Marvel Zombies fascinated comic fans by following the monsters—beloved flawed heroes like Spider-Man and Giant-Man now flipped into destroyers of the multiverse. Even as they embrace their shadow sides of greed and destruction, they suffer angst at their lost morality. The series placed the characters in unaccustomed roles while also welcoming alternate universe crossovers, from The Ultimates to Marvel Apes to Evil Dead. It also leaned heavily into parody and metafiction, considering the lighter side of the zombie and superhero genres, along with their shared horror comics’ history.