Warning: Contains spoilers for Deadpool #5!Deapol It’s nothing if he doesn’t make meta references. Is it about DC, X-Men Movies, or even Ryan Reynolds and DePaul’s treatment in the MCU, the one with a mouth is always ready to crack a joke about another medium, just to get a laugh from the fans. Recently, he has made a lot of references to anime and manga – and it seems that the references do not just start and stop with him.
Anime is a perfect breeding ground for jokes from someone like Deadpool, with its over-the-top emotional moments and fantastically intricate superpower systems. But in Deadpool #5 By Cody Ziglar and Andrea Di Vito, Deadpool isn’t even the one to make a meta mention.
The joke comes from none other than TaskmasterAs he refers to field expansions of the popular anime/mange of Jujutsu Kaisen. This shows that Deadpool and anyone around him in his latest self-titled series have become the Marvel ambassadors of anime.
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This is certainly not the first time that anime has been referenced Deadpool. In a quick joke aimed at readers reading the comic, Deadpool once tells them that he wants to be Hokage, in a reference to the popular anime Naruto. Even Chainsaw man was referenced in an R-rated way that completely brutalized a character. Deadpool will never miss a joke, and with the increasing popularity of anime and manga, these mediums are just his next targets. Manga is the twin of comicsAnd Deadpool, knowing that his readers often read both styles, tries to bridge the gap with his comedy.
One of the most important parts of Deadpool lore in this regard is in relation to Deadpool: Samurai Where Wade Wilson is melded into a completely different genre and Deadpool becomes a manga character. That kind of experience for a meta-character like Deadpool wouldn’t just go by the wayside in later continuity. It seems that his experience in a different medium has stuck with him and is bleeding into his very storyline. The whole Deadpool Comic becomes meta because even some of the side characters who aren’t gifted with meta-awareness, like Deadpool, break the fourth wall.
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The fact that Taskmaster is the one to do this Jujutsu Kaisen Wits reveals that the new anime-form of meta-awareness actually grows beyond just Deadpool. As an anime ambassador, Deadpool has practically created an embassy of ambassadors in Marvel Comics. Although Taskmaster may have a good reference this time, Deadpool is still the central figure who keeps the fourth wall tumbling down – in classic anime style.
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