Marvel Animation Boss Addresses Future Release Schedule For X-MEN '97 & YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN

Marvel Animation Boss Addresses Future Release Schedule For X-MEN '97 & YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN

Brad Winderbaum, the Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation at Marvel, has confirmed that moving forward, fans can expect yearly releases for X-Men '97 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.

By JoshWilding - Sep 25, 2025 11:09 AM EST
Filed Under: X-Men '97

Marvel Animation has dropped a lot of different series on Disney+ since 2021, though their release schedule has been a little sporadic.

What If...? released three seasons between 2021 and 2024, but it took four years for us to get Marvel Zombies (despite that show's first season teeing up the spin-off, which was announced in 2022). It's also looking like there will be a 2+ year gap between seasons for X-Men '97 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

That level of inconsistency won't help viewership numbers. Still, it sounds like Marvel Animation will focus on making sure we get consistent yearly series moving forward, similar to what's happening with Daredevil: Born Again

In the video below, Brad Winderbaum, the Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation at Marvel Studios, says, "What's exciting about the next few years is that we're going to get subsequent seasons of X-Men '97 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on an annual cadence. So every year there'll be a new season and we can map out a longer arc to those stories."

As of now, we anticipate getting second and third seasons of those shows.

Marvel Animation hasn't announced any other new titles, though the mixed response to What If...? season 3 and Marvel Zombies compared to X-Men '97 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (both of which were critically acclaimed) suggests it might be wise to shift focus to "Elseworlds" stories rather than those connected to the MCU. 

In a separate interview with Variety, Marvel Zombies director Bryan Andrews said this about not including the X-Men and Fantastic Four in the latest Marvel Animation series:

"I would have loved to have them in, but at the time, 'Fantastic Four' was so far off. They’re also in a different multiverse. Same with the X-Men. How would they get here? So there are all those questions and rigmarole. But, I mean, never say never. That’s why I’m hoping, if there’s a second season around, there are already a few ideas of, like, can we get extra crazy? So who knows, but it would be amazing, and it gives us just more opportunities for more zombies and crazy heroes to go down swinging." 

You can hear more from Winderbaum in the player below. 

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clogan
clogan - 9/25/2025, 11:33 AM
Y'all just gonna keep losing subscribers.
Thing94
Thing94 - 9/25/2025, 11:37 AM
I enjoyed both X Men 97 and Friendly Neighborhood Woke Spider-Man
MuadDib
MuadDib - 9/25/2025, 11:45 AM
I have apprehensions about the next season of X-Men 97, for all the behind the scenes nonsense and drama revolving around season 1, it was a damn good season. Rumor is they are moving away from the costumes which are so iconic and the change in writers is concerning
FrankenDad
FrankenDad - 9/25/2025, 11:46 AM
Our kids LOVED Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman. Excited to watch another season with them(hopefully next year).
Ryan
Ryan - 9/25/2025, 12:28 PM
@FrankenDad - Same. I loved the voice acting and really like how the action scenes portrayed. Especially the Scorpion fight scenes.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/25/2025, 11:53 AM
Cool , both X-Men 97 & YFNSM are solid imo so I’m looking forward to seeing more of them apparently next year & hopefully beyond!!.

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In regards to Marvel Zombies , I haven’t seen it yet but I do think it looks decent so if I do end up enjoying it then I wouldn’t mind atleast a S2 even if I’m not really a fan of the genre.
thedrudo
thedrudo - 9/25/2025, 11:54 AM
I feel like 97 will have a quality drop in the new season but I’m excited to see it.

Also really dug Friendly.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 9/25/2025, 11:56 AM
Finally get a Marvel Zombies and they immediately shove RiRi down my throat.
Vigor
Vigor - 9/25/2025, 12:28 PM
@Matchesz - thats my fear too
mountainman
mountainman - 9/25/2025, 12:33 PM
@Matchesz - Marvel Zombies comic, at least the first few runs, started A list Marvel characters. Disappointing that the new show is focusing on the multiverse saga D listers.

