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Summary Deadpool & Wolverine trailer confirms Deadpool’s time-travel antics were permanent, and the TVA is seemingly integrating him into the MCU.
The trailer features references to past Deadpool movies, including returning characters and recreated scenes.
Deadpool & Wolverine references multiple MCU movies, including Age of Ultron, Thor: Ragnarok, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
The first trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine features a collection of exciting references and Easter eggs to multiple Marvel movies. Featuring several nods to the existing Deadpool franchise, Fox’s concluded X-Men universe, and the overall MCU, Deadpool & Wolverine promises to be a multiversal adventure of epic proportions.
Beginning with Wade Wilson’s birthday, the new Deadpool & Wolverine trailer confirms that Deadpool’s time-travel antics at the end of Deadpool 2 were permanent. To that end, Wade is now facing the consequences thanks to a version of the Time Variance Authority, a confrontation that will seemingly integrate Deadpool into the greater MCU. To that end, here are all the references and Easter eggs to other Marvel movies in Deadpool & Wolverine’s first trailer.
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7 Every Reference To Past Deadpool Movies
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Deadpool & Wolverine features multiple references to both the first Deadpool and Deadpool 2. This includes returning characters and the potential recreation of scenes as Deadpool is seemingly at war with the TVA.
Deadpool’s Task Force X and Vanessa Saved From Deadpool 2
Deadpool & Wolverine opens with a birthday for Wade Wilson, featuring guests from the previous Deadpool films. This includes both his wife Vanessa and his X-Force team, even though they were all killed in Deadpool 2. This confirms that Wade’s time-travel antics at the end of the movie bring them all back was indeed canon, and is most likely what got Deadpool in trouble with the TVA.
Deadpool Potentially Recreating First Movie Action Scene
Near the end of the trailer, Deadpool is surrounded by TVA agents when he throws up a hand and tells them all to wait. This mirrors the highway scene in the first Deadpool movie when Deadpool gives his classic line about why he wears a red suit (so the bad guys can’t see him bleed). As such, Wade may be riffing on this same scene with the TVA’s Minute Men.
6 Every MCU Movie Reference In Deadpool 3
Deadpool & Wolverine also features multiple references to the MCU which Wade seems to be fully entering thanks to the TVA and one Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen) who’s offering him the chance to be a hero. As such, TVA monitors feature scenes from past MCU projects along with a few Easter eggs throughout the trailer.
TVA Monitors Show Avengers: Age of Ultron & Thor: Ragnarok
Mr. Paradox shows Wade multiple images of the known MCU. This includes images of Iron Man and the entire original Avengers roster from Age of Ultron. A shot of an electrically-charged Thor is also featured at the end of Thor: Ragnarok.
Deadpool Salutes Captain America: Winter Soldier
Hilariously, shots from Captain America: The Winter Soldier are featured on the TVA monitors. This promotes Deadpool to salute the Star Spangled Man with a Plan, a likely reference to Wade Wilson’s love for Steve Rogers in the original comics.
SHIELD Helicarrier Featured In Wastelands
One of the MCU’s SHIELD Helicarriers is also seen in the vast wastelands featured in the trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine. This is likely the Void at the End of Time as seen in Marvel’s Loki.
Comic Teasing 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars
Right before Deadpool is picked up by Wolverine at the very end of the trailer, a tattered old comic book is featured lying on the ground next to Wade. Remarkably, it appears to be an issue from 2015’s Secret Wars crossover, a major tease that Deadpool & Wolverine will serve as a prelude for Avengers: Secret Wars which is set to release in 2027.
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5 Every Fox Marvel Movie Referenced
The new Deadpool & Wolverine trailer also features some references to past Marvel films produced by Fox. Not only is there a possible connection to Fox’s Fantastic Four movies, but there are also some returning characters from the concluded X-Men franchise, as well as 20th Century Fox itself.
Is Doctor Doom In Deadpool & Wolverine?
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The trailer features a masked man who initially looks like it could be a version of Doctor Doom, the classic archnemesis of the Fantastic Four. However, it could also be some sort of scavenger is this wasteland location. However, he is powering some sort of device so perhaps it is Victor von Doom.
Which Wolverine Is Fighting Deadpool?
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Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is featured at the very end of the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer. However, it’s not yet clear which variant of Wolverine is joining Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool. He could be from Fox’s X-Men franchise, Earth-838 from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a live-action version of X-Men: The Animated Series, or some new reality entirely.
Deadpool Fighting In Front Of 20th Century Fox Logo
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Near the end of the trailer, Deadpool is also thrown against the half-buried 20th Century Fox logo, a strong meta confirmation that the original Fox universe was likely pruned by the TVA, assuming these wastelands are indeed the Void at the End of Time.
Pyro Returns From X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand
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The same wastelands also feature none other than actor Aaron Stanford returning as Pyro who was first seen in X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand. This is a major tease that Deadpool and Logan may be joining forces to fight a version of Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants in the Void at the end of Time.
Deadpool & Wolverine is set to release from Marvel Studios on July 26th.