Deadpool has the best disses. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for Deadpool’s best digs and nods to other heroes and antiheroes from across all media.
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00:00And please don't make the super suit green or animated.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for Deadpool's
00:08best digs and nods to other heroes and anti-heroes from across all media.
00:12With this collar on, my superpower is just unbridled cancer.
00:17Give me a bow and arrow, I'm basically Hawkeye.
00:21Number 20. I'm Batman. Deadpool 2.
00:24While trapped inside a prison meant to hold mutants,
00:27Deadpool encounters the time-traveling anti-hero Cable, whose prime objective
00:31is to kill a young mutant Deadpool is trying to keep safe.
00:34Naturally, the two polar opposites brawl.
00:39And when Cable asks who Deadpool is, Wade cheekily replies,
00:43I'm Batman.
00:44We're pretty sure everyone at some point or another has uttered these two words.
00:49I'm Batman.
00:50It might just be a brief impression lightly riffing on Batman,
00:53but it is a hilariously unexpected line.
00:56The way he even imitates the gruff way that Michael Keaton says it
00:59also makes the moment a standout.
01:01I'm Batman.
01:02Ryan Reynolds will always be Deadpool, but hey, who knows?
01:06Maybe he can try his hand at the Dark Knight someday too.
01:09Number 19. Taskmaster's name. Deadpool 9.
01:13It takes a lot to be a supervillain slash occasional anti-hero.
01:17Superior skills and meaningful motives, but also a solid name.
01:22Unfortunately for Taskmaster, Deadpool doesn't think his alias is up to par.
01:26In an issue from the Deadpool comic, the two trade barbs with one another.
01:30Deciding to bring out the big guns, Wade starts dissing his rival's alter ego.
01:35Though he insults Taskmaster, he brings up solid points.
01:38After all, if your name sounds less like it belongs to a criminal mastermind and
01:43more like it belongs to a Kmart appliance, then it's time to rethink your whole gimmick.
01:48Number 18. McAvoy or Stewart? Deadpool.
01:52Though multiple live-action versions of the same character have become pretty
01:56commonplace within the last decade, it doesn't mean the concept can't occasionally be confusing.
02:00This is especially true when examining the mind-bogglingly frustrating X-Men movie timelines.
02:06Good morning, Logan. Light start.
02:12Echoing fans' issues with them is none other than the Merc with a Mouth.
02:16As Colossus drags Deadpool away to go visit Professor X,
02:19he exhaustively asks which version of the Professor it is.
02:23Let us go talk to the Professor. McAvoy or Stewart? These timelines are so confusing.
02:29Deadpool is no continuity cop, but honestly, we appreciate him trying to keep track of
02:34the different professors as humorously as only he can.
02:37Number 17. Wolverine's jealous of Deadpool's healing factor.
02:41Ultimate Spider-Man.
02:43While Deadpool's brief appearance in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon isn't quite a
02:47picture-perfect adaptation, there are some moments where his iconic personality truly shines.
02:52The word is that Fury left his SHIELD tablet in a hotel bathroom.
02:56Ha ha ha! So you can see why I'd want to be discreet.
02:59An example of this is when Deadpool begins ranting to Spidey about his healing factor.
03:03To gloat, he starts doing an impression of Wolverine wishing he had a healing factor as good as his.
03:09I got a healing factor that makes Wolverine go like,
03:11There's no doubt that Deadpool's regenerative abilities are top-tier,
03:15but is clowning on Wolverine really the smartest move?
03:19No, but then again, you wouldn't expect Deadpool of all people to make the smartest moves.
03:24Number 16. Parodying Logan's death.
03:27Deadpool 2.
03:29It's safe to say that Wolverine got one of the greatest superhero send-offs ever in Logan.
03:34It's safe to say that Wolverine got one of the greatest superhero send-offs ever in Logan.
03:57So really, it only makes sense that Deadpool 2 would find a way to parody it.
04:04Papa, can you hear me?
04:08Papa, can you find me?
04:14When Wade is left critically injured, he shares his final words.
04:18There it is.
04:25No, that's the sun. Don't stare directly into that.
04:28They aren't actually his final words though, and they're not exactly uplifting either.
04:32Woodpecker.
04:35Gingivitis.
04:38Codswallop.
