Zombies win, ZOMBIES WIINNNN
 

Explain this to me.

Why is it that zombies almost always win whenever a zombie outbreak occurs? They either break containment or simply take over the entire planet.



Take Dawn of the Dead for example.
The zombie outbreak happens and it spreads everywhere instantly. No reason is given behind said outbreak.

The individuals in the movie gather in a giant mall, wherein they are now secure, they have nigh endless supplies(Including access to their own fertilizer/top soil and seeds I would think, otherwise what sort of mall is that?). Instead of staying there and making a life out of their new situation they instead go out into the millions of zombies. You can imagine how that ends.


I'm just wondering...why are mindless people-eating things winning all the time? They're brainless for christsakes, just a fortified position with enough ammunition would be enough to beat them.

that's to cause depression and awe fro mthe audience... it's also a critique as to how our lifestyle made us dumber than zombies...

But Yeah... I really would liek to see a good movie where the Humans defeat the "Outbreak Horde"

I give the following reasons.

Reason number one, You have limited ammo. Which is nowhere near the amount you'd need to kill all the stupid people who'd be zombies.

Reason number two. Limited stores of food and water. The problem with the people in the movie was they were running out of food if I remember right. It was make a break for it or starve to death.

Reason number three. You're eaten while you sleep. With no chance to reach a gun. You become a member of the zombie horde and go next door, rinse and repeat until humanity is wiped out.

Fortified military positions wouldn't have issues with ammo, and due to being fortified with being eaten while they sleep.

Food supplies can be given readily via helicopter, or in the case of Dawn of the Dead they can just GROW their own food(I'm certain there's a pet store as well, as all malls have pet stores, so simply breed the hamsters/mice/rabbits for meat).

The reason zombies always win in zombie outbreak scenarios is because very few people are mentally prepared for a zombie outbreak. I mean, anyone who's first response to seeing someone limping down the street is "ZOMG A ZOMBIE SHOOT IT DEAD!" would have been incarcerated or commited a long time ago. So, most people aren't going to believe its a zombie outbreak until the second or third time they see someone get devoured. Add in all the people who don't have the spine to kill some lurchers, and the ones who insist on trying to 'save' an infected friend or relative, and you have a pretty big infestation. Also, since noone wants to admit zeds exist, thats why they seem to overrun the world all at once- infected people flee the country, taking the zombie virus with them, and it becomes an epidemic before the government and media are willing to say "The infected attack mindlessly, aim for the head."

And the reason fortification doesn't work is the human element rather than the zombie element. Infected people are going to get into every major safety area- military bases or such- one way or the other. If biten people don't manage to get swept in with the crowd during the initial panic, some crazy mofo is gonna smuggle their infected granny in in the boot of their car, and then the whole place turns into a charnal house one way or the other. Also, there are gonna be plenty of people who see the Zombipocolypse as either an act of God (and an impetus to 'Redeem the sinners') or a chance to loot, rape, and destroy on a truely Viking-like scale. For example, in the original Dawn of the Dead, the reason the survivors had to flee the mall was because a biker gang broke in to loot, and let the undead in with them.

Also, not to be rude or anything, but its gonna take weeks or months to produce a crop from the supplies in a shopping mall.

Ha! People lose to zombies because they fall to the level of zombies. The only thing is that while a zombie can infect a normal person by biting them, a normal person cannot turn a zombie into one of them by biting them back.

I'll give you the reason:

Somehow, the story isn't half as exciting when its "There was a zombie outbreak overnight, but the military sent in a bunch of sharpshooters, headshots abounded, and...well...that was pretty much it. In other news..."

well all soldiers are trained to fire at the center of the body, because its very unlikely to get a headshot. Not only does this mean they aren't trained for it, but that its hard to period.

As for why zombies overrun, well two reasons. One is that humans are stupid and often forget about one percaution or another. The other is the psychology. Can you imagine what it would be like, surrounded by the undead trapping you, after seeing your loved ones eaten alive, hearing that moaning constantly. Eventually, your average person will just snap

Yeah, snap and go Sean of the Dead. Of course if they were the fast zombies I'd be screwed, in fact fast zombies I could understand winning.

Three words, "Send more paramedics."

The remake of Dawn of the Dead is a piece of garbage. They took everything intelligent in the original and crapped all over it. The remake is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen because it is so ridiculously easy to make fun of it.
Zombie stories are a great way to comment on the nature of humanity- which the original night of the living dead and dawn of the dead did very well. As a storytelling element, the zombies have to win... to an extent. Shawn of the Dead- easily the best zombie movie out there- had a non-apocalyptic ending. Planet Terror, which also holds a special place in my heart, had an admittedly cheesy but different ending.

Best zombie scene ever. NSFW