DCeased vs Marvel Zombies

1 00:00:00,930 --> 00:00:02,972 This is a Dynamike Network podcast. 2 00:00:24,942 --> 00:00:29,924 And welcome to the Dynamic Duel Podcast, a weekly show where we review superhero films and debate 3 00:00:29,964 --> 00:00:35,988 the superiority between Marvel and DC by comparing their characters in stat-based battle simulations. 4 00:00:36,528 --> 00:00:41,171 I'm Marvelous Joe. And I'm his twin brother, Johnny DC. Happy Halloween, everybody! This 5 00:00:41,231 --> 00:00:45,513 episode is the big event that Jonathan and I have been talking about all Halloween season. 6 00:00:45,794 --> 00:00:51,117 We are surprising you guys with a team duel. That's right. Normally we only do team duels 7 00:00:51,177 --> 00:00:56,887 every 25 episodes. But we're squeezing in one for this Halloween holiday because we think 8 00:00:56,907 --> 00:01:04,170 it's just gonna be that awesome. That's right, we're pitting Deceased against Marvel zombies. 9 00:01:04,290 --> 00:01:15,215 Spooky. Both DC and Marvel have had critically acclaimed and fan-loved zombie story arcs and 10 00:01:15,295 --> 00:01:20,317 it's gonna be a whole lot of fun pitting these DC zombie characters against these Marvel zombie 11 00:01:20,337 --> 00:01:24,812 characters. We're gonna put their stats into our simulation runner and find out which group 12 00:01:24,832 --> 00:01:28,254 would actually come out on top later on this episode. Before that, we're gonna break down 13 00:01:28,274 --> 00:01:32,036 the comic book and movie news to come out this past week, of which there was only one news 14 00:01:32,116 --> 00:01:37,079 item worth discussing, that is that Daredevil Born Again has gotten a show runner, Dario 15 00:01:37,159 --> 00:01:41,861 Skardapane, who was a writer on The Punisher. So that's pretty exciting. We'll talk about 16 00:01:41,881 --> 00:01:46,264 that coming up, but as always, we list our segment times in our episode description, so feel free 17 00:01:46,304 --> 00:01:50,535 to check out the show notes if you wanna skip ahead to a particular topic. As our listeners 18 00:01:50,575 --> 00:01:55,541 may know, our duel simulator is so advanced that it's gained sentience and has named itself 19 00:01:55,601 --> 00:02:00,808 the Artificial Lightform for running extensive duels, just a rather very intelligent simulator 20 00:02:00,968 --> 00:02:10,002 9000, or Alfred Jarvis 9000. He has a quick message for our listeners, so listen up. Why 21 00:02:10,062 --> 00:02:14,865 hello there. Do you love listening and chatting about Marvel and DC? Then become a part of 22 00:02:14,905 --> 00:02:19,989 the dynamic dual community on Patreon, where you can choose from three tiers. 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Johnny 30 00:02:56,426 --> 00:03:01,008 and Joe will help you develop your show, provide graphic support and consultation, and get you 31 00:03:01,068 --> 00:03:06,530 simulation results to announce on your show. Pitch the twins your show via email at dynamicduelpodcast.gmail.com 32 00:03:08,752 --> 00:03:15,634 them on social media. Check it out at patreon.com slash dynamic duel. Pip pip cheerio. Thanks 33 00:03:15,694 --> 00:03:20,916 AJ 9K and thanks to everyone who supports the podcast. Be sure guys to listen to the Max 34 00:03:20,936 --> 00:03:26,518 Destruction podcast this week, which is part of the dynamic podcast network. Today, Ken 35 00:03:26,538 --> 00:03:30,759 will be dropping an episode and tomorrow. So you're going to get two episodes this week. 36 00:03:31,099 --> 00:03:34,740 You're going to find out who's going to win in a fight between Candyman and Leatherface 37 00:03:35,281 --> 00:03:41,155 and Predator versus the Yeah, can't wait for that. Also, make sure to tune into Send Your 38 00:03:41,195 --> 00:03:47,459 World this Thursday to find out who would win between Bakugo from My Hero Academia and Deidara 39 00:03:47,659 --> 00:03:53,603 from Naruto. Visit dynamicpodcasts.com or click on the link in our show notes to listen to 40 00:03:53,683 --> 00:03:59,406 all of the shows in the Dynamike Podcast Network. But with that out of the way, quick to the 41 00:03:59,446 --> 00:04:06,218 no prize. A no prize is an award that Marvel used to give out to fans. Our version, the 42 00:04:06,258 --> 00:04:11,260 Dynamic Dual Node Prize, is a digital award that we post on Instagram and in our email 43 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:15,802 newsletter for the person that we feel gave the best answer to our question of the week. 44 00:04:16,342 --> 00:04:21,004 Last week we asked, which Marvel or DC character do you think would make for the most awesome 45 00:04:21,204 --> 00:04:26,066 anime series and why? And this was coming off of the interview we did with Zach from Send 46 00:04:26,086 --> 00:04:30,448 Your World, which is in the Dynamike network. We got a lot of great answers here. There were 47 00:04:30,488 --> 00:04:34,309 no bad answers for this, but let's go ahead and break down our three honorable mentions. 48 00:04:34,698 --> 00:04:40,783 as well as the no prize winner. Our first honorable mention goes to, Miggy Mathengian who said, 49 00:04:41,243 --> 00:04:46,048 Hey what's up guys this is Miggy and I think Monkey Prince would make the most awesome anime 50 00:04:46,088 --> 00:04:54,175 series. I'm taking CJ Craft's answer, he answered a couple weeks ago for what animated series 51 00:04:54,235 --> 00:04:58,679 or animated movie would you want to see and he answered Monkey Prince. I think he would 52 00:04:58,699 --> 00:05:03,330 make a good anime. So yeah keep up the good work guys. Yeah, I loved this answer right 53 00:05:03,370 --> 00:05:08,752 away when I heard it. My mind went to Hit Monkey, which was a fantastic anime series. And I would 54 00:05:08,792 --> 00:05:12,913 love to see something like that in the vein for Monkey Prince. Just super stylized, super 55 00:05:12,953 --> 00:05:17,254 fun. It would be awesome. Yeah, we recently had a duel episode with Monkey Prince where 56 00:05:17,294 --> 00:05:21,875 we pit him against Mantis from the Guardians of the Galaxy. That was a really fun episode. 57 00:05:22,475 --> 00:05:25,936 And it was really cool to learn about Monkey Prince and his pretty interesting backstory 58 00:05:26,096 --> 00:05:31,739 steeped in Chinese mythology. Great answer, Biggie. And also. to CJ, because Biggie stole 59 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:39,125 the answer from you. Our next honorable mention goes to Travis Herndon, who said, Hey guys, 60 00:05:39,186 --> 00:05:44,711 Travis here. So my pick would have to be Lobo. I feel like you could easily make a cool Lobo 61 00:05:44,811 --> 00:05:50,336 anime, have the same blood and gore as Castlevania, with the same comedy as the Harley Quinn show. 62 00:05:50,856 --> 00:05:55,861 And I believe it's time for the main man to get an anime series. So my pick would definitely 63 00:05:55,881 --> 00:06:02,718 be Lobo. Yeah, there aren't many genres that do violence as well as anime does. It's just 64 00:06:02,798 --> 00:06:09,362 so over the top with gushing torrents of blood and gore. And Lobo as a character was designed 65 00:06:09,402 --> 00:06:15,267 for exactly that. Yeah, I mean, you couldn't probably do a character like Lobo justice in 66 00:06:15,287 --> 00:06:21,031 a different animated genre, right? Like I couldn't see a great Lobo series done like Adventure 67 00:06:21,071 --> 00:06:26,034 Time or something like that. It has to be anime. I think it'd be awesome. The character of Lobo 68 00:06:26,054 --> 00:06:30,438 himself is so stylized and so is the art form. So, yeah, I think they suit each other really 69 00:06:30,478 --> 00:06:35,282 well. Well, I mean, Lobo has done pretty well in like the Bruce Tim Superman animated series 70 00:06:35,642 --> 00:06:40,366 and some other animated movies that we've had, like Man of Tomorrow, but it's also a very 71 00:06:40,426 --> 00:06:45,410 tamed down version of the character. And if you want to stay true to him, yeah, you definitely 72 00:06:45,430 --> 00:06:50,194 got to make it anime or it should be anime. Great answer, Travis. Our next honorable mention 73 00:06:50,214 --> 00:06:57,135 goes to Abner O'Terry, who said, Hey, guys, this is Abner O'Terry. Coming into the best 74 00:06:57,235 --> 00:07:08,424 answer for this question. Mine is Blue Beetle. Like his, the whole situation with his scarab 75 00:07:08,564 --> 00:07:16,350 is just like perfect for the anime world. Yeah, of course. We recently gave an answer of Blue 76 00:07:16,390 --> 00:07:22,030 Beetle as the no prize win for which character would be best in a video game. But I equally 77 00:07:22,070 --> 00:07:27,595 think that Blue Beetle would be great in an anime series as well. Just with how cool and 78 00:07:27,635 --> 00:07:33,380 kinetic and action-packed the character is with his technological components, it would be so 79 00:07:33,420 --> 00:07:37,904 cool just to see him go super Saiyan. Yeah, it would fit squarely within the shounen genre, 80 00:07:38,084 --> 00:07:43,749 where basically the character Blue Beetle would discover a new power as he becomes more acquainted 81 00:07:44,069 --> 00:07:48,112 with the abilities of the Scarab throughout each episode and he'd kind of grow in might 82 00:07:48,192 --> 00:07:52,696 as the series progressed. Yeah, just like my adventures with Superman. You know, Blue Beetle 83 00:07:52,716 --> 00:07:57,500 would be perfect in that genre of anime as well. Honestly, the only reason this answer didn't 84 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:03,265 get the no prize win was because we had just given the win to a Blue Beetle answer a couple 85 00:08:03,285 --> 00:08:07,969 of weeks ago. Yeah. Great answer, Abner. We want to give a quick shout out to Christopher 86 00:08:08,009 --> 00:08:13,273 Minotti, Brandon Estregard and Mitchell Smoothie for taking the time to visit our website and 87 00:08:13,313 --> 00:08:19,322 record an answer. Yeah, those are also great answers, including Mr. Mixus Biddlek. Vixen 88 00:08:19,602 --> 00:08:26,266 and Mr. Negative. But the winner of this week's snow prize is Nate Mantineo who said, Hey guys, 89 00:08:26,466 --> 00:08:33,410 Nate Mantineo. Um, I'm going with the obvious answer on your question tonight. Um, I think 90 00:08:33,450 --> 00:08:39,713 that Penny Parker would make an awesome anime because she is anime and we've always seen 91 00:08:39,753 --> 00:08:47,854 her. She's been anime and I love anime and her with S P I D R would be awesome and I just 92 00:08:47,914 --> 00:08:51,277 want to see that because I love superheroes and I love anime and mix them together and 93 00:08:51,357 --> 00:08:57,182 I just love it. Bye guys. Thanks. Yeah, Penny Parker is a fantastic answer. Of course, she's 94 00:08:57,202 --> 00:09:01,606 a Japanese character most recently seen on the screen in the Into the Spider-Verse movie. 