Seriously, how? They’ve been trying to kill of superheroes for years (Watchmen, the Boys) but nothing seems to stick.

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    A scathing work of satire that manages to get insanely popular and become a cultural phenomenon.

    That was Don Quixote which killed chivalric romances, and that was Blazing Saddles which killed whitewashed TV Westerns.

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        Like superheroes, IMO zombies aren’t a genre, they’re an element — they exist within a genre (often action, horror, or thriller especially) but aren’t one unto themselves.

        I think the Walking Dead having a good first season or two that a lot of people watched and then quickly becoming unwatchable garbage wore people out on them.