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With Daredevil, and spinoffs from Black Panther, What If, and more, Marvel's 2025 Disney+ slate is bigger than ever, and that might be a big deal for the future

2025 could be a year that changes how Marvel moves forward on the small screen - and maybe the big screen, as well

Features by Graeme McMillan, Editor

Published on Mon Dec 02 2024

For all that we’ve been guilty of thinking of 2025 as a big year for Marvel Studios when it comes to theatrical releases — and it is, with Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts*, and The Fantastic Four: First Steps all debuting and setting the shape of the future of the MCU in the process — there’s something that we’ve been overlooking when it comes to smaller screens like tablets, laptops, or whatever TV you’ve got your streaming services hooked up to. Namely, 2025 is going to offer the most concentrated amount of Marvel Disney+ has seen to date… and audiences’ reactions to that might shape whether or not it’ll ever happen again.

As confirmed in a recent promo that accompanied the release of the final episode of Agatha All Along, Disney+ will get no less than six all-new Marvel series next year:

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (January 29)
Daredevil: Born Again (March 4)
Ironheart (June 24)
Eyes of Wakanda (August 6)
Marvel Zombies (October 3)
Wonder Man (December TBD)

That is by far the most Marvel content on Disney+ in any given calendar year to date, up even from the five shows that debuted in 2021 — a number that included projects delayed from a planned 2020 debut because of the COVID pandemic. Since then, Marvel has offered three shows per year in 2022 and 2023, and four in 2024. (Those four are Echo, X-Men ’97, Agatha All Along, and the upcoming third and final season of What If…?, in case you’re wondering.)

The increase in Marvel content on the service is perhaps even more surprising when you consider that Disney reportedly reduced Marvel’s projected output earlier this year. Admittedly, most of the shows on the 2025 schedule have been in the works for some years by this point, so this might be considered a clearing of the decks before a bold new era — Ironheart was announced way back in 2020, while both Wonder Man and Marvel Zombies date back to 2021 and 2022, respectively — but even so: six shows in one year is a bonanza few Marvel fans would have been imagining even a handful of months ago.

The incoming deluge arrives at a strange time for Marvel Studios as a whole; Marvel’s live-action offerings have been suffering from low-impact and negative reviews with few (admittedly notable) exceptions for a couple of years, but the upcoming Daredevil: Born Again has a buzz surrounding it that has been building for months and could rival the Deadpool & Wolverine fever that surrounded that project when it finally arrived; could it be a further sign of a renaissance for the studio? Executives are likely hoping so.

If nothing else, fans should be excited to see so much animation in the 2025 slate: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Eyes of Wakanda, and Marvel Zombies are all animated projects, building on the success of What If…? and, especially, X-Men ’97. Both have been among the highpoints of Marvel’s Disney+ output in recent years in terms of both quality and reception, potentially paving the way for an animated theatrical project from the Marvel Animation division… potentially following in the footsteps of the amazingly successful Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Stranger things have happened, after all, and it wouldn’t be the biggest surprise to see Marvel look to diversify its output in theaters at some point after the Multiverse Saga wraps in 2027.

Of course, all of this assumes that all six shows will be hits for Disney and Marvel. That’s the unknown aspect of the 2025 slate: will six shows overwhelm fans, or demonstrate a hunger that requires similar attention going forward? Will the viewership be there and push Marvel to maintain an increased small screen output in the future, allowing for an increasingly diverse output at a time when it’s unclear if Disney will support such things? Or will six shows in a year prove to be a little too much and revive talk of superhero fatigue…?

There’s only one way to find out for sure. Let’s check in a year from now and see what Marvel’s Disney+ landscape looks like at the end of 2025.

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Graeme McMillan: Popverse Editor Graeme McMillan (he/him) has been writing about comics, culture, and comics culture on the internet for close to two decades at this point, which is terrifying to admit. He completely understands if you have problems understanding his accent.