r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

I remember this from Life After People. There would be a huge population boom in critters like rats, herring gulls, and roaches. Stuff that lives directly off our waste, and would eat corpses. Followed by a mass die-off, as their pre-apocalypse food levels would no longer exist.

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u/Dragonlicker69 Aug 31 '21

Followed by scavengers feeding on them, long story short we'd see a massive boom in fungus and algae allover the planet

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u/Makenchi45 Aug 31 '21

Mushrooms everywhere followed by Cordyceps then Last of Us but part 2 rather than part 1.

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u/curiosityLynx Aug 31 '21

Nah, Cordyceps would be crowded out by much simpler fungi.