If you're a Marvel fan who's been craving something different something that feels fresh, funny, and genuinely human stop everything and head to Disney+ right now. Wonder Man, the new miniseries that dropped today (January 27, 2026), is exactly the breath of fresh air the MCU needed. This isn't your typical CGI spectacle packed with multiverse chaos and endless crossovers. Instead, it's a warm, witty, character-driven tragicomedy set in Hollywood, and it is one of the strongest Marvel Disney+ outings yet. Wonder Man follows Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a struggling actor and son of Haitian immigrants grinding through auditions in a cutthroat Los Angeles. When he unexpectedly gains superpowers, he gets thrust into the superhero world but not in the way you'd expect. In this Hollywood, super powered people are banned from acting after a mysterious incident, so Simon hides his abilities while chasing his dream role: starring in a remake of the classic Wonder...
When your mother is the Scarlet Witch, there is a strong chance that your comic history will be eventful and reasonably messy. Billy and Tommy, AKA the Young Avengers Wiccan and Speed, are certainly frontrunners for having one of the most tumultuous origin stories in all of Marveldom. The love children of the reality-altering Wanda Maximoff and the synthezoid Vision are now Super Heroes in their own right, and their road to get there has been fraught with demons. In some cases, literally.
Wanda Maximoff desired nothing more than an everyday life with her husband, fellow Avenger Vision, so she had a surprisingly normal childbirth. And by normal we do mean “mystical.” But to Wanda and Vizh at the time, finding out that she was carrying twins was actually the least eventful thing to happen that day. While Wanda worked through her breathing exercises in the final issue of the couple’s solo series to bring Billy and Tommy into the world, her brother-in-law Wonder Man and father Magneto teamed up to keep the Grim Reaper, Nekra, and a zombified Simon Williams from interrupting.
And of course Doctor Strange was on hand to deliver.
REABSORPTION BY MEPHISTO
As Wanda painfully realizes, magic has its consequences. And Billy and Tommy paid the ultimate price for being the manifestations of their mother’s desires. Even before Master Pandemonium showed up to do Mephisto’s dirty work, family friend and fellow witch Agatha Harkness had her doubts about the children’s existence and Wanda’s ability to spin life out of thin air.
Immediately after their reabsorption by Mephisto via Pandemonium, Scarlet Witch taught the world that she means business when it comes to her children. It was also the moment that set off an anomaly many years later, and became the source of Agatha’s regret over using a spell to “erase” Wanda’s children from memory.
In a bit of plot twist, Billy and Tommy’s souls were not destroyed once Mephisto reabsorbed them! Instead, they overpowered him thanks to their mother’s influence and love. Their freed souls come into existence years later to different parents, but make no mistake: Billy and Tommy are still their mother’s children. Iron Lad’s efforts to prevent himself from becoming Kang the Conqueror didn’t just lead to the creation of the Young Avengers—it also led to reuniting the once lost twin brothers. Read the complete run where Speed the speedster and Wiccan the witch become incredible teen heroes!
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