Welcome back to New Rockstars, I'm Eric Voss, and now that Deadpool and Wolverine is on Disney+, we decided to follow up our breakdown from July with an expanded version to include all the new, even harder to spot details now that we were able to pause the movie and truly go frame by frame, which we did. In this video, I'm gonna include all the stuff that I found before, as well as all the new things we found, including deleted scenes, and just some little tiny morsels of moments that are only noticeable now, including, like, every bit of bone fragment that shows up in this movie. Thank you to Bokksu for sponsoring this video. will have more to say about their tasty treats later on.
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This is actually from the 2016 Deadpool film, the moment in the final battle when Angel Dust has punched Colossus past Deadpool's head in that scrapyard. Somehow, it's kind of like Deadpool is dodging Captain America's shield, if you consider the two moments linked in that way. And it kind of sets up Deadpool's salute of Steve Rogers, followed by getting Chris Evans'Johnny Storm killed in this movie.
And starting with Chris Evans here, and ending with Chris Evans in the post-credits scene, just makes a really nice bookend to the film. And also, since this is Ryan Reynolds'first Marvel Disney movie, I also like to think he could be trolling Disney for editing Gina Carano off of their payroll. Also, at the top of the A in Marvel...
Marvel is now Carol Monica and Kamala Khan from The Marvels. And as the word pulls away from us, the M now contains a shot of Deadpool in this movie, beckoning Logan from the back of that Honda Odyssey when they're in the void later on. Now over this, we hear Deadpool humming along with Michael Cicchino's theme music. This is the red backdrop turns into the texture of Deadpool's suit and Marvel and studios turn red and yellow to match this movie's title Deadpool and Wolverine. Now back when Ryan Reynolds announced this film in September 2022 he and Hugh Jackman promised that they wouldn't touch the events of the 2017 Logan film, but here he proves that he was completely trolling us.
Marvel's so stupid. So Deadpool is kind of summing up the whole buyout of Fox's film and TV properties by Disney back in 2018 to 2019. Marvel originally had sold the film rights to the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and Daredevil and Elektra to Fox in the late 90s. The X-Men and Deadpool films occupied a separate cinematic universe than Kevin Feige's MCU, which has been owned by Disney since 2009. But Fox was worried after a number of less than stellar performances of films like 2015's Fantastic Four. Fantastic Four reboot attempt, and just what they felt was the declining popularity of the X-Men franchise after the departure of Hugh Jackman.
In recent years, all we've really gotten are cameos by Patrick Stewart, Charles Xavier, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Kelsey Grammer as Beast in the Marvel's post-credits scene. But Deadpool and Wolverine is the first of these Fox properties to really get its own film under the Marvel Studios brand. And it really reunites Kevin Feige with Hugh Jackman, who met on the set of the first X-Men film, where a young Kevin Feige got his start as an associate producer.
Dead. Deadpool continues, I know what you're wondering. How are we going to do this without dishonoring Logan's memory? And I'll tell you how. We're not.
And I just like that this movie begins with Deadpool speaking directly to us, who have been following every little thing that Brian Reynolds has said on social media. And the fact that he's not really paying that much respect to Logan's gravesite now makes us wonder, since we've seen Agatha all along, and learned that Lady Death is in the MCU that if Deadpool desecrating Logan's corpse could be something death will take offense to. Especially when the Agatha series take on death was that she is also the green witch who represents the cycle of decay and regrowth and thus wouldn't want a corpse.
being dug back up. I only mention it because Deadpool and Death totally have a fling in the comics. If these two ever meet in Avengers Secret Wars, this moment with Wolverine's corpse needs to come back up, especially since in the Logan film, when Logan dies and says, so this is what it feels like, and the screenplay says that he's reacting to, quote, a flicker of wonder, I just like the idea that Logan might have been seeing the flicker of Death's green flame torch. So this opening scene takes Deadpool back through the snowy forest of North Dakota near the Canadian border.
This is Logan's gravesite from the 2017 Logan film. The final scenes in Logan near the Canadian border were actually filmed at the remote Corkins Lodge in northern New Mexico near Chama. It looks like they recreated those woods on a backlot set and used VFX to recreate the mountainous background.
They included the same felled tree that Wolverine died upon and the Reaver truck that the young mutant Richter overturned with an earthquake. We hear the platters 1959 Only You as Deadpool flings dirt past this specific heart mug and we actually find out later that Deadpool took this from the TVA clerk Ralph who's played by James Bond. James Dryden. This is the first of many references.
in the film to the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. I like, I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. Because I'm the real article.
What you see is what you get. And I love that Ryan Reynolds shouts out that moment because that was really the first emotional moment of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. And Ryan Reynolds mirrors it when Wolverine rails against Deadpool in the Honda Odyssey later.
It's also the sad moment in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles because Del says, my wife likes me, and you only realize later why that's so sad and why Del stuttered on that initial I like me. By the way, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles the best Thanksgiving movie. Watch it this month.
It's so good. So Deadpool sits beside Logan's adamantium covered skeleton leaning against the same tree where Logan was impaled. Now, while all the other tissue has decayed, the adamantium has all kind of kept it in place. Logan's adamantium skeleton still has a piece of tree branch stuck through the rib cage. Now, it's unlikely that the kids in the 2017 Logan film would have buried him with that still sticking out of his body.
So it suggests that Deadpool probably re-impaled the corpse on that tree when he was raging. Jean against it. Deadpool says, Can you imagine the fun, the chaos, the residuals?
And then he puppets Logan's skull to respond to him. G'day, mate. There's nothing that'll bring me back to life faster than a big bag of metal cash. It recalls the opening words of the 2016 Deadpool movie when Deadpool was seated on the overpass and invoked Hugh Jackman using a similar Australian accent. Whose balls did I have to fondle to get my very own movie?
And let me tell you, he's got a nice pair of smooth criminals. Now, this joke about residuals and later jokes that you'll see throughout this movie, like death by day player, I believe point to an original draft of this movie with jokes that Ryan Reynolds just kept in the script, perhaps because the writer's strike that started in May 2023 prohibited him from doing any further passes on the script. And I think in that previous version of the script, before Kevin Feige added the TVA's void from the Loki series to the script, that the original idea might have been that the second act was actually going to take place in a setting that was called development hell. And that's why. why the only characters who show up from past Fox franchises are characters who really had no future and were just kind of stuck in development hell.
And that's why specifically Channing Tatum's Gambit was born in this place. Maybe I was born here. It's hard to know for sure. So when you rewatch Deadpool and Wolverine, I invite you to just kind of think about the original version of this movie and how it's really just like a satire of the way Hollywood studios develop these franchises and just leave so many storylines on the development shelf and never do anything with them. But here in the forest, the TVA time doors open up and a squad of TVA hunters come through them.
Now the TVA uniforms in this movie have changed from the hunter uniforms that we saw in the Loki series. In Loki, the pants and shirts included harlequin patterns of black and burnt orange. They never covered their faces in masks and the armor was emblazoned with the TVA logo.
But while they have some numbers on their helmets, they don't have the alphanumeric numbers that like B-15 had. And I think it points to Paradox's division of the TVA being off the books. Like kind of a black ops that he oversees where the cops of this side of the TVA hide their badge numbers and kind of conceal their identities wearing masks. like this Deadpool raises his hand from behind the tree shouting wait a callback to him doing this from behind the SUV on the freeway in the 2016 film which led to the 12 bullet countdown sequence this movie heightens that with Wolverine's bones lead agent calls out yes he uses Wade's full name from the comics Wade Winston Wilson his middle name is Winston his initials are WWW Wade promises not to use any of his weapons but then tells us there are two 206 bones in the human body. 207 if I'm watching Gossip Girl.
This is Ryan Reynolds shouting out his wife, Blake Lively, who starred in Gossip Girl and cameos in this movie as Lady Deadpool. Wade shouts his catchphrase from the previous films. Here we go.
Maximum effort. And then we hear NSYNC's Bye Bye Bye, now perhaps the most iconic needle drop of the film. So much so that NSYNC retitled their YouTube upload of this music video as Original Video from Deadpool and Wolverine. This is also the music that plays in Cyclops'car when Wolverine, Rogue, Bobby, and Pyro take it out in 2003's X2. I don't like uncomfortable silences.
What are you doing? So by using this music Deadpool is kind of trolling Wolverine with the song that he hated. Ryan Reynolds choreographer and dance double Nick Pauly did all the inserts of Deadpool doing NSYNC's perfect choreography and Deadpool tells Wolverine skeleton okay peanut I guess we're getting that team up after all.
Peanut is Deadpool's recurring nickname for Wolverine in this movie, and it's also what Scott Lang calls his daughter Cassie in the Ant-Man movies. But as Wade says the Peanut line, it looks like he continues to puppet Logan's skull in this kind of comedic puppet reaction. Now the first adamantium rib that Deadpool breaks off makes this kind of metallic sound effect that's similar to the original snicked sound effect.
Now the red blood splashing on the white snow is just kind of beautiful to look at. It's such a contrast to anything we've seen in the MCU before, and I think Sean Levy decided to make it snowing in the scene just so that the blood would show up more vibrantly. It's actually a pretty clever way to deliver on fans'expectations of an R-rated film. The MPAA is actually far more tolerant of vibrance.
violence in movies, and we'll let you go pretty far. And general audiences are less likely to complain about horrific violence, perhaps because, you know, they see it on the news all the time, than they are about explicit, like, sexual imagery and jokes. Ryan Reynolds'sexual jokes in this movie actually go over a lot of kids heads. You can actually see a lot of the craftsmanship in this movie is just like how far they were able to push the line and still make it feel like a Marvel movie that a lot of people were okay taking their kids to. When Deadpool uses Wolverine's adamantium skeleton to kill the TVA agents, when the adamantium skull shatters, on the roof of the mouth are the numbers 24601. This is the prisoner number of Jean Valjean, Hugh Jackman's character in 2012's Les Miserables.
This detail appears under the name of the VFX producer, and I'm sure she was really proud of this Easter egg. Ryan Reynolds says that during a screening with Hugh Jackman, he whispered in Hugh's ear to look closely at the upcoming skull fragment to see if he could see anything, and Hugh spotted the numbers immediately and was very pleased. At one point, Deadpool says, Meridona, from outside the box! This is a reference to Diego Maradona, an Argentine footballer from the 80s who passed away in 2020, one of the all-time greatest.
And given Ryan Reynolds, welcome to Wrexham Series, Reynolds just seems to have a soft spot for footballers. Deadpool uses one of Wolverine's bones as that 200. seventh bone shoving it in a tba agent's crotch and sliding his hand up and down suggestively and i love how he just interacts with the text of the titles like there's always floating text shadows on other objects during this credit sequence and at one point nick paulie as deadpool kind of shakes his butt and knocks the letters of P and A from the Paul of Paul Wernick. And you'll notice that one of the credits reads, Produced by Kevin Feige and Lauren Schuller Donner. Feige actually got his start as an assistant to the longtime Hollywood producer, Lauren Schuller Donner, wife to Superman director Richard Donner, and one of the greatest Hollywood producers of a lot of films in the 80s and 90s that were amazing. Like, just her track record is one of the best.
But after X-Men in 2000, Kevin Feige left the Donner company to work for Marvel full-time as a producer. So... really just including her name here isn't just a courtesy. Lauren Schuller Donner is a legacy producer credited on all X-Men and Wolverine movies because she was that crucial to the franchise. And I just love that they credit her and Feige together here.
So Deadpool reassembles Wolverine's claws on his forearms, which must have taken him quite a bit of time to do. Like, I imagine he would have had to strap one part of it on and then go over to kill a few TVA agents and then, you know, go diligently strap on another one and then probably all fell apart, so we had to start over. But it was that worth it for him to cosplay as his soulmate.
Also, Deadpool uses tendons and ligaments to do this. Like, he had to pick those off of Wolverine's corpse. Those would have been the same tendons and ligaments that would snap into place as the claws would snicked out.
