How can shane be a walker

He died when Rick stabbed him. His head wasn't shot or stabbed and then he turned into a walker. Nobody can be dead directly if their brains weren't destroyed. Brain is the only thing that takes them out. If a survivor wants to be a walker,you just have to kill him but don't kill him in the head,you should just do it in any part of his body but not the head.

You understand? In simpler terms, if there is no head trauma inflicted upon a person when they die, they will rise as a walker a short time later. Then again, it could take a very long time say, six hours at most to "re-animate".

If you overdose on drugs and die, you become a walker. If you stub your toe and get an infection AND die, you become a walker.

If you get your neck snapped and, well, yunno, die, you come back as a walker. If you are shot, stabbed, or badly bludgeoned in the head, however, you stay dead and do not come back as a walker. Then the Zombie virus kickstarts the brainstem. The corpse is shot through the brain.

Notice the time code! Other walkers are seen to turn just as quick. Shane reanimates in what seems like a minute. That's more Plot convenience than a realistic attempt at science, but given 4 minutes is shown to be a canon, scientifically proven timing, its believable as a standard deviation. Before Dr.

Jenner commuted suicide at the CDC, he told Rick that everyone is infected. I think that sometime during the apocolypse, the virus became airborne, maybe due to the growth of dead walkers piling up, or something else. The virus became part of the air, and as the survivors inhaled, the virus, along with oxygen and carbon dioxide, traveled through their bloodstream, spreading throughout their bodies. But, in order for the virus to take over the bodies of the survivors, they have to either die naturally, die in the hands of someone else, or get bitten or scratched by a walker.

In the TV show The Talking Dead , they explain it as the zombie virus also known as the walker virus being airborne. This simply means that if a person ever gets an open wound such as a cut on the face or hand or anywhere else on the body, you already have the zombie virus in you. So when Carl was shot, that means that zombie virus got in him through the gunshot wound but he wasn't turned over to a walker because he never died from the wound.

On the other hand, both Rick and Shane had wounds on their hands from the previous episode when they cut open their hands to attract the zombie to the gate and to the opening in that bus door which means that the walker virus was put into both of them.

Shane was changed over because if you noticed he had no wounds directly to the brain, only the heart which would allow him to "rise up" as a zombie. In the episode where the group that is lead by Rick goes to CDC, in the video it shows that the zombie virus only effects the brain stem making it reanimate leaving the rest of the body cold and dead. So if the virus only effects the brain then that means the only way you can actually be killed is if you are shot, stabbed, slashed, or have anything slam through the skull puncturing the brain.

So the only way you can actually be killed and remain as a dead corpse is if you are shot through the head or if you have any sort trauma to the brain that causes it to be punctured. Everyone already has the virus. If they are bitten by a zombie then it kills them and makes them a zombie. If they die naturally and do not receive a bullet or blow to the head, they will "rise" as a zombie. If bitten, they will turn to a zombie unless the sustain a head blow; then they will become a corpse.

Shane, just like everyone else, has the virus in him. When he gets stabbed by Rick, he rises as a zombie because no trauma was dealt to his head. Once shot in the head he is a corpse. Randall also had the disease and he was killed by breakage his neck and when was left there "dead" rose as a zombie soon after. Basically, no one is immune, everyone is sick and there are two ways of being turned; killed without a huge trauma to the head or a bite from a zombie which my theory is increases the disease in the body and accelerates death and immediate zombie transformation.

The only way to kill anyone, zombie or "not zombie", is trauma to the head. No one realised, about all the mix of zombie blood in the parking fight? Shane and Rick got cover their wounds with zombie Blood, this imo count as infection factor Using the Knife, to lure the zombies at the gate also counts. Old thread, but my thought is that yes, everyone is infected and will turn when they die unless they have significant head trauma. The character's fear of a zombie bite is probably down to the stress of the pain and trauma involved, just like avoiding an attack by an animal.

The zombie bite is no doubt dangerous as it's like any other wound, possibly worse as it contains bacteria and infection that will accelerate death, which in turn leads to zombification, but no more than being shot or stabbed below the neck.

TLDR; they are already infected, but being bitten by a zombie will kill you quickly because they are dirty. He wasn't actually shot but stabbed by a knife which must have had "walker" blood on it. That's why I think he got infected. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How did Shane and Randall turn so fast?

Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 8 months ago. Active 3 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 86k times. Improve this question. When someone turns it can take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours. That was already stated, like season 2 or 3, that everyone was already infected.

I think it was in the CDC center.