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Check out Marvel’s Wonder Man official trailer below!
Wonder Man’s MCU Superpowers Look Very Different
The Wonder Man official trailer takes a major detour into new territory. It’s revealed that, despite downplaying his true nature to get an acting gig (and who hasn’t?), Simon Williams is indeed a superpowered man and is very much on the radar of the Department of Damage Control (DODC), the MCU’s government organization that handles superhuman affairs (see: Spider-Man: Homecoming).
If you look closely, the trailer has a tea kettle format: the pressure of getting the role of Wonder Man in the reboot film drags a lot of Simon’s backstory and trauma to the surface. As that happens, the powers he’s either hiding, suppressing, or doesn’t fully know are inside of him also come exploding out – and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be good for anyone when they do.
There are several key scenes in the new trailer that hint that not only is Wonder Man superpowered, but he may actually be powerful enough to be a pivotal new character in the MCU. As DODC agent P. Cleary (Arian Moayed) states, “The Department of Damage Control considers Simon Williams an extraordinary threat.”
What kind of threat has yet to be explained, which may be wise: as you can read below, Wonder Man’s abilities are about as far-out and fantastical as you can get with a comic book character.
What Are Wonder Man’s Powers?
In Marvel Comics lore, Simon Williams was experimented on by Baron Zemo, who infused him with “ionic energy.” The result was Simon gaining superhuman powers, including enhanced strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes on the level of Thor or The Sentry. He was also granted near-god-like powers of invulnerability and immortality, having returned from the dead at least once.
