Deadpool 2 is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Deadpool, distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the eleventh installment in the X-Men film series, and a direct sequel to the 2016 film Deadpool. The film is directed by David Leitch from a script by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Ryan Reynolds, with Reynolds starring in the title role alongside Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller, Brianna Hildebrand, and Jack Kesy. In the film, Deadpool forms the team X-Force to protect a young mutant from the time-traveling soldier Cable.
Plot[]
After successfully working as the mercenary Deadpool for two years, Wade Wilson fails to kill one of his targets on his anniversary with Vanessa, his girlfriend. That night, after the pair decide to start a family together, the target tracks Wilson down and kills Vanessa. Wilson kills the man in revenge. He blames himself for her death and attempts to commit suicide six weeks later by blowing himself up. Wilson has a vision of Vanessa in the afterlife, but the pieces of his body remain alive and are put back together by Colossus. Wilson is left with only a Skee-Ball token, an anniversary gift, as a final memento of Vanessa.
Recovering at the X-Mansion, Wilson reluctantly agrees to join the X-Men as a form of healing. He, Colossus, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead respond to a standoff between authorities and the unstable young mutant Russell Collins / Firefist at an orphanage, labeled a "Mutant Reeducation Center". Wilson realizes that Collins has been abused by the orphanage staff, and kills one of the staff members. Colossus stops him from killing anyone else, and both Wilson and Collins are arrested. Restrained with collars that suppress their powers, they are taken to the Ice Box, an isolated prison for mutant criminals. Meanwhile, Cable—a cybernetic soldier from the future whose family is murdered by an older Collins—travels back in time to kill Collins before he ever becomes a killer.
Cable breaks into the Ice Box and attacks Collins. Wilson, whose collar breaks in the ensuing melee, attempts to defend Collins. After Cable takes Vanessa's token, Wilson forces himself and Cable out of the prison, but not before Collins overhears Wilson deny that he cares for the young mutant. Near death again, Wilson has another vision of Vanessa in which she convinces him to help Collins. Wilson organizes a team called X-Force to break Collins out of a prison-transfer convoy and defend him from Cable. The team launches its assault on the convoy by parachute, but all of the members die during the landing except for Wilson and the lucky Domino. While they fight Cable, Collins frees fellow inmate Juggernaut, who agrees to help Collins kill the abusive orphanage headmaster. Juggernaut destroys the convoy, allowing himself and Collins to escape.
Cable offers to work with Wilson and Domino to stop Collins' first murder, and agrees to give Wilson a chance to talk Collins down. At the orphanage, they are overpowered by Juggernaut while Collins attacks the headmaster, until Colossus—who had at first refused to help Wilson due to Wilson's murderous ways—arrives to distract Juggernaut. When Wilson fails to talk down Collins, Cable shoots at the young mutant. Wilson leaps in front of the bullet while wearing the Ice Box collar and dies, reuniting with Vanessa in the afterlife. Seeing this sacrifice, Collins does not kill the headmaster; this changes the future so that Cable's family now survives. Cable uses the last charge on his time-traveling device, which he needed for returning to his family, to go back several minutes and strap Vanessa's token in front of Wilson's heart. Now when Wilson takes the bullet for Collins, it is stopped by the token and both survive while Collins still has his change of heart. Afterwards, the headmaster is run over by Wilson's taxi-driver friend Dopinder.
In a mid-credits sequence, Negasonic Teenage Warhead and her girlfriend Yukio repair Cable's time-traveling device for Wilson. He uses it to save the lives of Vanessa and X-Force member Peter, and kills both X-Men Origins: Wolverine's version of Deadpool and actor Ryan Reynolds while he is considering starring in the film Green Lantern.
Cast[]
- Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson/Deadpool / Cain Marko/Juggernaut (voice) / Himself
- Josh Brolin as Nathan Summers/Cable
- Morena Baccarin as Vanessa Carlysle
- Julian Dennison as Russell Collins/Firefist
- Zazie Beetz as Neena Thurman/Domino
- T.J. Miller as Weasel
- Brianna Hildebrand as Ellie Phimister/Negasonic Teenage Warhead[2]
- Jack Kesy as Black Tom Cassidy
- Stefan Kapicic as Piotr Rasputin/Colossus (voice)[3]
- Karan Soni as Dopinder[4]
- Leslie Uggams as Blind Al[5]
- Terry Crews as Bedlam[6]
- Lewis Tan as Shatterstar[6][7]
- Rob Delaney as Peter[8]
- Bill Skarsgård as Zeitgeist[9]
- Shiori Kutsuna as Yukio
- Brad Pitt as Vanisher
- Matt Damon as Redneck #1
- Alan Tudyk as Redneck #2
- David Leitch as Cain Marko/Juggernaut (on-set Motion Capture)
- James McAvoy as Charles Xavier/Professor X [11]
- Evan Peters as Peter Maximoff/Quicksilver [11]
- Tye Sheridan as Scott Summers/Cyclops [11]
- Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy/Beast [11]
- Alexandra Shipp as Ororo Munroe/Storm [11]
- Kodi Smit-McPhee as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler [11]
- Hugh Jackman as Wolverine (archive footage) [10]
- Fred Savage as Himself (Once Upon a Deadpool Only)
Sequel[]
Deadpool 2 will be followed by a sequel Deadpool 3 which will be released in 2024.
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Trivia[]
| Deadpool |
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| Deadpool (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018), Deadpool 3 (2024) |
| X-Men |
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| X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), X-Men: First Class (2011), The Wolverine (2013), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Deadpool (2016), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Logan (2017), Deadpool 2 (2018), X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019), The New Mutants (2019), Deadpool 3 (2024) |