04:44Do you want to build a snowman?
04:45The moment isn't just a funny imitation of Logan's death.
04:48It also uses the same music from that heartbreaking moment to great comedic effect.
04:53It's not the first time the movie ribs Hugh Jackman's Wolverine.
04:56In an earlier scene, Deadpool signs a kid's box of hero flakes,
05:00which just so happen to feature him on the front.
05:02Superhero landing.
05:03Coming up.
05:06If Deadpool isn't teasing Wolverine, then is he even Deadpool?
05:15When an alternate Earth Batman tragically succumbs to the Joker toxin,
05:19the once-noble hero is transformed into a vicious maniac called the Batman Who Laughs.
05:24While the character is an interesting concept,
05:26many have been quick to point out that he's kind of an edgelord.
05:29And in Deadpool The End, it looks like even Wade's getting in on the roast.
05:33He ditches his signature costume for a darker look and starts spouting off all sorts of nonsense.
05:39While his look isn't entirely ripped off of the Batman Who Laughs,
05:42his helmet and cynical attitude definitely are.
05:45Swapping his colorful humor out for depressing deconstructionism,
05:49he essentially becomes the Batpool Who Laughs.
05:54Wanting to become Superman for all the wrong reasons.
05:58Deadpool 2.
05:59It's nice to want to be Superman.
06:01Unfortunately, Deadpool only wants to be him for nefarious purposes.
06:05While holding auditions to find new teammates,
06:07Wade and his friend Weasel meet an alien named Shatterstar.
06:11My name's Rusty, but I go by Shatterstar.
06:13That's good.
06:14Yeah, Rusty is toughy.
06:16He mentions how he's pretty much more powerful than everybody,
06:19and Wade then goes on a tangent about how he wishes he could live that exact same reality.
06:25Just once, I'm gonna find a planet of people that are worse than me at everything.
06:28Whole bunch of functional idiots.
06:30I'm gonna go there and I'm gonna be their Superman.
06:32Isn't that Canada?
06:33You shut your goddamn trash mouth.
06:36He essentially wants to be Superman,
06:38but we get the vibe that he'd end up more like Homelander.
06:41The only man in the sky is me.
06:45He comically misses the point of Superman and distorts his purpose,
06:49which just goes to show how quickly Deadpool can go from funny to disturbing.
06:55Scaredevil.
06:56Deadpool.
06:56As Wade prepares to become a costumed mercenary,
06:59different names to use are brainstormed.
07:02The names thrown around aren't that great,
07:04but one interesting alias happens to be Scaredevil.
07:07All you need now is a suit and a nickname, like Wade the Wisecracker,
07:11or Scaredevil.
07:12Mr. Never Die.
07:14If you haven't guessed, it's a light dig at Daredevil.
07:17We're glad he went with Deadpool instead, since it's clearly the superior name.
07:21I'm never gonna win the, uh...
07:23Deadpool.
07:27Captain Deadpool.
07:30But we have to wonder what it would be like if he adopted the Scaredevil moniker instead.
07:34We know he doesn't have the devilish good looks, but who knows?
07:37He could probably rock the horns pretty well.
07:40Number 12.
07:41Sun's Getting Real Low.
07:43Deadpool 2.
07:44When dealing with forces of pure destruction,
07:46some heroes have found great success in calming these beasts down.
07:50Black Widow, for example,
07:52was able to get a nearly feral Hulk under control in Age of Ultron.
07:55Sun's getting real low.
07:57It's a neat trick, but not one that can be easily replicated,
08:00as Deadpool found this out the hard way.
08:02In a brief scene that pokes fun at the MCU,
08:05Wade uses the exact same line that Black Widow used on Hulk to try and subdue Juggernaut.
08:10Hey big guy, the sun's getting real low.
08:12Let's just say it leads to some hilariously devastating results.
08:16These kinds of character bonding moments that are common in the MCU
08:19don't always work out everywhere else.
08:21When they don't, then you get moments that are horrifying instead of wholesome.
08:25Number 11.
08:26Go Get Her, Tiger.
08:27Deadpool.
08:28When Angel Dust throws a wrench into Deadpool's plans to get revenge on Francis,
08:32Negasonic Teenage Warhead helps take Angel Dust out of the equation.
08:36At least, right after she's done using her smartphone.
