Would a neck break kill a zombie?

[R1ch4rd N1x0n]

Zombies need nothing but their brain to be alive, but could you sneak up on a zombie and break its neck to kil it? My theory is that it would not kill them but since you are internally disconnecting their neck from their head, it probably wouldnt kill them but make them fall over and be able to move nothing but their mouth since it is the only thing still connected to the brain that can move.

Let me know if you agree with my theory or post something else you might think in the comments.

[Vincent]

Postat inițial de Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

What kind of zombie?

Fiction zombies you can do whatever that fiction allows to kill them, including body shots in some. If in your fiction all they need is a brain then you should be able to chop their head off and they would still be alive. We will just pretend biology doesn't exist since this is fiction.

But the only real life zombies are all social media and cellphone addicted human-ish creatures that are still technically human in the eyes of the law... Eventhough I think they should be put of everyone's misery. They would most likely die if you seperated their head from their as... Err... Body... So the question here would be, if you shut down twitter and facebook or took their cellphones away, would they actually die?

Good question.
I shall fund this research.

[😼Studio Cat😼]

Postat inițial de Stg Renegades:

Postat inițial de Studio Cat:

Zombies are dead, and reanimated corpses. No, cutting off blood or Air flow would not work UNLESS they were the rage variant of a zombie. All other zeds show the ability to keep functioning with 50% body mass or even their heads staying active after severed.

So, you're saying that, a zombie can still live, even without blood? But, the virus that, reanimated the dead body, need oxygen to survive as well?

Depends on the Zombie. The prefered variant is the no more room in hell kind. There is no Virus, or infection. Just zombies.

OR the Resident Evil type, which is far more representative of a bacteria than a virus, and is even described as such, and a virus with traits of a bacteria. Oh, and hey. You know how they killed people carrying the black plague, and they still stayed virulent? Stagnant blood can still carry a virus. Or do you thing snot on a door handle is breathing?

And if it is a virus, is is far more than a grocery store brand flu. It is a virus that hooks into the primal bran and hardwires the body to remain active, and operating off the lower brain functions. Since that whole concept is complete BS, who can say what the virus does.

[Nino_Chaosdrache]

Depends on the franchise. In the Resident Evil movies for example, Zombies can be killed by breaking their neck.

But generally I agree with you. I think the zombie couldn't move their body anymore, except of their eyes and mouth.

[HOBO BOB]

atleast it will stop them from moving

[tmwfte]

Brian Keene's zombies are just a demon in a dead meatsuit, a broken neck wouldn't slow them down.

Also, Marvel Zombies don't care. See: Headpool.

[Commander Makara]

The only zombies (zumbi) were the heavily drugged Haitian slaves. Snapping their necks killed them.

Any other concept (which grew from media coonflagration of the alleged supernatural attribution of these Haitians and later became metaphorical for cultural trends) is completely fictional and therefore, entirely up to the creator of the fictional zombie.