart, incredibly violent too in the way the walker killed that one guy, he turns fast to Daryl and takes a hit to the head but still attacks, this might be something to add or discuss. (Btw it was towards the end of season 1 episode 5 of Daryl Dixon
In the series finale, I didn’t understand how the walkers were able to climb, given it takes muscle strength to at least climb, where as the walkers can climb, despite being very decayed. Still, despite being dead, there’s still some remnants of humanity left in them that can make them twice as dangerous.
The kid that picks up the teddy bear was a dream it never happened. Also this is what is called a romero zombie they act on old habit patterns. Like going to a mall playing football or playing an instrument this is nothing but a ghost of who they once were.
its weird how the show runners kinda forgot about those variants i remember in the first episodes zombies trying to open the doors and later it was abandoned
Ive got a theory of my own about this. The roamers are recently turned who still have traces of motor functionality and higher intelligence because they arent effectively braindead. Climbers and runners are probably people that got infected or taken out in the fight or flight mode so there is still a lot of emphasis on mobility and athleticism. Most likely these were the leaders of groups of walkers before they turned into herds, and because they were the kost capable they were also the first to encohnter survivors, and due to that they eventually were all killed off 9r wounded enough to not be a substantial threat
Jenner said that it activates the brain stem, but even then you see little sparks and shoots fly into different parts of the brain, even though its mindless instinct, it probably does have access to some memories
With the climbers, I think that it is the body slowly healing and reaching towards homeostasis. Look a the variants in Zombie Land for a better example
In an earlier season of Fear there was a military base that had super-strong walkers. I remember an end scene where a soldier was pulled into a small hole in the wall by something behind or inside the wall. What the fuck was that?
The roamer personality concept isn't something I like. The literal definition of a zombie is a decomposing corpse that walks and somehow still needs to eat. It's not an alien or trapped mind thing.
I personally like to believe the walkers in the first season were able to run, use tools, and have much better motor skills because they were newly turned and the decay process hadn't set in like a LOT of the walkers seen in later seasons (this ignores, however, the walkers that come from people killed later on lol)
I like how the Last of Us treats zombies as nature, they aren’t some kind of super villain, just here for some food and a good time. Walking dead’s zombies are getting a lil cooky in the later seasons.
I like the idea of a part of the victim still being stuck inside the walker, there's a book serious that has a virus called Lucifer 1-13 that does exactly this. You're basically a passenger in your body. Still connected but unable to control your body or speak. The book is by Johnathan Maeberry and apart of the Dead of Night Series. I strongly recommend it.
few walkers had their teeth removed and smaller infantile teeth were transplanted in upside-down predating their transition... indicating positive bone growth after turning, via the added ability for ingesting flesh.
I was under the impression that the first set of zombies were just still “fresh” as you can tell by how the zombies go from looking like dead humans to rotting corpses in later seasons.
Radiation Walkers would THEORETICALLY be possible. Radiation gathers in your bones, so if enough of the right combination of radioactive particles was concentrated in bones, you could see them emerging.
I always thought of The Walking Dead to be the only zombie show that did not have different types of zombies, but I guess that changed. Also, the Cohorts remind me of the Crimson Heads in Resident Evil.
Roamers - 0:43
Climbers - 3:47
Lurkers - 5:45
Environmental - 6:56
Pets - 8:18
Protectors - 9:14
Irradiated - 10:05
The Embalmed - 11:04
The Taxidermic - 11:41
Burners - 12:09
Cohorts - 12:56
Hybrids - 14:57
The Walker King - 15:58
Which are runners?
Walker king made me think of call of duty zombies and some other video games
Was there ever any explanation for the sick ones at the prison?
@@hoardhog3812 yes, they drank contaminated water.
The governor i think it was that had slowly put contaminated zombieblood into the groundwater from the outside.
Which then contaminated the water that Cellblock used.
Ironicly rest of the show gladly ignores all risks of contaminations.
But if ever a real zombie apocalypse.... then 3rd part contaminations would be a real scenario problemissue.
Even flies can spread such contaminations!.
But the problrm with TWD, is that they claim all the wotld is allready contaminated. It is only when thry die they get activated.
And obvious when bitten they get infected by an "activated blood".
So if a bite from an activated blood can infect fast.
And a contaminated water with DILUTED activated blood can infect slowly!.
Then a fly which spreads activated blood from corpses etc... into whomever the fly bites... would then in realisticly also able to spread the zombie virus!.
So that is a huge flawed overseen scenario.
