{"slug":"deadpool-and-wolverine","type":"movie","title":"Deadpool & Wolverine","year":2024,"releaseDate":null,"franchise":"mcu","genres":["Action","Comedy","Science Fiction"],"creators":["Shawn Levy"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine","hook":"A 24601-stamped adamantium skull, a Secret Wars comic rotting in the Void, and the most egg-dense two hours in MCU history.","intro":"Ryan Reynolds says there are \"hundreds\" of easter eggs in **Deadpool & Wolverine**. Director Shawn Levy hedges at \"definitely dozens.\" Either way, outlets like ScreenRant catalogued over 100 distinct references, cameos, and hidden props — which makes this the densest single easter-egg hunt Marvel Studios has ever released, a two-hour eulogy for the 20th Century Fox Marvel era disguised as an R-rated buddy comedy.\n\nThe film hides its best material in places you'd never think to pause. Logan's adamantium skull — the one Deadpool punts at the camera during the *Bye Bye Bye* opening — has Jean Valjean's prisoner number **24601** stamped inside the roof of its mouth, a *Les Misérables* jab at Hugh Jackman that Levy only confirmed after a fan spotted it weeks post-release. The Void is a literal junkyard of two franchises: a half-buried 20th Century Fox logo, a classic winged Thor helmet Levy calls his favorite egg in the movie, and a 2015 *Secret Wars* comic lying in the dirt like a road sign pointing at Marvel's future.\n\nBelow is our curated, sourced map of the eggs that matter — what each one is, where it hides, and which ones the filmmakers have actually gone on record about. Spoilers are flagged; the cameo section is a minefield.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":533535,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/533535","imdbId":"tt6263850","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6263850/"},"counts":{"eggs":20,"confirmed":8,"community":12,"theory":0,"sources":22},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — Deadpool & Wolverine has 2 post-credit scenes.","scenes":2,"description":"Two reasons to stay. Mid-credits: a tearjerker tribute reel of behind-the-scenes footage from the 20th Century Fox Marvel era — X-Men, Deadpool, Blade, Daredevil, Elektra, Fantastic Four — set to Green Day's 'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).' Post-credits: Wade returns with video receipts to settle, once and for all, whether a certain foul-mouthed cameo really said all those things. Reynolds pitched the monologue to Chris Evans in a barber shop and sent him the pages the same day; Evans turned up off-book and shot it in essentially one take.","detail":"Two, and they do completely different jobs. The first arrives partway into the credits; the second sits at the absolute end, after the final technical card.\n\nThe mid-credits slot is not a scene in the conventional sense — it is a montage. Behind-the-scenes footage, on-set interviews and junket fragments pulled from two decades of 20th Century Fox's Marvel output, cut to Green Day's *Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)*. A young Hugh Jackman on the set of the first *X-Men*, Jennifer Garner in the Elektra costume, Chris Evans as the Human Torch, Ryan Reynolds on the *Blade: Trinity* set talking about a character he had not yet been allowed to play properly. No jokes, no Wade voiceover. It plays as an obituary for a studio, and it is the most sincere ninety seconds in the movie.\n\nThe second is the opposite in every respect. Wade steps back on camera to address what he calls the \"absolutely vile rumours\" that he got Johnny Storm killed, and produces the receipts — footage proving Johnny said every word of it himself. Chris Evans, back in the blond wig, then delivers the filthiest run of dialogue ever committed to a Marvel Studios release, all of it aimed at Cassandra Nova.\n\nHow it happened is better than the gag. Reynolds pitched it to Evans in a barber shop: let me film you saying something unrepeatable, and I'll pay it off at the very end. Evans agreed on the spot, got the pages that day, memorised them and shot the thing in essentially one take. He has since said he never gets handed dialogue like that.\n\nNeither scene teases a film, which is unusual for this studio. The montage closes the Fox chapter; the stinger is a punchline that quietly keeps Evans' Johnny Storm available — he is shredded, not confirmed dead, and the movie leaves that usefully vague. Stay for both.