The new Disney+ show Wonder Man has subtly, and accidentally, made Robert Downey Jr. himself a part of MCU lore. Wonder Man Robert Downey Jr canon MCU marvelWonder Man, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as aspiring actor Simon Williams, is less a traditional superhero saga and more a send-up of Tinseltown. “We reference Igby Goes Down, which has Robert Downey Jr. in it, and somebody caught me on that, and I was like ‘Oh s–t, I forgot that, good catch,’” Guest admitted. In the MCU, this creates a paradoxical scenario where Robert Downey Jr. is both the fictional Iron Man and a real-life actor. This specific Downey Jr. nod was an accident, but the series is deliberately woven with movie love.