Marvel just pulled a move we haven’t seen from them before to promote their next summer blockbuster. Via Entertainment Weekly, the studio published the first three pages of the script for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, complete with handwritten annotations from director Destin Daniel Cretton, Tom Holland, and more.
The film opens directly on the Marvel Studios title card, but with a twist. Cretton’s notes reveal that the usual fanfare will be replaced by footage of Peter’s adventures from the first trilogy—specifically the memories that Ned and MJ no longer share.
Channeling Kevin Feige‘s favorite film, Back to the Future, Cretton writes in the margins that Peter has “vanished from existence like Marty,” emphasizing that for the first time in his life, Peter is “entirely alone.”
Over the logos, Holland’s voiceover reads the letter he wrote to MJ at the end of No Way Home—the one he never actually gave her.
While the bulk of the film takes place four years later, the opening scene picks up just nine months after Strange’s spell. Peter is still in the dingy apartment where we last saw him, but he’s already physically changing.
The script describes Peter experiencing a “small, sharp headache,” which the writers note is our first inkling that “living completely in the shadows is taking its toll—something is changing, and maybe not for the better.”
Without Stark Tech (that should please a large segment of fans), Peter has built his own AI assistant named E.V. The script notes call E.V. “sadly, the closest thing Peter has to a friend.“
The script sets the stage for a massive montage, perhaps bridging the gap from Month 9 to Year 4. It also confirms that Peter’s new suit was inspired by his interaction with both Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield‘s respective Wall-Crawlers.
The script pages truly signal a back to basics approach for Soidey. No multiversal cameos are mentioned in these opening pages; it’s a pure, character-driven study of isolation. If No Way Home was about the loss of a life, Brand New Day is about the struggle to build a new one while your own body—and the city you protect—tries to reject you.
If you thought Marvel’s publishing house was done with “industry-shaking” events after the fallout of One World Under Doom, think again. The publisher has officially pulled back the curtain on its next massive crossover, Avengers: Armageddon, and they are bringing the heavy hitters from the tabletop world along for the ride.
Marvel confirmed that every first-printing copy of Avengers: Armageddon #1—hitting shelves on June 3, 2026—will come sealed in a special polybag containing an exclusive Magic: The Gathering promo card.
The exclusive card, titled Warstorm Surge, features stunning new artwork by Marvel superstar Ryan Stegman. The art depicts a desperate battle in the ruins of Latveria, with Wolverine, Iron Man, and Spider-Man attempting to halt a rampaging Red Hulk.
A dramatic turning point in Avengers history, AVENGERS: ARMAGEDDON promises to change the face of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in a way not seen since Avengers Disassembled and leads directly into a new era of Avengers kicking off later this year.
-Official synopsis for Avengers: Armageddon
This isn’t just a random pull; the card is a direct tie-in to the upcoming Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes set launching globally on June 26. By bundling this promo with the comic, Marvel and Wizards of the Coast are essentially creating a collector’s must-have that bridges the gap between the direct market and the booming TCG scene.
This is a major cross-media play that signals Marvel is treating Armageddon as the definitive turning point for the 616. Tying a watershed comic event to a massive Magic: The Gathering launch is a move straight out of the 90s hype playbook, but with modern prestige.
While the MTG card is a massive draw, the narrative stakes of Armageddon are what should have 616 fans worried. Written by Chip Zdarsky (Captain America, Daredevil) with art by Frank Alpizar and Delio Diaz, the five-issue event is being internally compared to 2004’s Avengers: Disassembled.
The story kicks off when General Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross seizes control of the vacuum left in Latveria following the death of Doctor Doom. His aggressive, security-first takeover triggers a global geopolitical crisis that forces the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and Wolverine into a conflict that Marvel promises will leave the team fundamentally transformed.
As the official solicitation puts it:
There will be a pre-Armageddon Marvel Universe and a post-Armageddon Marvel Universe. Be here to bear witness to the transformation.
Zdarsky has spent the last year in the pages of Captain America and, now, Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon seeding the idea that a Hulk operating with state authority is the ultimate ticking time bomb. This isn’t just a physical fight; it’s a battle over who gets to decide the fate of nations. If this truly is the “Origin of the End” for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, the Marvel Universe is about to look very different by July.
When Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones steps back onto the rain-slicked streets of Hell’s Kitchen in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, she won’t be the same person we left behind in 2019. In a move that prioritizes narrative weight over easy nostalgia, showrunner Dario Scardapane has confirmed that the MCU is leaning into the real-world passage of time, treating the seven-year gap since the Netflix era as canon.
Speaking on the character’s evolution, Scardapane made it clear that they aren’t interested in a “frozen in time” version of the character. “One of the things we’ve leaned into is that time has passed… We’re acknowledging that. These characters have matured; they’ve gone through life,” Scardapane told SFX Magazine.
The question driving her return is simple but fascinating: What does it look like for a bourbon-swilling smartass to mature seven years in a world that has been through the Blip and a Kingpin takeover?
The show respects the timeline since Jessica Jones Season 3 ended on Netflix. By the time we see her in Born Again (set in 2027), nearly a decade has passed in-universe since her last standalone adventure. Unlike Matt Murdock, Jessica doesn’t wear a mask. Scardapane noted that this makes her particularly vulnerable in the Mayor Fisk era. While Daredevil can hide in the shadows, Jessica is a known quantity to the Anti-Vigilante Task Force.
The official production notes for Season 2 also highlight a 6-month time jump from the end of Born Again Season 1. This means that by the time Jessica enters the fray, Fisk’s administration has truly taken hold, and the underground resistance—led by Matt and Karen—is in desperate need of a heavy hitter who has gone through life and come out the other side.
By acknowledging the gap, Marvel is finally connecting the dots of the Defenders Saga in a way that feels organic. This isn’t a reboot; it’s a sequel. Scardapane’s reverence for Melissa Rosenberg’s original Netflix run suggests that while Jessica has changed, the hard-edged soul of the character remains intact. She’s just a little older, a little wiser, and likely a lot more dangerous to anyone standing in her way.
If there’s one thing Marvel Studios has mastered lately, it’s the art of the creative upgrade. While we’re all waiting to see exactly how Paul Bettany’s White Vision finds his soul (and his sons) in the upcoming VisionQuest streaming series, the production has just locked in one of its most important voices yet.
According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter, Emmy-winning composer Mick Giacchino has been enlisted to score the series.
The name Giacchino carries a lot of weight in the halls of Marvel and Disney. Mick is the son of legendary composer Michael Giacchino, the man responsible for the iconic scores of Doctor Strange, the studio’s Spider-Man trilogy, and Thor: Love and Thunder.
But Mick isn’t just riding on his father’s coattails. He’s been carving out his own path in the genre space. Mick just won an Emmy for his incredible, brooding work on HBO’s The Penguin. If you loved the way that score made Gotham feel like a living, breathing weight on Oz Cobb’s shoulders, you know what he brings to the table. He’s also no stranger to the Disney machine, having recently composed the score for the Amblin-esque Star Wars: Skeleton Crew.
This is a show about the Marvel AIs. You do get to see robot Ultron, but you see a lot of James Spader and a lot of Paul Bettany together. They are very much a core dynamic of the show.
-Terry Matalas
This hire confirms that Marvel is treating VisionQuest as a premium event. By pairing a writer like Terry Matalas with a composer like Giacchino, they are aiming for the same prestige level that made WandaVision a cultural phenomenon. With James Spader returning as Ultron, the soundscape for this show needs to be massive, and Mick has proven he can handle the pressure of legacy characters.
Even as the Multiverse Saga speeds toward its end, it remains clear that fans who have pent so much time worrying about the stability of the Sacred Timeline and the logistics of incursions have forgotten that some of the best Marvel stories have happened on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen.
As Marvel Television continues to bring the Defenders-verse back from the dead, recent quote from Gillian Jacobs–buried in an interview with MovieWeb’s Patrick Cavanaugh–illustrates just how much room there is to expand the studio’s foundational street-level narrative.
While promoting the fourth season of Invincible, Jacobs dropped a pitch for a character so obscure, so deep-cut, that it actually makes too much sense for Marvel Television boss Brad Winderbaum to ignore.
“I actually have a pitch,” Jacobs told Movie Web. “Do you know this comic, Dakota North? It was a short-run Marvel comic. I think that would make a great TV show. However, they’ll have me. I don’t know. I just discovered that comic, and I think it’s such a great world visually. It’s such a fun character.”
