Lol we've had Walkers, munchers, growlers, Biters etc, i mean those names at least describe what they do lol, fucking empties though? I don't get the reasoning for calling them that at all, sounds dumb as fuck.
shareI guess cos they're empty of emotion, reasoning, soul, etc. But yeah, those kids really could have been more creative. If I were them, reckon I'd call 'em Stinkies!
shareWho cares what kinds of emotions they experience when they are trying to kill you and turn you into another murdering zombie to kill more live people?
Stinkies is good. In fact I think most of the deaths on these shows would never have happened because the stinkies are oblivious to their smell, and the sounds they make too, and people would hear them and smell them so all the cases where the camera pans a bit and a zombie lurches into view would never have happened.
I guess it's referring to the contents of their skulls. Not a whole lot of brain power ticking over in there.
shareBecause they're empty shells. Seems as good a description as any.
The dumbest name we've heard so far has to be "lamebrains". Remember TWD season 2, those guys they ran into in the bar who Rick ended up shooting? That's what they called the dead.
"Seems as good a description as any."
I can agree with this. "Empties" is not that bad. "Lamebrains" is terrible.
One thing TWD universe got right is that without the pre-conceived notion of zombies, everyone would be calling them something different.
Can you imagine if different groups from different places all called them the same thing? That would be even more preposterous.
I think it just means communications went down in most places and broadcasts stopped before a common nationwide terminology came into use, so whatever the zombies were being called locally ended up being what survivors from that area called them. And of course a few people who isolated themselves early on would've invented their own names. Gotta call them something, right?
I remember 9/11 wasn't actually called 9/11 for almost a month afterward. Different news outlets were calling it the Attack on America, the New York/DC Terrorist Attacks, the September 11th Attacks, etc. Took them a while to settle on one label.