{"slug":"deadpool","type":"movie","title":"Deadpool","year":2016,"releaseDate":null,"franchise":"mcu","genres":["Action","Comedy","Adventure"],"creators":["Tim Miller"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool","hook":"Ryan Reynolds says 100+ eggs are packed in — including a $10,000 Bea Arthur shirt and a Hydra agent Fox legally couldn't name.","intro":"Ryan Reynolds spent eleven years trying to get *Deadpool* made, and when Fox finally said yes — then slashed roughly $7 million from the budget just before greenlight — the production buried its frustrations, in-jokes, and comic deep cuts in nearly every frame. Reynolds promised the finished film would have **more easter eggs than the Easter Bunny** (over 100, by his estimate; Mr. Sunday Movies' famous fan tally catalogued 103), and the Blu-ray commentary keeps confirming new ones, from a **$10,000 Bea Arthur t-shirt** to a pizza brand named after Marvel Studios boss *Kevin Feige*.\n\nWhat makes Deadpool's egg game different is that the movie is in on its own joke. The opening credits bill Reynolds as \"God's Perfect Idiot\" and Tim Miller as \"An Overpaid Tool,\" a Green Lantern trading card tumbles past before the title even lands, and Wade's fourth-wall breaks openly roast *X-Men Origins: Wolverine*, the film's thin X-Men roster, and Hugh Jackman — who \"appears\" only as a paper cutout stapled to Wade's face.\n\nBelow are the 20 best-documented hidden details: creator cameos, a Marvel character Fox technically wasn't allowed to use, and the George Michael needle-drop the entire production was secretly named after — each with sources and exactly where to freeze-frame.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":293660,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/293660","imdbId":"tt1431045","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1431045/"},"counts":{"eggs":20,"confirmed":11,"community":9,"theory":0,"sources":22},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — Deadpool has 1 post-credit scene.","scenes":1,"description":"One scene after the full credits, in two beats: Deadpool, in a striped bathrobe, recreates the Ferris Bueller's Day Off ending — telling the audience \"It's over. Go home\" and joking that Fox can't afford a real teaser — then returns to announce the sequel will feature Cable, riffing on possible casting before shooing everyone out with Yello's \"Oh Yeah.\" No mid-credits scene, so you only wait once.","detail":"Yes, one — and it sits after the entire credit roll, so the wait is real. There is no mid-credits beat to catch on the way through and nothing hidden inside the crawl itself. The animated Deadpool material everybody remembers, including the unicorn gag, the billing of Ryan Reynolds as \"God's Perfect Idiot\" and the thank-you to Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza, is at the *front* of the film, in the opening titles.\n\nWhen the final card clears, Wade appears in a striped bathrobe, leaning out from behind a door, and scolds the audience for still being seated: **\"You're still here? It's over. Go home.\"** It is a direct restaging of Ferris Bueller's identical brush-off at the end of *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* — including the part where he exits and then immediately comes back.\n\nThe comeback carries the actual news. Deadpool concedes there is no expensive teaser to show, then announces that the sequel will feature **Cable** and proceeds to cast him badly on the spot: you just need a big guy with a flat top, so Mel Gibson, or Dolph Lundgren, or Keira Knightley, who has range. He then shoos everyone out with the \"chicka-chicka\" hook from Yello's \"Oh Yeah,\" the same needle-drop that plays Ferris out.\n\nUnusually for a 2016 stinger, the tease was straight. Cable did headline *Deadpool 2* in 2018, played by Josh Brolin rather than any of the three names Wade floated, and that film opened in exactly the fourth-wall register this tag establishes. The self-deprecation about not affording a proper teaser was also true to circumstances: Fox trimmed roughly $7 million from the budget shortly before greenlight, which is a large part of why the X-Mansion appears to house precisely two X-Men — a limitation the movie roasts in dialogue more than once.\n\nWorth staying for once. Worth knowing on the rewatch that no franchise-building reveal is waiting at the end of this one. No Nick Fury in the shadows, no shawarma. Just Wade in a bathrobe, telling you to go.