Line #24 Fridge/Deadpool2


1	!!Fridge Brilliance
2	* How does Yukio have electric powers and live in the X-Mansion instead of living with the Yashidas like the old timeline? Well, with the revelation that Ichirō was EvilAllAlong in ''Film/TheWolverine'', Logan might have told Charles about her to prevent Ichirō from adopting her and trained her in the X-Mansion, where she unlocked her electric abilities.
3	** That might explain how she ended up in the X-Mansion, but not how she went from having precognition about the manner of peoples' deaths to electricity-based powers. It's much more simply because ''Deadpool 2'' and ''The Wolverine'' are set in ''different universes'' because of the timeline change.
4	** It could also be a secondary mutation similar to Emma Frost.
5	** She looks completely different, possibly alluding to a different parentage, meaning that genetically speaking, she would get a different set of powers.
6	** Yukio isn't a unique name. It may simply be another, wholly unrelated mutant who happens to have the same first name.
7	* How does Cable exist when the future of ''Logan'' showed that no new mutants have been born in the last 25 years? Well, remember that Logan and Laura did take out the lead scientist that caused the sterilization of mutant births in the first place, and it becomes likely the X-gene started to slowly re-emerge again.
8	** The entire ''Fox X-Men'' timeline is basically a ShrugOfGod at this point (as is the comics' ''X-Men'' timeline).
9	** [[spoiler:Deadpool's constant meddling with time in TheStinger practically justifies the film series' ContinuitySnarl.]]
10	** Cable is older than Firefist and is implied to be artificially bred.
11	** Real-world governments aren't going to invest in a second widespread method of mutant control when the first one already works, meaning that the Essex mutant collars would have invalidated the need to develop the corn syrup. The ''Logan'' timeline most likely came about from Firefist killing the Essex people as intended, thus leading to the development of the corn syrup as a replacement.
12	* It seems odd Wade would try to use the same sword parry he did in ''X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' when he already has a healing factor and knows he can tank the bullets with no problem... until you remember that due to his fourth-wall awareness, Wade probably remembers the events of that film (whether he wants to or not) even after the X-Men changed the timeline, and probably decided it was worth a shot.
13	* Music/CelineDion's ''Ashes'' actually ties in perfectly to the film's main theme of redemption. Cable plans to kill Russell to prevent a BadFuture, while Wade's team believes they can change Russell to prevent him from ever causing the BadFuture. Wade himself is truly a hero despite his rough edges, therefore also being beauty that rose from ashes.
14	** There is also a lot of ''literal'' ashes at scenes of tragedy: the apartment shared by Wade and Vanessa after Wade tries killing himself, as well as Cable's home, and the Essex School, both courtesy of Russell.
15	** Even more literal is the fact that in the final act, Wade's Deadpool costume gets covered in ashes. So, Wade's sacrifice (both times), as well as Russell's change of heart both times can be literally seen as "beauty coming out of ashes."
16	* In the comics, one of the reasons that Deadpool is a DeathSeeker is because he's in love with [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Death]] and wants to be with her. In this film, rather than being in love with Death, [[spoiler:the woman he loves ''is'' dead, [[SubvertedTrope at least until the end]]]].
17	** In fact, the entire thing could be a reference to the Thanos-Death-Deadpool triangle. In the comic, to prevent Deadpool getting Death, Thanos cursed Deadpool with living. [[spoiler:In the movie, the character who shares an actor with Thanos uses his power to prevent Deadpool's death, which also prevents Deadpool from being reunited with his loved one in the afterlife.]]
18	* Deadpool's desire to make X-Force a "gender-neutral alternative" to the implied patriarchy of a team called the X-''Men'' seems like HypocriticalHumor on his part, considering Domino is [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only female member to sign up.]] [[spoiler:Then all the other members are killed, and the X-Men members who show up at the climax (Colossus, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, and Yukio) to help Deadpool, Cable, and Domino end up balancing out the gender ratio, serving as an even better example of the diverse superhero team Deadpool was aiming for.]]
19	* The reason why Deadpool includes Peter, who is an average human with no superpowers and with absolutely no good reason to participate (He merely saw the ad and thought it would be fun), in the X-Force team is part of a running gag poking fun at Dopinder's desire to be special. However, in retrospect, given Deadpool's repeated jabs at political correctness, Peter's inclusion in X-Force can be considered a stealth jab at diversity representation. After all, Peter is considered a different species from mutants.
