All Variants Explored | The Walking Dead Universe

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  • Today I take you through every naturally occurring, or man made variant walker I could find in The Walking Dead Universe.
    If there are more variants I forgot to mention let me know in the comments below!
    #thewalkingdead #theoneswholive #rickgrimes
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  • @Swell-Films
    @Swell-Films  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +292

    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

    • @paulruano1903
      @paulruano1903 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Which are runners?

    • @appleroad112
      @appleroad112 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Walker king made me think of call of duty zombies and some other video games

    • @hoardhog3812
      @hoardhog3812 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was there ever any explanation for the sick ones at the prison?

    • @paulruano1903
      @paulruano1903 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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.

    • @waccamawscout5566
      @waccamawscout5566 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@paulruano1903 GET OUT 🗣️

  • @jamesm3471
    @jamesm3471 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1812

    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.

    • @householdgambler
      @householdgambler 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      It really is

    • @erinw.9256
      @erinw.9256 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Honestly tho!!

    • @vsluj3508
      @vsluj3508 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      it was a bit cheesy

    • @pre55ure
      @pre55ure 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      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😂

    • @2551987ezio
      @2551987ezio 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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 😂

  • @CircleOfInevitability
    @CircleOfInevitability 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1053

    I always just thought s1 walkers were "smarter" because they were fresher.

    • @Amartin-mu6oj
      @Amartin-mu6oj 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      He pointed out that it's a common theory in the video

    • @vincentgingerich
      @vincentgingerich 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I Never gave it much thought at all

    • @wingting7830
      @wingting7830 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      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

    • @spongedog0013
      @spongedog0013 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      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.

    • @13lueBomber
      @13lueBomber 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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”. 🗿

  • @ebygz4755
    @ebygz4755 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1391

    I remember how when shane and otis get into the school the walkers straight up start running

    • @HorneIius
      @HorneIius 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +325

      Imagine your hiding from walkers thinking it's easy peasy cuz they slow and the mfs start bolting💀

    • @grum-eq4il
      @grum-eq4il 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

      fr bro nobody talks abt that

    • @jamesm3471
      @jamesm3471 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

      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.

    • @Notfakeultra
      @Notfakeultra 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@jamesm3471more like pork

    • @amandawalker7739
      @amandawalker7739 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Just rewatched this ep and no one talks about it ever

  • @Rosie-yt8nd
    @Rosie-yt8nd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +754

    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"

    • @jaxturner7288
      @jaxturner7288 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Hope you write the scripts someday. 🙏

    • @stevejoyce4765
      @stevejoyce4765 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      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.

    • @Rosie-yt8nd
      @Rosie-yt8nd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@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

    • @jerrylancaster256
      @jerrylancaster256 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Z nation did that

    • @definitelyahumannotabot
      @definitelyahumannotabot 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This aint dying light

  • @Norinia
    @Norinia 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +232

    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.)

    • @twilightgardenspresentatio6384
      @twilightgardenspresentatio6384 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      She kept trying to eat him

    • @spicybeantofu
      @spicybeantofu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      ​@@twilightgardenspresentatio6384 was gonna say she did lunge and snap

    • @kaelith2607
      @kaelith2607 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      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.

    • @inshal6420
      @inshal6420 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      @@kaelith2607it’s basically how people tame wild animals. It tolerates you but its not like a domestic pet.

    • @rygirlsmith
      @rygirlsmith หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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

  • @tiporosso
    @tiporosso 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +365

    The environmental walker that blinded Aaron (with poisonous vines) on the original Walking Dead was kind of unique.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      Absolutely! Great catch

    • @Halterin11
      @Halterin11 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      When was that?

    • @xuonivVi
      @xuonivVi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Halterin11 episode 3 of season 10 i believe

    • @jacobpritchard256
      @jacobpritchard256 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think later than that as he was with Negan

    • @xuonivVi
      @xuonivVi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jacobpritchard256 i started rewatching twd like a few weeks ago and yeah it was episode 3 lol

  • @Commander_Raveth
    @Commander_Raveth 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +250

    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.

    • @porkeywings
      @porkeywings 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      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

    • @straightfuckingwater389
      @straightfuckingwater389 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@porkeywingspretty sure whisperers are in the comics soooo

    • @porkeywings
      @porkeywings 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@straightfuckingwater389 whisperers hadnt appeared in the comics yet when that episode aired soooo

    • @aspectnato8077
      @aspectnato8077 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Shame though because I genuinely got spooked by that before finding out they're people in disguise! Had me thinking the walkers were evolving

  • @mattias969
    @mattias969 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    A beneficial relationship between two entities is called symbiosis the non beneficial is parasitical.

