Werewolves and Zombies

[lunakate]

Both zombies and werewolves turn those they bite into their own kind, but what happens if a zombie bites a werewolf (or vice versa)? Does it become one or the other? Or does it become both - zombie that changes in the full moon??

Comments

[scrawnypaleboy]

Not to throw a wrench into the works, but Vampires can do the same so that makes three infecting parties. Good question though, I wonder if the webbernets holds an answer. My guess is yes.

[lunakate]

I thought of vampires, but thought it'd be simpler with just 2 options

[klemptor]

Well, zombies are zombies full-time, but werewolves are only wolves part-time. Logically if a zombie bites a werewolf, the werewolf becomes a zombie which changes when the moon is full. And if a werewolf bites a zombie, the zombie remains a zombie and now also changes when the moon is full. So no matter who bites who, you end up with a full-time zombie which is also part-time wolf

[lunakate]

Thus you get a zombie that's fast once a month

[scrawnypaleboy]

Unless they live in England. Then they're fast around the clock.

[lunakate]

Hey! Maybe that's how those freakish fast zombies were spawned. They're werewolf zombies. Only way to make sense of them.

[kit_kindred]

There was an episode of The Real Ghostbusters that addressed the Werewolves vs Vampires issue long before Underworld ever got too it.That was a fun cartoon series.

I'm doubting that the werewolf virus can be transmitted to a zombie since the zombie is dead. A werewolf bitten by a zombie might be in trouble though...

[lunakate]

The old vampires vs werewolves is one reason I skipped including them

[klemptor]

Herein lies the crux of my problem with zombies - they're supposed to be dead but they clearly have metabolic activity which is sustainable to some degree. Under those circumstances a virus could absolutely be transmitted. But if the zombie is truly dead then no metabolic activity is possible, which means it couldn't be a virus and that the zombie is reanimated by some mystical means. And when mystical means are brought into the picture I pretty much tune out - Occam's razor and all. (Even if this *is* a conversation about mythical creatures.) ;)

My personal opinion is that zombies aren't actually dead but only appear to be that way: it's possible that the zombie genome codes for a vast number of proteins which disrupt metabolic processes in some types of soft tissue leading to widespread cell death across the tissue without achieving the complete death of the tissue. This is why they appear to be rotting, but are still able to move and function to some degree.

[lunakate]

You are so wonderfully technical one would think you'd be working for Umbrella Corp. :P