He recreates the anatomical flex that Wolverine would do every time he did this. And Deadpool does. does it right here striking the classic Wolverine pose which we will see Wolverine do for real later in the movie so Deadpool pauses here to take us back and the camera rotates around the side of him also around the title text of the movie to show Deadpool's butt this is a callback to the first edit away from the freeway sequence in the 2016 movie cutting from Deadpool's butt to Wade's ass earlier which Reynolds and the screenwriters called their ass to ass Requiem for a dream transition by starting this film in the middle of the action and then flashing back to how we got got there, Deadpool and Wolverine's first act uses similar structuring as the 2016 film which opened on the freeway and then cut back to Wade's days as a mercenary before he became Deadpool. And yes, as we've seen in past films, we do see Deadpool's guns have his Deadpool face on the bottom of the clips. So here we rewind time using Cable's time travel wristwatch device from Deadpool 2. And yes again, this is an actual branded watch.
It's a Carl E. Bucherer watch. Apparently David Leitch puts these watches in multiple of his films and that's why it was in Deadpool 2. which David Leitch directed, and we review everything Deadpool did in the first two films. But in reverse order, we see how he fell in love with Vanessa, how he got cancer, how he sought alternative treatments, and then Francis, aka Ajax, scarred Wade, but left him with healing abilities, which led to Wade hunting Francis. And one of the funniest details, by the way, of that is throughout that montage in the 2016 movie, Deadpool would always scream, where's Francis? And then kill people, and no one knew who Francis was, because that's not how they knew him.
Francis. That's his legal name. He...
He got Ajax from the dish soap. Also, when he met Colossus in Negasonic Teenage Warhead and then fought Francis on that scrapyard helicarrier. Then in Deadpool 2, when he lost Vanessa to the assassins and joined the X-Men, including Yukio, and helped save the young mutant Russell from Cable and formed the X-Force and watched most of them die and then joined forces with Cable to stop Russell from destroying the abusive orphanage and sacrificed himself. Logan style and then using Cable's time travel device to prevent his own death and then in the post-credits sequence continued to use the device to save Vanessa and then save Peter and Shatterstar and the X-Force and then shoot Ryan Reynolds in the head before making Green Lantern and killing his alternate self as Weapon 11 in 2015. X-Men Origins Wolverine. Those last few are what we've rewind back through here as we arrive to March 14th, 2018, Universe 616 Sacred Timeline.
It's Pi Day. This would be right before the snap in the MCU timeline, which occurs in May. 2018. Now you may ask, how was Deadpool able to use a device meant for time travel within a single timeline to hop across to a different universe? This movie doesn't really address that spotty logic, but Deadpool, we must acknowledge, is a meta character who can innately cross between universes when he starts to break the laws of physics like this. And maybe that unique quality is why the TVA extracted him from Universe 1005 to begin with. You guys already know how much we love Bokksu, the Japanese snack box, and they finally did it.
They made an advent calendar. It has everything you love about Bokksu, but taken up another notch for the holidays. As always, it's carefully curated with the best snacks that Japan has to offer, and it also has the coolest little authentic collectibles. Obviously, the idea with an advent calendar is that you count down the days until Christmas by opening one door each day.
I don't want to spoil too much of the surprise, but we'll give you a little taste of what's inside. 24 days of wonderful little surprises from Bokksu. Let's just kind of speed through them here. Oh, it's a little fox.
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If you wanna treat yourself to the best of Bokksu and support our channel, use our code. Rockstars 10 to get 10% off your own Bokksu advent calendar. Jon Favreau cameos in this film is a clean-shaven and de-aged Happy Hogan. Now, this would be about a few months after Happy moved out all of Tony's collections from Avengers Tower in Manhattan to the upstate New York compound, which we saw in Spider-Man Homecoming.
And it's why this office, which I assume is Tony Stark's office and not Happy Hogan's office, is filled with Easter eggs. Because he hasn't really found places to put all these relics and artifacts. We see the cover of Forbes from Iron Man 3 that features Pepper Potts with with the headline Pepper Pot stirs up Stark.
We see the prototype Captain America shield from Tony Stark's workshop that he used to prop up the machinery in Iron Man 2. There's the original face of Ultron, which was the first Iron Legion drone that Ultron had taken over, the one that was corroded by acid and sokovia. I theorize that Ultron's consciousness might still exist in that air-gapped head, so that Happy and Tony could kind of keep an eye on it, because somehow Ultron is going to come back. in the Vision Quest series. We see the swinging sticks desk ornament that drove Tony crazy in Iron Man 2. We see Tony's original arc reactor, the proof Tony Stark has a heart years before it would be placed on his funeral wreath in Avengers Endgame.
We see what looks like a Captain America trading card, perhaps the one that Nick Fury took from Agent Coulson's collection and smeared with blood to motivate the Avengers in the 2012 Avengers film. We also see Tony's Mark 5 suitcase suit from Iron Man 2, the one that Happy slid to him on the racetrack in Monaco. We see this golden statue in the shape of a mobile phone. Mobius strip inverted, the shape that would, five years after this, inspire Tony Stark to unlock the secrets of time travel and give the Avengers a way to undo the snap in Endgame. And I love this detail, the framed photo of Tony with Peter Parker that they took as a cover story around the time of Civil War, when Peter Parker was holding the Stark internship certificate upside down and Tony was putting rabbit ears behind Peter.
And the fact that Peter was holding that certificate inverted might have actually inspired Tony Stark to invert the Mobius strip. Now Tom Holland is conveniently covered in this shot because this is a Disney Marvel film and they they would need special permission from Sony to feature Tom Holland as Peter Parker in any form in this movie. I also appreciate the joke that Peter Parker's face is covered because no one remembers him after their memory wipe in Spider-Man No Way Home, but we have to remember that this scene is in 2018 and No Way Home will take place several years after this.
But in front of that photo, that's not an actual Iron Man helmet. This is an Iron Man 2 toy helmet from Hasbro. It's so cool that they put this in there because this is the toy helmet that the kid was wearing at the Stark Expo in Iron Man 2, the kid from Queens that Kevin Feige later established to be a young Peter Parker, according to Tom Holland, when Spider-Man Homecoming was coming out. So not only does this cement that connection in canon, on screen it tells us that Tobey Tony Stark always remembered that moment from the Stark Expo and made this connection himself, and he kept this toy to remember it.
I think also back in Iron Man 2, the actor who played the kid under the helmet was Jon Favreau's kid. And a poster in the hallway is the 1954 Stark Expo, which we saw Howard Stark promoting Walt Disney style and archive footage in Iron Man 2. It was this city of tomorrow. that inspired Tony to invent the new element that he would use to power his new arc reactor.
I love that Jon Favreau returns to this movie because he originally played Foggy Nelson in the 2003 Daredevil film with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, and it was on that film when he met Kevin Feige. Originally in the scene in Spider-Man No Way Home where Charlie Cox, Matt Murdock appears, they were going to ad-lib a reference to this history where Happy would have said he was trying to remember of something, but he was feeling... a little foggy. Wade nervously interviews for a position on the Avengers and apologizes to Happy Hogan for being caught smashturbating in the lobby of Stark Tower, which he says is when you take two Hulk hands and uh, Average the midsection.
I get it. Okay, thank you. Screenwriter Rhett Reese said that there were plans for all six original Avengers to appear in the sequence.
It would have involved Wade berating each of them after being rejected, and Peter was also supposed to appear in the scene and casually lift Mjolnir in the background. Because that guy is just packing all kinds of heat. But I love the mention of Avengers Tower here because I've always theorized that ever since Spider-Man No Way Home established that there was no Oscorp in the MCU, it kind of opened up this question of, well, then what spider bit Peter? We've never seen an origin story for Tom Holland's Peter Parker in the MCU. And I like the idea that it might have been irradiated by Bruce Banner's gamma lab that would have been an Avengers Tower in Midtown.
after they moved upstate in 2015, after Age of Ultron. And Peter maybe broke into that tower to snoop around, and that could have been one of many security breaches that led to Happy moving everything upstate. And that now was also how Wade got caught. It's also funny that Wade calls it Stark Tower and he beelined there looking for the Avengers and didn't know that they had moved upstate. Wade asks Happy if he was the Avengers'chauffeur and later asks if his superpower is parallel parking, reminding us of Happy's beginnings as Tony's driver in the earlier films.
But starting in Iron Man 3, Happy became the head of security. Wade mentions that he was originally Special Forces, an origin that Wade and Weasel talked about in the 2016 film, and mentions his team experience as the founder of the X-Force, who he said all perished due to what the police called gravity, but that that they didn't focus test well. We know that the members Peter and Shatterstar survived due to Wade's efforts in the post-credits sequence, but he doesn't want to lie to Happy that he originally did get all of them killed.
Wade says that Cable specifically didn't test well as well, which is... great because obviously Cable is played by Josh Brolin who also plays Thanos in this universe. So if he was brought over he'd be one of the several MCU actors who played multiple roles in this franchise. Happy says that Wade wants to be an Avenger because he needs it and that the Avengers do what they do because the world needs them. So this gives us Wade's whole motivation for this movie.
He's an outcast to the primetime MCU and a misfit toy from this home reality and he's vulnerable to false promises to be the savior of a community that rejected him. Yet ultimately he decides to stay and earth one triple zero five the universe that he's he started in and i also just like the line here not everybody's the world saving type i'm not and i'm happy yeah i'm not i'm happy Ha, just a great pun. So Deadpool returns to Universe 1005, the official numerical designation for the Fox Marvel Universe.
So this movie does something interesting by establishing that the worlds of the first two Deadpool films are in the universe of 1005, even though in the past there has been some thinking that the first and second Deadpool films belong to a separate universe that people online codified as Earth 41633. Now that universe is supposed to be in whatever the present day is, but it always had a kind of an unclear relationship with the rest of the Fox Marvel world of characters like in Deadpool 2. The cast of X-Men from Dark Phoenix, a movie set in 1992, cameoed in the X-Mansion of the present day. And Deadpool's Colossus is obviously different from the one played by Daniel Cudmore in X2 and in X-Men The Last Stand and in X-Men Days of Future Past. But clearly in Ryan Reynolds'mind, Deadpool and these characters just existed on the periphery of the X-Men history. That is kind of possible because the events of Days of Future Past did alter the Universe 1005 timeline so that we don't really know what happened in the modern X-Men history after the events of X-Men.
one until the happy ending depicted at the end of days of future past which was around 2024 so right now we are around 2024 in that revised one triple zero five universe after days future past now there was some confusion as people thought that we were also after the events of logan which was supposed to be set around the year 2029 when ryan reynolds initially pitched this movie he said this logan uh takes place in 2029 totally separate thing really what it is is paradox just looks at one triple zero five as a universe in which it's anchor, Wolverine dies at some point as an eventuality, which means that 1-triple-0-5 is marked for demolition. So, to answer the question, how is this movie set in 2024 if the events of the Logan film are set in 2029? Well, I guess we should acknowledge that James Mangold once said that Logan was really set in an alternate future from the other X-Men films, but, you know, this movie also seems to adopt the events of Logan back into the 1-triple-0-5 timeline.
But ultimately, Paradox is the one who tells Wade that his universe is dying because it's anchor being died. I past tense and paradox exists in the TVA, which is outside of time. In the TVA, they look at timelines not as a linear chain of events, but as part of a history where everything has been written already and everything in that history is contained in a closed book and is happening all at once. So it really wouldn't matter that Wade's birthday party was in 2024 and Logan's death was in 2029. The TVA just sees Universe 1005 as an already completed film series destined to end in decay when Logan dies in 2029, so the TVA TVA intervenes several years before that, 2024, to extract Deadpool, and that is when Paradox initiates his Time Ripper device in the TVA outpost below the street to expedite it.
When we see Deadpool at Wolverine's gravesite in North Dakota, Deadpool has only gotten there because he uses Paradox's TemPad to jump several years in the future from where he was at his birthday. And by the way, I'm pretty sure the gravesite is not precisely at 2029, but actually something like 2032 or later. Why?
Well, Logan's corpse has mostly decayed. Also, Laura has aged a bit, which obviously is just Daphne Keene's natural aging, but aging like that would not have happened in the void because in the Loki series, kid Loki never ages. Also from that gravesite area, Deadpool then makes a series of lateral jumps across the multiverse looking for a living Wolverine until he finds the worst Wolverine in the bar.
And that Wolverine later says he's 200 years old and Wolverine was canonically born in 1832. So that's that's how we get 2032. So Deadpool Wolverine set in 2024 when Wade is in the Vancouver area, then 2032 or later when we're at Wolverine's grave site, and then outside of time when we are in the TVA or the Void, and then in the 616 MCU secret timeline where we're hanging out with Happy Hogan, that's March 2018. Again, two months before the snap. Okay, so we see Deadpool now working at DriveMax, and there's a suit up montage parallel to the one we see later in the TVA, but he's wearing blue here instead of red. And in his locker is the book The Canadian Mounted. That's the sexy book that Deadpool...
Deadpool really enjoyed reading in the 2016 film and was seen reading in Deadpool 2. This was actually the book John Candy was reading in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. And again, Reynolds said that that film was a major inspiration for the buddy comedy energy of this movie. Wade staples a toupee to his head and test drives the Kia Carnival.
The mom- asks how it compares to the Honda Odyssey, which I'm pretty sure paid for a product placement in this movie, but as part of the deal, had to have been okay with Ryan Reynolds talking so much shit about it the whole film. It doesn't f***ing suck. Rob Delaney returns as Peter, who keeps Wade's suit in his locker, and will come back in an important role later in the film. Now, inside the locker door is a sticker for a magpie that I've said in the past kind of looks like the logo for Knotts County.
That's a football club that's a rival to Wrexham AFC, the club co-owned by Reynolds and Rob McElhinney, and both clubs are featured in their Welcome to Wrexham some docu-series. Wade and Peter bike back home on Wade Street, which is on the corner of Walker and Main. Walker could be a nod to Walker Scoble, who co-starred with Reynolds in Sean Levy's previous film, The Atom Project. Wade is photographed by TVA agents disguised as construction workers and surveyors.
They're currently in the process of setting up Paradox's Time Ripper device in the subway station below. Now, this block will later be the showdown of the final battle between Wade and the Deadpool Corps, and it's always cool when movies come full circle for their final acts, like the Heart of the City Hotel and the opening scene of The Matrix. It's the same hotel.
where Neo confronts Agent Smith in the final act. But you get the sense when you're watching this movie that they had to kind of contain a lot of the action on a pretty clear backlot set like this just so they could have all these cameos and to cover the street so that no drone cameras or leaks could get out. That's why you don't really see a lot of shadows on this set. They shot in the open air, but they covered it with a tarp because they knew a lot of attention would be on this movie and they wanted to avoid like spy cameras getting glimpses of anything. Wade walks into a surprise birthday party with Peter and everyone's there.
Blind Al, Vanessa. Vanessa, Dopinder, Colossus, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Yukio, Shatterstar, and Buck, who was the mercenary from the Sister Margaret's bar. According to the Kubler-Ross model, denial is just one of the five stages of grief. Jesus Christ, Buck. No more speaking lines for you.
And Wade actually calls back that no speaking rule in this scene after listing off a bunch of hot button political issues and then says this to Buck. No speaking lines, Buck. A little detail here, someone clearly sharpied some boobs on the wall.
I assume it was Wade. Now Wade's a apartment number is 17. I've talked about this before. 17, just kind of a weird recurring number in the MCU. It was one of the Winter Soldier activation words.
17A was a silo number in Avengers Campus that contained Tony Stark's Iron Spider armor in Infinity War. And in that same movie, T'Challa ordered to open Northwest Section 17 of Wakanda. And why does 17 keep coming up?
Well, it's just a weirdly specific prime number. And screenwriters will use the number 17 a lot because it's simultaneously a lot of something, but also not a ton of something. And here, 17 is just an indicator that Wade and Al can only afford to live in a building.
with a lot of units in it. Blind Al wants cocaine. In the first Deadpool film, Wade said there was 116 kilos of cocaine hidden in the apartment somewhere, which was right beside the cure for blindness.
And then in Deadpool 2, they call that back when the floorboard is lifted, showing Wade's cocaine near a container marked cure for blindness. Wade says, Cocaine is the one thing that Feige said is off limits. What about Bolivian marching power? They know all the sl- In terms they have a list even snowboarding even disco dust white girl interrupted even Forrest Bump Poker Shook I wouldn't even try powdered donuts.
Do you want to build a snowman? Yes I can't ah wade references one of disney's biggest hits frozen also in deadpool 2 wade observed how do you want to build a Snowman is the same melody as papa Can you hear me from barbara streisand's yentl because we know wade is a huge broadway nerd down to having a rent shirt. Wade learns that Vanessa is seeing someone new named Dermot who likes hiking. In the background you can hear Juice Newton's Angel of the Morning. That's a song that played over the opening shot of the 2016 film and the car crash.
On the walls of Wade and Al's apartment is print art that I pointed out. looks a lot like Roy Lichtenstein prints. Roy Lichtenstein was a 1960s pop artist known for his comic strip inspired parody art. One of these stills looks like the famous in the car painting, but it's been kind of reversed with the woman driving the car.
It's just some interestingly ironic set decoration for Wade's apartment as Deadpool's role in the Marvel movies is to kind of make the medium of comic book cinema as a lens through which he parodies the genre. And he subverts it by reversing roles just like this. Wade stands over the cake and says that all the people he loves are in this room, which leaves out we. weasel. T.J.
Miller was not brought back for this film, and he makes a wish. Now, this movie later references The Wizard of Oz, and as I pointed out before, Wizard of Oz is kind of the ultimate dream movie, right? It ends as kind of a wish fulfillment thing, as the character goes through an analog of their waking life, and then ends the movie waking up from that dream and questioning what they went through.
And it's just interesting to note that this movie follows a similar structure. Wade makes a wish, immediately the knock on the door happens right after he blows the candle out, and then he comes back into his waking life, reunited with his family. What is Wade's wish?
To be a Marvel hero who matters, an Avenger who's needed. And then from that wish he is transported into a magical dream world with all kinds of fantasy oddballs. Also a little dog too. And he's kind of torn between warring witch and wizard figures. And ultimately Deadpool wakes up from the dream just to realize there's no place like home.
Now in the hallway, Wade jokes that the TVA are erotic dancers or sex workers, thinking that their pruning sticks are sex toys. Pegging isn't new for me friendo, but it is for Disney. Now pegging is not not new to Deadpool, Vanessa wore a strap-on for the International Women's Day during that calendar girl montage, and Wade breaks the fourth wall by looking directly at the camera, a meta-move reserved only for characters who can break through to the audience, whether it's Wanda Maximoff, or She-Hulk, or Agatha Harkness, or the Russo brothers, nephews, and that creepy scene in Endgame at the diner. Wade is brought to the TVA, and he meets Paradox, played by Matthew McFadden, Tom Wamsgans from Succession.
Mr. Paradox comes from She-Hulk Vol. 2 No. 3 from 2005. He's one of the judges of the TVA, who is very quick to do what he wants to do. quickly killed when he was hit with a retro cannon.
Like all the named characters in the TVA and the MCU, the live-action versions are more fully realized characters, and I hope there's more of a future to this character. In the Loki series, we learn that the TVA was created by He Remains, a variant of the time-traveling villain Kang the Conqueror, who, we learn, uses the TVA to prune all possible branch histories that could lead to rival Kang variants that could result in a multiversal war breaking out. In season two, the TVA's temporal loom gets overwhelmed, leading to the spaghettification of realities, until Loki is able to figure out a way to bypass He Remains equation.
equation, sacrificing himself, going toward the temporal loom, and physically holding all strands of time in his hands, and sitting alone at the nexus of eternity as the god of stories, presiding over all of existence, alone. With Loki in charge, the TVA should no longer have to violently prune branch timelines, but nurture a flowing multiverse. But Paradox does not vibe with the new marching orders.
Paradox explains that Wade's messing around with Cable's time travel device isn't why Wade's there, and he says this. walk with me that snap kind of sounded like the snap from the disney plus bumper animation actually a more recent look ahead promo for disney plus's 2025 marvel releases seem to indicate a connection between what is literally on the tva screens and just the actual disney plus titles that we choose from from the disney plus loading page and i think between this and the robot Kevin in the Disney vault on the lot in Burbank. I think Marvel Studios is suggesting that there is just this meta plane of existence where the TVA and Kevin are able to watch the MCU back on their screens through the exact framing and editing that these titles were made with. Now there's...
There's actually a deleted scene here with Wade and Paradox in the elevator. Please, you think I haven't seen Doctor Ant in the Quantumverse of Madness? I wish they kept this scene. I love this joke of Wade mixing up the Doctor Strange of the Multiverse of Madness and Quantumania titles, as many casual viewers of the Marvel films do. Also, I find it interesting that Paradox calls the 616 Secret Timeline the only true universe, and that it's guarded zealously by the TVA.
Despite Marvel reworking its plan from Kang to Doctor Doom for Avengers 5 and 6, I think Paradox is a rogue agent enough that he- he might come back as a minion serving Victor Von Doom, if Doom were to ever take over the TVA. Paradox explains that Wade has been selected for some mysterious higher purpose to save the Sacred Timeline from this. From a possibly grisly fate sometime in the future. That possible grisly fate sounds like what is awaiting the MCU in Doomsday.
Paradox turns on the video wall of screens that show clips of Steve Rogers Captain America from MCU past We see him fighting Loki in Germany in the 2012 Avengers and wielding Mjolnir in the Battle of Earth and Endgame Also leading the Howling Commandos through the door in that World War 2 mission against Hydra in the first cap film in 2011 on other screens we see the sacred timeline as well as some security cameras monitoring various parts of the tva and we see a shot of captain america's shield we see steve saluting for the first cap film while on the right you can see the airport battle from civil war with wanda and black panther face scene off. Then we see Wade saluting as Cap fights Batroc the Leaper in the opening fight of Winter Soldier. Then in the middle screen, we see the Avengers leaping to the right in their Hydra battle in the beginning of Age of Ultron.
And then on the far right, we see Cap in close-up when he was facing Bucky in the Captain America Winter Soldier final battle on the Hydra helicarrier. Paradox says that Wade can be a hero among heroes, and a new image appears on screen showing Thor cradling Deadpool's body in a similar pose as Thor holding Loki when he thought Loki had died on Svartalfheim in 2013's Thor The Dark World. Is that Thor?
Is he crying? You notice how the music has shifted from the Avengers theme to an Asgardian melody. And Paradox says this. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. That happens in the distant future.
Again, we are getting some hints at what we might see in Secret Wars. And it's all but confirmed. that Wolverine and Deadpool are going to return for that crossover event. And I just love how this sets up the running gag in this movie of Deadpool always waking up from naps gasping, God of Thunder and Thor, which I think could be Deadpool dreaming, aka peering into the lives of his multiversal selves, because that's what multiverse of madness said dreaming is. And every time now Deadpool has a dream, he's going to wonder, is that?
what I'm gonna go through at some point in these multiversal events? Deadpool says, The power in the Marvel Universe is about to change forever. He is riffing on Dwayne The Rock Johnson's overstated pledge when promising Black Adam, The hierarchy of power in the DC Universe is about to change. That only gets funnier and funnier over the years because Johnson was saying that Black Adam would be so game-changing just because it brought back Henry Cavill for a cameo as Superman in the post credit scene and he even spoiled it in the marketing and the movie still underperformed. But Johnson remains a denial.
about that and poor Henry Cavill would soon be recast. Which of course Deadpool addresses in one of the best moments of this film. Deadpool says, I am Jesus.
Yeah he uses the same pausing in the words as Tony Stark does when he makes his big move in Endgame. Iron Man. So Wade headbutts the camera, breaking the glass of it, literally cracking the fourth wall, and he says, suck it, Fox. I'm going to Disneyland.
And right after this, Deadpool would be meetable at Disneyland's Avengers Campus and actually made a barely controversial joke in a that would have had to have been approved by Disneyland's people that seemed to be making light of a wrongful death lawsuit that someone filed against a downtown Disney restaurant that Disney tried initially to force into arbitration based on the fact that the plaintiff had signed up for a Disney Plus account in the past. So Deadpool gets a new suit from the TVA tailor with adamantium katanas. And once again, the grip at the base of the blade have little Deadpool eyes so that when Wade stabs people like in the base, a second set of little Deadpool eyes would be the last thing they see.
Now the butts of the grips used to read B and Arthur as Deadpool named his swords after his favorite golden girl. But now if you look closely, they are D, R, and S, B, which have been confirmed to stand for Dorothy, Rose, Sophia, and Blanche. So now we get all four golden girls.
Also, as before, the muzzle on his gun is etched with the words smile, wait for the flash, and a throwback to the gratuitous suit-up montages in late 90s Batman movies, we get a lot of close-ups of Deadpool's crotch and butt, with the tailor's white-gloved hand spanking and goosing him way too much. Also, if you listen closely, at one point you hear Deadpool's junk squeaking like a dog toy. Over this is Glamorous by Fergie, playing as Deadpool shows off his new costume. FYI, your tailor is a predator. And yes, your underwear is getting tighter.
You calling your wife? HR. Does your wife work in HR? This TVA agent, played by James Dryden, is the one with the I Like Me heart mug. Deadpool.
who calls Paradox's TemPad an Amazon Fire Phone? Let's power up your little Amazon Fire Phone there and zip me back home so I can let my friends know that they've been upgraded. There is a recurring thought in movies and TV shows where if characters have phones other than an iPhone, it could be a clue that they are secretly a villain.
This belief came from Rian Johnson for Knives Out, who said that Apple, for that movie, only let him show an iPhone on screen if it was used by a non-villainous character. But I have to debunk this constantly because since 2017, we have seen countless examples of villainous characters using iPhones. Like the characters in- and Penguin are all pretty evil and they use iPhones.
If you watch any Apple TV Plus series, like Ted Lasso, the really asshole characters in that show also use iPhones. But it's worth pointing out here because, you know, the rule doesn't end up being true for Paradox. On various screens in the TVA up in the corner, you can see our friends at the Cantina Creative VFX team adding little TVA company flourishes, since they're the ones who created a lot of the interface designs for the first season of Loki.
And here, you can see the slogan, for all time, always, that they put in there. Just love the attention to detail. Paradox explains that Wade won't be able to take any of his friends with him, showing him his dying timeline using a similar interface that we saw in the Loki series. The line is decaying. Paradox says this is what happens when the universe loses its anchor being, saying this.
An anchor being is an entity of some sort. vital importance that when they die, their whole world slowly withers out of existence. Now the concept of an anchor being seems like it's coming from Jonathan Hickman's Time Runs Out storyline, which really leads to the 2015 Secret Wars crossover event.
Owen Reese is Molecule Man, and this guy is the one who's guys installed in every universe by the Beyonders as an experimental ticking time bomb to trigger the death of that universe. But this idea of an anchor is more of an organic natural phenomenon that every universe has at some point in its history a being whose very life, even if that life doesn't begin until billions of years into that universe's history, anchors the universe in existence. And when that anchor dies, the universe begins to unravel. It's not immediate.
It takes thousands of years, but it is doomed. So we are obviously asking who the anchor of the 616 MCU is or was. Was it Tony Stark, or Steve Rogers, or Wanda Maximoff?
Kevin Feige once called Doctor Strange, quote, the anchor of the Marvel Cinematic Universe during Benedict Cumberbatch's Walk of Fame square ceremony. But I have made a strong case in the past for Kang, slash, Nathaniel Richards, slash, Victor Timely being the MCU's anchor being. That's one way the MCU could still make what they have done already with Kang still have importance to the future while moving past the character. Paradox says that the anchor of 1-0-0-0-5, Deadpool's universe, and the universe of the Fox X-Men was Wolverine. And he pulls up Logan's death from...
the end of the 2017 Logan film and all the TVA techs watch it like it's their favorite movie when Logan says his dying words, so this is what it feels like. Paradox mouths along. Paradox says that he was tasked with the overseeing of the death of Universe 10005, but that he doesn't want to wait for it to happen naturally, saying, We used to just prune these things.
Simple, elegant, efficient. But I'm told the TVA doesn't like to do that anymore. Well I do. And no matter what my so-called superiors say, the multiverse does not need a babysitter. We need a mercy killer.
Yeah. Now, during this line, notice there's an insert close-up of Matthew McFadden on what looks like a composited background, making me think that they added this extra line about the TVA's new policy late into production after Loki Season 2 finished. Now, the babysitter that Paradox refers to would be B-15, but she's carrying out the will of the God of Stories, Loki.
So we don't know if Paradox knows that Loki has taken over the TVA, or if he only sees the TVA from the perspective of middle management. Paradox's resistance tells us how dangerous the TVA really is, because it has internal divisions of factions that resist the change. that we thought had taken over the organization and can covertly use parts of it for their own personal agendas.
Paradox unveils his mercy-killing machine, the Time Ripper, saying this. It will allow me to destroy the space-time matrix of your universe. Now, at a different part of the movie, Paradox and B-15 will refer to this device as an unsanctioned time ripper, suggesting that there are actually multiple time rippers in TVA storage, which suggests that the device was not Paradox's invention, and was actually created by someone else in the TVA for some other purpose.
And I think it might have been Ouroboros, OB. Now, later when we see the time ripper, its insides make it look like it's composited, or perhaps charged, by dozens of reset charge canisters. We saw these in the Loki series.
Each one of these could prune a single branch of the timeline before that branch crossed the threshold, so it makes sense that it would take dozens of them, powered by columns of matter and antimatter, to completely spaghettify the entire trunk of a reality. Deadpool headbutts Paradox and leaps to grab Paradox's temp pad, nearly sitting on Ralph, but opening up a time door, taking the mug with him. So Deadpool now rewinds back to the opening scene in North Dakota. The lead hunter says this, Logan was a hero, and the only thing worth a s*** to ever come out of Canada. And it's pretty funny because they are right by the Canadian border, Deadpool uses that to break his rule to not use weapons in this awesome bounce shot to kill him.
And they say, They can stop! Obviously a reference to Logan director James Mangold. And we also hear this line. Of course, a reference to Will Smith yelling at Chris Rock before slapping him at the Oscars. So Deadpool now goes on a montage set to Huey Lewis in the news as the power of love, searching the multiverse for a new living Wolverine.
This was a song that played in Back to the Future over shots. of Marty entering Hill Valley Town Square, so it's kind of like a good time travel montage song. Deadpool arrives in a bar with axe throwing and meets a Wolverine of comic accurate height, 5'3". It's Hugh Jackman shrunken with VFX. Wolverine was given this height in the comics to better reflect a stocky Wolverine-like stature and it's always been an issue since they cast the towering 6'2 Hugh Jackman. For this shot they actually use the body of 4'10 actor Luke Bennett who has played roles in movies like Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves. Next we see Deadpool in a fight with a fiery alley with grungy post-apocalyptic graffiti. The Wolverine here is Age of Apocalypse Wolverine, who uses the alias of Weapon X. This is from Earth-295, when Apocalypse has taken over North America and decimated the planet. Jackman here has the same sleeveless black leather suit with the red stripes and the tangled hair and the metal stump on one arm that we don't see initially here, releases three claws just from the stump. Next, Deadpool finds a casino patch. Wolverine's alter ego, who gambles and wears an eyepatch and dresses like James Bond from the comics, patches an alias used by Wolverine. since the 80s but recently in 2022 we saw a solo run written by larry hama following wolverine on a recon mission to madripoor in the princess bar under the patch alias we also see deadpool walking up to old man logan wolverine who blows deadpool away with a shotgun old man logan is one of the craziest elseworld comic storylines that inspires this movie in other ways deadpool lands in a field of red skulls to find wolverine being crucified on a giant yellow x this is from chris claremont's uncanny x-men number 251 from 1989 when wolverine is being tortured by the reaver Which was actually the name given to the mercenaries from the 2017 Logan film this giant Lox will also return as a visual when we arrive in the void later But they actually built this set practically there was like a mound of red Skulls that Deadpool landed on and they actually strapped a barely clothed Hugh Jackman to this prop next Deadpool finds a classic John Byrne brown and tan suit Wolverine and Deadpool asks now you fought the Hulk in this outfit No, and then this will bring snicks his claws out and Hulk roars in the reflection This is a recreation of the cover of Todd Todd McFarlane's The Incredible Hulk number 340, Hulk, and it looks like it's Mark Ruffalo version of Hulk and not the Edward Norton version, punches Deadpool into the roots of a tree. And it is on the stumps and roots of a tree that Wolverine died in Logan. But when this happened, if you listen closely, Deadpool says this. I'm Marvel Jesus, you dull creature, and I will not... He's saying a version of the words Loki said to Hulk in the 2012 Avengers film, right before Hulk wrecks Loki. I am a god, you dull creature, and I will not be bullied by... I think we are all dying to see more of this universe. Like, I want to see a universe where Wolverine and Hulk are fighting in the woods all the time. Like, please converge this universe into Battleworld for Secret Wars. I think we all need to see it. And lastly, we see the muscular, total pack- Wolverine smoking a cigar over a motorcycle revealed to be Henry Cavill. Deadpool calls him the Cavill-reen and says this We will treat you so much better than those shit fucks down the street Of course, he's referring to the fan support of Henry Cavill over the way Warner Brothers brought to an end the Zack's Snyder era of DC films, specifically with Henry Cavill, who did turn down other projects to come back and play Superman just for the studio to reboot the full DC slate. When Henry Cavill snicks his claws, he does so in a similar gesture of the arm pumping as Cavill's famous Mission Impossible Fallout arm reload move, where he was able to make a breast pocket magically appear. Now, while this montage is taking place, there's actually another deleted scene that would have introduced B-15 far earlier in the film when Paradox, his nose broken from Deadpool's headbutt, asks B-15 for more resources. These resource requests are... You're extensive, Mr. Paradox, especially for an in-world observation post. Well, you've seen the file on Earth-1-triple-zero-five. It's teeming with troublemakers. Well, remember, your job is to do nothing. Make sure others do nothing. Do it long enough, maybe you'll sit in my chair one day. Sit in your chair, do nothing. I'm stu... Do I detect a tone? A tone? Maybe you'll detect this one. Good day, Mr. Paradox. Meanwhile, Deadpool finally arrives at the bar where he finds the worst Wolverine. In this bar, there are Calgary Flames logos and banners all over the place. And standing in the background is a cameo by Oli Palmer, striker from Wrexham AFC. On the tip jar is a sign, just put the tip in, see how- it feels. Now the bartender credited as seedy bartender in the credits is played by Greg Hemphill Scottish actor best known for Still Game. This Wolverine tries to snicked his claws but they only come out an inch or so which is a callback to the opening fight of the 2017 Logan film where a similarly drunk Logan who worked as a chauffeur like Happy does, tried to fight carjackers but the claws only came halfway out. This is obviously worse. Wolverine chugs the entire handle of whiskey and Deadpool quips that audiences are accustomed to long run times but Deadpool and Wolverine at two hours and eight minutes is actually on the shorter side of MCU movies, at least the big crossover ones. Deadpool calls him a honey badger which is basically a smaller less aggressive Wolverine. Honey badger don't care. Honey badger don't give a shit. It just takes what it wants. Whenever it's hungry it just ew and it eats snakes. Deadpool sees that this This Wolverine wears a blue and yellow suit under his clothes, which he sees as a good sign. He turns to camera and says this. That only took 20 f***ing years. Obviously a reference to the first X-Men films when Bryan Singer and Fox refused to put the X-Men in comic accurate colors and even made fun of those looks. You actually go outside in these things. What would you prefer? Yellow spandex? Kevin Feige recently revealed at a press conference that the success of the Matrix in 1999 was a big part of the reason why. Saying there were studio execs in charge who knew that the Matrix had been a big hit and the Matrix had black leather so let's put them in black leather. The recent season of X-Men 97 would also kind of reclaim this line. What'd you expect? Black leather? Deadpool drags Wolverine back to the TVA saying On your left baby girl! Ah, a reference to the on your left exchanges between Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson, notably when Sam Wilson appeared through a portal in Endgame. Deadpool says This slogan is the same, he can do anything, even musical slogans! Yes, referring to Hugh Jackman's background as a musical stage actor. Paradox says that you can't swap in any Wolverine as an anchor and that this Wolverine was the worst of them all. Wolverine awakens and Deadpool says Welcome to the MCU by the way. You're joining at a bit of a low point. Eh, indeed. After Quantumania, Secret Invasion, and The Marvels, the MCU did have a mixed 2023. I think we should acknowledge, though, that a low point for the MCU is really a high watermark for any other film franchise. And since this movie, the MCU, I would say... feels like right now it's back. Deadpool threatens to use his black belt and Karen to snitch on Paradox and his team for a going off book and Paradox prunes them both to the void. Now again, the void in the Loki series is where the TVA prunes redundant people and things from erased timelines. Throughout this part of the movie, you can see stuff continuing to drop from rifts in the sky as it did in Loki season one episode five. And while that seems to contradict the TVA's new mission to no longer be pruning timelines, consider A, we don't see any people. being pruned, and B, universes that lose their anchors will still naturally end up in the void regardless of what the TVA does to intervene. Now, as soon as we enter the void, right away, we see some of the many Easter eggs that are put in this movie. We see an old school Thor helmet, as well as a Captain America shield that are half buried in the dirt. This is specifically Steve Rogers'Hydra agent shield from the 2016 run. We, of course, see Deadpool laying beside a comic book, Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars number five, which shows on the cover God Emperor Doom forming out of the Beyonders and Owen Reese. This is actually the issue that reveals how Dr. Doom was created. powered up into God Emperor Doom by using the Beyonders'universe death triggers, the Molecule Men, Owen Reese, as conduits to absorb the Beyonders'power. And it's that power that Doom used to create Battleworld after the incursion between universes 616 and 1610. I think they put this in the movie to kind of tell us exactly what they plan to do. But on top of that comic book is a bottle of Pingo Doce, the juice bottle from the plant where Edward Norton's Bruce Banner worked in the 2008 Incredible Hulk film. That's where he bled into the assembly line, getting a bunch of Pingo Doce drinkers sick, including Stan Lee. But again, this Secret Wars comic book is now just very, very important when you consider that the day after Deadpool and Wolverine released, Kevin Feige and the Russo brothers told attendees at San Diego Comic-Con that Robert Downey Jr. would be returning to the MCU as Doctor Doom in Avengers Doomsday and Avengers Secret Wars. And Downey said only four words. New mask. Same task. Now, we've made a lot of theories about Marvel's plan. for Downey's version of Doom, but this Easter egg right here, which showed up actually in the first February 2024 trailer. which was just a few months after Marvel decided to pivot away from Jonathan Majors Kang to Doctor Doom at their annual Palm Springs retreat in September 2023, suggests that this was just an early sign that the studio planned to revert back to the original villain of Hickman's Time Runs Out Secret Wars storyline from 2015, God Emperor Doom, which could mean that we'll get a recreation of the iconic comic image of Doom plunging his hand in Thanos'chest and turning him into a skeleton. Placing the Secret Wars comic here with God Emperor Doom is just now a clue that this change of the guard to Doctor Doom, a version more closely with Hickman's storyline, storyline is now the plan. Other Easter eggs we see include Toronto's CN Tower, which is one of many Canada references by Ryan Reynolds, a Canadian. We also see a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, which might even be the one Wade fought Francis on in the 2016 Deadpool movie in the scrapyard. We see a Chitauri Leviathan from the Battle of New York in the 2012 Avengers. We also see this boat behind them that Levy and Reynolds said on podcast was just something from the VFX library, just kind of a generic boat. There's also like a famous Canadian ship somewhere in the back. And specifically they said that there are other Fox ones that are kind of harder to spot But they specifically put Nakatomi tower from diehard Which was a big box franchise in the background of this void and also when the caravan rolls up we see the Golden Gate Bridge Which was the big landmark moved by Magneto and X-men the last stand There's also a circus tent which I'm pretty sure is a reference to Hugh Jackman's work in the greatest showman And of course, there's the giant 20th century Fox logo itself Which itself is a major meta leap because it's saying that something from Outside of the reality of any one movies, the studio title bumper itself is prunable to the void. But it's not like the 20th Century Fox logo exists in our reality if you drive around Century City or anything. So it's kind of like one of these things that's technically on the border of the media itself. But I love that the studio logo is buried in a way that leaves the X in Fox exposed, which is a very deep cut nod to the way the Fox logo would fade to black before several X-Men movies and leave the X glowing for a few extra frames. Practically, in this film, the unburied X suggests that all other Fox Marvel titles have been pruned, including Daredevil, Fantastic Beasts, and more. Fantastic Four, but that the X-Men, through Wolverine and Deadpool, are kind of hanging on by a thread for now. The Canadian ship I refer to is the Mary Celeste. I thought it was a Santa Maria, but it's actually the Mary Celeste. That's a Canadian-built, American-registered merchant vessel found adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off of the Azorean Islands in 1872, and there have been a lot of theories around it. So Deadpool and Wolverine get into their first fight. This is the pose Deadpool pulled at the beginning when he wore the claws, and Wolverine just does it here, and it's awesome. We hear the opening... dongs of ACDC's Hell's Bells as Deadpool and Wolverine face each other down. And the fact that we are hearing Hell's Bells here is just another clue that originally Ryan Reynolds conceived this part of the movie to be development hell. We get a close-up of Wolverine extending his claws and notice how his gloves have these little adamantium sheaths on the knuckles? Meaning this suit was designed for Logan by either Beast or Charles or Scott Summers so that he would have adamantium sheaths to keep his gloves on straight. The fight between them is great and I just love Wolverine going berserker and running on On all fours, Ed Wade. At one point, Wolverine does the combination swipe, swipe, undercut, swipe, and Deadpool blocks them all. And it is the same fight choreography that Flash Thompson, played by Joe Manganiello, did with Peter Parker, Tobey Maguire, and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man in 2002. As the fight comes to an end, we hear a voice calling to them from a masked figure atop a lookout point. We fight each other, we move. This is the voice of Chris Evans, and Deadpool gets very excited. This figure drops and sticks a superhero landing, and of course the superhero landing was coined by Deadpool in the 2016 Deadpool film. And we see a bit of blue here, so we assume it's Captain America. He lowers his hood, revealing Chris Evans! And a slightly de-aged face. But the misdirect here is just great. In addition to under the rags being a hint of blue, his arms are covered in rags, so you wouldn't see any red from his typical gloves. And his chest emblem is obviously covered. The music starts to ramp up into something that sounds like Silvestri's Cap theme, or the Avengers theme, but never really comes out. quite gets there. He points to an approaching caravan, and it's led by the Fantastic Car of the Fantastic Four. This is a version close to what we saw in 2007's Rise of the Silver Surfer movie, but this would be a more retro version, similar to the 60s Silver Age comic. We have seen the design of the Fantastic Car in the upcoming Fantastic Four First Steps film. We see a V-16 Coupe, the car driven by Red Skull in the first Captain America of the first Avenger movie in 2011. But this one is patterned with Tony Stark's Ford Roaster flame pattern. And instead of a Hydra hood ornament, it's an Iron Man hood ornament. We see the cupcake truck from Moon Knight, the one Steven Grant drove through the Alps. We also see a larger tank pulled by several motorcycles, including the Hydra motorcycle from the first Cap film, and the motorcycle Steve drove in that film with the shotgun holster on the side. And the tank vehicle is a magnet operated by the Canadarm attachment that originally paired with NASA's Columbia shuttle. And they fly a flag that has an Avengers logo with an Anarchy A spray painted over it. Among this crew is Tyler Maine, returning as Sabretooth from the 2000 X-Men film, as well as- Toad, but not played by Ray Park in this movie, instead played by Daniel Medina Ramos. Sabretooth and Logan eye each other as they are mortal enemies. Aaron Stanford returns as Pyro, last seen in X2 and X-Men The Last Stand. He was implied to have been vaporized by Jean Grey slash Phoenix in X-Men The Last Stand, but in the Days of Future Past road cut, we see Pyro's Zippo lighter on a memorial. So it was implied that he survived those events and joined the X-Men in the future fighting the Sentinels now He wears a faded red and yellow suit similar to his comics look Deadpool thinks that Chris Evans is gonna say Avengers assemble But Evans cuts him off and says this instead Yes, Chris Evans is instead played his original Marvel role Johnny storm the Human Torch seen in the 2005 and 2007 Fantastic Four films Johnny flies over them as flames cover his body and it looks as though he's about to start to form a four Like he did in the final shot at the 2005 film, but pi Pyro, who only needs one flame source to manipulate fire, drains Johnny's flames and sends him crashing to the ground, pinging off the scaffolding. Sabretooth steps forward to fight Wolverine, and it's over pretty fast. Sabretooth is beheaded, and Deadpool raises the head and says, Behold the head of your precious queen, Furiosa! Obviously still thinking this void is Mad Max IP infringement. Now, in the comics, Wolverine... did behead Sabretooth at one point and Wolverine cutting off Sabretooth's head is also a nod to the scene in The Wolverine when Sabretooth asks this. You even know how to kill me. I'm gonna cut your goddamn head off see if that works. Now they are able to stare Wolverine and Deadpool in this magnet and actually Actually, if you look closely, joining them and pinning them to the magnet is the foot of the sentinel that they will later use to escape. And I love this detail because it shows how the people in the compound wouldn't think of this as a possible escape plan because it's just some new piece of scrap that they picked up for the first time here on this day. Also, with the Furiosa line in the Hungarian dub, the man who voices Deadpool also dubbed over Chris Hemsworth in Furiosa. So when he enters the void in the Hungarian version, he says in the void, quote, This is full-on Mad Max. But in that case, I should be voicing Thor. So it's just kind of a fun international dub joke there. On the hillside are a few Narvas, aka void turkeys. These are the flightless birds with the metallic indigo plumage and purple floating ball heads. We saw these in Loki season 1 episode 5. The caravan now passes the Great Pyramids of Giza, which we also saw in the void of the TVA, along with the Sphinx that still had its nose with the face of Kang. In the Fantastic Four comics, Pharaoh Ramatut, before he was known to be a Kang variant, used the Sphinx as a time shuttle. Deadpool wakes up and shouts, God of Thunder. Yes, another reference to one of these dreams he now has about Thor. After this film came out, Ryan Reynolds has been repeatedly asked why. Why is Thor crying? And he still has not given an answer. Now, we can see in this caravan a second cage that looks like it's holding a TVA hunter. In trailer footage, there is a cuffed TVA agent who gets snatched up by a lieth. And based on the footage shown in the Welcome to Wrexham series season 3 and BTS photos released after the film came out, that character would have been Rob McElhinney's character. They cut McElhinney out of the movie, which is a pretty funny troll by Ryan Reynolds. Johnny describes the void to them. Reed called it a metaphysical junkyard, where anything useless goes before it gets annihilated forever. This tells us that he's a real man. us that Ewan Griffith's Reed Richards also got sent to this void as well, but did not make it. Johnny mentioned Alioth, and Deadpool says, Alioth is in this thing? From Loki season 1 episode 5? Which is exactly what people like us say whatever these easter eggs come up they drive past what looks like the brooklyn bridge and then they arrive to cassandra's compound formed out of the corpse of giant man scott lang all rod finally aged so the skeletal remains of giant man was a bleak visual from the old man logan comics but in that instance it was hank pym Ant-Man. It's possible that this giant Scott might have been the extra giant Scott in the background of the Battle of Earth in Avengers Endgame, seen shoving a leviathan through the portal when Scott was actually normal-sized with hope in the Ant-Man. But we should also point out that in The Void and Loki Season 1 Episode 5, there was a giant helmet of Yellowjacket, so this could be a giant Scott from a battle with a giant Darren. The gatekeeper of the compound is Blob, who we saw in The Wolverine, but here he's played by actor Mike Waters. The hands of giant Scott form the gate, and inside, several other cameos from past Marvel movies form Cassandra's gang, including the Russian, who's the villain from the 2004 Punisher film. He was actually played by Kevin Nash in that film. Here he's been recast as actor Billy Clements. Eduardo Gago Munoz plays Azazel from X-Men First Class. He's the teleporter in Hellfire Club with Sebastian Shaw, originally who's played by Jason Fleming. Deathstrike from X2 makes an appearance. She was another of Colonel Stryker's experiments. She's not played by Kelly Hu from the 2003 film, but this is actually stunt actor Jade Lai, who was a stunt double for Sasha Kaye in 2023's The Flash. Chloe Kibble plays Callisto from X-Men The Last Stand, who was a member of the mutant group the Omegas allied with Magneto, originally played by Dania Ramirez. Another member of the gang is Arclight, Philippa Sontag. She's the one with the shorter hair and the high collar. This mutant has the power to create shockwaves. The character is played by Jessica Walker. In this movie, movie and was played