Marvel Zombies Post-Mortem (LOL): Who's Alive, Who's Dead And Whose Fate Is (Likely) Unknown [Spoilers For What If And Marvel Zombies]

Across "What If... Zombies?!" and "Marvel Zombies", there are 76 characters that appear, or are mentioned. If a character is not listed here (ie, Daredevil, Punisher, Star-Lord, etc.) and they did not die prior to May 2018 in the timeline (unlike Iron Monger, the Ancient One, Peggy Carter, Quicksilver, etc.), then you can assume they are STILL ALIVE and IN PLAY for Season 2 of "Marvel Zombies".

# Alive:

1. Bruce Banner/Infinity Hulk
2. Scott Lang/Ant-Man
3. Peter Parker/Spider-Man
4. Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel
5. Riri Williams/Ironheart
6. Ikaris
7. Khonshu
8. Katy Chen

# Dead, But Not Infected:

1. T'Challa/Black Panther
2. Vision
3. Kate Bishop
4. Eric Brooks/Blade Knight
5. John Walker
6. Helmut Zemo/Baron Zemo
7. Rick (member of Shang-Chi's survivor group)
8. Denise (member of Shang-Chi's survivor group)
9. Sandra (member of Shang-Chi's survivor group)
10. Rintrah
11. London Master (of the Masters of the Mystic Arts)
12. Sarah Wolfe
13. Rocket
14. Groot
15. Odin
16. Richard Parker
17. Mary Parker
18. Ben Parker
19. May Parker
20. Ying Li
21. Yusuf Khan
22. Aamir Khan
23. Eleanor Bishop
24. Sana Ali

# Zombified:

1. Hope Van Dyne/Wasp
2. Okoye
3. Wanda Maximoff/Red Queen
4. Melina Vostokoff
5. Yelena Belova
6. Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian
7. Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
8. Samantha (a Black Widow)
9. Celeste (a Black Widow)
10. Ruta (a Black Widow)
11. Léa (a Black Widow)
12. Candice (a Black Widow)
13. Helen (a Black Widow)
14. Shang-Chi
15. Jimmy Woo (despite being torn to shreds)
16. Li Ching-Lin (despite ALSO being torn to shreds)

# Zombified, But Taken Out:

1. Harold Hogan/Happy
2. Sharon Carter
3. Ebony Maw
4. Steve Rogers/Captain America
5. Cull Obsidian
6. Tony Stark/Iron Man
7. Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange
8. Wong
9. Hank Pym
10. Janet Van Dyne
11. Clint Barton/Hawkeye
12. Sam Wilson/Falcon
13. Thanos
14. Thor
15. Emil Blonsky/Abomination
16. Ava Starr/Ghost
17. Namor

# Status Unclear:

1. Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (confirmed alive for Season 2, if one happens)
2. Brunnhilde/Valkyrie (shown being stabbed by Okoye, but not shown dying or being zombified)
3. Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (seen attacked, likely zombified)
4. Kurt Goreshter (seen attacked, likely zombified)
5. Heimdall (not seen or mentioned, but must exist due to how Hulk got to Earth, likely killed by Thanos)
6. F.R.I.D.A.Y. (not seen with Riri in Episode 4)
7. Xu Wenwu (seen bitten multiple times, most likely zombified)
8. Khonshu's Former Avatar (depending on when this Avatar fell, could either be Marc Spector or Arthur Harrow)
9. Muneeba Khan (after Episode 4, who knows?)
10. Kamran (again, after Episode 4, who knows?)
11. Mrs. Chen (home was shown in flames, but was never confirmed dead or zombified)

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Commentaires

PresentationDull77072025-10-05 05:34

I thought ikarus was zombified?

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 05:39

No, Episode 1 directly tells us he is not biological and is not zombified, just heavily damaged by his fight with Carol.

LADYBIRD_HILL2025-10-05 06:00

We also have the defenders and co. Plus the other eternals in play.

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 06:04

This wasn't about listing people who haven't shown up yet, but you are correct that all of the Defenders Saga characters plus the Eternals are still around, among others.

SonOfRageNLove262025-10-05 06:55

I feel like Kurt was definetely just devoured

Aside from that really good summary. It's so weird we havent seen Natasha

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 07:39

> I feel like Kurt was definetely just devoured

Honestly? Until Marvel Zombies, I would've agreed. But with how fast she pulled him towards her and then emerged to attack the others, I think she just ripped his throat out (since you hear his voice cut off) and then hurled him away to feed on the others, which would technically cause him to get zombified.

