Earth Z

Earth 7(more commonly known as Earth Z) is an earth ravaged by zombie apocalypses. While Zombie outbreaks are common on Earth One, the outbreaks are much more devastating, often claiming the lives of several prominent figures. This includes interrupting Fairy Tales(*Snow White and the Zombie Apocalypse)* and Zombifying Superheroes(*DCeased, Marvel Zombies*).

Episodes of shows which often feature Zombie Apocalypses that are not resolved at the episode's end often occur here(*Samurai Champloo*(during the Edo period), *Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt,*and *Space Dandy*to name some examples).

Several elements are also known to be different. Captain America was instead Colonel America and had served as President(presumably from 1981 to 1989), while Zombies are known of, there were never any film depictions of them(*The Walking Dead*), Ash Williams never had his most famous encounters with the Deadites(*Marvel Zombies*).

Note that Zombie outbreaks are common on Earth One, what makes it notable for placement on Earth Z is the outbreak irrevocably altering the history of the figures on Earth One, making it incompatible with that world's history.

## **Fiction set on Earth Z**

**Dorohedoro**

**Magical Girl Apocalypse**

**Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt Episode "...Of the Dead".**

**School Live!**

**Space Dandy Episode: "Sometimes you can't live with dying, baby".**

## **Timeline**

**845**

**September 16:** Snow White is cursed into a deep sleep. That same day the Dark Fairy Nyx revives the Big Bad Wolf as an undead beast after his death. The Beast consumes Red Riding Hood's Grandmother and infects her. Prince Charming rescues Rapunzel during the Zombie outbreak and the two kill the infected Seven Dwarves, along with the Wolf and Red Riding Hood.

**October 14:(28 Days Later):** Charming revives Snow White (*Snow White Zombie Apocalypse*).

**Edo Period**

Japan is struck with a Zombie Apocalypse that ends when an Asteroid devastates the area(*Samurai Champloo*).

a motley crew of adventurers fighting zombies in the 17th century using weapons provided by Isaac Newton and Robert Hook.

**1968**

**August:** A probe that orbits Venus returns to Earth, with a mysterious radiation, is destroyed before even getting through the atmosphere; although this is stated as fact it is never revealed what really brings the dead back to life whether its a virus or something supernatural.

**August 31:**  The events of *Night of the Living Dead* take place.

**1969**

Zombie Apocalypse occurs, allegedly caused by Richard Monckton(Nixon). The Team Fortress 2 mercenaries are killed.

Brilliantly skewered in the 2006 film *Fido*, which occurs in an alternate 1950s that is in the heyday of a zombie post-apocalypse. The zombies have been tamed into domestic servitude by a control collar. This is possible because zombie bites do not cause a change. Billy Connolly plays the eponymous character, one of the most charismatic shambling corpses ever shown on the big screen.

**1978**

Events of *Dawn of the Dead.*

**1979**

*Zombi 2.* a zombie fighting a shark underwater and a woman getting her eye gouged out with a sliver of wood.

**1980**

*Nightmare City* (a.k.a. *City Of The Walking Dead*)

**1981**

*Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror* takes this trope to its beginning phase, with zombies coming back as the presumable result of an ancient curse, and includes tool-using zombies, along with the unusual use of an adult dwarf playing the role of a child.

**1983**

in Japan, The Hate Plague Hinamizawa Syndrome(named after the village it was found in) breaks quarantine: aside from a few isolated cases, life goes on as normal.

**1985**

*Return of the Living Dead* and *Return of the Living dead* Part II takes place.

*Day of the Dead* takes place.

*Lamberto Bava's Demons.*Demon like monsters in Berlin.

**1988**

Dead Heat. No Zombie Apocalypse is coming.

**1991**

 Evil Ernie hereafter, along with his partner "Smiley" (a psychotic smiley badge, which was once his pet rat) set about to cause "Megadeath", which involved launching all of the USA's nuclear weapons against the rest of the world, so that every other country would launch their own nuclear warheads. Ernie starts to accomplish this by creating an army of zombies known as "Dead Onez". Various adventures ensue, including a trip back to his past to confront his parents about their ill treatment of him, and a trip to hell to rebuke Pagan (the court jester of hell) for having Lady Death cast out into the void by Satan.

