Disney Plus and Hulu tease their second-half 2025 slate with Marvel’s Wonder Man, King of the Hill, and Zombies 4.
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If you watched the 2025 Disney Plus and Hulu teaser reel and came away thinking “Wow, they’re really betting on nostalgia and undead teenagers,” you’re not wrong. With Marvel’s Wonder Man getting a fall release, King of the Hill making an animated comeback, and Zombies 4 lurching onto the schedule, the message is clear: the House of Mouse has no plans to slow down, no matter how weird the lineup looks on paper.
Let’s start with Wonder Man, because Marvel’s strategy lately has been throwing every D-list character at a wall and seeing which ones get Funko Pops. This one’s been delayed, reshuffled, and rumored to death—but now it’s finally locked in for a debut later this year. The show stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams, a Hollywood stuntman-turned-superhero, and from the looks of the new footage, it’s angling for satirical absurdity with a side of MCU fatigue. Think BoJack Horseman by way of She-Hulk, only with slightly more punching. Possibly.
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Then there’s King of the Hill, returning after a 15-year break with the same middle-aged aimlessness that made it quietly brilliant the first time. Mike Judge and the original voice cast are back, meaning Hank Hill will once again try to navigate a world that’s clearly outpaced him—only now that world has TikTok and electric grills. It’s unclear whether the revival will lean into topical absurdity or just let Hank mutter about propane, but honestly, either one works.
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And just when you thought Disney was done with high school musical necromancy, Zombies 4 shuffles into view. If you haven’t been keeping track, the Zombies franchise is what happens when someone at Disney Channel watched Twilight and thought, “Yes, but with pom-poms.” This latest installment features aliens, wolf teens, and apparently a trip through time, because the only thing more durable than undead love is the writers’ complete disregard for plot boundaries.
In total, this teaser drop wasn’t so much a flex as it was a reminder that Disney has fingers in every demographic pie: comic nerds, animation lifers, musical theatre tweens, and the parents who pay for all of it. If anything, the slate is a reflection of where Disney sees its safest bets. And in 2025, that means digging up old favorites, giving secondary Marvel heroes a turn at bat, and trusting that zombie romances still have gas in the tank.
For those of us who’ve been around long enough to remember when Wonder Man was a running joke in Avengers comics, it’s hard not to feel a little curious about where all this is headed. If Disney’s playing the long game, then 2025 isn’t about reinventing the wheel—it’s about repackaging it with just enough glitter to keep the subscription auto-renewing.