08:38Oh no, finish your tweet.
08:40As Negasonic gets ready to do her thing,
08:42Wade cheekily offers up some words of encouragement.
08:45There you go, hashtag it.
08:48Go get her, Tiger.
08:50If the line sounds familiar,
08:52that's because it's similar to what Mary Jane frequently says to Spider-Man.
08:56Go get him, Tiger.
08:57We're not really trying to gatekeep this phrase of endearment,
09:00but we think we'd normally prefer if MJ were the one saying it rather than Deadpool.
09:05When the merc with a mouth says it,
09:06then it's less of a positive affirmation and more of a quippy joke.
09:10But hey, maybe that's just us.
09:12Number 10.
09:13Outselling Superman.
09:15Deadpool vs. Thanos, Number 10.
09:17Deadpool vs. Thanos, Number 1.
09:19Fans of the Deadpool comics have been blessed with numerous jokes
09:23at the expense of other superheroes, and not just Marvel ones.
09:26In the comic Deadpool vs. Thanos, Number 1,
09:29Wade is perplexed when he shoots Dr. Doom only for the villain to come back to life.
09:34Talking to Black Talon about the situation,
09:36he realizes that Thanos must have captured Death and decides to rescue her.
09:40When Talon tries to warn him about how powerful Thanos is,
09:43Deadpool snarkily boasts that he's, quote,
09:46an unkillable mutant merc who regularly outsells Superman.
09:50Yeesh, not even the Man of Steel is safe from Deadpool's potshots.
09:53Number 9.
09:54Visiting the X-Mansion, Deadpool.
09:56When Deadpool visited the X-Mansion in the first Deadpool movie,
09:59viewers held their breath waiting for Wolverine or Professor X to make a cameo.
10:04We didn't get that, but what we got was still hilarious.
10:07Ripley from Alien 3.
10:09First, it was Deadpool's mocking nicknames
10:11for Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus.
10:15Then, there was the moment when he went meta
10:16and wondered out loud why the movie didn't feature more X-Men.
10:26He would return to the X-Mansion with the same question in the sequel.
10:30And viewers would get something of an answer, this time at Deadpool's expense.
10:41Number 8.
10:44Calling Cable Thanos, Deadpool 2.
10:47The second Deadpool movie is chock full of pop culture nods and jabs.
10:54When Deadpool learns that Russell will go on to kill Cable's family in the future,
10:58he strikes a deal with Cable to try to convince the young Russell to change his dark future.
11:11After Russell blows the doors of the orphanage open,
11:14Cable insists he's too far gone, but Deadpool quips back,
11:19It's the perfect shutdown thanks, of course, to the fact that Josh Brolin,
11:23who plays Cable, also portrayed the Mad Titan in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
11:27Number 7.
11:28Aversion to green suits, Deadpool.
11:31Much has been said about the quality of the 2011 movie adaptation
11:35of Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds.
11:37Not bad, huh?
11:38You're a superhero.
11:40With Reynolds playing Deadpool,
11:41it was a foregone conclusion that the Merc with a Mouth would ridicule his previous role.
11:46What is this?
11:47Why is your skin green?
11:48Why are you glowing?
11:49What the hell is with that mask?
11:51When Wade is recruited for experimental cancer treatment,
11:54he pokes fun at his former DC character.
11:56As he's being pulled along on a gurney, he remarks,
11:59Please don't make the super suit green, or animated.
12:03This throwaway line is a perfect jab at Green Lantern's heavy use of CGI,
12:08especially on the hero's costume, which was widely criticized upon the movie's release.
12:13Number 6.
12:14Hulk's intelligence, Deadpool number 9.
12:17In this issue of the comics, Deadpool is stuck in the Bone Beast dimension.
12:21After fighting off several Bone Beasts,
12:24Wade learns that the Bone Beast Queen wants to take over his body.
12:27In the midst of a fight with one of the beasts,
12:29Deadpool decides he wants to Hulk out of his current predicament because,
12:33Hulk is real dumb and pulls it off all the time.
12:36He then quips that he's, at least as dumb as the Hulk.
12:39Hulk may be more brawn than brains,
12:42but Bruce Banner is a brilliant theoretical physicist.
12:45You might want to dial it back there, Deadpool.
