Weekly Zombie Poll #2 - Zombies VS Skynet
That’s right, this week’s Zombie Showdown tackles the one undying question that has been burning in every Zombiephile’s heart for almost two decades: who would win in a fight, Zombies or Skynet?
Skynet, that time-bending artificial intelligence from the Terminator movies (and television show), going head to head with a full-fledged global zombie outbreak. It’s a tough call - let’s see why.
As this Zombiephile has mentioned time and time again, Zombies are hard to kill. Worse yet, every human who falls to zombies becomes a zombie himself, causing exponential growth in their numbers. They don’t eat (except brains and body parts), don’t sleep, and have worse personal hygiene than a liberal arts college student.
On the other hand, facing against an army of Terminators with Belgian accents and rippling biceps, most of those qualities aren’t necessarily strengths. Without an ample supply of humans to zombify, zombies may lose their numerical advantage; Terminators don’t eat or sleep either, apparently have less of a sense of humor than Dick Cheney, and are equally prone to shooting people in the face.
But before you vote for the Terminators, remember that Skynet is programmed to deal with humans - not zombies. The lack of reason and rationality that embodies zombie behavior may short circuit Skynet logic chips, and the sheer volume of zombies (potentially 6 billion, give or take) could overwhelm Skynet’s robot armies. On the other hand, there’s always the distinct possibility that Skynet could win by sending Arnold Schwarzenegger back in time to kill the original zombie, thus preventing the zombie outbreak altogether, which, I suppose, would actually be kind of a nice thing for them to do in comparison to their normal destroy-all-humans attitude.
Zombies VS. Skynet - you decide.
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on Monday, November 17th, 2008 at 9:01 am. Filed under Zombie Showdowns.
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November 17th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I love zombies probably more than i love terminators but there is really no competition here. Walking Terminators (the T-600, T-800, etc.) are machines and so it is possible (depending on what zombie rules we are going by) that the zombies might not even attack them. Also, it is unlikely that some of the larger terminator “vehicles” seen in the future scenes from several of the movies would be attacked either. This being the case, a small number of T’s could easily sweep large geographic regions and terminate all Z’s therein using little more than their unrelenting adherence to their mission and their ability to deliver pinpoint accuracy headshots. And don’t even get me started if you include those liquid metal T-1000’s involved. A couple of those could clear a continent if given enough time, seriously, how would a zombie even fight a robot made of liquid that you can’t bite and that can turn his appendages into swords.
Either way, great question. I’d love to see a plausible explanation for how the zombies could win that didn’t amount to “but one terminator could just be overwhelmed by 1,000 zombies.”
November 18th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Im going to have to say zombies on this one. Now im not just saying zombies cause this is a zombie website but i really think that a legion of zombies would win over a few terminators. Considering that there only are a few of them that is. if the numbers are equal (Which i doubt they would be) then the Ts would win. But if its just a few thousand then 6-7 billion zombies would win without a doubt. Just because something isnt human doesnt mean a virus can distinguish between the to, so im betting that the zombies would attack them. And if the zombies attack cars then why not the T’s vehicles from the future?
November 18th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Excellent points from both Kaigon and Ahnold Zombieshlayer. Personally, I think that the standoff would ultimately center around the Terminators’ programming. If they were programmed to kill zombies, I think they would be highly successful in that, but if they were operating on their original programming, things could be dubious.
Kaigon makes a good point - it is more than likely that the numbers would not be equal. As I’ve always said, if you see one zombie, there’s probably another hundred thousand lurking around someplace. They’re like cockroaches except harder to kill and less intelligent.
November 27th, 2008 at 5:48 am
How would zombies ever kill even 1 terminator? Is a zombie ever strong enough to rip of a terminator’s metal arm? I’m no expert but I can’t see anything apart from a terminator victory easy.
But as the other posters say - would they even attack each other? I think the zombies would smell the real flesh, so attack the terminators. The best they could hope for is to hold down the terminator and nibble the flesh off, who would then destroy them in self defense.
November 27th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Belgian accents?
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 am
Your mum has a Belgian accent, Stewart. And she’s a zombie.
December 4th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Nether side would win, they’d just leave each other alone.
So the real loser’s here would be us, humans, as the zombies will eat our brains and the skynet robots will splatter our brains all over the place