MAJOR SPOILER ALERT: This post will absolutely spoil the movie for you. If you haven’t seen the movie or don’t want to be spoiled, please don’t read this.
When the hoopla Deadpool and Wolverine While the movie was about the introduction of two iconic characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), the movie was also about saying goodbye.
In the film, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) faces the possibility of the collapse of his entire timeline, which was destroyed by Wolverine’s death in 2017. log on. To save it, he seeks out a still-living, alternate-universe version of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). But this new Wolverine has seen the rest of his X-Men die, and he can’t stop blaming himself. Together, they’re sent to the void (the same void we see on Disney+ loki) where they sync up with an island of misfit toys: Marvel superheroes (mainly from Fox’s filmography) that, for one reason or another, didn’t make it into Disney’s promised land of perpetual intellectual property.
Deadpool and Wolverine’s fictional conflict is a self-referential gag about Disney’s real-life 2019 acquisition of Fox and its glut of film rights, which include some notable Marvel comic book characters. Reynolds’ Deadpool is one of those superheroes, but he’s currently the only actor to continue playing the Marvel mutant and transitioning into Marvel Studios and the MCU. A meta way for Deadpool to consign the disposable superheroes of yesteryear to the MCU trash heap is to make an inside joke about how Disney (and, to an extent, Marvel) now owns everything, including mystical superhero nostalgia that you never knew and Deadpool. himself.
They meet first The freaking fourof Johnny Storm (played by Chris Evans, reprising his pre-MCU role from 2005) who mistakes Deadpool for Captain America. All three are captured by psychotic villain Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin, playing an X-Men comic character we’ve never seen on film before). After Deadpool taunts him, he telekinetically resurrects Storm before Deadpool and Wolverine make a miraculous, jetpack-fueled escape.
The pair eventually meet Storm’s compatriots, who have been living in this suspended state for years. There’s the half-human half-vampire Blade (Wesley Snipes, reprising his role the blade trilogy), Ninja Electra (Jennifer Garner, last seen in 2005 Daredevil Its sequel same name), the murderous clone X-23 (Daphne Keen, who appeared with Jackman in 2017 log on), and the mutant energy welder Gambit (Channing Tatum, eventually playing the role in Disney’s Fox acquisition made it impossible) Faced with storytelling purgatory for eternity, the forgotten heroes team up with their new friends to help the two return to Deadpool’s original timeline. The Misfits break into Cassandra’s waist, drawing the attention of her henchmen and allowing the misfits to fight Cassandra.
At the end of the film, Deadpool and Wolverine dispatch Nova and Paradox (Matthew McFadyen), the Time Variance Authority (TVA) middle manager who sent them into the void in the first place. They save Deadpool’s collapsed timeline and return home. Blade and the gang recover in their own timeline, rewarding mainly off-screen. Everything is split and our vaguely twinned duo can happily be friends.
And a post-credits scene can’t change that… or can it?
There is a scene towards the end Deadpool and WolverineIts credits scroll.
In it, we see Deadpool at TVA headquarters. established as loki, the TVA is essentially the police who watch every parallel timeline in the multiverse and make sure nothing goes sideways. Also established loki — and the many Marvel movies that deal with the splintering multiverse — TVA is susceptible to serious stupidity. (Frankly, they’re not very good at their jobs.) They’re also an authoritarian entity that imposes their will on this timeline and the countless people who inhabit it, so you don’t have to feel bad for them when they screw up.
Deadpool breaks the fourth wall; He wants to clear something up. Although he insulted Cassandra Nova and blamed Johnny Storm, he states that he was not responsible for Storm’s death, even though it appeared that he was. He claims that he only repeated what Storm said when he captured them.
To prove his point, he rewinds TVA surveillance footage and shows us what really happened. Sure enough, Johnny Storm unleashes a cuss-filled, ranch-heavy solo — delivered in Evans’ native Boston accent, no less — that includes fellatio, analingus, Juggernaut discharge, and disparaging comments about Cassandra’s baldness. He tells Deadpool that he can repeat it but if he does he will risk being skinned alive because he is too scary. Innocent with the face of mercy!
Perhaps more importantly, he apparently has access to TVA headquarters and apparently its timeline-jumping technology. By the logic and structure of this complex universe, that means Deadpool could show up and snark at any MCU property (which, obviously, Marvel wants you to know). For now, though, he’s content to show you Chris Evans talking absolutely dirty.
