History Fridge / WorldWarZ

** For one it would be safe to assume the US government would not at all have been happy that a secret they have been trying to conceal was suddenly revealed to the whole world, and that’s not even mentioning all the chaos that followed. It is not out of the question for some government officials to seek out and do anything within their power to punish The Reporter, which would be much easier to do given how The US became more draconian during the height of the zombie apocalypse.

* For having such [[SmallRoleBigImpact an integral part of the overall story,]] it can be rather odd that The Reporter who exposed the zombie plague to the general public, doesn’t receive any focus. However, given that her report also indirectly led to The Great Panic, It is easy to assume she earned a big target on her back.

* For having such [[SmallRoleBigImpact an integral part of the overall story,]] it is rather odd that The Reporter who exposed the zombie plague to the general public does not receive to much focus. However, given that her report also indirectly led to The Great Panic. It is safe to assume she earned a big target on her back.

* For having such an integral part of the overall story, it is rather odd that The Reporter who exposed the zombie plague to the general public does not receive to much focus. However, given that her report also indirectly led to The Great Panic there is a good reason why she does not appear, She has a major target on her back.

** Or, it's publically known where this guy lives, and the security around the man is just so tight it would be suicidal to try and get at him.

** It's possible the author changed the name of the facility and Redeker's [[spoiler: alternative personality]] to stop that.

* Paul Redeker lives under heavy guard due to the vast number of people who might want to personally kill him for his willingness to sacrifice so many people during the Zombie War. Now, by the end of this chapter, the author has told anyone and everyone reading it exactly where he lives.

* The interview describes the ShellShockedVeteran Todd Wainio as looking much older than his actual years. In the audiobook, he's played by Creator/MarkHamill, who is about 20 years older than Wainio would be.

* The interview describes the ShellShockedVeteran Todd Wainio as looking much older than his actual years. In the audiobook, he's played by Creator/MarkHamill, who is about 20 years older than Wainio would be.
* Well, I’m never listening to another complaint about how “unrealistic” it would be for world governments (and especially the US) to botch the response to a zombie pandemic as badly as portrayed here. If anything, Brooks was generous. (dated 2020)

* The interview describes the ShellShockedVeteran Todd Wainio as looking much older than his actual years. In the audiobook, he's played by Creator/MarkHamill, who is about 20 years older than Wainio would be.

** The UK is actually very sparsely populated, Wales only has five cities in it, everything else is either villages or small towns, and between them is huge swathes (for the UK at least) of countryside, Generally if the UK was hit, it would of mostly have been England hit the hardest, being the largest country with the most cities (50 of them), heres context, the city of London, the capital of the UK has 8.982 million people, Wales has under half that as a whole.

* Italy is mentioned having lost many southern areas to the zombies, yet it remained a major food and weapon producer (even supplying the French with the air rifles used in the Paris Catacombs). Northern Italy, where most of the production of both is concentrated, has a large plain that is connected to the south by a number of chokepoints in the Appennine mountains and a single narrow stretch of coastal plain. They put their Safe Zone just where food and guns were made.

* Italy is mentioned having lost many southern areas to the zombies, yet it remained a major food and weapon producer (even supplying the French with the air rifles used in the Paris Catacombs). Northern Italy, where most of the production of both is concentrated, has a large plain that is connected to the south by a number of chokepoints in the Appennine mountains and a single narrow stretch of coastal plain. They put their Safe Zone just where food and guns were made.

* From the book: Why are there so many "[=LaMOEs=]" (Last Men On Earth, the name the reclamation forces gave to people who survived the outbreak but didn't want to re-integrate back into society) alive even after America started retaking the country? It's because they are the crackpots who read the Zombie Survival Guide and prepared for a Class 4 Outbreak. An earlier interview had even an American dismiss the book as "masturbation material", so of course only people who want to opt out of civilized reality would be the ones crazy enough to prepare something like it.
* [[spoiler: Why did Movie Israel fall? Because they decided to fortify Jerusalem!]] In the book, Jerusalem was described as a weak point if it was made part of the wall.
* Why did colleges like the one in Claremont do so well in defending themselves against zombies? College students are notorious for discussing and creating "z-plans," not to mention colleges would have enough people with different skill-sets (engineering, medicine, and even agriculture) to properly handle all the necessary requirements of holding out against a horde of zombies. In addition, colleges are primarily made up of people in their late teens and early 20s -- or, put another way, people in the physical prime of their lives, and thus able to fight better and longer than the old or very young.
* Italy is mentioned having lost many southern areas to the zombies, yet it remained a major food and weapon producer (even supplying the French with the air rifles used in the Paris Catacombs). Northern Italy, where most of the production of both is concentrated, has a large plain that is connected to the south by a number of chokepoints in the Appennine mountains and a single narrow stretch of coastal plain. They put their Safe Zone just where food and guns were made.

