Deadpool and Wolverine has been playing on the 2024 release schedule for two weeks now, and in addition to learning details about some of the biggest Deadpool 3 cameos that were kept secret until it hit the silver screen, there’s also been information pouring in on ideas that never made it into the final product. This includes why the characters from 2015’s Fantastic Four didn’t appear in the threequel and that Robert Downey Jr. could have reprised Tony Stark. Now it’s been revealed that Deadpool and Wolverine was supposed to fight with the OG Avengers, and the person who would’ve picked up Thor’s hammer during this scene is an outstanding choice.
How The Avengers Would Have Fit Into Deadpool And Wolverine
At the beginning of Deadpool and Wolverine, the 34th of the Marvel movies in order, Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson is shown having used Cable’s time travel device from Deadpool 2 to make his way to the main MCU reality, i.e. Earth-616, back in 2018 to try and join the Avengers. Happy Hogan carried out the “job” interview, and he felt that the Merc with the Mouth wasn’t a good fit to join the superhero team. Wade took the rejection reasonably well, but while speaking with Indiewire, co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick revealed that he could have handled being denied membership a lot less gracefully: