Deadpool and Wolverine has just hit the cinema and it is the first Deadpool movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His partner is none other than Wolverine. The movie, at heart, is about friendship and relationships.
The article contains major spoilers. We recommend you watch the movie before reading further.
Deadpool is living a normal life
The movie starts with Deadpool fighting his way through Time Variance Authority soldiers who want to bring him in for violating the timeline. He uses Wolverine’s adamantium-laced bones to escape them. Deadpool tells how he got there.
Six years after the second installment, Deadpool is living a mediocre life and the love of his life is seeing someone else. He used Cable’s time travel machine to travel from Earth-1005 to Earth-616.
Deadpool managed to find his friends in a different timeline. Messing with time has earned him the attention of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) —the same as Loki. Don’t worry though, if you haven’t seen Loki, the movie explains the TVA.
Deadpool ended up in a dead-end job after being rejected by The X-Men and The Avengers. With a great cameo of the great Jon Favreau. The main question is why he wants to join those teams and he answers that he wants to matter.
He wants to make a difference and have something to show to his girl. When he gets rejected, he goes to work in a car dealership with Peter.
It is at that moment that Deadpool decides to take matters into his own hands and goes on a quest to find a replacement Wolverine so that his world can live.
The first part and intro of the movie were pretty good. We get to see how Deadpool became the way he is now. We see how Deadpool has his whole life together. He even wears a hairpiece to show for it. Then why is he so unhappy?
Even on his surprise birthday, he is having fun but he is not happy. Even when all his friends are there. So what exactly is missing from his life to make it complete?
Marvel Jesus emerges
Deadpool is not being captured but he is being recruited by the TVA. They want him to fix the timeline. One of the timeline’s worlds is dying because its anchor, in this case, Logan’s Wolverine, died. Paradox explains that when an anchor dies, that world dies.
Paradox is the manager of the sector Deadpool is in. He explains what an anchor is and Deadpool thinks it is all about him and dubs himself Marvel Jesus. He thinks himself the Messiah who will save his timeline by getting a new Wolverine in place.
He steals Paradox’s time travel device in search of a new Wolverine to take the place of the one that died in Logan so that his world can live.
Deadpool travels from timeline to timeline and the trip is amazing. He encounters several versions of Wolverine. We have Old Man Logan, the really short comic book version of Wolverine, Age of Apocalypse Wolverine but also Henry Cavill Wolverine.
I am hoping that this will mean that we get a Henry Cavill Wolverine in the future since we don’t know if this was a one-off with Hugh Jackman. If you are a fan of Wolverine and the X-Men then you will be on the edge of your seat. Marvel went all out and spared no expense to show the many faces of Wolverine.
Until he finds a Wolverine alone in a bar. This Wolverine saw his entire X-Men team die and has been depressed ever since. The encounter with Wolverine
Deadpool and Wolverine end up in Purgatory
Deadpool takes Wolverine to the TVA. Paradox tells him that this is the worst Wolverine ever because this version lets his world die on purpose.
This is a different version from what we heard from Wolverine. However, before Deadpool can say anything, both of them are put in Purgatory.
And these are some of the most iconic scenes in the entire Marvel Universe up until now. It starts with Chris Evans and I thought that he came back as Captain America while he was giving his pompous speech.
Just when you expect him to go and say “Avengers Assemble” he goes “FLAME ON!” and he flies into the air fighting off the ones who control Purgatory.
But Human Torch is up against Pyro, the mutant who controls fire, and his fire is extinguished quickly. Along with Wolverine, who kills Sabretooth in a one-on-one, Deadpool is caged and taken to the Purgatory headquarters.
Cassandra Nova makes her entrance and she is so wonderfully portrayed by Emma Corin. Cassandra is just as mean and cunning as she is in the comics. The people at Marvel did a wonderful job of this perfect casting.
There are some differences between this version and the comic book version. For instance, this one looks to have telekinesis, something the comic book version doesn’t have. On top of that, this one can’t be killed by bullets.
During a big fight with Cassandra and her cronies Deadpool and Wolverine managed to escape. The first people to ever escape Cassandra’s headquarters.
Nicepool to the rescue
They crash land and when they regain consciousness they are found by Nicepool. A version of Deadpool is just nice and very vain.
He lends them his car and the two are off to find the resistance at the Borderlands. The two get into a fight because Wolverine figures out that Deadpool has been lying to him about fixing Wolverine’s timeline.
