UPDATE: Marvel Television and Animation's NYCC panel has concluded, and a full breakdown of all the announcements can be found below!
Marvel Studios is ready to break the internet at New York Comic-Con (NYCC) 2025 (NYCC) with new announcements and reveals for the MCU. 2025 was a jam-packed year for Marvel Studios on the big and small screen, as over half a dozen new projects debuted in theaters and on Disney+. The franchise will continue its Phase 6 slate into 2026, and now, fans are anxious to hear more about what the most successful comic-book movie franchise in history has in store.
Marvel Studios started its "Up Next From Marvel Television and Marvel Animation" panel at New York Comic-Con 2025 at 1:30 p.m. ET. Hosted by Phase Hero's Brandon Davis, the panel will feature some of the MCU's biggest creatives as they detail what Marvel Studios has planned for release and development over the coming months and years.
Marvel Studios Updates From NYCC 2025 Panel
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2
Head of Marvel TV and animation Brad Winderbaum took the stage at NYCC to discuss Season 2 of Marvel Animation's Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. The show will return to Disney+ in Fall 2026 for new episodes, confirming this specific release timeframe for the first time.
Season 2 will pick up right where Season 1 left off, with a major focus on Peter Parker's lore and history. Fans will remember Season 1 ending with the reveal that his father, Richard Parker, was alive and in jail as Aunt May paid him a visit. There will also be more action with symbiotes after the season ended with a tease for Venom.
Attendees saw the first publicly released footage for Season 2, which confirmed Charlie Cox's return as the animated variant of Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Additionally, Season 2 will deliver the MCU's first adaptation of Gwen Stacy. As Peter asks the character, "What do I call you? " She responds with a simple "Gwen," confirming the classic love interest's inclusion.
The footage included new looks at Otto Octavius, better known to fans as Doc Ock, and the alien symbiote, Venom. Peter Parker returns to Oscorp and finds the symbiote before striking a deal with Norman Osborn. The trailer closes with Robbie Robertson falling off a roof (a la Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man 2), and it cuts off right before Spider-Man catches him.
In this section, Winderbaum hyped up Venom by telling the audience, "Fans of Venom should get excited."
X-Men '97 Season 2
X-Men '97 executive producers Eric and Julia Lewald (showrunners and writers on X-Men: The Animated Series) took the stage with Davis to tease what's coming from the animated mutant series. They kicked off the panel by confirming Season 3 is in development before telling the crowd that Season 2 "tees up Season 3 in a massive way." The season is also confirmed to come to Disney+ in Summer 2026.
In a new trailer for Season 2, fans see footage of Apocalypse, who will be one of the main villains for these new episodes. The X-Men are confirmed to be scattered across the past and future, as they look to get back to their time period in the 1990s (described by Bishop). Jean Grey and Scott Summers' son, Nathan Summers, has grown into a teenager as well.
Dardevil: Born Again Season 2
Marvel Studios moved from animation to live-action for new information on Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, which is confirmed to debut on Disney+ in March 2026. Fans got to see the first trailer for the new season, which offered plenty of new details about the story. Stars Charlie Cox (Daredevil) and Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones) made appearances on stage.
Karen Page and Matt Murdock rekindle the romantic relationship they built during the original Daredevil series on Netflix, getting milkshakes in a diner before kissing and dancing. Matt is also attacked by something sonic in nature.
Other shots highlighted Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk boxing in a gym. He appears to have an underground prison similar to what fans saw at the end of Season 1. There is also likely a flashback look at Elden Henson's Foggy Nelson with long hair after his tragic passing in Season 1.
Ritter's Jessica Jones shows up on screen in her first action for Marvel Studios since Jessica Jones Season 3 in 2019. Ritter also called it "surreal" to return to the MCU, feeling "as if no time had passed."
Davis also discussed "assembling a team to defend New York City," teasing a potential Defenders reunion after Netflix's Defenders Saga ended in 2019. Cox seemed to agree with this sentiment, but fans still wait for characters like Luke Cage or Iron Fist to join the mix.
Footage also included Wilson Bethel as Bullseye, but he was not wearing the costume he used in Season 1.
Wonder Man
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Simon Williams) and Sir Ben Kingsley (Trevor Slattery) got their moment to shine for Marvel Studios at NYCC 2025 to discuss their work on the upcoming Wonder Man series on Disney+. After the confirmation that it was delayed until 2026 a day prior, the show is now set to arrive with a full eight-episode drop on Disney+ on January 27, 2026.
Marvel Studios shared the first official poster for the Wonder Man series, which can be seen below. Using a magazine printing for The Hollywood Reporter, the front page teases the idea of "super hero fatigue" as its cover story while using an outline of a red-caped hero as the cover image:
Marvel Studios also released the first official trailer for Wonder Man, which can be seen below:
Vision Quest
To close off the Marvel Animation and Marvel Television panel, Winderbaum and Davis brought up Vision star Paul Bettany to share new information on Vision Quest, including confirming the show's title. This will mark the third and final chapter in the memorable MCU trilogy that kicked off with WandaVision and led into Agatha All Along.
Bettany discussed the show by detailing how Red Vision gives White Vision all of his memories, including everything that happened in Wanda Maximoff's Hex during 2021's WandaVision. However, White Vision struggles to connect with those memories and lacks the emotions or feelings associated with them. According to Bettany, White Vision's journey through this show "is trying to connect with those memories."
A short trailer then revealed many of the show's new cast members, who play human forms of some of the MCU's most notable AI systems. Henry Lewis plays DUM-E from the Iron Man saga, Jonathan Sayer portrays "U," Orla Brady embraces the role of FRIDAY, and Emily Hampshire joins the show as EDITH from Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Additionally, James D'Arcy makes his grand return to the MCU as JARVIS, first playing the role in both seasons of Agent Carter before returning in Avengers: Endgame. Finally, James Spader takes on his first MCU project in more than a decade, reprising his role as Ultron after debuting in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
The footage concluded with a quick look at Ruaridh Mollica on a CC-TV recording, where he is identified as Thomas Shepherd. Fans will recognize him as the reincarnated version of Tommy Maximoff (also known as Speed), Billy Maximoff's twin brother and Wanda's other son.
A full description of the Vision Quest footage can be found here.
While Vision Quest still has no confirmed release date, it will arrive on Disney+ sometime in 2026.
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