donderdag 5 december 2024

Deadpool and Wolverine

 Okay, be prepared for one of the weirdest, yet possibly THE most important movie in the MCU.



And that is because this movie was made when Disney acquired Fox, and as such all the superhero movies that studio had made, like the Fantastic Four, Wolverine, and of course, the all beloved X-men, opening the path to bring them all to the MCU.

And Deadpool, or the "Marvel Messiah" as he dubs himself in this film, is the one eaking out the path with a lot of cross-over and fourth wall breaking.  So we basically get the first MCU Deadpool movie, which waves off the Fox movies in a really fun and good way.  Like when they meet the original FF4 movies Torch, played by Chris Evans back then.  Deadpool thinks it's Captain America, and when he starts saying Avengers Assemble, Chris yells "Flame On".



The storyline begins with Deadpool using Cable's time travel device to prevent the death of his girlfriend Vanessa, going to the secret timeline of Earth 616 and enlist with the Avengers.  However, he is rejected by Happy Hogan, and returns to his universe and his job as a used cars salesman together with Peter Wisdom.

When they throw him a birthday party, the TVA captures him, taking him before mr Paradox, who offers Wade a future on Earth 616, as Wade's own timeline is detoriating due to it's anchor (old man Logan) being dead.  To bring the anchor back, Wade jumps to various realities to find another Wolverine, including a cameo of Henry Cavill as Cavillrine.  But the one he came on is labelled the "worst of all Wolverine's" by mr Paradox in the multiverses.  They are banished to the Void, where they agree to work together to change the timeline and stop the TVA.

Together with Johnny Storm, they are taken before Casandra Nova, the twin sister of Charles Xavier, and who made a deal with the TVA to oversee the Void and it's "prisoners".  She kills Johnny, but the other two manage to escape.  Guided by a Deadpool variant, Nicepool, they look for a resistance group, which consists of Laura (X-23), Elektra, Blade (I love when Wesley Snipes grumbles that there is only one Blade) and Gambit (bringing Channing Tatum to the fold in the Gambit costume at last, after the planned movie was cancelled years ago, and he steals the show!).



They assault the base of Nova (a huge Ant-man corpse, inciting earlier a comment from Deadpool that "Paul Rudd did age after all") and thanks to the help of the others Logan and Wade get back to their universe.  But Casandra has followed them, and summons an army of Deadpool variants (featuring many cameo's in the costumes) as she wants to get her hands on a Time Ripper device mr Paradox is creating.  But Wade and Logan manage to destory the device and stop Cassandra, as mr Paradox is taken into custody by the TVA and their actions having stopped the detoriation of the timeline.  Logan stays in Wade's world, as the resistance fighters have been rescued from the Void... and the Fox Marvel universe as such closes down.



This was a fun movie to wrap up the parallel Marvel line of movies, and to bring Deadpool and the others slowly into the MCU.  And so the way is open for the X-Men and the Fantastic Four to make their appearance as such (Doctor Doom being confirmed) and please, please bring this Gambit along!

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