Cinematic: Undead dies from broken neck

Just look how scary was the undead invasion in game of thrones:

So scary that it didn’t accomplish anything and was nothing more than a footnote.

this is where blizzard will pull out their card and have some sort of hidden cinematic that shows aggra and the kids coming back home with thrall and saurfang already gone.

but the ‘broken undead’ suddenly stir, their camera focusing on their eyes coming ‘alive’ again.

we’ve totally been punk’d.

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said it once, will say it again - forsaken were a joke race that got out of hand and should’ve been removed pre-release

it’s 15 years late but at leats they’re finally on the way out

Only his legs were cut off.

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It really does…I mean famously so. Every Undead In every movie or story that has ever been told dies if you destroy the brain, even the ones who don’t even use the brain!

Umm, you can still debilitate them, hack bits off, or just plant it directly into their brainpan and destroy them.

Yeah, and? That’s…not great, really… I would not feel threatened by an Undead with no arms. I mean you can literally just push them away from you and they can’t stop you. No Legs? That’s Cool, just place your foot firmly on their back and pin them in place.

Fun fact, you are more likely to get infection from the bite or scratch of a -living- person than an Undead. We are seriously dangerous, no matter how many times you brush your teeth a day, your bite will kill most creatures on earth, including other humans,

Just one of me, either with a Shotgun with Pancake rounds, an M203, or a pick up truck.

A pair of Bolas are your friends there, or simple Thermal Optics

At what? Chess? Rap battle? Wrestling?

Without killing it? Yeah, gimme the tools and I could do that. We can immobilise Elephants from range, I’m pretty sure we could do the same to an Orc, and I’m not a bad shot.

You know how we always humour children when we play football with them, or tig, or something, basically “Oh, gosh, you wily Kid, you managed to beat me!”

Now Gnomes and Goblins aren’t like that, they’re actually pretty scary, both being kind of like Chimpanzee in such terms. Sure, they’re smaller, but they are powerful muscular. I would not want to fight a Chimpanzee. I would not want to fight something like a Gnome or a Goblin. Oh, unless I had the tools to do so.

Yeah, I could catch a Gnome or Goblin pretty easy.

Definitely.

Err. Yes? Regeneration is cool, but it does rely on your being alive to regenerate…I mean you’re not going to shoot a troll and then go “Oh, look at that, they’re healing. I better let them finish healing and see what happens next!” You’d go “Hells, that thing was tough, and now its getting better again? I think I’m going to keep hacking at it and turning it into mince, until it stops regenerating?”

Its just tools. Its tools to do the job. Humans are actually pretty scary in our own world, like, you know if a snake bites you, you might get poisoned? If you bite a snake, they’re equally likely to die, just because of the bacteria in our mouths. a human bite is one of the scariest things. We use a technique (Or rather, we did, we don’t need to anymore) which would be very familiar to us as a meme. “It will follow you, it will not stop, it will fix itself, and it will not stop following you, until you are dead”

Sounds like the Terminator, eh? That’s actually our ancestors. That’s how those ‘cavemen’ actually hunted. Forget the ideas of a gang of them with spears attacking a Wooly Mammoth. Nah, a couple of them would shoot or spear a prey animal, then sit and watch. The Animal would go “Blow this” and start to leg it. The Hominids would then follow the blood trail and noise. not running, they didn’t need to catch the creature, good lord no. Time was on their side. Occasionally they would see the bleeding, wounded animal desperately trying to get rest, cue another few arrows or hurled spears, more bleeding, more panic, the animal runs on. The Humans stroll along behind it, eventually, after a process that can have taken hours, they come across the exhausted, exsanguinated beast, that could have smashed them to splinters if they had fought it face to face, now too tired to fight, to do anything, as the human comes over and staves its head in.

Dinner Time!

Humans are pretty scary…

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“joke race” lmao if you say so alliance aligned main character :wink:

You made fair points Brigante, but if it’s so easy to deal with the undead why, they had so many trouble dealing with them in Game of Thrones ?

In the video I linked you can see a giant fighting amongst them and they were still having problems, to the point they had to run away.

When I picture humans Vs undead this is the picture that comes to.my mind:


It was a video I found after a quick browsing.

As you can see they are fighting armed soldiers and helicopters, still it looks they are winning.

They seem pretty resilient, unlike the Forsaken assassins sent to kill Thrall and Saurfang.
What exactly is the advantages of being a undead if you can be neutralised with as much ease as a human assassin ?

Cheers.

