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Appearing in "Marvel Zombies 4: Midnight Sons, Part 1"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Zombie (Simon Garth)
- ⏴ Zombie Deadpool ⏵(Just a head)
Antagonists:
- Zombie Men-Fish (Death)
- Zombie Piranha (Death)
- Black Talon (Samuel Barone)
- The Hood (Parker Robbins)
- The Hood's Gang
- Crimson Cowl (Justine Hammer) (Cameo)
- Brothers Grimm (Percy & Barton Grimes) (Cameo)
- Bulldozer (Henry Camp) (Cameo)
Other Characters:
- Martine Bancroft (Mentioned)
- Sub-Mariner (Mentioned)
- Defenders (Mentioned)
- H.A.M.M.E.R. (Mentioned)
- Zahgurim (Mentioned)
- Zombified Morbius (Only in recap)
- Captain Mexica (Only in recap)
- Zombified Tainians
- Pablo Escobar (Mentioned)
- "Survivors" of the Tranquility Cruise (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Living Vampires
- Zombies
- Zombie Men-Fish
- Humans
- Atlanteans (Mentioned)
- Werewolves
- Angels (Mentioned)
- Demons (Mentioned)
- Kittens (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- North America (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Mentioned)
- The Hollow
- Atlantic Ocean
- Atlantis (Mentioned)
- Caribbean Sea
- North America (Mentioned)
- Hell (Mentioned)
- Ninth Circle of Hell (Mentioned)
- Earth
Items:
- Pneumatic rifles, canisters with oxidizing bacteria (First appearance)
- Amulets of Damballah
- Hunger Virus (Main story and recap)
- Hood of the Nisanti
Vehicles:
- S.S. Tranquility, a Royal Swedish cruise liner (First appearance)
Synopsis for "Marvel Zombies 4: Midnight Sons, Part 1"
Simon Garth escaped A.R.M.O.R.'s HQ along with Zombie Deadpool's head. They teleported to the bottom of the sea, where they met the Men-Fish, and spread the Zombie contagion to them. The Men-Fish attacked the S. S. Tranquility, killing most of the crew, and the new team, The Midnight Sons, were called in to track the virus and cure it. While they deal with a zombified Piranha, Garth and Wilson continue on their way, meeting up with Black Talon, who immediately sees the zombie virus as a marketable weapon to deal to some of his criminal friends, namely, The Hood.
Solicit Synopsis
The acclaimed creative team behind MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 returns... with another adventure that takes place in the Marvel U! The vampire. The witch. The werewolf. The muck-monster. The devil. They're nobody's idea of heroes, but they're all that stands between our world and an unstoppable apocalypse! They're the new Midnight Sons, and their quest to track down the undead who escaped from A.R.M.O.R. will lead them around the globe - and right to a cruise ship overrun with undead undersea-dwelling cannibals! Can this monstrous team stop the "red tide" before it unleashes untold horror upon the mainland? Not if the Merc with Only a Mouth has anything to say about it! Yes, writer Fred Van Lente and artist Kev Walker - the guys who made IGN.com say "MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 may actually rank as the best in the series" - are back again, unleashing the flesh-eaters for another roller coaster ride of gore, action, gore, thrills, gore and gore!
Notes
- The Last Defenders later return in Vengeance #1.
Trivia
- One of Kale's incantations uses the same typeface used to indicate Skrull language during Secret Invasion, and can be deciphered with translations that appear in Secret Invasion #5. The incantation apparently deciphers to "(KOOKY ATLANTEAN WORD)."