Some of Deadpool's funniest moments in his long and rich comic history have come from his penchant for breaking the fourth wall. With his mental instability as a result of the Weapon X program, his insanity allows him clairvoyance of his existence as a comic book character and he's even been known to lean on his thought boxes and word balloons. His comic book creator, Robert Liefeld
has previously confirmed that Deadpool will break the fourth wall in his live-action film from 20th Century Fox. However, it was not under Liefeld and artist Fabian Nicieza's run on the
New Mutants that Wade Wilson first became aware of his existence as a comic book character. First created in 1991, it wasn't until Joe Kelly and Pete Woods'
Deadpool #28 in 1999 [note, I'm not counting the Wizard Magazine short story] that the character would first break the fourth wall. And it would be Keyll's successor, Christopher J. Priest, who made Deadpool's fourth wall breaks as a recurring element of the character.
For many comic book fans, it simply won't be a Deadpool film if he doesn't break the fourth wall. The question then becomes just how far do director Tim Miller and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick want to take such a gag. If Deadpool is to break the fourth wall, will it be subtlety or will it be over-the-top and in your face. According to previous comments from Ryan Reynolds, it may very well be the latter.
Said Reynolds previously,
"The script is one rewrite away from Deadpool jumping across the desk at the studio executive and attacking him." Well, if the fourth wall break(s) will be to that degree, why not pull out all the stops and go after the
Green Lantern film? Just imagine a scene where
Ryan Reynolds is in the Deadpool costume, whips out Bea & Arthur and slices up a Green Lantern blu-ray? Or perhaps during the film's freeway chase scene, Deadpool shots at the bad guys car and there's a slow motion shot where we see a bullet obliterating a Green Lantern bobble head on the dashboard? In a film as crazy as Deadpool is sure to be, there should be plenty of opportunities for Reynolds and co. to take a jab at Green Lantern. But will l they? Is that something, as a comic book fan, you would enjoy seeing?
If Green Lantern is too far of a stretch, will Deadpool at least tackle the disastrous version of himself presented in X-Men Origins: Wolverine?
Again, based on prior comments from Ryan Reynolds, it sounds as if it will address the mouth-sewn shut version of Deadpool that everyone would like to forget.
"But I’ve always wanted to do the movie if only because Deadpool would get to do his own movie trailer. So that’s a thing that we were dying to do and we would love to be a part of that. I don’t know how it would fit though, no. In the current iteration of the script, it doesn’t address Wolverine – though it does address Deadpool’s appearance in Wolverine. Deadpool was not happy with Deadpool in Wolverine. He has a sort of a WTF!? moment with that." Perhaps it's too much of a stretch but maybe Reynold's comic book accurate Deadpool somehow finds the X-Men Origins: Wolverine version and takes him out...sort of like this?