Marvel's Deadpool is a 2013 live-action superhero film produced by 20th Century Fox and Marvel Studios based on the character by the same name. It is the overall tenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the second film of Phase 2. It was released worldwide on July 5th 2013.
Production[]
In 2010, Ryan Reynolds came to Marvel Studios pitching his idea of a Deadpool movie and the desire to star in the titular role after years of trying to have 20th Century Fox greenlight a film based around the character, to no avail. Kevin Feige wanted the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Phase 2 to have at least one new movie franchise introduced every year in order to keep the brand interesting and consistently moving forward, and liked the idea of introducing Deadpool as a part of that, believing him to be the closest thing they could ever do to a Spider-Man style film.
However, the raunchy nature of Deadpool's character was unheard of being adapted for a comic book movie and 20th Century Fox was having trouble figuring out how to proceed. In early 2011, test footage was leaked for the movie and received a tremendously positive response online which encouraged them to move forward in spite of it.
At Comic Con 2011, Feige confirmed that a Deadpool movie was in development for Phase 2 with Tim Miller directing and Ryan Reynolds starring as the lead character. News of the film began to release confirming Ajax would be the film's main villain alongside Black Swan. Principle filming began in 2012 and was released in theaters worldwide July 5th 2013.
Cast[]
- Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool
- Ed Skrein as Francis Freeman/Ajax
- Gina Carano as Black Swan
- Charlie Day as Jack Hammer/Weasel
- Leslie Uggams as Blind Al
- Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle
- Randal Reeder as T Ray
- Jed Rees as Malcolm Colcord
- Hunter Parrish as Bob Dobalina
- Tim Matheson as Mickey Wilson
- Sally Field as Hailey Wilson
- Angie Harmon as Jen Walters/She-Hulk (Cameo)
Plot[]
Act 1[]
The film starts with this song playing as a man begins arming himself while filling up a large bag. Grabbing weapons, swords, and a magazine with Ryan Reynolds on the cover. It then cuts to the same man sitting on the side of a highway, sketching a picture of himself cutting someone's head off.
He gets startled by the camera before saying that he didn't see them there, introducing himself as Deadpool. Afterwards saying how they might be wondering why the red suit, explaining that it's so bad guys can't see him bleed. He then notices a van driving by under him before saying let's hope they're wearing brown pants.
Deadpool then jumps off his perch into the van and begins beating on the soldiers mercilessly while taunting them with nonstop quips and mockery. After killing everyone it does a freeze frame while Deadpool narrates telling the audience how they must've thought this was a Marvel movie, but that guy just turned that other guy into human sushi, claiming that he might be super, but he's no hero.
Doing a flashback one year earlier in Vancouver inside an apartment building Wade Wilson knocks on the door saying pizza delivery for Rob Liefeld. Rob insists he didn't order a pizza but Wade wonders if he didn't order pineapple and anchovies with a side of serrated steel, pulling out a large knife. Rob goes silent while Wade uses the knife to start cutting the pizza, explaining how he really shouldn't have skimped on that poker game, fifteen thousand dollars is a lot of money. He then hands Rob a slice of pizza but purposefully drops it on the ground in front of him.
Rob nervously yells that he's putting the money together, pleading how those guys know he's good for it, handing Wade his wallet insisting to take whatever he wants. Wade puts it in his pocket before insisting he have it ready by next Tuesday, and he's keeping his wallet since he did kinda gave it to him.
It then shows Wade later waking into the abandoned orphanage Sister Margaret's School For Wayward Girls that's been taken over and renamed the Hellhouse. Sitting inside he orders the usual from the bartender, T Ray. While pouring it for him T Ray goes on about how business is booming and Wade insists he's telling him, it's the Avengers, everyone wants their own hero now to help wipe their ass for them.
T Ray then claims yet he's sitting here drinking all his tequila, make himself useful, dead pool's only getting fuller. Wade rolls his eyes before reaching his hand into the dead pool, a big bowl full of paper contracts, before narrating how that decision to reach into the dead pool that day was the most important thing he's ever done. Wade reading the contract he pulled out to bodyguard at the Happy Hippie Festival.
