5 Years Later, Marvel Celebrates Its Best Disney+ Series With New Trailer

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Five years after changing the game for Marvel TV shows, WandaVision is being celebrated again. To commemorate its January 15, 2021 debut on Disney+, Marvel released a new trailer highlighting the series’ lasting influence and popularity, and emphasizing its importance to the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Endgame.

Marvel India recently released a new trailer on X (formerly Twitter) that’s a nostalgic tribute to WandaVision, the show that launched Marvel Studios’ streaming series. Instead of showing what’s coming next, the trailer highlights some of WandaVision’s most memorable scenes, reminding viewers why it’s still considered one of Marvel’s best TV shows.

When WandaVision first came out, it did more than just kickstart Marvel’s plans for TV shows. It surprised viewers by moving away from typical superhero stories. Instead, it used the style of classic sitcoms, focused on heartfelt emotions, and built a complex, ongoing mystery, taking the Marvel Cinematic Universe into completely new and unusual areas. This risk proved successful, and it created a new standard for all the Marvel series that came after it.

Marvel Drops a WandaVision Anniversary Trailer

I was so excited to see the new trailer celebrating five years of WandaVision! It’s a really sweet look back at the whole series on Disney+, pulling clips from all nine episodes. They focused on the fun, lighter parts – remembering those early black-and-white scenes and all the heartwarming moments between Wanda and Vision. It’s all set to the catchy theme song from the second episode, which just makes it even better!

The new trailer feels less like an advertisement and more like a celebration of the story that began with WandaVision and will conclude with VisionQuest in 2026. It’s significant that the studio is even acknowledging this anniversary, as they don’t often revisit older Disney+ shows like this. This highlights how highly fans, critics, and Marvel itself regard their initial venture into television series.

Why WandaVision Still Matters to the MCU

In retrospect, WandaVision played a crucial role in Marvel’s move forward after Endgame. Released during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was more than just the first Marvel series on Disney+. It offered a much-needed escape during a scary and uncertain time, and it demonstrated that Marvel Studios could deliver emotionally powerful, character-focused stories that weren’t typical superhero movies.

WandaVision, starring Elizabeth Olsen as the emotionally complex Wanda Maximoff, delved into themes of grief, loss, and coping mechanisms in a way that was new for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The show’s innovative style, along with strong performances from Paul Bettany as Vision and Kathryn Hahn as the delightfully over-the-top Agatha Harkness, allowed the franchise to take more creative risks.

Perhaps most significantly, WandaVision showed Marvel what its TV shows could achieve. While later series tried different approaches to style and storytelling, none had quite the same effect on popular culture or felt as bold as Marvel’s initial Disney+ streaming show. Even five years later, viewers are still discussing its surprises, its ending, and how it might influence the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

A Reminder of Marvel’s Disney+ High Point

The show’s fifth anniversary happens as Marvel Television is changing its plans for Disney+. WandaVision shows how successful Marvel can be when it takes creative risks, instead of sticking to what’s familiar.

This show is a great example of what happens when a strong story is combined with skillful filmmaking. Throughout its nine episodes, it stays true to its original ideas and doesn’t feel rushed or changed mid-way through. It’s clear the creative team had a strong, consistent vision, and Marvel gave them the space to bring it to life.

The trailer doesn’t offer any hints about what happened to Wanda and Vision before the events of Avengers: Doomsday. However, with Wanda’s story still being important to the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the introduction of Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke) as Wiccan in Agatha All Along, along with an adult Tommy Maximoff (Ruaridh Mollica) having a significant part in VisionQuest, the show’s impact is clearly still felt.

The latest trailer doesn’t hint at future storylines, and that’s perfectly fine. It stands on its own as a reminder of why this series continues to be the standard that all new Marvel shows on Disney+ are measured against. That lasting impact is something to appreciate.

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2026-01-16 18:16