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Marvel Studios has (mercifully) slowed the pace of new releases of late, but this month we're getting the miniseries Marvel Zombies—and the studio just dropped the official trailer. It's adapted from the Marvel Comics series and a spinoff of the 2021 What If...? episode featuring several Avengers in zombified form. It's part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase Six.
(Spoilers for the 2021 What If...? episode below.)
In the What If...? episode—which retconned the events of Ant-Man and the Wasp and Avengers: Infinity War—the trouble started when Hank Pym entered the quantum realm to rescue his wife, Janet. Alas, Janet was now a zombie due to a mysterious quantum virus. Hank was infected in turn right before the pair returned to the lab; Scott Lang/Ant-Man was attacked, but Hank and Janet's daughter, Hope Pym, escaped. Within 24 hours, much of the northwestern US was infected, including many members of the Avengers who showed up to thwart the zombie apocalypse.
Over the course of the episode, Tony Stark/Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Wong, Captain America, Hawkeye, Sam Wilson/Falcon, and Wanda Maximoff all joined the zombie horde—along with a couple of Thanos' lieutenants—with Hope joining the resistance: Bruce Banner/The Hulk, Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Sharon Carter, Happy Hogan, T'Challa/Black Panther, and others, including Strange's Cloak of Levitation. Fortunately, Vision's Mind Stone can reverse the infection, and Vision sacrificed himself for the cause. So did Hope and the Hulk, as Spider-Man, Ant-Man, T'Challa, and the cloak headed to Wakanda with the goal of using the tech there to broadcast the Mind Stone's energy all over the world. They didn't know that Thanos was already there and was also now a zombie with a near-complete Infinity Gauntlet.
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