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"bye-bye-bye-x2-payoff","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-bye-bye-bye-x2-payoff","title":"The 'Bye Bye Bye' Opening Is a 21-Year-Old X2 Callback","description":"Deadpool's *Bye Bye Bye* opening dance is a payoff to *X2: X-Men United* (2003), where Wolverine winces and shuts that exact song off. In X2, Pyro flips on the radio in Cyclops' car and NSYNC blares out. Twenty-one years later, Wade desecrates Logan's grave dancing to the song Logan canonically hates, massacring TVA agents in the original choreography. The routine was real: choreographer Nick Pauley (credited as \"Dancepool\") learned the NSYNC moves and performed the sequence, with Reynolds shooting select inserts. Levy has said a full uncut dance version exists.","scene":"Opening title sequence — Deadpool fights TVA agents at Logan's gravesite in the Adamantium forest","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","callback","meta"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Levy confirms the full 'Bye Bye Bye' dance scene","url":"https://collider.com/deadpool-and-wolverine-bye-bye-bye-dance-scene-nsync/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — How the 'Bye Bye Bye' opening was done","url":"https://screenrant.com/did-ryan-reynolds-dance-in-deadpool-and-wolverine/"}],"motifs":["music-cue-callback"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"adamantium-skull-24601","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-adamantium-skull-24601","title":"Logan's Skull Is Stamped 24601 — Jean Valjean's Prisoner Number","description":"The number **24601** is engraved inside the roof of Wolverine's adamantium skull — Jean Valjean's prisoner number from *Les Misérables*. Hugh Jackman played Valjean in the 2012 musical. The engraving is visible only in the frame where Deadpool punts the skull toward the camera in the opening fight, and nobody caught it in theaters; Twitter user @WolverSteve found it weeks later, and director Shawn Levy confirmed it was intentional, writing that the team had \"been wondering, who would notice that first!\" It's also a repeat gag: 24601 appeared on Wade's hand-drawn map in *Deadpool 2*.","scene":"Opening title sequence — freeze the frame as the skull flies at the camera, mouth open","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia","meta"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — Ryan Reynolds explains the 24601 engraving (Collider interview)","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1638272/hugh-jackman-deadpool-and-wolverine-les-miserables-easter-egg-explained/"},{"label":"CBR — Shawn Levy confirms Les Misérables easter egg","url":"https://www.cbr.com/deadpool-and-wolverine-les-miserables-hugh-jackman-easter-egg/"},{"label":"ComicBook.com — Director confirms Jean Valjean easter egg","url":"https://comicbook.com/movies/news/deadpool-wolverine-director-easter-egg-jean-valjean-les-miserables-hugh-jackman/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":"deadpool-2","referencesWork":"Les Misérables (2012)"},{"id":"happy-hogan-office-props","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-happy-hogan-office-props","title":"Happy Hogan's Office Is a Museum of Iron Man Relics","description":"Happy Hogan's office is stuffed with Iron Man relics, from the \"Proof That Tony Stark Has a Heart\" arc reactor to the *Iron Man 2* suitcase armor. Wade's Avengers job interview happens surrounded by them: a Mark II-era helmet, vintage Captain America trading cards, a prototype shield. The slyest detail is the framed photo of Tony Stark and Peter Parker — first seen in *Avengers: Endgame* — positioned so a toy Iron Man helmet blocks Spider-Man's face, sidestepping the Sony rights situation. Levy has pointed to that deliberate blocking in interviews as one of his favorite gags in the scene.","scene":"Early film — Wade's Avengers job interview with Happy Hogan at Avengers Tower","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBasics — Shawn Levy shares new details on the easter eggs","url":"https://www.comicbasics.com/shawn-levy-shares-new-details-on-the-deadpool-wolverine-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"SlashFilm — Every Deadpool & Wolverine easter egg","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1630905/deadpool-and-wolverine-avengers-references-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["prop-reused-from-earlier-film"],"referencesSlug":"avengers-endgame","referencesWork":null},{"id":"hierarchy-of-power-jab","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-hierarchy-of-power-jab","title":"'The