still-we-rise:

mickstart:

mickstart:

It’s always “your zombie apocalypse Lenin question is weird” “who even thinks about that shit” and never “was fixating on tiny details from history class fun? It looked fun”

Here’s my favourite icebreaker that I wish someone would answer legitimately for once instead of getting hung up on what a weird question it is: only ten percent of Lenin’s original body is left. The rest has been slowly replaced with plastic and other materials over the years. So the question we must ask ourselves is: in a traditional zombie apocalypse (one not caused by a virus but simply by the sudden reanimation of every dead body on earth) DOES Lenin rise? Does the zombie apocalypse still recognise him as a human corpse? If he does rise is he a severely useless zombie unable to move his plastic body OR does he become a super zombie boss fight?

I’d assume a sudden reanimation would require a half-functioning brain left in the body. Like, in any apocalypse movie/media you don’t see rising skeletons, only bodies that were decomposed to a certain point, and the brain is needed for any basic/bare life function, so if we assume that the apocalypse in your hypothesis is suddenly bringing back brain functions to those who died, then Lenin wouldn’t rise at all.

If not, then we need to think about which parts were replaced, and how mobile his artificial joints are. If his plastic legs aren’t possibly bending, then he’s unable to walk. And if his arms aren’t bending either, then he can’t even crawl. So even if he would wake up, he’d probably stay in his grave really, really pissed off. I doubt he has even a newspaper lying around.

But if somehow someone thought about making him mobile for whatever reason, he’s 90% plastic. Plastic is extremely flammable. One molotov and this bitch ded