Zombie Apocalypse

[Dudeons]

You are trapped in a mall when the zombie apocalypse happens. Zombies have burst through and are now trying to devour you. This is your last stand. You grab the nearest weapon, finding your only assistance to be *insert character here*, and suddenly some epic music starts blaring over the PA system. Now, what weapon would you be using, who would be helping you during the fight, and what music would be playing? This can be anything you want, although I recommend avoiding overpowered characters as backup (don't want to spend the whole fight dodging decapitated corpses, am I right?).

For me,

Weapon: Lightsaber
Music: Infinity
Backup: Robocop

What would you use?

EDIT: Assume what you will about zombies. For the sake of my post, I went with zombies that didn't retain intelligence upon transformation, turn people in a matter of hours by biting them, and don't suffer from pain or fatigue or other 'biological' effects. I also chose to believe that the horde is neverending and that death is inevitable, but like I said, believe what you want.

[Moriwen]

Sonic screwdriver for me, River Tam as backup. She can hold off the zombies while I go off and discover the cure by hacking into the secret government zombie file.

(No input on music -- I'm not really a music person. Maybe something classical for River?)

[Killer Angel]

Weapon: M134 (with lots of ammo)
Music: ace of spades
Backup: Tallahassee (zombieland). You know, experience counts.

[Aedilred]

It really depends on the type of zombie. How much damage I need to do to incapacitate them, how fast they are, whether they need to bite me to zombify me, or whether indiscriminate blood splatter from zombie wounds will do the job, or somewhere along that scale.

Weapon: My instinctive choice was a sabre, but that wouldn't be all that effective against an unarmed horde. Maybe a katana, although even then the reach is a bit low for my liking. Most likely then some sort of polearm: a glaive or halberd. I'd appreciate a shotgun or flamethrower, so long as there was sufficient ammunition.
Companion: Robert Baratheon (rebellion-era).
Music: Lux Aeterna. Yes, it's enormously overplayed, but for "instant epic effect" it's still the best tune available.

[Jon_Dahl]

Weapon: Minimi Mk3. Killing zombies possibly demands long-sustained continous fire, and I'm not looking to move around that much. I'm not assaulting; I'm holding my ground against the zombies. Minimi Mk3 is very light and modern LMG. With enough belts, I could destroy the lot of them (the zombies).

Backup: I choose the Gimp. First, I'd like to see his real face. I've always wanted to see that. He would be fairly silent, obedient and would blend well to the shadows when we hide. He seems like a good canon fodder when it comes to that. If we survived, I think we could enjoy some manly moments together.

Music: No music. It attracts zombies.

[Duck999]

Weapon: Something good, probably something ranged. Very likely magical.
Music: I'm not dead yet, from Spamalot
Backup: Superman, where would zombies get kryptonite?

[rs2excelsior]

Weapon: Steyr AUG with plenty of ammo (fully automatic version, of course)
Music: Most anything from Two Steps from Hell. Probably Blackheart, White Witch, or To Glory.
Character: Hmm. I'll come back to that one.

[Ravens_cry]

A T-800 programmed to protect me.
As for my weapon of choice, that's tougher. Something that can take out a whole bunch at once with seemingly unlimited ammo.
Hmm, Strohl Munitions BH-209i Plasgun, perhaps? Not only is it a real room clearer, it can get me in, or out, of any building up to, and including, a military bunker.
Eh, who am I kidding, I can't carry that.
An AP-130 on the other hand . . .
No ominous hummm though.
Music: Tubthumping by Chumbawamba.

[Hattori Hanzo]

Weapon:Sword of Light (from The Slayers)
Music:Something Lindsey Stirling
Backup:Steve from Minecraft

[enderlord99]

For the sake of this post, I'm going on the assumptions that: the zombies are exactly as physically capable as whatever they previously were, in all respects; any living animal (human or otherwise) might suddenly become another zombie; that zombies do not retain their intelligence upon conversion; and that the touch of a zombie disintegrates metal (because if it didn't, my partner would be some sort of robot, which is basically a cop-out.)

Weapon: Weather-resistant wooden baseball-bat, because it isn't metallic.
Partner: Angus MacGyver, because he'd be really helpful while alive, without being a particularly tough zombie if he goes down before I do (as if that'd happen...)
Music: I don't really care.

[Ravens_cry]

For the sake of this post, I'm going on the assumptions that: the zombies are exactly as physically capable as whatever they previously were, in all respects; any living animal (human or otherwise) might suddenly become another zombie; that zombies do not retain their intelligence upon conversion; and that the touch of a zombie disintegrates metal (because if it didn't, my partner would be some sort of robot, which is basically a cop-out.)