Power in the Marvel Universe Is About to Change' — a Black Adam Autopsy","description":"Wade's boast that the power in the Marvel universe is about to change forever is a word-for-word riff on Dwayne Johnson's *Black Adam* marketing line. Johnson's version was \"the hierarchy of power in the DC universe is about to change,\" and his prophecy famously died at the box office. Deadpool resurrects it as a taunt while strutting into the TVA, and the joke lands harder because *Deadpool & Wolverine* actually did become the highest-grossing R-rated film ever. One of several DC dunks in the film, and a warm-up for the Henry Cavill gag to come.","scene":"Wade's first walk through TVA headquarters","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — Every Deadpool & Wolverine easter egg","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1630905/deadpool-and-wolverine-avengers-references-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":"Black Adam (2022)"},{"id":"hulk-181-loki-callback","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-hulk-181-loki-callback","title":"The Hulk Fight Restages Wolverine's 1974 Comic Debut — and Loki's Worst Moment","description":"A brown-and-orange-suited Wolverine brawling with the Hulk restages *The Incredible Hulk* #180-181 (1974), Wolverine's first-ever comic appearance. Wade finds the pair mid-fight during his multiverse audition tour, in Canada, exactly as on the page. Then the scene doubles its egg count: Deadpool proclaims himself \"Marvel Jesus\" and calls Hulk a dull creature before getting swatted aside mid-sentence — beat-for-beat the \"puny god\" scene from *The Avengers*, with Wade in Loki's position. Two eras of Marvel history stacked into one punchline.","scene":"Multiverse montage — Wade recruits Wolverine variants; the brown-suit Wolverine universe","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","callback"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — Every Deadpool & Wolverine easter egg","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1630905/deadpool-and-wolverine-avengers-references-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"IMDb — Deadpool & Wolverine trivia","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6263850/trivia/"}],"motifs":["comic-panel-recreation"],"referencesSlug":"the-avengers","referencesWork":"The Incredible Hulk #180-181"},{"id":"wolverine-variant-covers","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-wolverine-variant-covers","title":"The Variant Montage Recreates Iconic Comic Covers, Panel for Panel","description":"The Wolverine variant montage recreates iconic comic covers panel for panel, rain included. Wade's search for a replacement Logan is a flipbook of deep-cut comic history: a Wolverine crucified on an X-shaped cross recreates Marc Silvestri's cover of *Uncanny X-Men* #251 (1989); \"Patch,\" the white-tux alter ego Wolverine used in Madripoor's criminal underworld, appears playing cards; and a grizzled Old Man Logan from the Mark Millar storyline gets shot before he can say a word. The John Byrne-era brown costume and the classic short blue-and-yellow suit both show up too. It's the most comic-literate 90 seconds in the film.","scene":"Multiverse montage — Wade auditions Wolverine variants across timelines","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Nerdist — All the Logan variants in Deadpool & Wolverine","url":"https://nerdist.com/article/all-the-logan-variants-in-deadpool-wolverine-movie/"},{"label":"CBR — Every Wolverine variant, ranked","url":"https://www.cbr.com/deadpool-and-wolverine-every-wolverine-variant/"}],"motifs":["comic-panel-recreation"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"cavillrine-cameo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-cavillrine-cameo","title":"The Cavillrine: Henry Cavill's Wolverine Hid in the Script as 'Hopper'","description":"Henry Cavill plays a Wolverine variant — \"the Cavillrine\" — and the script hid the role under the codename \"Hopper.