Marvel's Deadpool: The Second Coming is a 2016 live-action superhero film produced by 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios based on the Marvel Comics anti-hero, Deadpool. It is the overall seventeenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first film of Phase 3. It was released worldwide February 12th 2016.
Production
Plans for a sequel to Deadpool were being discussed by Ryan Reynolds, Tim Miller, and Marvel Studios before the first film was even released. Discussing heavily the idea of using the X-Force character Domino in some capacity. After its massive success the sequel gained significant traction and was announced by Kevin Feige to be coming sometime in early Phase 3. This release date was eventually narrowed down to 2016 as production began. Though the official date of February 12th was only confirmed during Comic Con 2015 when the MCU's official Phase 3 slate all the way to 2019 was revealed along with the sequel's title The Second Coming.
During development and a large portion of Pre-Production the character Deadpool was planned to appear in the succeeding film Captain America: Civil War with Scarlett Johansson reprising her role as Natasha Romanoff to cameo in The Second Coming in order to help set the stage for it. When 20th Century Fox however, allowed the rights to Spider-Man to join the MCU, he was instead opted to be in Civil War taking Deadpool's place and Black Widow's cameo was scrapped in addition to a new end credits scene being filmed to replace an the original that would've teased Civil War. This caused friction with Director Tim Miller who claimed he wanted Deadpool to be more involved in the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe sooner rather than later. Marvel and Fox tried to come to a compromise but Miller wasn't interested in negotiating and walked from the project.
Fortunately, Kevin Feige was able to get in contact with David Leitch, who was on the directing shortlist for the first Deadpool movie and free to helm the The Second Coming, adapting the majority of Miller's script while complying with Marvel's plans. Principle filming began in early 2015 and the sequel was released on schedule.
Cast
- Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool
- Bill Skarsgard as Andrew Anderson/Madcap
- Ken Watanabe as Hamasaki Yamamoto/T-Ray
- Zazie Beetz as Neena Thurman/Domino
- Steven Yeun as Jack Hammer/Weasel
- Leslie Uggams as Blind Al
- Rob Delany as Peter "Pete" Wisdom
- Finn Jones as Robert Frank/Whizzer
- Brianna Hildebrand as Ellie Phimster/Negasonic Teenage Warhead
- Jay Hernandez as Gordon Thomas/Typeface
- Matt Damon as Telford Porter/Vanisher
- Karan Soni as Bill Dingh
- Saoirse Ronan as Katy Anderson (Flashback)
Plot
The movie starts with this song playing in Andrew Anderson's earbuds while he rides on his bike through a suburban neighborhood with his sister, Katy, blissfully enjoying life. They eventually stop outside of a house and knock on the door, a young African-American woman answers it saying she doesn't like to be bothered. Andrew reveals he and his sister are Jehovah's Witnesses and ask if she has time to hear the good word. The woman tells Andrew to take a hike, she doesn't care about him or his "secret sex lips". Katy insists that they have literature if she doesn't want to talk right now and tries to hand her a pamphlet but accidentally drops it. The woman then simply slams the door in Andrew and Katy's faces.
They both then start walking back to their bikes, still optimistic, until the camera shows a group of undercover A.I.M. Agents in the neighborhood testing out a regenerative compound called Chemical X07 while a tech support Agent named Bill talks them through it. One of the A.I.M. Soldiers though slips on a discarded banana peel and accidentally releases too much resulting in a massive explosion that levels the entire block. Andrew's singed skeleton lays on the ground until he begins miraculously regenerating into a hideous monstrosity (His face not shown). He looks around seeing everyone around him including Katy dead and begins to cry. Andrew then looks up seeing the woman from house before without a scratch on her and his crying suddenly begins turning into laughter.
