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By Chris Snellgrove
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For longtime comics nerds, half the fun of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is seeing some of our favorite teams from our favorite issues come to life on the big screen. With release Deadpool and Wolverineour two title characters are now part of the MCU, and fans can’t stop guessing who the Merc With the Mouth will join the screen next. The most popular request has been to have a movie team up with Spider-Man and Deadpool, but despite their long history of teaming up with a comic, such a combination would be cinematically unmitigated. disaster.
Spider-Man And Deadpool
Even if you’ve never opened a Marvel comic, you can probably wildly guess why writers love to team up with Spider-Man and Deadpool. These two are very funny characters who are famous for cracking weird jokes in the middle of even the most dangerous battles. Their big personalities bounce off each other in funny and unexpected ways, and the huge differences in their morality (Deadpool kills and Spider-Man) doesn’t often give them things to argue about when they’re not busy saving the world.
Long (box) story short, Spider-Man and Deadpool have had countless comic team-ups that provide serious entertainment value, so why am I arguing that they shouldn’t have their own. MCU team up? To begin with, the large difference in the ages of the characters would make the collaboration on screen strange, Ryan Reynolds is two full decades older than Tom Holland (48 vs. 28, respectively), which would inevitably make this look less like a team of equals and more like a super weird hero/spot story in the vein of Batman and Robin.
Also, one of the strange luxuries of comics is that, although time passes, most characters are frozen in a certain age. Peter Parker was a teenage crime fighter who now exists forever as a man in his late 20s. Across decades of publishing history, Spider-Man still has a lifetime of experience that helps him work with and, at times, even bond with Deadpool. While Holland is in his late 20s in real life, the MCU still has Spider-Man so young that it wouldn’t make any sense for him to be hanging around a middle-aged mercenary mass murderer.
The Morality Problem
That leads us to the pesky morality problem. In Deadpool’s solo movies, he’s a great running goblin who has no compunctions about killing, and our title character leaves behind a small graveyard in the wake of each action-packed scene. That’s why he teams up on screen with other characters who don’t exactly have a problem with killing, including Cable and Wolverine. After misadventures with those merciless mutants, it would be totally strange to have Deadpool provide the greatest assassination effort possible alongside Peter Parker, the moral core of the MCU.
At this point, some may say Amazed he could change either Spider-Man or Deadpool; make the latter less violent, perhaps, or somehow make the former cold (possibly through Variation) with chaos and carnage. However, it could be argued that doing so would cheapen these characters while ultimately failing to give audiences what they want: an authentic version of the characters they know and love. he joined on the screen. Anything less would betray the audience, and anything more would betray the characters.
The answer is simple: as much as fans claim to want it, an MCU Spider-Man/Deadpool team-up should be off the table. At least, with this version of these characters. Given that Marvel will likely reboot the entire universe after that Secret Warswe might end up seeing a very different Spider-Man and a very different Deadpool team up. Whether or not anyone will still want to see it after years of painful superhero fatigue, though, is another question entirely.