I’ll still give it a watch as I hear the action scenes are done well and Blade Knight is great. But really not excited about any project where RiRi is a main character and Katy is involved in any capacity. Kamala and Kate are better, but not exciting enough to be leads.
TheIronDuck
TheIronDuck - 9/25/2025, 12:03 PM
Eyes of Wakanda was really good too if you're the type of person that can ignore the massive contradiction between time travel rules established in endgame and the ones they use to explain The secret history of the vibranium tool killmonger stole from the museum. In all likelihood eyes of Wakanda had its story locked in place before the MCU moved away from using Kang and they're likely would have been an explanation on how the rules of time travel changed. Unfortunately 6 tedious years of waiting to get to this point in the saga has soured the general audience on the secondary projects that could clarify,enrich and define the narrative of the saga if people with no investment in seeing secret wars hadn't convinced them to scale back to the point where these movies have no build and only die hard fans know what an incursion is. So much time is going to be wasted in Doomsday providing information that was either already stated in the saga so far and people didn't listen or was supposed to be in other projects The internet trolls convinced them to cancel and now have to be shoe horned into an already too dense movie runtime.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/25/2025, 12:12 PM
@TheIronDuck - still need to check out Eyes of Wakanda too since I like them fleshing out that world more as a fun side story.

Also if people felt this was tedious then I wonder how they felt waiting for the build to Thanos lol…

I get that with the inclusion of tv (both animated & live action) the projects scope has expanded and not everyone can watch everything but I don’t think they have needed to tbh

Sure you could likely get more out of them if you have seen a FaTWS into BNW for example but I feel you still get enough to atleast understand if not be invested in what’s happening.

Phase 4-6 for better & worse has been about expansion and growing the world more like in the comics which is what I thought people wanted but I guess not.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 9/25/2025, 12:23 PM
Anyway in regards to the MCU , it’s into Wonder Man now which is the next & final of their projects this year…

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Then in 2026…

𝐌𝐂𝐔 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬 & 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥

𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥: 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝟐

𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝟐

𝐗 𝐌𝐞𝐧 𝟗𝟕 𝐒𝟐

𝐌𝐂𝐔 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬

𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐧:𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐚𝐲

𝐀𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬:𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲

Officially confirmed to be in the pipeline beyond those as of now are YFNS S3 ,X-Men 97 S3 , Daredevil S3 ,Secret Wars & X-Men.
EnergyVamp
EnergyVamp - 9/25/2025, 12:31 PM
I loved Xmen 97 but my fear is that it was mostly Beau DeMayo and based on these other TV projects, I have little to no faith sadly.
String
String - 9/25/2025, 12:56 PM
To be honest, I don't care about Marvel Animation. I signed up for Disney+ solely for live-action Marvel content that matters to the films. Now that Kevin Feige has soured on Disney+ (most likely due to issues surrounding She-Hulk & Secret Invasion), he's passed the baton to Brad Winderbaum and focusing his attention back on the films. We're going back to a clear separation of the Marvel film and television sides. TV can reference the films, but the films will seldom reference the TV shows outside of the 1st year series created between WandaVision & Hawkeye when Kevin Feige had more creative control. Marvel Television will become an outlet for animation projects & Netflix hand-me-downs not specifically connected to the bigger MCU. The decisions being made about Disney+ is not something I can get behind. It somehow makes the future Disney+ Marvel content feel inferior and not matter.

Perhaps that is why I'm such an advocate for VisionQuest. It's the LAST of the Disney+ projects that will connect to the greater MCU. It continues the story started WandaVision (a show initially born out of Kevin Feige's imagination). It's funny how we are seeing WandaVision as the start and VisionQuest as the end of the film involvement with Disney+. It explains the difficulty of putting a show like Nova (too expensive) and Champions or even Hawkeye season 2 together because Kevin Feige wants those characters (Ms. Marvel, Kate Bishop, Scarlet Witch/Vision kids) to be more connected to the films than television. Who knows if Marvel gets its act together and adapts Strange Academy. While it will be nice as a side job for Benedict Wong, but will it disrupt Marvel Studios' plans for Wong in the films because Marvel will have to address that side job & the characters created in that show.

I guess I'm having a love-hate relationship with Marvel's Disney+ shows at the moment. I don't see a future for new projects outside of greenlighting the Netflix hand-me-down shows like a new season of Jessica Jones or other future animation. Wonder Man is a one-and-down, we all that. There just doesn't seem to be a future with these characters in the films outside of the bubble being created for them on Disney+.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 9/25/2025, 12:57 PM
Your Friendly was a fun watch. Looking forward to S2.

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