Allready in todays world a lot of deadly viruses do spreads through flies etc bites.
@paulruano1903 GET OUT 🗣️
To this day, the fish eye view of Morgan’s wife standing on the porch, trying to get back into the house, to get at her family and to make them just like her, and that slowly turning doorknob is FAR more terrifying than nearly anything else on the show.
It really is
Honestly tho!!
it was a bit cheesy
couldnt have said it better lol. i remember watching this episode as a kid with my dad and i had NIGHTMARES about this exact scene for weeks. it left an impact on me thats forsure😂
Use to freak me out alot back then, that whenever I open a door in a dark room, I imagine her on the other side 😂
I remember how when shane and otis get into the school the walkers straight up start running
Imagine your hiding from walkers thinking it's easy peasy cuz they slow and the mfs start bolting💀
fr bro nobody talks abt that
Well that Otis fellow was fully fattened up, must’ve tasted like Wagyu beef to the walkers, and there were so many of them, if they didn’t run, they’d miss out for sure.
@@jamesm3471more like pork
Just rewatched this ep and no one talks about it ever
I always just thought s1 walkers were "smarter" because they were fresher.
He pointed out that it's a common theory in the video
I Never gave it much thought at all
Doesn’t make sense though given how viral infections and diseases work and how later instances of walkers work, I hope they find a way to make it work though
that was a feasible theory until fear the walking dead release and showed the normal slow walkers in its first season despite it taking place in the first days of the outbreak.
That makes sense. Which would give them the ability to somewhat run. Or just walkers sometimes just randomly mutate, which could make them stronger, intelligent, or run. That makes sense to me in a zombie universe. Personally, I wish this series went that route with their walkers. Man, I really dislike the term “walker”. 🗿
i would have loved for freshly turned Walkers to be more of a threat. faster, some motor skills, random sparks of faint memory etc. that diminish as muscles atrophy and so do neural connections. that way a herd is not just a predictable monolith who's only factor is in numbers. nd also losing someone in your group would be a bigger threat, killing other people would be a more difficult decision. because you make smarter walkers that will mix in with the herd that can change behaviour of the whole group. it would have made the story more interesting. but this very late change of mind makes it the other way around. keep story going to make interesting walkers that feel so disconnected. they have no purpose, just content to consume. "please please keep watching!! look at this shiny new thing"
Hope you write the scripts someday. 🙏
It would be cool, but I would think that this variant would eventually disappear as the bodies continued to rot and decay - I could see these as more "freshly" turned walkers. With the onset of rigor and such, things would change unless there is some crazy biological reason as to why the virus would be different with these and would inhibit natural decomposition.
@@stevejoyce4765 as long as there are survivors new people get turned all the time. these would mix with existing herds and create a mix of different capabilities. when you fight another group you have to take that into consideration. walkers already do decompose in the show, just a lot slower. why couldnt it be for those skills as well? they do fade with time until they become the walkers we know. but you'd have to study a herd carefully, gauge how long they've been dead, give thoughtto if you want to shoot your enemy, lest you add new walkers that change behavioral patterns and might make your defenses weaker, . it'd make them feel more like remnants of humans than just mindless tools, no more interesting than a hammer. not a drastic black and white, but including a fading echo. i think Fear ot really wild in its last seasons but one of the few interesting aspects to me was Alicia following that walker, seeming to half-remember his path. wondering if he actuaally does or if she's just wishful thinking. more of that
as for scientifically, there could be lots more interesting explanations, like the virus infecting muscles as well, hence why they are able to keep going. converting not needed organs for energy, hence they dont really digest food but still have enoughh energy to move around. etc etc. i think they really boxed themselves in with that early explanation. it was too specific, while also not fully explaining some of the how, just the why. they killed any capacity for variation
Z nation did that
This aint dying light
Kind of surprised that The Governor’s ‘Daughter’ isn’t on this list. She was unique in how she actually wouldn’t attack The Governor and was satisfied with the meat he brought her. (Though he was shown to remove her teeth at one point)
Later (remembering from the comic) she saw an ‘intruder’ to her home, and her first instinct was actually to run away and ‘seek help’, or to alert someone to the ‘intruder’.
This being a sign of extreme intelligence compared to average walkers, or maybe even the protectors. (Only reason it rivals is because she was NOT the Governor’s daughter, rather it was some sick thing where he betrayed his buddy and then fully deluded himself that his buddy’s daughter was his, so there shouldn’t be any reason she’d be so familiar and child-like with him.)
