"If we don't keep smiling when they can't, then we might as well be gone too."
Zombie Hunter Spider-Man was a key character during Marvel’s What If? Marvel Zombies story in Season 1 and this resulted in his inclusion in the 2021 Marvel Legends What If? Wave featuring The Wathcher as Build-a-Figure. Zombie Hunter Spider-Man featured the standard packaging with scooped sides and side art based on his Disney+ animated appearance.
Like many of the What If? Marvel Legends releases, Zombie Hunter Spider-Man as a figure is based on the MCU Homecoming Spider-Man suit albeit with an updated upper chest and arms to reflect the varied look of the What If? suit - a nice touch from an accuracy perspective when Hasbro could have re-used the entire body. The blue on the suit is lighter than anything we’ve seen on the MCU suits, while the red is daily standard in colour as is the black trim and Spider-logo. It lacks any web line markings. The suit is finished off with a pair of light metallic bracers around the wrist. While these are individual cast pieces, they are glued in place and can’t be removed.
On first opening my figure I thought there was factory defective paintwork with a large patch of red rubbed on the left thigh, and some more on the right side of the chest. It turns out this is weathering of sorts to reflect the situation Peter finds himself in during the Zombie apocalypse. The execution leaves a little bit to be desired and it needed a more even weathering spread instead of the limited patches on an otherwise bright clean suit,
The figure features two heads with a masked Spider-Man head using the same red as per the suit with white eyes, edged in black. The unmasked head is a likeness based on the What If? Peter Parker and it's done in an animated/comic book style rather than using a Tom Holland likeness. Spidy also comes with two sets of hands allowing you to alternate between clenched fists and web-slinging hands.
The final accessory is Doctor Strange’s Cloak of Levitation, a key part of Zombie Hunter Spider-Man’s outfit during the Zombie Apocalypse. Surprisingly, this seems to be a new piece and not recycled from any of the earlier Doctor Strange figures. Is cast in red with pattered panels and a pair of gold painted clasps at the neck. There is no peg or socket, the cape is simply shaped to sit over Spider-Man’s shoulders and hold in place.
Despite using the MCU body, the reworked torso has seen the usual Spider-Man articulation levels reduced on this Zombie Hunter variant with 19 points in total and the butterfly shoulders lost in their entirety. This does mean we lose some of the arm motion, but otherwise, Zombie Hunter Spider-Man is reasonably extensive in movement and posing options with or without the cape.
Interestingly the figure of Zombie Hunter Spider-Man is a close colour match to the very new suit we see Peter Parker use at the very end of No Way Home which means this version could be a stand-in for now for that suit with the lighter blue finish particularly as the sculpt and proportions are that of a Tom Holland Spider-Man anyway, In terms of replicating his look from What If?, the new release does a good job with the added detail of bringing in new parts as needed to match the Disney+ animated look rather than plump for a full MCU repaint. I do find the attempt at weathering to be clumsy and could have done without it. Articulation is lessened by the lack of butterfly shoulders, but the figure is fun to pose and display with various options to choose from with two heads, two sets of hands, and the choice of the cape.
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