Walking Dead's Zombie Guts Rule Just Got Even Worse
The Walking Dead season 11 deals another blow to its inconsistent zombie guts rule. Most zombie encounters in The Walking Dead prompt one of three responses — fight, run, or hide. Occasionally, however, circumstances demand characters pass through a zombie horde too big to slaughter or run from. Fortunately, Rick Grimes came up with a clever trick for these situations — cover oneself in the entrails of a zombie to avoid detection. Alpha's Whisperers took this technique to a whole new level by wearing the actual skins of zombies, but the unsavory principle remains the same.
The fictional rules behind The Walking Dead's zombie virus have been somewhat fluid over the past decade. When a character gets bitten by a zombie, they aren't actually infected with the virus since everyone is already infected. Instead, bites and scratches are lethal because of the immense dirt and bacteria zombies carry. The guts tactic contradicts this rule, since no one has ever died (Gabriel came close, to be fair) from being covered in undead goop, despite it happening on a surprisingly regular basis. Characters using the zombie guts trick will often be cautious notto get any any in their eyes or mouth, which begins to add logic to the science — but then The Walking Dead season 8 triggered further confusion by having Negan's Saviors kill their enemies simply by dipping weapons in zombie blood.
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At best, The Walking Dead's undead camouflage can be described as flexible, but those rules are bent to breaking point by season 11's «The Rotten Core.» Sebastian Milton forces Daryl and Rosita to pass through a village of undead, encouraging them to use zombie guts as
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