Villains Beginning With 'Z'
Zombie
Horror Movie Villain
A zombie is a reanimated corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the dead being raised as workers by a powerful sorcerer. In modern horror fiction, zombies are generally undead corpses brought back from the dead by supernatural or scientific means, and are not always under someone's control. They have very limited intelligence, and hunger for the flesh of the living.
There are many depictions of the Zombie all with slight variations, including, alien Zombies and "Rage" infected Zombies (A serum which turns a person into a furious maniacal flesh eater).
Typical Zombie traits;
- Mobile but technically dead,
- with a lack of heartbeat or other vital signs
- Often marked by an undead, decaying state, with discolored skin and eyes
- Non-communicative, groaning and howling instead of speaking
- Diminished in intelligence, with a resulting inability to reason, strategize or use tools
- Diminished in emotional response, with no empathy or mercy toward victims
- Consumed with ravenous hunger for human flesh or brains, sometimes vocalized
- Afflicted with diminished senses, but still sensing prey by motion or sound or other means
- Clumsy, violent and ungainly, either shambling slowly or running frenzied(excluding biological zombies
- Vulnerable to destruction of the brain, which kills them.
- Removal of the head kills the body but the head remains active.
- Unresponsive to any other kinds of injuries, even normally fatal ones(excluding biological zombies)
- Zombie 'infection' usually portrayed as contagious, i.e. through a bite or claw mark
- Does not attack other zombies, leading to overwhelming numbers and swarms of zombies
SUMMARY
ARCH RIVAL : |
Humans - most Zombies like to eat human flesh. |
STRENGTHS : |
With no emotion and no sense of fear - a Zombie can be a tricky costumer to take care of especially if your unarmed as they tend to be hard to kill. |
WEAKNESSES : |
Please see "Zombie traits" above. |
WEAPONS : |
Anything they can get their hands on at the time. |
QUOTE : |
Normally groaning noises |
EXTERNAL LINKS
List of Zombie movies - Wikipedia
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