Plot Hole in Zombie Movies and Shows

[Teemu]

I know, these are shows about dead people coming to life and feeding on the flesh of humans, how dare they not be realistic lol. But with that said.

Zombie shows and films always have these huge hordes of zombies, sometimes entire cities are filled with them. They have their limbs intact, two feet, two arms. They may have a piece or two missing. They turned into zombies when attacked by other zombies. So why haven't they been eaten more? Why do the zombies stop after a bite or two? Shouldn't the zombies basically just be mush without limbs attached to them by the time they turn?

Discuss.

[Push R Truth]

I feel like in a "real zombie event" that 95% of all zombies would be crippled within 10 minutes of being undead. Have you ever tried to walk around blindly while playing zero attention to the ground you are walking on? Let alone now the ground is covered with debris, corpses and all other chaos stuff? Zombies with broken ankles/legs/hips would be by far the norm. "But Val! They are without pain!" Lacking pain doesn't make up for when the actual physics part of what's keeping you upright is compromised.

That's not really a plot hole. Just a thing.


On another note, I'll be REALLY curious if future shows/movies show people hoarding toilet paper in their safehouses/bunkers.

[Feyrhausen]

Walking Dead especially I feel like things would get under control quickly. People die every day but usually in places like hospitals that could be locked down fairly quickly. Walking Dead has the additional quirk of everyone being infected and rising ow matter how they die meaning there would always be potential hot spots when someone dies of natural causes. But as for society collapsing if it did I dont feel like it would happen as quickly as the portray it.did

There is an RPG called Dead Reign that had its zombie apocalypse start with a massive pandemic that wiped out millions of people almost at once. So people were quickly outnumbered by zombies. Thats a more logical situation IMO.

[Teemu]

May 11, 2022 9:57:12 GMT -5 Feyrhausen said:

Walking Dead especially I feel like things would get under control quickly. People die every day but usually in places like hospitals that could be locked down fairly quickly. Walking Dead has the additional quirk of everyone being infected and rising ow matter how they die meaning there would always be potential hot spots when someone dies of natural causes. But as for society collapsing if it did I dont feel like it would happen as quickly as the portray it.did

There is an RPG called Dead Reign that had its zombie apocalypse start with a massive pandemic that wiped out millions of people almost at once. So people were quickly outnumbered by zombies. Thats a more logical situation IMO.

The initial confusion and chaos would probably takes its toll, but yea. Especially if the zombies are slow moving, the situation could be taken under control. The 28 Days Later type infected people who run could heck up society pretty quickly, though. Although, realistically, they would also run out of energy pretty quick. They would operate in a massive caloric deficit nonstop for a little while and then just drop. Dehydration would happen fast. But those weren't really zombies. I just brought it up because of the running.

[pinja]

May 11, 2022 9:13:35 GMT -5 Teemu said:

I know, these are shows about dead people coming to life and feeding on the flesh of humans, how dare they not be realistic lol. But with that said.

Zombie shows and films always have these huge hordes of zombies, sometimes entire cities are filled with them. They have their limbs intact, two feet, two arms. They may have a piece or two missing. They turned into zombies when attacked by other zombies. So why haven't they been eaten more? Why do the zombies stop after a bite or two? Shouldn't the zombies basically just be mush without limbs attached to them by the time they turn?

Discuss.

It's portion control. Moving that slowly burns very little calories, so by eating only a finger and a half the zombies make sure to always fit into their zombie clothings. Being dead doesn't kill off vanity.

[Teemu]

May 11, 2022 10:23:24 GMT -5 pinja said:

May 11, 2022 9:13:35 GMT -5 Teemu said:

I know, these are shows about dead people coming to life and feeding on the flesh of humans, how dare they not be realistic lol. But with that said.

Zombie shows and films always have these huge hordes of zombies, sometimes entire cities are filled with them. They have their limbs intact, two feet, two arms. They may have a piece or two missing. They turned into zombies when attacked by other zombies. So why haven't they been eaten more? Why do the zombies stop after a bite or two? Shouldn't the zombies basically just be mush without limbs attached to them by the time they turn?

Discuss.

It's portion control. Moving that slowly burns very little calories, so by eating only a finger and a half the zombies make sure to always fit into their zombie clothings. Being dead doesn't kill off vanity.

lol

[Bo Rida]

Zombieism only effects people with underlying bites so we just need to carry a big stick and learn with them otherwise people that own office blocks will lose money.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

They always have the armies of the world already defeated so they don't have to explain how these zombies can overcome trained soldiers using tanks, fighter jets, machine guns and missile launchers.

[Natural Born Farmer]

If they’re decomposing, shouldn’t they all be rendered completely immobile, rotting bags of matter in a couple weeks?

[Zombie Mod]

zombies running? f*** that, only thing I run from is cannibalistic necrophilliacs and other predators wanting to eat me.

seriously though, the thousands/millions of zombies roaming the earth years after the original outbreak.. nature on earth has lots of reasons why ordinary human remains go away pretty quickly, individual zombies wouldnt last more than a year tops even if the original outbreak decimated humanity. large hordes of shambling dead would be a brief historical event that survivors would pass down as warnings/stories/myths.

[GuyOfOwnage]

May 11, 2022 12:16:57 GMT -5 Zombie Mod said:

zombies running? f*** that, only thing I run from is cannibalistic necrophilliacs and other predators wanting to eat me.

seriously though, the thousands/millions of zombies roaming the earth years after the original outbreak.. nature on earth has lots of reasons why ordinary human remains go away pretty quickly, individual zombies wouldnt last more than a year tops even if the original outbreak decimated humanity. large hordes of shambling dead would be a brief historical event that survivors would pass down as warnings/stories/myths.

Those shambling corpses would be an all-you-can-eat buffet for most scavengers.

[carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army)]

Pretty sure there's a Dinosaur Comics about this, talking about how zombieness is a disease that kills too fast to spread. There's gonna be one zombie, a few eaten people, and a bunch of not zombies.



The other thing that always bugs me is why they don't attack one another.

[A Platypus Rave]

May 12, 2022 3:53:25 GMT -5 carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) said:

Pretty sure there's a Dinosaur Comics about this, talking about how zombieness is a disease that kills too fast to spread. There's gonna be one zombie, a few eaten people, and a bunch of not zombies.



The other thing that always bugs me is why they don't attack one another.

Usually it's explained due to them having a stench or something... that makes them realize they are gross >_>


But yeah, like a few weeks all teh zombies would have broken down... since they'd stop healing all of their minor wounds... including the muscles tearing from walking around.

[Push R Truth]

May 12, 2022 4:07:00 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

May 12, 2022 3:53:25 GMT -5 carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) said:

Pretty sure there's a Dinosaur Comics about this, talking about how zombieness is a disease that kills too fast to spread. There's gonna be one zombie, a few eaten people, and a bunch of not zombies.



The other thing that always bugs me is why they don't attack one another.

Usually it's explained due to them having a stench or something... that makes them realize they are gross >_>

So basically if there's a zombie outbreak the safest place would be a Magic the Gathering convention?

[El Pollo Guerrera]