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During Marvel’s San Diego Comic-Con 2019 panel, the company announced additional details concerning its upcoming Vision & Scarlet Witch series, entitled WandaVision. During its SDCC panel, Marvel confirmed that the series will launch in Spring 2021. A logo was shown and features retro TV, neon cursive font and, Marvel Studios president Feige said, “If you thought that logo was strange, wait until you see this show.”

The Vision and Scarlet Witch show takes place after Endgame and will feature Monica Rambeau as an adult. The character will be played by Teyonah Parris. “I’m so excited to be here, I’m shaking,” she said. “This is a dream to be a Marvel superhero–Monica Rambeau?!”

Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany also appeared on stage to discuss the show. “We’re gonna have a lot of fun. It’s gonna get weird. We’re gonna go deep. We’re gonna have a lot of surprises and we will finally understand Wanda Maximoff as the Scarlet Witch,” said Olsen.

Bettany, meanwhile, seemed a bit out of sorts. “I’ve never been this confused in front of this many people in my whole life but I hope you love it,” he said.

Like the other Disney+ shows for Loki, Hawkeye (Kate Bishop, not Clint Barton), and Falcon & Winter Soldier, Vision & Scarlet Witch takes place in the MCU and sees the movie’s stars reprise their roles as their respective characters. In Vision & Scarlet Witch’s case, that means Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen.

Given Vision’s destruction in Avengers Infinity War, it stands to reason that Vision & Scarlet Witch acts as a prequel to the conclusion of the MCU’s third phase of movies, most likely taking place between the events of Captain America: Civil War and Infinity War. During this period of time, Vision and Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch, struck up a romantic relationship.

Vision & Scarlet Witch is being penned by Jac Schaeffer, who’s also the writer assigned to the upcoming Black Widow movie–another untold MCU prequel story. Schaeffer previously co-wrote the script for Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, an animated short that takes place in the world of Frozen.

While the DC movie universe is absent from this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, the studio’s TV output features extensively. The CW’s range of DC shows, known as the Arrow-verse, held a panel on Saturday, July 20, and gave fans a taste of what to expect from some of its upcoming shows.

Supergirl returns for its fifth season in October. The biggest change this season is Kara’s suit, which has been redesigned. Fans were given a proper look at the new-look Kryptonian supersuit at the panel–check it out below:

There were two new cast members also introduced at the Supergirl panel. Julie Gonzalo will play Andrea Rojas–aka Acrata–a DC character first introduced in comic books in 2000. She is described as a business woman with “a mystical secret,” and is set to appear in the Supergirl Season 5 premiere on October 6. The other new addition to the show is “hardened reporter” William Dey, who is an original character and will be played by Game of Thrones’ Staz Nair.

The Flash

The panel also revealed some new characters for two other Arrow-verse shows. The evil Bloodwork will make his TV debut in The Flash, played by former Heroes star Sendhil Ramamurthy. Bloodwork–aka Ramsey Russo–was first introduced in Flash comics in 2017, and is a terrifying adversary who gains his powers from his infected blood. The Flash Season 6 premieres on October 8.

Arrow

The other new addition to the Arrow-verse will be in the show that gave the series its name. Arrow reaches its eighth and final season on October 15, and Charlie Barnett will join as a season regular playing John Diggle Jr. Barnett is best known for co-starring in this year’s Netflix hit Russian Doll, and his character of Diggle Jr. is the villainous leader of the Deathstroke gang.

The Arrow-verse panel isn’t the only DC panel taking place today. At 7 PM PT fans will be able to find out what’s upcoming on DC Universe. And although there won’t be any news about the DC cinematic universe this weekend, the campaign for the studio to release the rumored “Snyder cut” of Justice League continues, with one eager fan hiring a plane to fly a banner over the convention. Check out all the other San Diego Comic-Con news on GameSpot here.

During Marvel’s San Diego Comic-Con 2019 panel, more details were revealed for the upcoming Falcon & Winter Soldier series. First teased via leaks in December 2018, the show was officially confirmed for Disney+ in April 2019. During its SDCC panel, Marvel shared new details.

Falcon & Winter Soldier follows the partnered heroics of Steve Rogers’ two closest allies: Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson. During Marvel’s Comic-Con panel, the studio confirmed that the show will be set after the events of Avengers: Endgame and star Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan. The two stars were present for the panel, and Mackie walked onto stage holding the iconic Captain America shield–causing the crowd to go absolutely nuts.