95 00:09:01,827 --> 00:09:06,511 I think she'd be fantastic. Yeah, it'd be great to have a series with her following her adventures 96 00:09:06,991 --> 00:09:11,855 with the spider robot and her spider pal. But I would also like to maybe extend this answer 97 00:09:11,895 --> 00:09:16,838 to include all of the Spider-verse. An anthology series where she basically travels Spider-verse 98 00:09:16,858 --> 00:09:21,921 and meets different Spider-men would also be cool because honestly I think any Spider-man 99 00:09:22,081 --> 00:09:27,525 would be awesome as an anime. Yeah, it could sort of be like an Isekai adventure. That genre 100 00:09:27,565 --> 00:09:32,548 of anime where the main character travels to a new land and just experiences that learns 101 00:09:32,688 --> 00:09:38,270 all about that. Exactly. That's a fantastic answer. I'm honestly disappointed that Sony 102 00:09:38,290 --> 00:09:42,772 doesn't already have something like that in the works. Considering the success of the Spider-Verse 103 00:09:43,012 --> 00:09:46,913 animated films, you'd think they'd want to spin off something to keep that franchise going. 104 00:09:47,353 --> 00:09:51,314 Yeah, maybe after the third film in the trilogy is done, they could continue to explore those 105 00:09:51,334 --> 00:09:56,195 worlds with something like a Penny Parker anime. That would be amazing. I do have to say though, 106 00:09:56,235 --> 00:10:02,977 as great as this answer was, no one said the most perfect answer, which is Amethyst from 107 00:10:03,037 --> 00:10:08,919 DC Comics. She's a character who realized that in another world, she's actually a magical 108 00:10:08,959 --> 00:10:14,082 princess. And that would be absolutely perfect for not only like a magical girl anime, but 109 00:10:14,142 --> 00:10:19,064 also like I mentioned, an isekai. Actually, that's interesting because my wife, I told 110 00:10:19,084 --> 00:10:24,666 her to call in with an answer, but she didn't. But she suggested that a great Marvel anime 111 00:10:24,766 --> 00:10:30,588 would be the Scarlet Witch, kind of in the vein of WandaVision meets Paprika. I don't know 112 00:10:30,608 --> 00:10:35,414 if you saw that anime movie, which is about dreaming. So it would just be really mind-warpy 113 00:10:35,474 --> 00:10:39,816 and reality-bending. I thought that was a great answer too. So shout out to Ari, even though 114 00:10:40,096 --> 00:10:44,838 you didn't call in. But congrats to Nate for winning this week's No Prize. If you, the listener, 115 00:10:45,138 --> 00:10:48,719 want a shot at winning your own No Prize, stay tuned to later on this episode when we'll be 116 00:10:48,819 --> 00:10:53,421 asking another Question of the Week. And now that that's done, on to the news. 117 00:10:59,042 --> 00:11:04,283 Marvel Studios has taken their Daredevil Born Again series back to square one and are creatively 118 00:11:04,343 --> 00:11:10,545 rebooting the series. They previously let go of writers Chris Ord and Matt Corman because 119 00:11:10,565 --> 00:11:15,727 they want to take the series in a different direction. They decided that their previous 120 00:11:15,767 --> 00:11:20,948 system of making Disney Plus series the same exact way they make their movies no longer 121 00:11:21,028 --> 00:11:24,969 works for television and so they're going to take a more classic television production. 122 00:11:25,522 --> 00:11:30,123 route with their television show making process. And that'll include, you know, writing a show 123 00:11:30,143 --> 00:11:36,044 bible, hiring a show runner, and in some cases even producing pilots. This past week we learned 124 00:11:36,124 --> 00:11:41,906 that the Daredevil Born Again series has already landed its show runner. So Marvel has really 125 00:11:41,946 --> 00:11:46,387 wasted no time, which is fantastic, but the show runner is going to be Dario Scartapane, 126 00:11:46,747 --> 00:11:52,849 who has worked on not only shows like Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, but also previously he's done Marvel 127 00:11:54,958 --> 00:12:00,959 for Netflix. Which was awesome. I loved that series. Yeah, it was a great show. It really 128 00:12:00,999 --> 00:12:05,841 seems like Marvel's trying to kind of stick to the tone that was previously established 129 00:12:05,901 --> 00:12:10,782 by the Netflix series with the Daredevil born again show. So I think that's fantastic news. 130 00:12:11,322 --> 00:12:15,483 Yeah, honestly, it's like the best news I've heard for this series. I was really worried 131 00:12:15,503 --> 00:12:20,164 that Disney was gonna screw up a Daredevil television series, but this is the best thing they could 132 00:12:20,204 --> 00:12:25,334 have done to make it just like what we got before with Netflix. Right, well, I mean, because 133 00:12:25,354 --> 00:12:28,877 they weren't going to make it better, right? You know, Disney Plus was not going to do a 134 00:12:28,897 --> 00:12:32,820 better job than Netflix with the Daredevil show because the Daredevil show was near perfection. 135 00:12:32,980 --> 00:12:36,682 So you're right. The best thing they could do is continue that series forward, at least tonally, 136 00:12:37,063 --> 00:12:42,767 if not in continuity. In addition to the showrunners, Marvel has also hired a couple of directors, 137 00:12:42,927 --> 00:12:48,471 Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, who are co-directors that have also done Marvel television, including 138 00:12:48,931 --> 00:12:54,848 episodes of Loki season two and Moon Knight. They were actually the lead directors on Loki 139 00:12:54,868 --> 00:13:00,433 season 2. Right. And both of the shows, Loki and Moon Knight, are incredibly cinematic. 140 00:13:00,834 --> 00:13:07,220 So I would like to see them carry forward that very grand feel to a Daredevil show and make 141 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,284 it really feel like a movie of sorts. I think that'd be fantastic. Absolutely. This is all 142 00:13:11,324 --> 00:13:15,428 great news. I was like shitting my pants a few weeks ago when I saw that Marvel was rebooting 143 00:13:15,468 --> 00:13:19,847 their series, but it really seems... Like they're making a lot of really great decisions, not 144 00:13:19,907 --> 00:13:23,949 just in the talent that they're hiring, but in their approach in general. So I think the 145 00:13:23,969 --> 00:13:28,171 Daredevil show will be all the better for it. And I'm really looking forward to it, even 146 00:13:28,191 --> 00:13:32,133 though we don't know when we're going to get it, probably sometime in 2025 or something. 147 00:13:32,394 --> 00:13:38,397 But speaking of Marvel television and the former Netflix television shows, that brings us to 148 00:13:38,417 --> 00:13:39,397 our question of the week. 149 00:13:43,862 --> 00:13:50,067 What was your favorite Netflix Marvel television series and why? Of course that includes Daredevil, 150 00:13:50,227 --> 00:13:55,931 Jessica Jones, The Punisher, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders. Record your answer 151 00:13:55,951 --> 00:14:00,275 at dynamicduel.com by clicking on the red microphone button in the bottom right hand corner of the 152 00:14:00,335 --> 00:14:04,698 screen, which will prompt you to leave us a voicemail. Your message could be up to 30 seconds 153 00:14:04,738 --> 00:14:08,922 long, and don't forget to leave your name in case we include you on the podcast. We'll pick 154 00:14:08,962 --> 00:14:13,345 our favorite answer and award that person a Dynamic Duel No Prize that we'll post to Instagram. 155 00:14:13,818 --> 00:14:17,461 and our email newsletter. Be sure to answer before November 4th. 156 00:14:24,590 --> 00:14:28,235 But I think that does it for all the news for this episode, so let's get into the main event 157 00:14:28,756 --> 00:14:36,027 where we find out who would win in our spooky zombie apocalypse matchup of Deceased versus 158 00:14:36,548 --> 00:14:37,369 Marvel Zombies. 159 00:14:52,534 --> 00:14:56,956 Welcome to the zombie apocalypse, y'all. That's right, it's an all out gorefest as we find 160 00:14:57,016 --> 00:15:01,698 out who'd win between the deceased and the Marvel zombies. Both of these series came out within 161 00:15:01,738 --> 00:15:08,361 the past 15 years or so. Jeez, actually I think Marvel zombies came out in the mid 2000s. It 162 00:15:08,381 --> 00:15:12,924 was a comic book series written by Robert Kirkman around the same time that he was writing The 163 00:15:12,944 --> 00:15:19,143 Walking Dead. It's a fantastic, shocking, depressing. comic book series that was adapted recently 164 00:15:19,263 --> 00:15:26,288 to animation in the Marvel Zombies episode of What If, which was a fantastic episode. Definitely 165 00:15:26,308 --> 00:15:31,832 a departure from the comic book series in the story it told, but no less gruesome and kind 166 00:15:31,852 --> 00:15:37,076 of freaky and scary and kind of fucked up too. Yeah, I mean, Deceased has not been adapted 167 00:15:37,136 --> 00:15:41,999 to any kind of animation style, but it was critically acclaimed. Actually, the series just wrapped 168 00:15:42,159 --> 00:15:48,247 up earlier this year in April in 2023. It was written by acclaimed comic writer, Tom Taylor, 169 00:15:48,367 --> 00:15:53,171 who is popular for also doing the Injustice comic book storyline. That really expanded 170 00:15:53,211 --> 00:15:56,973 the story of the video game. That's pretty cool, I didn't know that. We're really excited to 171 00:15:56,993 --> 00:16:01,536 bring this Team Duel episode to you guys on Halloween day. We knew from the get-go, once 172 00:16:01,576 --> 00:16:05,799 we saw that this episode was dropping on Halloween, that we had to make it special. Yeah, it's 173 00:16:05,819 --> 00:16:09,581 not too often you get to see zombies fighting zombies, so I think this will be a lot of fun. 174 00:16:10,058 --> 00:16:14,480 Right, right. Yeah, actually, initially, this was going to be just a standard 1v1 duel, but 175 00:16:14,660 --> 00:16:18,402 once we read the comics, we knew that we had to cram as many zombies as we could within 176 00:16:18,442 --> 00:16:23,125 this battle. Yeah, I actually had a really hard time narrowing down my seven character roster. 