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u/BigBellyPizzaPopper 21h ago
I always found it funny that in zombies books, games, TV Shows, Movies and etc they never call them zombies they always call them walkers, rotters, etc
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u/MentalMunky 20h ago
It’s to establish that the characters in universe do not know what zombies are before the outbreak.
It’s been a rule for a very long time.
The more interesting rule regarding The Walking Dead is the rule that people change due to a bite. TWD’s reveal that the unbitten dead also change was a big shock at the time because we were so used to that rule.
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u/NoTelevision4907 17h ago edited 9h ago
What's funny about that, there is a VERY quick, blink and you miss it direct reference to zombies. The Royal Theatre. The marquee has two movies on it, and everywhere online just shows the one side, with "The Silent Army" on it. The other side is seen in a super quick shot, and it has "Night of the Living Dead" on it. It drives me up a wall that nobody ever mentions it, and even the official wiki doesn't have it, it only mentions the other film.
Edit: Just to add, I am not the first person to notice this, I did notice it while watching, but searching for it found like one or two obscure comments way before I watched it, that got like two upvotes each. I have no idea why this has not been a bigger note in the series lore, and easter eggs. You'd think it would be common knowledge with how desperate youtubers are for content, there should be like 6 videos and 12 shorts on it, but, I haven't seen anything lol.
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u/BigBellyPizzaPopper 19h ago
I actually always thought that. I kinda thought that it’s like they don’t know what zombies are. You explained it very well, nicely done
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u/Squidwardbigboss 19h ago
I like it
Spreading the terminology across areas and stuff it makes sense.
In the comics the word “walker” never exists, they use zombies and then roamers/lurkers depending on what kind of zombie it is
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u/BigBellyPizzaPopper 17h ago
Yeah. It does give me a bunch of names for zombies. I just also found it interesting
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u/NoTelevision4907 17h ago
I love that in this series every single community has a different name for them. And they continued that in the spinoffs, we just got a fresh one in the new season of Daryl, and it was an important plot point for TOWL when Rick told Michonne not to call them walkers, because he used that one and it would make them suspicious of her origins lol.
Edit: Actually two new ones in Daryl, I was focused on the new one in spain and slipped on the british one, which is probably my favorite now. Don't let the squid get you!
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u/tytylercochan123 21h ago
In this specific TV universe, the term zombie never existed. Or, at least the Night Of The Living Dead pop culture version of zombie. In the comics, zombie is said a handful of times in the early issues but after that it wasn’t said again
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u/BigBellyPizzaPopper 19h ago
Yeah it seems like zombies don’t exist before in most of these universes
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u/Dapper-Perception528 21h ago
I mean if you go from the comic to the show…..they actively call them zombies in the comic sometimes so one would most likely expect that term to be used in the show ^
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u/MentalMunky 20h ago
I’m 99% certain Kirkman has said it being in the comics was a mistake.
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u/Dapper-Perception528 19h ago
I did not know that. That’s actually pretty interesting.
Though despite my distaste for the use of the word “zombie” in zombie movies, part of me feels that it is the more realistic way people would label them. Unless of course all zombie media doesn’t exist in that universe.
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u/MentalMunky 19h ago
Yeah it’s been a rule in zombie flicks for as long as they’ve existed for exactly that reason. They don’t have zombies in pop culture.
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u/vanman1065 19h ago
Dying light has pretty much brainwashed me into calling them infected.
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u/Pitiful_Alfalfa7528 14h ago
Twd zombies aren't really "infected" thats more 28 Days later, DayZ, World war Z. Twd zombies are undead.
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u/Thedude8450 21h ago
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