Reviewing Marvel Zombies Episodes (4 of 4)

Marvel Zombies Went All Out For Its Final Episode

Wow, am I glad that I decided to review all the episodes of Marvel Zombies. Because if I had dropped out when the show fell in quality, I would’ve missed the pure spectacle that is the final part of this story. I would’ve missed where, apparently, a lot of the animation efforts went.

Though that’s all it was: spectacle. The story is a mess at this point. I’m not saying the events weren’t foreshadowed, but foreshadowing doesn’t equate to actual explanations. Wanda wanted Kamala for some reason, but it’s never explained why her powers were specifically useful. And even with those powers, exactly what Wanda even did at the end there isn’t clear. The story—until a cheesy horror twist—outright proves that her plan was correct, though. That if people had helped her sooner, it would’ve been better. And why couldn’t Infinite Hulk do something similar with all that power?

Most Of The Plot Explanations Stop Making Sense

But hey, in a show called Marvel Zombies,I wanted to see Marvel with zombies, and I cannot deny that the series used its nonsense plot to deliver that. And I cannot deny that all the tangentially related moments in this episode aren’t also really cool. Kamala having to patch a ship in orbit? Such a fun concept. Seeing Zombie Thor fight Infinite Hulk? I have no idea how any other storyline could’ve set that up.

But the enjoyable bits really do come back to the zombies. I loved seeing all the inventive, brutal, and disgusting ways that zombies died or were otherwise repelled. Infinite Hulk cleaving a giant’s face open has stuck with me since I saw it. And even within such a niche fighting scenario, we got so much variety. Shrunk-down zombies, giant zombies, zombies with weapons, zombies with superpowers, and so many more, all in a crowd.

Zombies In Marvel Zombies Are Still Big Highlights

It also just looked good. Like, shockingly good. I have complained about the animation before—and the living character’s faces in Marvel Zombies are still uncanny in all sorts of ways—but the show stepped up for these fights. It’s cinematic and often quite fluid on a moment-to-moment basis, not to mention when something big and magical occurs. I have not read many actual comics, but some of the frames felt like what a panel would’ve used to depict massive moments—and I love that. Marvel Zombies knew it needed to stick the landing, and by God, I think it mostly did.

I mean, except for that ending. I am mostly neutral on that ending. I called it cheesy, but Marvel Zombies, as a show, is very cheesy, so that’s to be expected. I more mean it’s a bit of an odd choice with what they specifically did. I don’t understand the mechanics of it. Wanda obviously can make fake realities. But I don’t understand what Riri was “hacking” into, nor who is even populating that false reality. By the end of Marvel Zombies, a lot of characters are dead or presumed dead, so Wanda’s either put her and Kamala into a place full of fake people, or has somehow “false-revived” the zombies. It doesn’t really work as sequel bait, because the old world is so hopeless getting back to it seems like a bad idea. It would take a truly silly contrivance to make a whole new set of episodes even work. Which leads me to think that this was only intended as a horror stinger—since this is supposedly a horror series. And as one, I suppose it’s a fun/disturbing enough way to put a cap on things. And I am happy, at the very least, that it does feel like I got the full experience of this fun, quickly paced, and impressively gory story, and that the series was committed to what it set out to be.

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