He scoffs before tossing it away while Deadpool narrates he learned a virtue he lives by everyday, that hippies are gross. Wade then reaches back in and Deadpool narrates again the second most important thing in his life happened right after, Wade reading the contract about Jack Hammer, cheating on his girlfriend with a hooker.
The next day, Wade casually walks through a crackhouse, slowly commenting on all the eccentricities he passes by muttering how he likes the aesthetic, claiming he didn't know "crackhead" was a color. He then finally finds Jack Hammer with a prostitute and proceeds to grab and pin him to the wall. Jack screams out asking what the hell but Wade just warns him that he's gonna go home to his girlfriend and tell her the truth adding on that he doesn't want to see him here ever again, asking if he hears him. Jack though begs him not to hurt him, he has early onset shingles.
The prostitute yells to get off of him wrestling Wade from behind as he lands on top of her and they look each other in the eye, both of them repeating hi to one another until he introduces himself and she does the same, saying her name is Vanessa. Wade then asks if she wants to go somewhere and Vanessa claims sure, both of them getting up before walking out while Jack asks where she's going, claiming she was his ride!
Wade takes Vanessa, instead of somewhere to sleep together, to a roller rink where they both do a sensual dance routine with one another, disturbing the casual patrons until it cuts to a montage of them falling in love while Deadpool narrates how it was the greatest week and a half of his whole life. Wade and Vanessa are then laying in bed together before asking if she knows why they're so good together, Vanessa guesses they both like butt stuff but Wade clarifies her crazy matches his crazy, rolling over only to ask her to marry him.
He goes on how these last few years have been really hard, but when you know you know, and he's not taking any chances. Vanessa hesitates for a moment before telling him yes and they hug. They then start cooking pop-tarts for dinner while discussing names for their future children, Vanessa suggesting Krystal with a "K" but Wade claims it's too strippery, he follows up with Kevin with a "K" but claims it's still too strippery. Vanessa says Chris but Wade just looks at her annoyed, asking if there aren't already enough Chrises.
She keeps suggesting names until Deadpool starts narrating how here's the thing, life is like a box of chocolates, most of it is horrible, some make you question your sanity, a lot of it tastes like toothpaste, but every once in a awhile you get that one chocolate that makes it all worth it. He had just gotten the ultimate chocolate, which means it was only a matter of time. Wade is then shown to start getting lightheaded and faints in the middle of Vanessa speaking.
At the hospital, the doctor claims they’ll do everything they can and Wade he knows, sarcastically repeating how he has cancer in his liver, lungs, prostate, and brain, all things he can live without. The doctor then adds on how they'll have to start treatment as soon as possible to maximize any chance for remission.
He just sits there in silence until Vanessa looks to him insisting that she loves him and that they're going to fight this. Later in the Hellhouse, T Ray tells Wade he looks like he needs a lap dance and a shower, in that order. Wade clarifies to him that he starts chemo next week, explaining how Vanessa got him all these brochures, looking over one for Chechnya, wondering isn’t that where people go to get cancer.
T Ray suggests he just skip it and enjoys whatever time he has left but Wade says he doesn't want one second less without Vanessa, proclaiming that he loves her, man. T Ray then sternly warns him not to get tears on his tampon as Wade just sits there drinking by himself until a man in a suit asks if the seat is taken.
Wade clarifies he thinks he's at the wrong place, the used car dealership is down the block but he sits down introducing himself as Malcolm, he's a recruiter, Wade sarcastically quipping how surprising. Malcolm goes on about how he knows what's happening with him, muttering cancer, it's a shame when good things happen to good people, veterans such as himself.
Wade says that he hasn't been called that since the dishonorable discharge but Malcolm tells him he's here to tell him there's hope and Wade says if the next word that comes out of his mouth is Jesus, he's gonna slap him with a Chimichanga. Malcolm continues that he works for an institution that specializes in helping cases like his, not official just yet, but their research is groundbreaking, think about it. Malcolm then hands Wade his card saying they'll be in touch before getting up, Wade looking over it only to see an address written on a black card with nothing else.
Later that night, it shows outside the window to their bedroom where Wade explains the situation to Vanessa who hugs him in support as it cuts to an office guarded by a small security force. One of the guards politely says hey, claiming his name's Bob and Wade bluntly responds that he doesn't care.
