I see all these shows and movies about zombies but where do they go to the bathroom at? Do they go in their pants. I figured you would see doo doo all over the roads and sidewalks with them walking around. If zombies were real and dead would their insides still work? Also why do they never show animal zombies
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Depends on the zombie.
Some zombie fiction has the zombie just eating out of reflex, but never digesting. The zombie eventually explodes due to the volume in it’s disintegrating stomach.
They are reanimated, but not really alive. They don’t have normal waste processes of humans.
As far as animals, many parts of zombie fiction (Resident Evil, 28 days later) DO have zombie animals. Quite common, actually.
ETA: and part of it is that zombie poop is not interesting to the audience or director, so they don’t include it in the film.
And that’s why you’ll never see the movie “2 Zombie 1 Cup”
This is what happens when you don’t keep your teens busy over spring break.
They smoke all your pot and get into the liquor cabinet.
Hey, kid! Go mow the lawn and clean out the garage!
Followup question: Who would win a fight between an alligator and a zombie and a gorilla?
To add a twist, what if the gorilla’s name was “Ditka”?
If zombies want to eat brains then why do they not go after other zombies for the brains as well as normies?
Not totally on point, but how do the zombies in Walking Dead keep popping up unexpectedly like the proverbial spring-loaded cat? Any character with a functioning sense of smell should be able to tell if a zombie is within a hundred yards. They have to smell like a combination of an abattoir and a sewage plant.
Looks like someone forgot about the split dog.
Funny, I was thinking yesterday I’d start a ‘The Practical Zombie’ thread in CS, addressing the same issues as the OP: Do they evacuate their bowels? If so, are their trousers full of shit? If not, what happens to the food they eat? Do they eat until they explode, and then can continue eating? Or does the food rot and cause them to explode? Zombie animals? The only one I could think of was the split dog. What about soft tissue? Won’t zombies’ eyes decompose and leave them blind? What about the rest of them? If they’re decomposing, won’t the problem just go away eventually? Do they freeze solid in Winter? Etc.
I found Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide an excellent answer to these questions. He’s the same author behind World War Z
Are we taking about fantasy zombies or science fiction zombies? Fantasy zombies are easy - they’re dead corpses animated by dark magic. Simple enough. Science fiction zombies, OTOH, are a lot more difficult to justify. For one, why don’t they eat each other?
No, no, no. He asked about zombie doo doo, not zombie poop.
lots and lots of febreeze?
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as for them digesting stuff, there was a scene in walking dead where they dissected a zombies stomach and most of the stuff it had ate was just more decayed than digested. I think it probably just become putrid slime and eventually runs out of their bodies via the natural exit door.
My S.W.A.G. (scientific wild ass guess) is that in walking dead like zombie shows the zombie thing is a parasite/symbiote infection/invasion that actively works to keep the zombies body functions at the most minimal levels so that it doesn’t have to abandon its host or seek another one. We’ve learned the infection is dormant in everyone, but The symbiote/parasite breeds by breaking off a small portion of itself and infecting someone bitten/scracthed, causing the dormant virus to go live..
which leads to the question how is it that when they fight the zombies and they stab them in the head and that crap is spewing all over their face and in their mouths and eyes (think andrea in the bathroom of the RV killing the zombie with the screwdriver) why dont they get infected? My answer is that its transmitted via saliva, so from a bite and it occurs from a scratch because like toddlers:p, zombies always stick their fingers in thier mouths and have spit under their fingernails.
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Hi, sidhechaos and Welcome to SDMB. I liked your war story over in that other thread about the lying liars at your former ISP. Anyway, you do spoilers by putting [noparse] at the beginning of some block of text, and putting [/noparse] at the end. Like this:
The answer is always 42.
Good questions. Unlike some people, I can handle fictional concepts.
I’ve speculated in the past that zombies are caused by a virus. The virus only effects humans, which is why there are no animal zombies.
The virus kills the person who contracts it but it also reanimates his body and keeps it moving around. The virus causes an instinct to consume living brains. The problem is that when you start chewing your way into somebody’s head they quickly stop being alive. So zombies are stuck in a self-defeating loop - their attempts to obtain the one thing they want destroys it. They will attack people to get at their brains but once they’ve killed the person, they lose interest in the now-dead brain.
As a result, zombies actually eat very little and what there is just accumulates inside their defunct digestive system.
Desensitization. As a result of the zombie apocalypse there are millions of decomposing corpses laying around. The smell of rotting bodies is so prevalent that people just stop noticing it.
The most realistic view of zombieism is as a viral disease, as Max Brooks posited for his universe (the Solanum virus) and as was mentioned in the non-Brooks-related film Zombieland. It appears to be, essentially, an amplified version of rabies without the characteristic hydrophobia and possibly without the periods of lethargy and depression; however, maybe the progression is towards increasingly manic and aggressive behavior and we just don’t see the early-stage patients who are still cogent enough to despair over their condition. A closer match to rabies would be the creatures in I Am Legend, with increasing photophobia matching the other behavioral changes; however, those things were referred to as ‘vampires’.
Of course, a sick person is still alive; dead people are rarely referred to as ill, death having taken care of that in its own inimitable fashion. So they’d be demented (in a clinical sense) living people who’d void waste just as any other live human does. Assuming they’re too demented to perform basic self-care, they’d be shambling pantloads you could smell coming a mile away. Qadgop could … no, scratch that, nobody needs any help imagining this stuff. This would lead to superficial infections that would, at least in some cases, progress to septicemia and death, as their violent lifestyle created superficial wounds to allow the infections brewing in their waste an avenue into their bloodstream.
Of course, this posits that zombies are basically robots with no drive or comprehension beyond ‘chase’, ‘kill’, and ‘eat’. If they’re just massive assholes with a craving for human flesh… they’re not actually very much like zombies then, are they?