New York Comic Con has been and gone for another year. While not quite as enormous as its San Diego counterpart, NYCC is still a very important event on the pop culture convention calendar, and 2025 was not lacking in announcements.
As you’d probably expect from any event with the word ‘comic’ in its title, Marvel’s TV and animation divisions had plenty of news to share in New York, but we also got our first look at a brand new Game of Thrones spinoff, a release date for Invincible season 4 and a trailer for a new sci-fi thriller starring Chris Pratt.
There was a lot to sink your teeth into, then, but I’ve picked out nine NYCC 2025 announcements that stood out in particular.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is jousting its way into our screens in January
HBO’s latest Game of Thrones spinoff will arrive early next year on January 18. An adaptation of George R.R Martin’s novella The Hedge Knight, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms takes place a whole century before Game of Thrones, and tells the story of two decidedly unfancied heroes: Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey) and his young squire known simply as Egg (Dexter Sol).
Martin himself sat on a panel at NYCC that also featured A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ showrunner Ira Parker and its two main stars. A more grounded take on goings-on in Westeros was immediately clear from the trailer shown off. Dunk is a lowborn hedge knight with no claim to any thrones nor any screen-filling dragons at his beck and call. He seems an instantly likable protagonist who isn’t too proud to take life advice from a child (although anyone familiar with Martin’s literature will know that Egg isn’t just any kid). The chemistry between Dunk and Egg looks like it will be the heart of a show that is less interested in the usual political backstabbing and familial tussling for power than it is showing us how the other half live in Martin’s imagination.
We also got a good look at some of the jousting sequences that will be a big part of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. It might be a very different show to Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, but it seemingly won’t be short on action.
Invincible returns in March, and introduces an iconic villain from the comics
Invincible season 3 was Prime Video’s most-watched season of an animated show ever, so confirmation that season 4 will arrive in March 2026 was big news at NYCC 2025. The trailer sees Mark and Eve sitting in what’s left of a burned out burger restaurant following the events of the third season, with the titular superhero only too happy to remind viewers of all the inter-dimensional world-saving he had to do in the last batch of episodes.
The big season 4 news coming out of New York Comic Con is that Lee Pace (Foundation, Guardians of the Galaxy) is joining the voice cast Grand Regent Thragg, one of the biggest and most intimidating villains from the comic on which the show is based. Thragg is a merciless and cruel leader of the Viltrum Empire who presumably won’t take well to Mark’s ongoing mission to protect Earth from being wiped out by the Viltrumites.
Cross season 2 looks even more tense than the first season
Prime Video’s crime thriller series, Cross, debuted almost a year ago in November 2024, and fans will only have to wait a few more months for season 2, which arrives on February 11. The eight-episode second season once again stars Aldis Hodge as Alex Cross, a remarkably gifted forensic psychologist and homicide detective who is uniquely capable of penetrating the minds of the murderers he pursues in order to catch them. The show is based on James Patterson’s Alex Cross book series and the first season did a good job of portraying the criminal underworld the titular D.C. has to navigate.
Season 2 sees Cross chasing down a vigilante who has been knocking off corrupt billionaire magnates, and adds to its cast Matthew Lillard, Jeanine Mason and Wes Chatham.
Marvel teases X-Men ‘97 season 2
Cue the theme song 🎶 Eric and Julia Lewald (@xmentas) talk Marvel Animation’s #XMen97 Season 2 at #NYCC. pic.twitter.com/ME7F1VInasOctober 11, 2025
‘90s kids with fond childhood memories of watching X-Men: The Animated Series while they munched away on their overly sugary cereal of choice were naturally very excited about last year’s revival. But few would have dared to hope that X-Men ‘97 would be as good as it ended up being. While honoring the original series’ look and vibrancy, with many of the voice cast returning decades later to reprise their roles, X-Men ‘97 went beyond simple nostalgia and gave us some of the most memorable on-screen mutant action to date.
Unfortunately, Marvel is yet to officially release the season two trailer (which doesn’t mean you can’t find it if you go looking), but we know it’s coming mid-2026, and will pick up after the dramatic events of season 1’s finale, which saw the X-Men scattered across time and Apocalypse being teased as the big bad. Bishop seems to have appointed himself as the person who will reunite our favorite mutants and bring them all back safely to the ‘90s. There’s no firm release date for this one yet, but with season 3 already confirmed, animated X-Men fans are going to be eating good for a long time.
