Why do the Commonwealth troops wear that armor?
What is it actually for?
shareI'd say the same reason Alexandria and ?? the beach place sometimes wore armor ... or plastic protection ... to avoid bites. It's a good idea, and if you take apart most of the on-camera scenes where a "biter" has bitten one of those storm troopers, they successful bites are super contrived and probably would not happen unless someone wanted to get bit.
In that world it would be a good idea to wear protection.
It's obviously some protection against bites in a real world, but I was being a bit facetious. It never once seemed to have any effectiveness against anything in the show. Like storm trooper armor, it's entire purpose seemed to be to help the good guys disguise themselves.
In the same spirit: Those arm hooks, what the hell were they for? Getting caught on things to restrict your movement? I get the armor, but those were cartoonishly silly.
It's also bright white, the stupidest color they could have used. No good to conceal yourself from enemy humans or zombies.
> It never once seemed to have any effectiveness against anything in the show.
My point was that in real life against someone trying to bite you, wearing that kind of armor would probably protect you close to 100%.
As to the color, it is for show, like Police Blue, or the British Redcoats. There is little point in concealing yourself from zombies, and for people it is a symbol of state power.
Ok.
shareas walkers get older their teeth get harder
share"as walkers get older their teeth get harder"
And their skulls get softer. I have theorized that over time, the zombie virus pulls all the minerals and such from the skull and deposits them on the teeth and jaw, causing soft leathery skulls that can be pierced by a Q-tip, but super strong jaws that can bite through anything.