From Secret Wars to Loki, here's every MCU Easter egg in the first Deadpool 3 trailer

Feb. 12, 2024

We break down all of the major Marvel Easter eggs in Deadpool & Wolverine’s first look

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TheDeadpool 3 trailerisfinallyhere – and we might as well start calling Wade Wilson the Easter bunny from now on, as the titular hero treated us to a buttload of Easter eggs in the first look at the hotly anticipated sequel.

In true Deadpool fashion, there’s even a few meta gags thrown in that directly acknowledge the merger, too. “Pegging isn’t new for me, friendo, but it is for Disney,” Ryan Reynolds' Wade jokes at one point, as he gives a knowing look to the camera. Yeah, we’re definitely not in youngster-friendly territory anymore…

Loki

It’s long been rumored that theTime Variance Authority, an organization introduced in the Disney Plus series Loki would appear inDeadpool 3, and the trailer confirmed the speculation.

Right at the start of the clip, Wade’s birthday party is interrupted by a bunch of Time-Keepers before he’s kidnapped and taken to the TVA headquarters. There, he’s greeted by Matthew Macfadyen’s mystery character Paradox, who suggests that the Regenerating Degenerate join the pantheon of heroes like Hulk, Iron Man, and Captain America.

“I smell what you’re stepping in, sensei,” Wade replies enthusiastically. “Your little cinematic universe is about to change forever. I’m the messiah. I’m… Marvel Jesus.”

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Elsewhere, fans have argued that the dark smoke seen in the trailer at the 1:44 mark isAlioth, the trans-temporal entity – or smoke monster, if you’re so inclined – that guarded the Citadel at the End of Time in Loki season 1. We first saw ‘im when Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) set out to confrontHe Who Remains(Jonathan Majors).

Last month, Ryan Reynolds’ soccer centric documentary series Welcome to Wrexham won five Primetime Emmys, picking up gongs for Sound Mixing, Directing, and Best Unstructured Program. Unable to receive the awards himself,Reynolds had his pal Deadpool record an acceptance videothat aired during the ceremony… and if you look closely in the Deadpool and Wolverine trailer, it can be seen playing on a screen at the TVA, too.

It’s hard to tell someone from the back of their head, but fans seem hellbent on trying to identify the mystery bald-headed person in the Deadpool 3 trailer. While some have already claimed it could be Professor X or even Nick Fury, we’re backing the theory that it’s Cassandra Nova, the former’s evil, telepathic twin sister from theMarvel Comics.

Deadpool 3 being called Deadpool & Wolverine is a dead giveaway that the famous side-burned mutant is set to appear in the threequel, thoughwe see very little of him in the first look.

He shows off his adamantium claws via a shadow right at the end of the clip but there’s an earlier cameo from him that is perhaps more interesting, as his white suit references the Wolverine: Patch storyline from the comics. Technically, the blazer-sporting Wolverine is actually a darker alter-ego of the Logan we’ve met already.

This one is arguably the loosest Easter egg of the bunch, but it’s still pretty fun so we’ve included it anyway. After Tom Wambsgans, we mean, Matthew Macfadyen tries to enlist Deadpool as a bonafide Avengers-style superhero, a montage sees the gun-toting wisecracker get up to all sorts. At one brief moment, he looks to be sitting near a piece of furniture with huge teeth, which is amusingly similar to Hulk’s bed fromThor: Ragnarok.

Cassandra Nova, if the above does in fact turn out to be her, might not be Deadpool 3’s only antagonist. Elsewhere in the trailer, we get a look at another adversary, and they’re hooded, metal masked get-up has us wondering whether it could be Doctor Doom?

Chances are, if it were, they aren’t likely to have shown him so obviously here but hey, stranger things have happened!

Aaron Stanford reprises his role as fire-controlling mutant Pyro from Fox’s original X-Men trilogy towards the end of the Deadpool 3 trailer, and his appearance seems to hint at more than just a fun cameo.

While the teaser gives little away in terms of plot, Pyro seems to be in some sort of dystopian, apocalyptic desert-scape. In scenes that boast a similar aesthetic, Deadpool can be seen fighting TVA officers in front of a fallen 20th Century Fox sign. Given the Loki tie-ins and a possible Alioth glimpse, could this wasteland be the The Void? In Loki, all those who are pruned from the Sacred Timeline get sent there, which seems ripe for a joke about how Disney essentially wiped the slate clean when they bought the X-Men rights from Fox and committed to only moving over certain, big-name characters into the MCU. Poor Pyro.

Deadpool and Wolverine releases in the UK on July 25, and in the US a day later. For more, check out all theupcoming Marvel movies and showson the way, as well as our guide tohow to watch the Marvel movies in order.

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