8 Superheroes Who Saw The End Of The World

Back when the world was having its mad zombie craze in the mid-to-late aughts, Marvel also decided to get in on the action by introducing the Marvel Zombies, in a story from Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and artist Sean Phillips.

The Marvel Zombies hail from an alternate reality where an unknown being crash lands on Earth. Lo and behold the figure is infected with a zombie virus, and soon begins to infect the Marvel heroes. The catch this time is that, whereas other zombies lose their personality and intelligence and devolve into groaning beings with an insatiable hunger for human flesh, these ones do not.

Eventually, once Earth has been turned into a zombified wreck, the Silver Surfer arrives to inform the zombie heroes that Galactus is coming to eat their planet. The zombies don't provide a warm welcome though, and manage to eat the Silver Surfer and absorb the Power Cosmic, which then enables them to kill Galactus by cosmically feasting on his corpse.

The remaining zombie heroes then essentially become the new Galactus, travelling from planet and eating everything in sight. Charming.