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"opening-credits-roast","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-opening-credits-roast","title":"The Opening Credits Roast Everyone — and Hide a Green Lantern Card","description":"Instead of names, the frozen 360-degree car-crash tableau credits \"God's Perfect Idiot\" (Ryan Reynolds, drifting past his real 2010 People *Sexiest Man Alive* cover), \"A Hot Chick,\" \"A British Villain,\" \"A Gratuitous Cameo,\" \"Produced by Asshats,\" \"Written by the Real Heroes Here,\" and \"Directed by an Overpaid Tool.\" Pause the shot and you'll also catch a Green Lantern trading card spilling from a wallet — the film's first jab at Reynolds' 2011 DC misfire. Per the Blu-ray commentary, the entire slow-motion shot is pure CGI, built so the camera could float through the wreckage.","scene":"Opening slow-motion SUV crash tableau, first two minutes","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Empire — Deadpool: 11 things we learned from the DVD commentary","url":"https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/deadpool-commentary/"},{"label":"Looper — Deadpool's Biggest Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.looper.com/9890/deadpools-biggest-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage","fourth-wall-break"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"creator-street-signs","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-creator-street-signs","title":"Highway Signs Named After Deadpool's Comic Creators","description":"The overhead signs in the freeway sequence are a who's-who of Deadpool's comic lineage. WhatCulture's frame-by-frame hunt catalogued \"Nicieza St.\" and a misspelled \"Leifeld St.\" — for Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, who co-created the character in 1991's *New Mutants* #98 — alongside even deeper pulls like \"Ditko Ave.\" (Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko), \"Wernick Parkway\" (the film's own co-writer Paul Wernick) and \"Parker Blvd.\" It's a drive-by tribute most viewers blow straight past on the way to the overpass massacre.","scene":"Freeway/bridge ambush sequence — watch the overhead exit signs as the convoy chase begins","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"WhatCulture — Deadpool: 100 Easter Eggs, In-Jokes And References","url":"https://whatculture.com/film/deadpool-100-easter-eggs-in-jokes-and-references"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Deadpool: Every Marvel Easter Egg & Reference","url":"https://screenrant.com/every-deadpool-marvel-easter-egg-reference/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage","crew-tribute"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"feiges-famous-pizza","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-feiges-famous-pizza","title":"Feige's Famous Pizza Delivers a Marvel Studios Dig","description":"When Wade ambushes creepy pizza boy Jeremy on behalf of a teenage client, the pizza box on the table is branded \"Feige's Famous Pizza\" — a wink at Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, the rival house that did NOT control Deadpool's film rights in 2016. The gag is pointed out on the Blu-ray commentary, making this one of the film's few officially confirmed corporate trolls. Eight years later the joke aged beautifully: Feige ended up shepherding Deadpool into the MCU with *Deadpool & Wolverine*.","scene":"Early flashback — Wade's merc-for-hire job intimidating the pizza delivery stalker","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Empire — Deadpool: 11 things we learned from the DVD commentary","url":"https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/deadpool-commentary/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Deadpool: Every Marvel Easter Egg & Reference","url":"https://screenrant.com/every-deadpool-marvel-easter-egg-reference/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":"deadpool-and-wolverine","referencesWork":null},{"id":"rob-liefeld-bar-cameo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-rob-liefeld-bar-cameo","title":"\"Buck... Liefeld\" — Deadpool's Co-Creator Drinks at Sister Margaret's","description":"As Wade works the room at Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Children, he greets two patrons: \"Buck... Liefeld.\" The second man is Rob Liefeld himself, the artist who co-created Deadpool. IMDb trivia places the cameo at around the 17-minute mark, and Bleeding Cool flagged it in its pre-release spoiler rundown alongside the film's other creator tributes — the \"Rob L.