The fight that follows is one of the most hilarious fights I have ever watched. It is the same as it is in the old Deadpool & Wolverine comics, complete with snarky comments.
Both of them lose consciousness and are found and dragged away from the woods. They wake up in the house of the resistance. The scene is truly a gem. We have Gambit (Channing Tatum), Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner) Blade (Wesley Snipes), and X-23 (Dafne Keen).
Deadpool pep-talks them into attacking Cassandra’s base and finding a way home. But the resistance has had enough and just wants to end all of it. Wolverine and X-23 have a little get-together and she tells him that even though he doubts himself, he is the right guy to help the team.
The team goes off to fight Cassandra and her team and it is a complete slaughter fest. The best fight scene since the last two Avengers movies. Gambit goes all out, the cards move from his hands swiftly.
His famous bo staff does the job too. Of course, it is the Gambit from the long-rumored movie that eventually got canceled. Blade had his three movies and they were all amazing.
Elektra was amazing in the Daredevil movie but her solo movie completely tanked at the box office. And then there is, of course, X-23. One of the best characters in the past 24 years. All in all, this fight scene is incredibly memorable.
The fight against Cassandra involves both Deadpool and Wolverine. The resistance has stolen Juggernaut’s helmet and used it on Cassandra. Just when that happens, Pyro walks in and shoots Cassandra.
To survive, the helmet needs to be taken off. This is interesting. Cassandra is the only way home. So do you pick going home or let your world, and especially your friends, die? Of course, you pick the latter.
The duo saves Cassandra’s life and in return, they get to go to their homeworld using the mystical device that opens portals. Back home, Paradox has completed his Time Ripper device but Cassandra is the one who uses it. She wants Purgatory to be the only world.
All the Deadpools in the world
Before the duo can stop Cassandra, they have to go through all the Deadpools in the multiverse. The funny part is that all of them have an increased healing factor, except for Nicepool, who immediately gets screwed over Deadpool Prime (just to make it easier) who steals his golden guns.
The hilarious but tough fight is eventually ended when Peter shows up. Peter is such a big anchor in any Deadpool’s life all across the multiverse that all of them immediately stop fighting when he tells them to.
Inside, both Deadpool and Wolverine manage to stop Cassandra but teaming up. Whereas Cassandra dies because of her diminished powers in the other reality,
Deadpool and Wolverine live because of their healing factors. If there was ever any doubt about how powerful the healing factor is in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then this proves how powerful it is.
The thing that got Deadpool going was a very emotional scene. Remember when I wrote that something was missing in Deadpool’s life?
It was the fact that after he got rejected by the Avengers and The X-Men, Deadpool got down and never got up. It is Vanessa who eventually manages to get through to Deadpool to tell him that he does matter.
Personal thoughts about Deadpool and Wolverine
The movie is jam-packed with action and so many jokes. I don’t even know where to start. Deadpool breaks the fourth wall over and over. Even the other Deadpools do as well. Dogpool, the ugliest dog in the world, was the ultimate scene stealer for me.
It was interesting to watch how Marvel used their, with a nice word, obsolete characters to give them a great send-off in the fight at Cassandra’s headquarters. There is symbolism between the characters and Purgatory.
Deadpool and Wolverine is the first movie to use the word “Mutant”. Before that, they used the word “enhanced” to indicate that the character has altered genes. Like Wanda / The Scarlet Witch and her brother Quicksilver / Pietro.
It is easy to retcon “enhanced” to “mutant” if Wanda ever comes back to the MCU. Pietro sacrificed his life in Age of Ultron but even then, with the Multiverse wide open, they can reintroduce him.
I would have loved to see more Cassandra Nova in the MCU. Too bad she died trying to take over the multiverse. She is as badass cunning and dominant as she is in the comics and she deserves more.
Dafne Keen’s reprising her role of X-23 in the MCU was a blessing. I have long wondered if X-23 would come back on the big screen. X-23 has played a pivotal role in the comics in the past 20 years or so and her origins are even more mysterious than Wolverine’s.
Where Wolverine has a moral code, X-23 just goes all out and doesn’t hold back at all. And those feet claws, who wouldn’t want to see more of that?
Although this is the only Marvel movie of 2024, because of the SAG-AFTRA strike, they made it the best one to keep me warm until the release of the new Captain America: Brave New World movie.
All in all, I would rate Deadpool as the movie of the year 2024 so far.
