Zombie

Zombies are to be the main enemy creatures in Axis of Evil. They are depicted as corpses that have been succumbed to the possessive evil powers from the supernatural causes and reanimated through supernatural and demonic means. Also, they commonly appeared in Nazi Germany, the eastern part of the Soviet Union, the Empire of Japan, the Republic of China, and some parts around the Pacific like in the Philippines.

Overview
Zombies usually tend to vary in terms of origin, however every origin pertains to normal humans in particular personnel of various branches turning into slaughtering, flesh-eating undead, including dogs. Some versions depict them being created from the use of strange chemical science and others say they are created from more paranormal sources.

Appearance
These zombies usually vary in such terms of physical appearance. Like zombies of the Haitian folklore, these kind have no exceptions to the fact that they look all decomposed and falling apart. Some types show to have glowing eyes ranging from yellow-orange, but some show no glowing eyes at all. As far as skin and bones go, some of them have been shown to look like normal humans, but bodily changed by necrosis and others show them to be skeletal based as well.

Intelligence
The zombies usually vary in terms of behavior and even sentience. Some iterations make them out to be mindless creatures, however others show them to have some form of sentience. This makes them intelligent enough to utilize weapons and other tools. Such intelligence also shows dominance over lesser, normal zombies. Not many of them speak in their respective languages, but some can and usually make it so that their subordinates can understand them. Despite their debatable sentience, these zombies are also debated on whether or not they need to eat or slaughter the living flesh as in some variations, this is shown to be the case.

Equipment
The zombies are usually shown to wear whatever they had on when they were human beings, especially the soldiers of the Axis pact. As far as weapons go, they have shown to not even use weapons at all and instead attack with their bare hands. Other iterations depict them of wielding the most basic tools as weapons, but can also utilize military weapons, including firearms.

During World War II
In recent years from the start in 1939, many Axis and Allied soldiers were casually dead from the deadly battles and buried anywhere in Europe and Asia as dead bodies. Before unleashing the undead, they were ancient relics in the world.

Types
The first 3 types of zombies are commonly known as Axis zombies, or WWII zombies.

Nazi zombies

 * Main article: Nazi zombie

Originally created by Schutzstaffel before the other Axis nations do as part of their alliance during World War II, Nazi zombies are troops of the Wehrmacht in some iterations, but nowadays it's particularly the Schutzstaffel due to their work in top secret experiments.

Nazi zombies usually wear military uniforms of a Nazi soldier. As stated before, these uniforms vary in terms of military branch, ranging from Wehrmacht to Schutzstaffel. Some of them wear Stahlhelme as their main military helmets and caps and in some variants show them being equipped with armor to protect their bodies from damage. To be specific, they are equipped with German-made military weapons like Karabiner 98 kurz.

Fascist Italian zombies

 * Main article: Italian zombie

Similar to the Nazi zombies due to their behavior, but the differences are their physical appearance and military weapons. Italian zombies always wear military uniforms of the Royal Italian Army during World War II, and equip with Italian-made actual weapons.

Japanese zombies

 * Main article: Japanese zombie

Japanese zombies always act like Nazi zombies, wear various military attires of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy, and utilize modern Japanese WWII military weapons and katanas as their melee swords. Also, they have Kamikaze attacks and Banzai charges.

Hell zombies

 * Main article: Hell zombie

Hell zombies, flaming zombies or infernal zombies are the demonic equivalent of normal zombies.