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* Is recruiting Deadpool really a good idea? He is a slice first, ask questions later type of guy. He could decapitate Magneto, who is...you know...Xavier's closest friend.
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** WMG, but given that it's a asphyxiation tank intended to torture potential mutants until they unlock their powers that are then intended to be made into super slaves, it's probably designed to be resilient enough to keep a royally pissed off mutant from simply breaking out of it and going on a rampage once they get super strength or whatever. It took a massive explosion and later an AbsurdlySharpBlade to break it in both cases, so it's a fair chance for Vanessa unless the whole Helicarrier falls on it.
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** Francis makes it clear that he tortures his "clients" until they express some superpower or they die. Presumably, there's a large stack of corpses somewhere of those that didn't have the mutant gene.
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** Most likely it's because Deadpool doesn't know how much ammo they have left in their guns, and he's been shown to count bullets. He also shot a mook after he ran out of bullets saying "that's what you get for not counting bullets." So it's probably because he doesn't want to take the risk.

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** Most likely it's because Deadpool doesn't know how much ammo they have left in their guns, and he's been shown to count bullets. He also shot a mook after he ran out of bullets saying "that's what you get for "someone's not counting bullets.counting." So it's probably because he doesn't want to take the risk.



* Wasn't that capsule still in relatively good shape after Wade blew it up from the inside? That thing might be quite absorbant for blow, make sense if the mutant awakening power is flight or Neosonic variety, you need to prepare for that type of thing.

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* Wasn't that capsule still in relatively good shape after Wade blew it up from the inside? That thing might be quite absorbant absorbent for blow, make sense if the mutant awakening power is flight or Neosonic variety, you need to prepare for that type of thing.



** That is, of course, assuming that he isn't simply providing government bodies with some of those super slaves. If you were a government agency forced to deal with a world of superpowered people, you might look the other way when the guy who provides you the firepower to do that commits crimes.

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** That is, of course, assuming that he isn't simply providing government bodies with some of those super slaves. If you were a government agency forced to deal with a world of superpowered super-powered people, you might look the other way when the guy who provides you the firepower to do that commits crimes.




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*** It's easy to miss, but you can see the Blackbird Colossus flew to the bridge. We don't know how big the X-Men are in this universe, so the police either saw the stealth jet and gave up or realized that this was a mutant matter that they should stay away from.
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** I think at the start of the film Deadpool states it's been one year seven months plus that he's been looking for Francis. During that time he's been hunting down and killing the members and customers of an international mutant slaving ring: Exactly the kind of thing the X-Men was formed to stop. It's really no surprise they may have come into contact. Note Collosus was happy to arrest Francis too. It was just the high collateral damage Dealpools behaviour tends to cause that he took issue with.

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** I think at the start of the film Deadpool states it's been one year seven months plus that he's been looking for Francis. During that time he's been hunting down and killing the members and customers of an international mutant slaving ring: Exactly the kind of thing the X-Men was formed to stop. It's really no surprise they may have come into contact. Note Collosus Colossus was happy to arrest Francis too. It was just the high collateral damage Dealpools Deadpool's behaviour tends to cause that he took issue with.
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* "Careless Whispers" is a song about a man trying futilely to apologize to his lover for infidelity. What in the world would make Wade think this is an appropriate song to serenade his fiancee with? Or is this just further evidence that he's messed up in the head?

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* "Careless Whispers" Whisper" is a song about a man trying futilely to apologize to his lover for infidelity. What in the world would make Wade think this is an appropriate song to serenade his fiancee with? Or is this just further evidence that he's messed up in the head?



** Also, "Every Breath You Take" is a song about ''stalking'' someone, yet is often misinterpreted as a romantic ballad in RealLife, so it's not hard to imagine Wade (''especially'' [[CloudCuckooLander Wade]]) wouldn't put that together about "Careless Whispers."

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** Also, "Every Breath You Take" is a song about ''stalking'' someone, yet is often misinterpreted as a romantic ballad in RealLife, so it's not hard to imagine Wade (''especially'' [[CloudCuckooLander Wade]]) wouldn't put that together about "Careless Whispers.Whisper."
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** Also, "Every Breath You Take" is a song about ''stalking'' someone, yet is often misinterpreted as a romantic ballad in RealLife, so it's not hard to imagine Wade (''especially'' [[CloudCuckooLander Wade]]) wouldn't put that together about "Careless Whispers."
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** ''Deadpool'' was ''never'' meant to tie in to the MCU. The idea from the start was merely to use it as an EasterEgg, and removing explicit reference had nothing to do with the budget, simply that they couldn't secure the rights/permissions to do so. All of this happened during the concept stage, so any reference was removed well before filming actually began.
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** There's a theory that Marvel mutants express their powers in relation to the stressor that triggered them. For example, Colossus turned to steel because he had to stop a runaway tractor from killing Ilyana. When he was put into a truly life-or-death scenario, the adrenaline triggered Wade's mutation of a HealingFactor in response to the presence of cancer and severe physical trauma.
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** Deadpool said it himself: Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead are the only two people there, due to the movie's budget.

