Marvel Zombies/Nightmare Fuel

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Thanks a lot, Daredevil. We found the two reasons behind our lack of sleep.

• The premise itself. Picture your heroes transformed into flesh eating monsters, who still remember their past lives. Coming for you, your families, eating every living being alive on earth. They all have superpowers, they've defeated the militaries of the world. It can't be a pretty image.
• "We all ate some of Jarvis. He almost didn't fight back."
• Not to mention how calmly Zombie Daredevil talks about looking for anyone hiding with a helicopter, in order to be mistaken for rescuers and therefore tricking survivors, making them come out on their own will.
• When Magneto and Galactus get eaten, both have a separate page entirely dedicated to show each bite by each zombie in each panel, in a painfully accurate and graphic way. Let's just say it is painful to watch.
  • They ATE friggin' GALACTUS? This troper knows next to nothing about that series, but he finds that a little hard to swallow.
    • Yep, they did. It looks like Beyond the Impossible until you take their modus operandi into account. Oh, and if that's not enough, in Marvel Zombies 2 they do the same to friggin' Ego The Living Planet.
• What Sandman did to Earth-Z's real Spider-Man. Horrifying.
  • Not to speak of the events that led Sandman to do that. And what happens soon after.
    • this troper was even more chilled when Spiderman's last word was "Gwen"... worsened because he, sadly, is unaware his girlfriend WAS JUST EATEN!
      • And the zombie Spider-man rips his skin off and throws it in a trashcan after killing zombie sinister six. 8()
• This troper stopped reading the first Marvel Zombies after Bruce Banner began screaming that his stomach would explode after eating too many people. Then my own stomach pains started...
• Anyone else freaked out by the zombified Power Pack? Imagine being hunted down and eaten alive by zombie children. Of course, Nextwave's Crowning Moment of Funny takes the seriousness of the situation away, but still...
• The concept of the zombie virus itself. You become a flesh-eating monster but still mantain your personality (although distorted by the Hunger); you are driven to do horrible things but, anytime you eat, you regain enough sanity to realize the horror and the guilt of what you are doing. You can resist the Hunger but it can also take little to fall back into it. It's more like a cruel demonic curse - and it actively seeks to spread itself.
• The ways Spider-Man infects the Sinister Six in MZR #1 gave me nightmares for a week. Here's the rundown:
  • He pulls out Kraven's throat with his teeth, pushes Mysterio's brain out, eats Doctor Octopus's roasted guts, rips off Vulture's wings/arms in mid-air, and uses them to decapitate Electro. He let Sandman go, though.If that doesn't scare you, buy yourself something nice.
  • Not to mention Infected Spider-Man using his veins and arteries as webbing