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This is a Zombie. And zombies DON'T move fast, ghouls do. Zombies DON'T eat brains, or anything else for that matter, ghouls do. Zombies DON'T make other zombies, ghouls make other ghouls. In American pop-horror zombies have been mistaken for ghouls this whole time.

Real zombies are merely animated corpses, not mutants or "diseased" humans as other pop-horror videogames would mislead you to believing. Zombies can only move as fast as their legs allow in accordance to how rotten, broken or atrophied. So most proper zombies are slow moving. Zombies only maim, claw and bludgeon, they don't eat anything, and this is because many of them may not have a mouth, throat or a stomach . Zombies don't have super strength and are commonly weaker than humans, this is because their flesh is dead and rotting and they are the weakest of the unliving creatures.

For those who like pop culture zombie (not real undead or undead for 14 year old girls and mouth breathers) I refer you to the ghoul.
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I'd argue against the idea that a zombie is weaker then a living human, though. The human body is capable of great feats of strength, but we're actually limited by our ability to feel pain, which prevents us from "overclocking" our bodies by straining past our ability to resist damage.

Zombies have no awareness of pain, and are unable to hold back their physical bodies to avoid damaging themselves. So a Zombie could use more of his body's physical strength then a living human could. At least until the decay and wear and tear set in, mind.