[@Palindromatic]

I don't think it's the zombies everyone balks at so much as the tired, overdone cliches surrounding their execution. I think if they were presented in a relatively fresh way, people wouldn't raise as much of a fuss.

Also, I think we all remember the influx of role plays based off that [i]Warm Bodies[/i] movie when it first came out. (Never saw the appeal in writing a romance with a decaying sack of necrotic flesh.)