The culmination of Ernie's efforts amount to him causing Megadeath by causing the rest of the world to fire on itself with nuclear warheads from various countries. Evil Ernie ends his life in a duel with Dr. Price, and in the last moment before the missiles hit, Ernie overpowers Price and mutates him into a Dead One, exclaiming: "Do you see it now?" To which Price replies "I see it, it's beau-". The final scene is one of a mushroom cloud behind the survivors, in the form of Ernie's face and maniacal grin. Ernie was actually launched into the main Universe, where he had a change of heart at finding a kinder Lady Death. He instead began hunting down serial Killers after meeting and falling in love with Cassie Hack.

**1992**

When mummified remains of evil hyperborean sorcerer Azzul Gotha (the Champion of Worms) are displayed in a museum without permission from the mummy's discoverer, his daughter Rebecca Dean and a group of veteran paranormal investigators, led by Major Dawson, find themselves waging war against reanimated corpses, lovecraftian abominations and the powerful Lich. Dawson is assisted by True Companions Roman, Malka Ravenstein and Eustace St. John. In addition to zombies, giant maggot monsters also roam around the wrecked remains of civilization.

**1993**

*Return of the Living Dead* part III

The U.S. Government builds a subterranean nuclear power plant on top of an ancient Indian burial ground. As radiation brings the deceased natives back to life as zombies and turns everyone at the plant into blood-crazed zombies, a group of teenagers defends the area from imminent attack(Zombie Bloodbath).

**1995**

Zombie Bloodbath II

**2000**

Zombie Bloodbath III

**2003**

**July 19:** According to Word of God, when the outbreak in the Walking Dead occurred.

*Return of the Living Dead:* Necropolis

**2004**

*Dawn of the Dead* remake.

*Shaun of the Dead* plays the concept for laughs, while at the same time remaining faithful to the style of the Romero films. Like those films, it includes hints that zombies retain some semblance of their former personalities. It also includes a Take That! against the *Twenty-Eight* series. It memorably subverts the "apocalypse" part by having the military seep through and restore order within a day. It's not even clear if any country but Britain was affected.

The French movie *Les Revenants* (*They Came Back* in international release) has 70 million people climbing out of their graves... and peacefully returning to their old lives, trying to relearn speech and basic motor functions, and generally not killing anyone.

**2005**

a specific Virus infected several members of the Avengers. The infected were intelligent and directly found ways to infect other Heroes to spread the virus. Simultaneously, Darkseid infected the hero Cyborg with the Anti Life equation and unleashed the virus on Earth. The two viruses resulted in most of the superhuman population being infected. Inhabitants fled to either Space or other universes. The infected Superman flew into the Sun and began to drain it. Humanity did continue to survive, threatened largely by both lesser Zombies brought about by an alternate Universe's Ash Williams bringing Deadite armies to battle the undead Heroes.

Some humans returned but without the savage nature. They were the subject of fear and called "Returners". Will Wheaton was the first celebrity returner, even running for Governor of California. Most returned were moved to Alaska.

*Land of the Dead* takes place.

*Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave* takes place.

*Tokyo Zombie* is a 2005 Japanese live-action Zom-Com about a pair of bumbling Jujitsu practitioners where zombies of the shambling variety first appear by popping out of a mountainous pile of garbage, toxic waste and discarded bodies called Black Fuji.

**2006**

*Gangs of the Dead* a.k.a. *Last Rites* had homeless people zombies created by radiation from a meteor that fell to earth attacking so the Latino and black gangs had to more-or-less put off their fight to stay alive. Takes place in Los Santos.

A group of High School students are caught as the Zombie Virus reaches Japan, where the Zombies are referred to as "Them"(*High School of the Dead*).

This is also the Universe of World War Z and the George A Romero's Living Dead series, the Walking Dead, Zombieland and so on.

**November 1, 2006:** (*Day 1, Exposure*) - Three animal rights activists unknowingly set free chimpanzees infected with the "Rage" virus at an animal research laboratory in Cambridgeshire, England.

**November 3, 2006:** (*Day 3, Infection*) - The infection continues to spread; generally in a southwesterly direction towards Wales and away from London, England; for now. *BBC News* and *Sky News* reports incidents of what seem to be minor, spontaneous rioting in England and Wales, but the British government slowly becomes aware of a much bigger, growing problem.