\" He turns from his motorcycle in the muttonchops while Wade promises Marvel will treat him \"so much better than those [expletives] down the street\" after DC dropped him as Superman. Levy says the cameo came together in about 15 minutes — idea, name, text, yes — and \"Hopper\" is a *Stranger Things* codename trick. Bonus egg inside the egg: Cavill cracks his arms before punching Wade, his signature arm-reload move from the *Mission: Impossible — Fallout* bathroom fight, and the script called for it explicitly.","scene":"Multiverse montage — the garage universe, a Wolverine variant working on a motorcycle","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — Why Henry Cavill agreed to his MCU cameo","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1636575/henry-cavill-deadpool-and-wolverine-marvel-cameo-reasons/"},{"label":"ComicBook.com — Cavill said yes right away, per Shawn Levy","url":"https://comicbook.com/movies/news/henry-cavill-deadpool-and-wolverine-cameo-shawn-levy-cavillrine-superman/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":"Mission: Impossible — Fallout"},{"id":"johnny-storm-bait-and-switch","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-johnny-storm-bait-and-switch","title":"Chris Evans Returns — as Johnny Storm, Not Captain America","description":"Chris Evans returns as Johnny Storm, not Captain America — the fake-out breaks the second he yells \"flame on.\" A red-white-and-blue figure strides out of the smoke in the Void, and Wade (and the audience) assume Steve Rogers. Evans is reprising the role from Fox's 2005-2007 *Fantastic Four* films, the one that made him famous before the shield. Levy and Reynolds have called the fake-out one of the film's structural jokes: the Void is where Fox's Marvel history went to die, so Evans appears as his Fox character. His profane rant about Cassandra Nova (relayed secondhand by Wade) then pays off in the post-credits scene with actual footage.","scene":"Arrival in the Void — the figure emerging from the wreckage, first assumed to be Steve Rogers","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Reynolds and Levy break down every cameo","url":"https://collider.com/deadpool-and-wolverine-cameos-explained-ryan-reynolds-shawn-levy/"},{"label":"Variety — Shawn Levy explains the spoilers and cameos","url":"https://variety.com/2024/film/news/shawn-levy-deadpool-and-wolverine-spoilers-cameos-1236089059/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"void-fox-logo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-void-fox-logo","title":"The 20th Century Fox Logo Lies Half-Buried in the Void","description":"The monumental 20th Century Fox logo lies half-sunk in the Void's sand, like the Statue of Liberty in *Planet of the Apes*. The Void — the end-of-time dumping ground introduced in *Loki* season 1 — doubles here as a graveyard for the pre-Disney Marvel era, and the logo is its biggest tombstone. Fox owned the X-Men, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four film rights until Disney's 2019 acquisition; the movie buries the studio on screen while spending two hours eulogizing it. Around it sit the Fantasticar, Red Skull's car, a Helicarrier, the Milano, and the Golden Gate Bridge from *X-Men: The Last Stand*.","scene":"Wide shots of the Void desert after Wade and Logan are dumped there","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Digital Trends — All the Marvel easter eggs, ranked","url":"https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/deadpool-wolverine-all-the-easter-eggs-ranked/"},{"label":"SlashFilm — Every Deadpool & Wolverine easter egg","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1630905/deadpool-and-wolverine-avengers-references-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"loki","referencesWork":null},{"id":"void-thor-helmet-cap-shield","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-void-thor-helmet-cap-shield","title":"Shawn Levy's Favorite Egg: a Silver-Age Thor Helmet in the Dirt","description":"Shawn Levy's favourite easter egg in the film is a classic winged silver Thor helmet lying in the Void's dirt. Moments before Wade and Logan's first brawl, the ground around them is littered with artifacts, including that 1970s-80s comic-page helmet and Captain America's original WWII-era shield. Levy has said the old-school Thor design is \"rooted in his own youth\" and never appeared in any film, meaning the Void collects debris from comic continuities too, not just cancelled movies. It rewards exactly the kind of pause-and-scan viewing this film was built for.","scene":"The Void — ground scatter around Wade and Logan just before their first fight","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBasics — Shawn Levy shares new details on the easter