\" coffee cup in the opening credits and Liefeld's name on the dead pool board. Liefeld also co-hosts the Blu-ray commentary with director Tim Miller, so this is about as on-the-record as a cameo gets.","scene":"Sister Margaret's bar — Wade greets patrons on his way to Weasel","timestamp":"0:17","episode":null,"types":["cameo","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Bleeding Cool — Deadpool Movie Spoilers: Stan Lee's Cameo, Rob, Fabian And The After-Credits","url":"https://bleedingcool.com/movies/deadpool-movie-spoilers-stan-lees-full-frontal-cameo-the-after-credits-and-a-very-special-surprise-character/"},{"label":"IMDb — Deadpool (2016) Trivia","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1431045/trivia/"}],"motifs":["cameo-by-source-creator"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"dead-pool-betting-board","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-dead-pool-betting-board","title":"The Dead Pool Board Bets on Real Celebrities — Without Asking Them","description":"The chalkboard \"dead pool\" behind Weasel's bar — the gag that gives Wade his mercenary name — is loaded with real names, used, per the Blu-ray commentary, without anyone's approval. The AV Club catalogued the full board: Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Bynes, Miley Cyrus, Shia LaBeouf, Bill Cosby, Charlie Sheen, Kanye West, Kid Rock, Mike Tyson, Lil Wayne and Ozzy Osbourne, plus wildcards like Judd Nelson, Vladimir Putin, Arnold Palmer and Ned Beatty. The sharpest detail: Weasel and Wade are the only two who bet on someone they actually know — Weasel puts money on Wade, and Wade backs fellow merc \"J. Boothe.\"","scene":"Sister Margaret's bar — chalkboard behind Weasel during the bar scenes","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","meta","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Empire — Deadpool: 11 things we learned from the DVD commentary","url":"https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/deadpool-commentary/"},{"label":"The AV Club — All the names on Deadpool's dead pool","url":"https://www.avclub.com/all-the-names-on-deadpool-s-dead-pool-1798246734"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"x-men-origins-action-figure","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-x-men-origins-action-figure","title":"The Sewn-Mouth Deadpool Action Figure From X-Men Origins","description":"During a flashback in Wade and Vanessa's apartment, Wade fiddles with an actual retail action figure of \"Deadpool\" as he appeared in *X-Men Origins: Wolverine* (2009) — mouth sewn shut, katanas grafted into his arms. It's the film literally holding up Reynolds' first, famously botched outing as the character and inviting you to laugh at it. The figure flashes by fast; most viewers only clock it on a pause. It pairs with the movie's repeated verbal shots at the Origins portrayal, which outlets like Looper and ScreenRant catalogued on opening weekend.","scene":"Flashback in Wade and Vanessa's apartment, before the cancer diagnosis","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","meta","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Looper — Deadpool's Biggest Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.looper.com/9890/deadpools-biggest-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — 20 Things You Completely Missed In Deadpool","url":"https://screenrant.com/deadpool-easter-eggs-references-completely-missed/"}],"motifs":["casting-in-joke"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"bea-arthur-10000-dollar-shirt","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-bea-arthur-10000-dollar-shirt","title":"The $10,000 Bea Arthur T-Shirt","description":"Pre-mutation Wade lounges in a t-shirt bearing Bea Arthur's face — a nod to comics Deadpool's canonical, undying love for the *Golden Girls* star. On the Blu-ray commentary, Ryan Reynolds reveals the production paid $10,000 for Arthur's likeness rights — a donation to her estate's chosen charity — and calls the shirt \"potentially cinema's most expensive Easter Egg ever.\" As a producer on a budget-squeezed film, Reynolds had to personally approve the expense. A perfect example of this movie spending real money on a joke maybe five percent of the audience would get.","scene":"Wade at home in the flashback stretch — the tank top with Bea Arthur's face","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Empire — Deadpool: 11 things we learned from the DVD commentary","url":"https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/deadpool-commentary/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"sew-my-mouth-shut-line","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-sew-my-mouth-shut-line","title":"\"Don't Sew My Mouth Shut\" — Roasting X-Men Origins Out Loud","description":"In the Workshop, the dialogue winks directly at the Merc with a Mouth's infamous first film appearance: *X-Men Origins: Wolverine* (2009) sewed Deadpool's mouth shut, deleted his personality, and gave him laser eyes. Here, Ajax raises the