Zombie (Final Fantasy VI)

Zombie is a status in Final Fantasy VI. A character inflicted by zombie will become uncontrollable, and counts as dead for Game Over purposes. The character will keep attacking even if HP is displayed as 0. May attack either enemies or allies, and has a 1/16 chance each of inflicting darkness or poison on hit. Attackers have a 25% bonus to hit rate against those affected. This status also prevents the user from activating their Desperation Attacks. Getting inflicted by zombie status removes darkness, poison, critical, berserk, confuse, and sleep, regardless of if the target is immune. Zombified party members have green skin and have skull and crossbones symbol in the menu.

Normally, zombies can only use regular attacks; magic, techniques, and items are inaccessible. However, if a character is given a command and is not given the chance to execute it prior to zombification, the zombie's first move is to execute the previously given command even if said command was magic, an item, or a technique. This can have potentially deadly side effects; the zombie may use a healing item/spell on an enemy or the wrong party member, or may blast a party member with a high-level offensive spell. Even moves that normally can only target enemies, such as Sabin's Blitz or Cyan's Bushido, may still wind up targeting the party if used by a zombie. If the move is a group-hitter, like Fire Dance, the effects can be particularly devastating, as the entire party can be hit. After the zombie's first move, they will revert to plain attacks—unless the zombie's first move is Gau's Rage, in which case zombie-Gau's Rage will continue as normal, albeit hitting the party at random.

Inflicting the zombie status on enemies makes that enemy untargetable with no way of killing them, rendering them invincible for the duration of the battle. The zombified enemies are treated as dead upon the defeat of all enemies. The status on enemies still works in the same manner as it does for affected party members, these enemies will attack the party and their own allies randomly.

There are also a number of ways to trigger the 0 HP character bug with the use of zombie status.

Abilities[]

The player does not have access to abilities that inflict zombie.

Enemy abilities[]

Ability	Description	Enemy
Bone	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Fossil Dragon, Zombie Dragon, Dinozombie
Bone Powder	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Black Dragon
Cloudy Heaven	Inflicts Doom to the party, and when timer runs out, the target is inflicted with Zombie. Ignores Zombie immunity but not Death immunity.	Goddess, Kaiser Dragon, Glutturn (X-Ether)
Crypt Dust	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Kaiser Dragon, Mahadeva, Demon Knight, Dinozombie, Hidon, Skeletal Horror
Deadly Pollen	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Exoray
Fallen Footsteps	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Wizard
Fear	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Skull Dragon (Dragon's Den)
Life Drain	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Vampire Thorn
Mind Blast	Inflicts Darkness, Zombie, Poison, Imp, Petrify, Doom, Silence, Berserk, Confuse, Sap, Sleep, Slow, or Stop on four random targets	Ultima Weapon, Kaiser Dragon, Omega Weapon
Moldy Bone	Inflicts non-elemental damage and Zombie to one target.	Skeletal Horror
Negatouch	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Ouroboros
Soul Extraction	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Cloudwraith, Shield Dragon
Zombie Claw	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Erebus (Upper Right)
Zombie Fang	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Tiger
Zombie Stick	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Necromancer
Zombie Touch	Inflicts Zombie to one target.	Borghese, Kamui

Protection[]

Relic	Amulet, Memento Ring, Ribbon, Safety Bit

Healing[]

Ability	Raccoon (Dance), Soul Spiral (Blitz), Tapir (Dance), Transfusion (Lore)
Item	Holy Water, Sleeping Bag, Tent

Enemies[]

The following are immune to zombie:

All bosses are immune to zombie, except the following: