DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Star Dafne Keen Talks Possible AVENGERS Role And Becoming The MCU's Main Wolverine

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Star Dafne Keen Talks Possible AVENGERS Role And Becoming The MCU's Main Wolverine

Deadpool & Wolverine star Dafne Keen has addressed the possibility of suiting up as Laura/X-23 in the next Avengers movies and ponders the possibility of becoming the Wolverine post-Avengers: Secret Wars.

By JoshWilding - Feb 03, 2025 08:02 AM EST
Filed Under: Deadpool & Wolverine
Source: The Direct

In Deadpool & Wolverine, the titular clawed mutant meets Laura, his Variant's "daughter" from 2017's Logan. In that movie, the original X-Men franchise's Wolverine made the ultimate sacrifice to give her and other young mutants the chance to fight for their future. 

After befriending Wade Wilson and making up for the sins of his past, the new Wolverine chooses to remain on Earth-10005 alongside Laura (who was saved from The Void by the TVA). 

Rumour has it that Dafne Keen will reprise her role as X-23 in Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars. It would make sense for Laura to finally suit up there, particularly if Earth-10005 is the same reality glimpsed at the end of The Marvels; the expectation is that an Incursion will lead to a clash between that world's mutants and Earth-616's Avengers. 

Asked by The Direct about potentially joining the Avengers franchise at the Saturn Awards this weekend, Keen said, "I would like to see her in a fun team-up. I would also love to see Laura in smaller stories as well. I enjoyed playing her in Logan, which was much more grittier."

"So that's fun. But I'd also be very, very open to a big whole action fight team up with the Avengers," she added.

When it was put to her that fans have theorised she could take over from Hugh Jackman as the MCU's Wolverine in a post-Secret Wars MCU reboot (a logical next step and one that doesn't require an actor to follow in Jackman's huge footsteps), Keen said, "Well, can we both [Laura and Logan] be there? Yeah? OK, good. If we're both there, I'd be really happy."

However, pushed on whether being the Wolverine is an exciting prospect, Keen admitted, "Wonderful. Yes. Honestly, anything that involves Laura, I'd be down to do."

"I've said this a trillion times, I would play Laura for the rest of my life, and I would be content," Keen, who also starred in The Acolyte earlier this year, said in a separate interview last year. "She's the most incredible character to play, and I have so much fun playing her, and I have so much love for her [and] Marvel."

"So I really hope I get a call, even if it is to do like another tiny little silly cameo in something, I'd be really happy," she continued. "And chance I get to be her again and get the claws back on."

Shawn Levy directs Deadpool & Wolverine, which stars Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Matthew Macfadyen, Chris Evans, Dafne Keen, Channing Tatum, Jennifer Garner, and Wesley Snipes. Henry Cavill makes a cameo appearance.

Deadpool & Wolverine is now available on Digital, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD, and Disney+.

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Wahhvacado
Wahhvacado - 2/3/2025, 8:37 AM
It'd be great to see her fully suited up at some point but I want a proper recasting of Wolverine post Secret Wars
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 2/3/2025, 9:24 AM
@ItsNotForMeWahh - It's looking more and more like Hugh is going to be the MCU's logan for a while.
Wahhvacado
Wahhvacado - 2/3/2025, 9:28 AM
@Clintthahamster - User Comment Image
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 2/3/2025, 11:18 AM
@ItsNotForMeWahh - My hope was that DP&W would end with X-23 established as the MCU's Wolverine, but I guess that'll be strung along for another few years. Cripes, I am so tired of the Multiverse shit.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/3/2025, 11:32 AM
@Clintthahamster - Think there is a decent chance of both a recast 616 AND Hugh if he is sticking around, all they need to do is also reboot Ryan's timeline (not just 616) so he can do otherverse standalone movies he can lampoon the MCU with.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 2/3/2025, 11:56 AM
@ItsNotForMeWahh - missed opportunity in DPvW
Goldboink
Goldboink - 2/3/2025, 11:56 AM
@ItsNotForMeWahh -
I want the same stuff over and over again because it's what I know and what I like. Don't challenge me with new stuff.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 2/3/2025, 11:57 AM
@Clintthahamster - just until Kevin decides to bring Logan into the fold post MCU Xmen....which may be awhile. He won't be in the Xmen film or anything tho. They'll keep him to Avengers films with Secret Wars and Deadpool stuff.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 2/3/2025, 12:31 PM
@McMurdo @Apophis71 - We'll see. Before Jackman came back for DP&W, I was optimistic about a Logan recast, but now I feel like the die is cast, and Jackman is Logan for the foreseeable future. And if they're merging 10005 with 616 by the end of Secret Wars, I can see them going more of a New X-Men route. Bring back enough folks from the OG team (Marsden, Jackman, Paquin, Berry, maybe Grammer?) to provide a foundation, plus maybe Colossus and NTW from Deadpool, and then start bringing in younger characters that weren't introduced in the Fox movies, New Mutants-style.

But I'll admit that, while I like the plan and I think it makes sense, most fans would absolutely hate it.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/3/2025, 12:42 PM
@Clintthahamster - I love's Hughs Wolverine, even for all it's not comic accurate issues, but I refuse to give up hope we DO get a recast Wolverine no later than the second phase of the next Saga hence why hoping they give Ryan his own universe to play with instead of the main one after Secret Wars but time will tell.