Bob apologizes profusely and says it's his first day only for Wade to pat him on the shoulder insisting to consider this friendly advice, he overshares. He then walks into the office where a muscular man is waiting for him inside, asking if he has a card. Wade shows it to him and the man introduces himself as Ajax, Wade questioning after the soap only for Ajax to clarify the warrior.
He tells him to sign the form which Wade does afterwards asking him if he was followed, Wade tells him nope and he then asks if anyone knows he's here with Wade insisting his fiancé knows he's getting help, not where. Ajax states well then, they can get started, knocking Wade out with a punch to the face as he wakes up in a dilapidated workshop tied down to a gurney. Ajax and someone else stand over him only to then inject Wade with a catheter bag full of unknown liquid while Ajax explains she'll be helping his cancer go into remission permanently with genetic code extracted from a former patient.
They both went through the same thing, it gave Black Swan here the ability to manipulate the brains of others, and him pain redirection. It also had the added benefit of removing his ability to even feel pain at all. He then goes on to say how Wade was a fantastic soldier, which is why it's what they'll have him be doing again, whispering that he’s never going home until Wade starts mumbling something through his gag. Ajax gives the signal and Black Swan takes it out only for Wade to point out there's something in his teeth.
Black Swan instantly puts the gag back in while Ajax casually looks into the mirror and uses floss from his pocket to clean it out, afterwards going on how activating his new genes will not be an enjoyable experience, the human body requires intense levels of physical stress to incorporate them, which is why they have to torture him every day until his powers manifest.
Ajax then tells Black Swan he's all hers as it does a montage of Wade being tortured while Deadpool narrates that there's a moment in every film where the hero reaches their lowest point, in Empire it was when Luke found out Darth Vader was his father, or in the Human Centipede when the actors signed on to be that in that movie, but for him, they're seeing it. As the torture continues and progressively gets more brutal it finally accumulates with Wade being forced to listen to Baby by Justin Bieber at full volume.
Later, Ajax gets annoyed yelling out that nobody fixed the water heater, muttering under his breath "disgusting slobs" as he goes down with a box of matches to fix it. Wade then looks over while tied onto his gurney getting a glimpse of his name tag and sees his name, Francis Freeman, only to start laughing that his name is Francis. As Ajax walks over Wade keeps taunting now he knows why he uses a codename, nobody's gonna be scared of a guy named Francis until he leans over and holds Wade's mouth closed before angrily telling him to shut up.
As he walks away, Wade is revealed to have swiped a match from him which he subtly lights before throwing it towards a loose pipe causing a large explosion that destroys the whole workshop, burning off his restraints in the process. He gets up and in the destruction begins looking for a way out until getting hit over the head with a fire extinguisher by Ajax, who desperately tries at the same time to put out the fire.
Whenever Wade then tries to fight back he grunts in pain with every attack only for Ajax to be unaffected, but while continuously asking Wade what his name is he only replies with Francis. Losing patience, Ajax eventually impales Wade into a broken metal frame and seeing the workshop unsalvageable, makes his escape. As Wade bleeds out, about to die, he suddenly starts to mutate with his powers kicking in.
His cancer instantly healing in the form of tumors all over his skin, hideously deforming him and the entire workshop shortly exploding. The next morning, Wade finally emerges from the rubble digging himself out and healing from all his wounds while Deadpool narrates there he was, rising from the ashes the badass, sexy beast he is today.
Wade then asks who said that and Deadpool claims he's done narrating now, they can figure out the rest. Wade is then startled when he sees the camera, asking how long they've been watching him only to shortly after tell them just kidding he totally knows what's going on. Telling them he guesses the cancer is gone, and looking at the rest of him, claims and so is everything else, afterwards saying how he should probably find some clothes, the camera from behind showing his bare buttocks visible.
Act 2[]
Back in Vancouver, Jack Hammer is taking the trash out from his flat until Wade, dressed now in DC Comics merchandise, says hey, startling him. Wade then introduces himself as the guy who threatened him to stay away from Vanessa and Jack cheerfully asks him what's up only for Wade to take his hood off. Jack becomes repulsed seeing his tumors, asking what happened to his face and Wade casually explains he got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and then a guy named Francis gave him super healing.
