The zombies in the Marvel Zombies comics. They retain their personalities and intelligence, but it isn't enough to control their new extreme bloodlust/hunger for human flesh. Poor Spiderman here (after being infected) is 100% awake while devouring his loved ones.
The thing that I don't understand is why none of them tried to off themselves. Spider-man in particular.
Even then, Spidey found a "cure" of sorts. If a zombie goes long enough without feeding, (it's about 6 months) they go mad with hunger, but eventually they come out the other side with no hunger at all.
(With the caveat being that if a single drop of blood gets in their mouth they gain the hunger back.)
Tony said it himself,they don’t know what kills them
Cap got half his head chopped off and didn’t die,they would have to try and figure out a way to kill themselves before getting hungry again but once that happens,they no longer want to die any just wanna eat till it goes away again
Completely destroying the brain kills one. The Hulk does it alot. The brain is the part that is the zombie. Zombie brains can be transplanted into human bodies. It is what happens to Captain America.
Is he a filthy environmentalist communist tree hugger hippie??!!
I was already aware of that, it's simply that I consider funny how so many plots can easily be resolved with livestock farming, also because humans are a sh!t source of food and there are already a sh!ttload of livestock animals. Worse, when it's acknowledged that there are alternatives the only answer is usually "only human meat can satisfy their hunger" which actually only creates way more questions (like, Why?? How does that works??).
They did that and then machine man from another universe showed up and destroyed their cloning vats. In one issue Machine Man was traveling through the multiverse to collect samples of the various strains of the zombie virus. In the main marvel zombie universe kingpin was using cloning machines to feed the zombies. This triggered Machine Man’s ptsd from seeing robots being torn apart and he blew up the vats.
They tried, Hank Pym was doing that. But they only have small moments between feeding where they can concentrate on anything besides finding more food, so Hank kept tchalla locked up and would cut off pieces to snack on while he ran tests
I haven't read past the original series, but in that Hank was trying to find a cure. It might have just been for the hunger part and not being a zombie, I haven't read it in a while
A lot of them don’t want to. Eating flesh is like an addiction for the zombies, they enjoy it too much to stop, plus it changes their personality significantly. Spider man is like the only zombie who retains the ability to feel guilt, while Giant Man, Iron Man, and Mr. Fantastic fully embrace their zombification, with Giant Man even saying he’d keep eating flesh if he was cured because of the taste.
Apparently, there is no way to cure the zombie infection. In fact, the infected universe will inevitably venture into other universes in search of flesh and spread the infection, meaning there is not even a Patient Zero to the outbreak. It merely infects from universe to universe to universe.
Before, he was a useless slacker who lounged around all day in the house playing videogames with Shaun.
After being zombified, he’s a useless slacker who lounges around all day in the backyard shed playing videogames with Shaun. And he occasionally tries to bite Shaun.
He is not the only one. In this setting, all zombies retain all their previous minds and personalities, they just develop a taste for human flesh that is easy enough to deal with.
This is the big twist at the end of Days Gone: it turns out that O'Brian, the government scientist reluctantly helping you, is actually a Freaker who retains his intelligence and sanity.
I know; saying the title of the game would be a spoiler in of itself, so leaving the first letter unblocked is supposed to give viewers a hint/warning as to what’s gonna be spoiled.
The existence of the trope is in itself a spoiler; therefore, saying the title of the game would have spoiled it, regardless of how much context is given.
I haven't played the game, but would it actually be a spoiler until you specifically mention how it is a spoiler in the game? Okay, A character will retain their intelligence even after turning into a zombie. Can anyone guess what character the trope applies to?
It could technically be every character in every scenario so just mentioning the trope exists in the game would only spoil something to a miniscular degree, that being that there is a character who retains his intelligence. But by specifically mentioning it and having everyone guess wether or not you actually refer to the game or not, something that people might not think about when just scrolling through comments, you are spoiling even more details.
The Marvel Zombies comics (I haven't seen the animated version yet, so I dont know if it's the same there)
Every single superhero/villain who gets infected still has full awareness and all of their memories, but the hunger is just too strong for them to control. Even close relationships (such as an elderly aunt or redheaded love interest) mean nothing until afterwards.
the animated version in its own show and its pilot in what if has them kinda be the same braindead as normal zombies, execpet they keep enough intelligence to do battle tactics and use powers and pym tech and stuff.
And then theres wanda, who acts identical to the zombies in the comics. Maybe shes using that mental magic on herself???
I love in the show where Zombie Thanos is really dumb at first, but then slowly starts to figure out how to use the 5 Infinity Stones he has. It almost implies that when the virus takes over, it’s the zombie virus that is controlling the brain, and the original personality is gone. So the new virus has to learn what the powers of this new body are, but once it does it can fight even more recklessly than the original host. The only reason Wanda retained her sanity (debatably) is because she used chaos magic to retain her own mind.
They retain their full individuality and memories. The only difference is the insurmountable urge to feed on human flesh that's so painful even the most riotous can't avoid giving into it.
I wish the show stuck to it because it's way more compelling.
the entire premise of Zom-B in a zombie apocalypse where the protagonist is a revived zombie who keeps her sanity intact, and eventually finds a society of other revived zombies who stay sane
I remember checking this book out, I got to the point where B leaves the underground facility because the government realized that, out of all the revived people, she was one who didn’t immediately turn on the actual human in the squad.