Technical-Green-41562025-10-05 07:33

Very well done 👏

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 07:40

Thank you.

Solid-Move-14112025-10-05 07:46

Korg and War Machine?

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 08:14

Neither one was brought up in any of the episodes. So yes, they should both still be alive and out there.

Etikaiele2025-10-05 08:36

Cool list! I

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 08:38

Thank you.

CaptHayfever2025-10-05 08:55

Excellent work!

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 18:46

Thanks.

Prestigious_Half_3292025-10-05 08:57

I feel like Natasha, like Kurt, might have been just devoured instead of being Zombified

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 18:47

If Happy Hogan of all people wasn't devoured, Natasha certainly wasn't. She was raised to be the ultimate survivalist. Proven by all of the other Widows being zombified instead of killed or devoured, even Melina.

Prestigious_Half_3292025-10-11 06:58

This is what if.. ah, Kate can survive but Iron Man with nano suit suit cant

Excaliburn3d2025-10-07 04:59

Are there any characters in the show confirmed to have just been devoured.

Solariss2025-10-05 10:11

I don't know if this is answered or not, but what's the deal with Wanda/the Zombies in What If? Not the zombies episode but the episodes after like the S1 finale. Is it the same one or just a different dimension that's very similar to the zombies one?

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 18:49

Season 1 finale Wanda/Steve/Sam/Clint are absolutely Variants. Sam and Steve aren't chopped in half, and all four of them are blown up by Ultron.

Season 2 finale Wanda seems to be the actual Wanda from the zombies episode/Marvel Zombies, since she's able to control the zombies and she seems to be slightly smarter while fighting Captain Carter and Kahhori.

orkichrist2025-10-05 10:21

Heimdall died in IW after sending hulk to earth, he's gone.

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 18:50

We were told Xandar was decimated and yet the Nova Corps is strong enough to quarantine the entire planet. It's an alternate universe that diverged two weeks before Heimdall's death. Anything is possible.

_Levitated_Shield_2025-10-05 19:54

But like, he was literally stabbed by Thanos onscreen right after sending Hulk to Earth.

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 19:55

In Infinity War, not in What If.

_Levitated_Shield_2025-10-05 20:06

But everything in this timeline is the exact same except for Janet spreading the virus. And since nothing about the virus directly interfered outside of Earth in those two weeks, all the events of the opening to Infinity War are still the same events.

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 20:08

No, it's identical *up until* Janet spreads the virus. And Thanos' attack on Xandar is a week after that, and his attack on the Asgardians is a week after *that*.

_Levitated_Shield_2025-10-05 20:14

Yeah, but it's very plausible Xandar rebuilt within those five years.

orkichrist2025-10-07 19:54

Decimated...so 1 in every ten died from a space faring cop planet.

Joshawott272025-10-05 10:42

Looking at the list, it looks like a potential Season 2 will have raid the toy box again to find a new batch of survivors, like how the show dipped into Phase 4 because the What If? episode burned through most of the bigger name heroes.

I’d like to see Daredevil. His powers could easily be used to amplify a horror - imagine him hearing someone’s heartbeat as they’re being zombified. I also wonder how his blindness and other heightened senses would work with Wanda’s powers.

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 18:59

Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Danny Rand, Punisher, Elektra, Bullseye, Trish Walker, Misty Knight, Colleen Wing, Claire Temple, Kingpin, Davos, Jigsaw, Sersi, Ajak, Makkari, Druig, Sprite, Kingo, Thena, Gilgamesh, Phastos, Dane Whitman, Jack Russell, Man-Thing, Elsa Bloodstone, M'Baku, Ayo, Shuri, Aneka, Taskmaster, War Machine, Xialing, Agatha Harkness, Everett Ross, Thunderbolt Ross, Betty Ross, Echo, Star-Lord, Drax, Mantis and Nebula.

There's literally so many characters Season 2 could bring in.

Joshawott272025-10-05 22:22

Yeah, I think having a survivors group built around the Defenders could be a cool idea. You’d have Matt’s heightened senses, Luke’s unbreakable skin, and Jessica being a disaster drunk in the apocalypse.

If they wanted to use the Eternals again, I wonder if Phastos could be used as working on a cure.