Ahnold class T-800 cyborgs would still be useful as they are coated in meat.

[Arkhosia]

Weapon: Sun Wukong (RWBY)'s staff.
Music: Indestructible, by Disturbed
Backup: Agent Maine

Zombies versus a guy with shotgun-chucks and a Spartan with legendary strength and a grenade launcher?
Yeah, it's obvious who'll win here.

Weapon: The Jackal
Music: I May Fall, by Jeff Williams
Backup: Covenant Hunter

Hunters can't be zombified as they're a hive mind of worms and have an arm cannon.
The jackal is powerful enough to blow a man's leg off.

[Traab]

I want Simo Häyhä Put him up in the rafters of the mall with as much ammo as we can strap to the bars nearby his perch.

Give me the ability to perform alchemy without circles like Edward Elric for a weapon.

As for music Cry Thunder

[Thiel]

Weapon: A Crash Tender, preferably based on an armoured vehicle, loaded up with Chlorine Trifluoride.
Character: Egil Skallagrimsson
Music:Run to the Hills by Iron Maide or Throught the Fire and Flames by DragonForce
Because when you're riding through a mall in a fire-spewing tank with a Viking on the roof there can be only metal.

[ShadowFireLance]

Weapon: A 20th level D&D Wizard's spellbook.
Backup: Corvo, from Dishonored.
Music: Drunken Whaler.

Yeah, this'll be fun!

On second thought, I'd have Albert Wesker as backup. You know, Zombie control dude.

[Killer Angel]

We see things like that "superman as backup", and "D&D Wizard's spellbook as weapon."

The thread would be more interesting (IMO), if we limit resources to real world.
FOr example:

I want Simo Häyhä Put him up in the rafters of the mall with as much ammo as we can strap to the bars nearby his perch.

This is an amazing idea.

[Traab]

We see things like that "superman as backup", and "D&D Wizard's spellbook as weapon."

The thread would be more interesting (IMO), if we limit resources to real world.
FOr example:



This is an amazing idea.

I know, right? Anyways, I mainly picked what I did for a weapon because I was trying to think of a decent weapon I could use to set up protections for myself. Alchemy was the only one that came to mind. I figure, give the man enough ammo and he could obliterate the entire zombie plague himself given a month. I just need a way to keep from getting bitten in the mean time. I guess I would grab my own sniper rifle and equal amount of ammo then ask the man for tips as I take pot shots from the rafters as well.

[Ossian]

I second the Real World thing.

So, my (not so real world) example, would be

Music: Blind Guardian (Time stands still at the Iron Hill, aka Fingolfin Vs Morgoth)
Weapon of Choice: M60 Machine gun ( I can handle the ranged combat, because I can leave the melee to.....)
Helper: Gatsu in Berserker armour. I am lucky if he leaves me even one zombie to kill

More realistically (well, sort of...)

Music: same as above, too epic.
Weapon of choice: a spas-12 shotgun (it's the one in Half Life. let's say there is an armoury at the mall)
Helper: Seal team six veteran, he/she just happened to be on leave that day.

[Aedilred]

The problem with the wizard's spellbook as a weapon is twofold. Firstly, it assumes you are a wizard yourself, which you're not, so it's just a book filled with random squiggles. Secondly, even if you are a wizard, the zombies are attacking right now, so you don't have time to memorise any of the spells. A sufficiently large spellbook could perhaps serve as a bludgeoning weapon, but I'd have thought there were more optimised weapons out there for that purpose.

[Killer Angel]

I know, right?

I didn't wanted to criticize anyone. If I gave that impression, I apologize.
I was merely comparing the gap in power between fiction and things from real life, 'cos we have worlds of difference between the two approaches, so I was suggesting to limit ourself.

[Traab]

No I meant I agreed my backup choice was awesome. :p You see it from time to time in the zombie films. A skilled sniper is hanging out in a good spot, just kicking back, and picking off slow moving targets like the worlds biggest and smelliest turkey shoot. So long as the ammo holds out and the zombies cant reach him, he can account for dozens, or even hundreds of undead all by himself. In the second resident evil film, its a STARS member sitting in his lawn chair, drinking beer, listening to tunes, and laughing at how easy it is, (it took a rocket launcher to take him down) in the Dawn of the Dead remake, the gun and ammo shop guy across the way from the mall is taking requests on who to snipe next. He is there for days, maybe weeks, just taking pot shots. He runs out of food and gets bit when they try a plan to ship over some supplies.