She kept trying to eat him
@@twilightgardenspresentatio6384 was gonna say she did lunge and snap
Maybe the reason for her to display such level of intelligence despite being a walker was because she has been fed and cared for by governor thus in return making her body and even brain to maybe still function long enough for her to display intelliegence.
@@kaelith2607it’s basically how people tame wild animals. It tolerates you but its not like a domestic pet.
@@inshal6420idk if I’d even call it “taming” as that still implies a sense of control and “social domestication” of sorts, as it seemingly was more like… how if you brought in a hyena, it might consider you a part of it’s “pack” to a degree… but you have to be careful bc they know you ain’t really one of them, but for now they tolerate you
The environmental walker that blinded Aaron (with poisonous vines) on the original Walking Dead was kind of unique.
Absolutely! Great catch
When was that?
@@Halterin11 episode 3 of season 10 i believe
I think later than that as he was with Negan
@@jacobpritchard256 i started rewatching twd like a few weeks ago and yeah it was episode 3 lol
The expressions on roamers faces says all for me, especially the ones using the rocks to break the glass in the department store episode.
That one had a look of pure rage on its face.
I remember when Rick found a lonely, crazy Morgan that he mentioned "whispering walkers."
At first, i thought it was a variant, but later, it turns out he met the Whisperers early on. Those face wearing dead herding freaks.
Its obvious that wasnt the intention though, Morgan was crazy and couldnt tell the difference between the living and dead. The whisperers weren't written until later
@@porkeywingspretty sure whisperers are in the comics soooo
@@straightfuckingwater389 whisperers hadnt appeared in the comics yet when that episode aired soooo
Shame though because I genuinely got spooked by that before finding out they're people in disguise! Had me thinking the walkers were evolving
Could have been foreshadowing.?
My biggest problem plot hole with this whole franchise is that with the time jumps, we see the world 10+ years after the initial outbreak. Yet even a decade later, there were still hoards of hundreds of thousands or millions of walkers. But regardless of a re-animation infection or not, being exposed to the elements on a daily basis for several years would result in all of the dead decomposing down to skeletons. Skeletonization can happen as quick as a few months to as long as a couple years. But either way, once this society reached the 10+ year mark, there would be virtually no walkers left.
I guess as weak as this explanation is, is that whatever animates the walkers sustains them
I always interpreted the walker hordes as just shambling groups attracted by the sound.
Having like 100 walkers in a close proximity would probably be pretty loud. So, logically, it just draws in more walkers.
Like the quarry in season 6 (i think its season 6). There couldve been 10's of thousands of walkers in the quarry so you could probably hear it from a long distance away which causes stray walkers and other walker hordes to join the bigger group.
Just follow the sound, not some pack mentality. But its interesting to see the animalistic nature of it.
They also seem to be attracted by smell as well. I mean how else is covering yourself in walker skin/guts supposed to protect you from detection?
There is one thing everybody always leaves out.
Vast majority of the walkers have been ar po und for some time. To the point they shouldn't even be able to move or function and I am thinking about the brain and how quick it would turn to mush and be destroyed by rot which is end of the line. Most people have figured out that people turn when they die and that hitting them in the head kills them. So there are not going to be mass hoards of zombies. 28 days later had the right Idea how long until they starve to death in this case how long will it take for decomposition to kill the zombies off. Unfortunately it doesnt work for the story bit the show turned to shit and the spin offs all sound like a joke. It seriously feels like they think their viewers are idiots and I think they might be right.
That's... Literally explained in the books.
That explains how hordes form, I always figured the moved via one having a pre determined location and shuffling that way and the rest just following
A beneficial relationship between two entities is called symbiosis the non beneficial is parasitical.
Isn’t it that mutualistic if it’s good for both? While symbiosis is just the interactions between two entities?
Symbiosis just means that its a close, long term interaction between 2 species, it can be mutualistic (good for both), parasitic (good for 1, bad for the other) or commensalistic or wtv its called lmao (good for 1, irrelevant to the other)
yall make me feel stupid 😭
In the case of nature using the walker as a host, one would have to test to see if it was beneficial for the walker in some way as well for it to be used as a host. As it sits from what we see, that isnt the case...actually it seems to disfigure/immobilize them after a while. It in fact would be a parasitic symbiosis.
i dont think that the environmental walkers are symbiotic because it doesn't benefit them at all. he's right to call it parasitic
I'd say climbers we're probably people who turned while running from a horde, their panic and goal of getting away keeping the motor function and obstacle avoidance parts of their brain running
I can imagine some crazy groups testing this theory out by throwing some people and zombies into a large ditch and see if the people attempting to climb show that trait after being zombified
Wow martinez. Or. What's his name that gabenor killed
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@@MistarZtvMilton Mamet?