Daredevil: Born Again season 2 brings back an old favorite
Matt Murdock 🤝 Jessica JonesCharlie Cox and and @KrystenRitter talk Marvel Television’s #DaredevilBornAgain Season 2 at #NYCC! pic.twitter.com/It7QioX7oBOctober 11, 2025
Netflix and Disney+ are set to collide once again in Daredevil: Born Again season 2, which will re-introduce fan favorite Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones. The sardonic leather jacket-wearing PI played a major role in Netflix’s wider Marvel universe, as well as starring in three seasons of her own show, and Ritter unsurprisingly drew some of the biggest cheers of the weekend when she appeared on stage at NYCC’s Marvel panel alongside Charlie Cox.
Marvel is yet to release the season 2 teaser, but you can be pretty sure that Jessica Jones is going to play an important role in helping her old acquaintance Matt Murdock (Cox) deal with Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), who was as quietly terrifying as ever in season 1 as he launched his new political career.
Marvel’s Wonder Man charms in its first full trailer
One trailer Marvel has officially released since its unveiling at NYCC is the first look at the upcoming Wonder Man miniseries, which premieres on January 27. It stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Ben Kingsley as Simon Williams and Trevor Slattery, a pair of struggling actors trying to land roles in a remake of the film Wonder Man.
Set in a Hollywood struggling with superhero movie fatigue (it turns out Deadpool & Wolverine wasn’t actually the most meta Marvel is willing to get with its properties), Wonder Man looks like a breezy workplace-style comedy that could be the MCU’s answer to Apple TV’s The Studio, even if comics fans will already be theorising about how its latest characters will inevitably tie into the wider universe going forward.
Venom latches onto Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man season 2
Just announced at #NYCC: Marvel Animation’s #XMen97 Season 2 is coming to @DisneyPlus Summer 2026! pic.twitter.com/ulilHWaiFeOctober 11, 2025
The agonising wait for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse goes on, but in the meantime, animated Spidey fans got a real treat at the beginning of this year with Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man, which Marvel has announced will be returning with its second season in late 2026.
Season 2 will pick up not long after the events of the first season, which followed a high school-age Peter Parker in his early days of wearing the suit, with some fresh takes on familiar characters. This time round the most notable addition is shaping up to be the Venom symbiote, while Charlie Cox will be reprising his voice role as Daredevil. Gwen Stacy will also feature in the second season, while Colman Domingo’s excellent Norman Osborn will return.
VisionQuest wraps up a strong TV trilogy in 2026
Vision will return. Paul Bettany teases Marvel Television’s #VisionQuest, coming to @DisneyPlus in 2026. #NYCC pic.twitter.com/wFStBp2OFjOctober 11, 2025
The small-screen trilogy that kicked off in 2021 with WandaVision and continued in last year’s Halloween-flavoured Agatha All Along will conclude in 2026 with VisionQuest. Paul Bettany reprises his role as Vision, arguably one of the most iconic comics characters of all time, who was reanimated in WandaVision after his memorable death in Avengers: Infinity War.
Vision is now White Vision, as shown off in a teaser still exclusive to NYCC attendees at the time of writing. But we learned a lot about the cast for the upcoming show, which stars Henry Lewis as D.U.M.-E, Jonathan Sayer as U, James D’Arcy as J.A.R.V.I.S., Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y., and Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H. The biggest announcement was that James Spader is returning as Ultron, after first playing the character a whole decade ago in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy gives us more Paul Giamatti, which is always a good thing
Star Trek is going to school in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, an uncharacteristically YA-focused turn for the enduring sci-fi franchise, which premieres on January 15. The Paramount+ show is set in the 32nd century and focuses on a brand new class of cadets enrolling at Starfleet Academy.
The NYCC trailer gave us a good look at the cast, which stars Holly Hunter as chancellor Nahla Ake and Paul Giamatti as Nus Braka, who will be Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s big bad. That alone should sell you on it. Devoted Trekkie Stephen Colbert also revealed that he’s lent his voice to the show as the digital dean of students at the legendary school.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is shaping up to be something a bit different for Star Trek, and possibly a play for a new younger audience. We’ll get to see how it all pans out in the new year.
Mercy gives us Chris Pratt doing his own stunts and Rebecca Ferguson as a sinister AI judge
It wouldn’t be Comic Con without a Chris Pratt appearance. He was in town to announce his latest lead role is in Amazon’s sci-fi thriller Mercy, in which the Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World star plays Chris Raven, a detective on trial for murdering his wife. He has just 90 minutes to prove his innocence through an AI justice system he helped create, with a judge named Maddox (Rebecca Ferguson) deciding his fate.
With the clock ticking away, the LAPD detective has to work out what actually happened to his wife (Annabell Wallis), and the film will seemingly pack its tight runtime with plenty of tense action sequences, with stuntwork that reportedly saw poor old Chris Pratt’s ankle take a bit of a kicking during filming. We’ll find out if it was worth all the icepacks when Mercy is released on January 23.
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