eggs","url":"https://www.comicbasics.com/shawn-levy-shares-new-details-on-the-deadpool-wolverine-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — 100 Marvel easter eggs and references explained","url":"https://screenrant.com/deadpool-wolverine-100-marvel-easter-eggs-references-explained/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"secret-wars-comic-foreshadow","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-secret-wars-comic-foreshadow","title":"A Secret Wars #5 Comic Sits in the Dirt, Pointing at Avengers: Secret Wars","description":"A copy of *Secret Wars* #5 from Jonathan Hickman's 2015 run lies in the dirt beside Wade during the first Void fight. It's the God Emperor Doom cover, from the storyline about Battleworld, a patchwork planet of dead universes. The placement is doing double duty: the Void itself functions as this film's Battleworld, and Marvel's announced *Avengers: Secret Wars* looms as the Multiverse Saga finale. Whether it's set dressing or a deliberate roadmap tease, it's the single most future-facing prop in the movie.","scene":"The Void — ground next to Deadpool during his first fight with Wolverine","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — 100 Marvel easter eggs and references explained","url":"https://screenrant.com/deadpool-wolverine-100-marvel-easter-eggs-references-explained/"},{"label":"Digital Trends — All the Marvel easter eggs, ranked","url":"https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/deadpool-wolverine-all-the-easter-eggs-ranked/"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":"Secret Wars (2015)"},{"id":"giant-man-pym-falls","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-giant-man-pym-falls","title":"Cassandra Nova's Lair Is Giant-Man's Skeleton — an Old Man Logan Landmark","description":"Cassandra Nova runs her Void operation from inside the skeleton of a giant-sized Ant-Man, helmet still intact. It's a direct lift from the *Old Man Logan* comic, where Hank Pym's enormous corpse became the landmark of \"Pym Falls,\" a settlement built around his bones in a villain-conquered wasteland. Given that this film's Wolverine carries an Old Man Logan-flavored backstory of dead X-Men, the lair choice is thematic, not random: both stories are about living in the skeleton of a world where the heroes lost.","scene":"The Void — exterior and interior of Cassandra Nova's base","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Digital Trends — All the Marvel easter eggs, ranked","url":"https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/deadpool-wolverine-all-the-easter-eggs-ranked/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — 100 Marvel easter eggs and references explained","url":"https://screenrant.com/deadpool-wolverine-100-marvel-easter-eggs-references-explained/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":"Old Man Logan"},{"id":"resistance-legacy-cameos","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-resistance-legacy-cameos","title":"Blade, Elektra, Gambit, and X-23: a Resistance Built on Unfinished Business","description":"The Void's resistance cell is a support group for Fox-era loose ends — Blade, Elektra, X-23 and Gambit. Wesley Snipes returns to the role for the first time since 2004; Jennifer Garner is back as Elektra; Dafne Keen wears her *Logan* sunglasses; and Channing Tatum plays a Gambit whose solo film died in the Disney-Fox merger, which the script turns into a running joke about never getting a movie. Levy confirmed the theme was deliberate: \"we wanted characters that fed into this idea of legacy... and this notion of cutting against that grain with this character who never got a beginning.\" Blade even reprises his \"ice skate uphill\" line from 1998's *Blade*.","scene":"The Void — the resistance hideout, and the assault on Cassandra Nova's lair","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","trivia"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Variety — 45 Deadpool & Wolverine cameos and easter eggs","url":"https://variety.com/lists/deadpool-and-wolverine-cameos-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Collider — Reynolds explains how the team was assembled","url":"https://collider.com/deadpool-and-wolverine-blade-elektra-gambit-explained-ryan-reynolds/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"honda-odyssey-radio-duel","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-honda-odyssey-radio-duel","title":"The Minivan Radio Plays