**November 8, 2006:** (*Day 8, Epidemic*) - U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair is taken to a secure location just outside London, England and is briefed about what is now clearly an international emergency as the infection continues to spread throughout England and Wales. Queen Elizabeth II and the British Royal family are flown via Royal Air Force helicopters, to Balmoral Castle. Plans go into effect to try and limit the spread of the virus and some government scientists are tasked to try and find a source of the infection, with the hopes of finding a cure soon.

**November 14, 2006:** With cases of the Rage virus quickly approaching London, England, and nearing Manchester and Liverpool, Balmoral Castle proves to be unsafe from the Rage victims and Queen Elizabeth II and the British Royal family are promptly flown out of the country via helicopter, to a Royal Navy aircraft carrier in the GIUK gap, the HMS *Illustrious* (R06). U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair briefs U.S. President George W. Bush, advising him that the situation is out of control and he will order a general evacuation of mainland Britain the next day. U.S. President Bush vows American and NATO help and speculates that this outbreak might be an al-Qaeda or similar terrorist operation.

**November 15, 2006:** (*Day 15, Evacuation*) - U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair orders mainland Britain evacuated and the United Nations convenes an Emergency Special Session in New York City, issuing a quarantine of mainland Britain. U.S. President George W. Bush addresses the American people and vows U.S. support to help the U.K. as much as possible in its hour of need. Spain, France, Portugal and the Republic of Ireland all reluctantly agree to be the disembarkation points for British evacuees from the mainland and Britons who are abroad are welcomed in America and Australia, as well.

**November 17, 2006:** The infamous, final issue of the *Evening Standard* goes out.

***London Evening Standard: London's Quality Newspaper***

***EVACUATION!***

Mass exodus of British people causes global chaos.

Blair declares a state of emergency.
Military ordered shoot to kill.
Government check points overrun.
UN to build giant refugee camps.
Chaos at all London airports.
Government calls for calm.
Warships patrol waters around Britain.
All roads around London gridlocked.
Rage infection case is first reported in Edinburgh Scotland

**November 20, 2006:** (*Day 20, Devastation*) - Millions of mainland Britons have been infected with the Rage virus. Hundreds of thousands of more have committed suicide in their homes rather than fall victim to the horrible fate of being infected or killed in violence and accidents related to the pandemic. Fortunately, millions were able to make it to areas in the southwest and east and north where a massive reverse Dunkirk evacuation of sorts occurred. Some last desperate- and false *BBC News* and *Sky News* broadcasts state that infection has been reported in Paris, France and New York City. This was actually an attempt by the British government to keep any other survivors from trying to make it to the remaining protected evacuation areas, which were over capacity.

**November 28, 2006:** - Shortwave radios pick up a transmission from Wales. It is a hauntingly beautiful rendition of *Nearer, My God, to Thee*. Breaking glass and snarling are heard in the background before a final: *"Goodbye all!"* A recording of this rendition becomes an international smash hit. A large portion of the profits are donated to the *British Survivors Fund*, set up during the crisis.

**November 29, 2006:** (*28 Days Later*) - Mainland Britain has been completely destroyed by the Rage virus. While close to five million people mainly from England and Wales were evacuated it is estimated that nearly 55 million people throughout the U.K. have died as a result of the infection. Around 500,000 or so are estimated to still be alive in the country but there is now little hope for them; indeed thousands are dying or being infected every hour. Queen Elizabeth II and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair deliver a tear filled address that is broadcast worldwide; they have lost their homeland.

**December 7, 2006:** Manchester, England burns to the ground in a huge conflagration; due to the lack of functioning fire brigade(s). On the other hand, London, England stands nearly untouched.

**December 18, 2006:** Several worldwide memorials are held in memory of the millions who perished in the Rage virus outbreak. The memorial in New York City's Central Park is attended by several prominent survivng Britons including Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Charles, Prince William, Elton John and David Beckham. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Britons and British expats living in the United States and Australia also attend.

**December 25, 2006:** Queen Elizabeth II's annual Christmas message is broadcast from The Lodge in Canberra, Australia. The Queen appeals to the surviving Britons around the world that:*"Our land will always be in our hearts."*

*ZA: Zombies Anonymous* aka *Last Rites of the Dead* (2006) gives a new spin on the Zombie Apocalypse: the outbreak has happened, the dead are walking the earth, but they are still functioning — although mostly closeted — members of society. The movie is a good study on prejudice, showing the new world through the eyes of the recently-deceased Angela. Most of the living prefer the dead to stay dead, but most of the "mortally challenged" just want to be left alone; there are, of course, extremists on both sides, the living who actively hunt down the dead, and vice-versa. The social commentaries aren't subtle, and can be quite agitating at times, especially during the climax.

