Deadpool and Wolverine trailer breakdown: 10 things you might have missed in the Marvel movie teaser
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Full spoilers follow for Deadpool 2. Potential Deadpool 3 spoilers are also discussed.
It’s finally here, ladies and gentlemen. The first trailer forDeadpool 3, theonly Marvel movie releasing in theaters this year, has arrived – and, for the most part, it’s everything we expected from a teaser for the Merc with a Mouth’s long-awaitedMarvelCinematic Universe (MCU) debut.
Officially calledDeadpool and Wolverine, the two-minute trailer teases enough about the highly anticipatedMarvel Phase 5movie’s plot without giving too much away. Still, while we suspect that there will be a ton of cameos and other secrets hidden within the final film, there are a few Easter eggs and other notable snippets of information you probably missed during your first – or 12th – watch.
Below, we’ve picked out 10 moments you might have overlooked (or skipped over entirely) in the forthcomingMCUflick’s first teaser. And no, we’re not just talking about the two brief glimpses we get of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, aka everyone’s favorite adamantium clawed mutant, in its first-look footage. Here, then, are the biggest things you missed inDeadpool 3’s inaugural trailer.
Friends reunited
Deadpool 3’s first teaser opens on the titular character – real name Wade Wilson – celebrating a birthday with his girlfriend Vanessa (Monica Baccarin) and a whole host of familiar faces from the first twoDeadpoolfilms.
Among that contingent are Deadpool’s psychopathic taxi driver buddy Dopinder (Karan Soni), Rob Delaney’s scene-stealing Peter fromDeadpool 2, and fellow superpowered individuals Shatterstar (Lewis Tan), Teenage Negasonic Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), Colossus (Stefan Kapičić), and Yukio (Shioli Kutsana). Blind Al (Leslie Uggams), Wade’s former landlady, is also present.
Wait, hang on – some of these characters died inDeadpool 2, so how are they alive? To sum up: at the end ofDeadpool 2, Wade is given a repaired time-travel device (it previously belonged to time-traveling mutant Cable), which he uses to go on his own mini-multiversal adventure. Along the way, he saves Vanessa and Peter from death, and kills the alternate version of himself from 2009’s malignedX-Men: Origins – Wolverinemovie. It’s not a stretch, then, to believe Wade also rescued Shatterstar from being bumped off, too.
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A Loki flex for the TVA
Wade’s multiverse-spanning hijinks, though, have come back to haunt him. As he makes a wish while blowing out the single candle (classic Deadpool) on his birthday cake, the festivities are interrupted by an ominous knock at the door.
Who’s rocked up to cut the celebrations short? The Time Variance Authority (TVA), who appeared inLokiseasons 1 and 2 onDisney Plus. Unfortunately for Wade, it isn’t Owen Wilson’s Mobius who greets him, but a bunch of less-than-enthused TVA soldiers who kidnap him and take him back to their headquarters.
Interestingly, the squad of TVA hunters are wearing different uniforms to the ones we’ve seen inLoki. Indeed, their brand-new attire raises a big question: has this group been sent here from the benevolent TVA post-Lokiseason 2, which wants to rectify multiversal issues with a nicer approach? Or, because time works differently at the TVA, are they actually from a past, more authoritarian version of the organization? Based on how they treat Wade, it seems to be the former.
Time Paradox
In the next clip, we meet a new TVA agent – played bySuccession’s Matthew Macfayden – who appears to hold a similar rank to Mobius. We thought Marvel would try to keep his identity under wraps untilDeadpool and Wolverinelands in theaters, but the Disney subsidiary does actually reveal who this character is: Paradox.
How do we know this? By using the subtitles/closed captions feature on theYouTubeversion of the trailer. Simply click on the icon to bring said subtitles up around the 0:45 mark, and you’ll see that Macfayden’s character is named Paradox.
Avengers! Assemble
Wait, the Avengers are inDeadpool 3!? Not exactly. In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment when Paradox tells Wade he has the chance to be a “hero among heroes”, you can catch brief glimpses of Iron Man, the Avengers, and Thor on some TVA monitors. The footage is taken from 2008’sIron Man, 2014’sAvengers: Age of Ultron, and 2017’sThor: Ragnarok, for those wondering.
The next shot shows other members of the Avengers, too, including different clips of Captain America from 2014’sThe Winter Soldier. If Tony Stark and Thor were here, we doubt they’d be too happy about being usurped by their shield-bearing contemporary on the footage front.
The arrival of Nova
Before anyone gets too excited about fan-favorite superhero Nova (real name Richard Rider) appearing inDeadpool and Wolverine, we’re talking about a different Nova here. Be warned, though, as we’re about to dive into potentially big spoiler territory in the very next sentence.
At the 1:16 mark, we catch a very brief glimpse atDeadpool 3’s likely main villain: Cassandra Nova. This superpowered individual is reportedly being played byThe Crown’s Emma Corrin, who is already confirmed to play a significant role in the film.