With Marvel Television’s strategy continuing to shift toward grounded, character-driven narratives that don’t require a PhD in Multiversal physics, a character Dakota North is the literal poster child for that initiative.
For the uninitiated, Dakota North (created in 1986 by Martha Thomases and Tony Salmons) isn’t a superhero. She’s a high-fashion model turned private investigator who specializes in the kind of high-stakes corporate espionage and personal security that the Avengers wouldn’t even notice. But in a world where the Marvel Spotlight banner is supposed to represent standalone, character-first storytelling, Dakota North is the perfect bridge. She is the investigative tissue that connects the high-society glitz of the MCU’s elite with the grime of its criminal underworld…the kind of character who might even know Tony Dalton‘s Swordsman.
In the pages of Marvel Comics, specifically during Ed Brubaker’s legendary run on Daredevil, Dakota North was the primary investigator for Nelson & Murdock. She was the one who kept the lights on when Jessica Jones was occupied or when Matt Murdock was…well, being Matt Murdock.
If Marvel is serious about rebuilding a Defenders-verse that feels lived-in and sustainable, they need characters like Dakota. A character, like North, who can walk into a room with Wilson Fisk and hold her own, serves as a fitting foil for interminable twats like Daniel Blake. Gillian Jacobs—who has proven her dramatic chops in The Bear and her comedic timing in Community—is the ideal anchor for that kind of noir-lite that really serves as a vehicle for violence and F-bombs.
Of course, an actor’s pitch on a press tour doesn’t mean a greenlight. We’re still waiting for several projects, including,that Silver Surfer Special Presentation that’s been floating in the ether since 2020. However, in a 2026 landscape where Marvel is desperate for wins that don’t break the bank or the timeline, listening to an actor who actually knows the source material is not the worst move Kevin Feige can make. Dakota North might have been a short-run comic in the 80s, but she’s the exact long-term solution the MCU needs today: a character with multi-platorm narrative ductility.
For years, we’ve been tracking the God of Stories. We watched him go from the guy who lost to a “dull creature” in Stark Tower to the man literally holding the fabric of reality together at the center of the Multiverse, finally fulfilling his glorious purpose. It was a hell of an arc. But as we inch closer to Avengers: Doomsday, a new, darker theory is emerging—one that suggests Loki’s new job isn’t a permanent promotion, but a setup for the most violent transition of power in MCU history.
Fans of Jonathan Hickman’s 2015 Secret Wars run know just how important Owen Reece was to the event. As Molecule Man, Reece was the battery of Doctor Doom’s machine. He was the source of Doom’s godhood, the “living bomb” that allowed Victor to shape Battleworld from the wreckage of the incursions. But in the MCU? We haven’t met Owen Reece. We have, however, spent twelve years with Loki.
The Stand-In
Marvel isn’t going to spend time introducing a complex new character like Molecule Man to explain Doom’s power. Instead, they’re looking at the man already sitting on the throne at the end of time.
Loki’s position as the God of Stories, the man keeping the Multiverse together by sheer force of will, will reportedly make him a target of Doctor Doom. In an interesting adaptation of the Hickman beat, Doom is rumored to strip Loki of his God of Stories powers effectively using them as the conduit to stabilize his own version of reality, making Loki a stand-in for Owen Reece.
But Marvel reportedly isn’t stopping there. For those who remember Doom’s confrontation with Thanos in Secret Wars—the one where Victor casually reaches into the Mad Titan’s chest and pulls out his spine—there’s a growing belief that we’re going to see a remix of that moment.
If Doom is going to establish himself as the undisputed big bad of the Multiverse Saga, he needs a moment, like Thanos had in Avengers: Infinity War, that establishes him as a threat. He needs to kill a fan favorite to show he’s not playing around. If reports are accurate, that will come at the expense of Loki once again. Loki doesn’t just lose his power; he loses his life in a way that mirrors that iconic Hickman panel as his heart is ripped out by Victor…even if it is reportedly off screen. Doom ending the God of Stories isn’t just a power move—it’s a declaration that the Loki Era of the Multiverse is over and that there can be only Doom.