The intro plays revealing the title DEADPOOL: THE SECOND COMING
Eight years later, Deadpool is in Tokyo sitting on a rooftop where he looks into the camera telling the audience he's gone international since the first movie doing independent mercenary work. That surprisingly being unkillable gives you a pretty distinct advantage in the field. Speaking of which, his latest contract is waiting. Deadpool then pulls out a phone and calls a Yakuza gangster inside another building. The gangster picks up and Deadpool taunts him by claiming it's Gladys calling and that he's going to need to reschedule the anal bleaching appointment. The Gangster responds angered that the notorious "big dicked Merc with the Mouth" has a contract on them, but insists his unbroken kill streak ends tonight. Deadpool tries to look at the gangster's business card but after seeing the Calligraphy insists he isn't even going to try and pronounce that, and then replies by saying he might not speak Japanese, but he took French in middle school and proceeds to say "Je ne parle pas français" which Wade insists literally translates to I will murder you by choking you with your own dick. Deadpool then jumps down and glides in through the window fighting all the Yakuza thugs in their bathhouse, effortlessly slashing them down with his swords.
The room goes quiet the second a large man with long orange hair and a wide double edged sword barges in, yelling out this ends now! Deadpool says he must be Hamasaki Yamamoto aka T-Ray, commenting that he likes his hairdo, really brings out the sex trafficker in his eyes. T-Ray responds angrily claiming that Deadpool broke into his bathhouse, slaughtered his men, and disrespects his honor with juvenile insults! But despite that, he still fights with purpose, he will give Wade a noble death. Deadpool says that would ruin his dream of dying at 102, just like the city of Detroit. He then shouts out "ball tap" and smacks T-Ray in the groin. The two of them start fighting with Deadpool slowly gaining the upper hand. Not seeing any chance of survival, T-Ray jumps out the window Deadpool entered from, escaping the battle. Wade takes out his guns and start shooting aimlessly into the skyline but T-Ray is nowhere to be found. Back in Canada, Weasel and Blind Al are trying to set up IKEA furniture. Just as Weasel thinks he's got it, everything he set up falls apart at exactly the same time, Al simply saying that was the high point of her day. Deadpool then walks into the flat and proceeds to grab a bag of cocaine and stuffs it under his mask before smashing and then violently snorting it. Wade then goes onto the couch and lays face down. Weasel sighs and then asks if there's something he wants to talk about.
Deadpool claims nothing at all while Weasel and Blind Al go back to their own business and Wade starts obnoxiously screaming into a pillow. Weasel asks if he's sure there's nothing and Deadpool responds that if he insists he'll tell him. He had one of his biggest contracts ever to take down the only red headed Japanese man on Earth, gets him right where he wants him and just as he's about to go in for the kill, he escapes. Hours pass as Deadpool starts laying on the floor continuing to rant eventually rambling off topic about his opinions on politics and how he thinks twerking is the reason for global warming. Blind Al finally tells Wade to stop complaining like a horse with a wooden snout. He was fighting an entire Yakuza, he can't be in two places at once. Deadpool gets up and tells Al she's a genius, the Avengers never have to worry about this happening because they're a team, and teams can cover all bases. What he needs is his own Avengers... no, wait for it, Revengers.
He's going to draft the toughest group of mofos who are all going to have 1950s morals with late 2000s ethics and are young enough to carry their own franchises for ten to twelve years. Weasel asks if he's going to find a team like that in Vancouver and Deadpool tells him of course not! Canada doesn't have anything except Justin Bieber and Ryan Reynolds. That's why he's relocating them all to the center of everything, New York City baby! Blind Al insists she doesn't want to go to America but Deadpool on his phone tells her it's too late, he already bought the tickets, they'll be flying to New York in an hour. They'll be flying as stowaways for a discount.
