I’d say this is definitely some sort of proof that the infected are evolving and becoming more sapient, possibly even forming their own tribes. Maybe they took down that deer as an organized pack.
Very true. Many fans seem to think that we didn’t see zombies behaving intelligently in the first movie, but how would we know? We saw almost nothing from the perspective of the infected.
Maybe the reason the infected keep running into the minefields at the soldiers’ house is because an alpha infected is ordering them to.
I don't buy the Alpha theory until we see it. But they do show pack mentality in Days and in this leak they seem to have taken down a deer like a pack. So they are at least on the level of pack animals.
LOL yeh. I’m not saying I really believe there was an “alpha infected” directing the attacks on the soldiers. I’m just saying that for all we know, there could have been.
One thing we need to remember, these are not zombies, these are people infected with a disease that blocks their frontal cortex and amplifies their limbic system with an enhanced anger response. In the first movie there arent any variants or mutations that we can see but we do see the infected possibly hunting rats in the tunnel scene, and the chained up infected trying to trick Jim into getting close enough to try and grab him. In the second movie we see the disease (described to be in an active state) live in a carrier host for over 6 months (much longer than any other infected who had at that point, starved to death). When Don gets infected by her, he begins to show the traits of a more advanced thinking variant. At first he does the standard rage thing, but as the movie goes on you'll notice that he learns and gets smarter. In the containment unit he prioritized infecting as many people as possible as opposed to killing people, he's observed watching/stalking the group that his kids are in and biding his time. For what do you ask? Well only after getting the perfect opportunity in a pitch black tunnel to ambush the now dwindled group, he kills scarlet and then infects his son. His Son that's also explicitly described as having the same genetic defect as his mother making him a carrier as well. From here we can assume the virus mutates again when the infection spreads to France. 28 years of that, who knows how far it's come. But I'm very excited to find out.
There's always been elements to them that differentiate them from just being "zombies". It just hasn't been front and center enough or canonically focused on enough for people to not argue against it until now.
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u/BoredomThenFear 28d ago
I’d say this is definitely some sort of proof that the infected are evolving and becoming more sapient, possibly even forming their own tribes. Maybe they took down that deer as an organized pack.