by Omaeira Mota in 2006's X-The Last Stand. Juggernaut returns from X-The Last Stand, played by a new actor replacing Vinnie Jones, Aaron W. Reid, who is the bodybuilder who did the performance as the Dude from Free Guy, which is the previous film from Brian Reynolds and Sean Levy. Vinnie Jones is actually approached to reprise this role as Juggernaut from X-The Last Stand, and he turned it down because Quote, it's such a drama putting that suit on. Now, the bald guy with the goatee and the black leather trench coat, who we saw in the trailers, is actually a variant of Bullseye. He's played here by Curtis Small. His goatee and clothes are exactly like Colin Farrell's clothes in the 2003 Daredevil film, and he has the subtle crosshair scar on his forehead. There's also a version of Psylocke in the gang, who was played by Olivia Munn in X-Men Apocalypse, now played by Aisha Hussain. There's also Quill, played by Nellie Setton in this movie. The skull opens up, and a bald figure rolls up in a wheelchair, and Deadpool thinks it's Charles Xavier, but instead, it's Cassandra No- played by Emma Corrin, who played a young Diana Spencer in seasons 3 and 4 of The Crown. Cassandra Nova was introduced in Grant Morrison's 2001 E is for Extinction X-Men comics, and she is a Mumu Dry, a cosmic shadow spirit to Charles Xavier, who took physical form and battled him in the womb, and then got revenge on the X-Men by unleashing a wild sentinel to attack Genosha and kill 16 million mutants. We saw a version of this attack in X-Men 97, but it was orchestrated by Bastion. Cassandra says she's been trying to catch the Firefly of Johnny Storm for years, and Deadpool quotes word for word. for word the string of insults that he says Johnny said about her. Johnny told us you're a psychotic megalomaniacal asshole. His words not mine. Hell-bent on domination and pain. This finger-lickin'dead-inside pixie slab of third-rate dime-store nut milk can eat your delicious cinnamon ring and kick rocks all the way to bald hell. Johnny stammers here because we find out in the post-credits scene he did actually say all of that word for word. Cassandra rips the flesh from his bones and it collapses into a bloody heap of bone and tissue. And a little detail that it's kind of of hard to show without showing all the gore of it he does blink a few times after he gets his flesh ripped off that shows that there was like a bit of at least rigor mortis or maybe a bit of continued sentience after this gruesome killing deadpool says not my favorite chris yes a nod to the three white chris's in the mcu and one of the three obviously chris hemsworth thor would now be his favorite deadpool also defends that chris evans was draining the budget of the film wade says that if cassandra doesn't help them wolverine will sing the second act of the music man referencing hugh jackman's recent role in the revival, Cassandra says that while Charles could invade the minds with a thought, she has to get her hands dirty, and she shoves her fingers inside Deadpool's head. Wade returns the day he and Vanessa broke up, and Cassandra alters the memory to make Vanessa say this. You'll never f***ing matter. In doing so, she kind of incepts the concept in Wade's mind, unnerving him for the rest of the film. After Cassandra invades Deadpool's mind, Deadpool shouts, and we're in God's name as the intimacy coordinator! Ah, another one of these references to this possible development hell Hollywood parody version. An intimacy coordinator is a new position on Hollywood sets to ensure all cast and crew are comfortable and protected when sexual scenes are shot. And if I'm right about this theory that this dump was a version of hell in earlier drafts, it would be supported by Sean Levy and Ryan Reynolds confirming that they initially- considered Mephisto to be the lord of this realm. So they escape on the foot of a sentinel robot. We saw these from the 1973 era and X-Men Days of Future Past. You can see the purple color more clearly because it's a piece of metal that gets attracted to the super magnet. Wolverine's history with this object is why Logan could smartly use it to escape before the gang could figure out what exactly this is. As he seems like a guy who might have dreamt into these alternate timelines of other Wolverines and just know what this thing even is. Actually in the Deadpool video game Wade also makes an impromptu escape on the boot of a sentinel. Thanks to CopyJedi on Reddit for catching that one. There's also a large crash structure after they escape the compound that many are saying looks like the floating red room based from Black Widow. I didn't really see a similarity though. Deadpool says, Go! Get your mind out of my pants. I'm telling Blake. Yes, another reference to Ryan Reynolds'wife, Blake Lively. Deadpool and Wolverine pass a wrecked Chrysler with a luggage trunk in front of it. This is a car that Steve Martin and John Candy drive in planes, trains, and automobiles. The trunk is the one that Del carried that contains the shower curtain rings. Deadpool and Wolverine find a diner and they get to know each other. Mine's red so they can't see me bleed. I can see how yellow would be useful too. Deadpool tells Logan that he wanted to be an Avenger and Wolverine responds, F*** the Avengers. Which tells us that in his reality, there must have been an Avengers alongside. side the x-men and deadpool says should we wait for a third act flashback yes setting up the fact that we do indeed get a third act flashback with wolverine that answers all of our questions they meet dogpole dogpole aka mary puppins is played by peggy a crossbreed between a pug and a chinese crested dog also known as a puggies and this dog won britain's ugliest dog in 2023 following her is nice pool played by a handsomer and slightly dh ryan reynolds with no scarring and he's got a man bun and more of a canadian accent sorry about that and the credits nice pool is named as gordon you Reynolds, which comes from a sketch that Ryan Reynolds uploaded in 2021 where Ryan Reynolds is interviewed by a twin brother named Gordon Reynolds. Nice Bull says, Wait till you see Lady Poole. She is gorgeous. She just had a baby too and can't even tell. Another reference to Ryan Reynolds'wife, Blake Lively, who just gave birth to another baby in February 2023. Deadpool introduces Logan. He's usually shirtless, but he's let himself go since the divorce. Whoa, this might be the most brutal line of the movie as Hugh Jackman was married to Deborah Lee Furness from 1996 to September 2023. Like they made it since from before. before Hugh Jackman was famous, and really, it was while Hugh Jackman was shooting this movie when the divorce happened. And I believe, following the Page Six gossip now, Hugh Jackman and Broadway legend Sutton Foster are now together. Now, Logan acknowledges that he did let himself go. Hugh Jackman actually bulked back up for this film. He had slimmed down due to singing and dancing for eight shows a week in the Music Man revival, but he needed to get back in superhero shape for the short gap between the end of the musical run and the start of principal photography of this film. Nice pull lets them borrow his Honda Odyssey named Betsy with a Coexist bumper sticker. In this cornfield area, they walked past a ship called the Conquistador, which might be the boat from 2006's X-Men Vol. 2 No. 189, which is used by the Children of the Vault when the X-Men are trying to stop the Hecatomb, a Shi'ar weapon of mass destruction. And when they leave, Nicebull retreats backward into the corn, and it looks like Brian Reynolds is creating the Homer Simpson retreating into the hedge meme, which is a reference to T2. They listen to I'm With You by Avril Lavigne, who's a fellow Canadian, and they drive past some crashed Q-ships that were used by Thanos'Black Order in Avengers Infinity War, and even the song I'm with you might be a joke because it kind of sounds like she's singing I'm with you Deadpool makes fun of Wolverine's yellow and blue suit asking if the x-men made him wear it friends Don't let friends leave the house looking like they fight crime for the Los Angeles Rams Obviously the Los Angeles Rams share these colors Deadpool touches a nerve here. So he starts whipping like spider-man Stop it. Wolverine pulls over when he realizes Deadpool for sure cannot fix his world, and Wade defends that he made an educated wish. Deadpool shows Wolverine his Polaroid of the nine most important people in his life, a token that he uses similar to Marty McFly's family photo in Back to the Future. I also think this might stir in Wolverine the nine most important people in his life, as there probably would have been nine or so X-Men who were the most important to him, including Gene, Charles, Scott, Rogue, Beast, Storm, Gambit, and hey, maybe like Morph, and Wolverine himself. being the ninth. I think there might have been nine because in the 2017 Logan film, there were a reported seven X-Men who died in the Westchester incident. And that might have been in addition to Logan and Charles. Deadpool makes a reference to truthful Timmy, the blowjob queen of Saskatoon. And that's actually a city in Saskatchewan, Canada. And this character actually gets a shout out in the special thanks section of the credits. Also in the special thanks section, it lists Hugh Jackman Wrangler, Betty Reynolds. Betty Reynolds is Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's four-year-old daughter. So Logan rips Wade a new one. You will never save the world. You couldn't even save a relationship with a goddamn stripper. Motherfucker, I wish I could say you die alone. But it's one of God's best jokes that you can't die, except that's on all of us. In this part, Logan also says that he's been alive for 200 years. Again, interesting because Logan was born in 1832. Which would mean that when Deadpool found that Wolverine in the bar, it would have been around 2032 in that timeline. Deadpool slams Logan's head on the radio, similar to Wade and the Mercenary slamming heads on the radio in the 2016 movie and changing the stations. Briefly in that you hear the opening vocals of this is the greatest show from Hugh Jackman's movie The Greatest Showman. The radio stays on. You're the one that I want from Greece. Sean Levy said in interviews that he wanted each Wolverine versus Deadpool fight to evolve throughout the movie. So while the first fight was in the wide outdoors, this one is in the. closer quarters of the Honda Odyssey. We stay on that co-exist bumper sticker as they fight long into the night until Wolverine has Deadpool wrapped up in seatbelts and they are both out of it and a mysterious figure drives them to this home. Inside we see on the ceiling the statue of the Scarlet Witch. We saw this in the Darkhold Temple in Multiverse of Madness. We also see a chest set probably belonging to Charles Xavier. The bed is a giant jawbone. That's the bed used by Hulk on Sakaar in Thor Ragnarok. One of the occupants of this home enters Elektra Nachios. Jennifer Garner wielding the Elektra size once again, returning from 2003 Daredevil and 2005 spinoff Elektra. Next, Blade. Wesley Snipes, the half-vampire hunter, returning after the Blade trilogy from... 1998 to 2004, the first Blade in 1998 was the first truly successful Marvel film, and without it, studios likely would not have committed to proper budgets for the X-Men series, the Spider-Man series, and would end up becoming the MCU. And the third movie of that trilogy, Blade Trinity, is also where Ryan Reynolds got his start in Marvel movies as Hannibal King, and he and Wesley Snipes reportedly did not enjoy working together. There's a reference to that here, where Deadpool says, I thought you were, you know, retired. Retired. I'm already in the void. I'm not trying to get cancelled again. I don't like you. You never did. And I did mention this before, but when Blade enters, you hear a tiger growl sound effect. Which is a reference to the first Blade film with Wesley Snipes. Then we see a glowing playing card of Gambit, Remy Lebeau, played by Channing Tatum. So the Louisiana-born mutant Gambit was played by Taylor Kitsch in X-Men Origins. And years later, there was... There was a Gambit solo movie in the works with Channing Tatum attached, but it never made it out of development hell. So the costume for Gambit here is actually a live-action version of the purple suit and headband from his original comic appearance. But I like that his hair is not yet messy because he hasn't really been in a proper fight. He's not yet the Gambit we know. He's kind of like an early concept art version of Gambit. Gambit enters to a higher-pitched cat's meow. And again, while Gambit's original appearance is from that 1990 comic debut, later when he gets messier, his hair evolves into the signature look and becomes something closer to the 90s X-Men animated series or the Marvel vs. Capcom Gambit. Deadpool says, It's been a while since I've seen Sling Blade. Hit me again. Sling Blade was a 1996 film starring Billy Bob Thornton, who didn't speak in a Cajun accent, but did have a low guttural southern voice that was kind of hard to understand. I reckon I'll have me some of the bacon. But I don't know. Apparently, a lot of people from Louisiana are praising Channing Tatum's vocal work in this movie. They will admit that it kind of sounds something like this. Like when Gambit throws the card to break the bottle of Jim Beam in Logan's hand, he says this. Apparently, this roughly translates to dickhead or asshole. Sean Levy thought it was just gibberish that Channing Tatum improvised after they had put actual Cajun French terms in the script. But again, Channing Tatum. I think knew more about the things that people from this part of America actually say than the script did Who am I about to make a name for myself here? Then they say there's a fourth member and Deadpool asks There's four wait is it Magneto? But they reveal Magneto is dead Deadpool says this Now Disney gets cheap It's like Pinocchio jammed his face in my ass and started lying like crazy And it's interesting for Deadpool to say this because we later learned after the movie came out that Ryan Reynolds or other people from the Movie intentionally put out false theories in the entertainment press just to kind of throw people off the But really, the fourth member is X-23 Laura. Daphne Keene also