  • @bdnews-wo3wy
    @bdnews-wo3wy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +202

    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.

    • @dukekessler6292
      @dukekessler6292 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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?

    • @captinundies6049
      @captinundies6049 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @tamamonomae7465
    @tamamonomae7465 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    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.

  • @Legionaer666
    @Legionaer666 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +159

    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.

    • @ethandulaney89
      @ethandulaney89 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I hate that they never explained that.

    • @adammckay852
      @adammckay852 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      There were several walkers pulling him in at the same time

    • @onetallpheeesh
      @onetallpheeesh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Those are in fact variants.

    • @onetallpheeesh
      @onetallpheeesh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Fear had more variants showcased than the main show tbh

    • @jonny_skatez
      @jonny_skatez หลายเดือนก่อน

      What season was this?

  • @stevenkoenig7356
    @stevenkoenig7356 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    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!!!“

  • @chicknman9890
    @chicknman9890 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    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

    • @krunchy4skin03
      @krunchy4skin03 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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

    • @MistarZtv
      @MistarZtv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow martinez. Or. What's his name that gabenor killed
      😭

    • @mrsdixon4494
      @mrsdixon4494 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@MistarZtvMilton Mamet?

  • @silkmoth7951
    @silkmoth7951 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    I really liked the ideia of the Roamers, at least how they were presented
    Those limited memories really add an terror layer to the zombies

    • @fracturedzone7225
      @fracturedzone7225 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      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

    • @silkmoth7951
      @silkmoth7951 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@fracturedzone7225 YES exactly
      That's one of the reasons I was (and sometimes I kinda of still am) terrified of zombies

  • @Mihael_Keehl31
    @Mihael_Keehl31 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

    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
      @TrippieFox 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Funny how people like you only care about endings

    • @Mihael_Keehl31
      @Mihael_Keehl31 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      @@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…

    • @topsdaily_productions
      @topsdaily_productions 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Mihael_Keehl31I think you're an asshole lol

    • @straightfuckingwater389
      @straightfuckingwater389 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@Mihael_Keehl31people can interpret things based on how you speak

  • @princesspupcake1269
    @princesspupcake1269 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    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.

    • @JaxTheFound
      @JaxTheFound 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Not just skin. Muscle, Organs, Everything. It would boil down and literally slough off the bones. It liquifies you from heat.

    • @NightlostLP
      @NightlostLP 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      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

    • @ursadabear2810
      @ursadabear2810 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

    • @fracturedzone7225
      @fracturedzone7225 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Like the skeletons from the movie Warm Bodies?

  • @Nick-yx5xd
    @Nick-yx5xd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    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
      @OliveOil176 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Could of been Rigor mortis

    • @TrippieFox
      @TrippieFox 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Couldve been nothing. Not every walker is a game changer especially one whos laid out anyways

    • @Nick-yx5xd
      @Nick-yx5xd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@TrippieFox can’t y’all just humor me here instead of being contrarians 😭

    • @ethandulaney89
      @ethandulaney89 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      You have a valid point. Everyone has to be so critical over a fictional scenario 😒

    • @tadhgmcelligott3693
      @tadhgmcelligott3693 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@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

  • @RicardoHernandezGTX
    @RicardoHernandezGTX 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    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

  • @TheScottishMutt
    @TheScottishMutt 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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.

  • @kyosuke_unbox8909
    @kyosuke_unbox8909 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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

  • @GirlWithAnAddiction1
    @GirlWithAnAddiction1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    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.

    • @jyggalag2863
      @jyggalag2863 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Shane turned quickly after dying as well. I think for Shane it was because how aggressive he was. Not sure about that lady though.

    • @RadekCrazy1
      @RadekCrazy1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      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.

    • @JStack
      @JStack หลายเดือนก่อน

      In b4 plot twist that the organization was testing it on themselves

  • @Ginfeldi
    @Ginfeldi 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I like the idea of slow smart-ish zombies that adapt to their enviroment

    • @thientuongnguyen2564
      @thientuongnguyen2564 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      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.

  • @literallyinsanelycool28
    @literallyinsanelycool28 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    i read somewhere that angela kang said the variants are regional, that's why they only just now made their appearance in s11

    • @Its_Me_Romano
      @Its_Me_Romano 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Its just dookie writting

    • @KendooXD
      @KendooXD 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That makes no sense since they appeared in plenty of other regions aswell, making them not only "regional".

