WHY dosent anyone in the Walking dead Universe know the Word *Zombie* ????

[Snake]

well ?

[Nerevars Goat Univeron]

I'm sure some do, but find it either unconsiderite to the dead, unfitting the situation, or find it rather sick (To use that term, it would be really awkward and mood killing.)

[Glorious☭Leader]

Most zombie fiction takes place in an alternate universe where Romero's Night of the Living Dead, as well as the other zombie media it inspired never existed. Walking Dead is one example of this. The characters aren't familiar with the term "zombie", therefore don't use it.

[No Life King]

yep, the alternate universe thing with no zombie stories. Authors might think it's necessary for the tension, that characters don't have all this knowledge of how zombies work, so that's what they do. Feels a bit weird to me but it's ok. Vampire fiction don't use that nearly as often, they'll sometimes address the most famous "vampire facts" like garlic, crosses etc and subvert them with their own universe rules (even... twilight, but let's not think of that, bad example).

[ZodGilla]

Basically what everyone else said ^

Pretty much every zombie apocalypse takes place in a universe where the concept of "zombies" doesn't exist. That's why nobody knows what to do or how to survive. It's also why a zombie apocalypse couldn't happen in our world, where EVERYONE knows what a zombie is. :b

[StealthMomo]

Don't ask, search and you'll find facts.

[Mr. Eaten]

Kirkman said that in the Walking Dead alternate reality, there are no zombie films/games or culture of any kind.

[Jizzy Frontside 1080]

Yes

[ZeroSafe]

It's even funnier when one realizes that Glenn plays video games and mentions having played Portal in Season 2 and compares going in the well to it, so Valve exists (err, existed) in The Walking Dead-verse. But yeah, as others have said, zombie related media nor its following exist in TWD.

[Snake]

it must of been a alternative Reality where Half life 3 was going to be shown on E3 but hey Gaben got eaten

[Bud]

I think there is a royalty on the word "Zombie" in video/novels. It would make more sense to just name Zombie something else than pay a bunch of money to lesser quality work on the side.

[Bud]

BrandeX eredeti hozzászólása:

Of course there isn't. No more than there is on words like "potato", "sparrow", or "atomic bomb". It's just a common idea. The word "zombie" existed in Hoodoo long before anyone wrote a book or film script about it.

Thanks, I did not know that. I just assumed as this is just one of many that refuses to use the work Zombie is all.

[ein]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqNQbdD3kLw

[Octokitten]

Nurgle523 eredeti hozzászólása:

Kirkman said that in the Walking Dead alternate reality, there are no zombie films/games or culture of any kind.

Kirkman is a moron when he tries to over-think anything he's created. I cite the beginning of The Walking Dead graphic series, written by Kirkman. The first time Rick meets Glenn in Atalanta Glenn states, "Listen... it's easy .. I do it all the time. When we climb down this building those things will still be waiting for us at the bottom of that building. And there's no way out of that one. All these buildings are filled with zombies." Before they're called "roamers" and "lurkers," before they're called "walkers" or "biters," Kirkman explicitly defines them in the voice of a character as "zombies."

This also refutes that no one calls them zombies.

Why isn't it the popular lingo? Well, if we go with The Walking Dead as the title of the thread suggests, probably regional differences. Different groups begin to refer to them by different names. Really there is no codified word for what they are. Kirkman uses zombies, undead, living dead, dead, along with a slew of various slang rooted in different observations such as biter, walker, and lurker.

Romero on the other hand can do what he wishes. Anyone capable of Night of the Living Dead and Day of the Dead (Bub is one of the most amazing characters ever written in any zombie movie) can say and do what he pleases.

Kirkman? Not so much.

[GoHabs89]

Nurgle523 eredeti hozzászólása:

Kirkman said that in the Walking Dead alternate reality, there are no zombie films/games or culture of any kind.

[guardian_titan]

Early on when things are being established, things can pop in that you decide later to retcon. To be fair, the comics were first released like 10 years ago. Who remembers what they were planning a decade ago for something unless you took meticulous notes? Look at the lore of any franchise released some time ago with its later additions (Star Wars being a good one). Sometimes you decide you like something better than what you originally planned.

You also can't expect every group in TWD to call the zombies by the same name. There's no phone, TV, internet, or even newspaper in that universe to have a universal name across the board. So having many names is not unexpected. Someone's also bound to come up with zombie. If you look up the actual etymology of zombie, you'll know it existed around 1819 in English and long before in Africa (specifically the Kongo). So the use of zombie, or a similar word, would likely be in use in Africa even if in TWD the English variation doesn't exist ... even though it technically should even without Romero.

Don't see how a thread like this has flown as far as it has, though. What's TWD got to do with Organ Trail? They may be zombie related, but something like this should be either in the TWD Season 1 board, TWD Season 2 board, or a TWD fan board, not on Organ Trail.