**2007**

*Mulberry Street* gives us a virus that's transmissible by rats as well as humans (fat chance keeping *those* out by boarding up the farmhouse windows...), and turns infected people into rat-faced, rampaging cannibals. Subverted in that the Virus goes into remission at sunrise, restoring victims to normal, albeit not until after the protagonists have killed off their loved ones in self-defense or mercy.

*Resident Evil: Extinction* taking place after the outbreak at Raccoon City.

Simon Dark 2007 DC Comics character

A version of the Sentry literally punched his way in from yet another alternate universe, bringing with him a disease that turned individuals into flesh-eating zombies. The Avengers were the first on the scene after Sentry crashed in the middle of Manhattan, and all were quickly killed or infected. The disease soon spread throughout the superhuman community, with the super powered undead feasting on the non-powered population.

When Magneto, one of the last uninfected villains/heroes was eaten, the Heralds of Galactus arrived to announce the coming of Galactus. Many zombies tried to eat Silver Surfer, but only Hulk, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Giant-Man, Power-Man and Captain America did so. The Zombie Galacti absorbed his powers, so they used it to toast the other zombies and eat them, hoping they would taste better like this but they tasted bad anyway.

After Galactus arrived, the zombies tried to eat him to, but he was too powerful. They used Vibranium to create a machine that united their Power Cosmic to take him down. But after doing so, their zombie villians used the opportunity to try to eat him has well, so before the Zombie Galacti eat Galactus they faced their old enemies one last time, killing them. An angry Galactus tried to get up and kill the Zombie Galacti, but they devoured him quickly. They absorbed his powers, and used it to travel through space and consume other life forms. During this time, some remaining zombies on Earth tried to reach the mainstream reality, but their plans failed - their last fate is unknown.

One Professor turned his students in University into Zombies(*Zombies Calling*).

*Diary of the Dead* Takes place.

*Flight of the Living Dead* (2007) is a zombie movie which was clearly inspired by *Snakes on a Plane*, since it takes place in the confines of a commercial airliner. The film's zombies follow the Russo mould, in that they can move faster than a shamble, but the incubation time for the virus varies wildly — some are infected and do not turn until a good while afterwards, whereas some are zombified almost as soon as they die.

**January 5, 2007:** (*5 Weeks Later*) Surveillance planes note that most of the infected appear to be dead or dying from starvation and thirst. Some survivors are found; including, the famous *Manchester 3*.

**January 20, 2007:** American scientific teams initially conclude from studying Rage virus samples that it appears to effect only primates and that it apparently hasn't mutated or gone airborne. A large scale re-population of mainland Britain is thus possible.

**February 2, 2007:** U.S. President George W. Bush addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C. attended by Queen Elizabeth II and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair. It has been decided that the United States will lead an international attempt to re-populate mainland Britain. President Bush also appeals for U.N. and NATO assistance in the mobilization. In the address, President Bush also warns the governments of Iran, the DPRK and *"other tyrants"* that *"while our attention may now be on a friend, we will still be watching."*

**February 19, 2007:** (*11 Weeks Later*) - An American-led NATO military force enters London, England. The U.S. military is joined by several others from around the world; including Australian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian, German, and Dutch military forces.

**March 15, 2007:** Conditions in the U.N. Refugee camps in Spain, Portugal, France, and the Channel Islands are deteriorating and there are growing incidents of anger among the displaced Britons. There is a lot of pressure on the international community to find a more permanent home for the thousands of displaced Britons in these aforementioned camps.

**March 19, 2007:** U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair announces that returning British military forces from Afghanistan and Iraq won't be immediately re-deployed in mainland Britain. Instead, they will be deployed to the British refugee camps in Europe, the Channel Islands, and the only untouched country of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland.

**April 12, 2007:** (*18 Weeks Later*) - Despite widespread skepticism, a report conducted by the U.N. and NATO declares that mainland Britain is free of infection.

