There's a Deadpool and Wolverine cameo that pokes fun at the one movie the MCU can't seem to get off the ground
Jul. 25, 2024There are a lot of shocking moments in Deadpool 3, but this might be the biggest of them all
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WithDeadpool and Wolverineout now, I think it’s safe to say that we’re taking a moment to absorb the multiversal chaos the film puts forward. Of all the funDeadpool and Wolverine cameospacked into the action, there’s only one that made the audience in my theater gasp – a surprise that nobody saw coming.
Perhaps that’s because a few of the others were telegraphed jokes or had been previously leaked. But this cameo, on the other hand, which saw an actor return to an iconic superhero role for the first time in two full decades, was a welcome, almost total surprise. So join us as we sink our teeth into the details of what might be Deadpool & Wolverine’s most special surprising guest appearance.
If you don’t want this cameo spoiled for you, stop reading this article. If you’re looking for viewing advice, check out ourDeadpool and Wolverine review.
Return of the daywalker
Deadpool & Wolverine sees the Merc With a Mouth (Ryan Reynolds) and an alternate version of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman, reprising the role from his turn in the best X-Men movies) trying to stop the TVA, an organization that “prunes” variant timelines from reality that made its debut in theDisney+ Loki series, from destroying their universes. In the process, they both end up getting banished to the Void, a scrap heap reality where everything that the TVA has pruned from various timelines ends up. Following a run-in with another big cameo, Chris Evans playing the Fantastic Four’s Human Torch, Deadpool and Wolverine get into a scuffle and wake up to find themselves inside a hideout of some other pruned heroes.
There were some rumors that Snipes would appear as Blade in the movie, but not to the same extent as the early chatterand eventualconfirmationthat Garner would return as Elektra – and marketing for the movie certainly didn’t spoil the cameo the way the final trailer did for X-23’s appearance.
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The cameo was extra surprising not just because there rumors about it were quiet but because Snipes has been making headlines recently as the MCU considers taking the character in a different direction. Snipes first appeared as Blade, a unique vampire with all of their strengths and none of their weaknesses, in the 1998 film.
It was only a month ago, in response to a new wave of stories about the Blade reboot movie’s development struggles, that Snipes threw some shade on the MCU on X, the website formerly known as Twitter. “Blade, lordylordylordy,” Snipeswrote. “Folks still lookin for the secret sauce, ridin snowmobiles in traffic, kinda rough. Daywalkers make it look easy, don’t they?”
Given that Deadpool and Wolverine wrapped production a mere four days after Snipes posted this tweet, he was clearly already in the picture when he fired this little shot at Marvel’s troubles in replacing him. That just makes the cameo even funnier – and it makes Blade’s proclamation that there’s only one Blade and there’s only ever going to be one Blade worthy of the ironically knowing look Deadpool gives the camera.
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James is an entertainment writer and editor with more than a decade of journalism experience. He has edited for Vulture, Inverse, and SYFY WIRE, and he’s written for TIME, Polygon, SPIN, Fatherly, GQ, and more. He is based in Los Angeles. He is really good at that one level of Mario Kart: Double Dash where you go down a volcano.
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