He’s no Alfred Hitchcock, but Leitch snuck in a quick cameo in the action scene on the convoy of trucks. To take this reference a step further, one of the lead actors in the film was a young Josh Brolin.Īnd while this might be less impressive than the two references above, the first time Deadpool struts in as a (trainee) member of the X-Men, his yellow and black outfit is a callback to a similar costume he wears in the comics.ĭirector David Leitch’s cameo Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool) and Director David Leitch on the set of Deadpool 2. In another scene, the floral shirt worn by Wade Wilson has exactly the same pattern as the one worn by Chunk in the 1985 film, The Goonies.
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They’re Olivia and Meredith, which is what Taylor Swift’s pets are named. When he first arrives at Professor X’s mansion (and fools around on his wheelchair, Deadpool wears a T-shirt with two cats printed on it. Sure, there will be more out there, but three of Deadpool’s clothing choices are very pointed easter eggs. And who played Valjean on the big screen most recently? Yup, Hugh Jackman.ĭeadpool’s clothes Deadpool the fashionista. The more literary of readers would recall that that’s the number assigned to Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. Russell, the young mutant everyone seems to be after, has been given a codename: Prisoner 24601. When Deadpool is laying out his plan for an ambush, in which he will be joined by the X-Force, his drawn-in-crayon map notes a very specific person. “Just cleaning up the timeline,” he says.īut between these two moments, there’s one that more difficult to spot. Deadpool, now armed with Cable’s time travelling device, goes back into the past and murders the older version of his character while Wolverine looks on. The film basically opens with Deadpool mourning Wolverine’s death in Logan, as a figurine of the clawed mutant in his death pose twirls around before him.Īnd Reynolds bookends the film with yet another dig at Wolverine - specifically the much derided X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Hugh Jackman Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.Įven in death, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine hasn’t been spared Deadpool’s cracks. And speaking of Black Widow, did you catch his nickname for Zazie Beetz’s Domino? He calls her ‘black Black Widow’. ‘Sun’s getting real low, big guy,” he says. His Indian cabbie, Dopinder, meanwhile gets the title ‘Brown Panther’ - a dig at Marvel’s Black Panther - and to pacify Juggernaut in the film’s finale, Deadpool tries using Black Widow’s lullaby for Hulk. But if that was too subtle for you, he goes right ahead and calls him ‘Thanos’ in one scene, a rather blunt reference to his Infinity War character. He calls Cable, Brolin’s time travelling cyborg, ‘a grumpy old f****r with a Winter Soldier arm’ at one point in the film.
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It’s an added bonus that both Deadpool 2 and Avengers: Infinity War share in Josh Brolin an actor who plays major roles in both films.ĭeadpool doesn’t let this opportunity go to waste.
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We saw several of them in the trailer, but the final film had more than a handful of jokes made at the expense of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, clearly the most popular (and therefore most easy to lampoon) superhero franchise out there. But we’ve collected a few here for your convenience, if only to reassure you that yes, that was indeed Brad Pitt that you saw for ⅓ of a second.Īll the Marvel Cinematic Universe digs Dopinder aka Brown Panther. You’ll probably have to watch the film again (and again, and again) to note (but not necessarily understand) every joke Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with the Mouth makes in the superhero sequel. Considering the amount of pop-culture references in Deadpool 2, it’s likely that you missed many of them - especially a split-second celebrity cameo.