Second on both H1 counts at 1.9 billion minutes and 7 million season views… but the published metrics and the retention rate (완주율) that decides renewals have come apart

The Westwood Village marquee from the Wonder Man (원더맨) trailer. The series was built as a meta comedy that takes superhero fatigue as its subject. Photo: Disney+

Disney+ has canceled the second season of Marvel's Wonder Man, four months after publicly ordering it in March. A Season 2 writers' room was never opened.

디즈니+, ‘원더맨’ 시즌2 발주 철회… 완주율(retention rate) 52%, 취소 안전선 53%에 1%포인트 못 미쳐
디즈니+(Disney+) 이미 시즌2를 발주했던 마블(Marvel) 시리즈 ‘원더맨(Wonder Man)’을 4개월 만에 철회. 이 작품의 완주율(retention rate)은 52%. 디즈니+ 신작의 갱신 안전선을 밑돌아
K엔터테크허브 (K-EnterTech Hub)Jung Han

The basis for the decision was retention rate (완주율) and cost per minute streamed. Over the first 12 weeks, 52% of the viewers who started the season reached the finale — one point under the 53% floor Luminate's slate analysis identifies as the point where a new Disney+ series is considered safe from cancellation. At a $70 million midpoint budget, the cost-per-minute-streamed ratio came to 0.041.

Reach was not the shortfall. In Luminate's tally Wonder Man S1 ranked second among U.S. Disney+ originals in the first half of 2026 on both counts — 1.9 billion minutes streamed and an estimated 7 million season views — trailing Daredevil: Born Again S2 at 2.3 billion minutes and The Punisher: One Last Kill S1 at 12.2 million views, beaten only by other Marvel titles.