Now he needs his help... afterwards claiming he doesn't remember what his name is, he's just gonna call him Weasel, he's got one of those faces. Jack repeats his name but Wade still tells "Weasel" he's trying to be serious. Weasel just says he's sorry, but he just looks like Ryan Reynolds had sex with a topographical map of Utah and Wade then responds by telling him thank you. Inside the flat, Wade says it smells like old lady pants in here only for a voice behind him to say it sounds like he has a cock in his mouth, revealed to have come from an old blind woman sitting on the couch behind him.
Wade asks if that's his sister or his girlfriend only for Weasel to confirm his roommate, Blind Al, his girlfriend left him when... in the middle of talking he interrupts by jumping onto the couch saying he loves her already, asking Blind Al if she's got a thing for eyeballs. Weasel then walks over and asks what did he need help with only for Wade to explain he's fallen in love with Vanessa but ever since his extended vacation he can't find her, since he's him, he figured he'd know where she is. Weasel says oh yeah, she's been stripping at a club a few blocks from here, he goes to all time, they have a free buffet.
Cutting to the strip club, Wade and Weasel enter where he says he's so excited he could kill him and make love to the bullet holes just for the hell of it, Weasel casually telling him to please not. Once Weasel gets distracted by one of the strippers Wade makes a beeline for Vanessa until he’s finally standing right behind her. Wade then prepares to get her attention but suddenly finds that he can't, afterwards leaving without Vanessa even noticing. Weasel meanwhile argues with a stripper that he'll come back this weekend and pay her once he gets the money, but the stripper, confused, reminds him there's no debt here until Wade suddenly grabs him by his ear and drags Wassel to the corner, confessing that he can't do it.
Weasel asks why not and Wade explains because he's a bitch but Weasel scoffs saying they all get nervous sometimes. Wade though says no, clarifying he treats Weasel like crap yet he does everything he tells him because he's a bitch, Francis and his cronies torture him for months and he just runs away, ergo making him a bitch too, Vanessa can't see him like this. Weasel though says he just has to get even and then he won't be a bitch anymore and Wade asks but how, until a lightbulb literally ignites over his head and he says he has an idea.
It then cuts to Wade and Weasel outside the Hellhouse until noticing the door is locked. Wade busts it open until saying it's a good thing T Ray closes up for his night water aerobics. They then go inside before it shows them in the back where all the weapons and kevlar are stored, Wade picking up two katanas and telling Weasel to imagine pulling these out for at your ex's wedding as they then start emptying the entire armory.
Once they're done it shows them sitting in the front eating microwaved Chimichangas while Weasel asks if there's anything better than a Chimichanga only for Wade to confess that he actually hates Chimichangas, he just likes saying the name, phonetically sounding out Chim-i-changa. Weasel then says he should wear a mask, make sure nobody knows who he is, and a codename too.
Wade asks what would he call himself but Weasel asks if anyone he picked out of the dead pool ever had a nickname for him. Suddenly, the camera then switches to Wade looking at the deadpool only to switch back to Wade's face, doing so a dozen times in rapid succession until he gets an idea, suggesting Captain Deadpool with Weasel though nudging him to just Deadpool, Wade insisting now that sounds like a franchise!
It then shows at the flat all of them working to put together a suit for Deadpool to wear, putting the Kevlar together into white fabric until Wade whines that he's gonna get blood and guts all over it only for Blind Al to suggest he wear red then, "dumbass" as the costume is then resown red. Weasel meanwhile is shown frenetically typing on a computer until Deadpool asks what he's doing, Weasel explaining he's hacking, this is how information is acquired in the 21st century, "old man" only for Deadpool to pretend laugh claiming fake laughter hiding real pain. Afterwards finally saying he's got a name, Malcolm Colcord.
At a mansion outside the city, Bob is doing a sweep around the compound until he notices two guards chopped into pieces and shrikes like a girl, calling for backup as he quivers. Bob and the rest of security are then seen investigating until they slowly enter the living room, opening the door only to see nobody there. They then sigh in relief until loudly hearing someone say "looking for me!?" as they then look only to see Deadpool laying down in front of the fireplace before he quickly starts brutally killing them.
