Blog: Marvel Zombies

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This week I have been watching the Marvel Animated series Marvel Zombies. SPOILERS: I thought it was really really good.

As very much That Sort Of Person I have watched pretty much ALL of the Marvel TV series and usually get Quite Excited when I see that a new one has arrived, but I must admit that I wasn't too fussed about this one. Like Eyes Of Wakanda (which I haven't got round to yet) it seemed to just appear on the massive list of Marvel TV shows without any heraldry at all, as if they'd forgotten they'd made it and thought they ought to just stick it out anyway. Also, although I ended up enjoying 'What If?', I wasn't all that excited about a whole series of the 'Marvel Zombies' episode. I mean, it was all right, but after reading A LOT of the original comics series back in the day I was pretty sure that I had had my fill of the going "OH look, it is Captain America but a zombie."

How wrong I was! For LO! it turns out that 'Marvel Zombies' isn't really a Marvel Zombies series AT ALL, but is instead a super exciting and also FUN and MASSIVE alternate universe 'Avengers:Endgame'-type finale for all of the Marvel movies of the past six or seven years! Also, it has Iman Vellani as Ms Marvel as the STAR of the whole thing so that means I am flipping WATCHING it.

The general idea of the (ADMIRABLY SHORT - 4 episodes!) series is that there's BEEN a zombie apocalypse and several years later all the characters of Phase Four and Five of the MCU are bashing around DOING stuff in it. THUS you get Riri Williams, Kamala Khan and Kate Bishop zooming around, and they (through various shenanigans) bump into characters like Shang Chi and Katie, Jimmy Woo, some of The Thunderbolts, and Moon Knight, although this is a BLADE who's taken on the Moon Knight role so you get two for the price of one.

Blade is played by someone who ISN'T Wesley Snipes or Mahershala Ali (i.e. the actor who's meant to be playing him in the new version which never seems to be happening) but otherwise pretty much ALL of the characters are voiced by the proper actors from the films, so it feels like a Pretty Big Deal. Also there is LOADS of action and excitement and also JOKES - proper jokes too, not just the occasional BANTER that you got in the 'What If?' series - so that it really does feel like one of the big Avengers EVENT movies. So much so that I do not understand WHY they didn't ADVERTISE it as such, rather than slipping it out in an embarrassed way going "It's Zombies, yeah?" I mean, I know there are twits and wallies out there who object to the whole IDEA of these characters, but surely there are enough of us sensible fans out there who would go "ZOINKS! It's like an AVENGERS movie for this whole batch!"

In summary then, this was a whole lot of fun to watch, to the extent that I thought it was worth my while telling you about it. After all, it's not like these mega corporations have the wherewithal to do it themselves!

posted 8/10/2025 by MJ Hibbett

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