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Was Morgan A Serial Killer?

posted 11 years ago by RRPounder
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...I mean he walked into that woman's house who was in bed screaming and put up her arms to defend herself and he posted her anyways. That was kind of sick to me.

[–] MidnightThud 11 years ago

Well not a serial killer as such, but certainly a monster and one the new humans feared as their boogeyman.

[–] cind5 11 years ago

I think Morgan thought he was doing a service. They were dying of the plague, so rather have them suffer, do a little euthanasia.

BOO-YEAH!

[–] MidnightThud 11 years ago

Yeah its a grey area.

The problem is there were 2 types of victims. The 'zombie' type that were indeed dead and the other almost semi-immune who had adapted. The problem was he didn't know there was a diff, and he killed from both camps.

Naturally in the book its much more fully explained. The Omega Man cuts all that subtlety out as does I am Legend.

[–] phillipsdan83 11 years ago

To the people who'd found the treatment, he was, insuring that they wouldn't listen to the idea that he'd found a cure.

[–] flit-2 10 years ago

He thought everyone left was a zompire, esp. if they slept during the day, so he killed them...

[–] rayincumbria 9 years ago

"if they slept during the day, so he killed them..."

So a serial killer of students then?

few visible scars

[–] Xcalat3 (3754) 8 years ago

/Well not a serial killer as such, but certainly a monster and one the new humans feared as their boogeyman./

this.

[–] greenbudgie (2359) 6 years ago

He was a serial killer. He was tired of his habit. I like the way that he just wearily stakes another plague-sufferer. Only Vincent Price could have done it that way.

[–] PaladinNJ (21786) 3 years ago

I'm sure he considered it self defense. Every night the ghouls/vampires were trying to kill him. So he had to go out when they were at their weakest and thin out the numbers or they would eventually overwhelm him.

[–] CoriSCapnSkip (2770) 3 months ago

That bothered me as it was different from the book. In the book, the vampire zombies slept during the day and one characteristic was they couldn't be wakened. That was one way you could tell them from a sleeping person.