kind of had to lie on a press tour for the acolyte and claiming that she would not be in the movie. Remy mentions all the past Resistance members who went up against Cassandra Nova. They die. The Punisher, the Quicksilver, the Daredevil. Daredevil, I'm so sorry. It's fine. Okay. Another reference to these actors'real-life relationships. After they met on the set of Daredevil in 2003, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were married from 2005 but divorced in 2018. And Affleck got back together with Jennifer Lopez, marrying her. in 2022, but it sounds like that relationship ended as well. But Quicksilver presumably would have been Evan Peters'Quicksilver, since Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Quicksilver died in Avengers Age of Ultron, whereas Evan Peters'version just kind of petered out in Dark Phoenix and would have been stuck in development hell. Now, Ryan Reynolds and Sean Levy told Entertainment Weekly's Awardist podcast that they had a draft of this movie with Nicolas Cage's Ghost Rider and tried to get him, along with Ben Affleck's Daredevil. Reynolds said they were in early drafts, along with Ben Affleck. There were versions of that sequence, but then as it shook out, you're sort of looking we're trying to make the movie responsibly as well it's a big budget it's the biggest budget of any of the Deadpool movies but you want to give yourself as much constraint which really I think facilitates asymmetrical thinking and creativity if you have too much time or too much money it actually murders that kind of creativity so yeah you're shrinking things but he said we did talk to Nick Cage we tried to get him but he was a no-go I would have loved him and we learned that Magneto is dead and Cassandra melted his helmet so they have to use Juggernaut's dome which Juggernaut Kane Marco the stepbrother to Charles Xavier in the comics wore this to keep Charles out of his mind. They say, Let's face it, our worlds forgot about us. Yes, another line referencing the fact that Gambit never got his own movie. Wolverine confesses to Laura that his X-Men begged him to wear the suit, but one day, when he was away from the mansion drinking, a group of humans arrived to go mutant hunting. He never specified what that group was. It could have been the FOH, Friends of Humanity, with power-dampening weapons, maybe with Sentinel backup. Wolverine continues to wear that suit to remember his family. He tells Laura, Hey, whoever you think I am, you got the wrong guy. You were always the wrong guy. On their way back to the compound, they pass a golden palace of Asgard. There's also what looks like a crashed Milano. That's a ship from Guardians of the Galaxy. So Blade has an RPG, and they mention the Punisher. Which Punisher? There's been like five of them. There have actually been four Punishers. There was Dolph Lundgren, there's Thomas Jane, there's the late Ray Stevenson, and then of course Jon Bernthal on the Netflix series. Coming back to the MCU in Daredevil Born Again. This missile launcher probably belonged to the Ray Stevenson Punisher, as that Punisher actually did have that kind of... heavy artillery. And then Blade says the line, there's only been one blade. There's only ever going to be one blade. Now at the time, I think this was written to be a joke at Blade's expense because in addition to the MCU Mahershala Ali Blade being in the works, there was the Kirk Sticky Fingers Jones Blade TV series on Spike in 2006. But hearing this line in the movie, at least now, it kind of sounds like Wesley Snipes is getting the last laugh because the MCU Mahershala Ali Blade was removed from Marvel's 2025 schedule. Kevin Feige says that they're still working on it. Mirchal Ali's team has said that they're still interested in it, but we don't know when that movie's gonna happen. So they use the RPG to bust back into the compound, and we learn that Wolverine joins them, like any kind of wild animal tucked into the pack and coming out of the hatchback. Laura puts on her sunglasses. She got these from the gas station and the Logan film, and a melee erupts. Wade blocks some bullets with a sword, which we saw him do in X-Men Origins and in Deadpool 2. We get another tiger growl from Blade. Blade says another iconic line. Some other f***er. Still trying to ice skate uphill. This is a callback to his line from the 1998 Blade film. Some motherf***ers are always trying to ice skate uphill. Now, apparently, this line came from Wesley Snipes'mind. While discussing Deacon Frost with the Blade filmmakers, he described him as the kind of guy who'd ice skate uphill. And they loved how random this was and worked it into the film. It's just the kind of, what the f***? energy Wesley Snipes brought to the role and I think it's the kind of ego that Ryan Reynolds carried into his take on Deadpool. Now when we come back to Cassandra inside of the compound we see draped over her lounge chair is actually Doctor Strange's red cloak of levitation. And the seat that Cassandra sits upon isn't any chair though this is actually actually Thanos'throne. He had this throne on the Sanctuary 2 ship in Infinity War, and you can see it best really in the concept art for that film. So this tells us that in addition to the other well-known Marvel figures, Prune to the Void, whom Cassandra has brutally slaughtered, the Mad Titan Thanos is one of them. Cassandra invades Wolverine's mind, and we see black and white flashes of scenes from the Fox X-Men Wolverine past, the one from 10005. We see Wolverine slashing at Spike in the woods from 2006's X-Men The Last Stand. We see Logan stabbing the bald mercenary in the hotel room in 2017's Logan. We see Wolverine stabbing one of Stryker's soldiers in the kitchen in the mansion in 2003's X2. We see Logan stabbing another mercenary in the final battle of 2017's Logan. We see Logan stabbing one of the carjackers early on in 2017's Logan. We see Logan giving Charles his medication during his seizure in 2017's Logan. We see Wolverine escaping after his surgery shown in the flashback in 2003's X2. jumping out of the water tank in 2009's X-Men Origins when this weapon plus surgery was depicted more fully. Now why, you may ask, does the worst Wolverine have these memories if he came from a completely different universe than the 10005 Wolverine? Well, it could just be he has gone through parallel life experiences as the 10005 Wolverine and that's why he could swap into the 10005 timeline by the end of the film to strengthen it. And those parallel life experiences would include an upcoming quest with X-23 Laura to protect her on a journey to Canada. Like, that might have been the life path he was on before Deadpool found him in the bar, and in his universe, instead of the X-Men dying from Charles'seizure, they died from whatever that human attack was. But either way, he was gonna get older and more bitter and end up dead in North Dakota no matter what. That's me trying to justify it, when really, I just think these shots were spliced in here by Sean Levy and his editor without thinking about the logic. I think it was just kind of the f*** it approach. It's not a bad thing, because they were guided not by timeline logic, but... by an attempt to pay homage to the legacies of these characters. And if you think about this rapid montage thematically, I think Sean Levy wanted to convey that all Wolverines are linked by guilt over everything they've done and everything they might do. And specifically, if we apply that Doctor Strange, Multiverse of Madness, dreamwalking logic, specifically, these may have been like the nightmares this worse Wolverine, the drunk Wolverine, is haunted by of other horrible things he did and other timelines. And every time he dreams, he goes into the body of the 1005 Wolverine anyway. Cassandra takes Logan into what I assume is the astral plane. We see a row of gravestones and distant screams. Presumably these are the X-Men on the day the humans came to the mansion when he was away. Cassandra, who chooses to stay in the void to rule her own little kingdom, tells Logan that he can escape the pain by with her. He can silence all the voices and the screams cut out. But not because of Cassandra, but because in this moment, Deadpool has placed Juggernaut's helmet on her head. Cassandra says she's going to boil their brains in an atomic level while pleasuring herself, only she didn't use that term, to the Enya box set and Deadpool gasps. Remember, Deadpool was a big fan of Enya and Deadpool 2. Her songs Caribbean Blue and Only Time were featured in the film. Pyro, who seemed to be working a side deal with Paradox, shoots Cassandra and begins to make a speech, but Wolverine cuts him off. Not everyone gets a speech. Wolverine appeals to his and Cassandra's mutual connection to Charles, and says Charles would have never stopped trying to bring her home if he knew about her. So when they take off the dome, Cassandra rewards them. She said an amateur magician came through the void, and she wore his skin around for four days. Obviously, she's referring to Doctor Strange. And in the initial void shot in Loki season one, episode five, there was a sanctum sanctorum over the left side of the screen. So I think that's where that Doctor Strange came from. And she produces a specific sling ring, which if you look closely, has a piece of the time stone and the reality. stone on the sides. Sling rings normally open portals in geographic space within a single universe, though when Mordo first introduced them in 2016's Doctor Strange, he said they were used to travel the multiverse. But this sling ring must allow the wielder to travel not just through space, but across realities and through time. Cassandra opens a portal, and as they run in slow motion, we hear Jimmy Durante's I'll Be Seeing You. As the other Marvel heroes look up in pride, they leap into the portal and cross the threshold right as Alioth was about to devour them. Wolverine and Deadpool land in the DriveMax parking lot of 10005. Wolverine. You're damn straight it is. Fox killed him. Disney brought him back. They're gonna make him do this till he's 90. Till he's 90. I believe it. For what it's worth, Hugh Jackman is 55 years old. Of course, this is the same family that was buying the van in the earlier scene. And so they're literally seeing Wade go from a depressed salesman to a hero in their own eyes. And I believe there is an expanded version of this scene in the deleted scenes. Show him, Sugar Bear. Ooh. You like that? It's nice, right? We doing this? Meanwhile, Cassandra has figured out that Pyro was working with Paradox and confronts Paradox by the TVA outpost in the subway station on Wade Street. She invades his mind, discovered the Time Ripper, and decides she wants to use it to destroy every universe until everything is in the void and she can play God. The VFX of this moment are incredible. The VFX designers talked about how they actually had to construct layers of Matthew McFadden's face and imagine... where and what layers of like the flesh versus bone versus muscle Cassandra's fingers would be going and would come out of his eye holes and just his cheek and so in some shots it's like it's gliding over his skull other shots she's just like mixing in with his brain matter and it's important to think about this because Cassandra uses the hand that the sling ring is on but she doesn't have the sling ring following the scene there was actually a deleted scene where she asked Paradox for her sling ring back and he spits it out ring please So it must have gotten stuck in Paradox's head while she was rooting around that noggin with her unwashed hands. And I always just love the idea that a time stone and a reality stone were interacting with Paradox's brain matter and synapses. I mean, there's all kinds of crazy things and implications to the multiverse that could have happened there. It is just really cool to see Cassandra do this to his face. This is exactly how Cassandra's powers look in the comics. And after she removes her hand from her head, after that deleted scene of him spitting out the ring, she says this. Good to get out of that head. What a mess. Yeah, I think something happened in Paradox's head there. Now, meanwhile, in B-15's office, we see a black and white photo of the lobby in the TVA with the elevator that Mobius initially took Prisoner Loki down in in Season 1, Episode 1. They shot that in the Atlanta Hotel Marriott. Now, I pointed out before that behind the TVA agent with the mustache who notifies B-15 about Paradox's actions, there's another TVA agent who walks down the hallway bald with a beard. I think this might be the same guy. from earlier in the film in the locker room at DriveMax with Wade and Peter. Like I think that was just a TVA agent who was listening in on their conversation. We know the surveyors by the metro station were TVA agents. I think there were TVA agents implanted all around Wade's life. Cassandra flings Wolverine and Deadpool down the street into this store. This is Liefeld's Just Feet, Orthopedic Solutions. A reference to comics writer and artist Rob Liefeld, co-creator of the Deadpool character who over the years became known for underdrawing characters feet, also for drawing heroes in such insane bulky proportions that they would need orthopedic shoes and knee braces to walk. A portal brings in all the other Deadpools of the Deadpool horde, starting with Mary Puppins, followed by Nicepoole. Wade tells the dog to choose between Original Recipe or Van Wilder, referring to Ryan Reynolds'2002 comedy film. Nicepoole laughs and says, The proposal. Of course, referring to Ryan Reynolds'2009 rom-com with Sandy Bullock. Following these two is the rest of the Deadpool core that Nicepoole warned about earlier in the film. He says that there are a total of 100 of them, and we identified as many of them as we could. There is Lady Deadpool or Ladypool, never unmasked but voiced by Blake Lively. She's Wanda Wilson from Earth 3010. There is Headpool, voiced by Nathan Fillion, a severed Deadpool head who in the comics comes from Earth 2149, the Marvel Zombies universe, where he was infected by Silver Surfer. This version has buck teeth and wears a helicopter rotor from a striped old-timey... leather football helmet. There's Kidpool from Earth 10 330, a misfit from Professor Xavier's school who steals two lightsaber-like swords