Deadpool & Wolverine Featured many moments of fan service, and with 2 definitively settled debates about recasting Wolverine for the MCU. Deadpool & Wolverine has officially become the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history, supplanting the 2019 DC Elseworlds movie, Joker. That’s thanks in no small part to the incredible amount of fan service dotted throughout the movie, including a comically spot-on yellow and blue suit for Wolverine, and plenty of Deadpool & Wolverine Cameos that confirmed months of speculation over which Marvel characters from the past might appear.
In fact, the cameos are so extensive that Hugh Jackman even got in a bit himself. In one of the earliest sequences of the movie, Deadpool traverses the multiverse in a bid to find a suitable Wolverine to replace the variant of his universe. During this scene, he comes across several alternate versions of Wolverine – including one portrayed by Henry Cavill whom he dubs “The Cavilrine” – and various variants portrayed by Hugh Jackman inspired by Marvel comics runs. It was here that one debate was suitably settled.
No, we really don’t need a comics-accurate “Short King” Wolverine
It doesn’t quite work in live-action
In the comics, Wolverine is 5’3″, which is almost a full foot shorter than Hugh Jackman. As a result, fans have criticized Jackman’s version of Wolverine for his inaccurate height, despite the fact that they have passed the character in most other About. Deadpool & Wolverine Delivered for the fans especially during Deadpool’s quest as a variant of Wolverine with a more comics-accurate height confronts Deadpool in a bar. Largely thanks to the fact that Hugh Jackman’s face was digitally imposed on the body, the scene was played for laughs.
It has become difficult to picture a live-action version of Wolverine standing at a more comic-book level after several years of Hugh Jackman’s iconic tenure as Logan. “Short king“Wolverine is the perfect demonstration of this, Make a case for the idea that a short version of Wolverine might work better on the comics page than in a live-action movie. Nevertheless, a shorter Wolverine in the MCU still wouldn’t be wrong.
Wolverine can wear a mask without compromising his performance
The mask shouldn’t have taken so long
In another moment that feels like it should never have taken so long to happen, Wolverine finally dons his iconic winged mask, completing his comics-accurate ensemble. Since debut in 2000s X-MenFox’s X-Men have been excited about donning the more ostentatious costumes from Marvel Comics, with Wolverine’s bright yellow suit and deck being a particularly garish one. One argument suggested that forgoing a tile was a good thing because it would only get in the way of Hugh Jackman’s performance by covering the upper half of his face.
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luckily, Deadpool & Wolverine disproved this capably, by having Wolverine whip up in a berserk rage before going hell-to-leather on the Deadpool Corpse to the tune of “Like a prayer“, all while completely kitted up in his mask. Even later, More somber scenes proved that Jackman is still capable of delivering a heartwarming performance from behind a mask. Deadpool himself, whose face is often completely covered, also helps to prove this. Marvel has a decent track record when it comes to comics-accurate costumes, so this proof bodes well for Wolverine’s deck in the future.