**April 30, 2007:** It is announced that there will be a worldwide lottery of surviving Britons in the U.N. refugee camps and in other uncomfortable situations to determine who will be amongst the first to repatriate. Only those without children under 18 will be chosen from initially.

**May 2, 2007:** It is clarified that the repatriation lottery applies only to those who were residents of mainland Britain prior to October 15, 2006. Also, Prime Minister Tony Blair declares that Queen Elizabeth II and the other survivng government officials will remain in Canberra, Australia the time being. One aggressive British journalist caused some controversy by quiping: *"Of course, they were the first out; so, its only proper that they are the last back!"*

**May 26, 2007:** (*24 Weeks Later*) - Reconstruction begins as the Isle of Dogs (*District 1 Zone*) receives its first group of refugees. If all goes well, plans are established to repopulate certain areas of Sheffield, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leceister, and Cardiff in the next coming summer months.

**June 27, 2007:** U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair resigns in the face of growing pressure, both at home and abroad.

**June 29, 2007:** (*28 Weeks Later*) - It is noticed by a group of Portuguese journalists that a couple of children under the age of 18 have joined a group flying to the *District 1 Zone* for repatriation.

**July 4, 2007:** The Isle of Dogs Massacre occurs as most of the repatriated Britons are shot or killed by the American-led NATO military force in an attempt to quell another deadly outbreak of the Rage virus. The attempt largely fails.

**August 4, 2007:** Victims of the Rage virus reach Paris, France; which has been largely abandoned after an unexplained outbreak of the Rage virus in France swept inland from the Calais region. All of Europe trembles at the thought of: *"What happens next?"*

The events of the *REC* seriestake place.

*Planet Terror.*

**2008**

**March 11 2008,** Zombies are released in *Quarantine* and then on a plane.

*Crossed* begins.

**May 2008-** *Day of the Dead (2008)* shows a virus that turns people into zombies starting out as flu symptoms. About half the town is infected and comes down with what is thought to be the flu, but then everyone infected simultaneously stops moving for about five minutes, then visibly rot from the inside out within seconds, killing them, and turning them into flesh-eating zombies.

***Colin*** (2008) plays the Zombie Apocalypse pretty much straight, with the eponymous zombie as the protagonist. British.

**2009**

Hideo Suzuki, a 35-year-old manga artist assistant, becomes a hero when the Zombies of a disease(nicknamed ZQN). He meets up with three survivors and only three of them remain and drive all the way to the top of Mt. Fuji to be saved. Survivors also remain in Osaka, Obaraki, and Nagasaki(*I am a Hero*).

The Blackest Night goes out of Control(*DC Comics*).

the Complete Destruction of Columbus Ohio(Dead in Ohio, Zombieland).

*Survival of the Dead* takes place.

*Zombieland*.

☀uses the fast zombie variant. They aren't very clever at all except where required by the Rule of Funny, and are pretty much limited to basic functions such as turning doorknobs and climbing fences and scaffolding, putting their minds at about "pissed off monkey" level. They were created by The Virus and can spread it through bites. They're also seemingly immune to pain, leading to the first two of the lead's Rules of Zombieland: Cardio (zombies can run fast, making it important to be able to run faster) and the Double Tap (put another bullet into the head after taking one down to make sure).

**2010**

Within 5 years all of Japan is covered in zombies except for a pyramid-shaped building inside a wall where rich people have gathered for safety and to amuse themselves with zombie-on-zombie as well as zombie-on-human fights to the undeath(Tokro Zombie).

**2011**

a horde of zombies attack a gas station/convenience store. Four survivors were barricaded inside: a Chinese-looking woman scientist (she had on a lab coat) and two men bending over a third. He is lying on the floor, sweating and feverish and about to turn. One of the men is saying to his reluctant friend, "we have to do it, or he'll turn into a zombie and eat us". Just then there's a knock at the back door, and a chipper clean-cut young Fed Ex delivery man shows up with "a package for Dr. Lee". "The antidote" the scientist screams joyously. As the two disconcerted men look on, the Fed Ex employee looks at the man on the floor and asks with casual concern "He okay?"(*Fedex Commercial*).

**2012**

Magical Girls begin to attack Japan, reviving those killed as Zombies(*Magical Girl Apocalypse*). The Magical Girls are eventually prioritized and killed, leaving only the Zombies.