mouth-sewing idea again — and Wade's knowing response plays as Reynolds mocking the earlier film's most hated creative decision. It's one of two direct Origins jabs in the movie, alongside the sewn-mouth action figure in Wade's apartment, and outlets from Cinemablend to ScreenRant flagged it on opening weekend.","scene":"The Workshop — Ajax and Wade's exchanges during the experiment scenes","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Cinemablend — Deadpool's Best Easter Eggs And Pop Culture References","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Deadpool-Best-Easter-Eggs-Pop-Culture-References-112107.html"},{"label":"ScreenRant — 20 Things You Completely Missed In Deadpool","url":"https://screenrant.com/deadpool-easter-eggs-references-completely-missed/"}],"motifs":["casting-in-joke"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"worm-david-cunningham","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-worm-david-cunningham","title":"Wade's Workshop Neighbor Is Secretly Worm From the Comics","description":"The fellow Workshop patient credited as David Cunningham isn't a random extra: per the Blu-ray commentary, he's the film's version of Worm from the Deadpool comics. Nothing on screen tells you this — no powers, no costume, no name-drop — which makes it one of the movie's purest white-whale eggs, knowable only if you sat through the commentary track or read the coverage of it. The commentary also reveals a related cut: comics scientist Dr. Killebrew was written out of the Workshop to keep the revenge story focused on Ajax.","scene":"The Workshop — the patient Wade trades barbs with between experiments","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","trivia"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Empire — Deadpool: 11 things we learned from the DVD commentary","url":"https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/deadpool-commentary/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"marrow-in-the-workshop","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-marrow-in-the-workshop","title":"Marrow's Blink-and-Miss Live-Action Debut","description":"One of the other mutates in Ajax's Workshop is a woman with blade-shaped bones growing out of her back — a live-action rendering of Marrow, the bone-manipulating mutant from the X-Men comics who ran with Gene Nation before joining the X-Men themselves. She gets no line and no name, just a couple of seconds of background screen time, so recognizing her requires both a pause button and comics homework. ScreenRant and Looper both identified her in their day-one egg roundups.","scene":"The Workshop — background patients visible during Wade's imprisonment","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","visual"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Deadpool: Every Marvel Easter Egg & Reference","url":"https://screenrant.com/every-deadpool-marvel-easter-egg-reference/"},{"label":"Looper — Deadpool's Biggest Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.looper.com/9890/deadpools-biggest-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"not-green-or-animated","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-not-green-or-animated","title":"\"Please Don't Make the Super Suit Green... or Animated\"","description":"Agreeing to the program that will cure his cancer, Wade begs that his eventual superhero suit be neither green nor animated — a double-barreled shot at *Green Lantern* (2011), where Ryan Reynolds wore a fully CGI green costume in one of the most maligned superhero films of its era. It's the loudest of the film's running Green Lantern jokes, bookending the trading card hidden in the opening credits. Reynolds torching his own resume became a Deadpool franchise tradition from this line forward.","scene":"Wade's parting line as he leaves for the Workshop program","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","reference"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Cinemablend — Deadpool's Best Easter Eggs And Pop Culture References","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Deadpool-Best-Easter-Eggs-Pop-Culture-References-112107.html"},{"label":"ScreenRant — 20 Things You Completely Missed In Deadpool","url":"https://screenrant.com/deadpool-easter-eggs-references-completely-missed/"}],"motifs":["casting-in-joke","fourth-wall-break"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"mcavoy-or-stewart","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-mcavoy-or-stewart","title":"\"McAvoy or Stewart? These Timelines Are So Confusing\"","description":"When Colossus announces he's dragging Deadpool to see Professor Xavier, Wade asks the question every X-Men fan was already thinking: \"McAvoy or Stewart?