After almost all the guards are murdered Deadpool is about to do the same to Bob until recognizes him, kindly asking how he's been doing only for Bob to say he thinks he ruptured his spleen. Deadpool though ignores his pleas and leaves the living room to start killing every other guard that gets in his way, eventually looking to the camera daring them he can get to the recruiter with only ten bullets. Proceeding to kill every other guard in the mansion with those ten bullets in increasingly creative and economic ways.
Cutting to the master bedroom, the walls are shown to be soundproof with Malcolm laying in bed watching porn on his television until Deadpool suddenly breaks in and grabs him. Malcolm starts asking what he wants, money, women, how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop, because he has connections, but Deadpool says he really has no idea who he is, pulling up his ask only to tell him "Boo!" Malcolm then recognizes him as Wade Wilson, saying it's nice to see him healthy again.
Deadpool then looks at his television and asks if this is all the action he gets these days, only for Malcolm to claim he'd be surprised, Deadpool clarifying just grossed out before throwing him out the window. As he walks over and looks at him dead on the pavement, Deadpool looks at the camera and says to be honest, he's not the only one with a little bit of piss in their pants right now.
Outside the mansion, Weasel is listening to an audiobook in his car talking about the merits of wet wipes until Deadpool goes up to the window showing Malcolm's decapitated head. Weasel then opens the door telling Deadpool he did it and he responds that he should've seen their faces, puppeteering Malcolm's head to make him start re-enacting their fear, afterwards claiming he wants more. He throws the decapitated head into Weasel's arms telling him to take him home, they're doing this again tomorrow.
The next day, Bob is crying hysterically to Ajax and Black Swan telling them what happened, only to eventually become too distraught that Ajax has to give him an ice cream cone to calm him down. He then tells him to start from the beginning and Bob reiterates he wore red, and he had a bunch of guns, stuttering and then he killed everyone, crying again. Ajax gets up and looks to Black Swan saying that this is a complication. Black Swan points out Malcolm was a recruiter, he made a lot of enemies over the years, maybe it all finally caught up to him only for Ajax to explain they cover their tracks. If someone found Malcolm there's no reason to think he couldn't find the rest of them. Black Swan insists he's being paranoid, give it a week and this is all gonna blow over.
Contrasting her statement, it shows a montage of Deadpool at the flat creating a chart of everyone he wants to kill as he then travels all over Vancouver violently murdering anyone associated with the workshop. Going after employees, guards, and even other mutated soldiers in increasingly bizarre ways. Each time, returning to the flat progressively marking off more and more names from the chart while Ajax, after finding out about the attacks, looks at Black Swan judgmentally. The montage eventually concluding in one where he has to hide from a shoot out in a freezer at a butcher shop, only to emerge using the meats as a body armor.
He then says to fast forward and the movie does as told going to the moment at the beginning of Deadpool on the highway. He starts attacking the surviving soldiers, quipping as per usual, until another soldier suddenly drives by on a motorcycle, yanking her helmet off only to reveal herself to be Black Swan, muttering she had a feeling he'd be here. Deadpool dramatically covers his face in surprise saying she's not a faceless henchman.
Black Swan continues that she doesn't like being proven wrong, but when he attacks her truck, delivering her soldiers, a walking sex toy gets an ass kicking. Deadpool then tells her to bring it on, "less angry Rosie O'Donnell", and takes out his two swords running towards her until Black Swan starts controlling his brain, slowing him down. As Deadpool begins moving slower large text appears on his head that says vertigo, his chest anxiety, his stomach indigestion, and finally his bowels diarrhea. He eventually collapses and throws up in his mask, swallowing it, only to then throw it up again.
She then asks him how he would like to relive all his worst memories, causing Deadpool to start vividly remembering the torture he was exposed to in the workshop, saying goodbye to Vanessa, his most painful injuries as a hitman, in the military trying to convince his superiors they're aquarium rocks, in high school reading a terrible poem in front of the class only to get crumpled up paper thrown at him, and finally being a child waiting outside the principal's office where he gets picked up early by his parents, who arrive but it cuts before seeing their reaction.
