Why no one in The Walking Dead uses the word zombie – Winter is Coming

The Walking Dead: World Beyond _ Season 1 - Photo Credit: Macall Polay/AMC

This is something Ive heard a lot about over the years, but that I never quite understood. Plain and simple, the shambling undead on AMCsThe Walking Deadseries are zombiesright? Well, yes, but that word isnt actually used in the show itself at all, and there is a reason for that.

Lets take back it to the O.G. zombie movies from late director George A. Romero, who really got the modern zombie craze going with1968sNight of the Living Dead. This was basically the blueprint that all zombies stories would use for decades to come.

Fast forward to AMCsThe Walking Deadshow, which is based on a comic by Robert Kirkman. AMCs series has now spawned two spinoffs: Fear the Walking Dead and the upcomingThe Walking Dead: World Beyond. (Im excited about that last one because its about kids born after the zombie apocalypse, which sounds really interesting.) Across these shows, weve seen lots of different groups comes and go, and all of them seem to have a different name for the undead Walkers, Biters, etc but not one ever seems to say zombie. Why not?

Kirkman himself once attempted to explain the mystery like this: in the world of The Walking Dead, zombies never became a part of pop culture.So there were no George A. Romero movies, there was no Zombieland, and there certainly was noWalking Deadcomic book.People never really knew what a zombie was until they were stuck in an apocalypse with them.

Although some zombie pop culture probably could have helped our bands of survivors. If Rick and his group knew what zombies were or had seen them referenced before in a movie or television show, then theyd likely know how to kill them. If zombies took over our world at this very moment, at the very least, wed know to kill them by stabbing them in the head. Thats just Zombie 101. Instead, not only did Rick and company not know how to defeat the undead at first, they didnt even know what to call them.

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