Considering the amount of pop-culture references in Deadpool 2, it’s likely that you missed many of them - especially a split-second celebrity cameo. You’ll probably have to watch the film again (and again, and again) to note (but not necessarily understand) every joke Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with the Mouth makes in the superhero sequel. But we’ve collected a few here for your convenience, if only to reassure you that yes, that was indeed Brad Pitt that you saw for ⅓ of a second.
We saw several of them in the trailer, but the final film had more than a handful of jokes made at the expense of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, clearly the most popular (and therefore most easy to lampoon) superhero franchise out there. It’s an added bonus that both Deadpool 2 and Avengers: Infinity War share in Josh Brolin an actor who plays major roles in both films.
Deadpool doesn’t let this opportunity go to waste. He calls Cable, Brolin’s time travelling cyborg, ‘a grumpy old with a Winter Soldier arm’ at one point in the film. But if that was too subtle for you, he goes right ahead and calls him ‘Thanos’ in one scene, a rather blunt reference to his Infinity War character.
His Indian cabbie, Dopinder, meanwhile gets the title ‘Brown Panther’ - a dig at Marvel’s Black Panther - and to pacify Juggernaut in the film’s finale, Deadpool tries using Black Widow’s lullaby for Hulk. ‘Sun’s getting real low, big guy,” he says. And speaking of Black Widow, did you catch his nickname for Zazie Beetz’s Domino? He calls her ‘black Black Widow’.
Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.
Even in death, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine hasn’t been spared Deadpool’s cracks. The film basically opens with Deadpool mourning Wolverine’s death in Logan, as a figurine of the clawed mutant in his death pose twirls around before him.
And Reynolds bookends the film with yet another dig at Wolverine - specifically the much derided X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Deadpool, now armed with Cable’s time travelling device, goes back into the past and murders the older version of his character while Wolverine looks on. “Just cleaning up the timeline,” he says.
But between these two moments, there’s one that more difficult to spot. When Deadpool is laying out his plan for an ambush, in which he will be joined by the X-Force, his drawn-in-crayon map notes a very specific person. Russell, the young mutant everyone seems to be after, has been given a codename: Prisoner 24601. The more literary of readers would recall that that’s the number assigned to Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. And who played Valjean on the big screen most recently? Yup, Hugh Jackman.
We saw several of them in the trailer, but the final film had more than a handful of jokes made at the expense of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, clearly the most popular (and therefore most easy to lampoon) superhero franchise out there. It’s an added bonus that both Deadpool 2 and Avengers: Infinity War share in Josh Brolin an actor who plays major roles in both films.
Deadpool doesn’t let this opportunity go to waste. He calls Cable, Brolin’s time travelling cyborg, ‘a grumpy old with a Winter Soldier arm’ at one point in the film. But if that was too subtle for you, he goes right ahead and calls him ‘Thanos’ in one scene, a rather blunt reference to his Infinity War character.
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| All the deep cut jokes in Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool 2 that you might have missed |
Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.
Even in death, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine hasn’t been spared Deadpool’s cracks. The film basically opens with Deadpool mourning Wolverine’s death in Logan, as a figurine of the clawed mutant in his death pose twirls around before him.
And Reynolds bookends the film with yet another dig at Wolverine - specifically the much derided X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Deadpool, now armed with Cable’s time travelling device, goes back into the past and murders the older version of his character while Wolverine looks on. “Just cleaning up the timeline,” he says.
But between these two moments, there’s one that more difficult to spot. When Deadpool is laying out his plan for an ambush, in which he will be joined by the X-Force, his drawn-in-crayon map notes a very specific person. Russell, the young mutant everyone seems to be after, has been given a codename: Prisoner 24601. The more literary of readers would recall that that’s the number assigned to Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. And who played Valjean on the big screen most recently? Yup, Hugh Jackman.
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