Some from Fox still young enough to realisticaly return to their roles (or new roles) like Dafne and some of the First Class/New Mutant crew, no problem with that although prefer that even if they FEEL the same they will in fact be variants of them so that we don't consider any of the Fox films canon to the new MCU 616.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 2/3/2025, 1:44 PM
@Apophis71 - Reynolds has expressed doubt about any more DP solo outings, so I imagine he'll mostly be in the MCU sandbox moving forward. Could be wrong, of course. That will be a weird fit.

Anyway, yes, I do agree that it'd be better to bring back the same performers as variants. It'd be trickier to bring back a mixture of the OG cast and the post-First Class cast, but who knows!
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/3/2025, 2:03 PM
@Clintthahamster - I am more than willing to be wrong if it happens but Ryan's DP full time in a 616 team seems like a disaster waiting to happen for me if played the same way it has been in his solo films (and I love his solo films) still want a new recast Wolverine even if that meant two Logan's on the same Earth, lol. The one BIG thing aside from the action that is brilliant about Ryan's solo films was taking the P of Fox, the MCU and everything else he felt like mocking, with that he wouldn't tend to work as part of the team for any length of time, without that I don't see the point of keeping that version of the character is the thing I struggle with.
eatingbojangles
eatingbojangles - 2/3/2025, 4:59 PM
@ItsNotForMeWahh - That would be a perfect way to bring her into the MCU officially.
Nonameforme
Nonameforme - 2/3/2025, 8:37 AM
I 100% want her to be a wolverine variant
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 2/3/2025, 8:39 AM
Ok. But will she have the full Wolverine X23 suit?
The sunglasses were cute but now we need her to steal Logan’s mask and suit up.
THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 2/3/2025, 8:41 AM
Nah dont see the point of her.

All that hype. When D&W came out I didn't see or hear the POP


For [frick]s sake
SATW42
SATW42 - 2/3/2025, 8:46 AM
I don't even know what I want anymore. I think she'd be cool as "all new wolverine" but I also think they should just wipe the slate clean.

At the same time, Introducing the x-men and then having them team up, or even start a school sounds exhausting. So I don't know if they already exist and are displaced from their universe into ours? Maybe that's the angle for why they aren't "trusted" in the MCU, because honestly, the Hulk is a celbrity, I have a hard time believing the world is like "mutants, ew"
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 2/3/2025, 8:55 AM
@SATW42 - my preference would that you do the soft reboot in SW after which the likes of the FF and X-Men have just always been in the MCU…

Don’t bring any attention to it or have any of the characters be aware that something isn’t right.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 2/3/2025, 9:00 AM
@SATW42 - perhaps though I feel like it would be best if they immediately state the difference between mutants and the other heroes.

The other heroes were either given their powers willingly ir accidentally while the mutants are genetic anomalies that certain people think are there to replace mankind
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/3/2025, 11:41 AM
@SATW42 - I mean, ultimately the HUGE difference between an Avenger and a Mutant is Avengers are typicaly mature well trained adults who then gain powers or tech.

A mutant anyone could give birth to and one day at breakfast when you tell your pubescent teen to get their elbows of the table and put their phone down whilst eating breakfast they randomly melt your face off...

...or your kids school bully could suddenly start having any of a wide range of OP powers, I mean there is a whole potential parallel to fear of school mass shootings built into the idea of teen mutants plus the whole race replacement fears you don't get with scientist exposed himself to gamma radiation in a lab and Super Soldier Serums.
SATW42
SATW42 - 2/3/2025, 12:14 PM
@Apophis71 - The world of the MCU has accepted talking raccoons who are smarter than all of us and have a propensity for firearms and a giant sentient tree who only says "I am Groot" over and over again.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 2/3/2025, 12:26 PM
@SATW42 - Maybe, still differ to the next evo of humanity that could make 'normal' humans go the way neanderthals and troglodytes did. The GA watching the films will accept them but what about in universe humans as even the Avengers faced the Sokovia accords and Mayor Fisk is set to try and take down vigilantes...

...all that said, in the post Secret Wars films could work well if most mutants were all already in their own country rather than Mansion turned School in Westchester County, New York.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 2/3/2025, 8:46 AM
Wolverine isn't a mantle
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 2/3/2025, 9:21 AM
@HashTagSwagg - Disney is a mantle.
TheFinestSmack
TheFinestSmack - 2/3/2025, 9:52 AM
@HashTagSwagg - In a world of tokenization and creative bankruptcy, every hero title is a mantle.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 2/3/2025, 9:56 AM
@TheFinestSmack - word, true that me brotha
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Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 2/3/2025, 8:55 AM
Good answer
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 2/3/2025, 8:57 AM
I have liked her performance & version of Laura but honestly post SW , I truly hope we get a full clean slate with the X-Men (as slim as the chances may be)…

No lingering versions of characters such as Jackman Logan’s or Dafnes Laura at all though I wouldn’t mind seeing her suit up in SW!!.

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Also my preference would be they start with Logan but eventually if they want the mantle to transition to Laura then so be it.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 2/3/2025, 8:58 AM
coming back as x-23? sure, she cool character but Becoming The MCU's Main Wolverine? hell no, the msheu failed and the lack of d1ck Truly upsets me
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RJT3
RJT3 - 2/7/2025, 9:56 AM
@harryba11zack - Nice try, Diddy.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 2/3/2025, 9:00 AM

I want her to be in the MCU. She's a great character. But the MCU will always need the real Wolverine.

When Jackman is gone, a new dynamic Logan Wolverine must replace him.

MadThanos
MadThanos - 2/3/2025, 9:15 AM
Main Wolverine?

Hey, Josh:
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JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 2/3/2025, 9:20 AM
The MCU is comical at this point, and not in the funny way.
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