    • @JohnnyCage-td5ud
      @JohnnyCage-td5ud 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Its_Me_Romanoshut up

    • @JohnnyCage-td5ud
      @JohnnyCage-td5ud 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@KendooXDshut up

    • @jamesnichols3366
      @jamesnichols3366 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KendooXDit’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

  • @gerardmcquade9102
    @gerardmcquade9102 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    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

    • @MIXI115
      @MIXI115 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      it’s always the French 😅

  • @Blastpheme13
    @Blastpheme13 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    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

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for the support mate!

  • @theragingrodent__
    @theragingrodent__ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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?

  • @sarahrogers1271
    @sarahrogers1271 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    You deserve more attention! So much detail in these it’s awesome

  • @christopher-vh9qv
    @christopher-vh9qv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

    I like how the walking dead just confirms z-nation

    • @erinw.9256
      @erinw.9256 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ???

    • @Asterion_Mol0c
      @Asterion_Mol0c 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That was a show that started bad and got worse and worse every season

    • @christopher-vh9qv
      @christopher-vh9qv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@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.

    • @Asterion_Mol0c
      @Asterion_Mol0c 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@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

    • @Asterion_Mol0c
      @Asterion_Mol0c 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@christopher-vh9qv it just kept getting more ridiculous and more boring

  • @BoneGoddess
    @BoneGoddess 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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

  • @centric3125
    @centric3125 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    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.

  • @13lueBomber
    @13lueBomber 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    *@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.

  • @mortem-tyrannis
    @mortem-tyrannis 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Another entertaining and interesting video my dude, thanks.

  • @Welsen971
    @Welsen971 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've been waiting for a video like this after watching all the twd shows, thanks bro

  • @Dealerofdeath1998
    @Dealerofdeath1998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    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

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Appreciate the support mate!

    • @Dealerofdeath1998
      @Dealerofdeath1998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Swell-Films no problem buddy

  • @CodenameHaswelly
    @CodenameHaswelly 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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

  • @Neptune-Ghost
    @Neptune-Ghost 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

  • @ghostmasterghpm
    @ghostmasterghpm 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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.

    • @DeadfishKing
      @DeadfishKing 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There were a lot of fresh ones throughout the series

  • @josesol2186
    @josesol2186 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    My man what an spectacular video I am impressed you are a king 🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @mommajenjm
    @mommajenjm 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just found you ,i love that you include everything in the universe , all the parts count even if most people dont think anything but the flagship matters ! You even remembered bicycle girls story and everything from tales ! Great job! I will be subscribing and looking for more stuff from you ! ❤

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks so much for the support!

  • @CWM-xl8ki
    @CWM-xl8ki 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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. 🙂

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks so much! Those are very kind words

  • @SebastianWasserberg-dk3bs
    @SebastianWasserberg-dk3bs 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The intro of the walker king with the many limbs was so badass!

  • @user-dz8wg5ny3n
    @user-dz8wg5ny3n 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well done and thanks for all these awesome videos!

  • @avidion6274
    @avidion6274 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    radiation walkers arent impossible, if they have radioactive material stuck to them (dust etc) theyll be radioactive

  • @cade4505
    @cade4505 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    First vid ive seen from you!! Love that happy mask salesman poster in the back! Keep grinding my dude!

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks so much mate!

  • @GaZZuM
    @GaZZuM 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This video made me VERY interested in the Daryl Dixon show!
    All the variants, and the potential of the viruses origins? Sounds awesome!

  • @kingdevin_
    @kingdevin_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    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

  • @jamesmorant1406
    @jamesmorant1406 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great breakdown of the walkers

  • @coecludd
    @coecludd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very informative. Many thanks (subscribed) 🙂

  • @big.boi_v1795
    @big.boi_v1795 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You forgot about that one walker in fear that pulls a man through an air vent and crunches up his body

  • @KenzoGT
    @KenzoGT หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'd like to think that roamers are just normal zombies but in the early stages. With time (season 2-3) they became less and less intelligent due to degradation and eventually decompose until there's nothing left.

  • @masoncarter8398
    @masoncarter8398 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great Video!

