Zombie

Zombies are a variant of the undead. Most common zombies are humans and trolls, but goblin and high elven zombies have also been encountered.
During the Scourge Invasion, adventurers could be transformed into zombies. Others were tasked with bringing back the brain of a zombie for study.
Plague eruptors are a type of powerful zombies,Coprous the Defiled (quest)What I Do Best designed to spread horror and chaos across the world of the living.
==Background==
Like ghouls, zombies were once men, peasants, and warriors alike. They lack a lot of the intelligence their risen comrades do, even in comparison to abominations. Slow moving and instinctual, you can find these creatures within the areas either once or still under Scourge control.
Zombies, due to their lack of intelligence and their numbers, are often used as fodder in the front lines of the Scourge. Most do not seem to be affiliated with any group and just mindlessly wander. 
Some Zombies have managed to be part of the Forsaken and seem to have rational thought.
Zombies can be found most notably in Tirisfal Glades, the Western Plaguelands, and the Eastern Plaguelands.
==Notable==
==In the RPG==
thumb|A zombie in the Manual of Monsters.
===Background===
Zombies are nothing more than animated corpses. Zombies are often brought to horrifying unlife to serve as frontline troops for the Lich King's armies. Zombies are often plague carriers, infested with all manner of parasitic creatures. Their bodies are in a suspended state of decay, their flesh perpetually sloughing away or peeling aside to reveal bone and desiccated organs. Of all the undead, zombies are one of the more horrific varieties, for their lack of free will is all the more apparent in their pitiable state of their bodies. Even more horrible is the fact that not all zombies lose their memories and personalities — a few zombies retain their memories, trapped within a decaying corpse compelled to serve their former enemies. Every so often, a zombie retains its intellect or develops a form of sentience over long years. No one has been able to create this circumstance intentionally, nor does anyone understand why or how it happens.Monster Guide, pg. 148, 150
Zombies are the lowest form of existence in the undead food chain and are often overlooked because of their simplicity and lack of ambition. These undead are created from plague-infected individuals, but their bodies are not as riddled with the disease as those of more powerful undead. In fact, zombies not only retain their mortal memories, but also are occasionally capable of retaining the original personality and morality of their mortal life. This does not often aid them, however, and usually is a torment to the zombie trapped within Ner'zhul's vicious armies. Zombies are despicable, degraded creatures with little purpose other than to serve as cannon fodder for Ner'zhul's massive forces. They are sorrowful creatures, capable of great strength but holding little hope for salvation other than their own deaths. Occasionally, one breaks free of the necromantic control imposed by Ner'zhul's forces and escapes — but he is not accepted into society nor offered a chance for peace through proving that he is more than a ravening undead creatures. Truly, these are beings to be pitied.Manual of Monsters, pg. 152 They speak Low Common.
===Human zombies===
Zombies are corpses animated by necromancy. The creature was once human, but now stares ahead with dull, lifeless eyes. Bits and pieces of dead flesh hang from its body as the walking corpse slowly plods forward. Most zombies have no memories of their lives and are capable only of obeying simple commands, such as “Attack!” or “March!” Their unthinking obedience makes them perfect tools for frontline assaults, for their plodding onslaught is both demoralizing and relentless. Rumors say that not all zombies are so lucky as to have no memories. Some retain full knowledge of their pre-death identities as well as their knowledge and skills. These memories do them no good, however, for they remain under the control of the Scourge, forced to obey their masters' commands and to suffer their existence within their own decaying corpse. These creatures are objects of pity, but no less dangerous than their mindless fellows. Zombies without memories have no speech, though they can make meaningless sounds. Intelligent zombies know the same languages they did in life and can sometimes manage halting speech.
A zombie's approach to combat is simple: It attacks whatever enemy it is ordered to attack and does not stop until it is destroyed. Some zombies use weapons (such as clubs) if they have them. If not, they use their slam attack. Zombies neither attempt to dodge nor do they retreat.Monster Guide, pg. 150
Gehennis is a zombified female human barbarian.Manual of Monsters, pg. 153
"Zombie" is an acquired template in the Warcraft RPG.
===Types of zombies===
*Gnoll zombieLands of Conflict, pg. 146
*Goblin zombieMore Magic and Mayhem, pg. 146
*Wolf zombie
*In the Appendix Three of Manual of Monsters a type of zombies known as Blood Zombie was described, but the validity of the source is disputed.
==As a companion pet==
*Burnout is a reward from Malowned.
==Notes==
*Ghouls in Warcraft III are described as once being zombies that have made the final transition into true 'undeath'.
*If the player died while infected in the Zombie Infestation and Death Rising events they would become a zombie with the appearance of a ghoul.
*Undead dire trolls on Zandalar are referred to as zombies,Humbling the Terrors and their sound files are called TROLLZOMBIE.
==Gallery==
;World of Warcraft
Zombie Chow.jpg|A typical zombie (before the model update in 8.0).
Zombie arrow white.png|Pale variant zombie (old model).
Fetid Zombie.jpg|Plagued zombie (old model)
Risen Zombie.jpg|Zombie without an arm (new model).
Rotting Ancestor.jpg|Zombie with hair (new model).
Mangled.jpg|Pale variant zombie (new model).
Broken Cadaver.jpg|Zombie with both arms and arrows through him.
Risen Villager (Stratholme).jpg|Burning zombie
Shambling Corpse.png|Plagued zombie (new model)
Goblin Zombie.jpg|Goblin Zombie
Mindless Exile.jpg|Skeletal troll zombie
Mossflayer Zombie.jpg|Forest troll zombie
Sandfury Zombie.jpg|Sand troll zombie
Sporecaller Zancha.jpg|Dire troll zombie
;Warcraft III
ZombieWC3.png|Zombie in Warcraft III.
BTNZombie.png|Zombie portrait icon in Warcraft III.
BTNZombie-Reforged.png|Zombie portrait icon in Warcraft III: Reforged. 
Reforged - Zombie Female concept.jpg|Concept art of a female zombie in Reforged.
Dalaran Mutant Reforged.jpg|Dalaran Mutant in Reforged.
BTNDalaranMutant.png|Dalaran Mutant portrait icon in Warcraft III.
BTNDalaranMutant-Reforged.png|Dalaran Mutant portrait icon in Reforged.
;Hearthstone
Brittleskin Zombie HS.jpg|
Coffin Crasher HS.jpg|
Cutthroat Buccaneer.jpg|
Failed Student HS.jpg|
Harkener of Dread HS.jpg|
Lingering Zombie HS.jpg|
Noxious Cadaver HS.jpg|
Risen Footman HS.jpg|
Shambling Chow HS.jpg|
Shambling Zombie HS.jpg|
Tomb Guardians HS.jpg|
Weaponized Zombie HS.jpg|
Zombie HS.jpg|
Zombie Pirate HS.jpg|
ZOMBEEEES!!! HS.jpg|
;Other
Zombie Chow TCG.jpg|Zombie Chow in the Trading Card Game.
Encrusted Zombie Finger TCG.jpg|Encrusted Zombie Finger (Scourgewar) in the TCG.
Battle of Darrowshire.JPG|Battle of Darrowshire (Heroes of Azeroth) in the TCG.
Statue PlagueFarmer Pose.png|Plague Farmer in Warcraft Arclight Rumble.
==Patch changes==
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==See also==
*Withered creature
==References==
 
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