There’s also the possibility of a future season doing the whole “infect other universes” thing that the comics did - imagine if this zombie reality crossed over into a reality adjacent to *X-Men ‘97*, and the massacre on Genosha had actually been the arrival of a zombie horde.

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 22:31

> Jessica being a disaster drunk in the apocalypse

I mean, if she can find booze. lol

> If they wanted to use the Eternals again, I wonder if Phastos could be used as working on a cure.

He's a machine guy, not a medicine guy. Ajak and Sersi, however, I could see being their secret weapons. Ajak is a healer, and we don't know her upper limits, she could probably heal someone recently turned. And Sersi, she can transmute matter, even organic matter, remember how she turned a Deviant into a tree? She could transmute the zombies into their human selves.

> There’s also the possibility of a future season doing the whole “infect other universes” thing that the comics did - imagine if this zombie reality crossed over into a reality adjacent to X-Men ‘97, and the massacre on Genosha had actually been the arrival of a zombie horde.

I absolutely hate that idea. There's so much to mine in this world without having to explore other worlds. The only reason why the comics moved to another world was because they explored hundreds of their characters fighting for their lives across dozens of appearances.

We haven't even seen this world 10 times yet. Or cracked 100 characters.

Joshawott272025-10-05 23:03

Good point about Sersi in particular. That could be really cool to see.

I think it would be really interesting to explore the Eternals and what their role would be in further detail. Like, ordinarily they only deal with deviants, but zombies could majorly disrupt the emergence. How would the outbreak also affect Sprite’s desire to become human? Etc.

Yeeeaah I wouldn’t be huge on crossing over with an *X-Men ‘97*-esque reality either, but I could see Marvel Studios wanting to include the X-Men in some capacity of Zombies goes on for long enough, and we’re still some years away from the live-action film.

CMelody2025-10-06 16:09

By the time a season 2 comes out they can throw in a bunch of X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and Deadpool since they've made the toon more adult.

Ok-Concern-38532025-10-07 04:40

Why is no one talking about how the plot basically became similar to Dr. Strange M.O.M. by the last ep. Wanda wanted America Chavez there, here it's Ms Marvel.

I don't see a reason why would Wanda be interested in her. It doesn't seem like she wanted to kill her or even turn her into a zombie.

Also, is infinity hulk saving the whole universe by containing the stones' powers or just the planet? Cause at this point what is even left to be saved on earth? I'm asking that cause he didn't use the powers of the stone. He's containing the powers within himself (indicated by energy leaking from his cuts). Watching Hulk hold back doesn't make sense unless that infinity stone juice is meant to somehow a threat to the universe.

Exatal1232025-10-05 12:09

It is so weird that Natasha wasn’t in S2 despite being there for everyone else getting infected. No mention of her from Yelena or Red Guardian/Melina either iirc.

I do think Wenwu got zombified as he sacrificed himself for Shang-Chi.

What do we think happened with Shang Chi’s sister Xialing?

Good list though

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 19:01

Xialing would be 14 in 2018 (she was 20 in the movie, despite her actress being 33). So she's probably still at Wenwu's compound. If I had to bet, she's probably holed up with Razor Fist, her adoptive brother.

ParadoxWarrior2025-10-05 12:54

I do think it would be interesting to see what happened to Natasha. I think it’s telling that of that initial SF group — Natasha, Steve, Tony, T’Challa, and Clint — we’ve seen everyone but Natasha. Gut says she was probably zombified/devoured, but I also feel like they left it ambiguous to say “hey, Vision also grabbed her when he got T’Challa” so she could be part of a future season. Especially now since Melina, Yelena, and Alexei are zombified.

I do like the concept of Natasha leaving Vision early on if she did survive, and finding her own survivor group, which could then come across Bucky.

I also don’t think Blade Knight is down and out permanently, but that’s just because we know Khonshu can revive his Avatars, and while I doubt he’d be able to in Blade’s state (disintegrated), Khonshu might be able to pull some shenanigans.

TheMobHunter2025-10-05 14:01

Hear me out, daredevil being the next moon knight

IREALLYDONTKNOW33332025-10-05 18:05

Or Danny rand as the iron fist of khonshu

Tyr_Kovacs2025-10-05 19:18

SpiderKnight is right there man

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 19:02

The Natasha thing is so mind-boggling, like they've genuinely ignored her outside of those two recent posters for the show.