12:48Number 5.
12:48The dark DCEU, Deadpool 2.
12:51The DC versus Marvel debate has been going on
12:54since both franchises started creating comics back in the 1930s.
12:58Both have seen their ups and downs.
13:03With some asshole in the costume.
13:04But as comic book movies became more mainstream in the 2000s,
13:08we saw a distinct difference in the tone of their respective films.
13:11I will harvest the codex from your son's corpse,
13:16and I will rebuild Krypton.
13:18Christopher Nolan's take on Batman kicked off the more somber side of DC.
13:22What the hell are you?
13:27I'm Batman.
13:28This continued in the DCEU with Zack Snyder's films.
13:34No!
13:38No!
13:40In Deadpool 2, our Merc with a Mouth takes notice of how driven Cable is,
13:44and quips...
13:45So dark!
13:46The Agena from the DC Universe!
13:49It's a quick one-liner that reminds us of the lighter nature of films
13:52found on the Marvel side of the fence.
13:54Number 4.
13:55Hawkeye can't catch a break, Deadpool 2.
13:58Compared to the likes of a super soldier, an Asgardian god, and a rage monster,
14:02Hawkeye's inclusion in the Avengers has always been an easy target to poke fun at.
14:06Now, Hawkeye, it's time to do your thing.
14:10I'm out of arrows.
14:14What?
14:15I'm all out of arrows. I don't have any more.
14:17So, uh, I guess I'm done, right?
14:20He's a very skilled marksman, but doesn't actually have any superpowers,
14:24or even a mechanized suit of armor.
14:26The city's flying, we're fighting an army of robots,
14:30and I have a bow and arrow.
14:32None of this makes sense.
14:34Essentially, he's just really good at firing arrows.
14:37So when Deadpool finds himself locked up in the icebox with no superpowers,
14:41he self-deprecates in the best way by comparing himself to the bow-slinging superhero.
14:45With this collar on, my superpower is just unbridled cancer.
14:49Give me a bow and arrow, I'm basically Hawkeye.
14:52Number 3.
14:53Another Martha to the mix, Deadpool 2.
14:56When Batman v Superman was released, audiences were not thrilled with how the superheroes went
15:01from enemies to friends upon learning that their mothers had the same name.
15:04You're letting him kill Martha.
15:13What does that mean?
15:17Why did you say that name?
15:18Since then, the Martha moment has been the source of many jokes and criticisms.
15:22Even Deadpool himself got in a little jab in Deadpool vs Punisher 5
15:26when he re-enacts the scene to hilarious effect, remarking,
15:30I mean, this changes everything, you know?
15:32However, the best joke comes during Deadpool 2, where he explains to Vanessa why he's late.
15:48It's yet another quick flash-in-the-pan gag that only viewers of both movies would catch.
15:53Number 2.
15:54Why Deadpool won't join the X-Men, Deadpool.
15:57When the first Deadpool movie was released,
15:59the only Marvel characters that could be included beyond Wade himself
16:03were ones that 20th Century Fox still had rights to.
16:16The most notable of these were the X-Men,
16:18which Deadpool has a long and complicated history with.
16:21It came as no surprise that during the movie,
16:24Deadpool took his share of potshots at the mutant franchise.
16:27One notable example of this happens shortly after capturing Francis on the bridge.
16:31Colossus tries to convince him to join the X-Men, and Deadpool isn't having any of it.
16:45It's a pretty explicit takedown of the X-Men and Professor X,
16:48but it drives home the idea that Deadpool is better off solo.
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17:07Number 1.
17:08Deadpool and Spider-Man go to the movies.
17:11Spider-Man, Deadpool number 6.
17:13When Deadpool asks Spider-Man for help with his big Hollywood movie,
17:16he explains, quote,
17:18You know this world better than anyone.
17:20You're a total sellout.
17:21The issue also pokes fun at how X-Men have been corralled off into their own separate franchise,
17:26with Storm wondering, quote,
17:30The real gem, though, is at the end of the comic,
17:32when Deadpool and Spidey see the movie Nighthawk vs. Hyperion, Yawn of Boredom.
17:37The movie poster pretty obviously resembles Batman vs. Superman.
17:41It even has the tagline,
17:43You won't believe their mothers share a first name.
17:46Ouch.
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