Deadpool & Wolverine is playing in theaters, and the plot confirms a new multiverse mechanism that will explain Iron Man’s return.
It has finally happened: Deadpool 3 is playing in theaters, and it’s an incredible movie. Deadpool & Wolverine is easily the best Marvel film since Avengers: Endgame. Yes, it’s even better than Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Without spoiling anything, I’ll say it packs tremendous action sequences peppered not only with the uncensored humor you’ve come to expect from Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), but also with a few quite heartbreaking moments.
Add Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the cameos one expects from MCU multiverse movies, and a mutant villain I want to see more of, and Deadpool & Wolverine is the Marvel movie we all need right now. And yes, Deadpool 3 is critically important for the future Avengers.
What I will spoil is one of the Deadpool & Wolverine plot details that gives us the definitive answer on how Marvel will bring back Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) without ruining the character’s arc and his death in Avengers: Endgame.
Warning: big spoilers will follow below. This is your last chance to avoid them.
Anchors in Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool & Wolverine brings back Wolverine despite Jackman’s character having died heroically in Logan, which was supposed to be his last Wolverine movie. But that was before Disney acquired Fox and made it possible for Wolverine and Deadpool to meet the Avengers.
Naturally, Marvel had a problem. It had to bring back Wolverine without ruining Logan’s death. Several months ago, a well-known MCU leaker said Marvel would use a new multiverse mechanism rather than devise complicated ways to revive Logan in Deadpool 3. The answer is Anchor Beings, which I’ll call Anchors.
Fast-forward to the Deadpool & Wolverine premiere, and we know that Anchors are real. Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen) informs Deadpool upon recruiting him for the TVA that Earth-10005 is dying a slow death that could take millennia.
