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I am Groot premieres on August with five shorts
What If? Season 2 drops in early 2023.
X-Men ‘97 will have some major additions to the main team including Magneto as the leader. It’s set for 2023.
Spider-Man: Freshman Year is presumably set in the MCU but looks very different and has teen heroes that will attend Peter’s high school but no MJ and Ned. Charlie Cox will be playing Daredevil.
Marvel Zombies and Spidey come out in 2024.
To add on to this, here is some info from the first day of Marvel's SDCC panel about the animated series.
I AM GROOT:
That looks hilarious. Wonder how long each episode is going to be. They are called shorts, so is that like 10 minutes, or more like 2-3 minutes?
- Also confirmed there will be a 5 additional "I Am Groot" episodes in the future.
SPIDER-MAN: FRESHMAN YEAR:
- Spider-Man: Freshman Year will be a sort of elseworld/"What If...?" kind of deal where it's WHAT IF... Peter Parker had met Norman Osborn instead of Tony Stark.
- Characters include Nico Minoru from The Runaways, Amadeus Cho, Harry Osborn, Daredevil (Charlie Cox) in his comic-accurate black suit, as well as Dr. Strange (unknown if Benedict Cumberbatch will voice).
- Spidey will also NOT be voiced by Tom Holland.
- Spidey will be wearing a wide variety of suits (including a DIY suit before the traditional Ditko unitard look, a Beetle suit and an Osborn created one).
- Villains include: Unicorn, Chameleon, Scorpion, Speed Demon, Tarantula, Rhino, and Doc Ock. (I'm not versed on Spidey's villains beyond the more popular ones, so you guys can point out who is who and who may be missing from the above list from this preview below):
- There is also a second season subtitled Sophomore Year currently in development.
WHAT IF...? (Season 2):
- Captain Carter in DS:MoM is a different variant from "What If...?" version.
- Hall H attendees were able to see an episode entitled "What If...Captain Carter Fought The HYDRA Stomper?". Seemingly confirming theories that the version of Steve Rogers in the suit at the end of Season 1 was a "Winter Soldier" version.
- Footage also showed images of a battle between warriors from the Shang-Chi corner of the universe and Odin & the Asgardians; * a Mad Max Fury Road style road race with a Skrull biker gang and Widows from the movie "Black Widow" (see below)*, and I think Valkyrie and Iron Man/Tony Stark on Sakaar (this is probably the missing episode from Season 1 where Gamora was pulled from at the end of Season 1 where everyone was like "WTF, where was that episode" that showed Tony in a Hulk-buster suit that had graffiti on it like Sakaar; Peggy Carter and Steve Rogers reuniting after Avengers: Endgame;
* The bolded section and image above may have been from the Marvel Zombies footage, I'm not sure, the info I found was a little confusing.
- There was also a look at what seems like a really cool episode from the "Marvel 1602" run in the comics by Neil Gaiman (showing Earth-311...in which Dr. Strange is a physician to the Queen) described below (this is a description of the comics run, not necessarily the "What If...?" episode):
The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes exist in the Elizabethan era; faced with the destruction of their world by a mysterious force, the heroes must fight to save their universe. Many of the early Marvel superheroes — Nick Fury, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man — as well as villains such as Doctor Doom and Magneto appear in various roles.
- Season 3 of "What If...?" also confirmed for the future.
X-Men '97:
- Series will pick up where previous animated series left off and will include all of the same heroes you remember from that series:
Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, Jubilee, Cyclops, Storm, Jean Grey, and Beast. They will all be voiced by the original surviving voice actors except Jubilee, whose voice actress will be voicing another character as she wanted Jubilee to be voiced by an Asian actress.
Here they are below, where the only real difference seems to be Storm's hair in more of a pixie cut/faux hawk kinda deal.
- As noted, at the end of the previous series, Charles Xavier goes into space, so the new series will have a bad-ass looking Magneto leading the team:
- Other characters also to appear include: Nightcrawler, Forge, Bishop, Cable, Morph, and Sunspot (seen below):
- Villains to include: Mister Sinister, Callisto, Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost/White Queen and Val Cooper (see below):
MARVEL ZOMBIES:
- Will follow a ragtag group of heroes including: Yelena Belova, Kate Bishop, Jimmy Woo (wtf?, also in a survival suit), Shang-Chi, Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, Death Dealer from Shang-Chi, Red Guardian from Black Widow, and Katy from Shang-Chi (see below):
- They will be fighting a group of zombified characters including: Okoye, Hawkeye (full of arrows), Abomination (with an interesting half purple/one sided zombification look), legless Captain America/Steve Rogers, Captain Marvel, Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch, and Ghost. There also appears to be a large figure looming in the background, not sure if that's maybe Giant Man, or Hulk, or Thanos, or someone else (it looks like he has pointy Skrull ears, so maybe a Skrull-Hulk, or something weird). They're also surrounded by what appears to be Wakandan soldiers with spears, so it will likely either take place in or pickup from where the Episode in "What If...?" that ended in Wakanda (see below):
- There's also a shot of a pseudo-zombified Ikaris of the Eternals, but since he is an Eternal, he can't really become a full Zombie, so he's always in a state of living and dying (see below):
- Also of note that Marvel Zombies will be rated TV-MA, and feature a TON of gore and grossness, especially for a Disney+ show, so that's exciting!
Anyway....those were my notes for the Marvel Animation Panel at SDCC. Let me know what you guys think!