What if a zombie. . .

[Deadlock Radium]

Then I guess Zombieland Rule #2 doesn't help much..
And I like that rule. Double tap!

If a zombie didn't die of a headshot, I'd blow it up. With a nuke. I'm nuke proof, so I don't die.

 

[holographicman]

but if you cut off the limbs...
then they would all start crawling towards you.


shit.

 

[Xanadu84]

For most good strategies, not all that much would change. The idea is generally to avoid zombies. First thing to do would be to experiment: maybe the zombie doesn't die, but the zombie still uses its body for things. Step 1 would be to see if the zombie is capable of tracking and following you without a head. Its very possible that a headless zombie would merely flail around, and get in the way of other zombies. In this case, the only downside is that you will potentially need to be a slightly better shot, to ensure that you destroy the sensory organs the zombie relies on, not just a sizable portion of the brain. Also, a headless zombie can't bite if you took away most of the jaw, so headshots arn't a total loss. Of course, you should also consider just going for the legs. Even 1 leg off, or a missing foot, will likely all but completely immobilize the zombie. They don't have the greatest balance. You just have a slightly more risky time backtracking, and have to spend a lot more time afterward's disposing the bodies via dismemberment, wood shipper, burning, deep burying, whatever.

 

[Daffy F]

I figure I'd probably put a shotgun barrel between my teeth long before it came down to any actual ass kicking. But if I have to fight, then create some sort of scourge-esque chainsaw device and take their legs off.

Then I guess Zombieland Rule #2 doesn't help much..
And I like that rule. Double tap!

If a zombie didn't die of a headshot, I'd blow it up. With a nuke. I'm nuke proof, so I don't die.

I too like that rule

 

[Frostwing]

Make sure that head shots don't work. If you've ever read World War Z you will remember an indecent very much like this. A bullet could hit the skull and be deflected and not hit the brain. If this were to happen you would think head shots were ineffective but you just didn't do it right and in all the chaos you aren't thinking strait and didn't realized it.

 

[UtopiaV1]

Uh, the Undead have rights too, you can't just go around killing (unkilling?) them, or lopping off body parts! Also, they are not 'zombies', that is racist and ignorant, they are the 'living-impaired', and shall be referred to as an LI-person henceforth.

If an LI-person invades your personal space, you fill in a ZRO-201b form at your local police station.
If an LI-person attempts to gnaw on you, or inflict any sort of GBH, battery or assault, then you can forcibly (but not too forcibly, they are brittle) hold a firm hand outwards towards them, and order them to cease and desist. If they do not comply, you must contact you attorney and ask him to file a UAF-955c with the local magistrate immediately.
If you see a relative, friend, or bystander being gnawed on, or otherwise attacked by an LI-person, you must ask if the bystander in question needs any assistance or intervention on their behalf (be aware, s/he may WANT to be attacked, and you may be interfering their freedom of expression). If they scream or yell at you, ask them to remain calm and state clearly their predicament. Once they explain that this IS an unwarranted attack on their person, you may THEN call the police, or any local authority, and have them come to the location of the attack and serve the LI-person in question a ZUEO-11a blue slip (NOT a pink slip, that is a separate form reserved only for vampir and lycanthrope).

Lets not have anymore "vigilante" justice in this thread, it is racist against the living-impaired and I for one will not stand for it any longer!

 

[firedfns13]

Ah, this one's simple: Grab shotguns and blow off their mouths.

No biting means no way to infect you. Also, if you do blow off their whole head with a shottie, then they'd have no way of finding you.

-The head is extremely important to all would-be monsters. I think this is why Romero when with the "head shot to kill" thing. It's not only a difficult target to hit if you don't have training with a weapon (which the common man doesn't, thus adding tension to the Zombie infestation flick), and its also the one place nothing can recover from.

Well, maybe vampires can come back...
...And werewolves, and ghosts, and succubi, and sirens, and...

What about Were-Zompires?

 

[Luke5515]

chop into tiny bits, feed to worms.
Then of corse, you can't go outside when it rains and all the worms surface, because the ground would eat you. But sacrifices must be made!

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

head north (or towards ur nearest pole), if they are walkin corpses then they cannot maintain their body temperature. So basicly you don;t have to run from something that is frozen

 

[dariuskyne]

go dead space on them, how threatening is a torso? then set them on fire.

 

[Frostwing]

Truthfully it depends why they are zombies. I forget who mentioned it earlier but Cracked.com came out with five actually possible ways a zombie Apocalypse could happen. Here is a link to the article. http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_p5.html One of the ways was due to nanobots. If nanobots took over a person then the head might not be so important. You might need an EMP to take them out or just totally destroy the body so it cannot move and hopefully take out enough nanobots to stop it from functioning.

 

[Rosm101]

Just decapitate them, preferbly in some hilarious and clever way. I mean the body won't know where its going and the head can't chase you

 

[Coaxill]

If shooting it in the head/destroying the brain doesn't work, that means that the nerves operated on an individual level because of the virus. Therefore, fire and heavy narcotics would kill it.

 

[Souldemon8]

Grab every thing in the area that goes boom. It will be as if you're watching a V.A.T.S slide show with all the undead parts flying around.

 

[Mydnyght]

Fire, of course. After all, undeads are weak against fire.

And.... well, we can't cast healing magic.

(But what if we could? Resurrection magic/items would instantly kill them....)

 

[firedfns13]

Run it over with my tank.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

. . . doesn't die from a simple headshot.

Imagine, out of nowhere - whether it be by some sort of virus or voodoo - zombies accually start to appear. So everyone with guns that has watched a zombie movie will be shooting their brains, correct? What if they continued to come after them even without their brains. What is some other body part was needed to be rid of to kill them? What if they couldnt die? What would you do?

u removed the head, the biggest threat is gone. And this theory has been used before in Return of the living dead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Living_Dead

that plot was a fun read

 

[Samarith]

Plan A) The 'Run like FCUK' option and pray some nubblets with swords and guns distracted them while I stockpile supplies in some reasonably fortified zombie free building.

Plan B) Play Thriller extremely loudly and escape during their dance routine. I figure I can stand the sound long enough to get the hell away from them.

Plan C) Raise my own undead army and while away the years playing RISK - The Rigamortis Edition.

 

[Criquefreak]

A lot of the classical depictions of zombies were just animated corpses that didn't have any usable connection to their decaying cranium, so I personally think it makes more sense for them to be able to take a lot of head shots without phasing. While dismemberment is an option, that's really more likely to just slow them down into separated, animated zombie parts. Fire does seem like the only option, plus it helps that fire has some connotations as a 'holy' weapon; note: hellfire is a flame designed to purge sinners/sin.

Given that there is a means of zombie resurrection, that adds the reasonable conclusion that there is a means of arresting those means either through destruction or counteractive measures (tech, magic, etc). Hopefully it will be technological, that way it reinforces the chance that the solution will be simply poking a button.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

If a zombie can't be killed with a headshot, for the love of god, don't set it on fire! You'll burn the chemicals that re-animated it, spewing them into the the atmosphere and creating acid rain. It'll then re-animate any dead bodies into similar zombies. You have to kill those zombies with electricity. It's the only way to kill them and neutralize the threat of spread. See Return of the Living Dead part 2 for more details.