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Stubbs the Zombie

GamesUndead2000 to 2009

The hero of a 2005 comedy that reverses the usual roles: the player controls a dead salesman who builds a horde by eating the citizens of the new city of Punchbowl in 1959. It drew a brief political controversy in the United States over cannibalism, which the studio answered by pointing out that Stubbs is a zombie.12

Battle it
First appeared
2005
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (2005)
Source work
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (2005)
Wideload Games
Age rating
ESRB M
Made in
USA
What causes it
Never explained
Edward 'Stubbs' Stubblefield, murdered in 1933, rises from his grave in 1959; the game does not present a scientific cause.
How you become one
Stubbs eats a person's brain and the victim rises as a zombie under his command.
Intelligence
Clever

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2005

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (2005)

field notes

What the sources say

1

The player is the zombie12

2

Eating brains heals him and recruits followers12

3

He herds his zombies by whistling and shoving12

4

Can tear off his own hand and use it to possess a human12

5

Built on the Halo engine by Wideload Games, the studio founded by Alex Seropian12

6

US Senator Joe Lieberman condemned the game as 'cannibalistic'12

Sources

  1. Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse - Wikipedia
  2. Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse - RAWG

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