Holy shit. This movie made half a billion dollars so far. I didnt even expect that. I wouldve said 350 on the high end. So happy for ryan reynolds and crew. It only took almost 20 years of bad comic books movies to get to this point.
Is there a full list of jokes and references online somewhere? I feel bad that I didnât get at least 1/3 of the jokes.
I was thinking about the last time I saw a comedy action movie like this, and the 1st thing that came to mind was Kick Ass 1, but even Kick Ass 1 couldnât match that level of quality. Deadpool even beat Kick-Assâs opening weekend by a full digit. Was Kick Ass the 1st R-rated comedy action hero movie? Or did another movie else precedes it?
I am still unsure if every human has an x-gene, the memory is dim but I remember McCoy doing test to see if individuals carries an x-gene.
Mutates are those who get their powers from external forces, nothing to do with the âinternal potentialâ to manifest powers. In the case of Hulk and the Fantastic Four, their powers were born due to legit radiation, nothing more.
And spider-man and the spider people have their powers because of the magic totem :razz:
(Glad to see the movie is still doing well. Iâm still tempted to go see it again, but there are surprising amount of good-to-great movies out right now and Iâve not enough money to see them all in addition to seeing Deadpool.)
Alas, comic book science has defeated me once again. I suppose I shouldnât be too surprised given that the original X-Men were âChildren of the Atomâ and that Professor X himself was originally said to be mutant explicitly because his parents worked on the original atom-bomb or something along those lines. I just thought that the nature of their powersâ origins eventually got retconned like his did, especially since Franklin Richards is (or at least was) canonically a mutant.
As for the two other things, I remember that post-Decimation (so, basically, right after House of M), Dr. McCoy a.k.a. Beast couldnât find the x-gene in previously mutant individuals at all. It was basically just gone, at least until Hope showed up I guessâI never read any of the comics with her in it. Iâm not sure if that remained the case after the various cross-overs that happened in the decade after I stopped with comics or if it just only finally got changed again the Marvelâs Infinite Crisis-esque reboot.
With regards to the spider-totem thing, I never read that either because I never really read any Spider-man comics in generalâI just like Spider-man himself for the most part. I think what âbothersâ me about it, outside of Morlun (?) seeming like a relatively bullshit character in general from little I know about him, was that it occurred relatively close to the giant âfuck youâ that was One More Dayâs monstrous stupidity.
That atom-bomb explanation doesnât really pass muster anymore, especially when we have mutants dating from way back in history like Apocalypse, Romulus, etc.
Thereâs nothing to say that Vanessa wasnât already a mutant during this movie, especially since there are legitimate reasons for it to not have come up. Given that being a mutant likely has a huge stigmaâsince this universe vaguely shares its setting with the X-men moviesâattached to it even when youâre not one of the unlucky mutants with power incontinence or potentially lethal powers, I could understand her being mum about it if not revealing it wasnât going to hurt Wade.
Besides, she wasnât even in there for a full minute. It was heavily implied that Wade was in there for hours before he finally mutated, on top of all the other tortures he had been through beforehand.
I know but my supposition here is that they originally wrote the scene for that to happen, then they changed it. In fact recent interviews with the writers sort of hint at that.
Franklin Richard is still a mutant. The mutated nature of his parents helped his x-gene develop and in a big way. Some call him the most powerful mutant, others like myself give that title to Xavierâs son.
True, post decimation the x-gene was wiped out magically, not even mutant blood samples from before the event contained the x-gene.
Hope sucks. People saw in her some great savior, which she kind of was, but her personality turned off some people. But yeah, At first, Hope managed to help five teenager mutants, the first to develop mutations after decimation. Afterwards, during Avengers vs X-men, Hope possessed by the phoenix force and Wanda with her âmagicâ made the x-gene reappear as cerebra started detecting millions of mutants in the world.
(Iâm pretty sure Franklin was never experimented on to my knowledge, though perhaps someone else knows better.)
As for the Celestials, they were just really interested in him because he was stupidly powerful, to the point where heâs basically an omnipotent god when at his strongest compared even to the other reality-warping characters like Legion or Proteus given heâs basically just a fucking Mary Sue for the comic book writers that grew up reading the comics they now write for. When he doesnât have powers, he tends to be bearable I guess. [/completely off-topic from Deadpool]
RockBogart posted that in the lounge about a year ago or so. Hence my calling Franklin a Mary Sue when he does shit like that and weâre supposed to be awed by it instead of just rolling our eyes.
Saw Deadpool yesterday, fucking awesome but I didnât quite get one thing.
[details=Spoiler] Was Francisâ plan to âcompletely destroy Deadpool so thereâs nothing left to regenerate fromâ seriously just to try and hit him with 2 axes?
Even if Deadpool had lost that fight Francis wouldnât have been able to kill him like that[/details]
One of the way to disable Deadpool and other healing factor users is to chop their heads off. As long as the heads are separated from the bodies, they canât do a thing until they are reattached again (I remember reading somewhere that the comic once had someone reattaching Wolverineâs decapped head to revive him). Then maybe the enemies can throw Deadpoolâs bodies into molting lava or something to completely incinerate the body parts.
