Semi-Weekly Zombie Poll #3 - Zombies VS Triffids
Well, Zombiephiles, it’s time for another (semi) weekly Zombie faceoff - and this one is a toughie: Zombies Vs. Triffids.
What’s a triffid, you ask? Tsk, tsk - shame on you. Check out this triffid/zombie article that Josella Chrysalids-Harris posted last week to learn more about the triffid phenomenon. Essentially, triffids are killer zombie plants. More or less.
First seen in John Wyndham’s classic The Day of the Triffids
Alright, people, let’s run down the facts.
Triffids:
1) are plants. Therefore zombies probably wouldn’t want to eat them. This gives triffids a decisive advantage.
2) like to eat rotting flesh, which zombies have in abundance.
3) were probably genetically engineered by Russians. This doesn’t affect their performance against Zombies at all, but I just wanted to mention it.
4) would never be able to remove the head or destroy the brain. Big strike against triffids there.
Now, as we all know, Zombies:
1) don’t eat plants (just like the zombiephile). See #1 above.
2) don’t mind being eaten by plants, and probably wouldn’t notice if they were being eaten by them.
3) can’t infect triffids with zombieness. OR CAN THEY???
However you vote, I think there’s one thing we can all agree on - in a faceoff between zombies and triffids, humans will most certainly lose.
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on Monday, December 1st, 2008 at 8:08 pm. Filed under Zombie Showdowns.
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December 2nd, 2008 at 2:29 am
Got to be the triffids; Green Power.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 am
Dude….It’s all about the zombies. Not only do these zombies have more meat then these plants can probably eat, the plants can’t eat the zombies head or cripple their brains enough to stop them from moving. And even though zombies wont attack the plants I’m pretty sure that they will respond to an attack from basically anything….
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm
I suppose it all depends on how you define victory. If victory is not getting killed, I suppose it might be a standoff. If victory is killing their entirety of the other side, well, I guess that’s a standoff too.
This is definitely a tough one and may warrant some further investigation and discussion.
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Don’t forget that triffid-poison is designed to kill human-sized creatures. Even if a zombie could delay the effects of poison, he/she’d still be blind, and thus a far less potent threat. Triffids would win.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Well, again, what do we mean when we say “Win?” I will grudgingly accept that triffids might outlast zombies (zombies do have a shelf life, you know). But then again, zombies will thaw after a cold snap - can triffids say the same?
December 4th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Also a blind zombie is still a deadly zombie, a zombie dosn’t necessarily need eyes, it can hear just fine
December 4th, 2008 at 10:36 am
No one has suggested how a zombie would kill a triffid. My boyfriend Chester (girls, keep your hands off) certainly hasn’t divulged any theories.