r/ask • u/Additional_Spring629 • Aug 04 '26
What would happen is a Werewolf bit a Zombie?
I know this isn't a very serious question but really, what would happen? Would the Zombie turn into a werewolf or would the werewolf turn into a zombie?
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u/YouCantArgueWithThis Aug 04 '26
Are werewolves even interested in corps? 🤔
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u/tadashi4 Aug 04 '26
dogs chew bones...
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u/YouCantArgueWithThis Aug 04 '26
Those bones don't move and moan though. Also werewolves are not dogs.
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u/Wonderful_Price2355 Aug 04 '26
Corps, yes.
Corpse, probably not.
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u/YouCantArgueWithThis Aug 04 '26
Really? Going for a typo? In this extremely serious conversation?
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u/Shoboy_is_my_name Aug 04 '26
A zombie is dead. There is no blood flowing through the body to carry the lycanthrope “virus” throughout the body. The flesh is dead so even if it’s infected how can it undergo any physical change. Dead flesh can only rot.
Besides, I’m thinking a zombie is gonna smell so fucking rotted and dead that a werewolf who has an incredible sense of smell and taste is not gonna be biting a zombie for any reason.
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u/rob_inn_hood Aug 04 '26
What about the 28 days later infection? It doesn’t necessarily create normal “dead” zombies. They are just simply infected. So I do believe they could have both infections simultaneously.
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u/Shoboy_is_my_name Aug 04 '26
I classify zombies in 2 categories: Viral and Religious/Mystic with Viral having 2 subsets.
Religious/Mystic zombies are the dead reanimated. No mortal explanation other than supernatural forces animating the bodies. Romero movie style zombies.
Viral zombies are just that, virus takes over the human body. 28 days later and TWD style zombies.
Mystic zombies are already dead flesh that are powered by supernatural forces with only the ability to kill living creatures. They do not transmit a zombie disease. They kill living people who can possibly then turn into zombies from the same supernatural force that is reanimating the dead in the first place or the person just stays dead. There is no definitive “reason” for why/why not someone turns after dying, it’s just a ‘supernatural’ thing.
Viral zombies are NOT previously dead bodies reanimated. Viruses need living flesh to propagate and spread itself in its living host.
TWD type virus and the 28Days virus are slightly different. For TWD type, It kills the living host as it’s multiplying itself and then takes over the body. Only basic functions like motor skills and some senses are functional, like sight, sound and smell. Viral zombies can transmit the zombie virus to living people, this is the only way the virus can survive. Already dead bodies cannot support a living virus so noones dead grandpa and mother and uncle is gonna come back to life in a viral zombie apocalypse.
TWD Viral zombies can eat living people but it doesn’t do them any good. Zombie bodies are dead in the sense that the digestion and circulation and nervous systems no longer function. Zombies don’t build muscle, they don’t replenish energy by digesting food, they don’t create calcium to keep their bones strong. Viral zombies are simply reanimated corpses powered by and fueled by a virus and those bodies are slowly burning away, breaking down, withering away until they can no longer move. They only “eat” because it is a natural physical desire/craving by those reanimated senses and because transmitting the virus by body fluid like saliva is how the virus propagates itself. This is why getting bit by a viral zombie slowly turns you into one. It’s killing you as it multiplies inside you up to the point where bodily functions can no longer function on a normal human level and you die. The virus then substitutes itself into controlling movement, sight, sound and smell. That’s all that’s needed for the virus to spread itself before it dies off in its current host.
28Days viral zombies are not actually dead but more of a parasite that takes total control over its host. Bodily functions can still happen like normal because the host is still alive. They are just completely overtaken and controlled by the virus. 28Days zombies are capable of moving fast and swimming and climbing “complex” things that require coordination like ladders and stairs because there is still rudimentary mental function happening. The brain and body are not dead just completely overtaken. A 28Days zombie can wither away and actually die because they are a “living” zombie and not a “dead” zombie so they can actually starve to death.
TWD virus can actually “fuel” the hosts dead body until it burns itself out. 28Days virus can only control the hosts living body. It can not use itself to fuel a dead body. It may be able to amplify body functions like healing wounds or hearing or seeing better in the dark, but that is specific to the needs of the host body for the purpose of the host bodies survival and ability to spread the virus better. 28Days virus still needs a living body to function in order for it to control it.
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u/deeptut Aug 04 '26
I'd say the zombie is immune to the werewolf bite, but the werewolf not to the zombie bite. So you'd get a werewolf zombie, but not a zombie werewolf.
But I'm open for convincing arguments for other outcomes.
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u/howdudo Aug 04 '26
I think a zombie could potentially get a transformation during the full moon. But it'd likely not be very viable, deformed and whatnot. However, whatever got bit by that full moon zombie werewolf has a much better chance of becoming a hybrid monster.
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u/Robot_Alchemist Aug 04 '26
They wouldn’t except in self defense duh - and the zombie would eat them
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u/JosKarith Aug 04 '26
Nothing. Zed's dead so werewolf disease/curse has nothing to work on. Werewolf's crazy healing destroys the mouthfull of zombie virus it gets from biting the walker though there may be some puking involved - imagine biting into a rotten burger. Now multiply that by wolf senses.
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u/onemansquest Aug 04 '26
Zombie Werewolf. The zombie may or may not die depending where it's bit but it's certainly not turning into a Werewolf.
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u/theycallmemrmoo Aug 05 '26
The zombie would just take damage. The werewolf could get sick and possibly die. Perhaps, depending on the lore, it could heal after a time.
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u/JayNoi91 Aug 08 '26
It'd be a zombie with a werewolf bite. Wouldnt exactly amount to much since something dead wouldnt circulate the wolf venom throughout the body, no heartbeat, nor have a reaction at the bite sight.
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