177 00:16:23,245 --> 00:16:27,227 Kudos to the executive producers who really helped out with that. Running team duels is 178 00:16:27,407 --> 00:16:32,190 a lot more difficult than running 1v1 duels, but to explain the methodology behind our duels, 179 00:16:32,650 --> 00:16:38,373 let's go to our sentient duel simulator, Alfred Jarvis 9000. AJ9k, tell our listeners how you 180 00:16:38,393 --> 00:16:44,136 go about determining a winner in these team duel matchups. Yes, of course, sir. The way 181 00:16:44,216 --> 00:16:49,018 I determine a winner between the two teams is by running 1000 Monte Carlo simulations between 182 00:16:49,118 --> 00:16:54,280 every character on each team using their statistics. A Monte Carlo simulation is a probabilistic 183 00:16:54,320 --> 00:17:00,142 model used to determine outcomes through random sampling. In this case, I randomize the statistics 184 00:17:00,182 --> 00:17:05,024 along a normal distribution as a way to simulate the many variables that can occur during battle. 185 00:17:05,424 --> 00:17:10,046 The stat parameters are based on the official Marvel power grid. from which the DC characters' 186 00:17:10,086 --> 00:17:15,268 statistics are extrapolated. Additional stat categories are included such as range, damage 187 00:17:15,288 --> 00:17:20,829 potential, versatility and perception in order to create a more detailed and accurate simulation. 188 00:17:21,290 --> 00:17:26,031 The results of the 49,000 simulations provide a percentage of wins for each character on 189 00:17:26,071 --> 00:17:30,653 both teams. The team with the higher average win rate is declared the victor as they have 190 00:17:30,673 --> 00:17:35,475 a higher probability to win any given battle. In an equitable pairing, neither team should 191 00:17:35,495 --> 00:17:40,319 win 100% of the matches. The comic book stories have shown that there's even a way for Batman 192 00:17:40,339 --> 00:17:44,723 to defeat Superman, so the confidence rate of my method falls in line with the precedents 193 00:17:44,743 --> 00:17:49,867 that have been established in the source material. My mathematical simulations are without subjectivity 194 00:17:49,907 --> 00:17:55,371 or bias. Feats are not the sole consideration, nor are fan votes tabulated for determination 195 00:17:55,411 --> 00:18:00,916 of the winner. Thanks, AJ9K. Before we run the simulations, though, we like to break down 196 00:18:00,956 --> 00:18:06,654 the histories and rosters for each team. before improvising a scenario on how we imagine one 197 00:18:06,754 --> 00:18:12,396 of the many simulations would play out B for B. And I believe it's my turn to go first with 198 00:18:12,436 --> 00:18:18,458 the DC backstory, so let me tell you all about the storyline of Deceased. Spoiler alert if 199 00:18:18,498 --> 00:18:23,579 you haven't finished the series. After a massive victory by the Justice League over Darkseid's 200 00:18:23,619 --> 00:18:28,901 attempted invasion of Earth, the tyrannical Darkseid retreated to his distant planet of 201 00:18:28,941 --> 00:18:35,840 Apocalypse, just as Earth's heroes realized... that Cyborg was missing. Darkseid had captured 202 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:41,764 Cyborg during his invasion and tortured him on Apocalypse, believing his body, half human, 203 00:18:42,024 --> 00:18:47,828 half New God technology, was encoded with the final remnant of the Anti-Life Equation that 204 00:18:47,869 --> 00:18:53,753 Darkseid needed to control every living being in the universe. In order to keep Cyborg alive 205 00:18:53,833 --> 00:18:59,557 long enough to extract the Equation, Darkseid summoned the New God embodiment of Death, the 206 00:18:59,597 --> 00:19:06,205 Black Racer. and unknowingly merged some of Death's essence with Cyborg, just as the equation 207 00:19:06,225 --> 00:19:12,109 was fully deciphered. Darkseid, infected by the techno-organic virus that was now the Corrupted 208 00:19:12,209 --> 00:19:17,853 Equation, was consumed by madness and killed the Black Racer, just as Darkseid's chief scientist, 209 00:19:17,953 --> 00:19:23,777 Desaad, boomtubed Cyborg back to Earth in an effort to send the equation from Apocalypse. 210 00:19:24,257 --> 00:19:29,541 But it was too late. Darkseid leapt into the fires of Apocalypse and unleashed his full 211 00:19:29,621 --> 00:19:35,752 Omega power. annihilating the planet. Once Cyborg arrived back on Earth, his systems reconnected 212 00:19:35,772 --> 00:19:41,174 to the internet wirelessly, and he accidentally uploaded the anti-life equation to the internet. 213 00:19:41,554 --> 00:19:47,456 The virus spread quickly, as anyone who viewed a screen was exposed to the equation and driven 214 00:19:47,516 --> 00:19:52,739 mad with the need to kill any unaffected living being in their vicinity, with them also being 215 00:19:52,759 --> 00:19:57,480 capable of spreading the virus by blood contact. Though Superman was able to realize what was 216 00:19:57,521 --> 00:20:03,640 happening fast enough to save his wife and Lois Lane and Jonathan Kent, Batman was unable to 217 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:09,924 save Nightwing and Red Robin, who attacked and transmuted the virus to him, forcing Alfred 218 00:20:10,264 --> 00:20:16,488 to kill all three. Batman's son Damien, who was with Jonathan when the virus struck, survived, 219 00:20:16,928 --> 00:20:22,112 as did Green Arrow and Black Canary, the latter of whom became a Green Lantern after she was 220 00:20:22,152 --> 00:20:27,435 forced to kill an infected Hell Jordan. The surviving heroes assembled at the Daily Planet 221 00:20:27,475 --> 00:20:32,358 in Metropolis, as instructed by Lois Lane in a message she managed to broadcast from the 222 00:20:32,398 --> 00:20:38,561 Daily Planet. Metropolis was soon destroyed, however, after an infected atom breached Captain 223 00:20:38,641 --> 00:20:43,744 Adam's metallic shell, infecting Kim as well and causing Kim to detonate his atomically 224 00:20:43,804 --> 00:20:50,408 energized body in an explosion that destroyed Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and Metropolis. 225 00:20:50,928 --> 00:20:56,623 The heroes at the Daily Planet and Lex Luthor were the only survivors of the explosion, thanks 226 00:20:56,663 --> 00:21:01,625 to Black Canary protecting them with her Green Lantern Ring. When Earth's remaining uninfected 227 00:21:01,685 --> 00:21:07,187 population being sheltered on the Paradise Island of Themyscira and a dense forest in Gotham 228 00:21:07,227 --> 00:21:12,790 City created by Poison Ivy, Earth's surviving heroes assembled at the Fortress of Solitude, 229 00:21:13,090 --> 00:21:15,731 away from the infected, where Cyborg and Lex 230 00:21:21,782 --> 00:21:26,505 When Mr. Terrific failed to develop a cure, he learned from the new gods Mr. Miracle and 231 00:21:26,545 --> 00:21:32,690 Big Barda that the source, Apocalypse, had been destroyed. They attempted to recruit John Constantine 232 00:21:32,710 --> 00:21:38,434 to provide a magical solution, to which Constantine revealed that one did not exist. Planning on 233 00:21:38,494 --> 00:21:43,458 using Booster Gold's time machine as a last resort, Big Barda became infected and killed 234 00:21:43,498 --> 00:21:49,662 Mr. Terrific and Blue Beetle, though Constantine was rescued by Dr. Fate and Zatanna. The remaining 235 00:21:49,702 --> 00:21:54,965 members of the Justice League attempted to persuade Black Adam to turn his nation of Condoc into 236 00:21:54,985 --> 00:22:01,248 a third refuge as he had killed all anti-living within his borders. But Black Adam refused 237 00:22:01,589 --> 00:22:06,892 and became infected not long after, turning his entire nation into an anti-living army 238 00:22:06,992 --> 00:22:12,495 soon after. Wonder Woman managed to stop Black Adam, however, by using her lasso to force 239 00:22:12,515 --> 00:22:18,030 him to say Shazam and lose his power, after which Superman used his heat vision. to sever 240 00:22:18,090 --> 00:22:23,334 Adam's vocal cords and prevent him from gaining power again. As the heroes neared completion 241 00:22:23,374 --> 00:22:28,918 of the arcs at the Fortress of Solitude, they were attacked mentally by an infected, invisible 242 00:22:29,058 --> 00:22:35,042 Martian Manhunter, who managed to also infect the Flash before Firestorm set Martian Manhunter 243 00:22:35,102 --> 00:22:41,086 on fire. The Flash, infecting surviving humans across the planet at light speed, was stopped 244 00:22:41,146 --> 00:22:47,082 by Superman, who collided with him. Only for the Flash's fingers. to get lodged in Superman's 245 00:22:47,142 --> 00:22:52,643 torso during the incident, infecting Superman, who attempted to flee the planet unsuccessfully 246 00:22:52,924 --> 00:22:58,105 before he succumbed to the virus. As the heroes acted quickly to get the Arks to Themyscira 247 00:22:58,165 --> 00:23:04,067 and Gotham, Wonder Woman forged a sword from Kryptonite and magic in order to fend off Superman 248 00:23:04,127 --> 00:23:10,369 and protect the Arks. She failed, however, and was infected by Superman, who went after the 249 00:23:10,409 --> 00:23:15,875 now fully boarded Arks as they escaped Earth's gravity. While Cyborg stayed behind with Wonder 250 00:23:15,915 --> 00:23:21,179 Woman, Black Canary went after Superman with the Kryptonite Sword, just as the entirety 251 00:23:21,239 --> 00:23:26,562 of the Green Lantern Corps arrived to quarantine the planet. As the Arks successfully escaped, 252 00:23:27,043 --> 00:23:32,787 Superman retreated into the sun for protection. Meanwhile, Cyborg bound Wonder Woman with her 253 00:23:32,827 --> 00:23:39,171 magic lasso as she transformed into the Anti-Living, at which point she confessed to him that his 254 00:23:39,251 --> 00:23:44,562 code had possessed a cure for the virus all along. But before Cyborg could send a signal 255 00:23:44,582 --> 00:23:50,605 to the Arks to inform them, Woodroman escaped the lasso and tore off his head. The Arks eventually 256 00:23:50,685 --> 00:23:56,667 settled on a planet they dubbed Earth-2, and after five years, Jonathan, Damien, and other 257 00:23:56,687 --> 00:24:00,789 heroes returned to Earth to check on it, at which point they received a distress beacon 258 00:24:01,109 --> 00:24:06,951 coming from Cyborg's head. After rescuing Cyborg, Mr. Miracle and a group of heroes took him 259 00:24:06,971 --> 00:24:12,686 to the new god Metron, and Cyborg was able to use Metron's all-knowing Mobius Chair. to learn 260 00:24:12,706 --> 00:24:19,288 how to code a cure for the virus, while Constantine and other magic users defended Earth from Trigon, 261 00:24:19,408 --> 00:24:23,710 who attempted to destroy the planet to prevent the virus from spreading across the cosmos. 