Wonder Man ends with unanswered questions — where is Josh Gad?

Marvel Studios’ eight-episode Wonder Man landed on Disney Plus on Jan. 27 and closes on an ending that leaves several major questions open — most conspicuously, what happened to Josh Gad after his cameo. The series follows struggling actor Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his unlikely friendship with Trevor Slattery.

Across the season Trevor is revealed to have been spying for Agent Cleary and the Department of Damage Control; Trevor resumes his Mandarin persona, takes the blame for a studio bombing, and ends up in a high-security super-prison while Simon learns to control his powers and breaks Trevor out in the finale.

Creators Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest paced the show as a slow-burning character study that finally hits a recognizable MCU action beat, and Disney has described it as a miniseries. The piece argues the abrupt shift from Simon losing control of his abilities to tearing apart a prison suggests his problems came from fear and repression, and that his decision to save Trevor signals a change in his values rather than a set-up for a clear ongoing series.

The show also leaves other threads unresolved: it doesn’t explain the origin of Simon’s powers or whether he is a mutant, it drops the New York Times subplot around reporter Kathy Friedman without payoff, and Josh Gad’s cameo — in which he enters Doorman’s interdimensional portal and never reappears — is left unexplained.

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