After “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” no other Marvel movie has managed to touch the audience in the way Marvel is known for. Well, hold your horses, because Deadpool and Wolverine will make Marvel haters cry. Nothing makes a Marvel fan happier than watching everyone’s favorite actors team up with a very competent director to make a movie about two characters that they absolutely love. Whenever Marvel makes a movie or a series out of pure love for the character and not solely for the purpose of making money—such as “Iron Man 1,” “Avengers: End Game,” or “Loki” seasons 1 and 2—they always end up being masterpieces.
Setting the Scene
The Deadpool and Wolverine movie even made Kevin Feige say the F-word three times in front of a jam-packed audience at CinemaCon. He exclaimed, “I hope you don’t mind if I say it’s f***ing awesome. It’s f***ing awesome, and the reason I can say it’s f***ing awesome is because it’s an R-rated movie.” Another thing that is “f***ing awesome” now, in this latest CinemaCon, Kevin Feige and director Shawn Levy have shown 9 minutes of exclusive footage from Deadpool and Wolverine. Shawn Levy has confirmed that although it’s very much a Deadpool movie, this is not really Deadpool 3, and the reason being that they won’t be continuing the plot or the story that we’ve seen in the first two Deadpool movies. Yes, we will see the previous characters pop up; in fact, almost every one of them, but once Deadpool gets grabbed by the TVA, he will be officially introduced into the MCU; therefore, this movie will be its own entity, and that’s why Shawn Levy labels this movie as singular rather than calling it a typical sequel.
Exclusive Footage Breakdown
In those 9 minutes of exclusive footage straight from the movie, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier’s” music plays in the background. Wade Wilson sells used cars and is sitting in the back seat between two kids of a car that he’s trying to sell. He curses about the car while describing it and jokes that he doesn’t have a lot of vaginal sex, which absolutely offends the family of four. Then we see Rob Delaney reprising his role as Peter and talking to Wade in the locker room. Peter suggests that Wade should go back to being a superhero, but Wade says, “I’m done, and I’m fine with being done,” although he does admit, “Is this the life I always imagined for myself? No.” Elsewhere in New York, Peter and Wade ride bikes. “We are Deadpool,” Peter tells him, which Wade disputes.
Now, someone across the street is taking photos of them, and Wade notices. Cut to inside Wade’s apartment, a surprise birthday party is waiting for him, and here Wade makes a joke, saying, “If this was 5 years ago, you’d all be dead.” Meanwhile, Dopinder is telling some sort of a story to Shatterstar, but Shatterstar is not having fun.
We then see Blind Al asking Wade about his sales and getting impatient about waiting for money from him, and then she says, “I pray every day that fire finds your body and finishes the job that God didn’t have the nuts to do.” Now unbeknownst to Al, Wade did try to kill himself by blasting himself up in the second movie. Al then wants to do some cocaine, and Wade says, “Cocaine is the one thing Feige said is off-limits.” Then we see Colossus watching “Great British Bake Off,” Negasonic and Yukio are still together, and Wade catches up with Vanessa, who’s seeing a guy named Dermot.
Now in “Deadpool 2,” Wade left no stone unturned trying to bring Vanessa back to life, but here in this movie, it seems like they’ve broken up, and Vanessa is now seeing someone else, but she was one of the most integral parts of why “Deadpool 1” and “2” worked. Then we see Wade giving a toast, thanking everyone, just like in the scene in the trailer. He makes a wish and blows out the candle, and someone knocks on the door, and it’s the TVA. Wade thinks they’ve ordered strippers, and the pruning sticks are for pegging. “Pegging isn’t new for me, friendo, but it is for Disney,”
A New Direction for Deadpool
Wade then wakes up to find Paradox sitting across from him. Paradox is a presiding judge in the comics and has two other colleagues who you probably heard about, and they are Mr. Mobius and Mr. Orobouros. In the comics, Paradox says, “We’re in charge of defending what’s known as the sacred timeline,” and as he was about to explain more, Wade interrupts him and says, “That’s a f*** ton of exposition for a threequel. Is this because I used Cable’s time device?” So Wade is acknowledging that it’s a lot of information to digest at one go and even references the events of “Deadpool 2” where he used Cable’s time device to change the course of history. Paradox tells him that yes, we are aware of it, but that’s not the reason he was brought here.
Paradox claims that Wade can save the entire sacred timeline, as he says, “We’re really a watchdog organization; we’re in charge of defending the sacred timeline, and you have been chosen for a higher purpose, one that could save the entire sacred timeline.” Wade then replies, “I suppose I’m going to Marvel at how cinematic it is with a load of indiscriminate, gratuitous cameos.”
Paradox then shows footage of Captain America on the screens, and Wade salutes him, and footage from “Thor 2” where Loki is dying, but instead of Loki, we see Deadpool dying in Thor’s arms, and Paradox tells him that this happens in the distant future, and this immediately shocks Wade. Now, I wonder how our Deadpool ended up with Thor? Is it possible that Noobmaster from “Avengers: Endgame” is actually Wade Wilson, and that’s why Thor is crying over his body? Wade then proceeds to say this epic dialogue: “I’m the Messiah. I am Marvel Jesus,”
After saying this, Wade runs to the camera, pulls the mic into the frame, headbutts the lens, and breaks it. He grabs a microphone, saying, “F*** you, Fox, I’m going to Disneyland.” Wade then gets a whole new suit in another room from a man with a stylish beard and some extra booty spanks, and here we learn that Deadpool’s katanas are now made of adamantium.
Epic Conclusions and Hints at Future Marvel Projects
The footage cuts to another scene. Wolverine and Deadpool are riding together, and Deadpool mocks his suit, saying, “The X-Men make you wear that? Friends don’t let friends leave the house looking like they play for the Los Angeles Rams,” and hearing this, Wolverine says, “Shut the f*** up.” Another piece of footage was shown during the event, but I’m not sure if that is a part of the film or was exclusively recorded for this event, and it goes like this: Deadpool and Wolverine are walking through a tunnel. Deadpool says to Logan, “So, I heard Secret Wars is finally going to introduce…” and then a phone starts ringing. Wolverine pushes Deadpool out of the way and looks directly into the camera and says, “Hey, Bub, you’re in a movie theater, turn off your f***ing phone,” followed by more obscenities, and afterwards, but then Deadpool jumps back into the frame and says, Hearing Wolverine talk that way makes his dick vibrate, and Deadpool even applauds Wolverine for his first ever fourth wall break. “Nice fourth wall break, didn’t think he had it in him.” Now, this footage was likely shot exclusively for this event, but there are chances that they might just play this before the movie starts in theatres, and I love how Deadpool began the conversation saying, “I heard Secret Wars is finally going to introduce…” and you just know immediately that he did that to grab everyone’s attention because no Marvel fans would continue using their phones if they hear someone talk about Secret Wars on the big screen.
