Wonder Bros Pod

After The Marvels, this one hits like a gift. Cody and Josh dig into Deadpool & Wolverine — the highest-grossing R-rated film in cinema history, the first Fox character formally integrated into the MCU, and somehow one of the most emotionally earnest films in Phase Five hiding inside a wall-to-wall comedy. They cover the opening credit sequence that sets the whole tone, the Wolverine variants...

The lowest-grossing MCU film in franchise history. Six months after Guardians Vol. 3. Coming off one of the best MCU films in years. The timing was brutal — and honestly, so was the movie. Cody and Josh tackle The Marvels this week: the singing planet, the Power Rangers transformation sequence, Kamala Khan as a Nickelodeon character dropped into a Marvel film, Nick Fury written as comically inept,...

James Gunn spent three films making you love Rocket before showing you what you were actually watching. This week Cody and Josh close the book on the original Guardians as they dig into Vol. 3 — Gunn's MCU farewell, the most emotionally devastating Phase Five film, and what might be the most complete character arc in the franchise. They get into the High Evolutionary as a villain you actually...

Cody and Josh are back with an unscripted, unfiltered catch-up before the next recording season kicks off. Josh reveals he and Anna are finally taking a real vacation to Spain — which immediately spirals into a bit about Spanish pronunciation, the Estrella beer Cody sells every day, and the French wine problem. Then things take a wild turn: Josh got offered a role in a musical called Faith and Sex...

Scott Lang punched Kang the Conqueror in the face. Kang had conquered every era of recorded history. That's the movie. This week Cody and Josh work through Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania — Phase Five's launch vehicle, the film built to make Kang inevitable, and the one that made him manageable instead. It's 46% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 476 million dollar box office. It was suppos...

Chadwick Boseman died. Ryan Coogler made a film about it. The cast  grieved on screen and called it acting. That's what you're watching. This week Cody and Josh work through Black Panther: Wakanda Forever —  the only MCU film made entirely in the shadow of a real death, and the  one that handles grief more honestly than any other entry in the  franchise. Along the way: - Angela Bassett&a...

Christian Bale agreed to play Gorr the God Butcher because his kids  begged him. He gives one of the best villain performances in the MCU.  He gets maybe twenty minutes of screen time. That's the movie. This week Cody and Josh work through Thor: Love and Thunder — a film  with three genuinely great stories inside it that refuses to let any  of them land. Gorr's grief. Jane's cancer....

Scott Derrickson walked off this film. Sam Raimi walked in. The result is the most visually distinctive MCU film of Phase Four — and the most tonally confused. This week Cody and Josh work through Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness — the film Cody refuses to ever watch again, the sequel to a movie that was never made, and the one where the "uh huh / mm mm" moment broke him compl...

The most successful Spider-Man film ever made at the time. $1.9 billion worldwide.  The sixth highest-grossing film in cinema history. Released during an  active Omicron wave. And it still broke records. This week Cody and Josh work through Spider-Man: No Way Home — the  film that gave three generations of Spider-Man audiences exactly what  they wanted, at the same time, in the same room. Along th...

Cody liked Eternals the first time. He likes it less now. Josh didn't  like it. He likes it more now. They recorded this the same week Brand  New Day came out and Wonder Man season 2 got canceled, which tells  you something about where Marvel has been and where it's going. This week Cody and Josh work through Eternals — the most ambitious  Phase Four film, the lowest-reviewed MCU film at...

Off Panel is back. Before they recorded the Quantumania episode, Cody played Josh an unreleased snippet from his new album. They both got unexpectedly emotional. This week: the record that’s been two years in the making finally has a title track. Why no one rings the bell when it’s over. Josh’s daughter is leaving for Scotland and he’s already doing the grief work. The time a group therapy goodbye...

A few weeks into Phase Four — and Marvel is doing something it's never  done before. An Asian-led story. Real martial arts choreography. A  villain who isn't really a villain. And the actual Mandarin, finally,  13 years after the Ten Rings first showed up in a cave in Afghanistan. This week Cody and Josh work through Shang-Chi and the Legend of the  Ten Rings — the movie with the best fi...

