Stan Lee doesn't actually make a cameo in "Deadpool 2", but he appears briefly
in one of the trailers. He's even addressed by name. Deadpool emerges from a
phone booth after changing into his costume.
Stan Lee: "Wow, nice suit!"
Deadpool: "Zip it, Stan Lee!"
This is Marvel dialogue at its best!
The first Deadpool film
was so good that I didn't think the sequel could possibly live up to it. I was
wrong. I remember sitting wide-mouthed in the cinema on 20th May 2018. When
the opening credits rolled (at the 15 minute mark) I already knew that it exceeded the
quality of the first film. The humour is similar. The repeated breaking of the
third wall is similar. But something is better. Maybe it's the tastefully
inappropriate placing of music. I don't know. I just know it's better, and I
have great hopes that "Deadpool 3" will be just as good, whenever it's finally
released.
This is the second film in Marvel's X-Men franchise in which someone comes
from the future to change the past. The first was
"Days of Future Past". Cable, a super-soldier from the future, travels back in time to kill
Firefist, the mutant who will be responsible for murdering his wife and
daughter. When Cable arrives Firefist is still a 12-year-old boy called
Russell Collins. Russell is at a turning point. He's a troubled youngster, due
to being tortured by the staff of an orphanage run by the Essex Corporation,
an organisation that trains mutants to become mercenaries, but he's not truly
evil. Cable says that he'll turn evil after his first kill, which is due to
happen soon. Deadpool sees the good in the boy and wants to persuade him not
to kill anyone. This is ironic, because Deadpool himself is a killer.
Deadpool has contact with the X-Men, but the only team members he sees at the
X-Men mansion are Colossus, Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Yukio. It's a
running joke that the other X-Men are missing because the film had a limited
budget.
Negasonic Teenage Warhead introduces Yukio as her girlfriend, making them the
first openly lesbian couple in a Marvel movie. Yukio is possibly the same
character as Yukio in
"Wolverine", but it's not clear. Her role in "Deadpool 2" is too minor to make a
comparison possible. Logically, they would have to be different characters,
because "Wolverine" takes place shortly before "Deadpool 2", yet Yukio looks
much younger in the latter film. But when has there ever been any logic in the
X-Men continuity?
A bigger problem is a brief cameo by the other X-Men, who are in the mansion
after all, though unseen by Deadpool. This was an outtake from
"Dark Phoenix", which was being filmed at the same time. "Dark Phoenix" takes place in
1992, so the X-Men should look a lot older in "Deadpool 2", which takes place
25 years later. Even taking into account the rewriting of the timeline in
"Days of Future Past", the scene still doesn't fit.
But don't worry about inconsistencies. Just accept the film for what it is. It
doesn't take itself seriously, so neither should you.
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