Megurigaoka Private High School falls under attack during the Zombie outbreak, and many students and teachers are infected. The Virus becomes airborne though some develop immunity(*School Live!*).

Two Demons named Scanty and Kneesocks spread the Zombie Virus through Daten City, turning the residents into Zombies, including the angels Panty and Stocking(*Panty and Stocking episode* "*...of the Dead*).

According to the journal of Seattle doctor Robert Twombly, has the western seaboard of the United States and some of Canada overcome with a zombie uprising in 2012 caused by, of all things, an experimental food preservative gone bad. Although Twombly is implied to have been killed at the end, since his journal cuts off with a blood splatter on the last page the fact it was found and published suggests (in the context of the journal's universe) the zombies were successfully stopped somehow(*Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection*).

**2013**

After a car driven by Reggie kills Hot Dog, Jughead asks Sabrina to bring his beloved pet back to life. She does, but with terrible consequences: Hot Dog becomes a zombie, and bites Jughead, who subsequently becomes a zombie and spreads the contagion(*Afterlife with Archie*).

Weeks after Archie and his friends left Riverdale, they are now following along the deserted highways of America trying to stay one step ahead of the growing horde of zombies that were once their friends and family.

Framed and convicted of murder, Yoshiaki Maeda has just arrived at Shouran Academy Juvenile Detention Center. He is placed in Cell 4 and is soon greeted by his fellow inmates Gou Iwakura, Masafumi Yoshioka, and Mitsuru Yamanoi, all of whom have been detained on varying charges and sentences. Already believing life to be laden with misfortunes, Yoshiaki finds, to his dismay, that the prison is in the midst of a violent power struggle. Little do the inmates and employees know that the outside world has been thrown into chaos by a sudden zombie apocalypse, and a van carrying infected humans has just crashed into the prison, abruptly introducing them to the undead threat(*Apocalypse No Toride*).

**2014**

*Lesbian Zombies from Outer Space.*

*The Final Plague,* which involves Zombie Animals.

**2019**

*Zombieland Double Tap*

*DCeased*

In the aftermath of a battle between the Justice League and the forces of Apokolips Darkseid leaves Earth and Batman discovers that Cyborg is being held on Apokolips. He is being tortured by DeSaad, who reveals that the Anti-Life Equation has been living in his cybernetic body. In order for Cyborg to survive the extraction, the Black Racer is summoned. However, this causes the Equation to become corrupted, and Cyborg is sent back to Earth in order to prevent the virus from spreading. It ends up spreading and affecting superheroes and ordinary people.
Spin-offs[edit]

#### *A Good Day to Die*[edit]

Mister Miracle and Big Barda survey the destruction of Apokolips before Boom Tubing back to earth. Meanwhile Mister Terrific examines an infected Captain Boomerang and realises he needs to trace the origin of the virus. He journeys to Mister Miracle's apartment for help in visiting Apokolips, only to be informed of its annihilation.

#### *Unkillables*[edit]

Deathstroke encounters infected neo-nazis during a job in Kentucky, soon becoming one of the infected after attempting to contact his client with his phone, however, a day later his healing factor purges the equation from his system and returns him to normal. Deathstroke's daughter Rose Wilson is trapped in her apartment, unwilling to leave as all her visions of her trying end in her death.

#### *Hope at World's End*[edit]

An anthology series featuring stories of various heroes. Jimmy Olsen saves some of his co-workers in the initial outbreak of the virus and documents the heroes' actions throughout the DCeased event. A time-jump foreshadows the coming of an Anti-Life Army. In Kahndaq Black Adam stops the initial spread of the virus by killing any infected citizens. Martian Manhunter recruits Superman and Wonder Woman to ask Black Adam to open Khandaq's borders but he refuses. Adam tours Kahndaq but is attacked by an infected boy. As he tries to shout Shazam! the boy claws at his face, and he transforms back into a turned Black Adam. In Keystone City, Wally West, Max Mercury, Impulse and Jesse Quick evacuate the uninfected residents to an alternate Earth. While they succeed Max becomes infected. Before he can turn Wally runs with him so he can join the Speed Force.

**2024**

Set five years after the original mini-series, Dead Planet follows the New Justice League as they return to an Earth now overrun with the anti-living in search of Cyborg, who managed to activate a distress beacon in his head (secretly installed by Batman) to transmit a message in Morse code. As a group of heroes return to Earth to respond to the signal, they are attacked by Wonder Woman, who infects Green Arrow before Jonathan can talk with Cyborg and confirms that there is a cure for the infection.

