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Revision as of 21:49, 17 June 2010
An undead person commonly found in the spiritual belief system of Voodoo. Zombies are humans who have had their soul stolen by supernatural means and are forced to work for their "zombie master". Another more morbid version, that are often portrayed in horror films, depict Zombies as cannibalistic beings.
– Pad of Definitions,(2.04 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things), Official Website
In popular culture, zombies take a number of forms. There are those raised from the dead by a spell or ritual or reanimated by some supernatural event (such as the movies of George Romero), or people turned into mindless violent cannibals by a virus (such as in the movie 28 Days Later or the Resident Evil franchise). Some are mindless, shuffling monsters - others cunning and quick.
Methods of dispatch generally involve beheading, staking or fire. However, there is much lore on the walking dead and how to kill them:
Dean: We can't just waste her with a head shot?
Sam: Dude, you've been watching way too many Romero flicks.
Dean: How the hell are we gonna get Angela back to the cemetery?
Dean: You're telling me there's no lore on how to smoke 'em?
Sam: No, Dean. I'm telling you there's too much. I mean there's a hundred different legends on the walking dead, but they all have different methods for killing them. Some say setting them on fire, one said...where is it... right here, feeding their hearts to wild dogs. That's my personal favorite. But who knows what's real and what's myth?
Dean: Is there anything they all have in common?
Sam: No, but a few said silver might work.
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Sam: So the silver bullets, they did something right?
Dean: Something, but not enough. What else you got?
Sam: OK, besides silver we have nailing the undead back into their gravebeds. It's mentioned a few times. That's probably where the whole vampire staking lore came from.
Dean: Their gravebeds? Are you serious?
Sam: Yeah.
However, in Supernatural we've seen different and often contradictory ways to kill zombies. In 2.04 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, Sam shoots Angela in the head to no effect other than making her angry, seemingly proving his view that head shots didn't work on zombies. Dean shoots Angela with silver bullets and stakes her in her coffin in the same episode. However, in 5.04 The End we see the Croats being killed with traditional guns, and in 5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Sam says they can be killed with head shots, despite seeming to imply and prove that wasn't possible in 2.04 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things.
If the definition of zombie is any person raised from the dead - then many characters on Supernatural would fall into that category - including Sam and Dean! See: Dead...or are they? for more information on characters who've come back to life.
Zombies have featured in the following episodes:
Contents
2.04 Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
- Angela Mason is raised from the dead by a friend who had a crush on her, who uses an ancient greek ritual . She goes around killing those who have wronged her. Her presence causes plants in the vicinity to die. Eventually Sam and Dean kill her by luring her back to her grave, and staking her in her own coffin.
- The tagline for the promo for this episode was "true love never dies".
- Sam's pursuit of Angela is used as the reason he breaks his wrist and wears a cast in his right arm in the episodes from 2.05 Simon Said until 2.11 Playthings. The injury was actually caused during a stunt Jared did in the filming of 2.03 Bloodlust.
'2.09 Croatoan, 5.04 The End, 5.20 The Devil You Know and 5.21 Two Minutes To Midnight
In both these episodes, people infected with the Croatoan virus - called "croats" by Future!Dean - could be classed as zombies as they lose their sense of reason and become unthinking murderous creatures. They are part of the demon plan for the Apocalypse
Good luck stopping the zombie apocalypse
The Apocalypse is getting underway as Niveus Pharmaceuticals is testing a new vaccine - one containing the Crotaon Virus. After Pestilence causes an outbreak of flu, distribution is planned for the virus, which turn people into murderous zombies. It is stopped when Bobby, Sam and Castiel blow up the distribution warehouse - although only after battling some zombies.
4.07 It's The Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester
- Samhain raises the Dead from their graves in the mausoleum.
5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Townfolk are raised by the horseman Death and come back perfectly normal. Until about 5 days later when they begin to kill.
