{"id":192191,"date":"2025-10-11T06:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192191\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:12:06","slug":"marvel-goes-meta-in-the-first-wonder-man-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192191\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Goes Meta in the First Wonder Man Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is Wonder Man<\/a>? If you\u2019re not a fan of Marvel Comics, you may have been asking that question ever since you heard about the upcoming MCU<\/a> miniseries. Well, now that Marvel\u2019s released the first teaser for the show, that question has several new layers of meaning.<\/p>\n

The teaser sets up the world of Wonder Man, in which the titular hero is the star of a cult sci-fi series from the \u201960s or \u201970s, something in the vein of Star Trek: The Original Series<\/a>. When a reclusive European filmmaker called Von Kovacs (Zlatko Buri\u0107, recently seen playing a political allegory in Superman<\/a>) decides to revive the character for a new movie, out-of-work actor Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) sees a chance at stardom.<\/p>\n

Just based on this teaser, Wonder Man is swerving pretty hard from the character\u2019s comic book origins. Created by Stan Lee<\/a>, Don Heck, and Jack Kirby<\/a>, Wonder Man first appeared as a musclebound member of Masters of Evil in 1964\u2019s Avengers<\/a> #9. Wonder Man dies in the battle, but not before he realizes that he\u2019s been duped by Baron Zemo to fight against the Avengers and helps Earth\u2019s Mightiest Heroes. He stays dead for a long time, even if Ultron later uses his brain patterns to help create Vision.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Wonder Man comes back as an ionic being and properly joins the Avengers, where he becomes best friends with the X-Man<\/a> Beast, and later the West Coast Avengers. Along the way, Wonder Man has a stint as a Hollywood stunt man, a strange storyline that clearly inspired the Wonder Man TV series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is Wonder Man? If you\u2019re not a fan of Marvel Comics, you may have been asking that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-192191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}