The Long Game
Hiddlestans aren’t going to like this. A Thor/Loki reunion would have been enjoyable, as would Loki the Avengers as Avenger Prime. But if the Russos are looking for maximum emotional impact, killing the man who is literally holding the Multiverse together is the fastest way to raise the stakes.
It’s brutal. It’s efficient. And frankly, it’s exactly the kind of move that makes a villain legendary. As always, keep the salt shaker nearby, but don’t be surprised if the “God of Stories” ends up being the foundation upon which Doom builds his empire.
The return of Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones in the upcoming second season of Daredevil: Born Again has generated serious hype and, truthfully, did so long before the actress’s return was confirmed. Ritter‘s performance as the streetwise smart ass was a highlight of the Netflix Defenders-verse series and there always seemed to be room for her to grow, especially considering the last two seasons of Jessica Jones were minimally inspired by the character’s adventures in the pages of Marvel Comics.
Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again will see Jones once again team-up with Matt Murdock, this time facing Wilson Fisk’s corrupt takeover of New York City. It sounds as though that won’t be the last we see of Ritter in the role, however, as both she and Marvel’s streaming skipper Brad Winderbaum have teased that there’s more to come, with the latter teasing that whatever they have in mind will be “coming sooner than you think.”
There’s a lot of stuff that I’ve felt there was room to explore, and Brad and I talked and I am not going to say any of it, because we’re going to be doing it.
Krysten Ritter
Now, Daredevil: Born Again showrunner Dario Scardapane has added fuel to the fire in an interview with SFX Magazine, discussing where Jones picks up when we meet her again in the upcoming season and what the future has in store.
“One of the things we’ve leaned into is that time has passed between the end of the Netflix show and the beginning of ours,” Scardapane explained. “We’re acknowledging that. These characters have matured, they’ve gone through life. And Jessica Jones, bourbon-swilling smartass – what’s it like for her to mature seven years?“
Scardapane also revealed that he was a fan of the first season of Jessica Jones and immediately pitched her return to Marvel when he boarded Daredevil: Born Again. And it turns out he has some ideas in mind for her further adventures, based– believe it or not–on Marvel Comics.
“…what Melissa Rosenberg did with Season 1 of Jessica Jones is some of the finest superhero television work ever. When I first came talked to Marvel I was like, ‘We’ve got to bring Jessica Jones back!‘,” Scardapane said. “I don’t feel that her story ended. If you read the comic books, you’ll know that there’s a next chapter of her life that I thought was super interesting.”
As jarring as it is to hear a Marvel Studios creative reference being inspired by the comics, Jones’ interactions with the larger Marvel Universe seem unlikely to end up translating to the MCU, leaving her brief stint as Knightress, her time at the Daily Bugle and the family she and Luke Cage have as the only other options to mine for narrative ore.
‘DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN’ showrunner Dario Scardapane on the return of Jessica Jones:
“what Melissa Rosenberg did with Season 1 of Jessica Jones is some of the finest superhero television work ever. When I first came talked to Marvel I was like, 'We've got to bring Jessica Jones… pic.twitter.com/bIJmA95G0y
Though it’s not an exact replica, the suit looks to have taken some inspiration from the one worn by the character during the “Big Time” arc of Dan Slott‘s Amazing Spider-Man. Following his time as one of Norman Osborn’s Dark Avengers, Gargan was serving a prison sentence on the Raft. He was broken out by Allistaire Smythe and given an all-new, all-different Scorpion suit and turned loose with other newly-created Spider Slayers to take down J. Jonah Jameson. And of course, Spidey intervened…
Notably, Gargan’s Brand New Day mech suit is represented here without a helmet but rumors and reports that came before the leaked image indicated that one will indeed be present when the character is fully suited up in the film.
Marvel’s 2026 slate kicks off on January 27th with the eight-episode streaming series Wonder Man. Revealed to be in development in the summer of 2022, Wonder Man was shrouded so heavily in mystery that some fans questioned its existence. Developed for Disney Plus by Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Spider-Man: Brand New Day director Destin Daniel Cretton and Hawkeye and Brooklyn Nine-Nine writer Andrew Guest, the series will see Yaha Abdul-Mateen II step into the role of Simon Williams, a longtime Avenger in the pages of Marvel Comics whose jump to the MCU took a little longer than expected after Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon divulged he could never “figure out what he was for.”
