How The Walking Dead's Zombie Outbreak Started

I always felt like Kirkman's reluctance to explore the origins of the zombie virus to be a major weakness of the show and the comics. The fact that he wasn't fond of the CDC episode, which was actually a well done episode, is ridiculous. The Walking Dead itself lacked any substantial endgame. It just dragged on longer than it should have. I say finding out how the outbreak started and finding a cure would have made the show even more compelling. I can appreciate that World Beyond actually tried to explore the origins.

And i thought bruce was a yapper

Sounds logical and might be a hat tip to Night of the Living Dead which also never dealt with the why but in a radio or TV report there is mention of a metor

I read a Walking Dead comic decades ago, I don’t remember if it involved the same characters, but the virus started from space aliens.

Two races of aliens was fighting and the losing side developed a potion that would revive their dead warriors. The spaceship delivering the potion to the front lines was shot down and the spaceship crashed to Earth, releasing the potion.

nah the Chinese did the walker virus

Was it Fauci funding China?

Came from wuhan, China lab from what I read on a producer’s FB page.

What series / episode is he talking about?

First season, It was the CDC,,,

It’s very much a purgatory thing. They’re all dead. They all think they’re alive, but they’re not. Have you read ‘I am legend’ Matheson. Horror movies in the past mostly focused on the idea of, ‘one or two monsters kill some people’. Zombie movies are about, ‘everyone is a monster’; paranoia, marvellous

I think the space stuff is simply a reference to the og night of the living dead

But being told the originals is "dumb" actually does reign it all in some

The Walking dead was a Globalist dictator tyrant paying a Cult in movies in the USA to push the plandemic agenda and program and indoctrinate the more frightened us voter into believing whatever Blackrock and the WEF and the children of the NAZI's wanted idiots to believe in 2020. Fact is walking dead should be banned and censored for promoting the lies of COVID paranoia.

Maybe breaking bads meth started it 🤔 Daryl had Merle's stash that was what appeared to be the batch from breaking bad

But then this does not explain why if you die naturally and not get bitten you still turn?? No explanation

To be fair, that would make sense zombie pop-culture wise that it would be from space, although I side with the community of TWD fans that just likes the concept of everyday survival of the main characters and not jumping into the hypotheticals of what actually started the virus like the comics originally were created to portray, just survival in a situation unbelievably terrifying not so much what caused it all. That all being said though, if you look back at the George Romero classic that started the modern definition of the zombie, “Night of the Living Dead” talks about how radiation emitted from a satellite hurtling towards the earth and deteriorating (causing leaking radiation to spill into the atmosphere of Earth and onto us) and that’s what caused the main zombie apocalypse for that story of films, causing anyone to die to come back as one of the living dead if the head is not properly destroyed, and if you get bit by any of the dead you’ll just become one of them sooner. With that said, that’s exactly what the walkers in TWD are caused by. Now, keep in mind, other than this defining similarity for the cycle of the dead to rise, TWD and Romero zombie films are NOT related to each other as in they’re not connecting canon, but seeing as how that both their ways of the dead reanimating is the same, the idea is not far off. TWD virus that is the main catalyst in the apocalypse in this universe could very well be a space born spore or virus that causes this effect on the dead to make them the undead.

He has the hand gestures that Limmy perfectly mocks 🤣🤣

What’s a “spes baul”? 😂

But now we have the proposal that it was developed in a French biolab...

I quit watching after season because it quit making sense. Since the Zombies don't really need to eat or breath, muscles activated by oxygen. They don't breath so how can the bodies animate. Depending on heat and weather, the long death would be skeletons!! Not rotting corporses.

Oh, gee what a shocker...a video titled what happened doesnt tell you what happened. Just get jerked around like the actual series did which is why so many people quit watching it.

There is an NPC in the zombie game Dead Island who says almost these same words in a game made 10+ years ago. Sounds like a generic explanation.

The cause for zombies came from space in the original movie "Night of The Living Dead" maybe Romero's idea got borrowed?

Coming from Outer space, is way way way too close to the Andromeda Strain. There has to be a more down to earth explanation.

My big problem with The Walking Dead, was the fact that the dead wouldn’t show up unless Rick and company were around and then all of a sudden zombies were everywhere. If zombies were that numerous, the Virginia homeplace would’ve been overrun immediately, but they only follow Rick and Company. explain this to me please.

Nah, a Bigfoot with HIV had sex with an alien and that virus mutated. Like, duh.

But this is right if a zombie outbreak happened, noone would know how it started, theres no press to report on cause and effect of a outbreak

Stole it from kings maxi overdrive huh. Thats funny. No originality at all in it. Could been a good show. Died at season 4. Cant milk the cow to long.

I don't think Kirkman ever wanted people to know the origin but the writers of the newer shows are trending towards it being released from a biotesting facility in France as the origin.

If you know your zombie movie history. In night of the living dead they hinted the exact same thing.

Wrong, started in a lab in France.

Probably started in a lab in China.

“Outer space” = in a lab…lol

Space spore like the flood???😂

It was your mum.

Also convenient they only travel in the south. Winter in the north, those zombies would be frozen solid, much safer. I stopped caring about the show after season 1. Just generally dumb

All the zombie origin is space spore like night of the living dead a satellite came back from Mars with the spore

In a Chinese lab we’re it was created for population control?

O k, and that 1 episode did Beth kill herself or was she murdered? I watched that five seconds a thousand times and couldn't figure it out

It's always space spore. So hoping a series did differently

The original Night of the living dead the problem came from Outer Space....Same with George Romero's Dawn of the Dead movies....So whats new about this?

Pirate Bill and his ccp buds.

lol.🤣🤣🤣

Wish there was larger story on what happened at Terminus season 3

Dr Jenner says the virus only activated the brain stem so theoretically if you could some how activate the whole brain you could create a sentient zombie

So they wanted to avoid old zombie cliches and decided on using an explanation that goes back to the oldest version of the scenario, Night of the Living Dead, sheeesh.

When he was talking about the rumor of the zombie apocalypse starting for because a space ship landing on earth and released space spore, it game me mad South park the Stick of Truth Vibes Lol!

I think it came from China. Just ask Trump.

In fear twd a theory is that the drug that someone toke before the apocalypse made, the whole therapy is that walter white accidentally made the drug a

There's another massive mistake in the plot. The outbreak caused everyone on the planet to get infected, after which 90+% of the population died from the infection and the rest became carriers. It shouldn't be possible for a bite to cause fever and death in a carrier because they are already infected. Also, they shouldn't need amputation of a bitten limb.

I prefer the theory that the virus is man made. Jon Stewart once speculated that the world would come to an end when some lab tech working on how to make a series of strains as bad as they could be made. And upon success would gleefully state wholly (shit It Worked!)Then the world would end.