Let me just add here a little thing called: the problem with a Zombie Apocalypse
(Okay, our Forsaken a bit more resilient than a zombie, but again, according to lore, they are not really different)

Let’s pretend for a moment that zombies are real (as if half of you weren’t already daydreaming about that very thing). Have you noticed how most zombie movies take place only after the apocalypse is in full-swing? By the time we join our survivors, the military and government are already wiped out, and none of the streets are safe. There’s a reason the movie starts there, and not earlier. It’s because the early part, where we go from one zombie to millions, doesn’t make any sense. If you let the creeping buzzkill of logic into the zombie party, you realize the zombies would all be re-dead long before you even got a chance to fire up that chainsaw motorcycle you’ve been working on. Why?

#7. They Have Too Many Natural Predators
Do you know why we, as humans, are at the top of the current food chain? Not because we’re hard to kill (well, with the exception of Steven Seagal). We’re not; we’re little more than tasty flesh bags waiting for an errant horn or claw to spill our guts like a meat pinata. No, we’re on top simply because we are so absurdly good at killing things ourselves. A good offense, as they say, is the best de-LOOK THERE’S A DUCK! MURDER IT!
We are simply too smart and too well-armed for any wild animal to hunt. Now consider the poor zombie. It lacks every single advantage that has kept humanity from being eaten to extinction. It wanders around in the open, it can’t use weapons, it can’t think or use strategy. It doesn’t even have the sense of self preservation to run and hide when it’s in danger. And, it’s made entirely out of food. It’s easy prey for any animal that wants it.
If you’re saying, “Sure, but it’s not like my city is full of bears that can come eat all the zombies,” you need to think smaller. Insects are a major pain in the a *s for living humans, and in some cases, being able to swat away flies and having an immune system is the only thing keeping us from having our eyes and tongues eaten out by maggots. Zombies in any part of the world with a fly problem are going to be swarming with maggots in short order, meaning that most of their soft tissues will be infested, and their eyes will be very quickly useless.
We’ll scale up a bit: In America alone, we have bears, wolves, coyotes and cougars, all of which can put well-armed, thinking, fast-moving humans on the menu, if the conditions are right. To most predators, the “right conditions” are when the animal is weak or infirm, or otherwise generally unable to defend themselves, like a walking corpse. Hell, just think of the millions of stray dogs out there who’ll quickly learn that zombies are an easy meal.
Now imagine zombie hordes wandering Africa. Between lions and cape buffalo (and hippos, and rhinos, and elephants), regular humans can be hard pressed to survive, let alone zombies.

#6. They Can’t Take the Heat
It’s generally accepted by zombie experts that they’re going to continue to rot, even as they shamble around the streets. What the movies fail to convey, however, is the gruesome yet strangely hilarious effect the hot sun has on a rotting corpse.
The first concern is putrefaction. Thanks to the plethora of bacteria we use in our colon for digesting plant matter, called gut flora, our bodies are ripe for decay the second our heart stops. Since heat speeds the growth of bacteria (which are plenty happy to start feasting on you once your immune system is no longer a concern) the zombie’s got a looming expiration date the very second it turns.
Dead bodies bloat because of the gases created by the bacteria, meaning that in warmer areas even Abercrombie Zombies are going to start getting fat in the first few days. After a few weeks of this, the nasty, bloated zombie army is going to start doing something that is simultaneously the most awesome and disturbing thing a zombie can do: they will start exploding. The warm, moist conditions in the tropical and subtropical parts of the world (or even just summer in the temperate parts) speeds this condition, meaning a July zombie outbreak pretty much anywhere would be over in a few weeks just by virtue of the rampaging monsters bursting like rancid meat balloons.
At the other end of the heat spectrum is dry heat. If you’re in Phoenix or the Sahara when the apocalypse hits, the zombies might begin to mummify in the blazing sun and heat. While the normal symptoms of dehydration are not a concern for a zombie, there is the problem of desiccation. With no reasonable means of replenishing the water in their cells, zombies walking around in the Texas heat all day are going to suffer cell damage due to direct sun exposure to their skin, and thanks to the drying effect wind has, the Southwestern dead will stumble around more and more ineffectively until, at some point, they simply drop and wait for the scavengers to come pick them up for the annual Slim Jim harvest.
So they’d better hope the outbreak happens during the winter, right? Well…