Idk if you can call it a variant but there was the super strong walker in FTWD who pulled a soldier through a hole in the wall. Maybe it was bench pressing for months until it was disturbed.
I hate that they never explained that.
There were several walkers pulling him in at the same time
Those are in fact variants.
Fear had more variants showcased than the main show tbh
What season was this?
Imagine how chilling it would be if roamers could speak a little. Not clear sentences but just very small simple words like “it hurts” “help me” “so hungry”.
Little Sophia slowly shambling out of the barn: “mom-my?”
im getting goosebumps thinking about it now🥶
Like the Runners in The Last of Us?
@@bluesteno64 Or the virals in dying light
When i first watched TWD and The Wishperers first appeared and i heard the zombies speak i was shocked
Its a scary to think some zombies could speak, imagine zombies using words to lure you, like you would go into a building to look for food and all of a sudden you hear "Heelp mee" you rush to the sound a see a zombie
@@w1zzard_Like the bear in annihilation
A wasp nest zombie is the last thing you want to run into far out
Your videos are top tier. I love that someone can actually go in depth in this crazy universe. Can't wait to see more content. I can't even explain how you are so underrated. It's crazy
Thanks for the support mate!
Former nuclear radiologist w a decade of experience, specializing in meltdown emergency plans and decontamination here!
In case anyone is curious, radiated walkers are 100% probable, given that walkers already exist and that they've come in contact with Nuclear radiation. Typically, you'd only see this with people that work in close proximity with the reactor, on the plant, though. When an atom is unstable, it starts giving off particles to try to stabilize itself, and those particles hit other atoms, knocking them free and destabilizing them as well. That's how the entire nuclear process works. Though rare it is possible for this to happen to the atoms that make up a human, and you CAN become radioactive as a result.
But the halftime reduces by like, half every seven hours, so depending on the source of radiation that can go very quickly. The radiated effect wouldn't realistically last very long on a walker, unless the walker itself somehow became a fully functioning nuclear reactor that provides a steady amount of new fuel to knock the particles off and destabilize. I'd probably give it a month or two tops, and the radiation would wear off in reality, even the boils that are likely a result of alpha or beta particles being lodged in the flesh. A rain would mostly wash that off (unless it's also contaminated, so that could extend the contamination cycle!), so the only place the radiation could be on them undisturbed is either injected (think stepping on broken glass), consumed, or inhaled alpha or beta particles, as gamma particles cut straight through like xrays, up to a foot of concrete or an inch of led.
I really liked the idea of the Roamers, at least how they were presented
Those limited memories really add an terror layer to the zombies
Zombies are scary in a cosmic horror sense too. Having something thats so close to you a human be violent and be a canablia adds to the fear. Most movies ignore the stillness of a corpose of a loved one by turning it into a action movie
@@fracturedzone7225 YES exactly
That's one of the reasons I was (and sometimes I kinda of still am) terrified of zombies
Idea
@@daleshelden8394 of fuck jhgjhh
Thanks mate ❤️
I like how the book the rot and ruin did their zombies with freshly dead 1's an older 1's having differences and how zombie hoards would slowly head downhill and congregate in valleys
The french women in the post credit scene of world beyond is shot in the back, not head... But it`s the most interesting variant i`m curious about, i was expecting them to show some of them in daryl spin off, but they didn`t....yet. Maybe in season 2 :D Anyway, seeing dr Jenner again was super cool, that post credit scene was the best thing of world beyond :))
Funny how people like you only care about endings
@@TrippieFox funny how people like you, that don’t know shit about me, have an opinion about me…but you don’t know me…and don’t know what I care about…
@@Mihael_Keehl31I think you're an asshole lol
@@Mihael_Keehl31people can interpret things based on how you speak
@@Mihael_Keehl31 ur right, u can't judge ppl if u dunno shit about them or wut they like
I think Rad-Walkers are possible-ish, they obviously wouldn't be bothered much by the Radiation since they're... y'know... already dead. But if the dose and exposure was high enough, they'd most likely absorb and emit that radiation for a long time -- though I don't think it'd be nearly enough to be lethal to the living, unless they're literally hugging the walkers for a few minutes at a time. I'm pretty sure instead of bubbly and boil-covered skin, said skin would most likely fall off entirely... that's what happens w/ living bodies, anyways, which could've been a REALLY cool visual; just rotting skinless walkers shambling around.