262 00:24:24,150 --> 00:24:30,273 After curing everyone on Earth and Superman, Brainiac arrived at Earth too and warned them 263 00:24:30,353 --> 00:24:36,416 that the infected new gods were tearing across the universe. Darkseid, they learned, survived 264 00:24:36,476 --> 00:24:42,959 the destruction of Apocalypse and infected everyone on New Genesis. After decapitating Sinestro, 265 00:24:43,319 --> 00:24:49,424 Darkseid took control of his Yellow Ring, becoming a Yellow Lantern Zombie and infecting the planet-sized 266 00:24:49,484 --> 00:24:56,250 weapon and Yellow Lantern homebase of Warworld with the Anti-Life Virus. As planets fell to 267 00:24:56,290 --> 00:25:02,135 Darkseid and his anti-living army, the God of War Ares manipulated the Owens to order the 268 00:25:02,175 --> 00:25:07,099 Green Lantern Corps to attack all other heroes under the belief that it was less of a risk 269 00:25:07,179 --> 00:25:12,762 to kill the infected rather than try to cure them. After Mix's Spitalik became infected 270 00:25:13,082 --> 00:25:17,784 and destroyed the Green Lantern Core's central power battery, the Spectre sacrificed himself 271 00:25:17,804 --> 00:25:23,367 to repair the battery and defeat Mix's Spitalik. As Darkseid and his army arrived at Earth-2, 272 00:25:24,167 --> 00:25:29,729 Elfrid transformed into the New Spectre in order to save Damian, who had become infected by 273 00:25:29,749 --> 00:25:36,532 Highfather of New Genesis. The Spectre was able to cure all infected beings on Earth-2, including 274 00:25:36,632 --> 00:25:43,791 Darkseid, with the help of Lobo. It was revealed that the anti-life equation was created by 275 00:25:43,831 --> 00:25:49,654 the primordial god of darkness, Erebus, and that he would need to be defeated in order 276 00:25:49,714 --> 00:25:55,896 to save the universe. Damien, as it turned out, found the counter-life equation within Cyborg's 277 00:25:55,936 --> 00:26:02,139 code, and with help from Darkseid, the heroes were able to use a Doom Tube to teleport outside 278 00:26:02,159 --> 00:26:08,454 the universe to Erebus' domain, where Damien sacrificed himself while inside Erebus. to 279 00:26:08,474 --> 00:26:14,775 destroy him and create an entirely new universe. And that's the story of Deceased. Now, the 280 00:26:14,815 --> 00:26:20,397 real stars of Deceased aren't the Anti-Living, but since this is a zombie match, my roster 281 00:26:20,417 --> 00:26:25,238 for the team duel match is going to consist of some of the most prominent and devastating 282 00:26:25,318 --> 00:26:31,560 members of the Anti-Living, primarily from the original 6 issue run and the spinoff stories 283 00:26:31,580 --> 00:26:37,381 that occurred concurrently. Superman, of course, was a massive and powerful threat to the arcs. 284 00:26:37,698 --> 00:26:41,999 that contained the last of humanity, so he's definitely one of my team members, though he 285 00:26:42,039 --> 00:26:47,580 has a prosthetic metal right arm after losing it to Wonder Woman's kryptonite sword. Speaking 286 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:53,182 of Wonder Woman, she's also a member of my roster as she, along with Superman, was among the 287 00:26:53,202 --> 00:26:58,343 most powerful infected heroes at the end of the initial story. And yes, she's wielding 288 00:26:58,383 --> 00:27:04,125 her kryptonite sword. I'm also going with Black Adam, who led an anti-living army against the 289 00:27:04,185 --> 00:27:11,400 world, and who destroyed three major US cities in one massive explosion. In that same vein, 290 00:27:11,861 --> 00:27:17,724 I'm also going with Martian Manhunter, Big Barda, and The Flash, who killed or infected major 291 00:27:17,764 --> 00:27:24,528 characters within the story. So my roster consists of Superman, Wonder Woman, Black Adam, Captain 292 00:27:24,628 --> 00:27:29,951 Adam, Martian Manhunter, Big Barda, and The Flash, all of whom you can learn about in their 293 00:27:29,991 --> 00:27:36,514 respective dual episodes. Regarding zombies in Deceased, they aren't technically zombies 294 00:27:36,554 --> 00:27:40,855 because they aren't dead. You know, they just become extremely violent with the urge to kill 295 00:27:41,235 --> 00:27:47,137 all other living beings. They can be killed by any standard means that the character would 296 00:27:47,237 --> 00:27:52,478 normally be killed by, but they also retain any powers and durability that they had when 297 00:27:52,498 --> 00:27:58,060 they were among the living, and none of the infected can feel pain. They all also share 298 00:27:58,180 --> 00:28:05,482 a hive mind controlled by Erebus that can sense nearby living entities. And finally, the antilife 299 00:28:05,502 --> 00:28:12,884 virus that infects them can also infect technology as it is techno-organic. That is quite the 300 00:28:12,964 --> 00:28:17,465 powerful team that you have there. Hell yeah it is, but it's not going to be powerful enough 301 00:28:17,765 --> 00:28:22,907 against the Marvel zombies who have literally eaten the universe. Let me go ahead and tell 302 00:28:22,927 --> 00:28:28,488 you all about them. It all started with a flash in the sky and a ripple through the clouds. 303 00:28:29,088 --> 00:28:34,330 A being infected with a terrible plague known only as the hunger. fell onto the streets of 304 00:28:34,390 --> 00:28:40,291 Manhattan. The disease spread like wildfire, infecting and transforming anyone bitten. The 305 00:28:40,331 --> 00:28:45,933 Avengers of this reality were the first on the scene, including Colonel America, Hawkeye, 306 00:28:46,113 --> 00:28:51,375 Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, Luke Cage, and the Wasp. But they were quickly overwhelmed. The 307 00:28:51,395 --> 00:28:57,316 hunger was too powerful and the Avengers too few. One by one, they fell to the disease. 308 00:28:57,856 --> 00:29:03,466 Colonel America was the first bitten by a zombie and turned into one himself. He then bit Spider-Man, 309 00:29:03,547 --> 00:29:08,791 who had arrived on the scene to help. In the confusion, Spider-Man returned home, only to 310 00:29:08,851 --> 00:29:14,315 turn and devour his wife, Mary Jane, and his Aunt May. Ant-Man knew he was running out of 311 00:29:14,355 --> 00:29:18,919 time. The virus was spreading through his body, and he could feel the hunger taking over his 312 00:29:18,979 --> 00:29:24,564 mind. He had to find a way to survive, even if it meant sacrificing someone else. He lured 313 00:29:24,584 --> 00:29:29,868 Black Panther to his hidden lab, knocked him out, and surgically removed pieces of him to 314 00:29:29,908 --> 00:29:35,801 serve as a snack for later. From his Asteroid M orbital space station observation deck, Magneto 315 00:29:35,861 --> 00:29:40,885 watched in horror as the population consumed itself. He knew that this was just the beginning 316 00:29:41,045 --> 00:29:45,408 and traveled to Earth to warn the X-Men what was happening. He led them to join the fight 317 00:29:45,468 --> 00:29:50,552 in Manhattan, where the Fantastic Four were already battling the zombies after losing Franklin 318 00:29:50,652 --> 00:29:55,196 and Valeria to the zombie She-Hulk. The remaining heroes gathered together at the S.H.I.E.L.D. 319 00:29:55,556 --> 00:30:00,976 helicarrier, their last hope. Director Nick Fury ordered them to split up to bring as many 320 00:30:01,016 --> 00:30:06,500 survivors as possible to the SHIELD base, while Reed Richards, Tony Stark, and Bruce Banner 321 00:30:06,660 --> 00:30:11,603 worked on a zombie cure. Tony suggested the scientists work individually to approach the 322 00:30:11,643 --> 00:30:17,467 cure from multiple angles, though secretly he suspected that humanity was doomed and instead 323 00:30:17,587 --> 00:30:23,671 built a dimensional portal device. Reed was driven insane by the loss of his children and 324 00:30:23,711 --> 00:30:28,335 came to admire the efficiency of the zombie organism. He claimed it was the next stage 325 00:30:28,355 --> 00:30:34,079 of human evolution and infected the other Fantastic Four members and had them feed on him to turn 326 00:30:34,099 --> 00:30:39,123 him into a zombie as well. Damn. They ravaged the helicarrier and turned the other heroes 327 00:30:39,163 --> 00:30:45,408 inside into zombies, including Hulk, Thor, Doctor Strange, and Storm. Meanwhile, virtually every 328 00:30:45,448 --> 00:30:49,932 other hero began to fall to the plague during their rescue missions, including the X-Men 329 00:30:50,152 --> 00:30:56,597 and Wolverine. Within 24 hours, nearly the whole of Earth's population was a zombie or dead. 330 00:30:57,058 --> 00:31:01,941 The remaining zombified heroes reflected on the monsters they had become and the atrocities 331 00:31:01,961 --> 00:31:07,085 they had committed, having eaten their friends, families, and those they were supposed to protect. 