from the danger room. Kidpool is played by Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's daughter Inez Reynolds. There's also Babypool. Babypool is played by their youngest child born in 2023, Olin Reynolds. There's also a credited Screaming Mutant in the credits, listed as James Reynolds, who is Ryan and Blake's oldest kid. There's a cowboy Deadpool, aka the Deadpool Kid from Earth 1108. He's wanted for bank robbery, arson, software piracy, and stampeding pygmy goats through an orphanage. Here, cowboy Deadpool is voiced by Matthew McConaughey. There's a shogun Deadpool. There's also Welshpool, wearing the colors of whales. Welshpool is actually the name of a town in Wales. And Welshpool is played by Paul Muller. star player of Wrexham AFC. There's also a female Deadpool 2099 aka Warda Wilson from Earth 16356. There's a golden age Deadpool. There's a Zenpool, a pacifist from the Avengers vs X-Men 2014 crossover comic event. Zenpool is played by Kevin Fortin, the stunt pre-vis coordinator who worked on the Atom Project. There's a Watari Ronanpool from the 2011 5 Ronan storyline by... Peter Milligan. There's Pirate Pool, Iron Deadpool, there's a Scottish Deadpool with a kilt, and a Deadpool dressed up like a circus master ceremony is pretty sure Hugh Jackman's P.T. Barnum costume from The Greatest Showman. There's another one called Harold Pool, who's a cameo by Tom Holland's brother Harry Holland, who appeared in a deleted scene in Spider-Man No Way Home. There's also Canada Pool, who's played by Alex... Alex Kishkovich, Ryan Reynolds'longtime stunt double as Deadpool. He's the darker suited one with the Canadian flag on the chest. Others that are in the background include Foolpool, who is just a Deadpool with a jester hat. There's a Santa-pool, a Deadpool wearing a Santa Claus suit. There's a Kingpool, who's a Deadpool wearing a king's crown, wearing a furred cape from the Georgian era of the Hanover dynasty, aka King George III's costume from Hamilton, but a different crown. There's also a Cupidpool, who's a Valentine's Day Deadpool with a Cupid or angel wings and a Cupid arrow sticking through his head. And a Sherlockpool, a Deadpool wearing a deer stalker hat like Sherlock Holmes. So are Deadpools. Deadpool Prime asks the others if he can just be done with the multiverse, saying it's just been miss after miss after miss, and that the Wizard of Oz did it the best. He's referring to what some people are calling multiverse fatigue, but I don't know if it's accurate to say miss after miss after miss. Like, Loki and What If and Spider-Man No Way Home were all pretty well received. Multiverse of Madness, mixed reception. But Marvel fans always wanted more multiverse from that movie, not less. Everything, everywhere, all at once, won Best Picture. The animated Spider-Verse films are beloved. So I guess Ryan Reynolds might be referring to... The Flash? By Wizard of Oz, does Reynolds think any dream reality movie counts as multiverse? Or do we think Ryan Reynolds knows that some critics are going to say this movie isn't as good as those other examples and is trying to like get ahead of it and hang a lantern on it? Really, Ryan Reynolds is just trying to get a rise out of the Deadpool Corps to get them to open fire all at once as he uses Nice Pull as a human shield, but Nice Pull doesn't have healing powers. You really are God's perfect idiot, aren't you? I'm okay. This is a callback to the opening credits of the 2016 Deadpool film, where instead of starring Ryan Reynolds, it says starring God's Perfect Idiot. When the Deadpool horde shoots at Deadpool Prime, Wolverine, and Nicepool, Nicepool gets fatally wounded, and Deadpool suggests to take him across to the donut cart because every one of these is like a mobile healthcare unit. But if you look at the storefront to the right of Liefeld's footwear, it's Eastside Pharmacy Medical Center. So Deadpool could have just taken Nicepool in there and given him proper medical treatment. Deadpool gets Nicepool's gold-plated Desert Eagles, and he and Wolverine march out to face the full Deadpool core set to Madonna. Madonna's like a prayer. Finally, Wolverine pulls on his mask from behind the cowl. The mask comes on right as Madonna sings, and it feels like home. When Wolverine puts on that iconic cowl, he lowers his voice like he's doing a gruff Batman voice now that he's wearing the mask. Killing mostly. It is such a trove of moments in this long take fight with all the choreography. We see Deadpool posing on the lamppost while shooting a variant, doing a pose similar to that of Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain. Remember, Deadpool also spent quite a bit of time pole dancing at the club in Deadpool 2. You can see Wolverine and Deadpool just going variant by variant, taking their weapons and then dropping those weapons when they become useless and then picking up something new from the most recent killed one. Deadpool engages Headpool and flings him around. making Headpool very dizzy when he flies past the camera. Then the other Deadpool variant driving the bus panics in the driver's seat and I kind of wonder that maybe he thought he could drive this bus into them and run them over and realize he didn't have the keys. On the street the storefront reads Clairvoyant which could be a reference to Clairvoyant spelled differently a character in the Black Widow comics but again Agatha all along established that there's always a handful of witches within a three mile radius so I assume that also applies to Wade's neighborhood in Canada here. They kill all the Deadpools on the city bus and on the side of that bus there's an ad for stan lee steamer crime fighters since 1922 this is our stan lee cameo of the film and he was born in 1922 on the back of the bus is another ad raymondo marvelous morning soup which is a tribute to Raymond Ray Chan, longtime Marvel art director who worked on this film and passed away in April of this year. And he actually gets a touching tribute in the credits, along with a dedication to Henry Delaney, Rob Delaney's son, who passed away in 2018. Sean Levy released the behind-the-scenes footage of Hugh Jackman recording ADR of the Street Fight sequence, and when you watch this, you realize, for the Deadpool whose gun he takes to shoot him in the head, he gives that one an extra growl and a, uh, f*** you. Ah! Now there's a little VFX mistake that was left in after they leap out of the back of the bus. Deadpool's katana clips through Wolverine's arm. The Deadpools regenerate and Shogun Deadpool has baby arms, like Deadpool's baby hand and baby legs when he healed in Deadpool 2. Peter arrives wearing Deadpool's suit from the locker, saying that Wade and Logan are with him, and that is enough to win these Deadpools over. Also, yes, Peter's package is huge. In the subway terminal, the only destination on the sign is Lone Pine Mall, which is the mall in Back to the Future that was originally the Twin Pines Mall before Marty went back in time and ran over one of Old Man Peabody's trees to warp the timeline and make it the Lone Pine Mall. Along with Huey Lewis in the news, Power of Love, and the family photo, Back to the Future was definitely on Ryan Reynolds'mind for this movie. They say, It's like Batman, except he can move his neck. Yes, a little DC reference. The Batman costumes were always hard to design and they had very stiff necks. And once you notice it, you cannot unsee it as Batman really doesn't move his head a lot. during fight sequence of the earlier movies. Cassandra connects to the Time Ripper and it begins to spaghettify this reality, with the VFX looking just as it did in Loki Season 2. Paradox hastily explains that the Time Ripper is fed by twin beams of matter and antimatter that, if physically connected by circuit, would disrupt the Time Ripper, but annihilate whoever was in that circuit. Wolverine tries to make the sacrifice play. Deadpool takes his place, referencing Spock by putting his hand on the glass and the salute. Deadpool says he's not doing it because he needs it, but because they need it echoing what happy hogan told him being an avenger was about and notice in this moment the only time wolverine actually calls deadpool wade is during this sacrifice scene when he tries to get him to come back why you want to be an annoying prick wolverine manages to get in there and saves deadpool and his top shreds off revealing a shredded torso We hear a children's choir cover singing the words of like a prayer, which perfectly reflect what's happening here. At the midnight hour, I can feel your power. Just like a prayer, I know you'll take me there. Just the kids singing this has become the most iconic music from this movie. Now, there are signs on the catwalk that warn against a risk of atomization. I like that Paradox's group took the time to make these signs. Atomization is also what Thanos did to the Infinity Stones. B-15 arrives and Paradox tries to lie about what really happened, but Deadpool and Wolverine return. Deadpool explains that if only one of them tried to hold the beams together, they'd die, but both of them together, indestructible. Personally, I think they were spared by God of Stories, Loki, who was moved by their sacrifice. And one day they'll talk about this in Adventure Secret Wars. B-15 says, I want to show you something. Something huge. And Deadpool responds, That's what Scoutmaster Kevin used to say. Yes, Wade brought up Scoutmaster Kevin in Deadpool 2. Well, like Scoutmaster Kevin used to say, there's a first time for everything, son. And I think Ryan Reynolds named him Kevin after Kevin Feige. There is a moment between B-15 and Peter. Peterpool. But you can call me Peter. And I hope that you do. They actually shot a deleted scene where the two of them, later in the movie, would have come home from a date. That might have been like a post-credit scene in the movie. Fellas, daddy's in love. Alright, scoot you over, guys. They say... Let's get this Deadpool variant back to the void. So even though they're not actively pruning timelines, it seems like the TVA still does not tolerate people being in the wrong universe. B-15 says that this timeline has been saved from extinction, and if you look at the temp pad, it seems to be growing better than ever. B-15 promises that she will see what she can do about bringing Laura, Elektra, Gambit, and Blade home. Wade and Logan get Shwarma, recalling back the ending of the Battle of New York in the 2012 Avengers film. You know, the Avengers discovered Shwarma. Actually, this framing of Deadpool and Logan getting trauma is an homage to the framing of Steve Martin and John Candy outside the inn and playing trains and automobiles, according to Ryan Reynolds. Wade brings Dogpool and Logan home to meet Blind Al. We hear Aretha Franklin's, you're all I need to get by. And in this scene, if you listen closely, Wade actually calls her Althea, which I think is the first time he's used her full name. Althea, this is... This is Logan. It's in front of Logan, and I wonder if it's because he called Wade out for calling her blind Al earlier. No, no, no. That's her name. You call her blind Al. Well, she's blind. Like he feels bad about calling her blind Al. We end the film at the party with Wade's nine most important people, joined by Logan and Laura in Dogpool, while Vanessa and Wade aren't back together, yet they do share this look. The final shot of the film has Deadpool and Wolverine's masks side by side on top of a... box of Feige's famous pizza, the same pizza Wade was eating in the chronologically earliest scene in the 2016 film. We hear Green Day's good riddance playing over the credits, showing outtakes from all of Fox's Marvel productions, both ones that had characters featured in this film and ones that didn't. I love this. This is how movies from the 90s and the aughts used to end. And the credits include not just the Marvel Studios logo, but the 20th Century Fox logo as well. As these studios gobble each other up with acquisitions, I always have a soft spot for the studio logos of old titles that I love. And it's sad to see the post-Disney buyout. version of the logo where they removed Fox and it's just 21st century. That 20th century Fox music was composed by Alfred Newman, the legendary composer and head of a dynasty of great Hollywood composers and musicians, including David Newman and Thomas Newman and Maria Newman and Randy Newman. And I just think it's really cool that it gets a shout out here. Now the post-credits scene shows Gambit appearing on one of the screens, still alive in a void. I explored what I think Gambit's fate could be in another video. It is worth noting that Gambit's eyes light up with a sling ring light. So it could be anybody who still has a sling ring. It could be a Doctor Strange coming to get him. Any of the sorcerers. Ryan Reynolds has recently said that like Marvel Studios is a... apparently obsessed with Channing Tatum's gambit, and he might get, like, an appearance in Secret Wars. Meanwhile, the actual post-credits scene that we see revisits the moment with Johnny Storm in the cage, and he says exactly what Wade said he said. And I'll tell you what she can do. I'm listening. She can lick my goddamn cinnamon ring clean. and kick rocks all the way to bald hell. In fact, I don't give a shit if she removes all my skin and pops me like some nightmarish blood balloon. You can actually see some outtakes where Chris Evans tries to get through all this and just like, it's a difficult line to get through. Your charge remains while gargling juggernauts, juggernauts, juggernauts, juggernauts. Wow. But the camera that watches them, doesn't it kind of look like the camera Kevin from She-Hulk? And it would make sense that Kevin would somehow be related to the TVA as they both exist outside the normal universe and are in charge with creating or keeping in line the stories and lore. Woo, that is literally- Literally everything we could find in Deadpool and Wolverine. I know this video was almost as long as the movie was, but that's how filled with detail and love this film was. Let me know in the comments below what your favorite detail in Deadpool and Wolverine was. Follow me at EAVOS. Subscribe to all three channels on the New Rockstars Network for breakdowns and news coverage of everything you love. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time. Bye.