Not just skin. Muscle, Organs, Everything. It would boil down and literally slough off the bones. It liquifies you from heat.
No ... the Amount of Radiation would simply boil there brain and they would fall dead after a short while ... specialy since the radiation walkers come from the literally blast crater of the Bombs if i got the show correctly in which they definetly would not survive . since shown in the series that the bombs werent like explodet mid air like the hiroshima and nagasaki bombs but much closer or on impact , sitting in the blast crater of that thing would basically be like hugging the elefants foot in Chernobyl
I could definitely see rad-walkers generating from the fallout afterwards. Cuz you’re absolutely correct, walkers don’t give a damn about things like radiation and that crossed thru the area sometime after would be radioactive as hell. Plus all the walkers for miles around would be wandering towards the brightest and loudest thing they’ve ever seen.
Like the skeletons from the movie Warm Bodies?
Tbh even a touch from something that's directly radioactive will kill a human being or make them extremely unwell at least. That's why x-ray technicians have to wear full suits of iron and rad check meters to level their radiation by even being in the room (my mom was one)
We know that the walker pathogen is systemic to every person on Earth, but it didn't kill everyone or make everyone sick, even though it does reanimate everyone who dies; so there's definitely variation in how the infection affects people. The roamers were definitely retconned due to a change in writing direction, but I like to think that they were quickly "selected against," just like mutants in any population of organisms.
Roamers that could pick up rocks or climb fences were undoubtedly the first walkers to be killed during a herd stampede: they were almost always the first into the fray, so they were an immediate threat to any survivors and were put down before any other walker. Eventually there are no more roamers because that particular mutation was removed from the population of walkers. Kind of like beetles in a forest: the ones with a mutation that changes their color and makes them stand out among the rest get removed from the population first, until you're left with a more homogenous population.
In season 1 Jim was given antibiotics which prolonged his life for days by lessening the side affects of the bite. Twd forgot their own rules tho..
@@Shannon-vv6rrDidn’t he refuse the antibiotics? I’m pretty sure they have him fever reducer and pain reliever like ibuprofen. Anyways, in the show he only lasted 1-2 days after infection, which isn’t ridiculous because he wasn’t bitten in an immediately fatal spot. In the games, they left clementine in a shed overnight because they were scared of her turning, even hours later.
The fever is the thing that actually kills the person, I’m sure it’s some sort of encephalitis that swells and inflames the brain. I wish they would’ve been more realistic about it. Seizures, mouth foaming, they did make Jim puke but I think it was motion sickness from the RV.
In my opinion, depending on where you were bitten, it would probably take 4-12 hours for someone to turn granted they didn’t die from bloodloss or other substancial damage.
i like how this implies that they breed
Don’t forget the Spiked Walker that Rick fought at the Garbage place. But it’s basically just a normal Walker that had its body with metal wielded on it
You did forget Winston, which was a walker in a junkyard arena who had been impaled with metal pieces and spikes, and then wrapped in bits of scrap metal, including a helmet.
He went from ordinary walker to bullet resistant, headshot-proof juggernaut who doesn't even have to bite or grab you to kill you. He can just run at you and if he gets too close, you get impaled to death.
Season 5 when Daryl and Carol are in the city looking for Beth after they flip the van- there was a walker laying down (lurker) with a machete fully gripped in its hand and it doesn’t let go before Carol or Daryl kill it 👀👀
Could of been Rigor mortis
Couldve been nothing. Not every walker is a game changer especially one whos laid out anyways
@@TrippieFox can’t y’all just humor me here instead of being contrarians 😭
You have a valid point. Everyone has to be so critical over a fictional scenario 😒
@@OliveOil176
Except Rigor Mortis is only temporary, it goes away after 12-24 hours and only happens after a body has ceased moving, when someone dies they turn into a walker and get up and start moving before rigor mortis can take effect
You deserve more attention! So much detail in these it’s awesome
i read somewhere that angela kang said the variants are regional, that's why they only just now made their appearance in s11
Its just dookie writting
That makes no sense since they appeared in plenty of other regions aswell, making them not only "regional".
@@Its_Me_Romanoshut up
@@HoratioXshut up
@@HoratioXit’s not unlikely that the zombie virus mutates differently depending on the environment and/or rate of transmission.