\" By 2016, Fox's X-Men films had two actors playing Charles Xavier across a timeline scrambled by *Days of Future Past*, and Deadpool is the only character allowed to say out loud that nobody can keep it straight. It's a fourth-wall break that doubles as genuine continuity commentary — and it set up the sequel's even more brutal timeline jokes.","scene":"End of the bridge fight — Colossus handcuffs Deadpool to take him to the Professor","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","reference"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Deadpool: Every Marvel Easter Egg & Reference","url":"https://screenrant.com/every-deadpool-marvel-easter-egg-reference/"},{"label":"Looper — Deadpool's Biggest Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.looper.com/9890/deadpools-biggest-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["fourth-wall-break","recast-nod"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"stan-lee-strip-club-dj","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-stan-lee-strip-club-dj","title":"Stan Lee's Only R-Rated Cameo: Strip Club DJ","description":"Marvel legend Stan Lee cameos as the DJ announcing dancers at the club where Vanessa works — at roughly 1 hour 11 minutes per IMDb — the raunchiest cameo of his entire run. Lee later grumbled that he never actually set foot in the club: \"I was not in the topless dancing place. I did that in a studio and then they put it into the movie, and I'm damn mad about that!\" The opening credits pre-mock the moment by billing him as \"A Gratuitous Cameo\" — fitting, since Deadpool is one of the few Marvel screen heroes Lee had no hand in creating.","scene":"The strip club where Wade searches for Vanessa — the DJ at the mic","timestamp":"1:11","episode":null,"types":["cameo"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"The Hollywood Reporter — Stan Lee Jokes 'Deadpool' Cameo Made Him \"Damn Mad\"","url":"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stan-lee-jokes-deadpool-cameo-898282/"},{"label":"IMDb — Deadpool (2016) Trivia","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1431045/trivia/"}],"motifs":["stan-lee-cameo"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"big-house-budget-joke","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-big-house-budget-joke","title":"\"It's Like the Studio Couldn't Afford Another X-Man\"","description":"Touring the X-Mansion, Deadpool observes it's a big house yet he only ever sees Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead — \"almost like the studio couldn't afford another X-Man.\" That's not just a gag: Fox forced the production to cut roughly $7 million from its already-modest budget shortly before greenlight, which is exactly why the X-Men roster stops at two. Ryan Reynolds reportedly improvised the line on set, turning a real production wound into the film's sharpest fourth-wall break — and it reportedly became Fox chairman Jim Gianopulos's favorite line in the movie.","scene":"X-Mansion — Deadpool arrives to recruit Colossus and Negasonic for the rescue","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","trivia"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"TV Tropes — Deadpool (2016) Trivia","url":"https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/Deadpool2016"},{"label":"Sideshow — All the Best Deadpool Jokes","url":"https://www.sideshow.com/blog/best-deadpool-jokes"}],"motifs":["fourth-wall-break"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"chimichanga-time","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-chimichanga-time","title":"Time to Make the Chimi-F***ing-Changas","description":"Riding to the final battle, Wade declares it's time to make the \"chimi-f***ing-changas\" — importing comics Deadpool's most famous running gag. In the books, Wade doesn't even particularly like eating chimichangas; he just loves saying the word, a quirk writers have riffed on since the '90s. It's a plain-sight egg for comics readers and pure nonsense for everyone else, which is about as faithful a translation of the character as this movie ever manages in a single line.","scene":"Dopinder's taxi en route to the scrapyard showdown","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"TV Tropes — Deadpool (2016) Shout-Outs","url":"https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ShoutOut/Deadpool2016"},{"label":"Cinemablend — Deadpool's Best Easter Eggs And Pop Culture References","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Deadpool-Best-Easter-Eggs-Pop-Culture-References-112107.html"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"decommissioned-helicarrier","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-decommissioned-helicarrier","title":"The Final Battle Happens on a Scrapped S.H.I.E.L.D.