This text accommodates spoilers for “Marvel Zombies” season 1.
Early on “Marvel Zombies,” it turns into clear that superhero zombies aren’t any abnormal undead. Whereas some, like Captain America, are mainly simply very quick, sturdy, and tenacious variations of your typical zombie, there are others who handle to visually resemble basic George Romero undead with regards to their mannerisms – however who nonetheless appear to retain each expertise they’d once they had been alive. The top result’s actually terrifying stuff, greatest exemplified by a stunning character: Zombie Hawkeye.
On, say, “The Strolling Lifeless,” somebody like Hawkeye could be simply one other walker. Within the “28 Days Later” movie collection, he’d be a really match and quick rage virus zombie, however nonetheless only a rage virus zombie. Even on “The Final of Us,” he’d be simply one other mushroom dude. However on “Marvel Zombies,” he seems to be and behaves like a run-in-the-mill zombie but nonetheless retains all of his expertise. He can shoot arrows similar to he did when he was alive, has sufficient intelligence and intuition left to hunt out nice vantage factors, and may calculate angles effectively sufficient to ship an arrow across the nook with not less than three ricochets and nonetheless goal it precisely at a operating character.
These aren’t superpowers that perform with out him pondering, as a result of Hawkeye has no superpowers within the first place. He merely appears to have each single talent he had whereas he was alive, solely now he is lifeless, troublesome to kill, and certain very desirous to chunk folks.
Hawkeye is in a category of his personal on Marvel Zombies
Certain, yeah, there are many zombies right here who’re technically fairly a bit extra highly effective than Hawkeye. Nonetheless, just about all of them are both senseless powerhouses (who primarily behave like normal quick zombies) or possessed and evil variations of their ordinary selves puppeteered or in any other case managed by Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), this universe’s Queen of the Lifeless.
This makes Hawkeye stand out much more, as a result of he is clearly a zombie zombie, with guttural undead growls and all. But, he stays in full management of all his well-honed archer-slash-spy-slash-assassin expertise, which opens a complete can of terrifying, existential worms. How conscious should Clint Barton be of his predicament to have the ability to perform very like he did when he was alive, solely with much less dry humor? Certainly, some semblance of remaining sentience could be essential … and in addition terrifying, contemplating that he is now a rotting husk of a human being.
The grasp archer is not the one typically missed hero “Marvel Zombies” places in a highlight, because the present additionally recasts Mahershala Ali’s Blade with Todd Williams and makes him a serious heroic character. Nonetheless, it is becoming that Hawkeye is the primary superhero zombie the present introduces, and seeing him do his ordinary trick photographs whereas additionally behaving like a regular zombie is a chilling sight that the collection cannot fairly replicate irrespective of what number of senseless powerhouses like Abomination and Namor it rolls out.
“Marvel Zombies” season 1 is now streaming on Disney+.
