Zombie apocalypse survivors are dumb. They find any weird excuse to leave a perfectly good shelter and run around the zombies. Then to know one’s surprise they all die.
I hate them so much.
Besides his excuse for killing Karen’s boyfriend was perfectly legitimate. He was better looking. By 80′s horror movie logic only the last two pretty people can survive a horror movie. Knowing that, he simply had no choice. He had to arrange Manly Jim’s death.
Too bad for him it didn’t work out. I never planned on him living long anyway. In my head I actually named him “Expendable Larry.”
Expendable Larry is a good name. I like it.
When it comes to stupid survivors, I always have to think about that guy in Land of the Dead who gets the job to monitor a passageway and the first thing he does on arrival is to go in the darkest, biggest building around, that has no windows and an unknown amount of entries, and goes in there with no light source nd his headphones playing loud music.
Why did this guy live until the zombies came?
I think the main culprit is really really lazy writers who assume that people are dumb. They need a reason for the survivors to come in contact with the dead or there’s no story. But they can’t think of a legitimate reason to have that happen so they just make the characters do stupid things.
By the end of most zombie movies I’m happy when the characters die… They deserve it at that point.
From my experience, alot of people would be too stupid to survive the zombie apocalypse. Heck alot of them would be too stupid to survive no tv for a week.
When all you eat has been in cans for years, you ought to have some sort of deficiency…
But usually not in salt, and one reason people could become dumb would be the lack of iodine… Because I’m lazy, that’s what my friend Wiki said: [...]Iodine deficiency is the leading cause of preventable mental retardation, a result which occurs primarily when babies or small children are rendered hypothyroidic by a lack of the element. The addition of iodine to table salt has largely eliminated this problem in the wealthier nations[...]. That much for my idea -__-
Oh well, I’m sure that most zombie apocalypse survivors are in fact oblivious people that don’t go outside unless there is no food at home anymore, the pizzeria nearby doesn’t answers phone calls, and mom is silent for awhile (probably at her friend Dona’s home moaning about her failure of a son, as usual)…
I’ll grant you that deficiencies in a persons diet can make them make questionable choices. But not within the first few days of the apocalypse. That’s just pure lazy writing.
…Unless they are in desperate need of caffeine. I’ve made some pretty poor life choices because I needed a Mt. Dew. So I may be wrong.
I would have thought that “Stupid, Completely Avoidable Death” Larry would have been better. It would look good on his tombstone.
Heh. Maybe something in Detroit in near future will help scriptwriters to craft more logical plots…
http://www.buzzfeed.com/shifty10322311/zombie-theme-park-planning-to-open-in-detroit-6dq6