Real life viruses mutate differently depending on a multitude of factors, one being transmission rates (surprisingly enough).
So it doesn’t seem illogical for the zombie virus to start mutating as transmission slows due to the living human population dropping. So it starts mutating into allowing some portions of the brain to function normally like an athletic section or a more active motor function section.
This is all purely my interpretation of the virus, and until we have some sort of understanding of the type of virus and a general explanation on its mutation process we can only speculate
I actually like the zombies that Frank Darabont made for the first two seasons. It gives the show a different approach and more reasons to the intelligent walkers the group had gone up against.
It would have been interesting to see more of the fresh walkers at the start of the show, they looked more human like, allowing their body language to be more threatening.
there was a more capable walker in season 3 who peeled the Woodbury Broken fence open, in the French scene they started it then they made it worse not just made it worse
it’s always the French 😅
I like to think that roomers were a thing at first when the virus first started but it was able to quickly evolve to entirely eliminate all possibility of the host retaining its mind
I think the walkers remembering makes sense. It's your brain, it's not gone, it's just dead. It's also much more interesting than the extremely predictable walkers from later seasons.
Great video i love videos on the walking dead lore been a fan since day 1 and its good to see more videos on the variants
Appreciate the support mate!
@@Swell-Films no problem buddy
Small note; the french graffiti reads "the dead are born here." It's not in the past tense.
I feel like roamers can be explained as a stage of zombie instead of a variant, because in a way, Matt Pats theory on this a while ago makes sense, the show first started, and so the zombies would maybe still be somewhat “alive”. But that’s just a theory.
I'd like to say this is (probably) debunked by recently-turned walkers in the later seasons being similar, however, the lack of consistent nutrition in survivors could play a part
I like the idea of slow smart-ish zombies that adapt to their enviroment
So far the only other movies to depict zombies either retaining some memories or gain intelligence after time are Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Land of the Dead (2004) respectively. Then again, that was the result of space radiation so I dunno why zombies in this show only get dumber saved for extremely rare "uncommon" or "special" infected ones.
Walking Dead Director: Hey, y'all remember the Rat King from The Last Of Us Part II?
Walking Dead Team: Yeah?
Walking Dead Director: Let's do something like that.
The scientist in the WB post credit scene was shot in the back, not the head. The most surprising thing about her turning was how fast it took, as well as the speed and strength.
Shane turned quickly after dying as well. I think for Shane it was because how aggressive he was. Not sure about that lady though.
To me the most surprising fact was that she knew where to run like she remembered where her killer went even though he was no longer there and the door were closed.
In b4 plot twist that the organization was testing it on themselves
These variants would have been interesting if they had used them a decade ago, back when the walking dead was still relevant.
I like how the walking dead just confirms z-nation
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That was a show that started bad and got worse and worse every season
@@Asterion_Mol0c stayed true to itself. Didn't take itself seriously and was never boring. Every episode was the equivalent of a season of the walking dead.
@@christopher-vh9qv it started decent and every time I thought it was gonna get better it took the other direction and became worse and worse
@@christopher-vh9qv it just kept getting more ridiculous and more boring
roamers and all that is so easy to design, a fresh walker/roamer has signs of personality and better movement while the older ones shamble and sit around very slowly, i feel like that makes logical sense
I've always liked the theory that the roamers just degenerate over time, but my headcanon is that maybe there's a difference in whether someone turns before or after dying of other causes. Like maybe there's some crossover between when the zombie instincts take over and the person instincts fade away where they're both present in the consciousness?
You forgot about that one walker in fear that pulls a man through an air vent and crunches up his body
Walking around a corner in a dark ally and seeing a walker eat a body, turning around to look at you and screaming as loud as possible „HEEELLP HELP ME OH GOD PLEASE HEEEELLLP!!!“
That'd be fucking disturbing. Honestly walkers imitating voices like parrots would have been a harrowing but interesting addition
@@ethanguest3438honestly if I were a showrunner in TWD(which is HIGHLY unlikely considering I’m not of showrunner age yet) I’d call that variant of walkers “Mimics” because they can mimic human voices, leading to some pretty disturbing and adrenaline inducing moments if a herd’s nearby and managed to hear the mimic’s “genuine cries for help”, and would establish an urgent need to put down the mimic as soon as possible when spotted, to avoid a scenario like that.
Another entertaining and interesting video my dude, thanks.
