@IamDPorDerpy Knowing Happy with his extremely short attention span , he's probably forgot about Wade sometime after this meeting as of right now, this is the only time Merc was in the Prime Timeline unless one of those other Logans we saw was also the 616/199999 Logan but I doubt it.

@IronWidowMaikuB That, and I think Happy had other problems to deal with, like him being erased from existence for 5 years a few weeks/months after the interview x)

I think the only criticism I have of the movie atm is I would have liked to see the juggernaut from the previous deadpool show up especially cause he survived that shock. I know we had juggernaut in this movie but my issue is first off he wasnt all that impressive here in displaying his power, I mean x23 cut through his legs like a hot knife through butter and secondly I dont like that design even when I saw xmen 3 almost 20 years ago I disliked it and I loved the more accurate design in deadpool 2. Also my memory is hazy so Im not sure what happened to cable and that one kid who killed cables family in the future but he ended up not, I dont recall if they go to the future together or not but it would have been nice also to see them especially cable and wolverine meet.

Im sure someone is going to say they had no place in the story but I disagree I think you could have found space.

@ElrianHJM Happy Survived the blip (For no Reason other then to give Tony another person to survive when he had almost his entire family survive it other then Peter P but I digressed) even though honesty he probably shouldn't have.

@IronWidowMaikuB I thought Headpool was going to be the Deadpool from X-Men Origins Wolverine's head, that would've been a pretty cool nod and made X-Men Origins Wolverine worth the suffering and not a totally terrible movie

^^ Ah yes, sorry, forgot, but anyway, having to deal with the disappearance of half the population is also a bit overwhelming :)

All I gotta know is if they say “Cancer” anytime in the movie…

@Corey0213 Actually the movie says otherwise. On TVA screen, every MCU branch is labelled "616.XX" (XX being the number). The FoX-Men timeline is "10005".

@Marvelus That was before this restructuring of the TVA. Earth 10005 is a branch. Paradox says so when he said they used to prune the branches when referring to Deadpools timeline. The TVA is no longer pruning branches of Loki’s tree. This movie doesn’t show it being separate from the Sacred Timeline. Also how would Cable’s time travel device be able to reach 616 if it weren’t connected through time? Why would they still call timelines 616.xxx? Also the What If games gave timeline designations and they’re not 616.XXX. There’s no reason 10005 isn’t a branch. The Void is a the end of time for the Sacred Timeline as seen in Loki. Why would disconnected universes share the same end of time that leads to the citadel at the end of time of the Sacred Timeline?

Apologies for the long comments.

It’s been a while since I’ve said anything on here, but I have some things to say about this movie.

My reaction to this movie was two-fold.

On the one hand, I was blown away by the cameos and some of the jokes.

But on the other, the story of this movie really wasn’t great at all and kind of gets on my nerves more and more the more I think about it.

PART ONE

Logan is Canon

When Logan came out, good as it was, I was always disappointed.

Days of Future Past ended with Wolverine saving the entire world from the sentinels.

Then Logan tells us that a mere six years later, all of the X-Men had died, which would be bad enough on it’s own, but the fact that it was because Charles Xavier had an involuntary seizure made it even worse.

Charles, a symbol of peace, diplomacy, and sanctuary, was the one responsible for killing everyone.

The man they should have been the most safe with was the greatest danger.

So I was actually pretty pissed off about that and Logan made for a pretty depressing ending to the X-Men saga.

However, people kept telling me “No, Logan’s not the same timeline. It’s off in its own universe.”

And indeed, on Marvel Comics Database, it listed the original X-Men timeline as 10005, the new Days of Future Past / Deadpool Timeline as TRT414, and the Logan timeline as “Earth-17315,” (and still says that, by the way).

However, according to this film, the movie Logan does indeed take place in the Deadpool Timeline — TRT414.

But then they also refer to TRT414 as “10005” which is itself a contradiction.

But never mind all that — if this is true that means I was right. Logan is in the same canon as Days of Future Past and Deadpool.

Which means Charles Xavier really did kill everyone after Logan did all that work to stop the Sentinels.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, this movie officially made Logan canon, which isn’t a great start.

Logan’s Bones

All of that aside, I was fascinated to see how they dealt with Logan.

I think Deadpool says something like, “You might be wondering how we’re going to honor Logan’s memory? We’re not.”

And it literally cuts to him digging up Logan’s grave — only to show that Logan is reduced to a skeleton.

I actually think this is brilliant and hilarious for several reasons:

1, They address the elephant in the room immediately.

Because everyone knows Wolverine died in the last movie. So the question is, are you going to just have him show up and hope no one notices? Or are you going to reference the death? (Due to the timeline, they actually could have had the real Logan show up but I’ll get to that later).

Showing Deadpool at the “X” grave is such a shameless way to embrace the ending of Logan.

2, Logan is still dead.

Even though Deadpool digs up the grave, Logan isn’t brought back to life.

Physical desecration notwithstanding, I think this was actually a tasteful way to do it.

Because “honoring Logan” has three potential connotations. It can mean physically respecting the body, or it can mean not retconning the ending, or it can mean not bringing Logan back in any capacity.

The film has already violated the third one, so it’s very clever for Deadpool to take the physical approach.

This allows the film to be self aware and poke fun at the notion of “desecrating Logan” (which is very on brand for Deadpool) without actually screwing up the ending, Palpatine-style.

3, the Action scene

It gives us a hilarious action scene where Deadpool himself uses the Wolverine claws.

And I liked the line about how he wouldn’t use any of his weapons — proceeds to use all of Logan’s bones.

I never thought I’d see bone nunchucks - but here we are.

Also, it keeps up the Deadpool tradition of starting the movie off with a shocking action sequence, before going back to show us the context.

However, I was genuinely nervous to learn James Mangold’s reaction to this.

Mangold is famously not fond of superhero movies and making Logan an ending was very much a statement.

This movie makes the exact opposite statement, and it’s the exact kind of movie Mangold hates.

In fact, I came across a recent comment he made about the multiverse in storytelling — but I’ll save that for another post because I have too many thoughts on that too.

Happy Hogan

When Wade applied for a job with Happy, I had a few questions.

First, how did he get to the MCU? It has to be Cables Time Machine, right? (I guess it can hop dimensions? I guess this was before he destroyed it?)

Second, why did he go to a different universe to find a job?

Third, how did he even know about the MCU in the first place?

I think this scene would have made more sense if it was a dream. Deadpool having a dream where he applied to be an Avenger and met Happy Hogan sounds very Deadpool.

Also, they give us a concrete date: March 14 2018. And the way Happy is acting, it seems like the writers agree that this date is Pre-Snap.

But they still didn’t have enough spine to come up with any concrete dates for the X-Men universe (more on that later).

But then, Wade has his birthday party…