#5. They Can’t Handle the Cold
Zombies are dead meat. No arguing that; it’s their one defining characteristic. But everybody focuses on that “dead” part like it’s such a huge deal. They often forget about the “meat.” Do you know what else is dead meat? Steak, hamburger, possibly even that red grease mush inside of Taco Bell food. When flesh is alive, it’s got all sorts of defense systems to keep it that way. When it’s dead, you have to throw it away in about a week even if you seal it up in plastic and keep it at a carefully modulated temperature. Now, your first inclination may be to think of cold as dead meat’s friend, after all, the surest way to defeat that week-long deadline is to freeze steak, keeping it fresh for months. But don’t forget: Unregulated cold does awful sh*t to formerly living things. If you live far enough north, the zombie apocalypse will probably work itself out the first time it tries to go outside. The first zombie-killer is the simple fact that the human body is mostly water, and water freezes. Once the temperature drops to freezing (or near it with a high wind chill), zombies will become significantly more rigid. After enough exposure, a dead body is going to be frozen solid and not chasing down any screaming victims, no matter how delicious and Rascal Scooter-bound they might be. It’s also safe to assume that zombies wandering around in a wintry wonderland are not going to be wrapped air-tight in plastic like we do with food, so freezer burn becomes an issue. Seriously. The same thing that ruins your ice cream also ruins the Undead Onslaught. The freezing of the flesh at night, combined with partial thaw during warmer days, then refreezing again sets up the perfect conditions for the onset of freezer burn, which results in the cells dehydrating as water evaporates, even when frozen solid. Freezer burned meat isn’t just dead, it’s destroyed.

#4. Biting is a Terrible Way to Spread a Disease
Hey, remember that time when that dog got rabies, and then a day later, every single other dog on the continent had it, except for a small band of survivors huddled in a basement? No? That never happened? Nearly all of the zombie movies agree on one thing: They reproduce like a disease, one that spreads via a bite from the infected (like they have a virus carried by zombie saliva or whatever). But this also means their spread should be subject to the same rules of a normal epidemic, and biting is a shtty way to get an epidemic going. The successful diseases have some really clever way to invisibly spread from victim to victim. The flu has killed tens of millions because it floats right through the air, the black plague was spread by fleas, etc. Not a single one of them requires the infected to get within biting distance to spread their infection. Sure, sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS work that way, but that’s only because the infected can pass for the uninfected. Nobody is going to be having sex with a zombie. But let’s say there is an outbreak, like if one zombie was able to bite 30 people in the crowd at an Insane Clown Posse concert before they figured out it wasn’t part of the show. It’s not like mankind is just utterly confused about what to do when an infection breaks out. In America you have the Center for Disease Control (CDC,) who don’t tend to fck around. Seriously, it’s on their business cards.
Remember the SARS outbreak? That originated in China. The CDC and the World Health Organization put the clamps down on international travel the second it was found to have spread to North America. Flights were grounded, travel between borders was locked tight and only 43 people on the entire continent died. With zombieism, they don’t even have to solve the mystery about how it’s transmitted. It’s that guy biting people. Shoot him in the head.

#3. They Can’t Heal from Day to Day Damage
One advantage to having a fully-functioning central nervous system is that it also does a damn good job of letting you know you’ve been damaged. It does this by way of pain. Think about all the paper cuts, stubbed toes and nut shots you have suffered in your life. Now imagine they never healed, just sat there and rotted while you continued to rack up other paper cuts, stubbed toes and nut shots. Pretty much every wound you’ve ever had would end with an amputation. One thing we know about zombies from Romero and Fulci is that they are a clumsy lot, walking into doors and helicopter blades without a second thought about what kind of damage they are suffering. While complete insensitivity to pain seems like an awesome superpower in theory; in real life, you wind up being more like Mr. Burns than Wolverine. Congenital insensitivity to pain is a neurological condition that some people are born with, meaning they don’t feel pain. They can feel everything else, but the absence of pain means they accrue damage to their bodies but are unaware of it. Even with the ability to call for help, loved ones watching out for them and our coddling society, this can still lead to all kinds of terrible sh*t, like infected body parts and bitten off pieces of tongue. All the dings and bangs zombies will suffer after tripping, walking off of bridges and stumbling around on dark cloudy nights will eventually leave them limbless, toothless and with every bone in their body broken. Seriously, in the event of the Zombie Apocalypse, just stay inside, watch all the episodes of 24 back to back, then walk out on your lawn with your Corpse Rake and tidy up (you will have to buy a Corpse Rake, however, if for some reason you don’t already have one).

