How DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Subtly Makes A Popular IRON MAN 2 Fan Theory Official MCU Canon - SPOILERS

Deadpool & Wolverine is packed full of Easter Eggs, but there's one easy-to-miss effort which finally makes a huge Iron Man 2 fan theory - related to Spider-Man - official MCU canon. Read on for details!

By JoshWilding - Jul 25, 2024 11:07 AM EST

Filed Under: Deadpool & Wolverine

In Iron Man 2, Tony Stark drops from the sky and saves a little boy who is about to be obliterated by one of Whiplash and Justin Hammer's drones.

When Spider-Man joined the MCU in 2016's Captain America: Civil War (and quickly became Iron Man's protege), fans soon started theorising that the kid could have been a young Peter Parker. It was a fun idea and one which filmmaker Jon Watts first brought up while promoting Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017.

"I was watching all these other movies and being like, 'What if that little kid at the Stark Expo was Peter Parker? In the Iron Man mask,'" he said at the time. "Like, he'd be about the right age for that. And he loves Tony Stark. [Because] it's not completely figured out, that you can just go back and basically write fan fiction for those movies, then the fan fiction becomes reality."

Two years later, Tom Holland was hyping up Spider-Man: Far From Home and claimed that Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige had "confirmed" Peter was meant to be the boy saved by Iron Man.

"Spider-Man is actually in a previous Marvel movie. My version of Spider-Man. Do you know where it is?" he asked. "My Peter Parker is in 'Iron Man 2', but at the end when all the robots are attacking all the people, and the little kid's wearing an Iron Man mask, and the bad robot recognizes the Iron Man mask as a threat, and the kid puts his hand up."

"Then Tony Stark lands next to him and blows him away and goes 'Good job kid!' and flies away. That's the theory... No, it was actually me, it was me. Kevin Feige confirmed it."

Despite comments like these, Spidey's Iron Man 2 cameo has never really been considered "official." Well, that all changes in Deadpool & Wolverine.

During the movie's opening, Wade Wilson uses Cable's time travel device to visit the Sacred Timeline in 2018 and meets with Happy Hogan in Tony's office to request Avengers membership.

There are lots of Easter Eggs in there - Agent Coulson's Captain America trading cards from The Avengers, for example - but we spotted that little boy's helmet alongside the photo of Tony and Peter taken in Stark Industries (the latter is obscured, presumably because of Marvel Studios' complicated partnership with Sony Pictures).

We can't think of any other reason for Tony to have that helmet alongside the picture of him and Peter if it didn't have a deeper morning. As a result, it's now safe to assume that this retconned Iron Man 2 Easter Egg has just been made official MCU canon!

Deadpool & Wolverine is now playing in theaters.

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25 Comments

MCUKnight11 - 7/25/2024, 11:12 AM

Crazy way to start the movie. Unexpected cameo right from the get-go. This means Wade was in the MCU right before IW happened.

UniqNo - 7/25/2024, 11:39 AM

@MCUKnight11 - Those 1st 5 minutes were killer! Wade stroking that bone and his 3 way with the claws! LMAO! The dancing in the credits just topped it off!

MCUKnight11 - 7/25/2024, 11:43 AM

@UniqNo - I was already on board with just the opening.

TheRogue - 7/25/2024, 11:13 AM

Stupid [frick]ing theory, making Peter a iron man fanboy.

ImNotaBot - 7/25/2024, 11:17 AM

I was confused about this scene. The meeting with Happy was in the Deadpool universe or the MCU? because latter in the movie both Vanessa and Peter acknowledge Deadpool trying to get in the Avengers acting like the meeting was in their universe.

Also by the end of the movie i was expecting them to kill the Fox universe or merge with the MCU, but i guess Feige is saving that for Secret Wars. The way this movie ends seems like Deadpool is going to be a big player in Secret Wars.

vectorsigma - 7/25/2024, 11:20 AM

@ImNotaBot - it was shown that it is the sacred timeline, 616

So apparently a wade wilson exists there because that's how lazy the writing is

ImNotaBot - 7/25/2024, 11:25 AM

@vectorsigma - Oh thank you, that makes sense. It was a strange way to start the movie. I think the script was made during the strike, that can explain the plot holes.

vectorsigma - 7/25/2024, 11:33 AM

@ImNotaBot - yw. When he was talking with peter and vanessa, it was already a different timeline/universe where he took not getting into the avengers seriously

UniqNo - 7/25/2024, 12:57 PM

@vectorsigma - well if you look hard enough There's a few plot holes in this and the previous
Ones.
Apparently the Logan was Wade's timeless was the one who died in Logan, when everything we've seen before kind of suggest Deadpool's world is an offshoot from the established X men timeline, as murkey as that is... but in Logans timeline, mutants were being hunted down etc and his colossus was different to Cudmoore's...eh either way what I'm saying is that Deadpool never really cared about its timeline.