It’s unclear if this is Corrin’s Nova, but there’s one big giveaway that suggests this is the case. In Marvel comics, Nova is linked to legendaryX-Menfounder Professor X (Charles Xavier), which means Nova sports a bald-head look like Xavier. Put two and two together, and this fleeting shot all but confirms that this is our very first look at Corrin’s Nova.
Patch this cameo in
TheDeadpool 3cameo rumor mill was already in overdrive ahead of the movie’s first trailer dropping, and things are only set to escalate further now that it’s out.
Based on the teaser, it appears we have confirmation of one character who’ll make a delightfully surprising appearance in 2024’s only Marvel flick. At the 1:20 mark, we see what seems to be a white-suited Wolverine – you can instantly recognize him from his signature seagull winged-style hairdo – and you’d be right in thinking it’s him.
Well, it’s actually Patch, one of Wolverine’s aliases. In recent comic book lore, Wolverine starts sporting a white tuxedo and eyepatch, and takes up residence on the island of Madripoor, a safe haven for mutants. Madripoor has been mentioned (and seen) in various MCU projects sinceMarvel Phase 4began in 2021, includingFalcon and the Winter Soldier,Moon Knight, andEcho. This will be the first time we see Madripoor in a Marvel movie, though, if Deadpool ends up visiting the seedy islet to set up a meeting with Patch for as-yet-unknown reasons. If nothing else, it’ll be fun to see Jackman play a different version of Wolverine before we meet his iconicX-Mencharacter properly in this movie.
That’s all, Fox
It wouldn’t be aDeadpoolfilm without fourth-wall-breaking antics and hilarious metatextual comedy, and it seems this movie is going to rip 20th Century Fox’s defunct X-Men universe to shreds.
Well, what’s left of it. At the 1:38 mark, we catch Deadpool reloading his dual pistols in ridiculously cool fashion – but he does so with a destroyed version of 20th Century Fox’s iconic logo nestled in the background of a barren landscape. It appears that Marvel isn’t going to hold back on poking fun at Fox’s former cinematic universe.
Alioth returns
It looks like the TVA isn’t the onlyLokiseason 2 call-back inDeadpool and Wolverine. Indeed, Alioth – the trash-temporal entity we saw in both seasons ofLoki, aka one of thebest Disney Plus showsever made, will also show up.
At the 1:44 mark, we see a handcuffed TVA agent plead for his life before a purple cloud of smoke forebodingly carries him off into the air as Deadpool – complete with an expletive-laden comment – watches on. It seems the pair (and other characters in the shot) are stuck in the Void, a place at the end of time that multiverse rejects are sent to and devoured by Alioth. If this is the location where Deadpool and company end up, Alioth is sure to make a cameo.
Pyro party
As we’ve mentioned, there are plenty ofX-Menreferences in the first teaser for Deadpool’s threequel, but Marvel might have saved the best for last (well, outside of our first glimpse of Jackman’s actual Wolverine, who shows up in the final few seconds).
30 seconds shy of the trailer’s end, we see the return of an unexpectedX-Mencharacter in the form of Pyro (the trailer’s closed captions feature gives this reveal away again). The fire-wielding mutant, who showed up inX2: X-Men UnitedandX-Men: The Last Stand(read ourX-Menmovies in orderguide for more details on how and where to stream them) is seen saying “God, I love this part” at the 1:52 mark. Oh, and he’s being played by Aaron Stanford – the same actor who portrayed Pyro in the aforementioned films. What a wonderful surprise!
A Secret Wars tease – and a Fantastic Four reference
With the trailer closing out with the tease of a fight between the movie’s co-leads, we suspect your eyes were drawn to the duo preparing to duke it out. In doing so, though, it takes your attention away from one of the teaser’s biggest Easter eggs.
Pause the trailer at the 2:01 mark and you’ll see a comic book lying a couple of feet away from a prone Deadpool’s right-hand side. Zooming-in the video at this point (thanks toRedditfor the screenshot), the issue in question is none other than a Secret Wars comic. Redditors have suggested it’s Secret Wars #5 – from the 2015 comic issue run, not its 1989 namesake – and, if that’s true, its front cover might somehow be teasing the unexpected arrival of theFantastic Four’s most iconic villain in Doctor Doom.
WithMarvel firing Kang actor Jonathan Majors in late 2022after he was found guilty of domestic abuse charges, there have been murmurings that the studio might replace the Multiverse Saga’s overarching villain with Doom, who plays a huge role in Secret Wars literature. And, considering thatMarvel Phase 6is set to end withAvengers: Secret Wars, a live-action film adaptation of this comic series that’ll also close out said Multiverse Saga, it’s hard not to view this as a potentially huge tease of what Marvel Studios has got in the pipeline. Time will tell if this proves to be the case.
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