** [[MathematiciansAnswer Yes]]
* Notice how every zombie is just a a man between 20-40 or so...you never see any babies or old men..which make sense as the virus is trying to spread itself as efficiently as possible and most babies can barely even walk, much less chase after healthy humans..but that means that many babies are starving to death...
** Or, since those infected are less physically fit, and the infected we see tend to be moving very, very quickly, they could just be moving with the horde... very, very slowly. It's unlikely that the babies would be able to keep up with young men and women aged 20-40. It's probably also the reason we don't see as many physically unfit people at the lead of the hordes, that's just the zombies that could move fastest leading the way.
* In the movie, Tommy escapes the zombie attack, [[spoiler: as well as the zombification of his family]]. He shoots a zombie that is trying to attack Gerry. [[spoiler: When Gerry, his family, and Tommy reach the roof of the apartment building, Tommy's zombified father attacks. Given the presence of Tommy's gun and the absence of his mother, it's very possible that he had to shoot his zombified mother to escape.]]
* Most of the zombies that got sucked out of the plane when the grenade went off were fully animate all the way down. If even one of them landed in good enough condition to crawl, Gerry may just have spread the infection to some part of Wales that'd been zombie-free until then.

!!FridgeLogic:

* Why is it so safe in the village in which Gerry lands? It's Wales; low population, quiet, and of course, the UK's got one humongous moat called the Atlantic Ocean. Why's North Korea ''really'' so safe? Because they're notoriously isolated. America doesn't save the day; it seems to be one of the countries hit the hardest thanks to great transport and huge centers of populations.

* Why is the pharmacist armed? Because he's trying to maintain order to get people the medicine they need, and he expects to encounter drug addicts after the prescription-strength painkillers.
** There are real-life pharmacies in the US with guns, in case of attempted robbery. As mentioned, they are tempting targets for those addicted to prescription drugs or methamphetamines (which are made using cough medicine).
* Did you ever think why the helicopter refused to arrive before dawn? Simple. The flares would be a dead center target for the zombies since they're sooo shiny.
** I'm pretty sure that the helicopter just had other things to do during the night. It was a chaotic situation, after all.
** Plus during the day, you can more clearly see who is infected and who isn't, which would be critical in an evac situation.
* One moment in the book becomes this with the benefit of hindsight. The Battle of Yonkers ends with a squad of Joint Strike Fighters bombing the zombies in a last-ditch effort to slow down the horde. In the book, the Great Panic started in the summer of 2013; as of 2014, the Joint Strike Fighter still has not entered service. Instead, it has been the subject of endless delays and cost overruns, all for a plane that was found to have inferior performance to comparable Russian fighters. It is viewed as a symbol of everything wrong with the military-industrial complex... [[RealitySubtext in other words]], kind of like the Battle of Yonkers in-universe.
** Furthermore, the appearance of [=JSFs=] at Yonkers, despite them not being in service by 2013, could be given an equally appropriate justification -- the Pentagon could easily have hurried a few prototypes into service in order to have another piece of state-of-the-art military technology to show off to the press, despite it (like so much of the gear at Yonkers) being largely unsuited to fighting zombies.

* [[spoiler: Why did Israel fall? Because they decided to fortify Jerusalem!]] In the book, Jerusalem was described as a weak point if it was made part of the wall.

** Unlikely, as you see him being chased by [[spoiler: his zombie father]]. He wouldn't have been chased if wasn't healthy. Tommy probably escape during the twelve second window of the transformation, and probably only got to Gerry by PlotArmor

* From the book: Why are there so many "LaMOEs" (Last Men On Earth, the name the reclamation forces gave to people who survived the outbreak but didn't want to re-integrate back into society) alive even after America started retaking the country? It's because they are the crackpots who read the Zombie Survival Guide and prepared for a Class 4 Outbreak. An earlier interview had even an American dismiss the book as "masturbation material", so of course only people who want to opt out of civilized reality would be the ones crazy enough to prepare something like it.

* Most of the zombies that got sucked out of the plane when the grenade went off were fully animate all the way down. If even one of them landed in good enough condition to crawl, Gerry may just have spread the infection to some part of Wales that'd been zombie-free until then.

* Italy is mentioned having lost many southern areas to the zombies, yet it remained a major food and weapon producer (even supplying the French with the air rifles used in the Paris Catacombs). Incidentally, most of Italy's food production is located in the Po Valley in the north, and the vast majority of their weapon production is concentrated in the mountains north of that.

* Why did colleges like the one in Claremont do so well in defending themselves against zombies? College students are notorious for discussing and creating "z-plans," not to mention colleges would have enough people with different skill-sets (engineering, medicine, and even agriculture) to properly handle all the necessary requirements of holding out against a horde of zombies.