332 00:31:07,625 --> 00:31:12,389 At that time, the Silver Surfer flew over the planet as a herald of the forthcoming Galactus 333 00:31:12,849 --> 00:31:17,173 and the heroes saw their chance at their next meal. While contemplating how to get at the 334 00:31:17,213 --> 00:31:22,957 Surfer, the Wasp found Ant-Man's secret Black Panther stash and he bit off her head to keep 335 00:31:23,017 --> 00:31:27,975 it quiet. When the Silver Surfer landed to announce Galactus' imminent arrival, the group of zombie 336 00:31:27,995 --> 00:31:34,096 heroes attacked and consumed the Herald, acquiring a portion of the Power Cosmic. These zombies, 337 00:31:34,316 --> 00:31:42,259 including Hulk, Colonel America, Wolverine, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Ant-Man, 338 00:31:42,739 --> 00:31:47,480 then fried the remaining zombie heroes with their cosmic energy to see if cooking their 339 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:53,041 zombie flesh made them edible. It didn't, and the Power Cosmic zombies found themselves again. 340 00:31:53,366 --> 00:31:59,150 without a food source. That is, until Galactus himself arrived. Knowing there were no match 341 00:31:59,190 --> 00:32:04,495 for the Devourer of Worlds, the Power Cosmic Zombies retreated to find a way to eat Galactus. 342 00:32:05,035 --> 00:32:11,160 Meanwhile, Black Panther escaped Ant-Man's confinements with help from the Wasp's severed head. Together, 343 00:32:11,260 --> 00:32:16,484 the two found their way to Asteroid M, where Magneto's acolytes still survived, and they 344 00:32:16,504 --> 00:32:21,348 found there the Mutant Forge, who was able to fashion new artificial limbs for Black Panther. 345 00:32:23,074 --> 00:32:28,615 The zombified Ant-Man, Iron Man, and Bruce Banner developed an amplifier device that would increase 346 00:32:28,655 --> 00:32:33,877 the output of power cosmic energy directed into it. With the device, the zombies were able 347 00:32:33,917 --> 00:32:39,198 to injure Galactus enough to topple him, though an army of villain zombies tried to fight them 348 00:32:39,238 --> 00:32:44,019 for Galactus' flesh. Although Colonel America fell in the battle when the Red Skull pulled 349 00:32:44,059 --> 00:32:48,461 his brain out through an opening in his skull, the other heroes were able to destroy the villains 350 00:32:48,861 --> 00:32:54,399 and they feasted on Galactus as a reward. Now known as the Zombie Galacti, they left the 351 00:32:54,439 --> 00:33:00,503 planet and journeyed across the universe, devouring every single life form. Meanwhile, on Earth, 352 00:33:00,644 --> 00:33:06,007 the Kingpin used the Jackal's cloning tools to set up an economic system among the remaining 353 00:33:06,127 --> 00:33:11,371 villain zombies where they did his bidding for the opportunity to feed on the clones. In an 354 00:33:11,431 --> 00:33:16,635 effort to increase their food supply by invading other dimensions, Morbius and Deadpool travel 355 00:33:16,655 --> 00:33:20,897 to the mainstream Marvel dimension through the nexus of all realities in the Florida Swamp. 356 00:33:21,282 --> 00:33:26,125 Though Deadpool was reduced to just a head, Morbius was able to disguise himself as his 357 00:33:26,185 --> 00:33:31,169 mainstream counterpart and pretended to work on a cure, but secretly planning to infect 358 00:33:31,309 --> 00:33:36,713 all the heroes. Fortunately, Machine Man was able to save the mainstream Morbius, who in 359 00:33:36,773 --> 00:33:42,777 turn recruited a new iteration of the Midnight Suns to combat and contain the virus. Decades 360 00:33:42,817 --> 00:33:48,021 later, back in the zombie reality, the zombie Galacti returned to Earth after eating the 361 00:33:48,121 --> 00:33:53,823 universe. Looking to use Tony Stark's dimensional portal device to invade other realities, they 362 00:33:53,863 --> 00:33:59,706 discovered that Black Panther, Forge, and the Acolytes had rebuilt a small society of survivors 363 00:33:59,746 --> 00:34:05,608 on Earth called New Wakanda. But more than that, they saw that the severed heads of the Wasp 364 00:34:05,748 --> 00:34:11,011 and Hawkeye, after spending all this time not feeding on human flesh, had overcome their 365 00:34:11,051 --> 00:34:17,213 hunger. Shocked, Spider-Man and Luke Cage turned on the other zombie galacti and joined New 366 00:34:17,233 --> 00:34:24,176 Wakanda. which protected itself with an impenetrable force field. Hungry, the remaining zombie galacti 367 00:34:24,256 --> 00:34:28,978 left New Wakanda and traveled to the Baxter Building to try and find the dimensional portal 368 00:34:29,098 --> 00:34:34,060 before realizing it had been in New Wakanda this whole time. The New Wakandans prepared 369 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:38,943 for the zombies' return and for battle, revealing that Colonel America's brain had been rescued 370 00:34:39,123 --> 00:34:44,465 and preserved in a new body. Though New Wakanda was unable to stop the zombie galacti from 371 00:34:44,525 --> 00:34:49,596 getting through the force field, the zombies realized that they too had overcome their hunger 372 00:34:49,937 --> 00:34:56,082 just prior to feasting. All the zombies that is, except for the Hulk, who in a rampage killed 373 00:34:56,142 --> 00:35:01,906 Hawkeye, Iron Man, and several Wakandan citizens before reverting to Bruce Banner and begging 374 00:35:01,946 --> 00:35:08,752 to be killed. The remaining zombies, Wolverine, Colonel America, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Black 375 00:35:08,772 --> 00:35:14,577 Panther, Ant-Man and the Wasp, helped rebuild New Wakanda. And though the crisis appeared 376 00:35:14,617 --> 00:35:19,853 to be at an end, the zombies were ultimately betrayed by the New Akandans who didn't trust 377 00:35:19,873 --> 00:35:24,797 the hunger to never return, and they were sent to another dimension using the Portal Device. 378 00:35:25,398 --> 00:35:30,101 Scattered across a new universe and stripped of the power of cosmic, some zombies reverted 379 00:35:30,122 --> 00:35:35,066 to their old ways such as Ant-Man, while others, like Spider-Man, tried to stop the disease 380 00:35:35,086 --> 00:35:40,470 from spreading once again. Ultimately, all it took was Ant-Man biting the Hulk, who in turn 381 00:35:40,570 --> 00:35:46,335 bit the Sentry, for this new dimension to fall like the last. the three largest alien races 382 00:35:46,475 --> 00:35:52,819 in the universe. The Skrulls, Kree, and Shi'ar, led by Black Panther, the Wasp, and Luke Cage, 383 00:35:52,859 --> 00:35:58,343 respectively, couldn't stop the disease. During a final stand between the good and bad zombies, 384 00:35:58,864 --> 00:36:03,707 the Sentry was captured in the blue area of the moon, where Ant-Man tried to use him as 385 00:36:03,747 --> 00:36:09,872 an energy source to power the Watcher's dimensional portal. There, Spider-Man unleashed a chemical 386 00:36:09,912 --> 00:36:15,426 weapon he had created against the zombies, using his old foe the Sandman to spread and destroy 387 00:36:15,626 --> 00:36:21,028 every last member of the undead remaining. With only the trapped Sentry left standing, the 388 00:36:21,068 --> 00:36:26,970 cosmic being known as the Watcher teleported him back in time to another dimension, creating 389 00:36:27,030 --> 00:36:32,651 a time loop between two realities, where the zombie virus would remain confined. The Sentry 390 00:36:33,172 --> 00:36:38,673 landed in this new dimension above Manhattan, arriving with a flash in the sky and a ripple 391 00:36:38,693 --> 00:36:43,695 through the clouds. And that's the Marvel Zombies backstory for this team duel, going with the 392 00:36:43,735 --> 00:36:48,896 zombie Galacti, the group of zombies that devoured the Silver Surfer and Galactus, imbuing them 393 00:36:48,936 --> 00:36:56,278 with the power cosmic. This includes Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk, Colonel America, Iron Man, 394 00:36:56,558 --> 00:37:01,219 and Luke Cage. In addition to their regular powers, all of which you can learn more about 395 00:37:01,259 --> 00:37:07,201 in their respective duel episodes, each of these zombies can fly at orbital speeds, fire devastating 396 00:37:07,301 --> 00:37:13,144 power cosmic energy blasts, rearrange matter, and have a minor level of awareness at a cosmic 397 00:37:13,184 --> 00:37:17,987 level which helped them locate life forms to consume. As zombies, they are tremendously 398 00:37:18,027 --> 00:37:22,731 difficult to kill, and can only die if their brain is completely destroyed. The zombies' 399 00:37:22,771 --> 00:37:27,874 teeth can apparently get through anything, as even people as durable as Luke Cage, the Silver 400 00:37:27,934 --> 00:37:32,877 Surfer, and even Galactus were able to be bitten. Although they normally retain their intelligence, 401 00:37:33,238 --> 00:37:38,221 the zombies start to lose rationality as they get hungrier and their minds become more obsessed 402 00:37:38,241 --> 00:37:43,217 with eating. The hunger for living flesh itself is entirely mental, as even severed zombie 403 00:37:43,257 --> 00:37:49,282 heads hungered. Though after weeks without food, the hunger would eventually dissipate. So again, 404 00:37:49,322 --> 00:37:55,947 my roster is Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk, Colonel America, Iron Man, and Luke Cage. So I am confused. 405 00:37:55,987 --> 00:38:01,412 What was the origin of the zombie virus? There was no origin. It's like a time paradox, basically. 406 00:38:01,752 --> 00:38:07,577 The being that caused the virus in the first place was the sentry who was sent back in time 407 00:38:08,418 --> 00:38:13,840 the Watcher after the zombie virus had already spread to that new universe. So it has no beginning 408 00:38:13,941 --> 00:38:21,985 and no end really. That's dumb. The Marvel Zombies story was eventually rebooted within the last 409 00:38:22,025 --> 00:38:26,027 few years, I think it was called Marvel Zombies Resurrection. And they kind of reimagined the 410 00:38:26,067 --> 00:38:33,131 story as a virus sourced from diseased Galactus. Okay, but the Robert Kirkman story is the classic, 411 00:38:33,231 --> 00:38:38,082 you know, that's the one that everybody knows and it's a fantastically dark story. Yeah, 412 00:38:38,102 --> 00:38:43,224 I mean, it's freaking Robert Kirkman. I do love the fact that the title of it is Marvel Zombies, 413 00:38:43,285 --> 00:38:49,068 which is a moniker bestowed upon anyone who reads only Marvel comics because they're just 414 00:38:49,108 --> 00:38:54,010 so ridiculously devoted to the company and will only read that, even though there's better 415 00:38:54,051 --> 00:38:59,173 shit out there from DC no less. Well, it doesn't surprise me that there are people who only 416 00:38:59,213 --> 00:39:03,516 read Marvel because it's just better. There's no such term as a DC zombie because no one 417 00:39:03,556 --> 00:39:09,500 out there reads just DC because it's not good enough. I mean. I only read DC. You DC zombie. 