**2047**

After forty years consuming planets, at the edge of the known universe, the zombie galacti realized that practically all the life in the universe was gone, so they decided to return to Earth to repair an old Dimensional Travel Machine Reed had before to consume other dimensions. By this point, Phoenix, Firelord and Gladiator had joined the Zombie Galacti; Thanos joined them as well, but was killed by the Hulk after he accused the green monster of being as responsible as the other zombies for the extinction of life in that universe for eating more then the rest of them. After arriving in earth, they encountered a group of survivors led by a zombified Black Panther, who survived with the severed heads of Wasp and Hawkeye in robot bodies along with the Acolytes.

The Hulk tried to eat them, but was stopped by Giant-Man who suggested creating some sort of breeding project to produce more "food", but Spider-Man was against the idea and attacked Hank, who demanded someone to kill Spider-Man. Wolverine tried to do it but Power-Man stopped him, then Wasp, Hawkeye and T'Challa helped them fight the "bad" zombies while the group of humans hid.

A forcefield was activated and separated the good zombies and humans from the bad ones, this made the Hulk lose consciousness and revert into Bruce Banner, cut Power-Man in half and trapped Gladiator inside resulting in his death. Having no remaining way to prey on the survivors, the "bad" zombies decided to return their attention to the Dimensional Travel Machine at the Baxter Building.

In there, they discovered that the Dimensional Travel Machine was actually in the survivor's camp, so they returned to New Wakanda, where Wasp, Spider-Man, Hawkeye, Power-Man and Black Panther offered to give up the machine if the "bad" zombies left them, and the humans, alone. Deception and another battle ensued. Banner gained consciousness and tried to eat Reynolds in a security room from which he was watching the battle, which also contained the lever that activated/deactivated the force field. In his panic, he accidentally disabled the force field, so the "bad" zombies concluded that they would not only steal the machine, but eat the humans as well, but their hunger for flesh left before they could do it. Banner turned into Hulk and started eating again. All the various zombies tried to stop him, but Iron Man, Phoenix, Firelord and Hawkeye were killed.

Reynolds offered to let the Hulk eat him if he would spare the others, having lost his lover the Wasp in the previous battle with Ant-Man. After eating Reynolds, Hulk changed back into Banner and let himself be killed by the remaining zombies, before he could become the Hulk again. Weeks later, Malcom Cortez decided he liked his life style and didn't want the zombies around, so he tricked them, sending all of the remaining zombies to Earth-91126.

While it originally resembled a late 20th/early 21st century Earth, it possessed technology on par with that of Dredd 's Earth. Among the various differences between the two universes, ranging from different judges to different names for American states- one of them being called Tuscarora- the biggest difference is that society in Deadworld placed very little emphasis on the value on life. As a result, the inhabitants were sadistic and violent toward one-another.

Dreams were seen as childish and it was considered strange and dirty to continue having them into adulthood. There existed a Dream Elimination Department that took Psis and violently removed their psychic energies.

One of the most popular bands in Deadworld was Skool of Hate, whose members committed mass suicide after 10 years. Television included shows like "My Favorite Car Smash" and "The Banzo Show," which advertised Banzo junk food.

By the 21st century, the United States of this world had emerged from a massive war known as "The Big One." Much of the capital is abandoned due to damage from the war, leaving derelict buildings and overgrown bomb craters, such as those in Sector 17.

The planet was wracked with environmental damage, including violent storms and massive swarms of mutated locusts known as Critters. Particularly large masses of them, known as "Critterswarms," would decimate vast areas of land, with a particularly bad one in 2134. Crops had begun to fail due to the extinction of bees and what did grow was often twisted and mutated.

The Judges of this world came to power as a federal force, armed with J-Wagons, AI Lawriders linked to the "Judgecloud", and heavy firepower. They were even more heavily armed than those on Dredd's Earth and could give out any sentence at their discretion. Part of their training was learning how to torture and kill without remorse, but to also stick to the three "I's:" Inter, Interrogate, and Intel. They advertised graft and violence as a reason to join up, along with free luncheon vouchers.