Act 1
In Manhattan, Deadpool, Blind Al and Weasel are putting up posters for the Revengers all over the city. Blind Al though accidentally puts a poster onto the back of someone's shirt, completely unaware of her mistake. The next day, Deadpool and Weasel are sitting in a rented out storefront with Wade telling Jack to take it all in, this is going to be their very own Revengers Tower. Weasel claims that when he heard that on the plane he thought of a luxury skyscraper, but he guesses that a dumpster with an outlet works too. Deadpool responds to Weasel it's called having culture, asking why he thinks he donated all of their savings to the Dolly Parton Foundation. Soon after the first recruit enters, a man in a yellow suit named The Whizzer who claims he has acidic urine. Deadpool asks how he got that and Whizzer claims he was on a safari until he got bitten by a poisonous snake, so he injected himself with Mongoose blood and he's had powers ever since. Deadpool asks if it was a magic mongoose or something, and Whizzer insists it just a regular one. Deadpool responds it must be terrible to deal with "burning piss" everyday and for that he's in.
Next comes Typeface, who has letters tattooed all over his body. He says that he drank alphabet soup that had been contaminated with radioactive waste and it gave him the power to generate letters. Deadpool says he literally found a way to make words hurt, he's definitely in! Next is Vanisher who according to his profile has the power of invisibility, but when Deadpool and Weasel look up don't see anyone in front of them. Nonetheless, he's in and the next recruit is Negasonic Teenage Warhead. Deadpool says that name is awesome and asks what her powers are. Negasonic picks up a glass of water off the desk and begins creating atomic energy in her hand evaporating all of it. Weasel complains he needed that for his anti-hemorrhoid medication later but Deadpool insists that she's in! After that, Pete Wisdom comes in saying that he has no special powers or anything, he just saw the ad and wanted to help out. Deadpool proudly tells him that he's in. Finally, a recruit named Domino arrives who is revealed to be the woman from the beginning of the film. She says that her power is being lucky. Deadpool tells her that isn't very "cinematic" but Domino tells him it definitely is. They argue for a little bit before Deadpool luckily decides to let her in anyway.
The Revengers have a potluck in the back of the storefront where Wade is annoyed that someone brought veggie hamburgers as their dish, only to realize every single Revenger coincidentally happened to bring veggie hamburgers as their dishes too. He walks by Weasel asking if he's got a craving a burger that tastes like a diaper, since they now have ten pounds of it! Blind Al is meanwhile flipping through radio channels until finding a police station reporting on a bank being robbed which the Revengers can stop. Deadpool gets everyone's attention telling them it's time for their first mission, and they're going to the scene in style! On a plane flying over Manhattan, the Revengers are all inside getting ready and Deadpool starts giving them the run down of what they're going to do. Explaining that they need to go into the bank take out the... Pete randomly interrupts Deadpool shouting "LET'S KICK SOME ASS! WOO HOO!!" as everyone awkwardly stares at him. Wade then proceeds to tell him to take it down a couple notches and continues explaining the plan as if nothing happened. After he's done still in mid-air, Wade opens the Plane's cargo opening and tells the team Revengers Ressemble as they all jump out and skydive down to the city in their parachutes.
Everything goes well until Deadpool's parachute doesn't come out even after pulling the strap and he violently crashes. After healing, Wade sees Negasonic Teenage Warhead almost touch the ground before accidentally getting hit by a bus. Whizzer starts getting scared and ends up peeing himself while screaming in pain until getting caught in a spinning helicopter rotor. Seeing the pattern Deadpool starts giving directions to Typeface so he can land properly but he turns his "other left" and accidentally falls right into a wood chipper, which spits out not only his blood but an assortment of letters. Vanisher's parachute can be seen flying down only to land right into a street wire, revealing his face for the first time to the audience. Finally, Pete lands but gets hit by car, fortunately he survives unharmed. Domino is the only one to hit the ground safely and Deadpool rendezvous with her and Pete, observing that it's just them. She looks around at the destruction and grits her teeth.