418 00:39:16,742 --> 00:39:22,045 Alright, now that we've got the storylines and the rosters out of the way, let's speculate 419 00:39:22,205 --> 00:39:28,068 on how one of these simulated matches will go. The winning team is determined by simulations, 420 00:39:28,508 --> 00:39:33,651 not this speculation, but it's fun to imagine how the fight could play out. Alfred Jarvis9000, 421 00:39:34,431 --> 00:39:39,935 what are the rules of our speculation? Well, I should say there are no rules, other than 422 00:39:39,975 --> 00:39:44,297 the teams have no prior knowledge of the other going into the fight. All they are aware of 423 00:39:44,357 --> 00:39:48,823 starting out... is that the other side is a threat that needs to be eliminated. For the 424 00:39:48,843 --> 00:39:53,984 speculation, the groups will begin approximately 50 meters apart in a nondescript environment 425 00:39:54,204 --> 00:39:58,765 that will have no bearing on the match itself, as no environmental statistics are considered 426 00:39:58,785 --> 00:40:03,547 in my simulations. The teams must earn victory on their own merit. Alright then let's get 427 00:40:03,567 --> 00:40:09,388 into it. Deceased and the Marvel zombies meet on the battlefield, who goes first? All I know 428 00:40:09,408 --> 00:40:14,702 is that first off, if the deceased are actually technically still alive, then that means they 429 00:40:14,722 --> 00:40:20,827 are food for the Marvel zombies. And that is gonna get the Marvel zombies like really excited. 430 00:40:20,887 --> 00:40:26,811 It's gonna send them to a ravenous glee. Okay, fine. That's fine. I'm gonna say the deceased 431 00:40:26,831 --> 00:40:33,056 go first though, because we have a speedster on our team, the Flash. And he's just gonna 432 00:40:33,256 --> 00:40:38,340 start off by running right up to the Hulk, since you know, he's a big burly guy, and he's gonna 433 00:40:38,420 --> 00:40:43,647 phase his arm right into the Hulk's torso. just making a giant hole and spilling the Hulk's 434 00:40:43,747 --> 00:40:48,969 guts out. Well, fortunately for the Hulk, he doesn't need guts to function. So he's gonna 435 00:40:49,049 --> 00:40:54,431 react to the Flash's attack by grabbing the speedster's arm. And then when the Flash tries 436 00:40:54,451 --> 00:40:58,973 to run away, he doesn't run away with the arm because Zombie Hulk just ripped that thing 437 00:40:59,133 --> 00:41:08,857 off and then he eats it. Okay. I mean, the Flash is off using his speed force to heal his stump 438 00:41:09,017 --> 00:41:15,541 arm now. And... The two teams are just gonna clash and Black Adam, he's gonna start by sending 439 00:41:15,741 --> 00:41:22,166 a lightning bolt at let's say Wolverine because you know he's a conductor with his metal skeleton. 440 00:41:23,487 --> 00:41:27,649 And that lightning is just gonna sizzle Wolverine to a burnt crisp. Again that's not gonna do 441 00:41:27,690 --> 00:41:31,892 anything. Wolverine is just gonna smile, this charred smile. Actually, Marvel zombies are 442 00:41:31,912 --> 00:41:37,536 probably always smiling because they don't have any lips, you know. But uh meanwhile Ant-Man 443 00:41:37,556 --> 00:41:43,196 is gonna grow into Giant-Man. and he's going to stomp onto Martian Manhunter, pinning him 444 00:41:43,216 --> 00:41:48,960 to the floor so he can grab him underneath his boot and then just devour him. Martian Manhunter, 445 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,083 he would just phase through the floor and just like leave Giant Man to wonder what the heck 446 00:41:53,103 --> 00:41:59,908 just happened. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman, she's going to run through Spider-Man with her sword, 447 00:42:00,048 --> 00:42:04,251 just impaling him at the torso. And then, you know, she's going to pull out the sword and 448 00:42:04,291 --> 00:42:10,075 slice him again, this time just hacking him from shoulder to navel. Damn! That's pretty 449 00:42:10,115 --> 00:42:18,240 violent. Fucking zombies. Iron Man sees this and he's gonna shoot a cosmic unibeam from 450 00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:24,484 his armor and that's just gonna blast Wonder Woman away from Spider-Man who is gonna patch 451 00:42:24,544 --> 00:42:31,409 his split in half upper body together with webbing. That's crazy. Yeah, it's like super glue. Okay, 452 00:42:31,789 --> 00:42:36,873 meanwhile Superman and Hulk are gonna be going to blows with, you know, Hulk probably trying 453 00:42:36,913 --> 00:42:42,864 to eat Superman. But Superman, he's going to keep him at bay by freezing the Hulk's lower 454 00:42:42,904 --> 00:42:48,067 body with his freeze breath. And then he's just going to punch the Hulk's lower body right 455 00:42:48,167 --> 00:42:53,249 off. So now the Hulk has no legs because they're just shattered. That's not like the big move 456 00:42:53,269 --> 00:43:00,453 that you think it is. OK, but meanwhile, Luke Cage, he's going to pick up Wolverine and fastball 457 00:43:00,493 --> 00:43:09,114 special him, hurling him at Big Barda. And Wolverine flies into Big Barda claws first. tackling 458 00:43:09,134 --> 00:43:12,856 her to the ground, pinning her to the floor with his claws, and then he's gonna rip her 459 00:43:12,876 --> 00:43:18,280 throat out with his teeth like a hungry wolf. Except that before Wolverine gets one bite 460 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:25,105 in, he's gonna get blasted off of Big Barda by Captain Adam, who's then gonna fire another 461 00:43:25,145 --> 00:43:31,109 quantum blast at Colonel America that takes the top part of his skull right off, just exposing 462 00:43:31,149 --> 00:43:35,351 his brain. Well, it probably only took off the top part of his head because Colonel America 463 00:43:35,392 --> 00:43:41,928 was raising his shield up to his head. Um, so the Colonel actually redirects a large part 464 00:43:41,968 --> 00:43:47,653 of Captain Adam's blast, reflecting the energy beam right into Black Adam blasting him. Okay. 465 00:43:47,773 --> 00:43:53,798 I say that the deflected beam also severs one of Giant Man's legs because, you know, Colonel 466 00:43:53,818 --> 00:44:01,664 America wasn't really aiming that well and Giant Man was such a massive target. Now, Big Barda, 467 00:44:01,744 --> 00:44:06,848 she's going to leap up Giant Man's severed leg hole and she's going to explode out of his 468 00:44:06,928 --> 00:44:13,440 chest with her Mega Rod. Jeez! How does that work? She leaps up his leg hole and explodes 469 00:44:13,460 --> 00:44:20,183 at his chest? Yeah, she goes right into his mushy zombie body. Oh jeez. Okay, well at this 470 00:44:20,223 --> 00:44:27,546 point, we'll say Superman is trying to use his heat vision to decapitate Luke Cage. But, you 471 00:44:27,566 --> 00:44:33,589 know, Luke Cage isn't fazed because he has unbreakable skin. So Luke yanks Superman's cape and slams 472 00:44:33,629 --> 00:44:38,859 him down to the ground and uh... With Superman pinned, Luke quickly shoves his thumbs into 473 00:44:38,939 --> 00:44:45,044 Superman's eyes, just frying them out of his skull with his power cosmic. So Superman has 474 00:44:45,104 --> 00:44:51,668 no eyes. He's blind and unable to stop Luke Cage from biting him. Dang! I mean, Superman 475 00:44:51,708 --> 00:44:58,353 has other enhanced senses, so blindness wouldn't phase him too much. Although I guess like he 476 00:44:58,373 --> 00:45:03,537 can't use his heat vision or x-ray vision or telescopic vision or anything like that anymore. 477 00:45:03,977 --> 00:45:10,186 Exactly. But uh... Martian Manhunter, he's going to stop Luke Cage from biting Superman by transforming 478 00:45:10,246 --> 00:45:15,470 into this like zombie demon monster with two heads and like a giant mouth where his stomach 479 00:45:15,570 --> 00:45:23,617 is and he's going to just straight up swallow Luke Cage whole. Okay, but at that time Spider-Man 480 00:45:24,378 --> 00:45:28,681 is going to fly over to Big Barda and she's probably going to try to blast him with her 481 00:45:28,721 --> 00:45:33,854 mega rod, but he's going to use his Spidey sense to dodge and then get him behind her. close 482 00:45:33,874 --> 00:45:39,035 enough to grab her back and then bite her in the shoulder. So now Barda is going to become 483 00:45:39,115 --> 00:45:45,237 a zombie and is now part of team Marvel. Okay, I saw something like this coming and I have 484 00:45:45,257 --> 00:45:51,418 a theory Marvel zombies. They retain their intelligence, right? They're just like overwhelmed with hunger, 485 00:45:51,898 --> 00:45:57,600 but the anti-living have a hive mind. They're controlled by Erebus outside of the universe. 486 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,961 So it's not like their mind would be affected by the hunger and turning one of the DC guys 487 00:46:03,402 --> 00:46:09,365 doesn't make them Team Marvel because technically, Erebus still knows that he needs to bring down 488 00:46:09,725 --> 00:46:15,688 the Marvel zombies. So basically all you've done is give Barda added defense because now 489 00:46:15,708 --> 00:46:21,952 she won't die if she like gets cut in half or whatever. No, no, no. The hunger overcomes 490 00:46:22,012 --> 00:46:26,654 everything. Like Barda would be consumed by it. She would want to feast on whatever flesh 491 00:46:26,694 --> 00:46:33,198 is nearby and the only flesh that's around is that of her DC teammates. Yeah, I mean, she'll 492 00:46:33,218 --> 00:46:39,681 want to feast, but she won't because Erebus is in control. And he's an elder deity, way 493 00:46:39,701 --> 00:46:45,705 more powerful than this hunger. Well, maybe Erebus's mind succumbs to the hunger when she's 494 00:46:45,745 --> 00:46:52,188 bitten. Probably not, unless the Marvel zombie virus can be spread mentally, like telepathically. 