Zombie/Creature types/ Physical Appearance

[MancheeLivesOn]

Are the things really zombies?

No they aren't reanimated corpses. Too many clues to them being alive (eating, sleeping, etc.)

Skittles can't be Ink but he could be an Infiltrator. He's not all there to begin with so split personality caused by potential experimentation on him is possible. Skittles personality A could be aware of the B personality and try and prevent himself from infiltrating a stronghold/safehouse (He didn't let Angel and Kalani take him to the Tower). He isn't overly paranoid and definitely not schizophrenic, so he can't be Bill Roberts (he isn't homocidal violent).

The creatures are evolving whether by Kirby style consume and become or experimentation by Smart Ones has yet to be determined.

Also the probability that Bill Roberts is Ink is very high. The newscast said he was currently being transported to a mental help facility at the time of the outbreak. Kc can't make the series insanely difficult to follow (remember the complaints that Inception was too high brow for most) so mentioning Bill Roberts and not having him later in the plot would just be pointless.

On to the Big Ones super growth. With an increase in size that large testosterone levels would have to skyrocket. Funny thing about testosterone, if its level spikes so does the estrogen levels. They've yet to mention the massive bitch-tits on a behemoth (Thank you Fight Club) so I'm curious as to how they were made. But hey, the z-germ/virus could null and void the estrogen and utilize it on something else. Its SciFi, who cares if its possible it just is!

On the topic of them being made, can a Smart One control a Big One? It has been mentioned that the standard Biters leave them the hell alone. They have yet to be deployed in a tactical manner by any of the Smart Ones. Two controlled behemoths would have screwed The Tower over on so many levels... or maybe just the ground floor.

Well that's my two cents.

[LoneSurvivor]

As to the behemoths being controlled... in the scene with the hospital, when that horde and its leader returned, they saw several behemoths in the crowd, following everyone else.
In that same scene, Kalani and Riley enter that generator room filled with blood and gore, as well as needles and surgeon's tools it seemed. The zombie horde dragged back a bunch of living humans with them. My theory is that, instead of a hive theory these zombies are being made in the process of the transformation. This would not be taking dead flesh and reanimating it, more like... sculpting a form, perhaps somehow altering the dna by adding various different substances or sticking on other parts. If you took several people's hands and stuck them all on one person, they would all still be alive, and depending on how the virus works it could fuse them together so that its one creature. For jumpers just those muscles are harvested and implanted into the leg, taking extra skin to cover up the muscle. All this would keep any sort of reanimation from happening, and it would explain that room with the smart one (I think it was Ink, just can't remember at this moment).

[MancheeLivesOn]

I need to correct myself from my previous post. Estrogen will only have those adverse effects if testosterone levels become significantly lower. That only happens in extreme cases (i.e. castration).

[usmcludwig]

In that same scene, Kalani and Riley enter that generator room filled with blood and gore, as well as needles and surgeon's tools it seemed. The zombie horde dragged back a bunch of living humans with them. My theory is that, instead of a hive theory these zombies are being made in the process of the transformation. This would not be taking dead flesh and reanimating it, more like... sculpting a form, perhaps somehow altering the dna by adding various different substances or sticking on other parts. If you took several people's hands and stuck them all on one person, they would all still be alive, and depending on how the virus works it could fuse them together so that its one creature. For jumpers just those muscles are harvested and implanted into the leg, taking extra skin to cover up the muscle. All this would keep any sort of reanimation from happening, and it would explain that room with the smart one (I think it was Ink, just can't remember at this moment).

These are my thoughts as well.
It would explain why they take ALL dead bodies and why the Arena is a storage area and why they took ALIVE and uninfected human prisoners and some other things that I will try to confirm.
An "Abomination" as some would call the melding of many flesh into one.
It would make sense as to why they did not kill/infect Tanya (presumably)- having an even more insidious fate for her
But I still do think that they are UNDEAD...only way around it is if WITHIN the story- it is DULY noted that the virus makes the infected EXTREMELY resilient to many things that would easily kill a non-infected human

[JusticePain]

What they need is The Smoker, The Boomer, The Hunter, and Bill

[Solanine]

No. What they absolutely do not want is too start using cliche zombie types. More than they already have.

[JusticePain]

Zombie cats and dogs!!!

[Zombiphobe]

I thought that dogs and cats were immune.

However, I was wondering about other species closer to humans, like chimpanzees. Smaller stature, long arms... could these be the Little Ones?

[Solanine]

I thought that dogs and cats were immune.

However, I was wondering about other species closer to humans, like chimpanzees. Smaller stature, long arms... could these be the Little Ones?

I don't know, they would need a pretty big zoo to have enough. Children though...

[Zombiphobe]

True. I was thinking more along the lines of research animals, but it doesn't seem like it would account for the number we've seen.