#2. The Landscape is Full of Zombie-Proof Barriers
The zombies’ lack of coordination, along with the inability to see in the dark (we haven’t had any infrared zombies yet, but holy sht! We call dibs on the idea) is going to spell the doom of countless zombies in any area outside of a parking lot. This is a group that doesn’t know how to find roads or bridges. They just go wandering off aimlessly. Mountains, major rivers and canyons would thus quickly be home to piles of broken zombie rags stinking up the scenic views. Even if zombies had the foresight to not walk over cliffs or into raging rapids during the day, nightfall would result in most eventually walking into rivers, over cliffs and off of bridges, diminishing their numbers. But even in nice, flat, paved cities, where it would seem like people would be extra-fcked, the landscape still works in favor of the living. History has shown that in most awful situations, people don’t always act like the panicky idiots in a horror movie. In cities, people would likely congregate in the upper levels of high-rise buildings, where the invasion can be held at bay with simple security doors. Also, the streets themselves would keep the undead corralled in straight, easy-to-aim-down lines where they could be picked off by snipers, or just bored office-workers waiting out the quarantine by dropping office supplies onto the undead from the top floors.

#1. Weapons and the People Who Use Them
As we touched on briefly above, if Homosapiens are good at one thing, it’s killing other things. We’re so good at it that we’ve made entire other species cease to exist without even trying. Add to the mix the sheer number of armed rednecks and hunters out there, and the zombies don’t even stand a chance. There were over 14 million people hunting with a license in the U.S. in 2004. At a minimum, that’s like an armed force the size of the great Los Angeles area.
Remember, the whole reason hunting licenses exist is to limit the number of animals you’re allowed to kill, because if you just declared free reign for everybody with a gun, everything in the forest would be dead by sundown. Even the trees would be mounted proudly above the late-arriving hunter’s mantles. It’s safe to assume that when the game changes from “three deer” to “all the rotting dead people trying to eat us,” there will be no shortage of volunteers.
Plus, if we look at zombies as a species, they are pretty much designed for failure. Their main form of reproduction is also their only source of food and their top predator. If they want to eat or reproduce, they have to go toe to toe with their number one predator every single time. That’s like having to fight a lion every time you to want to have sex or make a sandwich. Actually, it’s worse than that: Most top predators are only armed with teeth and claws, meaning they have to put themselves in harm’s way to score a kill. Humans have rifles.
The zombies have no choice but to walk into bullets. And all this isn’t even counting all the other household hand guns in the world, nor the fact that zombies also have to contend with IEDs, Molotov cocktails, baseball bats, crowbars and cars that the general public will no doubt be using to cull their numbers.
And that’s just from the civilian population; counting the military and police, we have another three million or so armed people, and instead of just handguns shotguns and hunting rifles, they have machine guns, combat shotguns, sniper rifles, assault rifles, sub-machine guns, grenade launchers and the occasional taser, not to mention the training to use them effectively. But why would they even bother? When they could just roll over swaths of zombies in tanks, blast them with cluster bombs and MOABs and mow them down with miniguns from the god damn Air Force that every zombie flick seems to forget about.

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Well, I mean it is a different franchise. I like that you linked a clip from World War Z. I’ll come back to that, as the book is one of my absolute favourites. The film is alright, totally different from the book, but the book is just phenomenal, anyway…

Those Undead, or ‘Zed Heads’ or ‘Zack’ as people call them in varying different excerpts from the World War Z book. Are the same. Shoot them in the head, and they drop dead…again…

Frosthowler kind of makes all the points needed. Undead are terrifying for several reasons. They don’t feel pain, they are in a binary state. mobile and a threat, or destroyed. No middle ground. They cannot be demoralised, threatened or blackmailed. They just don’t care. They are the many, not the few. By the time any society goes “OK, this is actually happening, this isn’t some crazy thing that just happens in stories” then it is 99% of the time too late. Your ragged band of survivors might last, how many are you? 7?, 12? 24? Doesn’t matter, unless you are hundreds you are functionally Extinct. You’re done. No coming back. Oh, you don’t just need a split of men and women to remain viable as a population. We evolved and got rid of a lot of things we thought we didn’t need anymore in the process. You ain’t got a doctor in your bunch of survivors? Expect a massively high amount of mortality in childbirth and infancy. Like -massively high-, to a ratio that makes the worst 3rd world country in our real world look like a paradise…

Oh, Zombies. They can be Animals too. They’re Mammals. Dogs, Cats, Cows, pretty much everything with a central nervous system and warm blood. Mice and Rats even.

Best thing. Know what the biggest killer in our world has been over time? Nah, not the fella with the daft Moustache, or the other fella with the daft moustache who liked Tarzan movies, , nah, not even infections from splinters from wooden decking during naval battles (Though that has been the biggest cause of death during Wartime) It was the female Anopheles Mosquito. It has killed more human beings than any other animal in history, and continues to do so to this very day. Now, Imagine they could carry the Zombie infection…Jaysis but we’d be damned…….

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Malaria?

/10char

It’s a step up from death by loving hug.

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