Talk:Zombina/@comment-24053170-20150814201803/@comment-26824352-20150904000841

Yes, given that I wrote that tidbit from the wiki that was quoted, I must stress that that was speculative in light of a lack of further information, but that now that we have the Zombie title card, we can know for certain the nature of a zombie.

It is true that a zombie is no more than a reanimated human corpse. In fact, because the cause is noted as being a form of virus, it might easily be concluded that this infection is incapable of infecting non-humans. However, technicality or no, a zombie is still legally treated as a liminal for the purposes of the Cultural Exchange Between Species Bill. They may have human DNA, but they are not alive, and any scientific classification of a lifeform would be both debatably misused and largely ineffective.

A corpse is a dead thing, and a human corpse is a dead human. However, a zombie is a dead human that still moves and acts. If you prefer, we can treat not the zombie but the infection as the liminal here, which has taken up residence in a human brain and thus exhibits its memories and sapience.

Remember, the monster category is two-fold. It's for monster species, yes, but the definition of a monster is determined by the legal Exchange Act, and it recognizes zombies as liminals, and not as dead persons.