“I’d like to explore The Falcon as a character–what kind of man is this man?” Sebastian Stan, who plays Bucky, joked.

“With Winter Soldier, I want to see what makes him tick–what ticks him off. How much [he can take before he loses it],” Mackie joked in response. “But seriously, we’re living our dream here…So when we go to work, we have a really good time.”

Toward the end of the Falcon & Winter Soldier segment of the Marvel panel, Daniel Brühl, who played Baron Zemo in Captain America: Civil War, “hijacked” the proceedings with a video message featuring the Winter Soldier trigger words. “Gentlemen, I’ll be seeing you both very soon,” he said. Zemo will be the big bad of the show.

Stan and Mackie first worked together and established a loose rapport in Captain America: Civil War before reuniting in the fight against Thanos in both Infinity War and Endgame. At the end of Endgame, Steve Rogers decided to retire from the hero life and pass on his shield, as well as the mantle of Captain America, to Sam.

Both Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan return to star as Falcon/Captain America and Winter Soldier respectively. They’ll be joined by a few other familiar faces from the MCU, including Brühl as Zemo and Emily VanCamp as Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s Sharon Carter. The show is being helmed by House of Cards director Kari Skogland and penned by Empire writer Malcolm Spellman. Six episodes have been ordered for the series.

Disney+ is scheduled to launch on November 12. The service requires a monthly subscription fee of $7 or an annual one of $70. Three more Marvel-related series have been ordered for the service as well: one for Loki, one for Vision and Scarlet Witch, and one for Hawkeye (the Kate Bishop version, not Clint Barton).

The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s next phase is quickly taking shape, thanks to news announced at Marvel Studios’ panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2019. The first movie of Phase 4 is Black Widow, the second is Eternals, we now know the third: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige made the announcement on stage, confirming some Shang-Chi rumors that have been floating around for a while. He also gave some details about who would be making the movie. Simu Liu (Fresh Off The Boat) will play Shang-Chi, while Tony Leung will play the Mandarin, and Destin Daniel Cretton is directing. Awkwafina also has a role in the movie, although Feige didn’t elaborate on what that might be.

The movie is set to release on February 12, 2021.

The Mandarin is a villain you might recognize from the MCU of the past–he appeared as the antagonist in Iron Man 3, played by Ben Kingsley. As it turned out, that Mandarin was a red herring, distracting Tony Stark and the rest of the world from the movie’s real villain, Aldrich Killian. According to Feige, the villain of Shang-Chi is the “real” Mandarin, and he isn’t happy about being impersonated.

The Ten Rings have also been a part of the MCU before now. That’s the name of the terrorist organization that kidnapped Tony Stark back in the first Iron Man movie. Tony struck a blow against the group when he escaped captivity in his first cobbled-together Iron Man suit, but clearly, the organization is still a big deal in the MCU.

There’s plenty more news coming out of the Marvel panel, so stay tuned to our Comic-Con hub for our full coverage of everything you need to know.

Overwatch has begun to tease something new for the game and, given the timing and the nature of the tease, we expect it’s for the next hero to join the roster. The tease comes in the form of a video which, initially, looks like it’s going to be another developer update from game director Jeff Kaplan. However, Kaplan is sucked through a dimensional rift or black hole of some sort. Then a bunch of formulae and equations appear on the screen, in case you need it made extra-clear that weird physics stuff is happening.

If this is a hero, it will be the 31st character on the Overwatch roster. It would also be the first addition since Baptiste in March, continuing the trend of rolling out a new hero every 3-4 months.

This is coming just as the game is holding its annual Summer Games event, which once again offers special challenges and exclusive skins. The first Summer Games was themed after the Olympics, but since then it has become a yearly tradition with Overwatch characters sporting their finest summer duds.

Meanwhile, Blizzard has just rolled out a massive change to its matchmaking system on the public test realm with the addition of a Role Queue. The revised system has you pick from one of the three major team roles–tank, support, or damage–and then you’ll be matched into a team with two of each type. The studio says it hopes this helps team composition and lets players stick with the type of role they like best. This also introduces some new changes to how skill ratings and leaderboards are handled. It’s in testing now, with a wider beta planned to start on August 13.