Jackman's Own 'Greatest Show' — for One Second","description":"The minivan radio lands for one second on *The Greatest Show* — the number Hugh Jackman himself sings in *The Greatest Showman*. As Wade and Logan tear each other apart inside the Honda Odyssey, the stations cycle past it. Logan doesn't react; the dial moves on and sticks on Grease's *You're the One That I Want*, which then soundtracks two men knifing each other in a family minivan. It's an audio-only egg, gone in about a second, and one of the film's best actor in-jokes.","scene":"The Void — the Deadpool vs. Wolverine fight inside the Honda Odyssey","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","meta"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"GamesRadar+ — 24 of the biggest easter eggs, explained","url":"https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/marvel-movies/deadpool-and-wolverine-easter-eggs-marvel-movie-stan-lee-gossip-girl-the-greatest-showman/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":"The Greatest Showman"},{"id":"nicepool-gordon-reynolds","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-nicepool-gordon-reynolds","title":"Nicepool Is Credited to 'Gordon Reynolds' — Who Doesn't Exist","description":"Nicepool is credited to \"Gordon Reynolds,\" a fake alter ego Ryan Reynolds has used in marketing bits for years. The flowing-haired, insufferably polite Deadpool variant with the unscarred face is obviously Reynolds himself. Nicepool never underwent the mutation-triggering procedure, which is why he looks like an unretouched movie star, and his tone-deaf comment about Ladypool's post-baby body (voiced by Reynolds' actual wife, Blake Lively) sets up his death: he's shredded on-screen and dies smiling, still being nice. A one-man meta-joke with a punchline in the credit scroll.","scene":"Back on Earth — Nicepool's introduction with Mary Puppins, and the Deadpool Corps standoff","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — Every Deadpool & Wolverine easter egg","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1630905/deadpool-and-wolverine-avengers-references-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"deadpool-corps-family-voices","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-deadpool-corps-family-voices","title":"The Deadpool Corps Is Voiced by Reynolds' Actual Family (Plus McConaughey)","description":"Most of the Deadpool Corps is voiced by Ryan Reynolds' own family, plus Matthew McConaughey and Nathan Fillion. Ladypool is voiced by Blake Lively (Reynolds' wife — you never see her face, which fueled months of Taylor Swift rumors before release), Kidpool and Babypool by the couple's children Inez and Olin, Cowboypool by McConaughey, and the floating Headpool by Fillion. Welshpool is played by Paul Mullin — the Wrexham AFC striker from Reynolds' *Welcome to Wrexham*. Wade's \"206 bones, 207 if I'm watching Gossip Girl\" line during the fight completes the Lively gag.","scene":"The Deadpool Corps standoff and street battle near the film's climax","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook.com — Who plays Lady Deadpool?","url":"https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/deadpool-and-wolverine-who-plays-lady-deadpool-ladypool-blake-lively-taylor-swift/"},{"label":"Variety — 45 Deadpool & Wolverine cameos and easter eggs","url":"https://variety.com/lists/deadpool-and-wolverine-cameos-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"stanlee-steemer-bus-ad","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-stanlee-steemer-bus-ad","title":"Stan Lee 'Cameos' on a Bus Ad for 'Stanlee Steemer'","description":"A bus in the climactic street fight carries an ad for **\"Stanlee Steemer\"** — a Stan Lee cameo staged entirely as a carpet-cleaning joke. Lee died in 2018, so the film gets him on screen without CGI resurrection: the riff on the Stanley Steemer brand features a smiling photo of Lee and the tagline \"Your Friendly Neighborhood Cleaners,\" borrowing Spider-Man's signature epithet. It's a respectful workaround to the deepfake-cameo problem and one of the few Stan Lee nods in any post-2019 Marvel film.","scene":"The Deadpool Corps street battle — watch the bus that crosses the frame","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia","meta"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"GamesRadar+ — 24 of the biggest easter