Punk Zombie

Punk Zombies are undead creatures which appear in Wyrd Games Malifaux universe.

Description
As with any major city, the street thugs of Malifaux take many shapes and forms. The difference between those of other cities and the lowlifes of Malifaux however, is that a dead ganger is unlikely to be reanimated in another town. Those hooligans which die on the streets of Malifaux are, however, most often buried in an unmarked grave, thrown down one of the local sewer hatches, or simply dumped into the river, and all of these sad endings offer opportunities for an enterprising Resurrectionist.

Like many of the creatures reanimated by dark magics in Malifaux, the Punk Zombies retain something of their former life: in the case of Punk Zombies, this is the hatred and self-loathing which drove them to become the scum which they were after realising that the new world offered them nothing but the same old choices.

As such wretched creatures, the Punk Zombies serve their new masters with a fanatical zeal, shooting, slashing, or simply beating the living to death. Indeed, their lust for violence extends as far as minor spellcasting: when no enemy is close enough to harm directly, a Punk Zombie is capable of magically linking its body to that of another’s, whereupon it will mutilate it’s own form, in order to cause pain and physical injury to that being.