20	* Why would they keep in Shatterstar's ridiculous origin while keeping Juggernaut a generic mutant (unlike his comic book incarnation, where he's a human that's been empowered by a deity named Cyttorak)? Well, if you pay attention in the movie, Juggernaut's never actually referred to as a mutant by Wade (who's a big fan of his), nor does he himself claim he is one. He's being kept in the Ice Box, which IS a prison for mutants, but he's not restrained by the same power-sapping collars that all of the regular mutants are. Instead, he's housed away and restrained much more carefully than the other mutants. Why would they need to go through all that extra trouble if simply slapping a neck restraint on him would deprive him of his dangerous powers? Simple; like Shatterstar, Juggernaut keeps his original origin, and isn't a mutant at all, so the neck restraints won't do anything to him. It's likely that, as a dangerous human with superpowers, keeping him in the Ice Box was more out of convenience than anything else, as it's already a high-security prison for superpowered individuals.
21	* In the beginning of the film, Deadpool references ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', specifically that he was "fighting a caped badass. But then we discovered his mom is named Martha, too". Later in the film, in his first exchange with Cable, he quotes "I'm Batman". So Wade = Batman, Cable = Superman, and they both fight each other throughout most of the film but team up in the end to take down a bigger, unstoppable threat. [[spoiler:Also, one of them ends up dying and the other [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 brings them back to life, although it doesn't take them a whole other movie to do it]].]]
22	* It is more or less stated by that the creators that ''Film/{{Logan}}'' is not canon and is an alternate timeline. Like stated before, [[spoiler:this is justified by Cable and Deadpool's use of the time watch. With the past changed a second time in the X-Men franchise and some "loose-ends" being tied up, Logan won't be on a crash course with death now. Somehow... We don't know yet how Cable's presence or Deadpool's meddling stops all those events yet.]]
23	* It seems odd that neither Wade nor Weasel (who, unlike the former, does not benefit from Wade’s fourth-wall awareness) are surprised by Shatterstar's origin of being from another planet, until you remember who visits Earth in the 90s in ''X-Men: Dark Phoenix''.
24	* It may have been easier for Cable to attack Firefist when he was still an infant, or even a baby, and his powers had not manifested yet. If Cable has travelled this far in time already, his reason not to do so is not morals. However, he's probably at this point because, being the first recorded crime of Firefist, he knows where to find him. If he had appeared at some earlier date, he would have to do detective work to find him.
25	** Addressed in the movie when Cable says that the longer the time-distance traveled, the less precise the landing. He also only has one charge left (to go home), so he can't 're-jump' to a more opportune time.
26	* Other than [[RunningGag Lazy Writing]], Cable's time traveling device only having two charges makes a lot of sense. It's to prevent somebody, like Deadpool, from messing with the timelines too many times. You get one trip there and one trip back. Anything else and you're stranded in the past.
27	* Why does Colossus resort to fighting dirty against Juggernaut? It's because in the first movie, being a gentleman nearly got him killed by Angel Dust. It also helps that Juggernaut and Colossus are evenly matched, with the time ticking against the latter, and the helmet wasn't coming off any time soon.
28	* It's no wonder why Wade is such a big fan of Juggernaut; [[ActingForTwo they're both played by]] Creator/RyanReynolds. [[spoiler:Film/{{Green Lantern\|2011}} [[OldShame isn't so lucky]].]]
29	* Wade's main goal throughout the film is to reform Russell through non-violent means (regarding the kid himself, [[WhatMeasureIsAMook everyone else is fair game)]]. When he gets hit by Russell's fire, the red on his suit gets burned/infused with ash and turns gray. Add in a hood and some prayer beads and you've got [[ComicBook/{{Axis}} Zenpool.]]
30	* Due to their extremely high fire rate, high recoil, and short barrel, MAC-10s are notoriously inaccurate at any distance. So why does Domino treat hers like a long-range rifle and attach a bayonet? Because she's lucky, so she's used to hitting targets at a distance regardless of how inaccurate her gun is supposed to be!
31	* Karma really did take care of the headmaster.
32	** He's [[spoiler:ran over by Dopinder, who's of Indian origins.]] Karma is a Buddhist concept, and Buddhism originated in India.
