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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

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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 world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2005

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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Same era: 2000 to 2009

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