"While the MCU's initial films were relatively loyal to their source material, the films and shows have since paved their own path, and Wonder Man is the latest hero to get a total revamp. In the comics, he gains his powers via exposure to ionic radiation. In his Disney+ debut, however, we never learn how he gained his super strength or his ability to generate ionic pulses - but he might have been born with it."
""One of the things we wanted to do was [make] sure that the powers for Simon Williams served his character," Guest recently told . "I look back at that first X-Men movie and how those powers that all those teenagers [had] felt so psychological... And [Simon's powers] felt like it was some part of him that sort of happened to him as opposed to something that he was A, excited about, or B, wanted to even get to know.""
"Marvel Studios We never see how Simon gains his powers, but Wonder Man does explore how they manifest, just as the X-Men films introduce Rogue and Cyclops in the moment their abilities first appear. It's impossible not to wonder if Simon is a mutant himself, and it's apparently a question that the Wonder Man team pondered, too. For now, though, it's up to the powers that be."
The MCU diverges from comic-origin fidelity and reimagines Wonder Man’s backstory instead of repeating the ionic-radiation explanation. The Disney+ series never explains how Simon Williams gained super strength or ionic pulses and suggests those abilities might be innate. The powers are presented as psychological and involuntary, echoing the X-Men films’ moments when abilities first appear and feel like something that happened to the character. The series leaves Simon’s mutant status intentionally ambiguous and does not provide a definitive origin answer. Broader franchise constraints mean final confirmation of mutant status may be deferred to future decisions.
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