33	** Dopinder has been spending the entire movie wishing to make his bones as a contract killer, and [[spoiler:he got his wish -- his first kill -- in the end, and on someone who actually deserved it.]]
34	** The headmaster also doesn't [[spoiler:get the satisfaction of dying as a martyr for the anti-mutant cause. He was killed in a completely mundane way, by a completely mundane human]].
35	* Regarding the headmaster's fate, there is a good reason why Deadpool let [[spoiler:Dopinder specifically do him in, apart from karma. If any of the mutant heroes did it, they risked being corrupted, like Russell was. Dopinder had the opposite problem, he wanted to kill villains already and being sidelined would turn him evil instead, so, to make sure nobody was corrupted and the headmaster was punished, Dopinder ''had'' to deal with this himself.]]
36	* The ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen\|2013}}'' reference makes an awful lot of sense. Wade resolves Cable's problem with Russell by [[spoiler:TakingTheBullet for the kid. In ''Frozen'', Anna resolves the conflict by stepping in between Hans' blade and Elsa. A ''suicidal'' Elsa, who thought she had accidentally killed Anna, the one person she loves more than anything.]] Furthermore, much of the strife between Elsa and Anna in the movie is because Elsa pushed Anna away, believing that she's a super-powered DoomMagnet -- which is exactly what Wade does to Russell. Plus, Elsa is AnIcePerson, and Russell is PlayingWithFire: both are elemental powers.
37	* After Wade gets [[spoiler:ripped in half by Juggernaut,]] he fixes his costume with duct tape. It might seem odd that he doesn't have a spare costume for situations like this, especially given his powerset... until you remember that he was in full costume when he was arrested earlier in the film, and there was no scene of him retrieving it after escaping the Ice Box. So the most likely explanation is that he ''did'' in fact have a spare, and he's simply been wearing that after escaping rather than going through the extra effort to regain his old suit. He also did blow up his own apartment, so any spare suits may not have survived.
38	* It's no fluke that Bedlam is the first X-Force member shown descending via parachute and into trouble. [[spoiler:If he ''hadn't'' gotten creamed first, his EMP powers could've instantly shorted out the helicopter, power lines, and wood chipper when he noticed his companions were descending into danger, thus denying us the RunningGag of all the ''other'' male X-Force recruits meeting really nasty deaths.]]
39	* The reason that this movie was released at the same time as ''Film/{{Logan}}'' on Creator/DisneyPlus was that this movie spoils its ending in the very first scene.
40	** Or that both are R-rated Marvel movies which Disney had only recently come into possession of thanks to the Disney/Fox merger (since the first Deadpool, which came out before Logan, dropped at the same time). That other bit helps too, though.
41	* Twice, Wade requests Colossus loan him [[Characters/MarvelComicsAngel “that putz with the wings”]], but gets rejected. Why? Because [[Film/XMenApocalypse Angel died several decades ago, before he could become an X-Man]].
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44	!!Fridge Horror
45	* The collars that inhibit mutant powers, the very kind of thing that was seen in the BadFuture in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. It means parts of such a future are ''still happening'' despite the [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong changes to the past]] that led to the current timeline. It's only used on mutants who have become criminals... so far. Essex's plans are probably not stopping there, even though they haven't gone as far as Trask Industries and their Sentinels.
46	* While in the Ice Box with their powers negated, Wade says he'll die of cancer and Russell will "win an award for softest mouth." It's also heavily, heavily implied the employees at the Essex facility sexually abuse the children there.
47	** With Wade wearing the power suppression collar, he really would have died in the original timeline, as Cable never would have given him the chance to escape. That's why Cable doesn't recognize Wade despite his power giving him near-immortality.
48	* Everyone at the Ice Box seems perfectly willing to let Wade succumb to cancer with his healing factor suppressed. Now consider how many mutants there might be incarcerated who are stuck in BodyHorror, AndIMustScream, or slowly dying because their powers have been suppressed while they were in the middle of their own bodies experiencing an effect of their own powers, which would normally be covered by RequiredSecondaryPowers?
49	** Despite how morally upstanding Colossus was, he turned Wade over to the Ice Box along with Russell after he opened fire on the Essex faculty. In other words, he was okay with Wade succumbing to cancer, since they fitted him with a PowerNullifier.
