These superheroes are hungry to stop crime, but also eat brains.
The first bloody trailer for the upcoming Disney+ animated series “Marvel Zombies” has been released. The four-episode series releases on Sept. 24 and will be the first TV-MA animated series for Marvel. The show started out as an episode of Season 1 of “What If?” that reimagined the Marvel universe as a zombified nightmare. MCU characters like Ms. Marvel, Kate Bishop, Jimmy Woo, Yelena Belova, Okoye, Captain America, Wanda Maximoff, Namor, Abomination and many more reappear in “Marvel Zombies.”
The voice cast includes Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Tessa Thompson, Simu Liu, Awkwafina, Hailee Steinfeld, Wyatt Russell, Randall Park, Iman Vellani and Dominique Thorne.
In Season 1, Episode 5 of “What If?,” titled “What If…Zombies?,” the Avengers and nearly the entire world are infected by a zombie virus that Janet van Dyne brings from the Quantum Realm. The first victims are her husband Hank Pym, followed by her daughter Hope van Dyne, aka the Wasp, and Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man. Many of the other Avengers turn into brain-eating corpses, such as Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Wong, Hawkeye, Falcon and Wanda Maximoff.
In the “What If?” episode, a team of humans, including Wasp, Spider-Man, Winter Soldier, Hulk, Sharon Carter, Okoye and Ant-Man’s talking head in a jar, must escape the zombie onslaught. In the end, several of the survivors die, and Hulk sacrifices himself to stop a super-powerful Wanda zombie who has magic powers, thanks to the Mind Stone. The humans escape to Wakanda, but a cliffhanger teases that a zombie Thanos nearly has a completed Infinity Gauntlet.
“Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman originally created “Marvel Zombies” as a comic book series in 2005, and it was set in an zombified alternate universe. The show is created by Bryan Andrews and Zeb Wells. Executive producers are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt, Bryan Andrews and Zeb Wells, and producers are Danielle Costa and Carrie Wassenaar.
Watch the trailer below.