Deadpool suddenly stops remembering and, completely changing his body language, casually gets up from his slump despite Black Swan nervously asking what he's doing. He then tightly hugs her before falling off the edge of the highway, pulling her with him where they both get hit by an oncoming truck. Cutting to the suburbs, Deadpool adorned in his torn costume rings the doorbell where an elderly couple answer and he says, "Mom and Dad".
Act 3[]
The last remains of the workshop are seen being dug up until they call out that he's not here. Ajax is then informed that Black Swan is dead, he mutters how that's a shame, he's grown quite fond of her. The soldier then tells him that they think they know who killed her, and all the others, Wade Wilson. At the Wilson Residence, Deadpool wakes up only to look at the clock and see it's three in the afternoon. Muttering that's about right he gets up out of his race car bed only to go downstairs where his father, Mickey, chipperly tells him good morning only for his mother, Hailey, to say she made wheatcakes, fresh off the griddle, giving him a plate of them. Wade insisting or next time she can just make him pancakes like a normal person.
Hailey then says that they're just so glad to have him back, reminding him they called and he never answered, wondering what's been going on. Wade answers fell in love, got cancer, got cured, hence this gesturing at his face, the treatment took a toll on him mentally, but after a chance encounter with a psychic he's over it now. Mickey reiterates he met someone, saying that's great, asking what she's like before wondering if they can meet them but Wade just asks if he can not pry into his life. Hailey responds they weren't trying to make him feel uncomfortable but Wade shouts out they're doing a pretty terrible job at it, going back to eating his breakfast while they stop talking.
That night, it shows Vanessa heading off to work but before she can get into her car is kidnapped. She then wakes up in a Junkyard where Ajax is in front of her working. When he sees she's awake Ajax tells her she has her fiancé to thank for this. Vanessa questions if he knows Wade, asking where is he and Ajax says he'll be here soon, and she isn't the only surprise waiting for him.
Opening a briefcase with an injection gun inside, he claims it came from one of the big laboratories, it's in the early stages but if it works like thinks it does this should be able to target the synthetic genes they gave him. Looking to Vanessa only to remind her they can give him his cancer back, it'll be like this whole adventure never even happened. Vanessa starts to scream for help but Ajax just puts a gag in her mouth as he continues to work.
Back at the Wilson Residence, Mickey and Hailey are watching a nature documentary while Wade wanders around the house looking at old pictures. He sees one of his parents' wedding, afterwards going to his father's graduation certificate from Stanford University in Rocket Science and then to a picture of his mother's ACA Award. He goes downstairs and stands in front of the television, Mickey politely asking if he can scoot over, insisting he wants to see the Gazelle get its head torn off but Wade says he has to tell them something.
Cutting to Wade sitting across from his parents, he says after he dropped out of college he decided to spend some time in the Military. They're both surprised and he continues on that he wanted to travel the world, see exotic places, and then kill people in those exotic places. He picked up a drug habit, couldn't shake it, and they discharged him. Spent the next few years getting work anywhere he could as a Mercenary, and now it's official, their son is a lost cause.
Hailey generously reaches out to tell him that nobody's a lost cause while Mickey adds that everyone has something to contribute in their own way. Saying how his barber never graduated high school, smartest guy he ever met. Hailey then says if he's sick or he's in trouble they'll get him help, it's not too late. Mickey finally insisting they know the best people, he'll be right back into shape in no time. Then he can choose if he wants to be more like them, or if he wants to be something else. Wade smiles before saying thanks, insisting they really are the best. He then suddenly gets a text message with a picture of Vanessa telling him if he wants her back to meet him in the Junkyard at noon, love Ajax.
Seeing that Wade begins to twitch, tuning out his parents words until getting up and screaming obscenities about how he's going to kill him. He then tells his parents he's feeling better now, talk to them later, bye, and storms out the front door. Outside, Deadpool looks into the camera telling the audience that he's back, showing from his parents perspective him talking to nobody as they look concerned. At the flat, Weasel and Blind Al are arguing while building IKEA furniture together until Deadpool suddenly bursts through the door telling them to get the guns! Adding on he wants every weapon in this house out and ready to go only for Blind Al to remind him it's a condo, not a house. Demanding they also get him a new suit, there's gonna be a lot of blood.
