Common Misconception: Vegetarian Zombies

“I was signing a book and I asked this woman about being a zombie and she said, ‘If I was a zombie I wouldn’t eat human flesh, I’m a vegetarian’. I said, ‘If you were a zombie, you would eat human flesh – you don’t have a choice’. She said, ‘No, with me being a vegetarian is so ingrained’. It got to the point where I actually think I called her an idiot. I said to her, ‘If zombies ate grass, we would tether them to our lawns and have them mow it. Nobody would be afraid of them – it’s not your decision to make. If you’re a zombie, you eat human flesh.’” -David Sedaris

One completely underutilized zombie concept is whether or not our human traits would carry over after reanimation. If you’re strong as a human, would you be a freakishly strong zombie? If you’re a famous Olympic runner, would you be one of those sprinting zombies? If you’re a vegetarian, would you be moaning and violently uprooting potatos? In Marvel Zombies, the characters have the same intelligence, memories, skills, and powers as in their human life. But, um, that’s a comic book.

Marvel Zombies

These are all stupid questions. Maybe that’s why more people don’t ask. It would be an interesting concept if it held any truth, but it doesn’t. Since zombies don’t have advanced brain functions, they can’t remember the preferences, training or special skills they had when they were alive – so they’re definitely not going to be vegetarians, mechanics, or Type A personalities. That’s like expecting a person with half a brain to still be a fabulous architect. (I don’t know any architects, but I assume they need both parts of their brain.) As for physical traits, all zombies are strong and fast at first because they have no pain receptors and don’t get tired, so they will push themselves to 100% capacity. Sometimes this causes their limbs to fall off, but they will literally keep going until they can’t move. I suppose you could argue that stronger/faster humans have more muscle, so initially they probably will be slightly more of a threat than the other zombies. But as time goes on and they decay, they’ll all be equally slow and stiff.

Lesson learned: Avoid newly formed zombies at all costs.

One Response to Common Misconception: Vegetarian Zombies

  1. sampson barnett says:

    zombies could be people who were in a coma mistaken for dead and there brain and body decayed and turned them into a zombie also hitler made zombies call of duty got the insperation of nazi zombies from hitler and they created zombies there real already i would be on a sky scraper and snipe out zombies and have dead animals as bate and bomb them and wat if ther wer zombie spiders anyway zombies have already been made and hitler also had aliens

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