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    Marvel’s What If…? Episode 5: How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Zom… (bie)

    Reagan PfiferBy Reagan PfiferUpdated:No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Marvel’s What If… opted for decidedly lighter fare in this week’s episode, taking a hard left at emotional turmoil, and plunging viewers into the popcorn thrills of Zombies.

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    It’s not a bad way to go. They can’t all be philosophical soul searches. You can only search for a soul so much! And while adding the undead to a beloved franchise is not exactly a “new” twist, from the Yakuza game series (Yakuza Dead Souls) to Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and everything in between, zombies have been groaning their way into our treasured properties for a long time.


    The risen dead is a nice palate cleanser against the ending of the previous episode because let’s face it, it was kind of a bummer.

    Zombies let our brains turn off, and we get to just enjoy the spectacle. And this time it’s got Super Powers! It’s bubble gum to last week’s Rosé, and we are so IN.

    The reason turning your favorite series into a zombie romp is so popular is because it is a damn fun intellectual exercise to imagine your preferred pantheon of fictional friends dealing with the formerly alive. And even more, fun to see what disaster a superhero zombie mash-up would be.

    • Do they retain their powers or not?
    • Do they know who they are?
    • Will they still fight on behalf of the Earth’s mightiest heroes?

    Spoiler alert, the answers are: they do, they sort of do, and they definitely do not.

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    Zombies are also so prevalent in our collective zeitgeist because of how darn difficult they are to
    survive. They are scary because of the inevitability they represent. You can survive in a zombie
    apocalypse…for a while. But sooner or later, death will groan and stumble for us all. So, imagine
    that, only with zombies that can fly, grow gigantic or shrink tiny, and zombies who can do magic
    capable of destroying the world. Pretty cool, oops, we mean, scary stuff.


    There is a lesson in there about the power of human (albeit super) resilience. And how mankind
    is capable of great sacrifice and dedication for the good of others.


    Probably also another one in there, about just because you CAN do something, doesn’t mean
    you SHOULD, something.

    Lookin’ at you, Hope Van Dyne.


    But ultimately, the big takeaway here, perhaps not so coincidently, is truly to recognize the gift
    that we can be to each other, by putting the greater good before ourselves as individuals. Not
    such a bad lesson to learn these days, eh?


    Also, we can’t help but think that the show’s creators may have left in a tiny, subtle tribute to the
    late, great, Chadwick Boseman, by offering this gem of a quote from the mouth of Black
    Panther:

    “In my culture, death is not the end. They are still with us. As long as we do not forget them.”

    So much for those upbeat zombie endings, we’ve heard so much about.

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    Reagan Pfifer has been playing games on the Commodore 64 all the way to the PS5, and has been working with games since 2015. She is an actor, screenwriter, and freelance games journalist.

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