You know it’s a two-hander between two amazing characters. There’s this odd couple of Simon Williams and Trevor Slattery and you get a little bit of glimpse of that in the trailer. I don’t wanna go too much into story details, it’s very fun to see people speculating about what the plot will be.
With Whedon long-since out of the loop, the Marvel Parliament determined that the best way to use Simon Williams was to satirize Hollywood. Marvel Television top dog Brad Winderbaum has said that the Marvel Spotlight series “is a love letter to Hollywood in a lot of ways,” including providing the audience with “a peek behind the curtain of the entertainment industry.”
As the viral and meta marketing for the project has revealed, the series will follow Williams as he attempts to land the role of a lifetime as the lead in a remake of the classic, in-universe superhero film Wonder Man. However, with super-powered folks not allowed to work in the industry, Simon will be forced to try to hide his powers from not only those in Hollywood but also the Department of Damage Control, the organization first seen on screen in Spider-Man: Homecoming and the de facto villains of the series
That is part of the fun of it. If you’re a fan of West Coast Avengers and know a little bit about Simon Williams you’re going to be… I mean, I hope if you’re anything like me, you’re going to be very excited to see how much homage to the source material there is.
Unlike Ironheart, which followed up on Riri Williams after her MCU debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Wonder Man marks the first MCU appearance of the character but that doesn’t mean there’s not a little homework to do before checking out the Marvel Spotlight series. And so we bring you the Ultimate List of What to Watch Before Wonder Man!
Iron Man 3 (2013)
🍅 79%
Though Simon Williams is making his MCU debut in Wonder Man, the other half of the show’s odd couple, Trevor Slattery, has had plenty of screentime over the last decade and change.
When we look back at the Infinity Saga, few moments caused quite the seismic divide in the fandom as the “Mandarin Twist” in Shane Black’s Iron Man 3. At the center of that controversy? A washed-up, drug-addled British actor named Trevor Slattery. To understand Slattery’s role, you have to separate the marketing from the movie, because that was the genius—and for some, the betrayal—of the character.
It kind of has this trilogy feeling. After ‘Wonder Man’ Season 1 you can map out…
-Brad Winderbaum
For the first half of the film, Slattery (played to perfection by Sir Ben Kingsley) was presented as The Mandarin. He was the ultimate boogeyman, a classic warlord broadcasting lessons of terror to the United States. Then came the scene in the Miami stronghold. Tony infiltrates the headquarters, expecting a final showdown with a mastermind. Instead, he finds Slattery fresh out of the bathroom, popping open a beer, and rambling about his drug supply in a thick Liverpudlian accent.
Slattery wasn’t a warlord. He was a struggling stage actor with a substance abuse problem and a history of failed pilots. Aldrich Killian, the film’s real villain, hired Slattery to be the face of his Extremis experiments. Killian needed a terrorist narrative to cover up the volatile explosions caused by his unstable super-soldiers.
Despite the hate, Slattery’s role was crucial for Tony Stark’s character arc. It forced Tony to stop chasing ghosts and face the reality that his demons were of his own making, not some foreign mystic.
All Hail the King (2014)
If Iron Man 3 was the movie that divided the fanbase, All Hail the King was the olive branch Kevin Feige and crew extended to bring us all back together. Released with Thor: The Dark World‘s home media, this 14-minute short film is arguably one of the most important pieces of canon in the Infinity Saga, fundamentally retconning the MCU to make room for the real Mandarin.
We pick up with Trevor Slattery living his absolute best life inside Seagate Prison. He’s not being treated like a terrorist; he’s being treated like a celebrity. He has his own “butler,” a fan club, and he’s still completely oblivious to the gravity of the crimes in which he was complicit.
The narrative frame is a documentary being filmed by a journalist named Jackson Norriss, played by Scoot McNairy. Norriss is digging into Trevor’s past, looking at his failed pilots and his childhood. Trevor thinks this is just another puff piece to stroke his ego. He’s rambling about his acting method, completely unaware that the vibe in the room is shifting. Norriss isn’t there to celebrate Trevor; he’s there to bury him. In the final act, Norriss drops the act. He pulls a gun, kills the guards, and reveals his true allegiance. He isn’t a journalist. He is a member of the Ten Rings.
