Zomblog #1: Who Can Join Zombie Club

My Definition(s) of "Zombie"

1. A Haitian folk tale about a walking, semi-dead slave to a Voodoo bokor.
2. A monster used in fiction. Generally, is a mindless reanimated corpse with a ravenous hunger for human flesh. Except for when they're just people infected with viruses and not actually revived corpse. Or when they're not mindless. Or when they don't want to eat people. It's complicated.

These are Vampires, people. V-A-M-P-I-R-E-S

Frankenstein's big bad boy=/=Zombie

Feral Ghoul=Zombie

Generally, I would say as long as they feel like Zombies and not something else entirely (I'm looking at you, Richard Matheson). For example, the Feral Ghouls in Fallout are not undead, merely victims of radiation (or maybe radiation mixed with a government-created virus), but they're appearance, behavior, and in-universe role makes them feel like Zombies. Frankenstein's Monster and his ilk, meanwhile, are reanimated corpses, but they don't feel like Zombies. The Marvel Zombies can speak and have superhuman abilities, but their demeanor, decomposing flesh, and desire to consume the uninfected make them feel like Zombies.

Marvel Zombies=Zombies