The first teaser of Deadpool & Wolverine is out. The opportunity to dissect the trailer, while waiting for the film, scheduled for summer 2024. Here are 9 details to note. Some will be obvious, others much less so.
Deadpool 3 arrives, and with him a distinguished guest for this third film: Wolverine! Expected for years, the feature film suddenly became very concrete on the night of February 11 to 12, with the broadcast of the first teaser of Deadpool & Wolverine. It was shared during the 2024 Super Bowl, along with many other trailers.
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No excitement though: Deadpool & Wolverine will not arrive in theaters right away. Its cinema release is scheduled for July 24. Enough to still leave time for the studios to build up the mayonnaise and go all out on promotion. Many clips are expected, which will be analyzed for sure.
This first teaser is obviously no exception and several details deserve a spotlight. Some will definitely jump out at you if you follow the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) diligently. For others, you will have to pause the video. And, for the rest, we will have to rely on the knowledge of the community.
Here are the 9 details to remember from this first Deadpool 3 teaser
The TVA is here and connects Deadpool to the rest of the MCU
The TVA arrives in Deadpool's reality and intends to take Wade Wilson on board by hook or by crook. The TVA, an acronym for Tribunal of Anachronistic Variations, is an organization that navigates the timeline with the official goal of restoring order to the flow of time. The plot of the series Loki is strongly focused on VAT activities.
Thanks to this story element, Marvel has created an ideal opportunity to cross the different licenses, including franchise reboots. We saw it with Spider-Man: No Way Homewhere actors Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland were able to reprise their roles as Spider-Man and be reunited.
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Deadpool & Wolverine is another proof of this, because these two characters, as presented in this film, come from different realities. We can also expect surprises in the film, with heroes from the MCU who will show up during improbable cameos. Why not, for example, Iron Man or an X-Men?
“ Pegging isn't new for me, but it's new for Disney »
As usual, Deadpool is very casual with his sexuality and his frankness is still intact. This is seen in a scene with TVA agents: while the latter take out telescopic energy sticks to force him to follow them, Deadpool launches a well-felt retort, suggesting another use for these sticks.
To put it quickly, Deadpool warns the TVA soldiers: he is experienced in the practice of “pegging” (we'll let you do your own research if you don't see what it is), but Disney, no. This passage can be confusing. Why does Deadpool, a fictional character, evoke Disney, the studio that produces the film?
The explanation lies in the fact that Deadpool is a fictional character who knows that he is in a fictional universe. He also has the ability to break what we call the “fourth wall”, that is to say the screen between the public and him. He can address viewers — usually by staring into the camera and quoting things he's not supposed to know.
In this case, Deadpool is clearly aware that 20th Century Fox, the studio which produced Deadpool 1 And Deadpool 2 in 2016 and 2018, was bought in 2019 by Disney. Deadpool & Wolverine is the first feature film in this franchise to be produced during the Disney era. And having such a crude hero is probably a bit new.
Is Alioth there?
It's a fleeting scene: facing Deadpool, a TVA agent seems to be kidnapped by a kind of purple smoke. The theory that holds the string is that it would be Alioth, ” a trans-temporal entity that serves as guardian of Nothingness “, as explains it in a wiki dedicated to the MCU. With the multiverse, it would make sense.
A reference to 20th Century Fox
Yet another very brief scene, where we see the name “Ury”. We might have thought it was a reference to Nick Fury, but no: given the elements above and below, but also the size of the letters in relation to each other, and their arrangement, it is necessarily a reference to the logo from 20th Century Fox.
Avengers videos
Well, here, we can't believe that you didn't wince: on the TVA screens, we see characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Thor, Iron Man, Captain America) in various scenes, obviously from two films from franchise Avengers: Age of Ultron And Infinity War. Wade Wilson salutes their dedication.
Scenes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe revisited?
One sequence appears to reference the introductory scene ofAvengers: Age of Ultron, when the heroes attack a Hydra base. Indeed, both take place in the woods, in a winter landscape. Does this mean we will be treated to a cameo from Ultron? Or a rereading of a few MCU anthology scenes?
A comic Secret Wars next to Deadpool
At the end of the teaser, we can make out a comic Secret Wars next to Wade Wilson. This is the name of a famous storyline in Marvel comics. It's also the name of a future Avengers film: Avengers: Secret Wars. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness also refers to it.
Wolverine is almost not here
You have certainly noticed it yourself: Wolverine is notably absent from this teaser. He only appears briefly at the end, visibly determined to stab Wolverine with his adamantium claws. We also see him earlier in the trailer, from behind, at a gaming table. So we'll have to wait to see more.
No post-credit scene
Unlike other trailers for the first two Deadpools, there is no post-credit scene for this teaser.