The Ten Rings are furious that a drug-addled British actor made a mockery of their leader’s name. Norriss isn’t there to kill Trevor in prison. He’s breaking him out to take him to the boss. As Norriss puts it, the boss “wants his name back.”
By revealing that Killian merely co-opted the iconography of a real ancient warlord, they satisfied the comic purists without invalidating the events of Iron Man 3. It was a brilliant bit of retroactive continuity that kept Trevor Slattery on the board as a comedic pawn while setting the stage for Wenwu’s eventual debut in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
🍅 92%
While everyone was busy watching Tom Holland stick the landing as the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man in Homecoming, what appears to have been a massive piece of world-building was also taking place with the introduction of the Department of Damage Control (DODC).
A construction company that cleans up after superhero battles, in the comics, Homecoming rebranded them as a federal executive department that’s part of a joint venture between the U.S. Government and Stark Industries. After the Battle of New York in 2012, the city originally hired Michael Keaton‘s Adrian Toomes for the cleanup. But then, in swooped Anne Marie Hoag and the DODC, flashing federal badges and ultimately forcing Toomes and his crew into the choice to become weapons dealers.
It’s a brilliant narrative flip for the MCU where organizations like S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Avengers are meant to be the “good guys.” Here, the DODC represents the cold, corporate side of heroism. They locked down the alien tech not just to keep people safe, but to hoard it.
The DODC’s debut in Homecoming set a dark precedent. They started as a cleanup crew, but as seen No Way Home and Ms. Marvel, they’ve evolved into a much more aggressive, enforcement-heavy agency.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2022)
🍅 92%
After being dragged out of Seagate Prison by the Ten Rings, presumably to face a gruesome execution at the hands of the real Mandarin, Slattery disappeared from the MCU for nearly a decade. Rather than killing him, Wenwu kept Trevor as a sort of “court jester” to perform Shakespeare recitals whenever the warlord needed entertainment. In a hilarious twist, the terrifying terrorist from Iron Man 3 saved his own skin solely by doing acting improvisations of Macbeth and Planet of the Apes.
He manages to escape from the real Mandarin and from Shang-Chi land, and he flies back into Hollywood to give his career a second chance and to prove to his dear mother Dorothy, who always had faith in him and his talents, that he was truly the actor his mom always hoped he would be and that he always aspired to be.
-Ben Kingsley on Trevor Slattery’s role in Wonder Man
Slattery’s inclusion here isn’t just comic relief; it’s narrative utility. He is the only person who can communicate with Morris, the mythological Dijiang, who knows the safe path through the dangerous bamboo forest to reach Ta Lo. During the final battle against the Soul Eaters, Trevor pulls off his greatest performance yet: playing dead. He survives the chaos by pretending to be a corpse, a meta-commentary on his cowardly nature that somehow ends up saving him.
Trevor sees in Simon a friend, a colleague, but he also sees Simon as someone he can absolutely exploit for his own ends,” Kingsley teases. “It’s quite a classic, basic human condition story. You are associated with somebody and you have an affinity with that person, but at the same time, you know that you’re going to have to exploit that person to get to where you need to be.
-Ben Kingsley
Director Destin Daniel Cretton pulled off a magic trick. He took a character that half the fanbase hated because of the “Mandarin Twist” and made him undeniably lovable. By pairing him with Morris and stripping away the drug-addled malice of Iron Man 3, Slattery became a sympathetic, wholesome uncle figure, setting him up for his role in Wonder Man, which Cretton co-created.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
🍅 93%
Though Spider-Man: Homecoming introduced the DODC as a bureaucratic nuisance, Spider-Man: No Way Home took the gloves off. In No Way Home, the DODC stopped being the janitors and started being the cops. The moment Mysterio outed Peter Parker’s identity, the DODC was on the scene—and not to help. The DODC, led by Arian Moayed’s Agent Cleary, took lead on the investigation, seized Stark Industries’ assets, putting Happy Hogan in legal limbo, and dragged Peter, MJ, Ned, and May into interrogation rooms.
