Shout Out / Deadpool 2

"He's a maniac, maniac on the floor. And he's killing like he's never killed before..."

Deadpool 2 and its related materials have numerous references to works by other creators.

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Promotional Material

• In the announcement for Josh Brolin being cast as Cable, Deadpool implies that his films also share a universe with Sicario and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. He also tells Thanos to "pump the hate brakes."
• Julian Dennison's casting announcement has Deadpool and Julian striking the same pose as Yoda riding Luke Skywalker's back from The Empire Strikes Back, only with the then-14-year-old Dennison in the Yoda role.
• In one gun fight, Wade wears a t-shirt for the 60+ year old Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris, France.
• The reveal of Domino pulls double-duty, referencing both the reveal of Wade for the first film, and the original Burt Reynolds cheesecake photo it was aping.
• The Thanksgiving 2017 poster with Deadpool: Cable and the rest of the cast sitting around the table as Deadpool brings out a turkey is based on the "Freedom From Want" painting by Norman Rockwell.
• The first trailer:
  • Wade is dressed up like Bob Ross while doing a The Joy of Painting parody, including the show's theme song and numerous Memetic Mutations from Ross's show like "happy trees".
  • The colors he says he's using include Clockwork Orange, Girls of Indigo, Soylent Green, Mennen Black, Doc Brown, Betty White, Red Dit, and Pretty 'n Pink.
  • Production staff in the fake credits includes Jerrika Benton, Geordie Leforge, Blanche Devereaux, Ted E. Ruxpin, Wayne Campbell on camera 1 and camera 2, Tom Edison on lighting, boom: Goes the Dynamite, Dalton as security, Chim Chim, and Bug n' Parker.
• The first official synopsis mentions Mayberry, the setting of The Andy Griffith Show, and the flux capacitor from Back to the Future.
• Promotions for the film's "Deadpool Core" mailing list had images of the cast in black and white wearing sweaters with their names on it, referencing the outfits worn by various child performers on the decades-old The Mickey Mouse Club.
• One of the film posters is a recreation of the iconic "water scene" from Flashdance, only with Wade being showered in bullet casings instead of water.
• In the "Meet Cable" trailer:
  • Deadpool yells at the visual effects department "It's a metal arm! It's not like we're trying to remove a mustache!" in reference to Henry Cavill's infamous CGI mustache removal in Justice League (2017).
  • Deadpool dresses his action figure up like Woody from Toy Story. The action figures also have "WAᗡE" written on one of their feet, just like Woody has "AИDY" written on the bottom of his.
  • Deadpool yells "Fuck it, I'll do it myself!" and tells the Cable action figure he has the "stones" to help him, as a reference to Cable's actor Josh Brolin also playing Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War the month before this film was released.
• In the "The Trailer" trailer:
  • Dopinder is listening to "All Out of Love" by Air Supply as Wade escapes an army of criminals. A song that Ryan Reynolds is familiar with.
  • The title card announces the film is "from the studio that brought you 27 Dresses and The Devil Wears Prada." despite being in a completely different genre.
  • Wade tells Vanessa he was late because he was "rounding up all the gluten in the world and launching it into space where it can't not hurt us ever again."
  • Wade spends a cab ride explaining to Dopinder and Domino why The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is pure pornography this time around.
• The Final Trailer:
  • "Pump the hate brakes, Thanos."
  • Wade asks Cable after his Hannibal Lecture if he's sure he's not from the DC universe.
  • After Wade says he has to form a Super Team, Weasel says, "It's time to get back on LinkedIn."
• The Imax poster is a recreation of Care Bears art, only with Deadpool and crew instead of rainbow-colored bears.
• In the music video for the film's original song from Céline Dion, "Ashes", Wade references Titanic (1997), and after seeing Céline is probably too good for his stupid movie, suddenly realizes, "God, I should have asked N Sync".
  • Céline also confuses Deadpool for Spider-Man.
  • Céline only goes up to eleven.
• In the "With Apologies to David Beckham" promo, Beckham ribs Wade that he thought he was apologizing for a swath of his actor Ryan Reynolds' filmography, including Green Lantern (2011), R.I.P.D., Self/Less, Blade: Trinity, and the Frankenstein comedy Boltneck. Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" also plays in the background.
• After the film's great first week at the box office, the production staff released a "Thank You" commercial that was an affectionate recreation of the opening of The Golden Girls.

