The Energized: The Radiation/Electrical Zombie
on November 22, 2010 at 5:00 amThe Energized: The Radiation/Electrical Zombie, ironically this is the zombie type most people think about when they think of zombies and they don’t really know it. How you ask.
George Romero is responsible for creating the pop culture zombie and defining what most people think about when they think of zombies. However, in “Night of the Living Dead” there is no definitive answer for why the dead rise. The closest you get is a scientist on television explaining that radiation from an exploded Venus probe may be the cause.
If you accept that as the reason that the dead walk then that makes ALL of Romero’s zombies, Energy zombies.
Most zombie freaks such as myself assume that the coming zombpocalypse will be caused by some sort of virus. What they really should be afraid of is some sort of crazy Radiation bringing back the dead.
That means don’t put metal in the microwave or you may kill us all.
P.S. I know this will be controversial with some very very anal people, but yes, I consider Jason from “Friday the 13th” to be a zombie (A very very powerful zombie, but still a zombie).
It’s just my opinion though feel free to disagree.
Except for the Scooby Doo episode A New beginning.Where it is Mr. Burns, the Ambulance drive!??!? (RuhRoh!). I do call Jason a zombie. How many ways was Jason raised from the dead?
I think the glowing ghouls in Fallout 3 may qualify for this…? But I’m not sure if they are actually re-animated or just really, really f*cked up but still alive!
The ghouls from Fallout series never died they are just way overdosed with radiation…it’s explained int he game
Also,
Most famous zombie of this type…Frankenstein’s Monster….dead..stitched back together and brought back to life using lightning and notsomad science…perhaps grumpy science
Yeah im with Grimloche they are just mutated beyond repair
See this is all some serious zombie grey area. Are the Ghouls zombies, yes they are alive, but not all zombies are truly dead. Have they had their humanity and will stripped away… some of them have. They do fulfill the traditional zombie role in Fallout, but they still could just be considered mutants. I go back and forth on them a lot.
Same with Frankenstein’s Monster. He was dead, pieced back together from a bunch of people, and brought to life. I think it depends on just how alive he is. I really need to read that book to be sure. It’s possible you could consider him a super zombie, like Jason from “Friday the 13th”
This reminded me of a movie that used to spook me out when I was a kid. Die, Monster, Die! with Boris Karloff and good ole Nick Adams. Have not seen it in ages but it had the zombies created by the radioactive rock in Boris’ house.
Holy crap! I remember that one from long ago. Now I crave seeing it again.
FINALLY! I can comment again. I hope you had a great weekend Carter.(despite grandma’s cooking, that is) I know I did, aside from being mocked by a newspaper comic.
Now if I can just get comments working on the new comics. Man when I’m determined to mess something up even I can’t fix what I did.
That’s more than a little embarrassing. I admit to being an idiot.
You were mocked by a newspaper comic? I am intrigued. How?
Basically, I was nowhere near my xbox or the internet most of last week. One of the comics in the news paper for Thanksgiving day had a kid with her family at Thanksgiving dinner who said “Okay, I’m gonna go play xbox now.” My first thought was “son of a #@*%$.”
Jason Voorhees is a very special breed of zombie; a “dual-origined” zombie. He’s a dead body, reanimated by electricity, possessed by the spirit of another person (the soul of a very pissed off, vengeful and confused little boy); possibly able to be “reconstructed” as needed by the will of said little boy, depending on how badly the zombie was damaged the last time it was “shut down”. Alternatively, it could be, that after some unknown voodoo/telekinetic/ghost kid boojum, Jason might actually be using other dead corpses (beefed up to be undead colossuses) at the bottom of Crystal Lake when his current Undead “ride” gets too messed up.
Of course, us “Jasonites” tend to pretend that everything that happened after Friday the 13th, Part VIII never happened, so any further varying “zombie traits” he presents after that point don’t really count.
Lol I think the one for sure thing that keeps Jason’s dead body animated would be Money and movie executives.
I haven’t seen the remake yet, I should give that a try.