History Main / OurZombiesAreDifferent

* ''Film/TheCrazies1973'': The Crazies are humans infected by the government's bacteriological weapon, the Trixie Virus. While homocidally insane, the Crazies retain their human intelligence and mobility and can thus perform tasks like running, driving cars, and using guns. Unlike most {{technically living zombie}}s, the Crazies [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse look no different from regular people]], which means that there is no foolproof way to tell who is infected unless one has the right equipment to conduct a diagnostic test. To make matters worse, the Trixie Virus is both airborne and waterborne, so the Crazies don't need physical contact to infect healthy people.

* ''Film/TheCrazies1973'': The Crazies are humans infected by the government's bacteriological weapon, the Trixie Virus. While homocidally insane, the Crazies retain their human intelligence and mobility and can thus perform tasks like running, driving cars, and using guns. Unlike most {{technically living zombie}}s, the Crazies [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse look no different from regular people]], which means that government is unable to differentiate between the healthy and the infected. To make matters worse, the Trixie Virus is both airborne and waterborne, so the Crazies don't need physical contact to infect healthy people.

* ''Film/TheCrazies2010'': TheVirus (which is waterborne instead of being spread via {{Plague Zombie}}s) turns the infected into {{Technically Living Zombie}}s, and is technically a HatePlague. The infected remember how to walk, talk, drive, use tools and do ''all'' that stuff that'd usually be used by aliens or fairies as evidence that HumansAreTheRealMonsters, but they're ''off'' enough in their heads that they become AxCrazy machines who use human ingenuity to gruesomely torture and kill indiscriminately. As the infection worsens, the infected go from looking normal to gaining freaky eyes and wormy grey skin. It's demonstrated in the film that the infected only have a lifespan of a matter of days once they're infected.

* ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'': The zombies in this version not only overwhelm victims through sheer numbers, they are capable of running and jumping with no sign of exhaustion, and once they target a living person, they will attack and keep up the pursuit until they or their target are dead, making them much more dangerous than the shambling zombies of the original. The slight standoff they have when Kenneth on the stairs near the end, with them slowly approaching and seeming to try and find a way round him, also implies they at least have some thinking ability and maybe slight self-preservation instincts, being closer to animalistic than the mindless wandering flesh eaters of the originals. Moreover, their berserker rage, unrelenting drive to infect, and complete disinterest in any other potential food sources like animals seem to imply an almost programmed directive to seek and destroy humans exclusively. [[TheScourgeOfGod Hmm...]]

* The ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' relaunch of ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' started its series dealing with Coney Island being hit with one of these when a runaway alien teen is turned into hot dog sausages after unwittingly turning into a cow and accidentally hiding in a slaughterhouse and are is consumed. While they do crave flesh, no one is absolutely sure that it could be spread normally (which Harley sheepishly admits after lopping off Red Tool's right arm when he's bit). Interestingly, the crisis is averted when the alien's parents arrive and pull all the pieces of their son out of the infected.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiraciesAliensMythsAndLegends'', "zombies" are actually corpses inhabited by Vodun, an alien race that look like large slugs and manipulate the dead bodies.

* While there are quite a few flavors of zombie in ComicBook/SimonDark -- despite the word zombie never being uttered -- most are easy to categorize. Then there's Tom Kirk, who despite being made by the same man whose other undead creations are deformed patchwork flesh golems with no pulse is able to pass as human so long as he keeps a few conspicuous scars covered, but doesn't quite fit as a technically living zombie since he was murdered and very dead before Gustav snagged his corpse.

* ''ComicBook/RequiemChevalierVampire'': Zombies are what normal sinners become in Hell when they die and are the lowest strata of the social classes.