My Marvel Zombies Thoughts

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Guys guys guys guys GUYS we have SO much to chat about with this Marvel Zombies series! Look, as someone who does not like gore or blood or horror, I was a little worried about what I was getting myself into with this one. However, I REALLY loved the Marvel Zombies What If…? episode that they had released during the first What If…? season. So that alone made me excited to dive into this one.

I am DYING (haha) to talk about what happened. We start off strong with our Young Avengers girlies, Kate, Riri and Kamala. Already I was having a blast, because while the Young Avengers isn’t canon to the MCU yet, I really really really want it to be, and this is the closest we’ve got so far! It was so much fun to see these three interact with one another, and I hope that this is just the beginning of what is to come in future projects with them!


I absolutely loved how the plot centered around Kamala, it was such a pleasant surprise! I don’t know what I was really expecting with this show, but Kamala taking the lead with her little shrunken communication device was so awesome, and I could hear Iman Vellani shrieking with excitement in my head over how she got to be the lead of this show. That being said, I was DEVESTATED when they killed off Kate’s character. I was in denial for the first like 10-15 minutes, and thought that she was going to come back. When she didn’t…man, was that a bummer. I honestly would have even preferred her being a zombie than COMPLETELY dead, because at least we could have gotten her a little more screen time that way 😂 But at least she wasn’t suffering like the rest of the zombies were, so I guess that’s a plus for her. Ah, well. My poor Kate Bishop 😭


F.R.I.D.A.Y. being just a floating stuffed animal on an Iron Man suit had me cracking up, too, and totally something the three of them would have done. It felt straight out of a fanfiction, and I love how they interacted with F.R.I.D.A.Y. And it was cool to see how the three of them built their lives around the zombie apocalypse! Especially how they all hung out at Kate’s mom’s place.


Also, Blade Knight is one of the COOLEST characters! It was so much fun to watch his interactions on screen as a character we haven't seen in the MCU before! Admittedly, I don’t know much about Blade, but this made me want to pick up a comic or two to see what he’s all about.


I loved the callback to the Black Widow movie, with how Melina is using the same technology she used to control the pigs with the zombies. She absolutely would, and I loved how they incorporated that into the show. Plus, it was so fun to see the Widow family together again. (Is that what we would call them? Red Room family? I don’t even know hahaha). Any chance to see more Alexei and Yelena on screen always has me excited, so that was great! Also, Okoye serving, in more ways than one. Love that for her! She was a SICK looking zombie, and I loved that she served the Queen of the Dead.


These episodes also made me realize how much I miss Shang-Chi, Katy and Jimmy Woo! It’s been too long without them on screen, and seeing the fight style with the ten rings made me realize how much I’ve been craving more live action ten-rings fighting. I can’t wait to see more of Shang in Doomsday, but he should have gotten Shang-Chi 2 a long time ago at this point! Also, Zemo as the leader of the Raft was CRAZY WORK. I knew there had to be a catch, so him feeding everyone to Namor and the zombies of Talokan sure wasn’t a surprise at all, but it still definitely caught me off guard hahaha.


Yelena’s death also made me sad. They really were out here killing 2/3rds of my favorite (headcanon) trio! First Kate, then Yelena. I was starting to stress about Peter, and was so glad they didn’t kill him off in the other episodes. But man, Alexei grieving not only his love, but his daughter as well, sure broke my heart. The way Kamala had to sit and encourage him was so heartbreaking.


Episode 3 I thought was such a beautiful tribute to Chadwick Boseman. I was so happy that they didn’t recast someone to voice him, especially since the Marvel Zombies What If…? episode was one of his last projects before he had passed. I thought the way that they had Peter narrating what had happened was so beautifully well done and such a great way to honor Chadwick and his performance as The Black Panther. It was fun to kind of see the parallels in this episode to Avengers Infinity War, but Zombie Thanos was definitely terrifying to watch (not to mention how he killed of Rocket! That was awful!).


Scott’s floating head still cracks me up every time I see it, and I loved that we got to see a little more of Blade interacting with Khonshu in this episode as well. As soon as Wanda showed up at the Asgardian feast though, I knew we were in for a bad time. I thought to myself “oh my god. She can warp reality. She totally is turning them all into zombies right now.” And then when the feast changed, I practically threw up HAHAH. It was so grossssss 🤮. But totally what our girl Wanda would do given the circumstances.


All I could think during the Wanda and Thor fight was about the “who is the strongest Avenger” argument that has been going around the internet for years. I guess this answered for us that it’s Wanda, at least in this scenario. Poor Thor 😭 And I was so sad about Alexei becoming a zombie, too! And the way that he had a delayed reaction compared to everyone else because of his super soldier serum 😪 It made it so much more sad to think about it that way.


And then we jump to the team finally getting to space. Guys. I was JUST AS UPSET as Kamala was when they got up there and it turned out that the Nova Corps had quarantined earth. All they wanted was help to defeat the zombie apocalypse, and they went through all that pain and suffering and loss only for it to mean absolutely nothing in the end. And I get that this was the whole point of the episode, that is why the characters feel so upset about it as well. But man. What a bummer.


Infinity Hulk was SUPER cool. I talked a little bit about this in my “GRWM and Chat About Marvel Zombies” video that I had posted to TikTok this week, but I think the only thing that bothered me in this series was the confusion I had about Infinity Hulk’s character in particular. If he possesses the power of all the stones, wouldn’t he have power from the time stone to turn back time to before all of this began? Some of you in my comments explained that, while he has the power of the stones, he does not posses their specific qualities but rather just power itself. So he can’t turn back time, but he’s extremely powerful. Which, I suppose that does make some more sense. I still feel it’s a little bit plot-holey though. Maybe I’ll have to rewatch for more clarification/to see if I missed their explanation.


And I can’t NOT talk about the ending of this show, because how HORRIFYING. Not only did pretty much everyone die, but then Kamala gives Wanda her power and then we see she’s stuck in a weird fake-reality world where the zombies aren’t real?! TERRIFYING. I don’t watch much horror, but my friend Tracie was explaining that this was a very typical horror-style ending, where it kind of leaves you on the edge of your seat. But I just hope this means that we will potentially get a season 2 sometime in the future!


What did you guys think of Marvel Zombies? Do you think we’ll get a season 2? And if so, what are you hoping we’ll see? I hope we get to see a bit more of some of the characters that they didn’t touch upon, like Agatha! :)


Until next time!


-Jess (@missjessparker)