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{{InfoboxCreature
|monster name= Zombie
|image= [[File:AngelaMasonZombie.jpg|350px]][[Image:Zombie.jpg|350px]]
|powers and abilities= Superior <br>* Invulnerability* Superhuman strength, cannibalistic urges.|vulnerabilities= Staking in their coffin, beheading or obliteration of the head, headshot.<br>* Headshot* [[Silver]]
|appearance= Human
|episodes= [[2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things]]<br>[[2.09 Croatoan]]<br>[[4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester]]<br>[[5.04 The End]]<br>[[5.20 The Devil You Know]]<br>[[5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]<br>[[5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight]]<br>[[7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters]]<br>[[8.13 Everybody Hates Hitler]]<br>[[13.12 Various & Sundry Villains]]<br>[[14.06 Optimism]]<br>[[14.20 Moriah]]
==History==
:'''Dean:''' We can't just waste her with a head shot?<br>
:'''Sam:''' No, but a few said silver might work.<ref name="two04" /><br>
They shoot [[Angela Mason]] in the chest and head with [[silver]] bullets, which seems to slow her down but has no lasting effect other than making her angry. Other lore [[Sam]] finds suggests "nailing the undead back into their grave beds," so [[Dean]] stakes Angela in her coffin, finally dispatching her.<ref name="two04"/> When they encounter zombies a second time, Dean stakes them in their coffins to dispatch them.<ref name="four07">[[4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester]]</ref>
The next time they Winchesters also encounter zombies is during the [[Apocalypse]] in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and [[after an encounter Sam]] says learns that they can be killed with a headshot.<ref name="five15"/> Like [[ghouls]], it seems that obliterating their heads, something that Sam and Dean attempted with Angela which did not work,<ref name="two04"/> can could kill themthe zombies raised by Death.<ref name="five15"/> Those infected with the [[Croatoan virus]] can also be killed by shooting.
==Characteristics==
The raising of zombies can cause the death of surrounding plant life.
Zombies characteristics vary according to the type of zombie involved. So far within the show there have been five six types, the first being a : * '''Zombie ([[Necromancy]])''' – A person who has been reanimated through the use of [[black magic]] (in one instance raised by the demon [[Samhain]]). Upon reanimation, their personalities will remain intact for a time, before becoming increasingly aggressive and attacking those they feel have wronged them in life. The longer these types of zombies exist they are required to consume human flesh in order to maintain their bodies. They are near invulnerable, only affected by [[silver]], and the only way to permanently stop them is by staking them with silver inside their grave beds. When the Plum sisters attempted to raise their dead mother through the ''[[Black Grimoire]]'', the [[spell]] was not performed properly, causing their reanimated mother to be a mindless zombie and "magic proof." Mother Plum, unlike other zombies raised through magic, was able to be put down via a bullet to the second head. ::'''See Episodes:''' [[2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things]], [[4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester]], [[13.12 Various & Sundry Villains]], and [[14.06 Optimism]] * '''Zombie (Raised by [[Death]])''' – These zombies are of the more traditional cannibalistic variety. Like zombies raised through black magic, these zombies appeared normal upon being "raised from the dead, with their initial personalities still intact. Eventually, they became aggressive and consumed with cannibalistic hunger, losing any trace of humanity they once had. These zombies are capable of being stopped with simple headshots / destruction of their brains.::'''See Episode:''' [[5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]] * '''Croats" ''' – people People afflicted with the demonic [[Croatoan virus]], which was to be used as a part of [[Lucifer]]'s end game for the third being [[Apocalypse]] by having the humans turn on themselves. Upon contact with the virus people will become wildly aggressive and volatile. While the virus gives the more traditional cannibalistic zombies who were resurrected by infected seemingly enhanced durability, they can be stopped via conventional means and are not invulnerable. ::'''See Episodes:''' [[2.09 Croatoan]], [[5.04 The End]], [[Death5.20 The Devil You Know]], the fourth were and [[5.21 Two Minutes to Midnight]] * '''Mottled Wretches''' – The people who had an adverse reactions reaction to the [[Leviathan]] food additive – becoming . The food additive was an attempt by the Leviathans to make the human population fat and compliant, however there was 0.03% margin of hyperadrenalized cannibalism which transformed them into monstrous cannibals. The term "mottled wretches" was used in the script but not on screen. ::'''See Episode:''' [[7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters]] * '''Nazi Necromancers''' – Members of the [[Thule Society]] used necromancy to remain youthful and alive for decades. Members of the Thule are capable of being killed via traditional methods, however their bodies must be burned within twelve hours of their deaths otherwise they will reanimate. Unlike typical zombies raised through necromancy, the reanimated Thule show no weakness to silver or need for human flesh, and they retain their personalities without devolving into unchecked aggression. ::'''See Episodes:''' [[8.13 Everybody Hates Hitler]] and [[11.14 The Vessel]] * '''The Damned''' – When [[Chuck Shurley]] / [[God]] declares "The End",He opens up a doorway to [[Hell]] in a cemetery, unleashing the [[souls]] of the damned into the world (aka " [[Hell Ghosts]]"). Many of these souls burrowed under the ground, taking possession of the buried corpses and began exploding from the earth upon possession. Because they are possessed by ghosts, iron is an effective weapon against them, and finally Nazi necromancerscontact with [[iron]] can jettison them from the corpses. [[Smiting]] and [[angel blades]] are also effective in casting out the spirits. ::'''See Episode:''' [[14.20 Moriah]] and [[15.01 Back and to the Future]]
===Powers and abilities===
* Enhanced senses – A zombie's sense of hearing, sight, and smell become advanced past that of a normal human's after being brought back from the dead.