0:14 walker: welp there goes my lunch
I would say the idea of intelligent roamers would be a good possibility for the first few months and start fading out as the non active parts of the brain would slowly start decomposing.
I always assumed that the change from Roamers to Walkers was just because as time passed they lost motor skills and intelligence due to decay
1:20 - He probably went that way because originally Walking Dead zombies were literally just George Romero zombies - And zombies in Dawn Of The Dead and Day Of The Dead exhibit signs they have vague memories of their past lives.
The intro of the walker king with the many limbs was so badass!
Kid: Mom, I want a glowing one
Mom: we have a glowing one at home
The glowing one at home.
For me, the best explanation for the roamers is the abundance of freshly dead people. Less rotted ones can use more undamaged muscles to move faster and have some grey matter left to do the most basic tasks. There have been examples of people shot/axed in the head who are essentially "dead" but preformed basic tasks because non critical "autopilot" part of the brain, was not damaged.
I think that if you shoot certain parts of the brain, they might be able to turn, cause remember, they only need a small section of it, so if the rest was damaged, they might be fine
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My favorite variants of walkers are definitely the Walker king from Dead City and the hybrid walker from Daryl Dixon show because of not only their look but behavior as well! I like the names you gave some of these walkers. It would be interesting to see some of the France variants invade the States but we’ll have to wait and see about that one
i mean one explanation for the climbers in season 11 is the virus mutated in certain people allowing them to be a climber. now it could be argued that it really should have mutated earlier but hey it's tv
In other words bad writing and seriously, just giving them the ability to climb? What a lame mutation to show off
Actually they already had the ability to climb in season one, when Glenn and Rick lose their walker disguises in the rain, some walkers climb over a fence.
I've been waiting for a video like this after watching all the twd shows, thanks bro
Their arrogance firing Darabont cost them dearly
I like the idea of Roamers turning to husks because it shows a form of decomposition, it's also similar to how the Virals and Shamblers from dying light work
Realistically, rad-walkers would be completely skinless, which would’ve been rad…-ical, though, compared to a normal walker, they would rot like crazy, they would die from extended exposure as the radiation eventually melts away their brain stem
If walkers stayed as they were in first season, then (I'm trying to avoid spoilers) a certain character keeping their turned family members would make a lot more sense
fr this is like unironically exploring the alternate universe of reality. we're all npc ai bot variants in our own way too
The Swine Flu variant. When that killer flu was going through the prison, when they went out for supplies the walkers had bloody mucus oozing out of their eyes and nostrils.
You just indirectly just said Fallout writers don't know how radiation actually works and I give you a like on the video
My theory is that the more the Wildfire virus stays inactive while the human stays alive the more it loses its abilities to give the walkers the human capabilities they once had. (I very well could be wrong ‘cause of FTWD tho, but again it’s just a theory)
*@TySwell* 🧟♂️
I mean, having *SOME* walkers run and show a tad bit of intelligence, which would be very rare. I think that would be cool, like walkers can sometimes mutate . That just makes sense to me in a “zombie” universe.
This video made me VERY interested in the Daryl Dixon show!
All the variants, and the potential of the viruses origins? Sounds awesome!
I'd love a walking dead type apocalipse, just me and the homies fucking around with zombies, putting rollerskates on one, put gloves on and have muay thai practice on the walking punching bags, doing a zombieland type of competition for creative kills
bro thinks he's in a game of just kiliing zombies. wbt other aspects like food, shelter medicine etc... no offense but the ones who boasts are the first ones to die
Jet engine - bell on the other side😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Roamers are the regular walkers that keep traveling. The ones in 1 and 2 are the climbers that were reintroduced in 11 and I would consider the “protector” as a climber as well
Flame walkers in the ones who live, Rick sticks his stump in one to seal his wound and his axe blade glows bright red from killing them
Environmental
2:48 Never thought about this but it's true, she does always try to move into that direction, it's preferred. Haunting.
i love how the waterlog walker have tiny holes in his eyes so the actor can see
Variants might be caused by the person having a virus when they get infected with the zombie virus- the two viruses mutate when they meet and you get a variant.
Different kinds of viruses might produce different variants.
lmao aids zombies?
Awesome video! I love TWD so much, I just very recently found your channel, you are criminally under subbed! I’m sure it won’t be long until you are huge. The quality of your work is great, can’t wait to see what you do next. 🙂
Thanks so much! Those are very kind words
Something funny about the radiation one getting a "May not be real or accurate" as if the Wasps or anything were 100% feasible, lol.
lol yeah it sounds dumb on a re listen. I was more so referring to how radiation would cling to something like that
@Swell-Films nah it just made me chuckle is all. Glad it stayed in. I say shit like that too
The wasp one is extremely feasible. Especially if it’s been immobile. It may not spew out wasps the same way. That’s over done. Unless they’re running from gasses coming out of the now animating corpse.