eggs, explained","url":"https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/marvel-movies/deadpool-and-wolverine-easter-eggs-marvel-movie-stan-lee-gossip-girl-the-greatest-showman/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage","stan-lee-cameo"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"liefelds-just-feet","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-liefelds-just-feet","title":"'Liefeld's Just Feet' — the Storefront That Roasts Deadpool's Creator","description":"A storefront in the climactic street battle reads **\"Liefeld's Just Feet\"** — a joke about Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld's aversion to drawing feet. Liefeld co-created the character in 1991 and is affectionately infamous among comic fans; his figures famously end in pouches, rubble, or crops. The gag is also a franchise callback: *Deadpool 2* already joked on screen about Liefeld's art. Liefeld took it well; he's said he laughed when Marvel's business-affairs team called to clear the use of his name for the joke.","scene":"Deadpool Corps street battle — storefront signage behind the fighting","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","meta","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — Every Deadpool & Wolverine easter egg","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1630905/deadpool-and-wolverine-avengers-references-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":"deadpool-2","referencesWork":null},{"id":"like-a-prayer-madonna-approval","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-like-a-prayer-madonna-approval","title":"'Like a Prayer' Required a Personal Pitch Meeting With Madonna","description":"Madonna approved *Like a Prayer* for the film only after Reynolds and Levy screened the actual scene for her in person. The two-Deadpools-versus-the-Corps massacre is scored to it — a needle drop Reynolds says he'd been sitting on since *Deadpool 2*, originally imagined for a Deadpool-versus-Marvel-Zombies sequence. Madonna rarely licenses that song (Reynolds' stated backup plan: ask her again), and she even gave notes on how the drop should hit. The song returns for the finale as Wade destroys the Time Ripper, making it the film's emotional bookend.","scene":"Deadpool and Wolverine vs. the Deadpool Corps, and the Time Ripper finale","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","trivia"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ComicBook.com — Reynolds had to meet Madonna to use the song","url":"https://comicbook.com/movies/news/deadpool-wolverine-ryan-reynolds-madonna-like-a-prayer/"},{"label":"SlashFilm — The fight was originally Marvel Zombies","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1640574/deadpool-and-wolverine-like-a-prayer-fight-marvel-zombies/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"wrath-of-khan-shawarma-finale","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine#egg-wrath-of-khan-shawarma-finale","title":"The Ending Remixes Wrath of Khan's Death Scene — Then Orders Shawarma","description":"Wade's sacrifice at the Time Ripper restages Spock's radiation-chamber death from *Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*, doomed-friend-behind-glass composition and all. He locks Logan out and absorbs the energy himself so his healing factor can (barely) survive it; both characters even get resurrections. Then the epilogue goes full MCU: Wade, Logan, and the extended found family share a meal, echoing the Avengers' famous post-battle shawarma scene from 2012. A death from one franchise, a dinner from another — that's this movie's whole thesis in two beats.","scene":"The Time Ripper climax and the closing group-dinner epilogue","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"SlashFilm — Every Deadpool & Wolverine easter egg","url":"https://www.slashfilm.com/1630905/deadpool-and-wolverine-avengers-references-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"IMDb — Deadpool & Wolverine trivia","url":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6263850/trivia/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-avengers","referencesWork":"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Deadpool & Wolverine?","answer":"We catalog 20 standout easter eggs on this page, but the true total is far higher: ScreenRant documented over 100 distinct references, Variety listed 45 major cameos and eggs, and Ryan Reynolds claims there are 'hundreds' while director Shawn Levy says 'definitely dozens.' By any count, it's the most reference-dense film Marvel Studios has released, spanning MCU props, Fox-era X-Men history, comic covers, and Reynolds' own filmography."