ParadoxWarrior2025-10-06 03:11

I know we technically see her getting jumped in What If, but we also see T’Challa get jumped and he lived up til Wakanda. You can’t tell me that Natasha couldn’t have done the same, so I agree with you!

shwarma_heaven2025-10-05 16:33

Didn't Peter Parker get his head bitten, or was on his way to being, by giant Wasp, or did I miss something? And isn't she still alive-ish / zombified at the end?

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 19:02

We didn't see Peter get his head bitten off, so he's technically still alive, and Hope is number one on the "zombified" list.

shwarma_heaven2025-10-05 19:16

I see her. Just missed her. Yes, I guess there is hope. I hope that the whole team getting wiped was also part of the spell too, and that she will awake still in the fight.

But then, I guess that wouldn't make much of a season 2. And the surprising sacrifices are part of what makes it good. There are real stakes, unlike the movies.

It would be absolutely incredible if they turned this live action... but, never gonna happen.

Thedemonazrael7512025-10-05 17:29

You forgot Katy

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 19:03

No I didn't, she's number 8 on the "alive" list.

jrodfantastic2025-10-05 23:10

She’s alive?!?

blackbutterfree2025-10-05 23:16

The last we see of her is her using the Ten Rings to block bites from Jimmy and Death Dealer, so yes.

SweetAsp5472025-11-04 00:37

Death Dealer got ripped and half (not infected) and Jimmy… he just got ripped apart, but if they are zombified not dead :D

Chromeballs2025-10-05 18:09

The twist should include a greater plan for Scarlet Witch Queen of the Dead, that in her own way she did want to undo 'something ' but in way that is worse like she needed that to recreate her kids and/or to bring back Vision or to reach out into other realities.

AAC08132025-10-06 00:04

Just want to say I appreciate your correct use of Who’s and Whose

blackbutterfree2025-10-06 00:08

Oh, thank you! lol

FanOfAnimation2025-10-06 05:23

I low key hope we get an episode of season 2 that starts with us focusing on Agatha and her “coven” aka meat shields. Plus Alice used to he a cop so that means we got an excuse to have William and Sharon there too.

snidece2025-10-06 15:18

I don’t think anyone is left alive. Likely got so devoured and ripped to shreds nothing left to zombify.

BOBULANCE2025-10-06 15:33

ALIVE
• Scott Lang
• Kamala Khan
• Infinity Hulk
• Riri Williams
• Spider-Man
• Katy
• Ikaris
• Khonshu

UNKNOWN STATUS
• Friday (possibly)
• Bucky (possibly)
• Natasha Romanov (possibly)
• Valkyrie (possibly)
• Kurt Goreshter (possibly, though unlikely)
• Loki (possibly, though unlikely)
• Heimdall (possibly, though unlikely)

ALL CHARACTERS BELOW ARE AS OF YET UNSEEN
(There are others, but I don't think we'd be likely to see any characters beyond the following)

US GOVERNMENT / SHIELD CELL
• Rhodey / War Machine
• Valentina
• Bob / Sentry
• Everett Ross
• Thunderbolt Ross
• Betty Ross
• Leader
• Tyler Hayward
• Taskmaster
• Nick Fury
• Maria Hill
• Pepper Potts / Rescue
• Talos
• Gi'ra
• Gravik
• Joaquin Torres
• Monica Rambeau
• Agent Cleary
• Sadie Deever
• Sabra

NEW YORK CELL
• Daredevil
• Claire Temple
• Foggy Nelson
• Karen Page
• Bullseye
• Vanessa Fisk
• Kingpin
• Jessica Jones
• Trish Walker
• Danny Rand
• Colleen Wing
• Davos
• Luke Cage
• Misty Knight
• Punisher
• Micro
• Dinah Madani
• Jigsaw
• White Tiger
• Muse
• Echo
• Kazi
• Swordsman
• Vulture
• Scorpion
• J Jonah Jameson
• Lucky the Pizza Dog

WESTVIEW CELL
• Agatha Harkness
• Jennifer Kale
• Ralph Boehner
• Alice Wu-Gulliver
• Sharon Davis
• Lilia Calderu
• Death / Rio Vidal

NEW ASGARD REMNANTS CELL
• Korg
• Miek
• Jane Foster / Mighty Thor
• Darcy Lewis
• Daryyl

