Alternative Zombie Apocalypse Scenarios

[Syt]

Currently reading World War Z which got me thinking - zombie apocalypse usually takes place, more or less, in the here and now.

But what about other points in history?

Three moments could be especially interesting:

Spanish Flu 1918. Most of the world is in shambles or focused on winning the war. The spanish Flu, combined with chemical agents, mutates into a zombie virus, striking first the trenches, then the hinterlands.

The Black Death, 1340s. Instead of the "normal" Black Death the dead return and start preying on the living. Europe, Middle East and Asia fall into a new dark age while the American cultures are left "unblemished" for now.

Barbarian invasions, 395+ AD. The Barbarians are on the move to flee the spread of the zombie plague and bring it to the Roman Empire.

[The Brain]

1918 could be cool. Zombie WW1 is cooler than all that Zombie Nazis crap.

1492 - Euros discover the New World. Only the New World has been zombified. As our intrepid conquistadors penetrate into the ghost cities and collect gold objects lying around something stirs in the shadows...

1840s America - Abolitionists suddenly face a new question: should the Zombies be freed as well?

1630s Germany - Protestantism is saved by the unstoppable armies of Gustavus Adolphus. Or make that shambling hordes... 

[Syt]

1492 - Euros discover the New World. Only the New World has been zombified. As our intrepid conquistadors penetrate into the ghost cities and collect gold objects lying around something stirs in the shadows...

... and bring the taint back home.

[Josquius]

The only way I could ever see a zombie apocolypse working is in combination with a 'proper' disease. 1918 would indeed be good.

[Strix]

The only way I could ever see a zombie apocolypse working is in combination with a 'proper' disease. 1918 would indeed be good.

The New World scenario would work with the 'proper' disease being small pox. The premise being that something about how the small pox effects the natives causes them to die and change into zombies. It would allow the writers to have that better technology, advanced civilization, and greed results in 'paradise lost' sort of vibe.

[DisturbedPervert]

The most likely zombie scenario would have been if Jesus had been contagious.

[Strix]

The most likely zombie scenario would have been if Jesus had been contagious.

Or Martin Luther!

[I Killed Kenny]

I think that a zombie invation in the middle ages would not be very cool, because we had Castles. And you would just need to close the doors and fire some arrows.

[The Brain]

I think that a zombie invation in the middle ages would not be very cool, because we had Castles. And you would just need to close the doors and fire some arrows.

-Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?

-Nope. Just me, baby. Just me.

[Ed Anger]

-Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?

-Nope. Just me, baby. Just me.

[Syt]

I think that a zombie invation in the middle ages would not be very cool, because we had Castles. And you would just need to close the doors and fire some arrows.

But the cities and countryside would still be ravaged.

[jimmy olsen]

I think that a zombie invation in the middle ages would not be very cool, because we had Castles. And you would just need to close the doors and fire some arrows.

But the cities and countryside would still be ravaged.

Wouldn't it be difficult for the zombies to infect armored knights?

[Razgovory]

Currently reading World War Z which got me thinking - zombie apocalypse usually takes place, more or less, in the here and now.

You need to think of other stuff.

[lustindarkness]

Currently reading World War Z which got me thinking - zombie apocalypse usually takes place, more or less, in the here and now.

Cool book, I'll combine it with The Ten Thousand I finished yesterday. When Xenophon and Tisaphernes(sp) both have a new enemy right after the battle of Cunaxa when all the dead from both sides stand up. Or maybe wait for the greeks to reach the mountain zombie/kurds.

[I Killed Kenny]

I think that a zombie invation in the middle ages would not be very cool, because we had Castles. And you would just need to close the doors and fire some arrows.

But the cities and countryside would still be ravaged.

The majority of the cities in the middle ages had castles (were inside of castles) and I don't think you would have enough people in the countryside to make a big enough horde to destroy Europe, or anything like that.