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Thanks so much for the support!
Well done and thanks for all these awesome videos!
From what ive seen and heard apparently the climber or whatever you called it could lead hordes and see through zombie camouflaged survivors aswell
One thing I think you forgot but I think the one that attacked Daryl on the ship was a cohort, you can see how quick he is and smart, incredibly violent too in the way the walker killed that one guy, he turns fast to Daryl and takes a hit to the head but still attacks, this might be something to add or discuss. (Btw it was towards the end of season 1 episode 5 of Daryl Dixon
In the series finale, I didn’t understand how the walkers were able to climb, given it takes muscle strength to at least climb, where as the walkers can climb, despite being very decayed. Still, despite being dead, there’s still some remnants of humanity left in them that can make them twice as dangerous.
The kid that picks up the teddy bear was a dream it never happened. Also this is what is called a romero zombie they act on old habit patterns. Like going to a mall playing football or playing an instrument this is nothing but a ghost of who they once were.
its weird how the show runners kinda forgot about those variants i remember in the first episodes zombies trying to open the doors and later it was abandoned
Big Rich in season 9 sounds like he was saying negan while following him back into sanctuary.
Ive got a theory of my own about this. The roamers are recently turned who still have traces of motor functionality and higher intelligence because they arent effectively braindead. Climbers and runners are probably people that got infected or taken out in the fight or flight mode so there is still a lot of emphasis on mobility and athleticism. Most likely these were the leaders of groups of walkers before they turned into herds, and because they were the kost capable they were also the first to encohnter survivors, and due to that they eventually were all killed off 9r wounded enough to not be a substantial threat
Climbers were in S1 when Glenn rescued Rick and they went up onto the roof you see walks starting to climb
Jenner said that it activates the brain stem, but even then you see little sparks and shoots fly into different parts of the brain, even though its mindless instinct, it probably does have access to some memories
radiation walkers arent impossible, if they have radioactive material stuck to them (dust etc) theyll be radioactive
With the climbers, I think that it is the body slowly healing and reaching towards homeostasis. Look a the variants in Zombie Land for a better example
In an earlier season of Fear there was a military base that had super-strong walkers. I remember an end scene where a soldier was pulled into a small hole in the wall by something behind or inside the wall. What the fuck was that?
you would still have access to neurons, especially strongly bonded core memories
The roamer personality concept isn't something I like. The literal definition of a zombie is a decomposing corpse that walks and somehow still needs to eat. It's not an alien or trapped mind thing.
I personally like to believe the walkers in the first season were able to run, use tools, and have much better motor skills because they were newly turned and the decay process hadn't set in like a LOT of the walkers seen in later seasons (this ignores, however, the walkers that come from people killed later on lol)
When I first found out about the Walker king 16:21 this was my literal reaction.
I like how the Last of Us treats zombies as nature, they aren’t some kind of super villain, just here for some food and a good time. Walking dead’s zombies are getting a lil cooky in the later seasons.
I like the idea of a part of the victim still being stuck inside the walker, there's a book serious that has a virus called Lucifer 1-13 that does exactly this. You're basically a passenger in your body. Still connected but unable to control your body or speak. The book is by Johnathan Maeberry and apart of the Dead of Night Series. I strongly recommend it.
few walkers had their teeth removed and smaller infantile teeth were transplanted in upside-down predating their transition... indicating positive bone growth after turning, via the added ability for ingesting flesh.
long after complex brain function dies, they still live.
First vid ive seen from you!! Love that happy mask salesman poster in the back! Keep grinding my dude!
Thanks so much mate!
I was under the impression that the first set of zombies were just still “fresh” as you can tell by how the zombies go from looking like dead humans to rotting corpses in later seasons.
I would’ve thought the same but freshly turned walkers in later seasons behave the same as the severely decayed
Radiation Walkers would THEORETICALLY be possible. Radiation gathers in your bones, so if enough of the right combination of radioactive particles was concentrated in bones, you could see them emerging.
I always thought of The Walking Dead to be the only zombie show that did not have different types of zombies, but I guess that changed.
Also, the Cohorts remind me of the Crimson Heads in Resident Evil.