![]() ![]() No “strong men also cry” rhetoric from Wade Wilson. Late one night we catch Wilson staring out his window, crying. He jokes in the face of certain, cancerous death. Wilson enjoys joking so much that it might be considered a character flaw. Why not? Wolverine, all the X-Men movies, Taken, Ferris Bueller–they’re all on the chopping block, cut into funny bits for Deadpool to chew and spit at you.ĭuring the climactic fight scene, Deadpool refuses to lose his humor, despite his asphyxiating fiancee being in sight of him. There are so many referential jokes in Deadpool that I expected Deadpool to tell someone “The world will know you died scratching my balls,” like Bond tells Le Chiffre in Casino Royale. In the right light….Įven Wilson’s trip to torture camp doesn’t wane his humor. He asks his buddy Weasel ( TJ Miller) if he resembles a testicle with teeth. When his face deteriorates like a melted wax figure, Wilson makes fun of himself. Humor in the face of adversity might be his true superpower. No problem.Ībove all else–love, healing, sex, blow jobs–Wilson loves cracking jokes. Wilson, throughout the movie, will be shot multiple times, break three of his extremities, lose a hand, and get stabbed in the brain. (I guess getting stage-death cancer isn’t stressful enough.) And they are super. He didn’t know–no one did–until high stress levels unlocked his super healing abilities. He watches her, memorizing her face as if for the last time. The moment he learns of his disease is an instructive one, because he does not, as his girlfriend does, work the plan of working the plan. But instead of predictable laser-cut curves, their edges are more razor-sharp, jagged, and threatening.Įxcept when Wilson gets late-stage cancer. Why? “Your crazy matches my crazy.” They are like jigsaw pieces. Wilson doesn’t care about much, but he loves his girlfriend Vanessa. The two go on a date to play skeeball and win a Voltron ring and an eraser. That’s his life, day to day, until he meets a strong-willed ball-grabber named Vanessa. Instead he instigates fights amongst his merc buddies and jokes with his bartender friend. Despite the conventions of this blog, Wilson is not a hero. Wade Wilson ( Ryan Reynolds, former People Sexiest Man Alive) is a mercenary paid to rough up and scare guys a little bit worse than he is. ONE SENTENCE PLOT SUMMARY: A funny guy learns that he’s a mutant and hunts the guy who proved it to him. The result? The all-time February opening weekend record. Well, you remember correctly.įox brought him back, divested him of Wolverine’s association (at least visually) and added a whole heap of humor. You might remember Deadpool as a villain in the origin story of Wolverine from the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. That’s what the credits called Tim Miller, birth name of the man who directed Fox’s most recent mutant extravaganza. Deadpool (2016): Some Overpaid Tool (OK, Tim Miller)
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