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The Zombies are the main antagonists in the World War Z novel, film and video game.

Novel biography[]

In the novel, the Zombies started in China, with "Patient Zero", a young boy, who was fishing with his father but his canoe capsized, and he was bitten by a submerged Zombie. From him, the outbreak spread global, from black market organ donations, infectious blood, and zombie attacks. The patients could not be treated because all cures failed; and in 16 to 20 hours they reanimate as the Undead. A powerful virus, Solanum, infects nearly all of humanity, turning most of them into carnivorous predators (that's more than capable of destroying life on earth), which can have superhuman endurance as they never tire. This, coupled with their inability to feel pain, as well their quasi-immortality from their Oxygen Independence is their greatest weapon.

Humanity eventually wins the war, but at great cost, in a decade of fighting against the Undead hordes which engulf entire cities.

Movie biography[]

The origins of the outbreak is unknown. Those bitten are transformed into zombies after 12 seconds. These zombies are fast moving, intelligent and are dangerous when in groups, as shown when a horde of zombies formed a huge tower to scale the walls surrounding Jerusalem. The zombies acted like the virus themselves, only interested in spreading the infection. Once a zombie has landed a bite on a victim and has passed the infection on, they’ll quickly lose interest in the victim and leave in search of another victim. However, zombies will not infect people who are sick, weak or severely injured. When the zombies overran Jerusalem, they ignored an old man and a sickly young boy. Gerry witnesses this and relays it to the remnants of the World Health Organisation in Cardiff. This allows them to create a vaccination made up of several deactivated viral agents, which acts a camouflage and allows those who received the vaccination to be rendered unseen by the zombies. This allowed humans to regain a foothold on the world, using their newfound camouflage to mount offensives against the zombies and rescue survivors from overrun areas.

Differences between Book and Movie Versions[]

  • In the book, the virus is called Solanum, whereas in the film, the virus is unknown and is presumed to be an evolved form of rabies or Spanish flu.
  • In the book, the zombies are a tribute to Romero's slow mindless zombies which are so mindless they will plunge off cliffs in pursuit of their prey. In the film, however, the zombies have a greater intelligence, almost sadistic, and enjoy chasing their prey down and can work out routes to do so (for instance when the zombies scale the Jerusalem Wall).
  • In the book, the zombies can only be killed when shot in the head. In the film its the same, but due to the speed of the zombies it looks as if they can be shot anywhere. Also the zombies are attracted to noises in the film, in the book its never stated if this is so.
  • The zombies in the film turn almost instantly, in five seconds. In the first case there is actually a voiceover counting down the transformation sequence. However in the book the zombie transformation takes sixteen hours at most and it actually varies from person to person.
  • Unlike in the novel, where zombie blood caries and passes on the virulent, the film shows that catching blood from the necrolized is not a means of which an uninfected person contracts it.

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