495 00:46:52,208 --> 00:46:57,751 No, it only spreads physically, but the Marvel zombies aren't going to stop trying to feed 496 00:46:57,791 --> 00:47:02,950 on the DCs just because the DC guys aren't joining their side, but- If they bite them, then that 497 00:47:02,990 --> 00:47:08,535 means all they're doing is just making the DC guys more unkillable. Right. But I guess not 498 00:47:08,595 --> 00:47:13,419 totally unkillable because the Marvel zombies do know about the brain weakness, whereas the 499 00:47:13,659 --> 00:47:20,685 DC guys wouldn't. That's true. That's true. OK, so we'll say that, yes, the Marvel guys 500 00:47:20,725 --> 00:47:27,131 can turn DC guys into zombies, but it's not going to turn the DC guys onto Team Marvel. 501 00:47:27,491 --> 00:47:32,586 Exactly. It's not going to make them feed on their teammates. So we'll say that Bart is 502 00:47:32,626 --> 00:47:38,829 a zombie now. And the first thing she's gonna do is she's gonna leap onto Iron Man, who's 503 00:47:39,109 --> 00:47:44,991 flying around and she's gonna drive her mega rod right into his chest reactor and upload 504 00:47:45,071 --> 00:47:51,914 the anti-light virus into his armor. And since this is a techno-organic virus that also infects 505 00:47:51,934 --> 00:47:58,537 technology, Erebus now has control over Iron Man and he's going to use him to repulsor blast 506 00:47:58,557 --> 00:48:06,302 the shit out of Spider-Man. What? So I can't make Barda team Marvel, but you can make Iron 507 00:48:06,322 --> 00:48:13,267 Man team DC. Yep. What the fuck? Technically, it's Iron Man's armor, not Tony Stark. That's 508 00:48:13,287 --> 00:48:19,571 infected. OK, that's true. Yeah, Tony Stark is the one who's cosmically powered, not the 509 00:48:19,711 --> 00:48:25,155 armor. So realizing that he lost control of the Iron Man armor, Tony's going to use the 510 00:48:25,196 --> 00:48:30,066 power cosmic to expel the suit from his body. and then he's gonna destroy the armor with 511 00:48:30,106 --> 00:48:36,828 a cosmic blast. Fuck! So that's pretty easy. And then the Hulk, he's using power cosmic 512 00:48:36,908 --> 00:48:43,310 to fly, even though he's missing his lower legs, his lower half. He's basically just a flying 513 00:48:43,410 --> 00:48:48,792 upper torso. He's gonna grab Black Adam out of the air and take a big bite out of his leg, 514 00:48:48,832 --> 00:48:54,353 just ripping out his quad muscles with his teeth. So now Black Adam's a zombie. And that's fine, 515 00:48:54,413 --> 00:48:59,577 like. Go ahead and make my guys more powerful. I'm OK with that. Black Adam, you know, he's 516 00:48:59,617 --> 00:49:04,602 just going to respond to anyway by grabbing Hulk's skull with both hands and electrocuting 517 00:49:04,642 --> 00:49:09,206 it with such a strong current that it's going to cause Hulk's brain and head to explode, 518 00:49:09,506 --> 00:49:17,593 killing him. So Zombie Hulk is dead. OK, um, I think by this point, like, Ant-Man is going 519 00:49:17,613 --> 00:49:23,690 to be like, guys, biting these people isn't transferring the hunger. because that's probably 520 00:49:23,730 --> 00:49:28,471 what they would think, not knowing that, you know, the other zombies are a hive mind. But 521 00:49:28,531 --> 00:49:31,312 like, I don't know if the team would actually care. Like Wolverine is probably going to be 522 00:49:31,352 --> 00:49:38,835 like, who cares? Eat to kill, you know? So don't just turn them, devour them. So he's going 523 00:49:38,855 --> 00:49:44,116 to fly over to Captain Adam and just plunge his claws and teeth into him. Dude, that's 524 00:49:44,136 --> 00:49:48,534 like the dumbest thing you could have done. Breaching Captain Adam's skin. is only going 525 00:49:48,554 --> 00:49:53,637 to make him explode. So like Wolverine, he just gets evaporated at the atomic level, meaning 526 00:49:53,657 --> 00:49:59,201 he just basically took himself out. Shit. Well, as long as he takes Captain Adam with him, 527 00:49:59,702 --> 00:50:06,306 that's fine, I guess. Meanwhile, Luke Cage is going to burst out of Martian Manhunter. He 528 00:50:06,346 --> 00:50:12,070 basically ate his way out of Martian Manhunter's body, turning Martian Manhunter into a zombie. 529 00:50:12,391 --> 00:50:18,034 But also Martian Manhunter is like missing like half of his body mass. It's all in Luke Cage's 530 00:50:18,054 --> 00:50:24,039 stomach now. I was going to argue that like there's no way Martian Manhunter would have 531 00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:30,825 felt half of his body being eaten, but I guess you know the deceased don't feel pain. So sure, 532 00:50:31,325 --> 00:50:36,310 doesn't matter though, because Martian Manhunter is going to psychically induce vomiting in 533 00:50:36,350 --> 00:50:43,195 Luke Cage and reabsorb that mass. All right. Meanwhile, the Flash is going to clothesline 534 00:50:43,215 --> 00:50:50,092 Tony Stark at full speed with his good arm. and just decapitate him. Okay, Tony Stark has 535 00:50:50,112 --> 00:50:55,695 a severed head, but the severed head is still alive. And it's gonna fly right back at the 536 00:50:55,735 --> 00:51:01,238 Flash chasing Kim and then chomping down on his heel and ripping out the Flash's Achilles 537 00:51:01,298 --> 00:51:08,081 tendon, all sinewy, you know? So Flash can't run anymore, he trips, he's down on the ground, 538 00:51:08,242 --> 00:51:13,524 and then Tony Stark's head is gonna chew through Flash's face until it gets to the brains, and 539 00:51:13,544 --> 00:51:21,880 then he's just gonna suck up the brains. So flash is out and Colonel America, he's going 540 00:51:21,900 --> 00:51:27,002 to throw a power cosmically energized shield right into Superman's face, who can't see it 541 00:51:27,042 --> 00:51:33,565 coming because he's got no eyes. No, but I mean, he has ears so he could hear the shield coming 542 00:51:34,085 --> 00:51:38,707 and he's just going to catch it with his metal arm. And then he's just going to rip that shit 543 00:51:38,747 --> 00:51:44,566 right in half because he's fucking Superman. What? And, you know, by smelling. Colonel America's 544 00:51:44,726 --> 00:51:50,109 rotting corpse, he rushes over to him at super speed, just jamming his fingers right into 545 00:51:50,149 --> 00:51:55,733 his face and ripping it wide open, just sending pieces of skull and brain matter all over everywhere. 546 00:51:56,213 --> 00:52:04,118 That was hardcore. Damn. All right, well, Ant-Man saw Superman do this and he shrunk down from 547 00:52:04,198 --> 00:52:10,101 giant man size to miniature size since Superman doesn't have microscopic vision anymore to 548 00:52:10,161 --> 00:52:14,940 sense him. and Ant-Man leaps into Superman's head through one of the exposed eye sockets, 549 00:52:15,401 --> 00:52:20,764 and then he fries Superman's brain with cosmic energy, just causing it to melt and then leak 550 00:52:20,825 --> 00:52:25,868 out of Superman's eye holes and like ear holes and nose, just all the holes on his face, his 551 00:52:25,908 --> 00:52:34,554 brain is just oozing out. Jeez. Okay, dang. Meanwhile, one Roman sees Tony Stark's head 552 00:52:34,594 --> 00:52:40,114 flying around, which is like pure nightmare fuel, by the way, and- She's going to be able 553 00:52:40,134 --> 00:52:45,179 to expertly lasso it and yank it towards her. At which point she just thrusts her sword right 554 00:52:45,259 --> 00:52:49,763 through his skull and through his brain, just killing him. All right. Good one. Good one. 555 00:52:50,504 --> 00:52:56,269 Meanwhile, Spider-Man, he's going to swing over to Martian Man Hunter who, you know, reformed 556 00:52:56,309 --> 00:53:01,454 his body from Luke Cage's puke. And now it's back into like his standard form, though, you 557 00:53:01,474 --> 00:53:06,470 know, of course, Martian Man Hunter is missing his lips now that he's a zombie, but Spider-Man 558 00:53:06,550 --> 00:53:11,974 is gonna slap his hand on top of Martian Manhunter's head and he sticks it there and with a powerful 559 00:53:12,074 --> 00:53:18,238 yank He essentially scalps Martian Manhunter like exposing his brain Which Spider-Man then 560 00:53:18,278 --> 00:53:26,063 incinerates with a power cosmic blast so Martian Manhunter is out and then Luke Cage and Barda 561 00:53:26,603 --> 00:53:31,927 are gonna get into like this energy blast To go board type match with Luke Cage firing cosmic 562 00:53:31,967 --> 00:53:37,074 energy at Big Barda and Big Barda firing mega rod energy And for a while it seems like it's 563 00:53:37,094 --> 00:53:42,818 gonna be a stalemate, but eventually Luke Cage is gonna overpower her energy and take control 564 00:53:42,978 --> 00:53:48,941 of her mega rod telekinetically and just send it right through her forehead and it just lodges 565 00:53:48,981 --> 00:53:55,305 there. Wait, the Pyrocosmic gives him telekinesis? Yeah, in a sense. Like, the Cosmic energy can 566 00:53:55,405 --> 00:54:02,029 not only fire energy blasts, but it can rearrange matter and stuff. Fuck. Okay, well, while that 567 00:54:02,069 --> 00:54:07,099 was happening... Black Adam saw what Spider-Man did to Martian Manhunter. So, you know, while 568 00:54:07,139 --> 00:54:11,540 Spider-Man is probably dodging Black Adam's lightning bolts with the spider sense, it's 569 00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:16,801 all just a distraction for Black Adam to move in fast enough. And you know, now that he's 570 00:54:16,821 --> 00:54:22,943 a zombie, thanks to the Hulk, Black Adam's gonna devour Spider-Man and absorb his power cosmic. 