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* Brilliance and a dash of FridgeHorror into the mix with the scene where Freddy and Frank get sprayed in the face with the Trioxin, they said it knocked them unconcious for a while, but all the Rigor and other symptoms of being dead don't start until ''at least'' a few hours after you died, they didn't get knocked out by the gas, Frank and Freddy died the second the Gas hit their faces! [[spoiler: Also, this explains why the freezer zombie went after Burt when Freddy opened the door: Burt was the only living person in the room.]]

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* Brilliance and a dash of FridgeHorror into the mix with the scene where Freddy and Frank get sprayed in the face with the Trioxin, they said it knocked them unconcious unconscious for a while, but all the Rigor and other symptoms of being dead don't start until ''at least'' a few hours after you died, they didn't get knocked out by the gas, Frank and Freddy died the second the Gas hit their faces! [[spoiler: Also, this explains why the freezer zombie went after Burt when Freddy opened the door: Burt was the only living person in the room.]]
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* At first, having the zombies crave brains seems like a snarky inversion of how Romero's zombies got killed by destroying ''their'' brains. Then you see [[spoiler: zombie Trash]] stride out of the darkness, and you realize that [[spoiler: if they'd eaten flesh like in the original Romero flicks, her body would've been all chewed up and that scene's twisted Fanservice would be ruined]].
** Also of note is that the human brain contains, among other things, endorphins! Serotonin, dopamine, and all sorts of feel-good chemicals that help us ignore how much our lives suck! So if it hurts to be dead, it makes sense why brains would be such an effective painkiller as opposed to, say,any other part of the human body.
* Brilliance and a dash of FridgeHorror into the mix with the scene where Freddy and Frank get sprayed in the face with the Trioxin, they said it knocked them unconcious for a while, but all the Rigor and other symptoms of being dead don't start until ''at least'' a few hours after you died, they didn't get knocked out by the gas, Frank and Freddy died the second the Gas hit their faces!
** [[spoiler: Also, this explains why the freezer zombie went after Burt when Freddy opened the door: Burt was the only living person in the room.]]

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* At first, having the zombies crave brains seems like a snarky inversion of how Romero's zombies got killed by destroying ''their'' brains. Then you see [[spoiler: zombie Trash]] stride out of the darkness, and you realize that [[spoiler: if they'd eaten flesh like in the original Romero flicks, her body would've been all chewed up and that scene's twisted Fanservice would be ruined]]. \n** Also of note is that the human brain contains, among other things, endorphins! Serotonin, dopamine, and all sorts of feel-good chemicals that help us ignore how much our lives suck! So if it hurts to be dead, it makes sense why brains would be such an effective painkiller as opposed to, say,any other part of the human body.
* Brilliance and a dash of FridgeHorror into the mix with the scene where Freddy and Frank get sprayed in the face with the Trioxin, they said it knocked them unconcious for a while, but all the Rigor and other symptoms of being dead don't start until ''at least'' a few hours after you died, they didn't get knocked out by the gas, Frank and Freddy died the second the Gas hit their faces!
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faces! [[spoiler: Also, this explains why the freezer zombie went after Burt when Freddy opened the door: Burt was the only living person in the room.]]
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* A mixutre of both brilliance and horror, as noted under ArtisticLicenseBiology on the first films page, the zombies eat brains due to the endorphins in the brain soothing the pain of decay, but the best "source" of endorphins isn't in the brain, but in the spinal cord, of course the zombies seem to need to almost constantly eat brains, they aren't getting the correct dosage.

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* A mixutre mixture of both brilliance and horror, as noted under ArtisticLicenseBiology on the first films page, the zombies eat brains due to the endorphins in the brain soothing the pain of decay, but the best "source" of endorphins isn't in the brain, but in the spinal cord, of course the zombies seem to need to almost constantly eat brains, they aren't getting the correct dosage.

