Marvel Zombies - Plot

Plot

Within the Marvel Multiverse is an alternate Earth designated Earth 2149, which contains alternate versions of Marvel superheroes. The story begins as a zombie Sentry crash lands before infecting the Avengers. The infection spreads via contact with the blood of the victim, usually through a bite by an infected individual. The zombie super beings largely retain their intellect and personality, although they are consistently driven by the hunger for fresh human flesh meat (and maybe sometimes brains). Ash Williams of the Evil Dead franchise gets transported to Earth 2149 where he attempts to locate the Necronomicon, which he believes is the cause of the zombie outbreak. He goes to Doctor Doom who informs Ash that this was not the case. He then commands the 'Necronomicon to reawaken the dead in order to fight the zombies, in an attempt to allow the last surviving humans to escape. At the same time, S.H.I.E.L.D. attempts to find a cure for the virus while simultaneously fighting off the zombies. Iron Man creates a transporter device that can transfer surviving humans to uninfected alternate worlds. Meanwhile, Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four goes insane due to the death of his children (devoured by a newly-turned She-Hulk), and begins to see the Zombie Virus as a "higher lifeform". In his insanity, he infects himself as well as his teammates before passing the virus on to Iron Man as well. Nick Fury, with the help of Thor, breaks the transporter so that the zombies cannot use it to infect other alternate universes (because the effects of the virus apparently, partially degrade the intellects of those infected, neither "zombie Reed" nor "zombie Tony Stark" are able to engineer a replacement portal).

The zombie Reed Richards tricks Reed Richards of the Ultimate Marvel universe into entering Earth 2149 in order to allow the zombie Fantastic Four passage into the Ultimate Marvel universe. After rescuing Richards, the Ultimate Fantastic Four follow him into the zombie realm and save other surviving humans, while Magneto remains behind to destroy the transporter. Magneto eventually learns that the Acolytes and Forge are still alive on Asteroid M. However, before he can reach them, he is killed and eaten (but not before beheading Hawkeye). The Silver Surfer arrives on Earth and informs the zombies that his master Galactus is en route to devour the planet. The zombies attack the Silver Surfer, who is overpowered and devoured by several of the former heroes: Colonel America, Iron Man, Giant-Man, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, the Hulk and Wolverine. After acquiring a portion of the Power Cosmic, they slaughter what they believe to be the rest of the zombies.

The Acolytes return to Earth to find Magneto, but instead discover a still-living Black Panther. The Panther has escaped from the lab of the zombie Giant-Man, who has been keeping him alive as a food source. As a result of several feedings, the Panther is now missing an arm and a foot. As well as the Panther, zombie Wasp got into another argument with her husband when she discovered that Giant-Man was hoarding the Black Panther for food and is decapitated, although her head remains sentient. After observing the Wasp's head begging for flesh, he reasons that the hunger is more psychological than physical.

Galactus then arrives on Earth and is attacked by the zombies, but he repels them easily. Giant-Man, Iron Man, and Bruce Banner, Spider-Man and Wolverine create a device that amplifies the powers they gained from the Silver Surfer, and together they are able to injure Galactus. The cosmic-powered zombies fight off zombified versions of several supervillains and then proceed to devour Galactus. Giant-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Spider-Man and Wolverine are then infused with Galactus' power cosmic, becoming the collective Galacti. At the same time this is occurring, the Ultimate Universe version of Reed Richards seeks a cure to the infected Fantastic Four who had earlier crossed over to the Ultimate Marvel universe from Earth-2149. The zombies escape and are defeated by Ultimate Doctor Doom, who is really Reed after they changed bodies. After tossing the immobilized carcasses of the Ultimate Frightful Four, Doom regains his body. Ultimate Doom goes back into his body after Reed takes care of the zombie version of himself, and traps himself in the Zombie Universe because of the Zvilpogghua inside him, which goes into the most powerful being in the room. He then engages in confrontation with the Zombie Galacti. While the Galacti went into interstellar space for more food, those zombies that were not killed by the Galacti came out of hiding.

In the main Marvel Universe (Earth-616), Zombie Deadpool (later known as Headpool) shows up from the Nexus of All Realities, and infects several metahumans that he encounters. A task force is sent to investigate the problem but most of them get eaten. Morbius wants to find a cure and so Machine Man and Jocasta set out to find blood from a human on Earth-2149. After taking some from Kingpin's still-living wife, Machine Man kills some of the zombies. He then finds out that zombie Morbius has abducted his Earth-616 counterpart and is trying to get every superhero into one room so he can infect as many as possible so they can ravage Earth 616 in its turn. Machine Man returns to Earth-616, and with the help of Jocasta, kills all the zombies, apart from the head of zombie Deadpool and Simon Garth.

Earth-616's Morbius forms a new group of Midnight Sons and sets off to find zombie Deadpool and Simon. After fighting off zombies, they go and set off to find Black Talon who has Deadpool. The vaccine Morbius made changed the zombie virus into an airborne strain, and also turned Jack Russell into a zombie. Jennifer Kale asked for help from Dormammu, who used her to try to take over the storm. Hellfire then got Dormammu out of Kale's body, and Kale and Black Talon cage the zombie virus into the body of Simon, who seems to have killed zombie Deadpool, which we find out is not true in Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth. And in Marvel Zombies 5, Morbius sends Machine Man and the Howard the Duck into other worlds to find a cure to the zombie virus.

Five years later, Forge, the Black Panther and the Wasp return to Earth-2149. The Panther and the Wasp are now equipped with new cybernetic limbs and the Wasp is also lucid once more. They find nothing but plant life as the Galactii zombies have long since departed. After a while, they found New Wakanda, and settle for a while. On the edge of the known universe, several decades later, the Galacti plan to go back to earth and fix Tony Stark's original transporter device. When they get there, however, they discover that the human race is not yet totally extinct. Black Panther was turned into a zombie when someone tried to kill him, and Wasp turned him. The zombies started to fight, because they knew that the hunger was fading; at the end of the book the Hunger has faded completely, and one of the Wakandaians sends the zombies into a third alternate world (Earth Z).

On Earth Z, the Marvel Zombies lose their Galacti abilities and begin to suffer from the Hunger again, ravaging this world in its turn, while Giant-Man plans to spread zombies to every alternate universe. The people who wanted to destroy the zombies formed the New Avengers, and dose Sandman with the vaccine from Morbius and Iron Man's nanobots. Under the influence of the nanobots, Sandman killed the remaining zombies, but Sentry was thrown back in time and across universes by the Watcher which created a time loop as this is the Sentry that started the original zombie outbreak on Earth 2149, killing himself.