The continuation of Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool franchise might be going to a brand new, blasphemous direction under Disney.
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00:00 The continuation of Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool franchise might be going to a brand new, blasphemous
00:05 direction under Disney.
00:06 "I'm the messiah.
00:07 I am…
00:08 Marvel Jesus."
00:09 Well, not quite.
00:14 Deadpool 3, or rather, Deadpool and Wolverine, dropped its first trailer during Super Bowl
00:18 58 and confirmed that Wade Wilson will be journeying deep into the Marvel Cinematic
00:22 Universe, specifically on the ground first tread by the Disney+ series, Loki, which wrapped
00:27 its second season last year.
00:29 When Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox went through, the expectation for most
00:32 people was that the old X-Men films would be wiped away in a blank slate reboot.
00:36 However, the MCU has since been pulling from those previously unconnected X-movies.
00:41 Clearly, Marvel Studios would prefer to bank on audience familiarity with Fox's X-Men.
00:46 Patrick Stewart showed up in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness as Professor
00:49 X and Kelsey Grammer cameoed as Beast in the mid-credits scene of The Marvels.
00:54 Whether or not these were the original characters or unique variants is besides the point.
00:58 What matters is that they were the actors and characters the audience recognized.
01:01 Now, as you might have guessed, Deadpool and Wolverine teams up its red spandex-clad antihero
01:07 with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and brings them both into the MCU.
01:10 Deadpool's comedy thrives on fourth-wall breaks, and Deadpool 2 introduced time travel, so
01:15 smoothing the series from one franchise into another is certainly doable.
01:18 In this trailer, Wade is having a birthday party with the supporting cast of his previous
01:22 films.
01:23 However, the reunion is short-lived because agents from the Time Variance Authority, TVA,
01:28 come knocking on Wade's door and abduct him.
01:30 The TVA is an interdimensional organization that prunes deviations from the Sacred Timeline,
01:35 aka the sequence of events shown in the MCU films.
01:38 Hostile variants are thrown into the Void, a wasteland at the end of time, to be devoured
01:42 by a malevolent storm called Alioth.
01:44 The TVA was in truth founded by a variant of the villainous Kang called "He Who Remains,"
01:49 who wanted to prevent his other selves from traveling and warring across the multiverse.
01:53 Loki followed the titular god of mischief as he was recruited into the TVA.
01:57 Specifically, this was the Loki seen in Avengers Endgame, who, thanks to some time travel,
02:02 wound up escaping his arrest in 2012 at the end of the Battle of New York.
02:05 The series ended with Loki sacrificially becoming the god of stories, living in a void of solitude
02:10 while harmoniously weaving together different timelines.
02:13 Meanwhile, the TVA shifted its mission specifically to combat Kang.
02:16 No familiar TVA agents from Loki appear in the trailer.
02:20 Instead, Wade meets the previously unseen Paradox, who tells Deadpool that he's "very
02:24 important."
02:25 While this isn't a post-Loki TVA, this might be part of their conflict with Kang, and a
02:29 setup for his clash with the Avengers.
02:31 As Majors was dropped from the role due to his legal troubles, the specifics remain unknown
02:35 to the general public.
02:37 Paradox offers Deadpool the chance to be a "hero among heroes" and shows him screens
02:41 playing scenes from past MCU movies, such as the splash page group shot in the Avengers'
02:46 Age of Ultron cold open and Thor mastering his control of lightning in Thor: Ragnarok.
02:51 Wade suits up in a new Deadpool costume, and we see a montage of him fighting in what looks
02:55 like this movie's version of the void.
02:57 You can also spot a shattered 20th Century Fox stone logo in the background during some
03:01 shots of the trailer, a meta touch about the studio being absorbed into the Disney behemoth.
03:05 Wolverine only shows up briefly in the trailer, but it looks like he's in the void, too.
03:09 Could the Wolverine in this movie have been trapped there, a symbol of his native franchise
03:13 being culled?
03:14 Interestingly, this trailer doesn't explain what the TVA is, thereby trusting the viewer
03:18 has seen Loki.
03:19 The aforementioned Multiverse of Madness and the Marvels also tied into the Disney+ shows,
03:24 with mixed results.
03:25 Can Deadpool handle it better?
03:26 Well, no soon.
03:27 Deadpool and Wolverine is scheduled to release in theaters on July 26th, 2024.
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