Beginning with No Way Home, the DODC has absorbed massive legal authority regarding “enhanced individuals.” They aren’t just managing the tech anymore; they are managing the people connected to it. The DODC is no longer the “Stark Joint Venture” trying to do good. With Tony gone, the checks and balances seem to have evaporated. They are now a government entity with access to the most dangerous tech on Earth and a mandate to police superheroes without oversight. If you are looking for the bad guys in the post-Endgame world, look no further than the windbreaker-wearing DODC.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)
🍅 80%
While She-Hulk was lighter in tone, the implications for the DODC were arguably the most dystopian yet. They aren’t just investigating “enhanced” individuals anymore; they are now the primary jailers of the MCU.
She-Hulk gave us our best look yet at the DODC Supermax Prison. This facility, located in the middle of nowhere, is where they were holding Emil Blonsky. This is a massive shift in power dynamics. A long way from cleaning up rubble, the DODC now manages long-term incarceration for high-threat assets.
Taking it a step further, She-Hulk showed the weaponization of bureaucracy via the inhibitor chip. When Jennifer Walters “hulked out” at the Gala, thanks to Intelligencia’s provocation, the DODC was on the scene instantly to detain her. But they didn’t just lock her up; they forced a plea deal that required her to wear an inhibitor device preventing her transformation.
This is a game-changer for the MCU: the DODC now possesses the legal and technical ability to strip a superhero of their identity. They aren’t just arresting villains; they are regulating heroes. They turned She-Hulk into a monitored civilian with the stroke of a pen.
Ms. Marvel (2022)
🍅 98%
No Way Home and She-Hulk acted as a bridge for the DODC’s portrayal in Ms. Marvel. The aggressive tactics we saw Cleary use against a teenager (Peter) were dialed up to eleven when they went after Kamala Khan. In Ms. Marvel, the DODC officially crossed the line from antagonists to straight-up villains and the Jersey City incident wasn’t just an investigation; it was a witch hunt.
The DODC’s good cop/bad cop bit in Ms. Marvel gave a closer look at the agency’s internal friction. While Agent P. Cleary, represented the bureaucratic, “by the book” side of the agency, Agent Sadie Deever represented the radicalized arm of the DODC—agents who view enhanced individuals not as assets to be managed, but as threats to be neutralized. This dynamic is crucial because it shows the DODC isn’t a monolith; it’s a volatile organization struggling to control its own power.
The most disturbing aspect of the DODC’s role in this series was the targeted harassment of the Muslim community. The DODC is now effectively the MCU’s version of the Sentinel program’s early days—a government body driven by fear and prejudice against the “other” and it’s clear that will be further explored not only in Wonder Man but also in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
About Marvel Television’s Wonder Man:
The eight-episode series is created by Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Spider-Man: Brand New Day) and Andrew Guest (Community, Hawkeye) and stars Emmy Award winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley, who reprises his role as Trevor Slattery following appearances in Iron Man 3, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and All Hail the King.
Aspiring Hollywood actor Simon Williams is struggling to get his career off the ground. During a chance meeting with Trevor Slattery, an actor whose biggest roles may be well behind him, Simon learns legendary director Von Kovak is remaking the superhero film “Wonder Man.” These two actors at opposite ends of their careers doggedly pursue life-changing roles in this film as audiences get a peek behind the curtain of the entertainment industry.
-Official synopsis for Wonder Man
All eight episodes will stream exclusively on Disney+ at 6pm PT January 27.
According to Jeff “The In” Sneider, Marvel has put a stake through the heart of Blade, opting to include the Daywalker into its rumored Midnight Sons team-up film.
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Google Analytics is a powerful tool that tracks and analyzes website traffic for informed marketing decisions.
Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together.
90 days
__utma
ID used to identify users and sessions
2 years after last activity
__utmt
Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests
10 minutes
__utmb
Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server.
30 minutes after last activity
__utmc
Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session.
End of session (browser)
__utmz
Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server
6 months after last activity
__utmv
Contains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server.
2 years after last activity
__utmx
Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test.
18 months
_ga
ID used to identify users
2 years
_gali
Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked
30 seconds
_ga_
ID used to identify users
2 years
_gid
ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity
24 hours
_gat
Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager
1 minute
Marketing cookies are used to follow visitors to websites. The intention is to show ads that are relevant and engaging to the individual user.
Pinterest Tag is a web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic.
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