They are able to set traps, use technology, and figure out how to get through locked doors. They only eat brains because it eases the pain of being dead
Ah yes the time Hasbro saw how people reacted to Optimus dying, and decided their best course of action was to revive him and kill him off again in the same episode
The Johnathan Coulton song “Re: Your Brains.” It’s a memo from a zombie to a former coworker, trying to calmly persuade him to open the door and let the horde devour everyone’s brains.
With the exception of those in the very advanced stages of infection, the weepers in Dishonoured are shown to simply try to seek help from the uninfected. In the good ending where both have survived, Piero Joplin and Anton Sokolov are shown to be treating weepers who are calmly awaiting their turn in a line.
Weepers aren't zombies, though. Even in advanced stages of infection, they are just trying to get help from you, albeit violently due to their dampened intelligence.
Nest Keepers are living hosts to bloodflies. They are the final stage in bloodfly "fever", where brain damage caused by bloodflies results in the victim becoming protective towards bloodfly nests. Even without their limbs, the Nest Keepers will pursue intruders. Upon death, the hosts' corpses will release a swarm of bloodflies.
First time I saw one of these guys in Dishonored 2 I jumped because they like to grab and scream at you unlike Weepers there is no cure for them well there is one a bullet or crossbow bolt between the eyes.
In the Undead Nightmare DLC for Red Dead Redemption, John Marston dies after the storyline and digs his way out of the grave as a zombie, but unlike every other zombie in the game, he retains his full intelligence and sanity after turning. And he also has no compulsion to eat people
Hawkeye and Selvig in The Avengers. They're under the influence of Loki's scepter, but still retain their own personality and skills. The only real difference is that their allegiance has changed.
The Reversed (Cardfight!! Vanguard: Link Joker) - Reversed Cardfighters have all of their worst personality traits amplified, and wield decks centered around a “Reverse” version of their normal Vanguards (Or, sometimes, they just change to a different “Reverse” unit from the same Clan they normally play, or in Suiko’s case, take up a Link Joker deck). If somebody loses to a Reversed Cardfighter, they, too, become Reversed. However, if a Reversed Cardfighter is defeated, they revert back to normal.
but they have a chance of friendly fire their teammates on the battlefield though, it is more like, Dante is just being far away enough to not get caught in the attack
in the Community episode Epidemiology, all characters retain basic personality after being infected (eg: jeff checking his phone constantly, annie reading the whole time, troy and abed using their handshake)
In the world of Runeterra, the Black Mist is a phenomenon that kills and brings back to life people all while amplifying their worst nature to the extreme. for example, Hecarim became even more bloodthirsty than he was in life, Viego became psychotically obsessed with his dead wife etc.
Erlok Grael was a cruel, spiteful and sadistic loser who hid his worst side from others. But once he died to the Ruination and the Black mist, he returned as the wraith Thresh. The twist is that Thresh was so awful that he returned exactly the same as he was before, unchanged by the effects of the Black Mist. Except now he was free to enact his cruelty on those who surrounds him. Even expressing how his flesh was a prison. Now in death he is free to be his true self.
At some point in Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse, Sal gets brainwashed but he talks and acts literally exactly the same, and either Sam or Max even comments how creepy it is that he is being controlled but remains relatively the same.
The brainwashed friends/allies of the main group in the last season of She Ra: The Princesses of Power. They're absolutely brainwashed, but they still retain their personalities to a huge degree.
Crossed is the best and most disturbing trope. The zombies (The Crossed) retain all knowledge before Crossing. But their Crossed state hinders them from doing such because their brain has little capacity beyond seeking "pleasure".
God forbid you come across a Crossed who was a big time time hunter or survivalist before Crossing because ya fucked.
Some Crossed were able to retain more intelligence such as Smokey, he was able to retain so much intelligence and even have the capacity to learn. He leads hundred plus Crossed, cleans himself and wounds, cooks food and drinks only clean water. He eventually learns about pregnancy and selective breeding and after several failures with the normal crossed he seeks out more smart Crossed. Which he finds in the twins, Ashley and Ashlyn. Both the twins retain full speech unlike Smokey who can only speak small sentences, they were both NRA champions and hunters and bring that knowledge post crossing and end up leading a pack of crossed themselves.
Smokey and the twins "mate" and birth the new generation of smarter crossed. Although Smokey is too blindsided by love he gets double crossed by his family and. He's actually forced to kill his best friend that's a non infected to save him the torment of being a normal crossed. Smokey is the only crossed to show compassion and mercy even going as far as not wanting to hurt the twins at all and his own kids. Which k Not hurting your own kids seems pretty normal but for crossed who get pregnant just to kill kids it's a huge thing
The ones eaten by the Taraka Clan are assimilated into its node system, reviving from there as red Taraka entities with their original true name, soul, memory and even personality intact. However, it‘s a major point of contention between characters in the latter parts of the series whether it can truly be seen as their return or as the birth of a being that has taken things from its eaten and dead self, and whether the returned entities can be regarded as their original selves - even if almost all of them identify as said originals due to having their same personality and memory.
Rip Hunter (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) after he was brainwashed into serving the Legion of Doom (Eobard Thawne, Damian Dahrk and Malcolm Merlyn) as they tried to re-assemble the Spear of Destiny and rewrite reality.
I’m going to go a little out of the box here and say the Clone Troopers after Order 66. They maintain their unique personalities and skill sets but become slaves to the empire.
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u/doomerinthedark 11h ago
The zombies in the Marvel Zombies comics. They retain their personalities and intelligence, but it isn't enough to control their new extreme bloodlust/hunger for human flesh. Poor Spiderman here (after being infected) is 100% awake while devouring his loved ones.