It then does a montage of all of them taking guns, swords, and knives out of every strange hidden compartment throughout the flat as it cuts to them all casually driving in the car without saying a word. Deadpool only breaking the silence to ask Weasel if he can change the radio station, the tension shortly after returning while he's shown walking in slow motion to the Junkyard. Seeing Ajax standing on the high ground a squad of soldiers suddenly surround him, Deadpool demands to know where she but Ajax just asks him what his name is and Deadpool aggressively responds asking if he wants to know his name, he'll tell him his name, "Francis fucking Fanny".
Ajax mumbles didn't think so before giving the signal and the soldiers open fire, Deadpool proceeding to slaughter all of them using his guns and swords. Meanwhile in the car, Weasel and Blind Al are both singing The Lion Sleeps Tonight together and once they're done he asks how they did, Al just saying better than Summer Lovin'. Weasel then mutters "oh shit!" as he sees soldiers rapidly approaching and quickly starts to drive away, only to shortly after crash into the pavement, Al asking what happened, did he hit another school bus.
On top of his platform, Ajax looks out again only to see the bodies of all the dead soldiers strung out to spell FRANCIS as it cuts to Deadpool having climbed up and snuck to Vanessa, taking the gag out of her mouth and reminding her who he is. She starts to become emotional saying she knew he'd come back as Ajax suddenly attacks him from behind with the injection gun. Below them, Weasel and Blind Al are sneaking through the Junkyard until Weasel sees a wrecking ball that he tells her they can use to waste those guys.
Deadpool and Ajax are both fighting each other, with multiple close calls over being hit with the injection gun and Deadpool shouting out increasingly absurd exclamations every time the pain from his hits gets redirected. Weasel and Blind Al are then seen getting into the wrecking ball until Bob yells for them to stop right there! Weasel insists he'll handle this as Al tells him no, no, no, he's the only one that can see! Weasel getting out anyway as she mutters for God's sake and starts operating it herself.
Western music starts to play as Weasel and Bob stare each other down, Bob then charges at him but trips on a littered beer bottle and bangs his head on a discarded refrigerator. Weasel afterwards standing triumphantly while he shouts out that's how they do it in the Cul De Sac! Blind Al meanwhile jolts the wrecking ball in a random direction onto the platform Ajax and Deadpool are fighting on as the climax of Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus blasts and the wrecking ball completely shatters the structure of the platform in slow motion.
It starts collapsing into the Junkyard, the top acting as a slide for Ajax, Deadpool, and Vanessa to ride on while all the other soldiers on the ground die from the debris. As Deadpool and Vanessa both get up despite their disorientation they see Ajax, injector gun in hand, prepared to keep fighting again until he slows down and begins to cough up blood. Deadpool tells him that one of the downsides of not feeling any pain, you'll never know if someone stabs him in the back. Ajax then looks and sees a knife jammed into his back doing just that and while distracted Deadpool quickly takes the injector gun out of his hand and jams it into Ajax's hip as he begins to start screaming, his powers fading away and feeling pain again.
Collapsing onto the ground in agony, Deadpool physically touches the camera and tells the audience they may want to look away for this, moving it out of view as Ajax can be heard screaming as he's brutally killed. Weasel is shown leading Blind Al down through the rubble until catching up to Deadpool and Vanessa. He tells them how he's always said they need to buy a wrecking ball, ranting about how he's going to bring back the swear jar and after a year... he's then interrupted by Weasel who points to Vanessa waiting for him.
Deadpool gently walks over to her as she asks why he didn't call and he says that he had some loose ends to tie up. Vanessa then tells him to kiss her like he misses her as Deadpool yanks off his mask and Vanessa becomes horrified, asking what happened to him. Deadpool explains oh yeah, it's a side effect of the cure, these are just cancer cells but she insists she's not kissing that. He stammers but, but, they love each other, and Vanessa callously claims not anymore as she pushes past him and walks away.
Weasel and Blind Al slowly approach with Weasel muttering "ouch!" before asking how he's holding up. Deadpool announcing he thinks he just learned an important lesson, putting on his mask while sentimental music starts playing and he monologues how he doesn't have to settle for Vanessa if she's too shallow to see him for who he is, because the only person who needs to love him is himself. So, get ahead, hate him, beat him, he's never gonna stop being him, and that's pretty cool.