The three Revengers begin running to the bank where inside a man dressed in a black mask begins stealing bags of money before throwing them into a pile and lighting them on fire. The bank receptionist claims she doesn't understand why he would do that. The Madcap takes off his mask off in addition to his clothes, revealing himself to be wearing a yellow and purple harlequin costume underneath it responding to her "because it's fun" and pulls out a gun. Before the trigger can be pulled it cuts to the Revengers outside the building while Wade starts telling them the new plan. Domino though simply runs inside with everything coincidentally working out for her to get in. After entering the bank, she sees the entire room full of bubbles and all the captives behaving like lunatics. Madcap is in the middle of it laughing hysterically until seeing Domino, he stops for a second before laughing even harder. She notices the laughter sounds similar to Andrew Anderson eight years ago and puts the pieces together that Madcap is the Jehovah's Witness. She confronts him and Madcap remembers her too, the chick who was there when his little sister and a bunch of innocent people died horribly in an explosion, that was classic. Domino tells him she's sorry for what happened but Madcap tells her not to apologize.
For that was the day he started his faith of having no faith. She asks what that means and Madcap says he'll show her, pulling out his gun which shoots a bunch of bubbles at her, they then explode and release a chemical that ends up landing on the man behind her, Pete Wisdom, who starts acting insane along with everyone else. Deadpool then sneaks up behind Madcap and shoots him multiple times. As he falls to the ground Madcap whimsically asks who this is and Deadpool replies I'm Batman. Madcap then easily regenerates the bullet wound and takes out two hatchets engaging Deadpool in a battle. Domino tries to get everyone to stop acting crazy, but all of them are too far gone and even start committing suicide. Madcap and Deadpool get in each other's faces, Wade asks him how he can heal and Madcap claims the same way he can. Random chance. Deadpool questions if he's just an evil duplicate of himself and then looks in the camera saying that's just lazy writing. Madcap then shouts "balltap" and smacks Wade's groin before breaking his teleportation belt. Deadpool begins teleporting around the bank like crazy. He screams for Domino to help him and she luckily is able to grab Deadpool as the belt completely breaks down and they both disappear.
Deadpool then sees he's now in the middle of a white tiled bathroom filled with steam. He takes out his katanas and slowly walks forward until being startled by a bunch of naked old men walking around. He asks where he is and they explain it's a Gentleman's club steam room, they then encourage Wade to come join them and take a load off. Ten minutes later, Deadpool is naked (his mask still on) and relaxing next to all the old men telling them about how there's been talks at Marvel about doing a Loki spinoff movie to appease the fangirl, saying if they go forward with it he'll jump ship to DC. They all chuckle and enjoy themselves until Domino walks in and tells Wade something is horribly wrong. He replies that this is a boy's club, she's not allowed in here. He then looks into the camera and tells the audience that's an allegory for the comic book industry "you misogynistic jerks". Domino explains that's the problem, she can't leave! She tries to walk away and every time she gets too far teleports into Wade's vicinity again. He gets up and tells her it's obviously improper for the women to leave without permission, with that said she's dismissed. Wade then puts on a towel and walks away but when he gets too far teleports back as well.
Domino suggests it must be that stupid belt of his, it was totally going haywire at the bank. Deadpool looks down and sees she's right that the belt is malfunctioning, saying it must've spliced their DNA or something so now they're stuck together. Domino responds she knew this was a mistake. Deadpool clarifies if she means joining the Revengers or thinking an afro like that was still in style. She says her powers might bring her good luck but they bring everyone else around her bad luck. That Madcap became like that because of her, and she only ran into him again because the Revengers wouldn't be able to stop him. She spent years just roaming around by herself, but got lonely, tried to do some good joining his team but of course, like everyone else she's ever met the bad luck drove them away. Deadpool tells Domino doesn't want to be "siamese twined" to her! They have to fix this.
