when the apocalypse began


Did it only effect people from then on out? Or did it work retroactively? Ie would someone dead and buried a year ago rise up?

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I don't believe that possible aspect ever came up in the show or the comics.

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Seeing as whatever made the dead rise occurred at a certain point in time and all the world was infected, you would have to think it was only after the infection took place only those infected would rise and not people already dead beforehand.

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I would think so. Kirkman has said he never felt the need to give an explanation for caused it.

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watch Fear

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I don't think I ever say any indication of graves being dug out from the inside. But ... if it was caused by a "bug", already dead bodies would not have any way to ingest or take in the agent and absorb it into the body's system, so that could be a reason that the already dead are not affected.

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In the films it was always shouted out on the television screens warning viewers about the disturbances in the cities and large towns was that the bodies of the recently deceased are coming back to life and attacking and then eating the people in the streets or at their places of work! Then they advised everyone to stay in your house and barricade yourselves in your homes and break out the rifles! Good advice unless you're in the UK where gun owning is illegal and only permitted for the rich and upper classes!
JB
Shut the door, Mary

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The dead bodies in the various motorcars on the highway that never reanimated was a bad moment to be honest even if it looked cool. Why didn't they become Walkers in the cars like so many other unfortunates we've seen? And no they hadn't shot themselves in the head either...
JB
Shut the door, Mary

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Plothole

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