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** Deadpool said it himself: Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead are the only two people there, due to the movie's budget.
budget. [[MindScrew Don't think too hard about it]].
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** Deadpool said it himself: Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead are the only two people there, due to the movie's budget.
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* It could be that whatever he was injected with is related to the machine that Magneto created in the original X-Men film. Both can create mutants out of ordinary people but both are unstable in different ways - the machine will quickly have an effect on anyone but will leave the subject too unstable to survive long whereas the drug is much harder to get results from but will not cause the subjects to quickly dissolve into goo afterwards.

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* ** It could be that whatever he was injected with is related to the machine that Magneto created in the original X-Men film. Both can create mutants out of ordinary people but both are unstable in different ways - the machine will quickly have an effect on anyone but will leave the subject too unstable to survive long whereas the drug is much harder to get results from but will not cause the subjects to quickly dissolve into goo afterwards.
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* It could be that whatever he was injected with is related to the machine that Magneto created in the original X-Men film. Both can create mutants out of ordinary people but both are unstable in different ways - the machine will quickly have an effect on anyone but will leave the subject too unstable to survive long whereas the drug is much harder to get results from but will not cause the subjects to quickly dissolve into goo afterwards.
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*** There is never complete certainty that a Bribe will be successful, no matter how large it is. While there are doubtlessly cops who would pocket the money, it's hard to believe such a tactic would have a 100% success rate; these are human beings, not vending machines.
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** Marvel traditionally gives their characters with healing abilities abnormal strength; the Marvel wiki has a canned explanation in which lactic acid build-up and other fatigue toxins are healed immediately, so muscles can fire for a lot longer and harder, and gains from strength training are much greater than even professional weightlifters. So Wolverine and Deadpool can do crazy stuff like punt people across rooms, somersault a million times, etc.

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** Marvel traditionally gives their characters with healing abilities abnormal strength; the Marvel wiki has a canned an explanation in which lactic acid build-up and other fatigue toxins are healed immediately, so muscles can fire for a lot longer and harder, and gains from strength training are much greater than even professional weightlifters. as well as push to the limit since their regeneration takes care of any muscle damage cause by overexertion. So people like Wolverine and Deadpool can do crazy stuff like punt people across rooms, somersault a million times, etc.
push their body to borderline-superhuman levels without consequences.
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** Not really. It's implied that the reason the lab scouted Wade and the others was because they had discovered their latent mutant gene. Furthermore, the first thing Ajax does is inject Wade with something supposed to help activate the gene. Presumably it was buried deeper in Wade than in Colossus or Negasonic Teenage Warhead , so it didn't activate during his time in the service.
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** Also, he's trained military; only in incredibly desperate situations would he pick up an enemy weapon, if only out deference to his past training.

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** Also, he's trained military; only in incredibly desperate situations would he soldiers pick up an enemy weapon, and so he'd follow that if only out deference to his past training.
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** Also, he's trained military; only in incredibly desperate situations would he pick up an enemy weapon, if only out deference to his past training.
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* So was this confirmation, at least for the X-Men movie universe, that EVERYONE has the mutant gene, it is just dormant or recessive for most of the population?

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** Also fairly standard fair for superheroes to have additional unmentioned superpowers. Angel is said to be super strong, but she's also clearly more resistant to pain than a normal human too. And similarly deadpool's powers clearly go beyond the ability to heal.

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** Also fairly standard fair for superheroes to have additional unmentioned superpowers. Angel is said to be super strong, but she's also clearly more resistant to pain than a normal human too. And similarly deadpool's Deadpool's powers clearly go beyond the ability to heal.
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** She was already his roommate by then. Presumably he mentioned that he had some bloody clothes to wash before they headed out to the laundromat together.
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** I presume it was after he got his superpowers, and on the big manhunt for Ajax, he kept running out of bullets. The healing factor took care of any learning curve issues.
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*** The single was released under George Michael's name, but it was featured on the Wham! album Wade displays, and was co-written by [[TheGarfunkel Andrew Ridgeley.]]

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*** ** The single was released under George Michael's name, but it was featured on the Wham! album Wade displays, and was co-written by [[TheGarfunkel Andrew Ridgeley.]]
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** The Helicarrier is there because the filmmakers originally wanted Deadpool to tie in to the MCU. However, due to budget constraints, this was no longer possible so rather than reshoot the whole scene they just filed off all off the SHIELD logos.
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** Or you know, they had more than one.
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** I think at the start of the film Deadpool states it's been one year seven months plus that he's been looking for Francis. During that time he's been hunting down and killing the members and customers of an international mutant slaving ring: Exactly the kind of thing the X-Men was formed to stop. It's really no surprise they may have come into contact. Note Collosus was happy to arrest Francis too. It was just the high collateral damage Dealpools behaviour tends to cause that he took issue with.
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* How on earth did Blind Al know what Wade was trying to wash out in the laundromat? If you remember clearly, he's furiously scrubbing and she advises him to 'wear red'. I thought she was blind.

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* How on earth did Blind Al know what Wade was trying to wash out in the laundromat? If you remember clearly, he's furiously scrubbing and she advises him to 'wear red'. I thought she was blind.blind.
** She could smell it.
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* How on earth did Blind Al know what Wade was trying to wash out in the laundromat? If you remember clearly, he's furiously scrubbing and she advises him to 'wear red'. I thought she was blind.

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