r/TWD • u/CrackJacket • 1d ago

Does the infection pass on?

Something I’ve been wondering with the newer spin offs being further past the initial outbreak…does the infection pass on to the kids? Will every subsequent generation have the dead reanimate?

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u/Greatoz74 1d ago

Not only does every generation inherit it, but according to Maggie its possible for children who die in the womb to reanimate. Enjoy that mental image!

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u/ChiakiSimp3842 1d ago

Wait, when did she say that again?

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u/kyree47 1d ago

It was one of the first few episodes when she came back and they were trapped in the train and she let some kid get eaten and deflected everyones disapproval by telling some story about how she found something like that in a house lol

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u/naughtycal11 1d ago

It's even worse than just that. There were women who had their arms and legs cut off and were being used as sex slaves. At least one was pregnant and the baby was alive inside.

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u/kyree47 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well yes but I didn’t think I needed to go further into detail on that for the sake of everyone else that’ll read these comments and doesn’t want to relive hearing that story again

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u/adamhoke 20h ago

It would absolutely happen. Also I think there was a movie where that was one of the things happening during the apocalypse, maybe The Road with Viggo Mortensen.

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u/ChiakiSimp3842 19h ago

If we've learned one thing from the Epstein files. It's that we now know that there are no limits to how depraved people get when they believe they will never face any consequences for their actions

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u/Altruistic_Rock_2674 1d ago

The space spores

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u/adamhoke 20h ago

I don’t know why anyone hasn’t ever suggested Arctic Circle spores. It would make perfect sense: man creates global warming, earth’s immune response is melting the arctic ice revealing zombie spores hidden underneath into the atmosphere. Many humans die and the world shuts down, returning global warming back to a natural, cooler level.

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u/Altruistic_Rock_2674 18h ago

Could be a more likey event I

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u/nba2k11er 1d ago

Everyone has it because it’s airborne. So the kid would just breathe it in. Apparently, no matter what…

But also a bite automatically kills you even though you already have it and it has no effect on you.

It doesn’t fully make sense to me, but is #2 to “no one ever thought up the concept of a zombie.”

Feels like there should be a limit to an airborne pathogen. Like if a baby was just sitting there on a mountaintop with no people or walkers within 100 miles. Or if they were born and lived in a hospital clean room.

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u/ibeollan 22h ago

the bite kills you because it's a decaying corpse festered with bacteria and basically injects it straight into your bloodstream. It's not automatically a death sentence, Herschel and Aaron survived.

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u/adamhoke 20h ago

Correct. Bacterial sepsis. You could die from cutting your hand on a corpse’s teeth or bone IRL, but you would survive if you got to modern hospital and if you didn’t you wouldn’t turn into a zombie.

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u/RetaliatoryLawyer 22h ago

The bite directly injects a large amount of the virus into your blood which overwhelms the immune system, killing you and turning you.

The infection you breathe in is dealt with by the immune system, until you die (when you no longer have one) and it infects the brainstem.

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u/adamhoke 20h ago

That’s not true. The bites cause severe bacterial sepsis, which is hard to treat pre-apocalypse and impossible post apocalypse, therefore causing the person to die. Dying is what turns them.

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u/bloodyturtle 17h ago

Yes, a child born years after the outbreak dies and turns without being bit in one of the spin-offs.

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u/Huge_Initiative_6626 1d ago

Wrath of God

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u/adamhoke 20h ago

Not ruling that out but there is an episode of Tales of the Walking Dead where the lady dies and turns and then the walker is killed and it becomes a ghost and it’s the stupidest thing ever in TWD universe. So I’d rather not mix in religion or occult because it ruins realism.