* Invulnerability – Zombies Traditional zombies are impervious to most harm.
* Superhuman strength – A zombie's strength far exceeds that of a human.
* Fire – Nazi necromancers require the complete obliteration of their bodies to prevent being brought back to life.
* [[Silver]] – Zombies raised through necromancy can only be stopped by being staked inside a coffin with [[silver]]. Simple contact with silver will also burn and cause a zombie great discomfort.
* [[Spells]] – [[Rowena]] implies that certain types of magic are capable of stopping zombies. The demon [[Belphegor]] performs a spell using cemetery dirt and angel blood to blast all the [[Hell Ghosts]] out of their possessed corpses.
==Episodes==
[[File:Zombies.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Zombies raised by [[Samhain]].]]
===[[2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things]]===
[[Angela Mason]] is raised from the dead by her friend [[Neil]], who used an ancient Greek ritual. Upon her return to the world of he living, Angela goes around killing those who have wronged her. Angela eventually turns her wrath on Neil, whom she believed was going to abandon her, by breaking his neck. Eventually Sam and Dean stop Angela by luring her back to her grave and staking her with [[silver]] in her own coffin.
===[[4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester]]===
After [[Samhain]] is freed from Hell, the demon raises the dead from their graves in the mausoleum. Dean is able to fight off these zombies, staking them to the ground with silver.
[[File:ZombieKid.jpg|350px|rightleft|thumb|[[Sheriff Jody Mills]]' son after turning, and eating his dad.]]
===[[5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]===
Before Bobby puts down his wife one more time, Karen reveals to him that the zombie attack on the town was a warning for him from Death, telling Bobby to stop his interfering with the [[Apocalypse]].
[[File:Mottled Wretch.jpg|350px|thumb|leftright|Gerald Browder after eating too many turducken slammers.]]
===[[7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters]]===
The [[Leviathan]]s develop a plot to control the population. [[Dr. Gaines]] synthesizes a food additive which he has put into turducken which is served in a sandwich at a [[Biggerson's]] in New Jersey. It is very addictive, and consumption leads to weight gain, and dampens people's emotional responses until they are very apathetic. After cooking, the tainted turducken will revert back to the grey goo state.
In World War II the [[Thule Society]], led by Commandant [[Eckhart]], carried out magical experiments on Jewish people in Vitsyebsk, Belarus, that eventually led him and his followers to reanimate the dead. He wrote these notes in his red ledger. After Eckhart was forced to flee and leave his red ledger behind because of the arrival of the [[Golem]], both the Thule Society and the [[Judah Initiative]] began searching for the book. [[Rabbi Bass]] found the book first, but was killed by [[Torvald]], a follower of the Thule. The book and the [[Golem]] were passed on to Rabbi Bass' grandson [[Aaron Bass|Aaron]], but they were eventually found by Eckhart and captured. They escaped and killed Eckhart and his men, whose bodies they burned to make sure none of them would return. The book is then kept safe by [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] while Aaron vows that he will continue on the work of his grandfather and the Judah Initiative and look after the [[Golem]].
===[[8.16 Remember the Titans]]===
After learning of a man who died in a hit-and-run accident and has come back to life, [[Sam]] and [[Dean]] believe him to be a zombie, but he turns out to be the Greek [[Gods|Titan]] [[Prometheus]], who is cursed to die each day and come back to life.
===[[11.14 The Vessel]]===
After [[Befehlsleiter Gumprecht]] is stabbed in the neck and killed by [[Delphine Seydoux]], he reappears on a German destroyer having crippled the ''[[USS Bluefin]]'', demanding the [[Hand of God]]. When Delphine shows disbelief that he is still alive he tells her he is a "friend of the Thule," and if she wanted him to stay dead, she should have burned his body.
Rather than give up the Hand of God or let Dean die using it, Delphine lets the power consume her, destroying the ''Bluefin'' and German destroyer as Dean is teleported back to his time.
[[File:ZombiePlum.png|left|thumb|350px|Mother Plum resurrected as a zombie.]]
===[[13.12 Various & Sundry Villains]]===
After stealing the ''[[Black Grimoire]]'', sisters [[Jamie Plum|Jamie]] and [[Jennie Plum]] use the book to bring back their deceased mother. Believing they do not need the help of [[Rowena]] to perform the [[spell]], their inexperience and unfamiliarity with the Druidic glyphs results in them only being able to complete the first step of the ritual, which brings their mother back to life as a mindless, brain-eating zombie.
===[[14.06 Optimism]]===
Angry that her boyfriend [[Vance]] wished to leave their hometown of McCook, Nebraska, after college, young [[necromancer]] [[Harper Sayles]] kills him and resurrects him as a zombie. Due to the magic, Vance is required to consume human flesh in order to maintain his body. When [[Dean]] learns they are dealing with a zombie, he orders [[Jack]] to take Harper to safety while he handles Vance. However, in the midst of their fight, Vance retreats from Dean.
Harper later reveals that Vance's killing and eating of victims in McCook is part of a sick form of roleplaying to enhance their relationship. Vance's attempts to kill Jack for trying to woo Harper are thwarted by the arrival of Dean, and with Jack's help the two are able to use [[silver]] handcuffs to restrain Vance, which allows Harper to escape. Vance is then dealt with by being staked into a grave bed.
===[[14.20 Moriah]]===
==[[Croatoan]]==