How The Walking Dead’s Zombie Mushroom Cure Could Help HBOs The Last Of Us

How The Walking Dead’s Zombie Mushroom Cure Could Help HBO’s The Last Of Us

Both The Walking Dead and The Last of Us have plots that revolve around mushrooms. Here’s how the similarity could help The Last of Us succeed.

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How The Walking Dead’s Zombie Mushroom Cure Could Help HBOs The Last Of Us

The Walking Dead is one of the most popular zombie franchises on TV — but can one of its mushroom-related plot points help launch HBO’s The Last of Us? While the TV adaptation of the Last of Us video game runs the risk of only appealing to a niche gaming audience, The Walking Dead’s mushroom cure plotline could help draw a greater pool of TV show viewers to the upcoming series. Here’s how one little fungus could help ensure success for The Last of Us.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond season 2 episode 2, “Foothold,” introduces a fungus-based cure for walkers. Dr. Leo Bennett believes that the cure for zombiism lies in the fungi that grow on necrotic flesh. By altering the particular fungi that break down flesh, Dr. Bennett hopes to speed up the decay of walkers. The Civic Republic is dedicated to discovering the cause of the zombie apocalypse, and, on top of being a possible cure, fungi is still a possible cause behind the outbreak. The Last of Us also heavily features fungus in its zombie lore. In real life, one species of the Cordyceps fungus — Ophiocordyceps unilateralis — is a parasitic entity that slowly takes command of host insects. In The Last of Us, human zombies are created by a mutated Cordyceps fungus that slowly takes over living human bodies.

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The similar plotlines around fungus could help to draw fans of the zombie genre to The Last of Us TV show. New fans who are hesitant to start a series based on a video game they’re unfamiliar with might be more open to giving the series a shot if they find that the show’s concept is similar to one they’re already familiar with. After being presented with the idea of mushroom-infected zombies in The Walking Dead, fans who may not be familiar with Naughty Dog’s games may have a better sense of what they’re getting into. Granted, the zombies in The Last of Us are far more grotesque than what has been featured in The Walking Dead. Yet, even so, this familiarity with the subject matter could be helpful in convincing more conventional movie and TV show zombie fans that The Last of Us is a serious contender in the genre.

The zombies of The Last of Us fall under four known classifications: (1) Runners, (2) Stalkers, (3) Clickers, and (4) Bloaters/Shamblers. As the Cordyceps fungus takes over more and more of the host, the host’s humanity is gradually stripped away. The zombies in The Last of Us start out fast and aggressive until they are slowed down over time, as the fungus moves from the brain throughout the entire body. At the later stages — the Bloaters and Shamblers — the body is almost fully encumbered by fungus, making them particularly grotesque, as they hardly resemble anything that might have, at some point, once been a human. The Last of Us’s zombies are unlike anything The Walking Dead has seen before, which may also feel fresh to those who are bored with the typical TV zombie affair.

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The Walking Dead has featured foliage-covered walkers before; namely, a fungus-covered walker appears in The Walking Dead season 8 episode 11, “Dead or Alive Or,” and The Walking Dead: World Beyond has a plethora of walkers who have slowly blended into the landscape. Still, The Last of Us’s zombies are particularly brutal — like the bloated well walker of The Walking Dead season 2 nightmarishly combined with the fungus-covered walker. The zombies of The Last of Us possess a speed and an intelligence that are unmatched by The Walking Dead’s walkers, notwithstanding their grotesque appearances. The slower loss of one’s humanity is also incredibly painful to watch, adding yet another layer to the horror of The Last of Us.

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