Forum:Any "zombie" type aliens?

I was just wondering if there were any "zombie" like aliens (I don't mean the nanobot mutation as seen in the Empty Child) or an alien that would take over dead human bodies (other than the remaining gasseous Gelth).


 * I can't think of any zombie-like creatures. I can think of a few which could make zombie-like creatures, I suppose. Let's see...
 * The Xhinn used a chemical to reanimate dead humans.
 * The Darkness could use the corpses of humans to talk for them.
 * The Osirians could reanimated people (at least Sutekh and Nephthys could).
 * That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Why do you ask? --

The Pyrovile looked like a zombie. The evil dudeArnie 19:45, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I was just wondering because I recently saw the first episode with Martha Jones and the Doctor and the alien was sort of a "vampire" and that made me think of the werewolf back at the Torchwood house with Queen Victoria and that wandering just made me think zombies. That lead me to the gas-mask zombies back in the World War II, first meeting Cptn. Jack, but it didn't seem zombie-ish enough for me. Well, thank you for the help on satiating a passing fancy.

There was also the humans on New Earth that were created by the cat nuns to create their vaccines. They were pretty zombie like, though not aliens.Drscompanion2 21:50, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Love and War had people resurrected from the dead (not mindless flesh-eaters) and White Darkness had, literally, zombies in the Haitian Voodoo sense. (well, one, anyway. I only read that years ago.) AFAIK, actual George Romero zombies haven't appeared in the Doctor Who universe.

The Gelth came pretty close to being zombies when they possesed dead bodies in The Unquiet Dead --666hotline 10:03, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The Flood (that's supposedly the name for the alien in 'The Waters of Mars') seems pretty zombie like, is it what you're looking for?

What about the Vashta Nerada, and those monsters fro the comics, The Skeletoids. The natives of that planet in The Genocide Machine featured, they were rain drops that were able to animate a body, but they are not malevolent. Sclera1 12:24, October 17, 2009 (UTC)
 * The Darksmith Legacy also featured the idea of dead bodies being brought back to life, several times! The Librarian 21:00, October 23, 2009 (UTC)

And also, Empty Child plague is often reffered to as Gas-mask Zombie and The Wire's victims as Faceless Zombies. They are both very zombie-esque. I'm A Hydroponic Tomato! Bigredrabbit 06:03, November 30, 2009 (UTC)

Skeleton Crew I'm A Hydroponic Tomato! Bigredrabbit 06:03, November 30, 2009 (UTC)

And ressurected Humans appear in Everything Changes, They Keep Killing Suzie, Dead Man Walking, A Day in the Death, Something Borrowed, From Out of the Rain, Fragments and Exit Wounds. I'm A Hydroponic Tomato! Bigredrabbit 05:11, December 23, 2009 (UTC)

The Bodach can make Humans fall asleep and turn zombie like. --MrThermomanPreacher 16:39, August 10, 2010 (UTC)