},{"question":"How many post-credits scenes does Deadpool & Wolverine have?","answer":"Two. A mid-credits tribute montage plays behind-the-scenes footage from every Fox-era Marvel production — X-Men, Deadpool, Blade, Daredevil, Elektra, Fantastic Four — set to Green Day's 'Good Riddance.' Then a true post-credits scene sends Deadpool back with recorded proof about what a certain cameo character really said. Ryan Reynolds pitched that profane monologue to Chris Evans in a barber shop and sent him the pages the same day; Evans turned up off-book and shot it in essentially one take."},{"question":"Is Henry Cavill in Deadpool & Wolverine?","answer":"Yes. Cavill plays an alternate-universe Wolverine variant nicknamed 'the Cavillrine,' found fixing a motorcycle during Deadpool's multiverse search. Director Shawn Levy says the cameo came together in roughly 15 minutes — idea, name, text, and an immediate yes — and the script hid the role under the codename 'Hopper.' Cavill even sneaks in his signature arm-cracking move from Mission: Impossible — Fallout before punching Deadpool through a pillar."},{"question":"Who plays Lady Deadpool in Deadpool & Wolverine?","answer":"Blake Lively — Ryan Reynolds' wife — voices Ladypool, while stunt performer Christiaan Bettridge played her on set. Her face is never shown, which fueled pre-release rumors that Taylor Swift was under the mask. The family theme runs deeper: two of Reynolds and Lively's children, Inez and Olin, voice Kidpool and Babypool, and Matthew McConaughey and Nathan Fillion voice Cowboypool and Headpool."},{"question":"What does 24601 mean in Deadpool & Wolverine?","answer":"It's Jean Valjean's prisoner number from Les Misérables — the role Hugh Jackman played in the 2012 film. The number is stamped inside the mouth of Wolverine's adamantium skull, visible for a single frame when Deadpool kicks it at the camera during the opening fight. A fan spotted it weeks after release, and director Shawn Levy confirmed it on social media. The same number appeared on Wade's map in Deadpool 2."},{"question":"What is buried in the Void in Deadpool & Wolverine?","answer":"The Void is a junkyard of two franchises. Its biggest landmark is the monumental 20th Century Fox logo, half-sunk in the sand like the Statue of Liberty in Planet of the Apes, surrounded by the Fantasticar, Red Skull's car, a Helicarrier, the Milano and the Golden Gate Bridge from X-Men: The Last Stand. On the ground near the first Deadpool-Wolverine fight lie a classic winged silver Thor helmet (director Shawn Levy's favourite egg in the film), Captain America's WWII-era shield, and a copy of Secret Wars #5 from Jonathan Hickman's 2015 run. Cassandra Nova's lair is the skeleton of a giant-sized Ant-Man, lifted from the Old Man Logan comic."},{"question":"What songs are in Deadpool & Wolverine?","answer":"The needle drops carry several of the film's jokes. NSYNC's 'Bye Bye Bye' scores the opening massacre because Wolverine visibly hates the song in X2. Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' plays over the Deadpool Corps fight and returns at the Time Ripper finale — she only approved it after Reynolds and Levy screened the scene for her in person. Inside the Honda Odyssey brawl, the radio flicks past 'The Greatest Show' (sung by Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman) before settling on Grease's 'You're the One That I Want.' And the mid-credits Fox tribute montage runs to Green Day's 'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).'"},{"question":"Why does Deadpool dance to Bye Bye Bye?","answer":"Because Wolverine hates the song. In X2: X-Men United (2003), Pyro turns on the radio in Cyclops' car, NSYNC's 'Bye Bye Bye' blares out, and Wolverine winces and shuts it off — so Deadpool desecrating Logan's grave to that exact track, 21 years later, is a targeted insult. The choreography is the real NSYNC routine: Nick Pauley, credited as 'Dancepool,' learned and performed it, with Reynolds shooting select inserts. Shawn Levy has said a full uncut version of the dance exists."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08","updatedAt":"2026-08-12","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/deadpool-and-wolverine","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/deadpool-and-wolverine","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}