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A '''Zombie''', also spelled '''zombi''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness (novel)|White Darkness]]'') and in numbers referred to as '''the walking dead''', ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mask of Tragedy (audio story)|Mask of Tragedy]]''), was a creature of the undead. | A '''Zombie''', also spelled '''zombi''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness (novel)|White Darkness]]'') and in numbers referred to as '''the walking dead''', ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mask of Tragedy (audio story)|Mask of Tragedy]]''), was a creature of the undead. | ||
Although in some cases those referred to as “zombies” weren’t scientifically dead, they were typically always mindless beings. | Although in some cases those referred to as “zombies” weren’t scientifically [[death|dead]], they were typically always mindless beings. | ||
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[[Rose Tyler]] called the [[Gelth]], while possessing dead [[human]] bodies, zombies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') To [[Sarah Jane Smith]], she described people infected with the [[Empty Child]] virus as "gas mask zombies". ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'') | [[Rose Tyler]] called the [[Gelth]], while possessing dead [[human]] bodies, zombies. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'') To [[Sarah Jane Smith]], she described people infected with the [[Empty Child]] virus as "gas mask zombies". ([[TV]]: ''[[School Reunion (TV story)|School Reunion]]'') | ||
In [[1939]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] called the [[SS]] soldiers who had been conditioned by the [[War Lord]]s, zombies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') He later encountered much more conventional zombies on [[Arviem 2]] with [[Bernice Summerfield]]; the result of a latent magnetronic field placed upon a swamp to convert and reanimate any dead organic matter, these zombies retained higher brain functions, and sometimes did not realise what they had become. They nonetheless harbored a desire to eat people's [[brain]]s, preferably highly developed ones. As they were essentially walking corpses, the zombies kept decaying, and occasionally lost body parts; they did not appear able to feel this when it happened, and would remark curiously on how odd it was that they suddenly found organs on the ground around them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Revolution (audio story)|The Revolution]]'') | In [[1939]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] called the [[SS]] soldiers who had been conditioned by the [[War Lord]]s, zombies. These troops were able to avoid death owing to a literal realisation of the [[Prussia]]n [[military]] phrase, "[[corpse]] discipline": discipline that could make a corpse jump to attention. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'') He later encountered much more conventional zombies on [[Arviem 2]] with [[Bernice Summerfield]]; the result of a latent magnetronic field placed upon a swamp to convert and reanimate any dead organic matter, these zombies retained higher brain functions, and sometimes did not realise what they had become. They nonetheless harbored a desire to eat people's [[brain]]s, preferably highly developed ones. As they were essentially walking corpses, the zombies kept decaying, and occasionally lost body parts; they did not appear able to feel this when it happened, and would remark curiously on how odd it was that they suddenly found organs on the ground around them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Revolution (audio story)|The Revolution]]'') | ||
In [[2008]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]] watched the people who had drunken [[Bubble Shock!]], were under the control of the [[Bane Mother]] and were calling "Drink it". Sarah Jane thought they were spreading out like an army of zombies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (novelisation)|Invasion of the Bane]]'') A few time later [[Chrissie Jackson]] also compared these people to zombies. She told [[Maria Jackson]] that once Maria and [[Alan Jackson|Alan]] had moved in opposite Sarah Jane everyone had turned into zombies. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'') | In [[2008]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]] watched the people who had drunken [[Bubble Shock!]], were under the control of the [[Bane Mother]] and were calling "Drink it". Sarah Jane thought they were spreading out like an army of zombies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (novelisation)|Invasion of the Bane]]'') A few time later [[Chrissie Jackson]] also compared these people to zombies. She told [[Maria Jackson]] that once Maria and [[Alan Jackson|Alan]] had moved in opposite Sarah Jane everyone had turned into zombies. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)|Revenge of the Slitheen]]'') | ||