This drew the attention of a young Sydney De'ath, the son of a travelling dentist and serial killer. After helping his father kill people, Sydney reported him to the Judges in order to sign up. After years of secretly murdering the "wets" in Law School who thought his ideas were sick, he was given a routine day in charge of civil court in Sixth Year. Trainee Judge Sidney gave the death sentence to all twenty seven cases, whatever their plea: when the shocked principal tried to discipline him, De'ath's passionate argument forced him to stand down. After that, the other Trainees called him "Sidney Death".

Upon graduating, the first thing Death did was hunt down and murder his mother and sister.

By this point in time, an anti-Judge resistance movement had formed.

Death's philosophy that only the living cause crimes began to catch on with the other Judges. One of them was Judge Fuego, who was nicknamed Judge Fire after burning down an entire school for breaching noise regulations. Fuego was later sent undercover to join the resistance.

The Judges only dared enter Sector 17 as a group. Two witches, who would later be known as the Sisters of Death, set up shop in a cave system around there and it gained a reputation of being haunted after a series of murders; the water treatment plant was named the "Cavern of Lost Souls" due to the mysterious deaths of over a hundred workers. One of them had been transformed into a creature known as Half-Life, who was a test subject for various diseases. When Death found the sisters, he described it as "love at first sight."

After this encounter, the Judges went on a killing spree, sentencing to people to death for the smallest crimes. People fled the capital while Judge Fire lead the resistance to liberate the Psis being held in the Dream Elimination Department. Death was waiting for them with a judicial squad and slaughtered the resistance and many of the children inside the facility.

The Sisters transformed Death and his closest allies into unkillable zombies, who then went on to kill the Chief Judge and take control themselves.

In the midst of the Dark Judges' genocidal campaign, Superstorm Cassandra hit the Midwestern United States, murderous cults attacked isolated towns, and food riots sprang up in the capital, The Dark Judges also began to use the Sisters' mental powers to 'recruit' new members to their cause. The regular Judges began dragging people from their homes across the capital and taken them to the Dark Judges' new base, a vast twisted monolith, for mass execution. The sun itself was being blotted out by darkness at this point.

Eventually, the Dark Judges succeeded in wiping out most life on their world. However, they were left with little else to do and were gradually consumed with their own fears and personal issues. Sister Despair began experimenting on a few survivors she'd kept until Judge Fire killed her out of jealously for spurning him. Judge Mortis grew a "garden" of fungal mounds and rotting corpses.

Judge Death, fearing that they were becoming too much like the living, organized a cull. Only Death, Judge Fear, Judge Mortis, and Judge Fire were left. They waited in darkness and tried to discover a way to leave Deadworld. As if on cue, a race of dimension-travelling aliens arrived and were imme diately murdered by the Dark Judges. They used their technology to finally leave Deadworld and travel to Mega-City One.

**2147**

A hundred years after "C-Day," when the infection went public. Much of humanity's accumulated knowledge has been lost, parts of the continental United States are irradiated, and the surviving uninfected humans live in small communal societies in the ruins of the Midwest, raising ostriches for food. Zoo animals have colonized parts of North America, and at one point, the narrator watches a family of elephants in what's left of Tennessee. Oh, and language has changed significantly as well(*Crossed*).

A zombie apocalypse sweeps through the galaxy, and being hushed up by the government. Zombo is a human/zombie hybrid created by the government to fight back. Zombies personalities are now exactly the same as when they were alive, except they now crave human flesh (*Zombo, 2000 AD*).

The infection spreads across *the entire universe,* evolving to infect robots. Those infected eventually begin to recover. There's no more death, war, or discrimination now that every living thing in existence is undead, and those infected find a more positive outlook on their undeaths by eating yogurt instead of flesh, thinking of themselves as "fermenting" instead of "rotting", and mooching off their own life insurance(*Space Dandy*).

In the far future, Robots built by Humanity struggle to protect the last living humans. The zombie virus became capable of infecting Robots(*Zombies vs Robots*). The Virus attempted to expand into other Universes and across time but was defeated at several points in time by the Heroes of those times(*Infestation* Comic crossover).

### **Hole**

The alternate dimension of Hole gets a Zombie Apocalypse every year, and surviving it is as simple as being inside behind locked doors after midnight. This has been going on long enough that the braver (or stupider) denizens of Hole have turned it into a *game*, with prizes for killing a certain number of Zombies and everything.