# Has a zompie ever been successfully turned back into a living person? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2010, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062 "2010-11-27T08:30:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/1 "2010-11-27T08:30:07Z")
Has a zombie ever been cured? If not, do you think it could ever happen? I’m talking about becoming a normal person again such as they were before being zombified, not an evil shell of their former selves à la _Pet Semetery_. I’m assuming it would have to be before much decomposition has taken place. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/2 "2010-11-27T08:50:37Z")
I’m not counting as zombies living people who are only in a trance - I mean actual revivified zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/3 "2010-11-27T09:10:05Z")
In the \*Order of the Stick \*webcomic, they managed to revive one of the main characters after he had died and been made into a bone golem. Now, bone golems ae technically constructs and not undead, but it’s the same principle. They would have done the same if he’d been zombiffied. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/4 "2010-11-27T09:11:43Z")
\ The Zombie Master of the Xanth series zombified himself when he suicided, and was restored to full life again 800 years later. We’re talking walking dead, pieces falling off style zombies here not people in a trance. I have trouble recalling my phone number but I can remember that…sigh ---
**Author:** ![Short\_Guy\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@Short\_Guy\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Short_Guy_1)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/5 "2010-11-27T11:36:48Z")
Mmmm… Zompie… ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/6 "2010-11-27T12:02:17Z")
I cant comment on that thread. It’s too personal. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/7 "2010-11-27T13:35:17Z")
In [The Serpent and the Rainbow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Serpent_and_the_Rainbow_(film)), several zombies are revived. They are, however, not yer regular undead zombies but rather the more likely Haitian zombies that may have a historical basis. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/8 "2010-11-27T14:08:16Z")
Sort of. In the movie “[Undead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339840/)” the zombies were caused by an accidental infection by a meteorite of alien origin. The aliens land in the town and cure everyone, except one guy who of course reinfects the whole town. It was a terrible terrible movie, don’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![NJ\_Kef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/258eb7/32.png) [@NJ\_Kef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJ_Kef)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/9 "2010-11-27T15:02:38Z")
In 1897, a year of terror and intrigue for all who lived at Collinwood, Quentin Collins was slain by his crazed wife Jenny and resurrected as a zombie by the vengeful witch Angelique, who later restored him back to life. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/10 "2010-11-27T15:50:02Z")
> [@Short\_Guy](#): > > Mmmm… Zompie… Not as good as zomcake. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/11 "2010-11-27T15:53:41Z")
I’m pretty sure that at least some zombies were changed back to normal in [Creatures From The Pink Lagoon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436200/). ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/12 "2010-11-27T15:57:47Z")
There was an episode of Community where everyone turned into zombies (which turned out to be caused by a high fever). Someone fixed the AC and everyone was cured within the 22 minute episode. ---
**Author:** ![ratmanizhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@ratmanizhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratmanizhere)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/13 "2010-11-27T15:58:22Z")
And what would you call a zombie that became a living person again?? The Undead undead??? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/14 "2010-11-27T15:58:45Z")
Well, a truly canonical zombie has \*two \*problems: first, he is dead, and second, he has been zombified somehow. So even if you can reverse the zombification, you still have to deal with the fact that he died of something originally. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/15 "2010-11-27T16:40:04Z")
An early _South Park_ halloween episode featured a good deal of the town becoming zombified—the original zombie was a chemically reanimated corpse, but bites spread the “infection” to the living. Killing the original zombie somehow reversed the process, restoring the other victims…unfortunately, they didn’t find this out until _after_ brutally slaying most of the zombified victims. Oops. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/16 "2010-11-27T17:30:53Z")
They didn’t _call_ them “zombies” but the reanimated undead could be restored to real life with a potion in **Legend of the Seeker**. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/17 "2010-11-27T18:41:46Z")
In _Night of th Comet_ the younger sister catches the zombie-itis and the gets better. I don’t recall how - given the time of the movie and the character in question it was probably prolonged hairspray use that cured her. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/18 "2010-11-27T18:48:30Z")
[adds appointment to calendar to reply to this thread in three years] ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/19 "2010-11-27T19:35:06Z")
In the game King’s Bounty (the newer remake) there’s a quest where you find a way to unzombify a woman. Then you can marry her and turn her back into a zombie. > **[King's Bounty: My Zombie Wife & The Belt O'Doom](https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/kings-bounty-my-zombie-wife-the-belt-odoom)** > > So I gazed up at the mountain of games about guns due this Autumn, and I sighed a little. Did I burn myself out on all … (scroll down a bit to read about it) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062/20 "2010-11-27T19:51:06Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Not as good as zomcake. But zomcake is a lie, so it doesn’t matter. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-zompie-ever-been-successfully-turned-back-into-a-living-person/562062.md?page=2)