CALIFORNIA CELL
• Jennifer Walters
• Mr. Immortal
• Nikki
• Augustus
• Luke Jacobson
• Titania
• Leapfrog
• Donny Blaze
• All four members of the Wrecking Crew
• Skaar
• HulkKing
• Luis
• Cassie Lang / Stature
• Bill Foster / Goliath
• Sonny Burch

ETERNALS CELL
• Sersi
• Ajak
• Makkari
• Druig
• Sprite
• Kingo
• Thena
• Gilgamesh
• Phastos
• Dane Whitman
• Karun

WAKANDA REMNANTS CELL
• Shuri
• Queen Ramonda
• M’Baku
• Ayo
• Aneka
• Nakia

TEN RINGS REMNANTS CELL
• Xialing
• Razorfist
• Trevor Slattery
• Ying Nan
• Jon Jon

MONSTER HUNTER CELL
• Elsa Bloodstone
• Werewolf by Night
• Man-Thing

ASSORTED CELL
• Isaiah Bradley
• Kro
• Seth Voelker
• Mordo
• Parker Robbins / The Hood
• Ezekiel Stane
• Mephisto
• Mysterio
• Karli Morgenthau
• Najma
• Kamran
• Red Dagger
• Layla Al-Fouli
• Mark Spector (assuming Arthur Harrow was the past avatar that became zombified)
• Arthur Harrow (assuming Mark Spector was the past avatar that became zombified)

BEYOND THE QUARANTINE
• Star-Lord
• Gamora
• Drax
• Mantis
• Nebula
• Kraglin
• Cosmo
• Howard the Duck
• The Grandmaster
• The Collector
• Adam Warlock
• High Priestess Ayesha
• The High Evolutionary
• Gorr
• Hercules
• Zeus
• Phyla
• Pip the Troll
• Eros/Starfox
• Lady Sif
• Dar-Benn
• Clea
• Dormammu

springpepe2025-10-06 17:01

it will be cool to see if we get any other moon knight or any egyptian god avatar especially if they possess characters we havent seen in the show like war machine, punisher, daredevil, luke cage or someone else i dont remember. It would also be cool to see the return of bucky, or see natasha romanoff even if zombified.

springpepe2025-10-06 17:02

also the rest of the guardians of the galaxy appearing would be cool.

Blood_God_Cow2025-10-09 14:17

Am I the only one that thinks Spiderman is likely dead as last we see him he was captured and about to get eaten by the giant zombie.

blackbutterfree2025-10-09 15:26

Oh, he's absolutely 2 seconds away from being dead, but we don't see his death so technically he's still alive.

Blood_God_Cow2025-10-09 19:28

Yeah, but we don't know the full Sony deal with them. It could be they can't show his death/gore with Spiderman and him being eaten was showing his "death" that could not be shown.

blackbutterfree2025-10-09 19:31

They did the same for Scott and Katy, though. Showing them in precarious positions where they almost certainly would not normally survive. Peter's not a special case here.

JWatchCraft2025-10-11 14:55

Forgot some others:
- Nick Fury
- Maria Hill
- Talos
- Photon
- Jane Foster
- Shang Chis sister
- Sword fist
- Task Master
- Shuri
- M'Baku

Probably some others I'm forgetting so feel free to fill in the gaps. They're still tons of characters whose fates are unknown.

blackbutterfree2025-10-11 18:02

None of those people appeared or were mentioned in the show, so no they were not forgotten.

JWatchCraft2025-10-12 09:47

Was referring to the original post silly haha

blackbutterfree2025-10-12 20:10

And I'm the OP. So again, I didn't forget anything. Haha

Double_Stuff90552025-10-11 20:38

I don’t think you can totally rule out all the characters in the final fight (at least Kamala’s crew that came with her) all being revived by scarlet witch as part of whatever bargain she made to keep Kamala alive. Could we see Shang chi reversed back to what he was before being zombified and the whole gang being trapped in the same illusion?
They did make that comment from him “see you on the other side”

throwawaypillow1002025-11-01 03:41

I think Melina is dead but not zombified

blackbutterfree2025-11-01 19:28

We see her zombified with Yelena and Alexei.

CanaryNo68472025-11-01 17:49

I hope this trash doesn't get a season 2, put a chick in it and make it woke and gay at its finest