-Style Helicarrier","description":"Ajax's final stand takes place atop a decommissioned carrier in a scrapyard — and the giant vertical rotor housings make it unmistakably a helicarrier, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s flying fortress from *The Avengers*. This one graduated from fan theory to fact: concept artist Emmanuel Shiu confirmed the connection, revealing he was specifically asked to make the craft as different from the MCU version as possible so Fox wouldn't tangle with Marvel Studios' lawyers. The film never says the word S.H.I.E.L.D.; the wreck just sits there as silent shared-universe set dressing — and, in proud Marvel tradition, it's completely destroyed by the end of the fight.","scene":"The scrapyard showdown — the massive wrecked vessel Ajax operates from","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Cinemablend — Deadpool Really Did Have A Major Connection To Marvel And The Avengers","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Deadpool-Really-Did-Have-Major-Connection-Marvel-Avengers-Here-How-113067.html"},{"label":"GeekTyrant — Yes, That Marvel Easter Egg in Deadpool Was What You Thought it Was","url":"https://geektyrant.com/news/yes-that-marvel-easter-egg-in-deadpool-is-what-you-thought-it-was"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-avengers","referencesWork":null},{"id":"hydra-bob-without-hydra","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-hydra-bob-without-hydra","title":"Bob — the Hydra Agent Fox Wasn't Allowed to Name","description":"Mid-melee, Deadpool clotheslines a henchman, recognizes him — \"Bob?!\" — and catches up on his wife and kids before knocking him out. In the comics that's Bob, Agent of Hydra, Deadpool's hapless sidekick. But Marvel Studios held the Hydra rights, so the filmmakers stripped every identifying detail. As co-writer Paul Wernick explained: \"That's why he's just called Bob. The hardcore fans will go, 'Oh my God, is that Hydra Bob?' but the lawyers at Marvel won't go, 'Wait... they don't have the rights to it.'\" *Deadpool & Wolverine* (2024) finally canonized the connection once the character came home to Marvel Studios.","scene":"Final battle — the henchman Wade greets by name before knocking him out","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Cinemablend — The Marvel Character Deadpool Legally Wasn't Able To Use, But Did Anyway","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Marvel-Character-Deadpool-Legally-Wasn-t-Able-Use-Did-Anyway-112417.html"},{"label":"CBR — Here's How \"Deadpool\" Got Away With Using A Marvel Studios Character","url":"https://www.cbr.com/heres-how-deadpool-got-away-with-using-a-marvel-studios-character/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"deadpool-and-wolverine","referencesWork":null},{"id":"hugh-jackman-face-staple","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-hugh-jackman-face-staple","title":"The Hugh Jackman Face Stapled Over Wade's","description":"When Vanessa demands Wade finally unmask, he reveals a paper cutout of Hugh Jackman's face stapled over his own scarred head. It caps the film's running Jackman/Wolverine bit — Wade earlier credits the movie's existence to fondling the balls of a man who \"rhymes with Polverine.\" Storyboard artist Jay Oliva later shared his original concept art for the gag, indicating the Jackman cutout was baked in from pre-production as Reynolds' love letter slash taunt to his friend and *X-Men Origins* co-star.","scene":"Final scene — Wade unmasks for Vanessa after the battle","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","meta"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Deadpool Storyboard Artist Reveals Hugh Jackman Joke Origin","url":"https://screenrant.com/deadpool-movie-hugh-jackman-joke-concept-art-image/"},{"label":"MovieWeb — Storyboard Artist Shares Hugh Jackman Joke Concept From Deadpool","url":"https://movieweb.com/storyboard-artist-hugh-jackman-joke-concept-deadpool/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"wham-careless-whisper-title","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-wham-careless-whisper-title","title":"The Whole Movie Was Secretly Named \"Wham!\"","description":"Deadpool shot in Vancouver under the production working title *Wham!