Zombies vs. Vampires – Round 1

TOPIC: ZOMBIES VS. VAMPIRES. Discuss any aspect.

Here’s what people on twitter had to say about it, and the discussion’s not over. Talk about it either as a comment on this post or over on twitter, addressed to @actionchick with #ZVV tag so we’ll see your tweet.

Pro-Vamp

@sbuffysporly:  – zombies die less easily but they tend to fall apart. and vamps can use their sharp teeth to open things for you 🙂
@LaToshaJKing:  hmm wll vampires rock cause they hv rationale, zombies are mindless. Eat anything
@jwaldowski:  Vampires trump zombies all the time. Zombies=slow and stupid Vamps =Smart and cunning. Vampires FTW
@einaphets: Vamps fly. Zombies attract them.
@AyeQue:  what about them? vamps all the wAy
@outofsequences: Vampires *probably* smell better.
@ProgGrrl :Sorry folks, but this is no friggin contest. Vampires FTW.
@aurora_0811: Zombies are fun but the whole flesh rotting thing does = Faill
@outofsequences: in the personality department vampires have it covered (Malkavians run the news these days).
@PotatoFilm:  Vamp movies have better soundtracks.
@solshine7: (I pick vampires!) #teamvampires
@SwtCheri78: since zombies still have flowing blood vampires have to prevail. Vampires bodies are dead so wouldn’t help the zombies.
@REALjtCarter: Vampires all the way. They retain at least part of their identity/personality after conversion. There are no famous zombies.
@ Shadowbat: Vampires practice better dental hygiene
@dannyson1:  We all know Vampires have more class than zombies. Did you know Count Dracula is Republican? Yeah I saw him in the last meeting.
@neiltring Vampires make better dinner hosts than Zombies, the decor is better and goblets to drink from are always better than a rotting arm

Pro-Zom

@roaring_tulips:  Zombies would win. Vamps can’t drink dead blood & the only way to kill a zombie’s decapitation. Vamps have lots of ways to die.
@einaphets: Zombies don’t play with their food.
@nexusverus: Zombies are only good for chasing old people…no speed.
@outofsequences: Though vampires are really good societal representations: what happens to mankind without natural predators, how people think, etc. At least, they are when you’re doing it right. When you’re doing it wrong, well, they’re teen entertainment fodder for the uninspired. You never see zombies attempting to relive the “best years of their life” aka high school. Run and feed, that’s it. Keep it simple.
@JRothC:  Zombies. Everything in me wants to say Vampires. But the sad truth is they’d probably be morosely talking themselves into a sunburst funeral pyre whilst all the new fangled superspeedy 28 day’s later and wall crawling Linda Blairesque “Dawn of the Dead” (remake) Zomoids took over the world. The vamps would brood themselves to death. Sadly. I do love Vamps.
@roaring_tulips:  Another reasons zombies win. Vamps are selective w/who they infect. Zombies infect anything. Power in numbers, baby.
@einaphets: Bella’s stench isn’t a problem for a zombie. . I wish they’d snap off her head already.
@FiLassy: Joss made an awesome series based around vampires, not zombies (tho there was that s3 ep among others, I do concede) so vamps=win 4 me
@outofsequences: @ProgGrrl Win how? Zombies are simpler, yeah, but they’re a lot less pretentious.
@einaphets : Zombies. Cuz “Rob Vampire” would be a puss name.
@jun6lee: zombies are thick & weak, vamps are smart & strong.. audiences cheer the underdog.. underdog wins. isn’t that the formula?

Further Comparison

@einaphets: I couldn’t ship Shaun and his cricket bat in a vamp flick.
@einaphets: They both need coolers to sleep in but for different reasons.
@einaphets: If they were on Gilligans Island, vamps would be Ginger; zombies, Maryann.
@einaphets: Zombies don’t need context.
@outofsequences: Vampires constantly need context, explaining, justification and/or monologues.
@PotatoFilm: Harder to make a commercial zombie film. But Vamps are harder to take seriously, when the occasion call for it
@Shadowbat: Zombies want you completely while vampires are after only one thing
@swiv Vamps have brains & r romantic, zombies r pretty stupid – however zombie killers r better than vamp killers

Emo or Not Emo?

@einaphets: There are no emo zombies.
@outofsequences: There are no not-emo vampires.
@KatyHart: Spike from Buffy was not emo.
@outofsequences: I politely disagree.

