‘Marvel Zombies’ Officially Returns With Its Most "Scary" and "Brutal" Story Yet [Exclusive]

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Published Oct 12, 2026, 2:30 PM EDT

The Marvel project this year that everyone’s been talking about is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and rightfully so. The film grossed over $2.5 billion at the box office and is now the highest-grossing movie in domestic box office history. Over on Disney+, Marvel has continued to release new shows and new seasons of established shows, with more content on the way later this year and in 2027. Coming before the end of the year is VisionQuest, which launches on October 14, and premiering in 2027 are new seasons of Daredevil: Born Again and X-Men ‘97. It was thought that Wonder Man would also be returning sometime in the next few years, but the show was cancelled after only one season despite originally being renewed.

Marvel recently held a TV panel at New York Comic-Con to promote and announce new projects, and one of the most exciting developments came when it was time to reveal new information about Marvel Zombies. Instead of Marvel Zombies returning with new seasons, there will instead be new Disney+ Specials each of the next three years, with The Winter Soldier airing in 2027, The Fist of Khonshu in 2028, and The Last Guardian in 2029. During a recent interview at NYCC after the panel with Collider’s Maggie Lovitt, when asked which of the new specials he was most excited about, Brad Winderbaum told Collider: “Well, we’re the furthest along on Marvel Zombies: Winter Soldier. But the premise of all three seasons is great, and if you’re a fan of the first season of Marvel Zombies, you’ll be very happy to see the story continue season over season.”

Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which MCU Villain Do You Align With? Killmonger · Namor · Zemo · Thanos

Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what you do about something unfair, how long you will wait for what you want, who you are really loyal to, how easily you let a thing go. Answer them and we will tell you which one of these four you have more in common with than you would like. Every one of them thinks they are the reasonable person in the room.

🐆Killmonger(Black Panther)

🔱Namor(Wakanda Forever)

🎭Zemo(Civil War)

🧤Thanos(Infinity War)

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How do you react to something you think is unfair? All four of these men started here.

ALoudly, and I want the whole thing torn down. BI protect whoever it hurt, first and fast. CI say nothing, and I start planning. DI look for why it keeps happening at all.

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How long will you wait for something you want? Patience separates these four more than anything else.

ANot long, since I have waited long enough already. BAs long as my people stay safe meanwhile. CYears, if years are what it takes. DTime does not really come into it.

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Who are you actually loyal to? Answer for the real one, not the polite one.

AThe people nobody else turned up for. BMy own, and nobody outside that. COne person, and they are already gone. DAn idea, rather than any group of people.

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How do you win an argument? Everybody has one method and uses it every time.

ABy being angrier and more right. BBy making the cost of disagreeing obvious. CBy letting them talk until they trip over something. DBy explaining it until they run out of objections.

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How easily do you let something go? This is the question that makes villains out of people.

AI do not, and I can tell you exactly why. BOnce whoever caused it stops being a threat. CWhen the balance is settled, and not before. DInstantly, because it was never personal.

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What do you think about breaking the rules? Nobody on this list has ever felt guilty about it.

AThey were written by whoever benefits from them. BMine apply, and theirs do not reach me. CRules are a tool, and I use them precisely. DThe rule matters far less than the outcome.

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What do people say about you behind your back? You already know which one it is.

AThat I am far too angry about it. BThat I put my own above everybody else. CThat I am much quieter than I should be. DThat I am certain in a way that unnerves them.

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What would you do with real power? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your villain.

AGive it to the people it was kept from. BUse it to shut my own people off from the world. CUse it to make the guilty face what they did. DUse it to fix the thing everybody refuses to face.

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The Case Is Made You Align With…

Four villains, and four arguments the films were honest enough to actually let them make. Here is the one you lean towards, the part of it that holds up, and the exact point where it stops holding up.

Erik Killmonger

You align with the one who was right about the problem and wrong about the solution. Killmonger is the most persuasive villain Marvel has produced because the film never pretends his anger came from nowhere.

You notice who was abandoned and you cannot let it go, which is a moral instinct before it is anything else.
His argument lands because Wakanda really did watch and do nothing, and the film makes T'Challa admit it out loud.
Where it breaks is the method, since a man who was failed by power decided the answer was to hold more of it.
Michael B. Jordan plays him as somebody performing certainty over grief, which is why the last scene of that film still works.

Namor

You align with the protector, which is the most understandable and most dangerous position on this list. Namor is not chasing power or revenge, he is doing whatever keeps his people hidden, and he has been doing it for centuries.

Your loyalty has a hard border around it, and everything inside that border matters far more to you than anything outside it.
Talokan is the best realised world Marvel has built since Wakanda, and the film makes you understand exactly what he is guarding.
His logic is airtight right up until it requires somebody else's people to pay for his people's safety.
He would rather be feared by the surface world forever than trust it once, and history has given him reasons.

Helmut Zemo

You align with the patient one, the only man on this list with no powers, no army and no hurry. Zemo lost his family in Sokovia and then spent years working out that you do not fight the Avengers, you introduce them to each other's secrets.

You go quiet when you are hurt, and the quiet is where the thinking happens.
Zemo is the only MCU villain who completely won, and he did it with a notebook, a plan and a great deal of self control.
His grief is real, and the film is careful never to let you forget that he started as an ordinary man with a family.
Where it fails is the cost, since taking apart the people who hurt him meant hurting a great many people who did not.

Thanos

You align with the one who decided the answer was arithmetic. Thanos is not angry and not grieving in any way he will admit to, he simply reached a conclusion and never once revisited it, which is precisely what makes him frightening.

You are capable of holding a position that costs you everything, and you would call that conviction rather than stubbornness.
Infinity War works because it is structured as his film, with a goal, a journey and a sacrifice, and the heroes are the obstacle.
The flaw in the plan is not the cruelty, it is that he never seriously considered a single alternative to it.
Josh Brolin plays him tired rather than triumphant, which is the choice that turned a purple giant into a real character.

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Brad Winderbaum Reveals What to Expect From ‘Marvel Zombies: Winter Soldier’

The first season of Marvel Zombies is one of the few Marvel projects to secure a TV-MA rating, along with Echo, Daredevil: Born Again, and The Punisher: One Last Kill. Continuing his conversation with Collider, Winderbaum teased that Marvel will continue this dark and violent trend with Marvel Zombies, which he reminds audiences is “the further along.” He says, “It’s scary, and it’s brutal, and it’s everything you’d want from a zombie show, but it’s maybe my favorite thing that Bryan Andrews has done since the Doctor Strange episode of What If…? It’s so emotionally driven and so beautiful that you forget you’re watching a zombie show at times.”

The Doctor Strange episode of What If…?, which was the fourth episode in Season 1, is one of the highest-rated episodes of the entire series. The installment chronicles what would have happened if Doctor Strange lost Christine Palmer in the accident instead of using his fans. This led him down a dark path that not only destroyed his universe, but others as well.

Check out the first season of Marvel Zombies on Disney+ and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of future installments.