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* A mixutre of both brilliance and horror, as noted under ArtisticLicenseBiology on the first films page, the zombies eat brains due to the endorphins in the brain soothing the pain of decay, but the best "source" of endorphins isn't in the brain, but in the spinal cord, of course the zombies seem to need to almost constantly eat brains, they aren't getting the correct dosage.
* The fact that with the rot, zombies nerves would be more exposed to the elements, it's not just the rot, cold air causes pain to nerves under the skin, so a raw exposed nerve being exposed to a rainstorm must feel like hell.
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** [[spoiler: Also, this explains why the freezer zombie went after Burt when Freddy opened the door: Burt was the only living person in the room.]]
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* Brlliance in the VillainDecay of the zombies as a threat further into the sequels. The government stopped making new batches of trioxin but by then a massive quantity was already out there, and the existing supply are all degrading in potency. It would take years, possibly decades for the trioxin to be even remotely considered nonlethal, but in the meantime subsequent zombies created by the weakening trioxin are a lot less resilient.
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* When Frank burns himself to ashes to escape the agony of being undead, the rising smoke may not only have ushered outside to become part of the next trioxin-laced rainstorm. Considering how poorly-vented the crematorium seems to be, some of the tainted smoke may have penetrated into the upper floor of Burt's mortuary ... which is where Scuz's corpse was left to lie after the skeletally-decomposed half-woman munched on his brain. Poor Scuz, who'd never even seen a graveyard or known anyone who died before that night, may have had to endure a (brief, thanks to the nuke, but still horrifying) revival as a zombie himself.

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* When Frank burns himself to ashes to escape the agony of being undead, the rising smoke may not only have ushered outside to become part of the next trioxin-laced rainstorm. Considering how poorly-vented the crematorium seems to be, some of the tainted smoke may have penetrated into the upper floor of Burt's the mortuary ... which is where Scuz's corpse was left to lie after the skeletally-decomposed half-woman munched on his brain. Poor Scuz, who'd never even seen a graveyard or known anyone who died before that night, may have had to endure a (brief, thanks to the nuke, but still horrifying) revival as a zombie himself.
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* Brilliance and a dash of FridgeHorror into the mix with the scene where Freddy and Frank get sprayed in the face with the Trioxin, they said it knocked them unconcious for a while, but all the Rigor and other symptoms of being dead don't start until ''at least'' a few hours after you died, they didn't get knocked out by the gas, Frank and Freddy died the second the Gas hit their faces!

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* Brilliance and a dash of FridgeHorror into the mix with the scene where Freddy and Frank get sprayed in the face with the Trioxin, they said it knocked them unconcious for a while, but all the Rigor and other symptoms of being dead don't start until ''at least'' a few hours after you died, they didn't get knocked out by the gas, Frank and Freddy died the second the Gas hit their faces!faces!

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* When Frank burns himself to ashes to escape the agony of being undead, the rising smoke may not only have ushered outside to become part of the next trioxin-laced rainstorm. Considering how poorly-vented the crematorium seems to be, some of the tainted smoke may have penetrated into the upper floor of Burt's mortuary ... which is where Scuz's corpse was left to lie after the skeletally-decomposed half-woman munched on his brain. Poor Scuz, who'd never even seen a graveyard or known anyone who died before that night, may have had to endure a (brief, thanks to the nuke, but still horrifying) revival as a zombie himself.
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* Brilliance and a dash of FridgeHorror into the mix with the scene where Freddy and Frank get sprayed in the face with the Trioxin, they said it knocked them unconcious for a while, but all the Rigor and other symptoms of being dead don't start until ''at least'' a few hours after you died, they didn't get knocked out by the gas, Frank and Freddy died the second the Gas hit their faces!

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* At first, having the zombies crave brains seems like a snarky inversion of how Romero's zombies got killed by destroying ''their'' brains. Then you see [[spoiler: zombie Trash]] stride out of the darkness, and you realize that [[spoiler: if they'd eaten flesh like in the original Romero flicks, her body would've been all chewed up and that scene's twisted Fanservice would be ruined]].

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* At first, having the zombies crave brains seems like a snarky inversion of how Romero's zombies got killed by destroying ''their'' brains. Then you see [[spoiler: zombie Trash]] stride out of the darkness, and you realize that [[spoiler: if they'd eaten flesh like in the original Romero flicks, her body would've been all chewed up and that scene's twisted Fanservice would be ruined]].
** Also of note is that the human brain contains, among other things, endorphins! Serotonin, dopamine, and all sorts of feel-good chemicals that help us ignore how much our lives suck! So if it hurts to be dead, it makes sense why brains would be such an effective painkiller as opposed to, say,any other part of the human body.
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* At first, having the zombies crave brains seems like a snarky inversion of how Romero's zombies got killed by destroying ''their'' brains. Then you see [[spoiler: zombie Trash]] stride out of the darkness, and you realize that [[spoiler: if they'd eaten flesh like in the original Romero flicks, her body would've been all chewed up and that scene's twisted Fanservice would be ruined]].

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