[Karoht]

Weapon-AAC Honey Badger, Glock with Frangible ammo (fragments and ricochets suck) as sidearm. AAC Honey Badger specifically because you are an ammo change away from being able to deal with zombies, to armored targets like survivors in body armor. Also, the integrated suppressor means the gun is amazingly quiet, even on full auto. And it's a short weapon so it's good in close confines.
Music-Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando-Arena Theme
"Turn it up, get more zombies in here already, I'm on a roll!"
Fantasy Backup-Ratchet (and Clank?)
But if I have to pick a real life backup? FPSrussia. Dude has all the weapons I could ask for. Even his own tank, and dune buggy with a .50cal mounted on it. Seriously, I can't think of better in real life.

[dehro]

so.. if fiction is allowed, then I'll go for a compression phaser rifle from Star Trek, on account of how it can be set to clear out a room full of zombies in one shot/blast, and has virtually no need to weigh myself down with heavy ammo.
I'll give one to my backup too, for which role I pick Capt. Jack Hartness, on account of how he's already immortal... or Tallahassee from Zombieland.

If we have to keep it somewhat real.. a shotgun for me, because I'm not that much of a shot and when you aim a shotgun to someone's face you stand a better chance of hitting him and pulverizing his head than with another weapon, albeit at closer range.
and for backup I would take John Rambo..because he's a mean SOB who wields machine guns, knows how to fly a helicopter and is unlikely to leave me behind.
if that's too unreal, then I'll go for this lady.

ah.. I forgot the music:

Wipe out by the Beach Boys,
Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones

[Zrak]

Weapon: A case of Lagavulin 12.
Helper: Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski.
Music: I wanna say Sam Cooke, but maybe at the time I'll be more in the mood for something a little more melancholy. Typhoon's "Sickness Unto Death" might be appropriate.

Basically, my plan is to throw a cool party. I never really got why people wanted to survive in those zombie apocalypse movies. Personally, I don't want to live in a world of crappy ruins populated by flesh-eating simulacra of the people I once loved. Basically, I wanna go out like Antony in the Rome teevee show, drunk beyond all reason and wearing ridiculous Egyptian make-up.

[dehro]

not so much surviving (which is not gonna happen, by OP) as much as going down in a blaze of glory, so to speak.
partying with just me and my potential backup.. sounds like a sad kind of party.

[SiuiS]

That sounds really neat actually, and you're right. Some folks just have a religious obligation for survival. It's rough, but that's the crumbles.

I mean, not sure it applies in a 'you will die' scenario, but then folks tend not to like lying down and dying either. Which leaves the old Vietnam Extra Bullet.



Hmm.

Weapon: Adamantine bollocks knife
Backup: James Tiberius Kirk
Music: Guile's Theme

Because like hel am I laying back and accepting defeat at a corpse-plae Kobayashi Maru.

[Killer Angel]

No I meant I agreed my backup choice was awesome. :p You see it from time to time in the zombie films. A skilled sniper is hanging out in a good spot, just kicking back, and picking off slow moving targets like the worlds biggest and smelliest turkey shoot. So long as the ammo holds out and the zombies cant reach him, he can account for dozens, or even hundreds of undead all by himself. In the second resident evil film, its a STARS member sitting in his lawn chair, drinking beer, listening to tunes, and laughing at how easy it is, (it took a rocket launcher to take him down) in the Dawn of the Dead remake, the gun and ammo shop guy across the way from the mall is taking requests on who to snipe next. He is there for days, maybe weeks, just taking pot shots. He runs out of food and gets bit when they try a plan to ship over some supplies.

Very true , and i remember those episodes. The only problems could arise if we have to face fast zombies. A running horde can be a problem for a sniper.

My generic "real life" backup choice, could be some expert soldier, with kevlar armor, to deal with the ones that bypasses the barrage of my M134.

[Traab]

Ah, but where are they going to run too? He and I are up in the rafters with a ladder pulled up after us. So all they can do is mill around underneath us. The zombies in the remake were sprinters too, but with nothing to chase, they just kinda congregate. Hang a few claymores at average head height and you could probably frag them by the hundred.

[Killer Angel]

Hang a few claymores at average head height and you could probably frag them by the hundred.

Unless we face the deadly Yonkers' zombie type...

[Arkhosia]

Or we could just, you know, get the local cleric to bless the mall.