Walking Dead Creator Shares Origin of Zombies | Game Rant
The Walking Dead has been a successful IP spanning across nearly every medium available, including comics, television, and a hit Telltale video game series. While zombie stories have been trending for decades, The Walking Dead fans have never gotten the answer to how the initial virus spread through the population and now creator Robert Kirkman may have confirmed the answer.
Fans of The Walking Dead stories know that the series has always dropped the viewer right into the apocalypse, with little to no explanation of how it began. In AMC's The Walking Dead, Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma in a hospital with the apocalypse well and truly in action. The origin was meant to be explored further in the Fear The Walking Dead TV series, as it showed the first months when the outbreak began, but a cause for the zombie virus was still never revealed.
Following the end of The Walking Dead's comic run earlier this year, Kirkman responded to a fan on Twitter saying the reason for the outbreak was "Space Spores." Kirkman is known to be a big fan of Night of the Living Dead, and it's possible the explanation of space particles is a homage to the film. But Kirkman has also been a strong advocate that the reason for the virus in his Walking Dead universe is irrelevant and that the focus should be on the characters.
What is known in The Walking Dead universe is that every character living on Earth is infected with the virus which will turn them into a zombie after they die. This suggests that the virus could be airborne, meaning space spores infecting the atmosphere isn't a long shot for a cause for the outbreak. Considering the world is living through a very real pandemic currently, it's easy to see how quickly one source of infection can spread globally.
Zombie video games are definitely not a new concept to gamers, with a huge range of different types of zombie worlds for players to explore. The idea of space spores adds itself to a list of unique outbreak premises, such as The Last of Us' cordyceps infection, which is based on a real-life fungus, or the T-Virus from the Resident Evil franchise. Even Days Gone focuses on the relatively standard virus gone wrong concept, but offers a unique take on zombie gameplay. Now that Kirkman has finally revealed the origin of the virus in The Walking Dead, it puts to rest a long-awaited unanswered question.
Source: GameSpot
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