So, what happens if a zombie bites a vampire?

[LostInAnomie]

A zombie bite kills 100% of the time and turns the victim into a zombie. Vampires are immortal so they couldn't die. Would they turn into zombie vampires? Would they just start rotting like zombies but say "alive"? Would they just shrug it off?

[Angel]

1. Technically, a vampire is already dead.

So any bite from a zombie would not cause a change which occurs when a zombie bites a human. Vampires do not suffer cellular decay like humans do. The only effect of a bite would be puncture marks or missing flesh if the zombie were to tear off a piece of flesh.

[LostInAnomie]

3. Vampires would have to have some kind of circulartory system though...

... or they wouldn't heal from wounds. This means that any virus that zombies transmit into their bodies would eventually make it to their brain through simple circulation. This means that their brain would be attacked by the same virus that turns humans into zombies. What would happen then?

[Angel]

7. The circulatory system of a vampire

no longer functions since the vampire is dead. No blood is carried anywhere in the body. If they are bitten the can heal by forcing the blood of their victims into the wound forcing something similar to a humans healing ability but not identical. Due to the fact that the heart of a vampire no longer beats.

[LostInAnomie]

10. Just curious, but where did you get that from.

The forcing victims blood to heal wounds?

Nevertheless, that doesn't mean a zombie virus couldn't make it's way to a vampire brain, it would just take longer.

edit: Human healing is incapable of fighting off zombie infection or wounds. That means the vampire's healing trick would be useless.

[Forkboy]

5. Between you and the vamps, and me and the zombies, we got this one covered.

:D

[Angel]

9. I do believe

You are correct Sir. :loveya:

[Forkboy]

12. It's weird seeing you up so past your bedtime.

When your schedule is the same as mine it might be time to reassess things. :D

:loveya:

[yurbud]

2. the zombie would be hungry again 20 minutes later

[Forkboy]

4. Zombies don't rot.

The bacteriological process that breaks the body down after death stops in a zombie (which is also why zombies don't smell of decay). Like anything else, they can be weathered down, but the body itself has stopped decomposing.

Looks like it's time for you to read World War Z. :)

[LostInAnomie]

6. I'm afraid you are incorrect

I'll direct you to page 10. section H. of "The Zombie Survival Guide", written by the exact same Max Brooks that wrote World War Z, where it says "The average zombie life span - how long it is able to function before completely rotting away - is estimated at three to five years". It goes on to say "It has been determined that at least some microbe species ignore the repelling effects of Solanum - otherwise the dead would remain perfectly preserved forever."

I know my Max Brooks zombie universe.

This means that even if a vampire were able to fight the Solanum infection for awhile and even if it were able to slow the effects of decomposition, in the span of an immortal life they would rot away.

[Forkboy]

8. LOL....curse you, fellow zombie fan!

The sad part is that the Zombie Survival Guide is literally right beside me. :)

[AllenVanAllen]

11. Nothing, because vampires aren't real.

Duh. :P

[LostInAnomie]

13. I always wondered...

... how did zombies infect The Thing? Or, Colossus for that matter.

[AllenVanAllen]

14. Space borne virus.

gets em' every time.