The Film

• Wade claims all good family films begin with a vicious murder, including Bambi, The Lion King, and Saw 7.
• Wade escaping an army of criminals, yelling at Dopinder from afar to start the taxi before diving into the vehicle and ending up upside-down in the process is taken directly from Indiana Jones's escape in the Action Prologue of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• Wade notes he's basically Bigger Than Jesus because his first film made more than The Passion of the Christ worldwide (and almost as much domestically).
• Wade tells Dopinder to "Talk to me, Goose."
• Dopinder explains his desire to become a Professional Killer using an extended Interview with the Vampire metaphor involving Kirsten Dunst, Tom Cruise, and Brad Pitt.
• Wade tells Vanessa he was late because he was got into a fight with a "badass in a cape" whose mom was "also named Martha."
• Wade and Vanessa watch Yentl, at which point Wade questions why "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" from Frozen sounds so much like "Papa Can You Hear Me?" It becomes a Running Gag from there on.
• Wade and Vanessa discuss whether Luke banged his sister in Star Wars: A New Hope or The Empire Strikes Back.
• Wade suggest Cher as a baby name.
• The movie's opening credits are styled like those of a James Bond movie — with Deadpool taking not just the role of the manly action hero, but also the sexy Bond girls. Just add funny descriptions and some nonsense instead of names.
• Director David Leitch's credit gag in the opening is "One of the guys who killed the dog in John Wick". His credit is also synced with a stacks of tokens falling in the background, a reference to those films' usage of special metal coin currency.
• Wade quotes lyrics from George Michael's "Careless Whisper", and then mourns Michael's death.
• Weasel and Dopinder then have to hide from Wade the fact that David Bowie had passed away the previous year.
• When being woken up by Colossus in X-Men Manor, Deadpool mutters, "Such a glare, it's as if I were on stage at the Gaiety" referencing Downton Abbey.
• Deadpool initially refers to Yukio as "Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony".
• Deadpool refers to a creepy-looking orderly at the Essex House as Jared Kushner.
• Russel refers to Negasonic Teenage Warhead as Justin Bieber as Deadpool tries to approach him during the orphanage standoff.
• When Colossus asks Russell to surrender:
  Colossus: Come quietly, or there will be trouble.
  Russell: You stole that from Robocop!
  Deadpool: It's Robocop!
• When Negasonic introduces Wade to Yukio and assumes he's going to make a homophobic crack, he responds "Pump the hate brakes, Fox & Friends."
• Russell says he's a gangsta like Tupac. This also doubles as an Actor Allusion to the actor's previous role in Hunt for the Wilderpeople where he acted as Ricky, a kid that admired Tupac and wanted to be a gangsta himself.
• After a mutant inhibitor collar takes away his powers, Deadpool laments that if he had a bow and arrows, he'd basically be Hawkeye.
• Cable has a dial on his custom future rifle that goes up to 11.
  • During the parachute sequence, Deadpool crashes into a sign advertising a puppet show at an amusement park, referencing one of the more famous punchlines from the same movie.
• Wade refers to Cable as a "grumpy old fuck with a Winter Soldier arm."
• When Cable asks Deadpool who he is, Wade responds by saying "I'm Batman."
• Wade wonders which gang the "sorting hat" will put him and Russell in when they get to the Ice Box.
• In the Super Duper Cut, when he regains consciousness after Cable knocked him out (and broke his collar), Wade starts speaking Spanish — a nod to Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 3.
• After learning Cable's from the future, Wade asks "Which Sharknado are we on?"
• Cable and Deadpool have a Running Gag going about whether Dubstep is still popular in the future, before Skrillex momentarily starts playing.
• When explaining the Rock Bottom trope, Deadpool uses the moments when John Candy lost his prized bobsled in Cool Runnings and when the cast of the The Human Centipede signed up to be in the film as examples.
