zombie outbreak
Corpses rising everywhere
A zombie outbreak is a scenario in which reanimated corpses or infected humans spread rapidly through a population, typically through bites.
The concept comes from horror fiction and has become a staple of movies, games, and television: The show depicts survivors navigating a zombie outbreak.
Government agencies have used fictional zombie outbreaks as engaging frameworks for teaching real disaster preparedness.
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- end timesProphesied apocalyptic conclusion
- undeadDeceased yet animate
- walking deadZombies or doomed souls
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
virus · bite wound · survival · survival horror · last stand · horde · herd mentality · bitten · ground zero · quarantine · safe zone · brain-eaters · brain dead · shambling · contagion · barricade · epidemic · flesh
- Zombiesundead, walkers, walker, shamblers, shambler
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
- plot eventsclimax, plot twist, twist, confrontation, battle scene
- sci-fi tropesalien invasion, time travel, teleportation, first contact, robot uprising
- settingssetting, default, settings, template, configure
- what-ifswhat if, hypothetical, thought experiment, speculation, conjecture
zombie outbreaknatural disaster
Catastrophic environmental event
earthquake · peaceful coexistence · hurricane · divine blessing · volcanic eruption
zombie outbreakutopia
Imagined perfect society
golden age · paradise · renaissance · normalcy · stability
zombie outbreakhuman flourishing
Optimal living and wellbeing
vitality · full health · wellness · flourishing · rebirth
zombie, outbreak, zombies, zombielike, zombified, zombification, outbreaks, break, breaks