What do you think is the cause of ZA
I know that the original comic book doesn't intend to solve this question, but I decided to ask for your opinion anyways.
What do you think is the cause of Zombie Apocalypse in the walking dead universe?
Considering the religious undertones in the series, I wouldn't be surprised if it is some sort of divine punishment. Similar to the Romero's zombie Apocalypse "When there is no room in hell, the dead will walk."
I also heard that some people believe that Walking Dead universe is a some sort of hell or purgatory. They argue that Lee didn't survive the car crash, and he redeemed herself by helping Clementine. This is not a popular theory however. Because it doesn't really explain how the other survivors ended up where they are. It would be kind of funny if they were all dead.
Third option is the virus or the military experiment.But for some reason I think that this reason is unlikely.
So what is your opinion on this?
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The failure of top secret government experiment.
I'm not joking, I believe I heard Kirkman once say that he originally wanted the apocalypse to be caused by aliens.
EDIT: http://undeadwalking.com/2014/11/26/walking-dead-started-due-robert-kirkmans-huge-lie/
Swine flu...
when there is no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth!
No; I try not to speculate how it started. Zombies are a paradox no matter what the origin. It's quite literally fantastic fiction
It was the Clams.
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God was liek: I dun fucked thangs up les make it interestin
Real reason: government fuck up
Nibiru was at its closest point to Earth, in conjunction with Cthulhu's awakening, at the same time Jesus Christ made his second coming to punish gay people after the straw broke the camel's back with Walter and Matthew getting married and Shel and Stephanie making out somewhere (but he became good friends with Paul "Jesus" Monroe afterwards, so all was well), which occurred at about the same time a satellite fell to Earth carrying radiation from Venus, which also happened to be the satellite that woke up and pissed off the Cloverfield monster, which then set off a chain reaction which involved nuclear weapons and the birth of Godzilla, which preceded an earthquake which fucked up the Umbrella corporation's secret headquarters causing an outbreak of the T-Virus, which mixed together with ooze from the TGRI spill which created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who uncovered a link between the Black Death and the Illuminati, who in conjunction with Cyberdyne and Skynet constructed the T-1000, but were intercepted by John Connor and Mega Man X who brought back a cure for Goku's heart disease, which unfortunately mutated after mixing with equal parts T-Virus, Cthulhu DNA, Venus radiation, and the Zero Virus, which was then seized and utilized by Silver Shamrock and the Druid cult of Thorn to kill children with evil magic commercials and to resurrect Michael Myers, but was then stolen by the Proudfoot Corporation which developed a compound called Mixmaster, but was finally stolen and perfected through the Dark Side to create zombies by Emperor Palpatine ("Palpatine's behind it all!"), and then Count Dooku was like, "What happened?"
It's really quite simple.
There is no ZA. Grimes was abducted by aliens. He's trapped in a computer generated dream world (like the Matrix). Everything happening is just to test his reactions to it. To study how humans react to different forms of stimuli. He was just unlucky enough not to get in the sexual fulfillment virtual reality experiments. At the end of the series he will wake up in the middle of a crop circle, and find out he's been missing for only a few days.
could it be from a vaccine shot like what was told on the teaser of the new walking dead spinoff? the teaser did say," dont forget to get your flu shots"
He didn't originally want to do that. When he was turned down he LIED to them about the aliens, and they approved of it. The article clearly says that.
Like @Kennyftw said, Kirkman lied about aliens creating this epidemic because otherwise he couldn't published his first issues. Publishers thought that his concept (Zombie Apocalypse about people dealing with it etc.) was boring so he said that there will be aliens in the comics and they saw this idea as much better one.
I am glad that he lied about the aliens. It sounds like a horrible plot twist.
Because fuck the human species.
"Palpatine's behind it all!"
I knew it!
I think it's just a disease that never got under control.
Assholes who wanted to be the Next Umbrella. You wanna know why I know that? BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONE CLICHE THEY ALWAYS CHOOSE.
"Oh, Look at that, I'm a douchebag scientist, this is a dangerous serum, but it could also do some awesome shit!"
"Should we maybe test it for problems, and Maybe Not release it all over the world?"
".... NAH! FUCK IT!"
"Y'all motha fuckers are stupid."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aVwxTM0ZZ0
Dude come on, everybody knows it's the T-Virus! >.>
I think it's a one or two celled parasite that can only take over dead cells. When they bite you, they transfer more of the parasites to you. I think they gradually turn what brain cells they don't need into a living heart, which is why it takes so long after death to turn. And that is also why they die if you shoot them in the head.
I think it is virus but a virus that developed in everyone at the same time.
Ben said that everyone was infected, ok but how? How could everyone have the same virus?
Well, I think that maybe everyone could this very infectious virus that takes control of your body without giving you any symptoms. But at this point it is inactive, it's dominant.
Suddenly someone dies, as people normally do. This is when the virus starts to die but instead it reactivates itself and reactivates the body but the brain is already dead so the virus does it's own thing. To make the virus active you either have to be bitten and the active virus passes over or you die and it activates that way.
I don't even know if a virus can do that so if not then it's a parasite.
A Mad Genius who hates humanity, he sees humans as evil and degenerates. He created a genetically modified Virus, and used it to rid the planet of this plague, so his "whales." would be safe.
Yeah but imagine that publishers considered aliens as cause of ZA as much more interesting idea than what The Walking Dead was and is right now. I'm also glad that Kirkman manage to trick them because TWD is an awesome universe.
I think the parasite one might be a possible theory. You know like how you get the snails controlled by parasites so it will go somewhere for birds to see it so the snail is eaten and the parasite can get inside the bird?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go_LIz7kTok
Person dies, parasite takes over, possible.
Oh god that is so creepy. A parasite seems more plausible than a virus, especially for the whole dying and coming back to life part. If it was just the bite it would be easier to explain.