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🧟Marvel Zombies (2025): The MCU’s Darkest Chapter Rises on Disney+

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🧟Marvel Zombies (2025): The MCU’s Darkest Chapter Rises on Disney+

What happens when Earth’s mightiest heroes become Earth’s hungriest monsters? On September 24, 2025, Marvel Studios Animation dares to answer that chilling question with Marvel Zombies, a four-part adult animated miniseries streaming exclusively on Disney+. Based on the acclaimed Marvel Comics series by Robert Kirkman and Sean Phillips, this grim reimagining pushes the Marvel Cinematic Universe into uncharted territory: a world where the heroes we once worshipped now hunger for our flesh.

“Who will save us from our heroes?”

đŸ©ž A World Devoured


Set in the alternate timeline first introduced in What If
 Zombies?! (2021), the series drops us into a post-apocalyptic landscape where a mysterious virus has transformed Earth’s greatest defenders — and villains — into superpowered zombies.


Yet all hope is not lost. A ragtag band of survivors must battle their way through chaos, betrayal, and bloodthirsty enemies to discover the secret that could end the plague. But survival has never been more dangerous, especially when the monsters wear the faces of gods, soldiers, and legends.


🎭 The Cast of the Undead


Marvel is unleashing an ensemble like never before. Familiar faces return, some fighting for humanity, others consumed by hunger:


  • Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel — the “Frodo” of this story, carrying the weight of hope.

  • Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, wielding the Ten Rings to halt his own infection.

  • Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch, a chaos-powered zombie nightmare.

  • Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man — reduced to a wisecracking head in a jar.

  • David Harbour as Red Guardian and Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova.

  • Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop, Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie, and Dominique Thorne as Ironheart.

  • Todd Williams as Eric Brooks / Blade Knight, a vampiric hunter reimagined for this series.

  • Plus appearances from Spider-Man, Thor, Black Panther, Zemo, Namor, and the terrifying zombie versions of Captain America, Hawkeye, Abomination, Ghost, Captain Marvel, and even Thanos.


This will also mark Marvel Studios Animation’s first TV-MA rated series, cementing its place as the MCU’s boldest, bloodiest experiment yet.


🎬 Behind the Shadows


Created by Bryan Andrews and Zeb Wells, Marvel Zombies continues the animation style of What If
? with Stellar Creative Lab once again bringing the visuals to life. The four-part event is tightly written, darkly comic, and dripping with horror — blending superhero spectacle with zombie apocalypse carnage.


Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige serves as executive producer, ensuring this story ties into the broader Phase Six narrative, even from its alternate timeline perch.


🧟 Why Marvel Zombies Matters


This isn’t just another spin-off. Marvel Zombies explores themes rarely touched in the MCU:


  • What happens when saviors become threats?

  • How do ordinary humans survive gods turned predators?

  • Can hope endure when heroes fall?


It’s horror through a Marvel lens — grotesque, tragic, yet laced with the studio’s signature character-driven heart.


đŸ“ș Release & Streaming


  • Title: Marvel Zombies

  • Episodes: 4 (miniseries)

  • Release Date: September 24, 2025

  • Streaming: Disney+

  • Part of: MCU Phase Six


🔼 Conclusion


With Marvel Zombies, Marvel Studios Animation takes its boldest step yet — reimagining its heroes as flesh-eating nightmares and testing how far hope can stretch in a broken world. This is not the MCU you know; it’s darker, bloodier, and unapologetically terrifying.


When the dead rise and the heroes fall, the question remains: who will save us from our heroes?

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