He then laughs claiming nah, he's single, unkillable, and cancer free, asking what's there to be sad about. Blind Al then says he's beautiful to her and Deadpool replies saying so is she, the three of them all start walking off together while Weasel asks what's gonna happen to all these bodies but Deadpool just shushes him saying that it's the end of the movie, nobody's thinking about that. The end credits then roll giving obscene credits to the filmmakers while this song plays.
Mid Credits[]
Teasing The Incredible Hulk 3
Deadpool is sitting on the couch at the flat watching TV with Weasel and Blind Al passed out on both sides of him. He begins channel surfing until coming across a beauty pageant where She-Hulk is being interviewed, literally reminding everyone that she exists. Deadpool then tells her "Hi, Jen!" and she looks at the television and says "Hi, Wade!"
End Credits[]
Teasing Deadpool: The Second Coming
Deadpool comes out of his room in a hallway with strange wallpaper in his robe where he looks to the camera, surprised that they’re still here, telling the audience that the movie's over, go home before turning around. The screen then goes black until suddenly coming back on where Deadpool mutters oh yeah, but he's definitely coming back.
Trivia[]
- Deadpool was given his powers due to experimentation from the notorious Weapon-X organization in the comics. The workshop in the film is implied to be similarly affiliated, but not confirmed due to the Marvel Cinematic Universe being prohibited from explicitly referencing Wolverine or the X-Men.
- Rob Liefeld, the name of Wade’s first target at the beginning of the film, is the same name of his co-creator at Marvel Comics.
- In the comics, T-Ray is one of Deadpool's greatest enemies who believes he was the original Wade Wilson and that Deadpool stole his identity from him. In both the comics and the movie, however, he works as a Mercenary at a place called the Hellhouse.
- Bob Dobalina in the comics is known as Bob, Agent of Hydra and is an ally of Deadpool. In the film however, he works as an antagonist under the mysterious Workshop, not Hydra.
- Ajax's character is amalgamated with another Deadpool villain named Doctor Emrys Killebrew, the one who oversaw the experiments that gave Deadpool his powers who Ajax worked as a subordinate under. In the film, Ajax takes Killebrew's role while Black Swan takes Ajax's.
- In the comics, Vanessa Carlysle is the mutant Copycat and an agent for the time traveling law firm Landau, Luckman & Lake.
- While explaining his theory behind why business is rising so sharply for the Hellhouse, Wade mentions people being inspired by the Avengers, implying their recognition from the Battle of New York had wide implications on culture.
- Hailey Wilson making Wade Wheatcakes for breakfast is the same meal made for Peter Parker in his first comic appearance. Wade criticizing her for not making Pancakes instead is a reference to the antiquated nature of Wheatcakes today compared to the 1960s.
- Black Swan in the comics is male and a Bavarian assassin who develops a deep hatred for Wade Wilson after he is falsely credited for one of his high priority kills. The version of the film is a genderbent version of the character with little to no resemblance to the comic outside of the similar codename and ability.
- Weasel mentions that Deadpool unmasked looks like "Ryan Reynolds merged with a topographical map of Utah". The reference being Reynolds is the actor who actually portrays the character within the film.
- Ajax's mutant ability of pain redirection is exclusive to the film, and a play of his comic attribute of simply not feeling any pain. This was done to give him an ability that directly contrasted Deadpool's healing factor.
- Wade telling Vanessa that there are "too many Chrises" to a meta reference to the amount of actors named Chris who helm Marvel franchises, consisting of Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, and recently announced at the time of the film's release Chris Pratt as Star-Lord.
- Mickey Wilson's actor, Tim Matheson, also played Ryan Reynolds' father in the comedic National Lampoon's Van Wilder franchise.
- Deadpool is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to take place entirely outside the United States of America.
- The mid credit scene involves She-Hulk and Deadpool both breaking the fourth wall, a reference to She-Hulk in the comics being one of the only other comic characters who can as well as teasing a full blown appearance in the future.
- Deadpool's end credit scene is designed to mock the end credits scene of Ferris Bueller's Day Off mimicking the exact same dialogue and body movements seen in that film. The only difference being Deadpool confirming that he will have another appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in addition to being a meta reference to the fact a sequel was already in development by that point.