Marvel Zombies is coming again to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with three upcoming Disney+ specials. The brand new specials will hit beginning in 2027. These embody The Winter Soldier (2027), The Fist of Khonshu (2028), and The Final Guardian (2029), and they’re going to come out round Halloween annually. Bryan Andrews, who directed and ran the 2025 Marvel Zombies collection, is directing the specials, and Brad Winderbaum stated that who the Final Guardian is would be the thrilling thriller within the collection. The specials’ names listed within the titles (Bucky Barnes, Moon Knight, and the Final Guardian) will solely be a few of the characters in these episodes.
Whereas these titles reveal who would be the predominant focus of the tales, they don’t inform us what the tales will really be about. There are a variety of choices from the Marvel Zombies comics that might play into any of those characters, and these are some nice ones to point out in these Halloween specials.
5) Marvel Zombies: Struggle Zone
Marvel Zombies: Struggle Zone is a five-issue restricted collection by Tom Waltz and Jaime Infante, and it’s at present ongoing. This can be a collection that might play out in Moon Knight’s The Fist of Khonshu particular as a result of it’s extra about street-level heroes than the extra highly effective zombie heroes. The primary character within the comics, because the Struggle Zone title suggests, is The Punisher, and he has labored to date with Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and different street-level heroes as New York Metropolis was blocked off from the world with a power discipline to maintain the zombie outbreak from spreading.
It’s assumed that the Marvel Zombies specials will all happen in the identical world launched within the What If…? collection and the Marvel Zombies miniseries with Kamala Khan because the lead. Bear in mind, within the collection, Marc Spector is useless, and Blade has taken over as the brand new Moon Knight, often known as the Fist of Khonshu, so it might be simple to see this character in the identical storyline that was advised in Marvel Zombies: Struggle Zone, however with some minor tweaks to remove the force-field a part of the story.
4) Midnight Sons vs. Marvel Zombies
One other nice possibility from the comics that might be advised within the Fist of Khonshu particular is the Marvel Zombies collection, the place the Midnight Sons fought the Marvel Zombies. With the concept that the Midnight Sons are on their option to the MCU, with the potential for characters like Ghost Rider, Blade, Werewolf by Night time, Man-Factor, and extra coming. The truth that Blade is the brand new Moon Knight on this planet of the MCU’s Marvel Zombies storyline means this Halloween particular might have an enormous monster mash.
This storyline was from Marvel Zombies 4, a four-issue restricted collection from 2009 by Fred Van Lente and Kev Walker. Morbius leads a brand new Midnight Sons made up of Werewolf by Night time, Daimon Hellstrom, Jennifer Kale, and Man-Factor, and he provides everybody besides Man-Factor a vaccine he made towards the zombie virus. Changing Morbius with Blade’s Moon Knight makes this an ideal match for any Halloween particular. Who doesn’t need to see Marvel’s monsters wreaking havoc on the zombies?
3) Age of Ultron vs. Marvel Zombies
An alternative choice that might be nice to see might really come individually from the Marvel Zombies specials on Disney+. Throughout the 2015 “Secret Wars” comedian e-book collection, there was a miniseries known as Marvel Zombies by Simon Spurrier and Kev Walker that confirmed the zombie-infested Deadlands on Battleworld. This story sees Elsa Bloodstone combating by means of the zombie hordes as she tries to save lots of an amnesiac boy. Nonetheless, issues acquired even higher with Age of Ultron vs. Marvel Zombies, one other “Secret Wars” tie-in collection.
This collection by James Robinson, Steve Pugh, and Ron Garney confirmed that Ultron additionally had a military of Ultron Drones within the Deadlands, which created a large struggle between Ultron Drones and Marvel Zombies, with some heroes like Surprise Man and Hank Pym caught within the center. Seeing this small a part of Battleworld present up within the Avengers: Secret Wars film might be well worth the value of admission. If not, it may be a pleasant place to throw within the Winter Soldier in his particular.
2) Marvel Zombies: Resurrection
Marvel Zombies: Resurrection is an alternate-world Marvel Zombies comedian e-book collection by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Leonard Kirk. This sees Spider-Man having survived (he was contaminated within the authentic Marvel Zombies collection), and he units out to guard Franklin Richards and Valeria from their mother and father’ makes an attempt to show them. It additionally has an enormous tie-in to the X-Males, with Forge there to assist. Additionally within the collection is a big choice of robotic characters, together with Punisher, who agreed to be changed into a robotic to make sure he couldn’t develop into a zombie.
With the Implausible 4 and X-Males now within the MCU, this might be an excellent storyline to point out their addition to the Marvel Zombies lore as effectively. Not solely that, however it might supply a have a look at the demise of Galactus, one of the crucial highly effective characters in all the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as it’s his rotting corpse that carries what’s retaining the Implausible 4 and different heroes zombified. It’s a found-family story, and even when the collection replaces Spider-Man with Kamala Khan, it might supply a good way to maintain her concerned, even with the opposite heroes’ names within the titles.
1) The Zombie Galacti
If there may be one story that might be excellent for The Final Guardian, it’s the plot from the unique collection that noticed the creation of the Zombie Galacti. This might be the pitch-perfect story to have somebody from the Guardians of the Galaxy present up because the final hope to save lots of the universe. Marvel Zombies #1-5 (2005-2006) by Robert Kirkman and Sean Phillips has most of Earth’s heroes flip into ravenous zombies and destroy every part of their path. The Silver Surfer arrives on Earth as Galactus’ herald, and the zombies kill and devour him as effectively, taking his Energy Cosmic.
When Galactus arrives, in addition they kill him and eat him, and several other of the heroes achieve his Energy Cosmic, changing into the Galacti. After they notice there may be nothing left on Earth to eat, they depart the planet and journey by means of the universe, consuming lives on different planets, devastating all the universe. They finally attempt to discover a option to journey by means of the multiverse to devour all recognized universes, and the story right here is cease them from wiping out all humanity. The Final Guardian might present the cosmos’ ultimate protector because the Galacti begin their mission to wipe out all life.
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