• When Bedlam explains his Brown Note powers, Deadpool compares him to the Dave Matthews Band.
• Deadpool's long series of "No"s to Domino saying luck is a superpower includes a "Mario Nopez".
• Over the childish doodle that is Deadpool's action plan, you can notice that the DMC Prison sports a drawing of Wolverine tagged "Prisoner 24601". That's Jean Valjean's prisoner number in Les Miserables, who is, naturally, played by Hugh Jackman.
• Naturally, fighting a killer cyborg from the future results in several jabs at Terminator, including calling Cable "John Connor".
• Wade calls Cable One-Eyed Willy, as a reference to The Goonies, which was Cable's actor Josh Brolin's first film.
• Deadpool describes wearing a shirt and no pants as "Full Winnie the Pooh."
• Weasel describes Wade's regenerating form as looking like a Muppet, specifically Grover with a dick.
• Weasel calls Cable "The Time Traveler's Wife's... husband".
• Deadpool does the Basic Instinct leg cross... with tiny baby legs and a baby-sized penis.
  Cable: Is that really necessary?
  Weasel: It's his basic instinct.
• Wade jokingly calls Domino "Black Black Widow". Made hilarious when you remember Ryan Reynolds used to be married to the current Black Widow.
• Dopinder responds to Cable's "I'm here to proposition you", with "The Proposition has a wonderful Guy Pearce performance!"
• Deadpool wakes up Colossus at the X-Mansion by playing music from an iPhone held over his head in reference to the most famous scene of Say Anything....
• Juggernaut threatens people with an Ass Shove using other people, which is straight out of Hancock.
• While fighting Juggernaut, Deadpool mockingly recites "Hey, big guy. The sun's getting real low", the mantra used to calm down the Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Deadpool quotes to Colossus "It's time to sweep the leg, Johnny." from The Karate Kid.
• The climatic showdown between Deadpool, Cable, and Russell is set to the song "Tomorrow", from Annie. Specifically the version from the 1999 Disney Made-for-TV Movie version, Annie (1999).
• Wade gives Domino his Adventure Time watch.
• The film references the music video for "Take On Me" by A Ha as a unplugged version of the song plays when Vanessa reaches through the barrier, grabs Wade's arm, and pulls him through, where his appearance changes to his pre-mutation self.
• When Cable plants the coin on Deadpool to prevent him from taking the bullet that originally kills him, Deadpool says "Somebody swiped right", a reference to the dating website Tinder.
• Wade calls Dopinder "Brown Panther".
• In the mid-credits scene, Deadpool refers to Negasonic Teenage Warhead as Eleven due to her previous buzzcut hairstyle.
• In The Stinger, Wade also kills Ryan Reynolds before he can take the lead role in Green Lantern (2011).
• Matt Damon is credited as Dickie Greenleaf, Jude Law's character whom Damon assumes in The Talented Mr. Ripley.
• When Wade sneaks into Blind Al's apartment, she's listening to The Jack Benny Program. In particular, it's the famous "I'm Thinking It Over!" scene, known for getting the biggest laugh in radio history.
• The sign on top of Dopinder's taxi reads "Alpha Flight".
• In the X-Mansion, Wade wears a shirt that says "Meredith & Olivia — Best Friends Purr-ever!". Those are Taylor Swift's cats.
• The X-Force jumping from an airplane to the sound of "Thunderstruck", an AC/DC song, is a reference to Iron Man 2, where Iron Man does the same thing to the sound of "Shoot to Thrill".

Once Upon a Deadpool

• Wade kidnaps Fred Savage and traps him in a recreation of the Framing Device room from The Princess Bride in an attempt to recapture its "child-like innocence".
• Fred compares the Fox-made Marvel movies to The Beatles... produced by Nickelback.
• Wade tells an elderly woman holding balloons that he loved her work in Up.
• Fred says he'd like to fight Matt Damon, but with "fight" being bleeped by Deadpool, it makes it sound like the infamous song "I am Fucking Matt Damon".

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Cable: Who Are You?
Deadpool: I'm Batman!