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Will this create shoals of zombie herring?
Can you swim and shamble at the same time?
I NEED ANSWERS, PEOPLE!
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I suppose it would depend on Pacific or Atlantic. Are herring cold water or hot water? I can't remember.
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I'm going to go with "no," since they're both already dead....just different types of dead. The whole living dead vs. the undead thing can be a little tricky, but I subscribe to the theory that dead is dead and the only cross-species action that can take place is between the living and the dead to create some sort of hybrid monster caught between the two worlds (ie. vampire werewolves, or zombie werewolves).
But let's face reality, in an imaginative writer's mind, anything is possible....
....like, say, this new trend of vampires not being dead and just a different species. i guess, if that were the case, then yes, you could have a zombie vampire. damn it, i just blew my own rules about vampires and zombies.....grrrr....
04/04/09
A zombie, at its most basic is just an animate corpse.
If a vampire can leave a corpse (and some versions of them can) it can be made a zombie.
Some may disagree with my 'crackpot theories' but, as soon as that government grant comes through I WILL SHOW THE WORLD!
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04/04/09
And this is where the two differing species of vampire come into play. Not to mention all the various kinds of zombies.
The traditional "undead" vampire is just that, an animated corpse, albeit one with all its cognative functions intact. Since neither a traditional vampire nor a zombie has any bloodflow, there's no way to spread the infection from species to the next.
Now, you have those new fangled living vampires, HomoSuckurbloodus, which are living, breathing predators who feed on people. These cats should be able to succumb to the blood-born zombie plague.
On the flip side, you have a wealth of zombie varieties, both Romero-inspired and non-Romero zombies. For the record, Romero zombies are just flesh eating ghouls. real zombies are voodoo based. Unfortunatley, Romero's zombies became the norm. I'm thinking that only the second vampire strain should be able to succumb to the voodoo zombie powder as it has bloodflow and will allow the nuerotoxins to travel to the vital organs. Romero-esque ghouls don't have bloodflow and shouldn't succumb to vampire infections.
Also, since traditional vampires burn up upon re-death, we shoudln't have to worry about any Herbert West-style RE-ANIMATOR zombiefication.
but I think the real question is why the hell am I giving this that much thought.
04/04/09
How do you kill vampire zombie?
04/04/09
You mean a zompire? In general, probably not. In Steve Jackson Games' Munchkin card game, absolutely. If you can win by playing Undead on a Vampire (which I did the first/only time I've ever played it), there's got to be a way to zombify one instead. Or maybe that's exactly what I did...
04/04/09
+ Watch video
That link takes you to the greatest zombie vs. shark fight all all-time. Hell, the zombie funcions so well under water that he even tries to make time with a nude scuba diver....
Director Lucio Fulci was one sick bastard.....
04/04/09
That nude scuma diver's supposed to be his daughter, IIRC.
so yes, Fulci's sick. Sick and awesome
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It would be funny to watch the whole spandex squad lose its raison d'etre at once, wouldn't it?
Of course, they could also bring back Bruce Banner's abusive dad, Brian. That might actually up the Hulk's rage quotient, at least until he tore the old man in half and threw him into the -- oh, wait, that's Sentry.
03/28/09
Bruce Wayne goes from playboy to actuary.
Though then I have to worry about him turning into Actuary Man. Using tables to predict when I am going to commit my dastardly schemes. Finding the weakness to my robotic gorilla suit before I even build it.
Damn you Actuary Man.