  • @Goldstandard_1
    @Goldstandard_1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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

  • @mattias969
    @mattias969 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @SeekingElysium
    @SeekingElysium 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @stealthy1498
    @stealthy1498 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

  • @adamafall7319
    @adamafall7319 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    there was also a super strong varient that punched through a solid wall

  • @TheLokiBiz
    @TheLokiBiz 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @tymoteuszstrzeczewski4222
    @tymoteuszstrzeczewski4222 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @idiotwithpc
    @idiotwithpc 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Maggie somehow not dying from the walker king is the most unrealistic thing thats ever been shown on any walking dead show

  • @desont2384
    @desont2384 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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

    • @IntrusiveThoughts838
      @IntrusiveThoughts838 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      In other words bad writing and seriously, just giving them the ability to climb? What a lame mutation to show off

    • @KendooXD
      @KendooXD 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

  • @FusRoBOB
    @FusRoBOB หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing video

  • @resistantzero66
    @resistantzero66 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @gazzhumbly5433
    @gazzhumbly5433 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Cool vid dude

  • @darrenhall6794
    @darrenhall6794 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You just earned a sub

  • @alisonsmith4436
    @alisonsmith4436 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you ☺️

  • @lastnightslipstick
    @lastnightslipstick 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent!🙌💎

  • @MUSICA-dv1pt
    @MUSICA-dv1pt 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow ! This is so good ! ^_^

  • @davidgummo3024
    @davidgummo3024 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    From what ive seen and heard apparently the climber or whatever you called it could lead hordes and see through zombie camouflaged survivors aswell

  • @ureverydayblondie5272
    @ureverydayblondie5272 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think the difference between walkers in season 2 and 3 could be caused by deterioration overtime in the walkers bodies, causing them to look more rotted and slower

  • @PsychoC4rnivore
    @PsychoC4rnivore 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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

  • @lucasorourke7887
    @lucasorourke7887 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Climbers were in S1 when Glenn rescued Rick and they went up onto the roof you see walks starting to climb

  • @frbrbrgrblgrr7777
    @frbrbrgrblgrr7777 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Something funny about the radiation one getting a "May not be real or accurate" as if the Wasps or anything were 100% feasible, lol.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      lol yeah it sounds dumb on a re listen. I was more so referring to how radiation would cling to something like that

    • @frbrbrgrblgrr7777
      @frbrbrgrblgrr7777 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @Swell-Films nah it just made me chuckle is all. Glad it stayed in. I say shit like that too

  • @CelticChu
    @CelticChu 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @wyattyates2303
    @wyattyates2303 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @tobymcgroby8967
    @tobymcgroby8967 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks to you, I completely gave up on playing resident evil 4 for roughly... 18 minutes & 2 seconds..
    ..Unforgivable, how dare you lol🙈

  • @Junior-mn9vw
    @Junior-mn9vw 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @pirate303
    @pirate303 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m so glad I wasn’t the only person to be like see the Walker king and make the connection to tlou, me and my mom were watching dead city and I IMMEDIATELY was like “TLOU DID THIS FIRST”

  • @luckylink6442
    @luckylink6442 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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

  • @jasoncaldwell5627
    @jasoncaldwell5627 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @dekay1428
    @dekay1428 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You just indirectly just said Fallout writers don't know how radiation actually works and I give you a like on the video

  • @DustDemonTwilight
    @DustDemonTwilight 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i really want more of the cohorts, suped up super fast hyper aggression and enchanced strength

  • @LoWisR0511
    @LoWisR0511 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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

    • @khangtrieu3600
      @khangtrieu3600 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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

    • @Mindsi
      @Mindsi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jet engine - bell on the other side😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @johnmoreno6903
    @johnmoreno6903 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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

  • @matthewfrench4764
    @matthewfrench4764 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Subbed at 2.2k, remember us when you hitting big numbers. I appreciate the content fr

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I appreciate the support mate!

  • @narniaphuket
    @narniaphuket 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    you would still have access to neurons, especially strongly bonded core memories

  • @Thatgingerdude15
    @Thatgingerdude15 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's crazy how many thousands of variants there could be

  • @deathsoldier8411
    @deathsoldier8411 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In the amc + only walking dead special. It reveals France as ground zero for the virus plus that it was man made by prime rose which is the team in France working on it and violet who brought the virus to the us to work on. Both prime rose and violet worked for the company that made the virus

  • @Obozo_Gaming
    @Obozo_Gaming 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've never been a fan of The Walking Dead outside of the TellTale games, love those games, but a Rat King style of Walker is wild.

