Deadpool just joined MCU in the best video you'll see all week

Deadpool just joined MCU in the all-time video you'll come across all week

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Deadpool appears to have finally joined the MCU, sort of. To promote Ryan Reynolds' latest picture, Free Guy, the Merc with a Mouth has teamed up with the MCU's Korg for a new reaction-style video that is laced with Deadpool's signature fourth wall breaking sense of humour.

This spoof video can well-nigh certainly be classified every bit non-canon but information technology'south still significant as it marks the kickoff time that Reynolds' Deadpool has interacted with a character from the MCU. Korg's inclusion in the video makes a lot of sense as the grapheme is voiced past Taika Waititi, who also stars in Free Guy.

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The video begins with Deadpool welcoming viewers back to his mock reaction channel before introducing Korg, claiming he was the only MCU character available equally the rest are "on Disney Plus". The video continues with the pair watching a trailer for the upcoming blockbuster Gratis Guy while making several meta jabs about Disney's takeover of Trick.

Deadpool also jokes that Deadpool iii hasn't seen the light of solar day yet because Reynolds was also decorated working on other projects similar Free Guy. The whole video is very self-aware and full of winking references that longtime Marvel fans will get a existent kick out of.

About interestingly, the video ends with Deadpool asking Korg if he has any "tips for getting into the MCU." While this is definitely played for laughs as Korg replies with a long-winded spoken communication nigh "chasing dreams," it's maybe our strongest indication yet that Disney does see a place for Deadpool within its juggernaut MCU franchise.

E'er since Disney completed its purchase of 20th Century Fox in 2019, fans accept speculated how Deadpool would be integrated into the MCU canon. There had been concerns that Deadpools potty-mouth could exist at odds with the strictly PG-xiii nature of the MCU, merely Marvel Studios president Kevin Fiege confirmed before this twelvemonth that a third Deadpool moving-picture show will happen and it will be R-rated.

The crossover video seems to have struck a chord with Marvel fans, racking up over four million views in less than 24 hours. No doubt it'll convince a few people to check out Free Guy when it comes to theaters side by side month. It's but 1 blockbuster in a whole tidal moving ridge of summer movies releasing over the next few weeks.

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