Unlike most Marvel movies, the Deadpool & Wolverine end credits scene doesn’t set up any sequels or tie into upcoming instalments. Spoilers ahead.
Akhil Arora, a member of the Film Critics Guild and a Rotten Tomatoes-certified film critic, who saw Deadpool & Wolverine in IMAX with Laser. He has been reporting on Marvel since 2015 and has written for NDTV and SlashFilm.
As with any Marvel Cinematic Universe chapter, Deadpool & Wolverine has extra scenes during its end credits. In a change from the usual format, the first of them—the Deadpool & Wolverine mid-credits scene—plays alongside the credits in a box on the right-hand side of the screen. It’s not even related to the movie. Instead, it’s meant to be a tribute to the 20 years of Marvel movies that were made by 20th Century Fox, the studio that got acquired by Disney for over $70 billion a few years back. It’s made up entirely of bloopers or behind-the-scenes footage, featuring everyone from Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier) to Dafne Keen (Laura/X-23), Jennifer Garner (Elektra) to Jennifer Lawrence (Raven), and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) to Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool).
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All the jokes about its new setting (in Marvel’s world) and the lovey-dovey X-Men fan service cannot overcome the fact that Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are hacking about without a solid purpose.
But that’s just a sentimental side dish. The real thing arrives as a post-credits scene right at the very end of the new Deadpool movie. In it, Deadpool (Reynolds) is back at the Time Variance Authority, in the same room where Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen) had dragged him and given him the news of his universe’s demise. You see, Deadpool is unhappy about getting blamed for the death of Johnny Storm (Chris Evans, reprising a role he last played in 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer) earlier in Deadpool & Wolverine.
Chris Evans is the star of Deadpool & Wolverine’s after-credits scene
Back in the Void, Deadpool told the bald-headed villain Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin) how Johnny really felt about her—which included several expletives and very colourful language, something you would usually associate with Deadpool. (It also played on Evans’ previous role in the MCU as Steve Rogers / Captain America who was known to never utter a bad word and reprimanded others for doing so.) Johnny protested and claimed that Deadpool was lying about the things he had purportedly said. But Cassandra wasn’t having any of it and killed Johnny in response.
Because we were never shown the exchange in question, we only had Deadpool’s side of things. Now, in the Deadpool & Wolverine end credits scene, the Merc with a Mouth wants to set the record straight. That’s why he has returned to the TVA—to give us the objective version. Deadpool then plays the tape recording of that exchange between Johnny, Deadpool, and the Wolverine (Jackman) after they are apprehended and taken to Cassandra. Turns out, Johnny did say all of those things. In fact, he said a lot more.
The joy of the Deadpool & Wolverine after-credits scene lies in Evans’ range. The same actor, who gave us the clean-as-a-whistle Steve Rogers, is also capable of being extremely foul-mouthed as the hot-headed Johnny Storm. He really is America’s ass.
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