571 00:54:23,423 --> 00:54:30,465 That's how that works, right? Uh, we'll say no. Why? The eight silver surfer, right? And 572 00:54:30,485 --> 00:54:37,509 absorbed his power? Sure. Okay. Alright, so Black Adam gets the power of cosmic from Spider-Man, 573 00:54:37,830 --> 00:54:42,354 but Black Adam would find eating Spider-Man disgusting though because zombies can't really 574 00:54:42,414 --> 00:54:47,718 tolerate the flesh of other zombies. So while Black Adam's like retching from Spidey's zombie 575 00:54:47,738 --> 00:54:54,724 flesh, Ant-Man is going to grow back into Giant-Man, just like massive, bigger than he's ever gotten 576 00:54:55,144 --> 00:54:59,568 with help from the power of cosmic. He grows to like the size of Galactus, you know, and 577 00:54:59,608 --> 00:55:04,758 he's going to grab Black Adam. Like he's a frickin toothpick and just bite down on his head and 578 00:55:05,439 --> 00:55:11,200 yank it from his shoulders like a piece of taffy. And just grind up Black Adam's brain and skull 579 00:55:11,240 --> 00:55:17,722 up in his molars. You didn't even let me use the power. I can't use Iron Man's suit. I can't 580 00:55:17,822 --> 00:55:25,404 use Black Adam's power cosmic. Come on. I guess I just have Wonder Woman left as my last woman 581 00:55:25,444 --> 00:55:30,165 standing as it were. And at this point, you know, she's probably going up against Luke 582 00:55:30,185 --> 00:55:36,908 Cage. Uh, now a normal sword wouldn't be able to break Luke Cage's skin, but Wonder Woman's 583 00:55:36,948 --> 00:55:43,090 Kryptonite sword is also magically imbued, so that Superman would be weak to it. And I'm 584 00:55:43,110 --> 00:55:49,353 guessing Luke Cage also has no defense against magic blades either. So as their trading blows, 585 00:55:49,713 --> 00:55:54,255 I'm going to say that Wonder Woman managed to slice him right in half with her sword, scalp 586 00:55:54,295 --> 00:55:59,557 to scrote, just cleaving his brain right down the middle vertically. All right. She cuts 587 00:55:59,737 --> 00:56:05,292 Luke Cage in half. So it's down to Ant-Man and Wonder Woman, but not just Ant-Man and Wonder 588 00:56:05,312 --> 00:56:11,335 Woman, because Ant-Man, he's gonna have a whole ass army behind him of giant ants, you know? 589 00:56:11,355 --> 00:56:17,479 What? And these are ants that he's weaponized by experimenting on them with the zombie virus. 590 00:56:17,939 --> 00:56:23,822 So he has this legion of like ravenous zombie insects that he commands to just swarm over 591 00:56:23,882 --> 00:56:30,770 Wonder Woman and they tear her limb from limb and yeah, victory for the Marvel zombies. Where 592 00:56:30,790 --> 00:56:36,011 the fuck did all the insects come from? They were shrunk down in one of his little pockets 593 00:56:36,151 --> 00:56:40,852 on his belt. Well, you know how Captain Atom exploded earlier? Whenever that happens in 594 00:56:40,892 --> 00:56:47,474 the comics, he's just propelled into the future. And so right after Wonder Woman is fully devoured 595 00:56:47,714 --> 00:56:52,976 by the insects, that's when Captain Atom appears. And then he's just gonna generate a massive 596 00:56:53,036 --> 00:56:59,517 explosion that annihilates all of the insects and Ant-Man. Boom, victory for the deceased. 597 00:57:00,326 --> 00:57:05,348 I think that's a good counter. OK, that's bullshit. The whole time travel thing. But we can leave 598 00:57:05,388 --> 00:57:09,571 it there. So either one of two things happens in this scenario, depending on the results. 599 00:57:10,051 --> 00:57:16,574 Either Captain Adam gets blasted into the future at the end of this match or he doesn't and 600 00:57:16,655 --> 00:57:22,158 Wonder Woman gets devoured by ants. I mean, why wouldn't he, though, you know? All right, 601 00:57:22,178 --> 00:57:27,160 let's go ahead and put in the stats for these teams. We're going to run 49000 simulations 602 00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:32,704 in a matrix style comparison. between all the characters and we'll be back with a winner. 603 00:57:33,264 --> 00:57:41,651 AJ9K, hit it. Inputting data, running calculations, processing results, simulations complete. All 604 00:57:41,671 --> 00:57:47,355 right, this was a fun matchup. This was a lot of fun, actually. Yeah, the goal was to at 605 00:57:47,455 --> 00:57:52,779 some point make people sick to their stomach while listening to the speculation. So if we 606 00:57:52,799 --> 00:57:59,148 were successful in that, I think we did our jobs here. Stat-wise, the teams were pretty 607 00:57:59,228 --> 00:58:05,214 interesting. I think especially the Marvel zombies, considering the fact that they had increased 608 00:58:05,314 --> 00:58:09,798 durability from the fact that even if they're injured, they could essentially still keep 609 00:58:09,878 --> 00:58:14,662 moving and fighting. Right, their only weak spot is their brain. But not only are they 610 00:58:14,722 --> 00:58:20,167 all highly durable like that, they're also insanely fast thanks to the power cosmic. Their damage 611 00:58:20,207 --> 00:58:24,830 level is really high as well as their range. Yeah, I was pretty nervous about that until 612 00:58:25,030 --> 00:58:30,713 I looked at my lineup and realized, you know, all of my guys are pretty powerful even without 613 00:58:30,733 --> 00:58:34,775 the power of cosmic. You know, Superman, Wonder Woman, Black Adam, Martian Manhunter, those 614 00:58:34,815 --> 00:58:40,258 are among the strongest characters in DC to begin with. It's just that as the anti-living, 615 00:58:40,798 --> 00:58:45,560 it's sort of like no holds barred. There's no like restraints on them. Yeah, but their minds 616 00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:52,084 are also all gone, replaced by the will of Erebus. So all of the deceased got a knock on the intelligence 617 00:58:52,104 --> 00:58:57,327 stat, whereas the Marvel zombies all retained their normal intelligence. And that was actually 618 00:58:57,828 --> 00:59:03,191 the greatest variance in all of the stat categories between the two teams, because a lot of the 619 00:59:03,311 --> 00:59:10,316 Marvel zombies are really smart, including Iron Man, Spider-Man, Hulk, Ant-Man. Yes, yes, stat 620 00:59:10,356 --> 00:59:14,499 wise, the Marvel zombies are pretty impressive. But, you know, I could say the same thing about 621 00:59:14,539 --> 00:59:20,475 the deceased. So taking all of the stats into account. Joseph, who do you think came out 622 00:59:20,515 --> 00:59:26,239 on top? Marvel zombies because they can last longer in battle and they have the power cosmic, 623 00:59:26,559 --> 00:59:33,084 which you don't fuck with. Although the Instagram poll takers don't agree with me. Actually 55% 624 00:59:33,104 --> 00:59:38,367 of them on Instagram said that DC East was gonna take this. Again, I have to chalk this up to 625 00:59:38,547 --> 00:59:45,813 too many damn DC fans following us on Instagram. Marvel guys, have a seat, sit down. Okay, we 626 00:59:45,833 --> 00:59:50,866 gotta have a talk. You guys gotta, you guys gotta show up. I'm just, I'm just gonna say 627 00:59:50,886 --> 00:59:55,128 you gotta show up, you gotta follow us on Instagram, you gotta take part in the polls, we gotta 628 00:59:55,148 --> 01:00:01,109 start winning these voting contests because the DC guys are showing you guys up, right? 629 01:00:01,149 --> 01:00:05,711 Dude, I was actually really surprised to see that more people voted for deceased considering 630 01:00:05,751 --> 01:00:10,152 the fact that I feel like Marvel Zombies is really popular, even going so far as to have 631 01:00:10,172 --> 01:00:14,753 their own episode in What If. Yeah, you and me both, you and me both. Well, let's find 632 01:00:14,793 --> 01:00:21,373 out who actually won. AG 9K, the results please. Hey, you are, sir. All right. The winner of 633 01:00:21,413 --> 01:00:32,821 the team duel between the deceased and the Marvel zombies is. Deceased. Fuck you. What? And, 634 01:00:33,121 --> 01:00:39,406 you know, for as different as the teams were, it was close. The deceased one in even five 635 01:00:39,446 --> 01:00:46,122 hundred and thirty of the one thousand matches or 53 percent compared to Marvel's. 47 percent. 636 01:00:46,483 --> 01:00:51,766 So Marvel won 470 matches out of a thousand. Right. And honestly, I'm not going to lie. 637 01:00:52,347 --> 01:00:59,632 I'm going to chalk this win up to the excellent roster choices made by our executive producers. 638 01:01:00,192 --> 01:01:04,015 Well, like I told them that they didn't stand a chance because all the Marvel zombies had 639 01:01:04,035 --> 01:01:07,918 the power of cosmic. So I feel like they just had to pick the most powerful people they could 640 01:01:07,958 --> 01:01:12,601 think of. Yeah. And that's essentially what I have on my roster, which I'm pretty proud 641 01:01:12,661 --> 01:01:18,818 of. And I have to wholeheartedly dedicate this win to our executive producers for their fantastic 642 01:01:18,838 --> 01:01:24,763 work. I think we should replace Marsha Manhunter and Big Barda and Black Adam with Green Arrow 643 01:01:25,003 --> 01:01:30,928 and The Question and Oracle. Then let's rerun the stats. I don't remember The Question being 644 01:01:30,968 --> 01:01:36,553 in the series, but Batgirl was, Green Arrow was, they were both zombies, but Batgirl was 645 01:01:36,573 --> 01:01:41,957 killed right away by Harley Quinn. And Green Arrow was not a zombie for very long. Before 646 01:01:41,977 --> 01:01:47,965 he was cured? Yeah, he was cured. Okay, interesting. Well, I'm starting to regret this whole team 647 01:01:47,985 --> 01:01:54,850 duel now. And all around winning for Team DC. Good job. That was a really fun match, but 648 01:01:54,870 --> 01:01:58,513 that does it for this duel. Let us know what you thought about the results by writing to 649 01:01:58,613 --> 01:02:05,378 us at dynamicduelpodcast.gmail.com or by visiting us on Instagram or X. You can find links to 650 01:02:05,518 --> 01:02:10,361 all of our accounts by checking out our show notes or visiting our website at dynamicduel.com. 651 01:02:11,514 --> 01:02:15,475 And on our site, you can also find a link to our Patreon page where you could join our Dynamic 652 01:02:15,515 --> 01:02:19,817 Duo tier and chat with us and fellow listeners. Our Fantastic Four tier, which gives you bonus 653 01:02:19,857 --> 01:02:23,839 content each month. 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We hope you guys had a lot of fun this month. We sure did. Thanks for tuning in. Yen, 662 01:03:08,466 --> 01:03:13,307 big thanks to our executive producers Ken Johnson, John Storowski, Zachary Hepburn, Dustin Belcombe, 663 01:03:13,447 --> 01:03:18,989 Miggy Mattinghian, Brandon Estergard, Nathaniel Wagner, Levi Yeaton, Nick Abato, Austin Wazilowski, 664 01:03:19,209 --> 01:03:25,151 AJ Dunkerley, Scott Camacho, Adam Spies, and Andrew Schonk for helping to make this podcast 665 01:03:25,191 --> 01:03:30,693 possible. We'll talk to you guys next week. Up up and away, true believers. Take car, go 666 01:03:30,713 --> 01:03:34,974 to mum's, kill Phil, sorry. Grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint and wait 667 01:03:34,995 --> 01:03:36,135 for all of this to blow over.