* — the decoy name studios use to keep onlookers off the scent — and the film pays it off in plain sight: Wade promises Vanessa some Wham!, and George Michael's \"Careless Whisper\" finally plays over their reunion as the closing needle-drop. So the sax riff that ends the film isn't just a romantic punchline; it's the secret codename of the movie you just watched, hiding in the last ninety seconds.","scene":"Final scene — the music under Wade and Vanessa's reunion","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","trivia","meta"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook.com — Deadpool Working Title Is Wham!","url":"https://comicbook.com/comicbook/news/deadpool-working-title-is-wham/"},{"label":"Cinemablend — Deadpool's Best Easter Eggs And Pop Culture References","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Deadpool-Best-Easter-Eggs-Pop-Culture-References-112107.html"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"ferris-bueller-post-credits","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool#egg-ferris-bueller-post-credits","title":"The Ferris Bueller Post-Credits Homage","description":"After the full credits, Deadpool shuffles down a suburban hallway in a striped bathrobe — a beat-for-beat homage to *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* (1986), the other great fourth-wall-breaking classic. \"You're still here? It's over. Go home.\" The filmmakers told Cinemablend the logic was simple: Ferris is famous for breaking the fourth wall, so his post-credits stinger was the only one worth stealing. Deadpool then pops back to confirm the sequel will feature Cable — correctly teasing *Deadpool 2* two years early while riffing on casting — and signs off with the \"chicka-chickahhh\" from Yello's \"Oh Yeah,\" the song made famous by Ferris Bueller itself.","scene":"After the complete end credits — bathrobe hallway scene","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Cinemablend — How Deadpool Came Up With The Brilliant Ferris Bueller Reference","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/new/How-Deadpool-Came-Up-With-Brilliant-Ferris-Bueller-Reference-112777.html"},{"label":"MediaStinger — Deadpool (2016) Extra Scenes During and After the Credits","url":"http://www.mediastinger.com/deadpool-2016-after-the-credits/"}],"motifs":["fourth-wall-break","restaged-famous-shot","sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":"deadpool-2","referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Deadpool?","answer":"Ryan Reynolds promised \"more easter eggs than the Easter Bunny\" — over 100 by his estimate — and fan tallies back him up: Mr. Sunday Movies' famous breakdown catalogued 103 distinct references. We document the 20 best-verified examples here, 11 of them confirmed on the record via the Blu-ray commentary or filmmaker interviews, including Feige's Famous Pizza, the $10,000 Bea Arthur t-shirt, and co-creator Rob Liefeld's bar cameo."},{"question":"Does Deadpool (2016) have a post-credits scene?","answer":"Yes — one scene after the full credits, an homage to Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Deadpool appears in a striped bathrobe, tells the audience \"It's over, go home,\" jokes that the studio can't afford a proper teaser, then returns to confirm the sequel will feature Cable. There's no mid-credits scene, so you only need to sit through the credits once."},{"question":"Is Stan Lee in Deadpool?","answer":"Yes. Stan Lee cameos as the DJ at the strip club where Vanessa works, at roughly 1 hour 11 minutes — his only R-rated cameo, announcing dancers instead of playing his usual bystander. Lee revealed he actually shot the appearance in a studio and was edited into the club footage, joking he was \"damn mad\" that the 93-year-old Marvel legend never got to visit the set."},{"question":"Is Wolverine in the first Deadpool movie?","answer":"No — Hugh Jackman never appears in person, but Wolverine haunts the film. Wade jokes about fondling the balls of a man who \"rhymes with Polverine,\" and in the final scene he unmasks wearing a paper cutout of Jackman's face stapled over his own. Ajax's Workshop also echoes the Weapon X program from Wolverine's origin. Reynolds and Jackman finally shared the screen in 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine."},{"question":"Why does Deadpool say he only ever sees two X-Men?","answer":"It's a jab at the film's real budget. Fox required the production to cut roughly $7 million shortly before greenlighting the movie, which is why only Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead appear. Wade lampshades it at the X-Mansion — the house is huge, yet he only ever sees the two of them, \"almost like the studio couldn't afford another X-Man\" — a line Ryan Reynolds reportedly improvised on set."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08","updatedAt":"2026-08-10","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/deadpool","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}