“I think you've had enough Cap”
Following the Marvel’s What If? episode featuring Marvel Zombies, Hasbro released the first Marvel Legends Zombie from the Episode with Captain America. Zombie Cap was part of the first Disney+ wave dedicated to What If? arriving in the window packaging with What If? logo and artwork.
While we had assumed this Zombie Cap figure would utilise parts from the existing MCU Captain America releases it turns out that the figure was almost entirely new with perhaps some minor re-use in the midsection and one of the legs. While Zombie Cap is wearing his basic uniform in deep blue with silver star and red & white striped central belt - the whole thing is interspersed with Zombiefied damage from a whole in his chest exposing a rib cage, to holes in both legs and down the right forearm. Skin is a sickly blue finish where exposed with bone detail in white and with a blood-splashed decor around each open wound.
Cap’s head is skeletal and with an exaggerated open jaw with an open mouth painted in deep gum red with white teeth. There is a similar white used in the eyes that sit under the usual Captain America mast with the strap hanging down one side where the expanded jaw has presumably snapped it.
Cap comes with his shield as an accessory, and this is a re-used part, but given a dirtied look by adding purple ‘gore’ paint spray across the red, silver and blue of the main shield. Cap holds this in either hand by slipping the straps round the back over his hand and wrist.
There are 19 points of pinless articulation in all, allowing Zombie Cap to be posed in a variety of undead poses. Particularly favourites of mine include the lopsided look with the marginally shorter unbooted right leg dragging behind the left. Cap can also be posed crawling, with just enough movement in the neck to bring the head up and forward.
All in all, Zombie Captain America is very much a triumph in visual design with details that go above and beyond what we usually see on Legends releases particularly the way they’ve opened up parts of the body and even given the left leg a hole all the way through. While he was only on screen for a few minutes, Zombie Cap as a figure is a perfect addition for fans of What If?, or indeed fans of the Marvel Zombies series.
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