The first film of Phase Four — and the strangest way to start one.  Tony Stark is dead. Natasha Romanoff is dead. And Marvel gives us a  Natasha Romanoff movie. This week Cody and Josh work through Black Widow — a film set before  Endgame, released two years after it, about a character we've already  watched die. The real question becomes: who is this movie actually for? Along the way: - Josh...

Off Panel is back. No structure, no plan, no movie to discuss.  Just Cody and Josh with the mic on before the main show. This week:  - ChatGPT apparently knows who Josh is by description alone.  - Cody's mom couldn't vote in a Florida primary.  - Calvary Chapel of Chattanooga handed out pre-filled ballots from a church stage.  - Josh explains the actual difference between  communism, dem...

This is the final film of Phase Three — and it feels like one. The  fireworks are over. Tony Stark is gone. And Spider-Man has to figure  out who he is in a world that won't give him a minute to grieve. This week Cody and Josh work through Spider-Man: Far From Home — the  film Josh couldn't finish. Twice. For the same reason he can't watch  Home Alone as a parent anymore. Along the...

Some stories don't just entertain you. They find you at the right moment and show you something you needed to see. Avengers: Endgame came out in April 2019. Josh had been fired from his job the month before. He'd already lost his church, his career, and nearly his marriage. He was watching the heroes lose — and somehow it helped. This week Cody and Josh work through the film that closed...

Welcome to Off Panel. Off Panel is the Wonder Bros Pod between the episodes. No structure, no segments, no movie to analyze. Just Cody and Josh with the mic on before they hit record on the main show — talking about whatever's been on their minds. The name comes from the same place all our best ideas do: comics. Off panel is the world that exists outside the frame of the book. The stuff that&...

We didn't want to do this episode. We did it anyway. Captain Marvel is the most divisive film in the MCU — a 6.7 on IMDb, a review bombing controversy that changed how Rotten Tomatoes works, and a movie that made 1.1 billion dollars despite nearly every person Cody and Josh know having complicated feelings about it. This week they finally sit down with it. And they brought drinks. Along the w...

After the snap, you needed to breathe. Marvel knew that. So did Cody and Josh. Ant-Man and the Wasp is the MCU's palate cleanser — a smaller, lighter film released two months after Avengers: Infinity War. But underneath all the comedy, something is quietly seeding the mechanism that saves the universe in Endgame. And it ends with a mid-credits scene that reminds you the snap is still happenin...

Some stories let the hero win. This one doesn't. And it changed everything. Avengers: Infinity War is the film that proved the MCU was willing to lose — to let the villain win completely, cosmically, finally. In 2018 audiences left theaters confused and grieving. In 2025 Cody and Josh go back in to figure out what the film is actually doing under the surface. Because it's more than a spe...

Some stories aren't made for you. And sometimes that's exactly why you need to sit with them. Black Panther wasn't made for Cody and Josh. They know that. This week they do their best to honor something that was never theirs to own — and find that the stories that challenge us most are often the ones that do the deepest work on us. Because that's what stories do when you let th...

Some stories don't just entertain you. They find you at the right moment and show you something about yourself. Thor: Ragnarok is one of those stories. On the surface it's a god losing his hammer, his home, and everything that defined him. Underneath it's a film about what survives when everything you built your identity on gets burned to the ground. This week Cody and Josh dig into...

Spider-Man has been in two franchises before this one. Twice. And yet somehow Tom Holland's version feels like the first time they got it right. This week, Cody and Josh work through Spider-Man: Homecoming — the film that finally delivered a teenage Spider-Man who actually feels like a teenager, a working-class villain whose grievance is completely legitimate, and a third act that Cody argues...

"He may have been your father, boy. But he wasn't your daddy."  This week, Cody and Josh work through Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 — the MCU film that hides an emotionally devastating story about abandonment and found family underneath all the comedy, needle drops, and Baby Groot.  Along the way: - JD reconnects with his biological father after 30 years — and Ego's catch scen...

Marvel went off the deep end with this one. And we mean that in the best way possible. This week, Cody and JD work through Doctor Strange (2016) — the film that took the MCU from political thriller (Civil War) and dropped it into a psychedelic mysticism trip. Inception meets 2001 meets Marvel meets actual quantum physics. Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, Benedict Cumberbatch (who can't say &quo...