Disney+ Finally Confirms Where Wonder Man Fits in the MCU Timeline

Wonder Man just dropped on Disney+, and Marvel quietly parked it at the very end of the official MCU timeline. Does that actually track? Kind of. The show hops around a lot, so the placement depends on which chunk of the story you think should define it.

Where Disney+ slotted it

On January 28, 2026, Disney+ updated the MCU timeline on the service and stuck Wonder Man at the tail end. On that timeline, the endpoint currently sits in 2028, so the implication is this series features some of the most recent events in the MCU.

Some fans are not buying that. One viewer argued the in-episode references peg most of the action around 2025 to 2026 and called the end-of-timeline placement lazy. Another pointed out the show has time jumps, and if you factor in the movie-within-the-show production, the premiere, and what Simon gets up to after, the ending lining up with 2028 actually makes sense.

'Trevor mentioned 13 years since 2013 so it's 2026.'

- @DiabolicalPock, Jan 28, 2026

The show itself jumps around

This is where it gets nerdy. Wonder Man zigzags through time. Parts of episode 4 play not long after Disney's Frozen hit theaters in 2013. Other scenes drop us squarely in the mid-2020s. And if you follow the in-world timeline of Von Kovak's Wonder Man movie - from casting to filming to premiere - and then tack on Simon's prep to break into the DODC (that's the Department of Damage Control, the federal outfit we've seen across Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel), you can land in late 2020s territory for the finale.

So when does Wonder Man actually happen?

• Early-mid 2010s: Flashbacks and sequences tied to the aftermath of 2013, including bits shortly after Frozen released.
• 2025-2026: Multiple references line up here. There's a line noting 13 years since 2013, which puts at least one key stretch in 2026.
• By the finale: If you account for the full in-universe production cycle of the Kovak film, its premiere, and Simon's DODC plan, the closing events plausibly reach 2028 - which is why Disney+ may have thrown it at the very end.

The actual show you're watching

Created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest under the Marvel Television banner, Wonder Man stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams, an actor who cannot get his career to click. A chance run-in with Trevor Slattery - yes, Ben Kingsley is back - leads Simon to legendary filmmaker Von Kovak, who is mounting a remake of the in-universe superhero flick Wonder Man. Simon and Trevor chase roles that could change their lives while the series peels back the curtain on the business and the egos that run it.

The cast also includes Arian Moayed as P. Cleary, X Mayo as Janelle Jackson, Zlatko Buric as Von Kovak, and Byron Bowers as Doorman, among others.

Bottom line: most of Wonder Man feels mid-2020s, but thanks to the show's time jumps and that film-within-the-show runway, the ending likely nudges into 2028. Disney+ chose to file it under latest-chronology, which is tidy, if not perfectly intuitive while you're watching.