History ComicBook / MarvelZombies

* ''Marvel Zombies'' (2015): ComicBook/ElsaBloodstone travels the Deadlands, protecting a young ward and dealing with zombies as she goes. Part of the ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' storyline.

** Less explicitly invoked, but the evil zombies in the final issue of ''Marvel Zombies Return'' are all but explicitly evil copies of the Justice League; Sentry=Superman, Moon Knight=Batman, Thundra=Wonder Woman, Quicksilver=Flash, Quasar=Green Lantern, Namor=Aquaman and Super-Skrull=Martian Manhunter.

** Also happens in ''Marvel Zombies Return''. [[spoiler:Hulk was allied with Sentry at first, but then Sentry tried to kill him, and Hulk decided to side with Spider-Man.]]

Elements of this comic franchise are incorporated into the [[Recap/WhatIfS1E5WhatIfZombies fifth episode]] of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse animated anthology series ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021''.

* ''Marvel Zombies Supreme'': [[ActionGirl Jill Harper]] and her Guardsmen team are sent to investigate a distress call at an isolated Project: Pegasus facility. What they find out is that a renegade biologist has A) cloned the ComicBook/SquadronSupreme and B) accidentally turned the clones into zombies. Notable for not having any overt connections to the "Hunger Gospel" virus, for being the series that brought back the Jack of Hearts, and for the second issue, which is pretty much designed to irritate the hell out of {{Superman}} fans.

Elements of this comic franchise are incorporated into the fifth episode of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse animated anthology series ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021''.

Elements of this comic franchise are incorporated into the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse animated anthology series ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021''.

* FiveManBand: New Avengers:
** Spider-Man -- TheHero
** Wolverine -- TheLancer
** Iron Man -- TheSmartGuy
** Hulk -- TheBigGuy

* ZombieApocalypse: Well, yeah.

* RealityEnsues:
** In ''5'', one of the universes to get infected by a zombie virus is very similar to ours. It follows a Marvel devotee's (referenced above) transformation into a zombie. First he's freaked out, then he decides to become a superhero. Unfortunately for him, rigor mortis sets in just before he's killed.
** In the original series, Magneto sends a girder through Daredevil's chest. Later, when he complains about a painful swelling in his feet, the other zombies discover it's his ''blood'': without a heart to pump it, gravity is causing it to pool in his feet.

* DoubleStandards: This is a series in which characters get graphically torn to shreds, but they censor swear words. No, I don't get it either.

* InfantImmortality: Averted with the deaths of [[spoiler:Franklin Richards, Valeria Richards, and the Power Pack]].

The term "Marvel Zombies", by the way, stems from an old nickname for devotees of Creator/MarvelComics. Amusingly, [[spoiler:one actually appears in ''[=MZ5=]'']].

%%* HandicappedBadass: Black Panther

* RevenantZombie: The zombies depicted in the series maintain their intelligence and abilities, with their hunger being akin to drug addiction since they feel an insatiable hunger and pain that can only be negated after feeding on the living. [[spoiler: After consuming all life in the universe, the zombies regain their consciousness and fully realise what they've been doing.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: As depicted in ''Dead Days'', a lot of the superheroes early on seemed to believe that this zombie plague is just the latest in a series [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed of constant crises]] and that eventually [[StatusQuoIsGod things will get back to normal]] . Pre-Zombie!Spider-Man rescues Ash and points out that his friends will have a hard enough time dealing with what they have done ''when'', not if, they get back to normal, while an actually zombified Colonel America manages to regain his composure briefly and insist they get help. If this had been the mainstream universe, they would be absolutely right, but alas, this is an {{Elseworlds}} tale. Only Nova is willing to point out how many they've already lost (and how hopeless the situation really is) while only now working on a plan of attack during a group scene on the Helicarrier.

** ''An averted one''. Rather than the Sentry, Franchise/{{Superman}} of all people was originally intended to be the superhero who started the outbreak without explicitly identifying him, but he was ultimately recolored into the Sentry due concerns of potential legal issues.

** ''An averted one''. Rather than the Sentry, ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' of all people was originally intended to be the superhero who started the outbreak without explicitly identifying him, but he was ultimately recolored into the Sentry due concerns of potential legal issues.

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* ''Marvel Zombies: Resurrection'' (2019): The Avengers, Fantastic Four, and X-Men go to investigate the corpse of Galactus at the edge of the solar system, and come back from space changed into "Earth's mightiest predators". Several years later, Spider-Man leads a small group of survivors hoping to find a cure. Initially announced under the name ''Respawn'', it is a reboot of the concept, set in its own continuity and taking heavy cues from its contemporary counterpart ''ComicBook/DCEASED''. There is little in the way of humor and the Hunger Gospel is completely absent in favor of an alien contagion known as the Respawned.

* ''Marvel Zombies: Resurrection'' (2019): The Avengers, Fantastic Four, and X-Men go to investigate the corpse of Galactus at the edge of the solar system, and come back from space changed into "Earth's mightiest predators." Initially announced under the name ''Respawn'', this appears to be an InNameOnly series entry, as with ''Destroy!'', that might not involve the Hunger Gospel at all.

The zombies and the Hunger Gospel have appeared in multiple other books as well, as cameos or antagonists. Most notably, the 13-issue series ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}: Merc With a Mouth'' is the story of a time-traveling Deadpool meeting and killing several of the B-list zombies who survived the massacre in the original book. An arc in Reginald Hudlin's run on ''Black Panther'' also featured the Zombies.

** Superhero zombies! Zombie SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}! Machine Man vs. the zombies! Lampshaded by Morbius in ''Marvel Zombies 3'' (coming up with a very corny new word): "I am a VAMPIRE! I am a ZOMBIE! I am a VAMBIE! I cannot be stopped!"

* PlotTumor: Zombie SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} has just a minor appearance in ''Marvel Zombies 3'', but thanks to real Deadpool's WolverinePublicity, his head has a way much bigger role in ''4''.

* BodyHorror: Aside from [[OurZombiesAreDifferent the obvious]], in ''Marvel Zombies Return'', Spider-Man learns how to use his own veins and arteries as makeshift webbing. On top of it all, despite being a zombie who supposedly can't feel pain, doing so is ''incredibly'' painful for him.