50	* What is Essex planning? In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', he sent men to collect DNA samples of Wolverine, and now is backing the abuse, torment, and seemingly the experimentation of young mutant children? One can only shudder. Is it something similar to what [[Film/{{Logan}} Transigen did]] or worse?
51	* [[spoiler:Did they just leave the motherfucking Juggernaut alive and free to roam around, with his helmet on so that Charles can't just pull off a psychic attack on him?]]
52	** [[spoiler:They thought he was dead, and there's a good chance, after what he's been subjected to, that even he would need time to recover, enough for the X-Men to find out and prepare for the next battle.]]
53	* [[spoiler:Deadpool killing Creator/RyanReynolds before shooting ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' means Reynolds never gets to meet and marry Creator/BlakeLively, which also means Reynolds and Lively's children are never born.]]
54	** [[spoiler:Killing Creator/RyanReynolds in the past has far more consequences than that. It would in truth mean that the first ''Film/Deadpool2016'' movie wouldn't exist, and that this film would also be written out of existence. [[RuleOfFunny Joking aside, that scene is intended as a joke,]] [[MST3KMantra so don't take it too seriously.]]]]
55	** [[spoiler:And of course, the obvious implication: in killing Reynolds, Deadpool pretty much killed ''himself''. Or at least, ''this'' incarnation of him.]]
56	*** Which becomes HilariousInHindsight due to the fact that [[spoiler:Fox was bought out by Disney soon after this film was made, meaning that all future X-Men films (including the ''Deadpool'' franchise) would be a part of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. In order for the [=MCU=] incarnation of Deadpool to be born, the Fox-Men one had to die.]]
57	* The "Heaven" scene where Wade gets reunited with Vanessa is touching and all, but imagine being trapped with your girlfriend in that apartment for all eternity.
58	** Given the way afterlives tend to work in a lot of fiction, the apartment is probably is just Wade's entrance lobby into the afterlife; if he had died for good, he and Vanessa could probably leave and go to some other part of the afterlife.
59	** It might look that way because it's where Wade spent the best times of his life: in there with her.
60	* Just how many people have died as a result of Domino's ''Film/FinalDestination''-esque powers? She's letting the giant prisoner truck run around and has numerous cars flip and crash into things while in a populated city.
61	** Perhaps not that many people died since she has luck powers and is acting as a hero, sort of. Anyone who should not die likely ''just'' avoided death since many people dying would cause trouble.
62	** Domino doesn't cause these mortal dangers anyway. She just survives them by luck.
63	*** The initial car crash is debatable, but she was definitely responsible for the convoy truck crashing through an occupied building (and into a bunch of cars).
64	** And how do we know a side-effect of her being lucky isn't everyone else near her being ''un''lucky? She might have killed off most of the X-Force just by being on board (though the survival of our heroes in the final battle would imply otherwise).
65	* The shot of [[spoiler:Deadpool's vestigial regenerating penis]]. To put into context, the [[spoiler:regenerating body parts of his]] are referred to as "child-like", which basically makes it [[spoiler:child pornography]]. However, not every instance of visible genitalia makes something pornography. Especially not in a scene as absurd as ''this''.
66	* The fact that Deadpool KNOWS Wolverine, Xavier, and the X-Men will die horribly in the future (Logan). Wade is keeping that information to himself, not warning them about their terrible fate. Heck, we don't even know if Wade survives in Logan's future timeline.
67	** The timeline of ''Logan'' is confirmed to be an alternate future and not ''the'' future for the X-Men timeline so even if he does know about it (which he does), he knows it’s not going to pass, so there's no point.
68	* Assuming that Juggernaut from this timeline was the same as the original timeline, just what in the actual ''fuck'' did Cain go through to become this large and hulking?
69	** Ultimate X-Men has the answer. It could be that he's a mutant...who ALSO found the Gem of Cyttorak, thereby giving him DOUBLE super strength.
70	* The X-Men film series has yet to see the mastermind behind the whole sterilization process of mutants and the abuse of mutants at the orphanage -- Nathaniel Essex, a.k.a Mister Sinister. Somewhere in the shadows, watching events behind the scenes -- hell, he might be in plain sight as one of the workers at the orphanage. All the more unsettling is that he might make an appearance in ''Film/TheNewMutants'', which is already classified as a horror movie.
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