for a second Gorillaz album, which would end up being Demon Days. When she returned to Kong, she saw that the studio became infested by zombies and the undead after a disease occupied the studio due to it being abandoned for a year. Over the span of six months, Noodle rid the studio of the zombie infestation while hiding in the TV room of Kong. During her time in the TV room, Noodle used her recovered knowledge of the English language to do extensive research on the state of the world, in which she identified a lack of substance in entertainment that she figuratively referred to as "the real infection", which would become her main inspiration for the concept of Demon Days. As she began to finish up the demos, 2-D, Murdoc, and Russel Hobbs one-by-one began to return to Kong and recording of the album was ready to begin. After Demon Days release and worldwide success, Noodle was assumed dead and in hell by the characters following her appearance in the music video for "El Mañana" in 2006, which appears to show the flying windmill island from the "Feel Good Inc." music video being gunned down by two attack helicopters. Noodle was said to have gone on a journey to reunite with Gorillaz in 2010 after four years of alleged absence from the group since 2006. She was shown arriving at Plastic Beach with a giant Russel in a storyboard for a scrapped "Rhinestone Eyes" music video. During Noodle's absence, Murdoc replaced her with a cyborg replica named Cyborg Noodle that he created using a strand of her hair that he found in the rubbish from the crash in the "El Mañana" music video. Noodle, like Russel, had no spoken dialogue during the Plastic Beach era of Gorillaz, despite eventually reuniting with the band. In Gorillaz' 2016 interactive short story "The Book of Noodle", it was revealed that years after Plastic Beach, Noodle defeated a shape-shifting demon from hell that she accidentally released named Mazuu while in Tokyo, Japan. She then shipped herself to West London in a FedEx crate in the escape following the battle with the creature to reunite with the band. In The Now Now, Noodle visits Patagonia in South America as per an incarcerated Murdoc's request to confront El Mierda, who he claimed framed him for drug smuggling. In a 2018 advertisement campaign for a