Colored and Marked and Tattooed Ones Oh My!

[j0be]

Definitely could be. There were many threads of theories about the mental institution and Bill Roberts.

[ShezgottaSmilez]

Does anyone remember in start of season 1, Lizzy was going through peoples tv's in the tower and found a recording of news station talking about a schizophrenia serial killer was sentence to jail right before the tv signail cut off.

I always thought he was the big zombie, the one at the arena or hospital. Because if I remember correctly the newsreporter before talking about the riots and signing off mention he was going to mental hospital. I always thought he has connection somehow with the zombie outbreak

[nikvoodoo]

This was the third time in 12 hours I have merged an identical thread regarding the TiVo/ink in chapter 2 and the pinstriped/towtm in the rest of the story. Follow the rules and look around before you post a new thread!

[Creem_Filling]

This was the third time in 12 hours I have merged an identical thread regarding the TiVo/ink in chapter 2 and the pinstriped/towtm in the rest of the story. Follow the rules and look around before you post a new thread!

Lol. I noticed that. I keep seeing these threads pop up.

[Th3_T3ch]

So here is what I think. There is one, maybe two, "pimp ass zombies". I prefer to call them Master Zombies as it fits. They control other zombies, but don't control all of them (I also don't like the "Queen Zombie" Theory). The one on the Diner and the one that Burt recognized is the man in the pin-striped suit. Lizzy remarks seeing the man in the pin-striped suit when he ambushes the maller convoy. The colored one might be in a different faction of zombies, but that might be wrong (as this is an assumption). If the pin-striped one was using Cain General Hospital as his base and the Colored One was using the arena as his base it would make sense. Pin-stripes seems to be focused on taking out harder opponents and creating new zombs and the Colored One seems to be focused solely on feeding and enjoying a "good time".

[HardKor]

Alright first off, I searched to see if this topic has been covered in one thread yet and didn't find anything. So If I missed it feel free to do the merge thing.

So there has been a lot of debate about whether the various sightings of "The One With The Markings"/"The Colored One"/"Ink"/"The One in the Pinstripe Suit" are all the same zombie or if there are multiple zombies fitting this basic description out there. I'm going to go ahead and stake my claim on the theory that there is, in fact, one and only one godking zombie pimp and that he is (or was), in fact, Bill Roberts aka "Ink" from the TiVo recording.

And here is my exhaustive reasoning why I think this:
From what we know about this Bill Roberts, he was a criminally insane sociopath who was sentenced to a mental health facility near time of the outbreak. We also know he was covered head to toe in a bodysuit of tattoos.
With this information in mind, let us now look at the various incidents involving "Ink" like zombies. The zombie that broke into the Tower was described as wearing a pinstripe suit and having "markings" on its skin. Bill Roberts would have been wearing a suit during the outbreak if he had just left court, and of course the "markings" could be tattoos. Its true those markings could be something else, but as we've seen this zombie more and more its looking less likely.
Aside from the pinstripe suit and the markings, we also know this zombie was shot in the hand by Burt. The zombie in Cain Mental Hospital in 23-3 was described as having a disfigured hand. He was also identified by Kalani as being the same one from the Arena, providing us with a connection between the zombie at the Arena, the one from the hospital, and the one who attacked the Tower and killed Paul.
We also know that the zombie that attacked the Tower was the same one that set up the ambush of the Maller convoy, since Lizzie recognized it as the "the man in the pinstripe suit." There was recognition in her description.
And finally to tie all of these zombie sightings back to the original "Ink," Bill Roberts: the zombie in the mental hospital had apparently built itself a homemade tattoo gun. It would make sense for Ink, a mental patient who could very well have had ties to that hospital, to retain a compulsion for tattooing considering the amount of ink he had on his body.
Whew, that was a lot of typing. OK so there's my spiel. What does everyone else think? Agree with me, or tell me that my theory is bad and that I should feel bad
Your turn

[Zombiehead]

It wasn't until this past episode that I'm beginning to believe this theory of their being multiple Super Smarties lurking in the WA world. I'm not so sure which one is Big Boss, but this latest creature in the hospital appears to surpass the intelligence of the one that visited the Tower (or maybe it knew one of them?). There's no way to prove that of course nor do I have anything to back up the idea that they're were a psychotic cult of Frankensteins in their former life. Going back to the ant theory, some ants build satellite Colonies with it's own set of leaders. What if the Arena (now hospital) was just a satellite being run by these marked ones? Anyway that's just me pulling stuff out of thin air, but yeah, I believe there's more than one leader/talker/Super Smartie creature.

[nikvoodoo]

Make that 4 times in 36 hours I have merged an identical thread into this thread regarding ink, the TiVo and how many pimp ass zombies there might be.

[GD_Elite]

Perhaps the title is confusing. Colored and Marked and Tattooed ones oh my isn't the first thing that people are going to search for...

On topic: all the physical appearances of this guy seem to make it appear as though there is one pimp-ass zombie. (see my previous post). The best argument for that there are multiple ones are the personalities. I think this might have been covered before, but could the scizophrenia be something to do with random personalities at different times?

[nikvoodoo]

I will grant that when a thread is buried 8 pages back, people are likely to miss it. Once it makes it back to the front page of the theories section, there's not much of an excuse.

Schizophrenia is not the same thing as Multiple Personality Disorder (or Dissociative Personality Disorder). Schizophrenia is marked by auditory/visual hallucinations, difficulties in communication, and "negative" emotions (meaning a basic lack in emotions as far as I can interpret). Dissociative Personality Disorder is the appearance of two or more distinct personalities. Ink was deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the court system (which is really hard to do in America's legal system), so he must really be messed in the head.

Regardless of that, could it be that whatever caused the outbreak affected those with mental illness differently? Especially ones as messed in the head as Bill Roberts obviously was? Could be.

I am leaning towards there being only one as well, but I can see why and how there could be more than one. And when you think about it, the incident in the Tower is the lone stand out in terms of the personality differences. But only right at the end of the confrontation. Up until the point The Tattooed One turned to attack and got shot by Burt, it was pretty similar to the other encounters.