Comic fans have but two Marvel Cinematic Universe movies coming our way in 2026. Those are, of course, Spider-Man: Brand New Day in July and Avengers: Doomsday in December. That might be enough for people who’ve reached the point of MCU fatigue. However, if you just want more Marvel stories in your eyeballs, Disney+ has a number of series throughout the year. As part of New York Comic Con this weekend, Marvel gave updates on their live-action and—more excitingly for me—animated programs premiering and returning.
Shall we go chronologically? Why yes, we shall.
Wonder Man – January 27
First, the one that’ll be here quickest. Wonder Man, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams and Sir Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slattery originally had a premiere date of this December. Disney+ recently bumped it back a little to the beginning of next year. We just got a trailer for the series. It looks like it might not even feature an actual superhero. OR, that’s just how Method Simon Williams is. He’s so in character that he develops superpowers. Anyway, it looks interesting.
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 – March
While we didn’t get a trailer for it, we did learn that Daredevil: Born Again will resolve its first season cliffhanger in March. When last we left the city of New York, Mayor Wilson Fisk had declared martial law and outlawed all costumed crime fighters. He’d kidnapped the likes of Swordsman and Punisher and kept them in cages. Meanwhile Daredevil will put together a group of freedom fighters. And we know that his former Netflix Defenders cohort Jessica Jones will be among them.
X-Men ’97 Season 2 – Summer
This is where the excitement really begins. The best single Marvel thing in the past several years, animated series X-Men ’97, will finally return for its second season in summer 2026. The first season was devastating, with shocking character deaths and a massive mutant massacre. But the finale left us with not one or two but many cliffhangers for storylines to come.
Half the X-Men ended up in Ancient Egypt with a young Apocalypse. Cyclops and Jean Grey ended up way in the future with Baby Cable and their daughter Rachel Summers from the aborted “Days of Future Past” timeline. Awhat?! We also got a promise of other ’90s team lineups like X-Factor and Excalibur. I’m jazzed. JAZZED I tell you.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2 – Fall
This year kicked off with a surprising bang with season one of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Despite the artwork taking a little while to win me over, the series gave us a fun reimagining of the early days of Peter Parker’s tenure as the titular wallcrawler. As you’d expect, YFNSM had super villains galore—Scorpion, Doc Ock, and Tombstone to name a few—plus cameos from the likes of Doctor Strange and Daredevil.
Season two promises to include Gwen Stacey and Venom, which is very exciting.
VisionQuest – Winter
Good lord, doesn’t it feel like this show will never come out? Well we have to keep waiting. VisionQuest, the second spinoff of 2021’s WandaVision, will follow the newly alive White Vision (Paul Bettany) as he…I dunno, goes and has a quest? Soul(stone) searching? We honestly have very little idea what this series will entail other than basically being an AI showdown. James Spader’s Ultron will return as will James D’Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S. and Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H. Star Trek: Picard‘s Todd Stashwick will play bounty hunter Paladin while Mike Flanagan regular T’Nia Miller will play robot Jocasta.
Presumably we’ll learn something more about this show—from Picard season three showrunner Terry Matalas—in the year+ we have to wait for it to come out.
Every season a new Marvel show…I dig it!
Kyle Anderson is the Senior Editor for Nerdist. He hosts the weekly pop culture deep-dive podcast Laser Focus. You can find his film and TV reviews here. Follow him on Letterboxd.
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