How do you feel about zombies, in general?

[CoiCki]

As far as the fiction goes, I feel kind of sad of the idea of a zombie.
Losing everything you are and becoming a mere empty husk that only exists to feed on anything living, until decaying too much to move.

[DreadMagus]

They're the only monster that "scares" me - as much as I can be scared.

Vampires? Big deal.
Werewolves? Kill it with fire.
Zombies... yeesh... they're what the Borg from star trek emulates... they're a virus that just keeps multiplying and is hungry for YOU.

[Acadias]

I love zombies but I don't feel like its a very big threat what does scare me about them is just being eaten alive.

So while I love zombies I feel like there isn't actually a real threat and takes a lot of hand-waves to make it happen

[Kelium]

To me having to face a zombie would be about the scariest thing you can imagine having to face. Having to face something that doesn't get tired, hungry, and never stops coming at you is some scary shit. I highly doubt I could handle seeing and dealing with something like that in real life haha. Good thing its only made up and not real! Or will it happen eventually???

[Viser]

Originally Posted by Kelium

To me having to face a zombie would be about the scariest thing you can imagine having to face. Having to face something that doesn't get tired, hungry, and never stops coming at you is some scary shit. I highly doubt I could handle seeing and dealing with something like that in real life haha. Good thing its only made up and not real! Or will it happen eventually???

I feel you, bro. Just imagine one right in front of you, trying to reach and grab you so it can take a bite. Imagine the stench. Geez. I'd probably freeze if one ever got close to me.

[Kelium]

Originally Posted by Viser

I feel you, bro. Just imagine one right in front of you, trying to reach and grab you so it can take a bite. Imagine the stench. Geez. I'd probably freeze if one ever got close to me.

Definitely, the psychological effect will be the worst part, also dealing with people that do what they want no matter what because the society they knew is gone. I think the living would be the biggest concern while trying to survive.

[8Bit_System]

Zombies do actually exist in real life, they are just not what novels and Hollywood made out of them...

http://www.zombiehub.com/real-zombies.html

[Gennadios]

You get to kill your neighbors in self defense. It's the American dream.

People can argue, but before zombies people were looking forward to it in the event of nuclear war, and there's a reason the second amendment refuses to die.

[Rock114]

Maybe...just maybe I could take out a zombie. Once I get the first one, I don't think I'll be AS scared of them, but they'll still be pretty terrifying. If that first one was a family member? Forget about it, I'd be doomed.

[Viner16]

Everyone wants a zombie apocalypse, but no one wants to be a zombie

[Master of Aeons]

Zombies are the perfect metaphor for the onset of death. A shambling, ever present monster that you can easily outmaneuver but never be rid of. You eventually grow weary and succumb.

That, to me, holds more weight than most other legends.

[BlankCanvasDJ]

Originally Posted by Master of Aeons

Zombies are the perfect metaphor for the onset of death. A shambling, ever present monster that you can easily outmaneuver but never be rid of. You eventually grow weary and succumb.

That, to me, holds more weight than most other legends.

On the nose. To me, what makes zombies scare is that there's a certain sense of inevitability about them. You know that eventually they'll always catch up to you. They're like a force of nature that eats you alive.

[Noname215]

Demons are a WHOLE lot scarier than zombies. They possess your ass. Also, haunted houses? Those are demons, not troubled spirits or that bullshit.

[Master of Aeons]

Originally Posted by Noname215

Demons are a WHOLE lot scarier than zombies. They possess your ass. Also, haunted houses? Those are demons, not troubled spirits or that bullshit.

Yeah, I prefer demons. But they may be too magical/religious for some people. The best demons were in Silent Hill/Jacob's Ladder.

[Cyreen]

I'm sticking with zombies being the embodiment of human paranoia; the faceless masses of "them" versus "us". I think they are the most intriguing of monsters, because they are basically us, we're it.

[JabbaDaHuttX7]

Not that scary to me. I think I agree that demons can be more frightening.

Vampires and werewolves can be good too unless they're given the, um, "Hollywood Treatment" in which the plots play out more like an action flick rather than a horror movie.

[Xarne]

Two things:
1) Unthinking- Truly 'fearless' they will stop at literally nothing to get their teeth into you
2) Sheer Mass- The truly scary aspect of the ZA. Every single human death is a gain for their side

[RedKoolLoops]

I've hated the ideas of zombies ever since I watched a friend of mine's dad play resident Evil 1 on the Playstation. That cut-scene reveal of the first zombie haunted my 8 year old self.

I've sort of lulled myself into believing they wouldn't be a big of a threat as they seem, mainly because of mainstream media, but if it were ever to happen in real life I don't know how I'd handle it when you look at all the things other people have been posting.

[dubesor]

The whole zombie-area bores me. Same shit over decades. Hundrerds of movies films games etc... never anything clever about it. Thanks that TDW doesn't focus on the zombie apocalypse that much. Sure you see a zombie every now and then but mostly it's about the interaction between people.

I find the topic zombies rather worn-out and boring.

[Xarne]

Originally Posted by dubesor

The whole zombie-area bores me. Same shit over decades. Hundrerds of movies films games etc... never anything clever about it. Thanks that TDW doesn't focus on the zombie apocalypse that much. Sure you see a zombie every now and then but mostly it's about the interaction between people.

I find the topic zombies rather worn-out and boring.

That's my take on it. Really, zombies are the un-scariest monster around, simply because of their lack of speed. Like Zombieland said, once you get over the initial shock of dead people walking, its really all about the cardio.
It was the stories/dark theme going on in the comics that really sparked my interest in them again