What kinds of abilities would be cool to see?

Im working on a series. Multiple books in the same universe but completely different stories and characters so you could pick up any one of them with out reading the previous. I wanted to be atleast a little different and unique so imma have the virus be an alien virus instead of man made. I wanted to so of them to have special abilities. You got the classics, runners, climbers, jumpers. I also have ones that can “talk”. They cant make new thought or sentences but they can mimic themselves from when they were alive. For example they can scream “HELP ME HELP” or “come here. Im fine. I missed you”. In an attempt to lure prey/victims. Any other ideas? Would that ruin the zombie experience for you?