DEADPOOL 2 SPOILERS - Unanswered Questions We Have After Watching The Movie
We've seen Deadpool 2 but the sequel has left us with some big questions about not only what appear to be glaring plot holes but also what comes next for the Merc with the Mouth, X-Force, and more...
For the past few weeks, Avengers: Infinity War has controlled the worldwide box office but this weekend is the turn of Deadpool 2. Whether or not the R-Rated movie will break as many box office records remains to be seen but the buzz surrounding the sequel is extremely positive and it has at least a week before Solo: A Star Wars Story comes along and steals the top spot from it across the globe.
Today, we're looking at all the unanswered questions Deadpool 2 will leave you with after watching it. Regardless of whether or not you've seen the sequel, we think you'll find that this makes for interesting reading, especially as we delve into everything from plot holes to the future of the Merc's franchise. Spoilers do obviously follow, though, so keep reading at your own risk if you've not seen the film.
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When Are We Finally Going To Meet Mister Sinister?
When we first meet Russell, he's escaped from The Essex House for Mutant Rehabilitation. That's clearly a nod to Nathanial Essex, a.k.a. Mister Sinister and seeing as his presence in the X-Men Universe has now been teased in X-Men: Apocalypse, Logan, and Deadpool 2, does that mean we're finally going to see him show up in X-Force? It's previously been rumoured that he'll appear in Gambit but that seems a waste after all this build up so perhaps Fox has much bigger plans for the popular villain.
Is Cable Cyclops And Madelyne Pryor's Son?
Aside from revealing that he has a wife and daughter in the future, Deadpool 2 reveals little to nothing about the character's backstory and the fact that he was sent into the future by Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor (who was posing as Jean Grey at the time) is never actually alluded to here. On the plus side, we do learn that the techno-organic virus is ravaging his body, something bound to be addressed one day.
Why Didn't Cable Know Who Deadpool Is?
Seeing as Cable is from the future and surely has some awareness of who the X-Men are, how come he didn't recognise Wade Wilson's name when he broke into the Icebox to try and kill Russell?
It's possible that the Merc with the Mouth had simply flown under the radar and never became a "celebrity" superhero in the same way as the X-Men but it still seems strange that Cable wasn't particularly prepared for his trip back in time (where that device comes from is also never addressed).
Did Deadpool Travelling Back In Time Undo The Entire Movie?
At the end of Deadpool 2, Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Surge manage to repair Cable's time-travelling device (something he wasn't able to do in order to return to his family but the movie is packed full of examples of lazy writing) and the Merc with the Mouth subsequently travels back in time to save Vanessa. As great as it is that she's now no longer dead, it surely changes the timeline and undoes the events of the movie as he would never have ended up in the Icebox if she hadn't died!
Why Does Cable Team Up With Deadpool?
Despite the fact that Cable spends almost all of Deadpool 2 trying to kill Russell, The Juggernaut escaping from prison is enough for him to decide to put his differences aside with the Merc with the Mouth in order to bring the villain down. That's all well and good but why would he care? After all, The Juggernaut has clearly been stopped before so him being on the loose shouldn't really faze Cable.
Perhaps it's because he realises he can't take the kid out with that powerful mutant backing him up but this still feels like a pretty pi** poor way to bring these two together and quickly make them friends.
Should X-Force Really Have Just Been A Punchline?
I didn't love Deadpool 2 (it's unbelievably lazy and derivative) but one of my favourite sequences in the movie came when each member of X-Force was killed off in hilariously gruesome ways. However, as much as I enjoyed that, I can't help but wonder...should the team really have been little more than a punchline? Yes, this is simply an early iteration of the group and they'll be done justice in that planned spinoff from director Drew Goddard but these characters were definitely wasted for the most part.
How Does Time Travel Work In The X-Men Universe?
Time travel is always a complicated plot point to deal with and I'll give Deadpool 2 some credit for sort of finding a way to make it work here. Unfortunately, the sequel never bothers to explain its rules so we see Cable travel back from decades in the future and then later replaces a past version of himself to help save Wade Wilson during that final battle (rather than there being two of him running around).
That makes sense to some extent but does it mean that when the Merc with the Mouth travelled back in time to save Vanessa, he then had to relive the events of the movie in the exact same fashion as Cable did during the fight with Juggernaut. This may be a comedy but that doesn't excuse this at all.
Why Did The Juggernaut Look So Bad?
Colossus definitely looked like a CGI character in Deadpool but a bigger budget for the sequel means that the X-Man looks vastly improved here. In fact, he looks downright excellent in places and while he's not quite up there with someone like Thanos, I was definitely impressed with his appearance throughout. It's baffling then that The Juggernaut looks like a video game character in comparison.
While he's not too bad from a distance, as soon as you get up close to the villain (particularly his face), he looks downright cartoonish and completely out of place. It's hard to believe no one noticed this but most fans will likely find fault with his relationship with Black Tom Cassidy being wasted. That's never even referenced in Deadpool 2 and the character is portrayed as just a stereotypical prison thug.
Is The Movie Full Of Plot Holes Or Are At Least Some Deliberate?
I've already addressed the sequel's time travel issues but there are a lot of plot holes here; the question is, are those deliberate (the Merc with the Mouth frequently cracks jokes about lazy writing) or is Deadpool 2 just a badly written movie which prioritised jokes over strong storytelling? For example, I'm not sure but why Cable would choose to travel back in time to days before Russell making the decision which would turn him into a villain rather than when he was baby or stuck in that home.
Where Does The Disney/Fox Merger Leave Deadpool?
Deadpool 2 is a fairly self-contained tale and while it definitely sets the stage for an X-Force movie, there's nothing here which even hints at the character's arrival in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Honestly, that's not even remotely surprising given when it was made but that won't stop fans from wondering how the Merc with the Mouth could be added to the MCU, especially with a time-travel device now in play. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that Marvel will keep this iteration of the character - mostly due to them wanting to reboot the X-Men - so his future is very much in doubt for now.