Marvel Zombies mirrored Thor's Wakanda entry from Infinity War, but with a horrifying twist I never expected

Marvel Zombies TV show premiered on Disney+ on September 24, 2025, and it’s just as bonkers and gross as you would hope from the name. Meanwhile, Avengers: Infinity War already crashed into theaters on April 27, 2018. In both versions, there’s one scene that’s burned into my brain: Thor crashing down in Wakanda.

Both entrances demand attention in their own right, but in Marvel Zombies, the moment gets twisted. While you are expecting the usual heroic fireworks, you instead get a bone-chilling moment as that entrance flips from epic to sinister.

Let’s take a closer look at how the God of Thunder makes a similar yet different appearance in Marvel Zombies and Avengers: Infinity War.

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Thor’s Wakanda entrance in Avengers: Infinity War

Before Thor even sets foot in Wakanda, he has been absolutely wrecked. It starts with Thanos attacking the Asgardian ship, leaving Thor floating in space, battered, barely conscious, and watching his whole world get destroyed, including Loki and Heimdall.

Luckily, the Guardians of the Galaxy rescue him before he freezes to death or suffocates; or something equally grim. However, they drop the bomb on him about Thanos wanting to collect the Infinity Stones to erase half of existence.

Thor has lost everything by this point. He grabs Rocket and Groot, and they jet off to Nidavellir, a giant forge orbiting a dying star. Everything here looks like Hephaestus’ wild dream. There, the dwarf king Eitri (Peter Dinklage) helps Thor create Stormbreaker, an axe that can summon the Bifrost, a portal for quick travel across realms.

Then, Thor crashes into Wakanda at the eleventh hour. Outriders are crawling everywhere, the Avengers are getting thoroughly crushed, and Vision is about to lose the Mind Stone. Enter Thor, wielding Stormbreaker, which is crackling with lightning, as Groot and Rocket rush into the battlefield alongside him. He just starts wrecking everything in sight. His iconic call, “Bring me Thanos,” makes it clear: this is personal.

Thor’s arrival in Wakanda gave me goosebumps. He came in like a one-man army, lightning everywhere, just wrecking Thanos’ minions left and right. For a minute, I really thought he had it in the bag, like, this is it, Thor is about to save the day. But nope. Even after landing that killer blow, he hesitates.

Thanos hits him with that cold, “You should have gone for the head,” and snaps. And just like that, half the universe is gone. What I learned here is that even a god can screw up at the worst possible moment.

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Thor’s Wakanda entrance in Marvel Zombies: An alternate reality horror mirror

Thor smashing into Wakanda in the Marvel Zombies show is the epic thunder-god entrance from Infinity War, except it’s as if someone took that moment, dunked it in a vat of horror, and let it rot a bit. To me, the mood feels far more like sheer panic and impending doom than a triumphant cavalry arriving.

If you are wondering what this twist is, here is the deal: Marvel Zombies is set in an alternate universe, Earth-2149, where a gnarly virus has chewed through the superhero population. And I am not talking about standard, brainless zombies. These guys keep their powers, their personalities, and even their banter. The catch is that they are all hangry monsters who can’t stop thinking about people as snacks.

The show throws what’s left of the non-zombified heroes, like Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel), into the deep end. Most of the drama goes down in Wakanda, which is holding out as one of the last safe-ish places. Except, it turns into a warzone with zombie Avengers and Asgardians. The world is ending, reality is on thin ice, and no one is safe.

In that moment, Thor shows up in Wakanda with all the Infinity War trimmings: Stormbreaker, lightning everywhere, Groot giving him a lift. For a split second, I thought maybe things were turning around, but again, they weren’t. Instead of the swaggering, heroic entrance, Thor is caught in a brutal fight against zombie Scarlet Witch and her undead forces. The once-hopeful arrival is thrown straight into a bloody, chaotic conflict where death is a constant possibility and friends turn into monsters.

The scene even sneaks in familiar visuals: Groot carrying Thor, the full-on thunderstorm, that signature “Bring me Thanos!”-esque battle cry. Except this time, I did not feel hope or victory; it’s more like dread and horror. He fights like a madman, but it’s tragic because he is probably not making it out.

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Comparing Thor’s entry in both flicks

Rewatching the two versions of Thor’s famous Wakanda entrance—one from Marvel Zombies and the other from Avengers: Infinity War—is fascinating. First off, Infinity War’s entrance is Marvel’s way of flexing everything we love about superhero movies. We have the music swelling, the camera lingering on battered heroes about to get eliminated, and then Thor comes crashing in with Groot and Rocket.

And it’s not just thunder and lightning for the sake of it. There is a whole emotional undertow: Thor has lost literally everything, and yet, he still has enough backbone to light up the whole battlefield. I mean, if that doesn’t get your blood pumping, I genuinely don’t know what will. There’s something kind of beautiful about that, like he’s inviting you to feel his pain and his hope at the same time.

But then, Marvel Zombies walks in and flips the table. Same entrance, same visual cues, but the emotional payload is different. The crowd is either running or already dead. The fight scene forces you to look at these larger-than-life characters and see all the cracks you usually gloss over. Thor isn’t just a god swinging a hammer; he is a guy trying not to get eaten.

And then there’s the theme of Marvel Zombies itself. You have heroes you have spent years cheering for, suddenly getting chewed up by the very world they swore to protect. It’s a horror movie in superhero clothing.

And Thor, usually Mr. Untouchable, gets tossed right into it. It made me wonder: if gods can fall this hard, what chance does anyone else have?

Now, what really gets under my skin is how both scenes play with the idea of hope. In Infinity War, hope is a blazing torch Thor carries into the darkness. He is the answer to every “What now?” the Avengers have been asking. But in Marvel Zombies, hope is just a flicker, barely hanging on, and maybe a little delusional.

Thor’s arrival doesn’t guarantee anything except that someone is still trying, even if it’s mostly out of stubbornness. That’s a different kind of bravery, one that feels almost more honest. And it’s weirdly comforting, in a “misery loves company” way, to see a god just as lost and desperate as the rest of us.

There’s also something to be said about how these stories reflect what we want out of our heroes. Do we want them to always win, to always be larger than life? Or do we get more out of seeing them broken, battered, and still swinging? Marvel Zombies seems to get that: sometimes, seeing your heroes fail doesn’t diminish them; it humanizes them.

So, when I look at both scenes, I end up appreciating the original even more, but I’m also kind of obsessed with the guts it takes to totally deconstruct it. Infinity War gives me the high I crave from superhero stories: triumph, spectacle, and more.

But Marvel Zombies is where I go when I want to see what happens when the mask slips, when the thunder god is just another guy trying to keep his head above water. It’s gritty and a little cathartic. Because sometimes, in a world that feels like it’s falling apart, it’s nice to know that even the gods are just making it up as they go along.