  • @reinasarnai
    @reinasarnai 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For me, the climbers and ones that pick up things were learning from the whisperers and adapting - they watched these people who looked, smelled, and acted just like them climbing things, and stabbing people for so long that something just clicked and they started doing it themselves

  • @lefunnyN1
    @lefunnyN1 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    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

  • @Akutenshi1990
    @Akutenshi1990 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just stumbled across this vid, loved it! But I always expected Walkers would 'evolve' or 'adapt' as time went on. The Virus attempting to now reach survivors who have gotten use to avoiding the standard zombies. So, the virus probably did some adaptations to allow the bodies to handle things that they normally wouldn't. And that the virus is using the man-made adaptations to the infected as a way to enhance themselves. It's not intelligent, but it's doing it because "My food up there. I want that food. Oh hey, dumb hooman gave me advantage. Must use it. Climb." I'd love to see more variants come out. The variants make them more dangerous and more believable as to how they spread out even further. I mean, a standard walker isn't that big of a threat. But then having a Walker that emits gas to infect survivors, explodes to infect/slow survivors (I don't think we've seen those kinds YET. But it's possible. I think. Then again I dropped off at around S8 of the Walking Dead and wanna get back into it. Watched City of The Dead and a portion of Daryl's first season.), Climbers to climb over obstacles put up by survivors was a good thing to show off, then having the S1 zombies being freshly turned zombies that can recall memories and the like would be a good reason to how the roamers operate. As time goes on, they end up turning into your standard walkers. Much like the Harran Virus from Dying Light 2. Upon first returning, as long as your body was in general good shape and not torn to pieces, you'd be able to sprint and climb for a certain amount of time before becoming a walking zombie. The Acid blood zombies DEFINITELY has my attention as an interesting zombie to deal with. Makes it more dangerous to be around and is even more deadlier upon grabbing you or trying to kill them within extreme close proximity to yourself (much like a xeno. you don't dare kill it when you're right next to it for fear of the blood burning you. Granted I think the Acid zombies in Walking Dead aren't nearly as dangerous as Xeno's are in regards to how acidic their blood is. We don't see their blood boiling through metal and plating of a ship.). But, in seriousness, I never fully understood how Humanity fell in Walking Dead. Yes we're all infected, yes all dead bodies come back to attack. But they're slow. We'd definitely lose cities to the infected, but eventually would probably overcome the infection and start living with it like we do with the flu. It'd mean drastic change to how we live as a society but we'd eventually overcome it. Now with something like the T-Virus or G-Virus I could understand world wide outbreak as those virus' mutate infected to be better killers. If the Wildfire Virus ends up mutating the infected in a way that maybe the T-Virus could it could be seen as a much more dangerous virus. But if these variants were already out and about during the outbreak and downfall of society, I could see that being more likely than your standard Walker's rising up and biting. But all in all, a good video!

  • @keenansudworth9969
    @keenansudworth9969 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    In the ones who live episode 2 when michonne shoots the bomb thing into the mega horde the walkers go to the sound but the gas canister Walker still walks past and against the other walkers going to the sound to still go towards michonne. Could that be a new variant that isn’t distracted by noise?
    Also in Dixon in Daryl’s dream thing when the kid looks like he’ll get eaten they also do not go towards Daryl while he’s shouting (I know it’s like a dream but still interesting if that was a teaser for the noise ignoring variant in TOWL ).
    In Dixon also when the kid is hiding under the metal sheet at the Eiffel Tower there’s only one Walker that checks under it all while Daryl and Isabelle are fighting I wonder if that could also be a more intelligent walker because the horde went after the kid first but then went for the other 2 so maybe that one remembered the kid so was checking for him.

    • @SJKNOL
      @SJKNOL 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In my opinion a more realistic explanation would be that the gas canister walker was simply deaf before turning, which would cause the walker to also be deaf

  • @user-rw3gj3un5r
    @user-rw3gj3un5r 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    "Strength buffs."
    I like the cut of your jib, kid.

  • @SaleemFrazer
    @SaleemFrazer 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That super Walker during the flashback in Daryl Dixon series that breaks its bonds and runs up the stairs massacring someone next to Daryl was incredible

  • @vornoff1958
    @vornoff1958 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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?

  • @Cheese_steak_
    @Cheese_steak_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think it would be cool to see the zombies have the aspects of like remembering their past life early on in their infection

  • @GH.ST_GD
    @GH.ST_GD 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i think that the cohorts are the most terrifying things in twd, imagine the horde or those walkers, inteligent with ability to run💀

  • @Ziggy-hy4fn
    @Ziggy-hy4fn 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It would make sense to me that the roamers might have been a type that died out as the walkers continued to lose humanity. I don't think they are somehow smarter walkers but rather, as you said, "fresher" walkers that may have had a manner of death or initial resistance to the virus that allowed for that sense memory to stay preserved for a little while longer than in other cases.

  • @QuandleDingle420
    @QuandleDingle420 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Roamers 0:43
    Climbers 3:47
    Lurkers 5:45
    Enviromental 6:56
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