SpiderCop9997 - 7/25/2024, 1:11 PM

@ImNotaBot - Okay so it was in "616" (actually Earth 199999), the Sacred Timeline.

This takes place during the period that Deadpool was using Cable's time travel device, so he kept changing his own reality and at one point he changed it to the MCU. But then he was rejected from The Avengers, so he changed things back to Earth 10005.

Earth 10005 is the original Fox Timeline.

Deadpool and Deadpool 2 take place in the as yet unnamed post-DOFP timeline, but he existed in many other timelines in-between Deadpool 2 and D&W.

Logan was originally supposed to take place in the post-DOFP timeline, then it was given it's own Earth designation that was separate from both the original Fox timeline and the rebooted timeline.

I would probably suppose that the events of Logan take place in multiple timelines. At least three separate timelines.

SpiderCop9997 - 7/25/2024, 1:13 PM

@UniqNo - Also, the present day events of Deadpool's current timeline (Earth 10005) must be set before the X-Men were killed and before mutants started dying out. This could have all happened within the span of about 5 years or so after the events we see in the film (when he digs up Logan's bones at the beginning, he must be in the future of his timeline).

SpiderCop9997 - 7/25/2024, 1:15 PM

Either that or Colossus and NTW were not victims of Prof X's attack and have survived whatever has been slowly depowering and killing mutants.

UniqNo - 7/25/2024, 1:20 PM

@SpiderCop9997 - well if you want to pick at it even more, then it begs the question, why did paradox pull him out 6 years later after DP2, so that's 2024 right? When was Logan suppose to have taken place??

Either way you look at it, it doesn't really like up time wise or thematically.

SpiderCop9997 - 7/25/2024, 1:25 PM

@UniqNo - It depends when Deadpool 2 took place. Also, he's changed the timeline since then, so this could actually take place whenever. It was 2018 when he was in The Sacred Timeline, but when he changed things back to Earth 10005 it could have been earlier.

I mean the Fox universe has always been a bit of a mess tbf. If Marvel had made a timeline that actually made sense, it would have felt off, lol.

vectorsigma - 7/25/2024, 11:18 AM

That is a stretch.

They cant even show Holland in that picture with Tony.

CLTMAN29 - 7/25/2024, 11:23 AM

I’m still confused as to how Cables time travel device is supposed to allow him to jump entire realities? I noticed it watching the movie today, just one small part that bugged me and doesn’t make sense - especially as it’s a huge part of waves character arc in the movie

ImNotaBot - 7/25/2024, 11:29 AM

@CLTMAN29 - That is a plot hole left from DP2. When he started messing with the timeline somehow he could jump into universes, as he did visiting Origins Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds holding the Green Lantern script.

vectorsigma - 7/25/2024, 11:36 AM

@CLTMAN29 - the reason is as shallow as to how they survived getting annihalated.

i remember dp saying "that's what having dp & wolverine can do", or something like that.

CLTMAN29 - 7/25/2024, 12:20 PM

@vectorsigma - yeah I guess this as good as any.

TheMetaMan - 7/25/2024, 12:48 PM

@CLTMAN29 - cable’s time traveling device allows the user to travel the multiverse. It was most likely designed that way.

SpiderCop9997 - 7/25/2024, 1:17 PM

@CLTMAN29 - Time travel and multiversal travel are closely related. When the Avengers travelled through time in Endgame they actually travelled to different realities.

So if Deadpool travels through time extensively, changing little things here and there, he's effectively moving through the branches of the multiverse, like a pen moving through a paper maze.

TheVisionary25 - 7/25/2024, 11:24 AM

That’s cool!!.

I have never minded that little kid being retroactively Peter since he grew up in a world of heroes already so of course a nerd like him would have been a fan.

Anyway , IM2 imo remains one of the weaker MCU films but its moments like this that still make it enjoyable to an extent.

Oberlin4Prez - 7/25/2024, 11:55 AM

It was only ever a fanboy theory wishcast until they got the rights to use Spidey, then someone asked feige about it and he was like, "uh yeah sure". I give feige a lot of credit, but pretending he had the foresight to do that is the biggest stretch.

LSHF - 7/25/2024, 1:47 PM

Kevin officially accepted this fan theory as canon many years ago, so I considered it official.

It's nice that the film backs up what Kevin already stated.

dragon316 - 7/25/2024, 3:20 PM

Stupid theory there always wrong 99.99 percent of time

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