Domino insists there's only one person she knows who can fix this, Deadpool asks if it's Stan Lee or Kevin Feige. Domino quickly tells him neither! It's Madcap, he made them like this and he's the only one who can fix them. She doesn't know where he is but she can make a lucky guess. Deadpool is confused for a second before laughing and explaining she's referring to the fact that her superpower is being lucky. Domino rolls her eyes claiming that was the joke. The two of them both walk to a random car that happens to be unlocked with the keys in the ignition. Domino gets in the driver's seat and Deadpool sits shotgun shouting in pain the second he sits down, looking at the seat to see the car happens to have the Giant Thumbtack inside of it placed on the passenger's seat. Domino tells Wade she knows that was her fault, and all but asks if he really didn't see that before sitting down. Meanwhile, Madcap is wandering Manhattan gleefully skipping until music miraculously begins playing and he breaks out into a song and dance number while committing chaos throughout the city. He then collapses onto the ground in exhaustion looking up at the sky, commenting on how something so meaningless can be give the illusion of being so beautiful. Madcap then lights an oil rig on fire and blows himself up. After the explosion, his decapitated head is still alive on the ground and he begins manically laughing again.
Act 2
Trivia
- Andrew Anderson is Madcap's true identity only within the Marvel Cinematic Universe continuity. As his real name on Earth-616 has been unrevealed. David Leitch explained that specific name was chosen to be a similarly snappy and alternative first and last name as Wade Wilson is.
- The Revengers are based on a team that appeared in Marvel Comics lead by Wonder Man, consisting of superheroes who were embittered with the Avengers and thought they needed to be stopped.
- The Whizzer in the comics was a 1940s superhero who shared the same bizarre origin story his MCU counterpart claimed. However, in Marvel Comics he had super speed, not acidic urination. This was changed as to not make him to derivative to Quicksilver, who appeared in Deadpool.
- Vanisher in the comics doesn't have invisibility of any kind, he instead is able to teleport himself or other objects at will.
- Domino in the source material has a black mark branded over her eye. However, the MCU counterpart bares a similar white mark over her eye which is revealed to be the result of vitiligo.
- When Madcap asks who Deadpool is he responds saying "I'm Batman" a popular catchphrase of the DC Comics character by the same name.
- T-Ray on Earth-616 has a convoluted and ultimately unknown origin story. The Marvel Cinematic Universe origin of him being a leader for the Yakuza is based on the fact in the comics he studied sorcery in Japan.
- Deadpool mentions in the Gentlemen's Club that if Marvel Studios ever made a movie about Loki he would leave to join DC Comics. This is a reference to the fan demand for the popular supervillain of the same name to get a spinoff solo movie. When asked if a Loki movie really was in development Kevin Feige staunchly denied it, jokingly claiming they couldn't afford to lose Deadpool over it!
- Bill Dingh is based on one of the Deadpool's recent sidekicks Bill, Agent of A.I.M. similar to Bob Dobalina in the first film.
- The D.O.O.M.S.D.A.Y. Device is given that acronym to spoof the common film trope the Doomsday Device. Given to any object that is used to advance the villain's plot or perform some terrible action the protagonist must stop.
- Deadpool cutting one of Madcap's bullets in half is a reference to one of his well known feats portrayed by Ryan Reynolds in the non-MCU X-Men films. This is parodied by having Madcap shot him more and Wade failing to deflect them the same way.
- Domino has to save the Yakuza convoy from crashing into a Rand Industries power plant, a company that's owned by Danny Rand or the Iron Fist. Who was slated to get the first season of his Netflix series a month after The Second Coming's theatrical release.
- Deadpool defeating Madcap by regenerating into his body is a reference to how the characters literally met in the comics. When Thor accidentally disintegrated them both with lightning they healed simultaneously into one another, Madcap becoming one of the many voices inside Wade's head.
- The film's climax happening at Disneyland is a meta reference to Marvel Studios' being fully owned by the Fox Disney Company.
- In the first end credits scene, Wade Wilson and Neena Thurman witness a criminal having been stopped by Spider-Man. Who's origin story had already been shown in the second End Credits scene of Avengers: The Ultron Imperative.
- The second end credits scene, has Wade's painting be vandalized by the white and pink insignia often shown belonging to the fellow fourth-wall breaking character Gwenpool. Implying she will appear in the third Deadpool film.