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Vote up your favorite references and in-jokes in the Deadpool movie
Deadpool might just include more Easter eggs and references and than any other comic book movie. If there's one thing comic fans love more than a movie being true to the source material, it's filmmakers adding Easter eggs. More than a decade in the making, the Deadpool film is dedicated to the tone, feel, and irreverence of Deadpool, which means it makes jokes about pop-culture and itself pretty much non-stop.
Over its running time, Deadpool manages to cram in a staggering number of sly winks and self-aware references. There's a little of everything. In fact, there are so many that listing them all is wildly impractical, so this list narrows it down to the absolute best ones. Everything from meta fourth wall breaks to X-Men Origins: Wolverine references to Green Lantern jokes to poking fun at Hugh Jackman, the center of the X-Men cinematic universe in which Deadpool proudly takes place.
These are the coolest Deadpool Easter eggs! Vote up your favorites then go see the movie again and try to spot them all!
The entire opening credit sequence was a thing of beauty. It features beautiful imagery and myriad great Easter eggs. Even the credited names themselves were hilarious:
Some Douchebag’s Film (Tim Miller)
God’s Perfect Idiot (Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool)
A Hot Chick (Morena Baccarin – Vanessa)
A British Villain (Ed Skrien – Ajax)
Comic Relief (T.J. Miller – Weasel)
A Moody Teen (Brianna Hildebrand – Negasonic Teenage Warhead)
An Entirely CGI Character (Stefan Kapičić – Colossus)
A Gratuitous Cameo (Stan Lee)
Produced By Asshats (Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds)
Written By The Real Heroes (Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese)
Directed by Some Overpaid Tool (Tim Miller)
Remember that scene with Wade Wilson in his hitman days with the pizza boy? If you're a fan of the comics that scene may have sounded familiar. As it was literally word for word ripped from the funny pages! The film nailed every detail, right down to the pizza toppings.
What's a comic film without a post-credits scene? This one is surprisingly faithful riff on the post-credits scene of the John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off. On top of that, it actually references not only the audience (a la Bueller) but post-credits scenes in comic book movies. Oh and it does the teensy tiny little thing of announcing that Cable will be in the sequel.
How meta is the Deadpool? Very. So much so that there are actually Deadpool action figures sprinkled throughout the apartment he shares with blind Al. It only makes sense that Deadpool would love Deadpool action figures.
It's a movie based on a Marvel property, so naturally Stan Lee had to make an appearance! He may not have had a hand in creating Deadpool, but at this point he's basically the official Marvel mascot. He even made it onto the IMAX poster. in the actual film, he's the announcer at a pretty dicey strip club and has some fantastic dialogue to go with it.
At one point in the film Colossus tells Deadpool he's taking him to the Professor, to which Deadpool replies "McAvoy or Stewart?" in a fantastic nod to both the idea that Deadpool knows he's in a comic movie, but also that he knows about the X-Men movies and their messy continuity.
What's a comic film without a post-credits scene? This one is surprisingly faithful riff on the post-credits scene of the John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller's Day Off. On top of that, it actually references not only the audience (a la Bueller) but post-credits scenes in comic book movies. Oh and it does the teensy tiny little thing of announcing that Cable will be in the sequel.