Groans and Moans: Undead Love & Sex Talk

@einaphets: I would never fantasize about being the salami in an Eric and Spike sandwich if they were zombies.
@FiLassy: I totes would.
@einaphets: Body parts wouldn’t rot/fall off at inopportune times during vamp sex.
@aurora_0811: I think I just threw up a little.
@einaphets: No one wants to watch zombies have sex. Well, apparently except those that bought Night in Paris.
@einaphets: Zombies are cheap dates.
@outofsequences: There will never be books about the prettiest zombie in class (ok I’ve kind of already said this a few different ways).
@outofsequences: @aurora_0811 Zombies will never have sex toys marketed in their likeness. (v
@einaphets: Zombies have detachabe sex toys.
@FiLassy: zombies don’t mutant monster babies from venom-laced sperm (there’s my one fail contribution)
@outofsequences: @aurora_0811 Zombies will never have sex toys marketed in their likeness.
@FiLassy: quite possibly my fav one so far, lols RT
@aurora_0811: I’ve never heard of a half zombie/half human offspring. Zombies want our brains, not our babies
@atomiclemon: Someone hasn’t seen Dawn of the Dead
@einaphets: Its been yeeeeears. Is there zombie sex?
@actionchick: No, the mother was very pregnant when she gotten bitten, died and became zombie shortly before birth. http://3.ly/DD04
@einaphets: Zombies are always stiff
@outofsequences: Yeah but rigor mortis or flesh falling off =/= a good time in bed.
@FiLassy: brb, dying of all the imagery
@ShimTheDream:  I choose zombies, but only because emo girls won’t f*** a zombie, at least not yet.
@actionchick: Doesn’t Return of the Living Dead 3 have zombie/human sex, though?
@outofsequences: According to @atomiclemon, Return of the Living Dead 3 might invalidate the anti-sex zombie argument. EWW.
@casciato: Not sure there’s sex. Kissing. Sexual elements. But not sure they get it on after she turns|
@atomiclemon: Yes. Zombie/human bondage sex, in fact!
@AyeQue: no they have sex b4 she diesand kissat the end
@ShimTheDream: Girls who listen to Hawthorne Heights and cut themselves dream of f***ing vampires.
@PotatoFilm: Not even Anne Rice could sex up a zombie, but Zombies are more entertaining than de-sexed vamps.
@solshine7: LOL. There’s a book called “I Kissed A Zombie and I Liked It” – The strange thing, I want to read it!
@einaphets: Zombies have no infatuation with teacup humans.
@outofsequences: You might end up being tea for a party of zombies.

Vampires Vs. Zombies: The Movie

@Chuck_st_chuck:  Vampires vs Zombies is the worst movie ever lol
@actionchick: I’ve seen that. It really is terrible.  Actually I think I own that thing.
@actionchick: Since the mention of the terrible movie Vampires Vs. Zombies confused at least 1 person, I should mention that’s NOT what I originally meant
@duckybuttons: oh my. frankendracuzombie movies? 🙂

Zombie Vampires or Vampire Zombies?

@KatyHart:  But what about zombie vampires or vampire zombies.
@Eccles9:  Hmmm, what would actually happen if a zombie bit a vampire – and vice versa? After all, they’re both already dead.
@Eccles9:  Vamp bites zombie = zombie that burns in sunlight and hates garlic. Zombie bites vamp = vamp that sucks your brains out…
@outofsequences: @KatyHart Zombie vampires = nosferatu in the old World of Darkness RPG system.
@Brennan_Neil: If I can’t go with vampire zombies then I ain’t goin with nuthin.

Links

@martindolan: My take on Zombies vs Vampires http://bit.ly/28yISz
@casciato: old thing I wrote as a response to a ridiculous review I read: http://bit.ly/1cf3vH
@outofsequences: Is this about my anti-sex stance on zombies for ? RT @altgrave: @outofsequences http://bit.ly/NqJQC

Tweeps who help spread this topic through RTs (retweets = repeating someone else’s twitter messages): @Crackledotcom, @einaphets, @PotatoFilm, @jwaldowski, @BFree63, @roaring_tulips, @MIZZukBLOOD, @robbieburke2002, @Happy_Skittles, @MovieswithJames, @sultryminxzoe, @CharlieG51

Addendum: Follow-up tweets

@berenjones: I love the fact that you have a whole freakin’ contest about it. And btw, my money is on Zombies because Vampireland would be overly complicated, emotional, and most likely boring. and easily killed. http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/comedy/68575/kevin-pereira–olivia-munns-twilight-spoof.html

@TJSlipperman Zombies. Vampires would end up becoming zombies themselves if they tried feeding on zombies. …also: Zombies gave us ‘Dawn of the Dead’ and ‘Grindhouse Planet Terror’; Vampires gave us ‘Twilight’…Zombies FTW ;p

Continued in Zombie Week 2010? Zombies vs. Vampires – Round 2!