Since sling ring portals can go between planets, does that mean that Rintrah's death gave the zombies off-world access?

Cause if that's true, that would be cool to follow up in season 2

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Obraxiss2025-11-26 00:20

Also, interesting that the zombies just straight up killed Rintrah instead of turning him, guess they really hated him

Obraxiss2025-11-26 00:49

Then again, if Death Dealer and Jimmy got zombiefied despite being ripped apart, who knows

zmoeun7772025-11-26 01:36

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Obraxiss2025-11-26 02:00

I guess theres a difference between being nothing but arms and viscera, and being dismembered? Still was a bit weird.

zmoeun7772025-11-26 01:34

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Obraxiss2025-11-26 01:43

Dude got turned into beef lmao

YesSeaworthiness97712025-11-29 11:28

Dude probably the only unique person from the whole damn show

No wonder he got done dirty for being a Minotaur with long hor-

Unstable_Bear2025-11-26 00:24

Would fit the comic’s story, since in the marvel zombies comics they end up going to other planets and even to other universes

InnocentTailor2025-11-26 00:35

I guess that makes the Nova Corps blockade and Ikaris’s eternal war with zombie Carol Danvers pointless.

Usual-Caregiver55892025-11-26 02:07

I mean Carol/Ikarus was pointless no matter what.

Venomm7372025-11-26 05:06

Why? Ikarus was fighting Carol to prevent her from going to other planets and spreading the virus. If there were no other means for the virus to spread off world, Ikarus would be the only being protecting the larger universe from infection.

Usual-Caregiver55892025-11-26 05:17

Did we get confirmation thats why he was fighting her? Because i was under the impression he had the disease Angelina Jolie's character got which just put the eternals into a blind fury, explaining why he attacks innocents, and why his eyes are white.

Perca_fluviatilis2025-11-26 06:53

Uh, no? Nothing in the episode hints at him having that disease. He only looks damaged because of his fight with Carol, but considering he's completely focused on fighting her you can assume he still has his mind.

Usual-Caregiver55892025-11-26 07:01

Their eyes never turn white while idling/not using his powers unless they have the disease. Also it outs them in a frenzy. Ie. Killing anyone thats dumb enough to get his attention.

Edit: further, the eternals' prime directive is to protect sentient life forms to help grow the celestial in the planet. The only reason to attack the girls would be if he had gone mad due to the disease.

On the other hand, if he was trying to stop the spread of the zombie virus, wouldn't it make more sense to help the ones that hadn't turned, especially the powered ones? Not try to kill the innocents to make the zombie army larger?

DomzSageon2025-11-26 10:43

it could still be that the eternals (or at least Ikarus alone) went to fight the zombie Carol with the intention of stopping her from infecting the universe, and only went Mahd Wy'ry during the years of combat.

EnclaveRedditUser2025-11-27 14:04

Had no idea who the two fighting were till now ngl

ExperienceOk14062025-11-26 02:43

marvel loves multiverse stories, expect way crazier plots

Advanced_Flower_12302025-11-26 05:59

imagine a zombie invasion on a far-off planet like something out of a nightmare

cooscoos32025-11-26 00:27

Endgame showed a portal from earth to Titan, so yes, technically the zombies can go to other worlds.

What we don’t know is exactly how the sling rings work. In No Way Home, Ned just has to say “find Peter Parker,” which seems pretty easy. Do they just think “open a portal to Xandar”? Or does the wearer have to have been there first? Are the zombies capable of making that coherent thought? So many questions.

Obraxiss2025-11-26 00:34

I think belief in ones own abilities plays into it, Ned believed that magic ran in family IIRC so was able to portal easyer, while Strange struggled learning magic early on because he thought his damaged hands meant he couldn't do magic.

joshlymansbagel2025-11-26 02:04

I’m sure that they really need to know their current location extremely well in order to open a gateway to another spot. Doesn’t matter if they’ve been to destination yet…. But maybe I’m thinking of Wheel of time.

HeitorO8212025-11-26 03:37

They don’t even need to think about another planet specifically, probably. “Find someone uninfected” works the same way as “find Peter Parker” and it’s simple enough that one of the red eyed zombies could do it. Eventually all of earth would be taken and the nearest uninfected would be an alien.

Goldman2502025-11-26 00:41

They already had that potential access, since we see zombie Strange and Wong making portals in the What If episode. But yeah, they’d have even wider reach - if they could work out how to use the sling ring. They did kill him rather than turn him, after all.

Obraxiss2025-11-26 00:46

Tbf, they both got killed early, and were before the zombies got organised under Wanda, but true.

InoueNinja942025-11-26 01:08

In theory
In practice we don't know if Zombies are smart enough to use them. Remember that it took a lot of trial, error and die or flight maneuvers for Strange to actually learn how to use it

Obraxiss2025-11-26 01:17

True, another point is, given that Wanda's infinity hex was focused only on earth, (when she had the power to affect the whole universe if she wanted to), could imply that Wanda doesn't want to expand outside of earth.

Androgynouself_4202025-11-26 06:51

Don’t zombie strange and Wong use them in the beginning?

InoueNinja942025-11-26 14:13

I mean, they already knew how to use them when they were alive, so I guess it's similar to how Zombie Tony could still use his armor

Cekesa2025-11-26 01:19

I don't believe it's ever explicitly stated, but there has to be some sort of vague awareness of where you're going and/or confidence in your ability required to pull off a portal that far. So any zombie sorcerer left would need to have at least a little knowledge of alien planets and be really skilled with portal magic.

We don't know Rintrah's backstory but he may be the only sorcerer left who could portal to another planet, if they want to go in that direction.

Obraxiss2025-11-26 01:22

Wanda did infect the asgardians, so maybe one of them could do it?, (also, one of the Ravagers in Guardians 3 was shown opening a sling ring portals)

DrManhattan_DDM2025-11-26 01:30

The Ravager Captain that’s also a user of the mystic arts probably could too.

Cekesa2025-11-26 02:23

That could be cool, maybe the rest of the Guardians ask him to portal them into Earth, which inevitably leads to the zombie virus breaching Earth quarantine.

octavianreddit2025-11-26 13:42

Zombie Thor has Stormbreaker too, no? Bifrost some zombies to wherever you want to go.

Edit: OP reminded me that Zombie Thor had his head slightly compromised which would impact his ability to use Stormbreaker.

So yeah, sling rings are the way to go I suppose!

Obraxiss2025-11-26 13:43

Zombie Thor Kinda got his head crushed by Infinity Hulk

octavianreddit2025-11-26 14:03

Lol I forgot that detail. That would be a barrier to him using Stormbreaker I would suppose!