So, good news! We’re at the point where there are more good Deadpool movies in existence than bad Deadpool movies! He has that over Terminator. Plus there was stuff about dying and not dying and whatever. Either way, Deadpool’s still alive and because of that, Cable is stranded in the present. Speaking of time travel and being alive, Deadpool’s wacky mid-credits adventures completely undoes Vanessa’s death and the death of mild-mannered Peter. Yeah, screw you, Shatterstar and invisible Brad Pitt. We wrote about all that craziness in more detail right here.
WHO IS X-FORCE?
Now, originally X-Force was Deadpool, Domino, Shatterstar, Bedlam, Zeitgeist, Vanisher, and Peter. Weasel too if you want to split hairs, I guess. After some unfortunate weather, the active members were whittled down to Deadpool and Domino. Once the dust settled, Deadpool had a group of heroes and allies that he realized he could depend upon. Then, in the post-credits scene, he undid a couple deaths and added to his Christmas card list. That means going into the next movie, Wade’s buddies include: – Firefist, who will presumably be a student at the Xavier School. – Cable, who believes himself to be stranded in the present due to using up his time machine charges. – Domino, who goes where the wind takes her. Er…maybe that’s not the best choice of words. – Vanessa, who has been the damsel in distress and the fridged love interest, so she might as well get her morphing powers from the comics at this point because she is technically a founding member of X-Force in the comics anyway. – Weasel, who will either quietly or non-quietly be removed from the situation because of a certain actor shooting himself in the foot and ruining his career. – Peter, who we probably haven’t heard the last of, but won’t be in another super team any time soon. We’ll surely have a new X-Force in the near future and my guess would be Deadpool, Cable, Domino, Vanessa, and maybe Firefist. Plus we’re due for 2-3 new members. The question is: what are they up against? Afterlife Vanessa was cryptic throughout the movie, but she made it apparent that Deadpool was necessary to lead his allies against some kind of threat. Even though the real reason it wasn’t his time to die was because of Cable using time-travel, she made it seem like it was his destiny to do something to save the future. Cable’s journey in Deadpool 2 was all about saving his wife and daughter, and he succeeded. Now all that’s left is for him to 1) not interfere with Cyclops and Jean Grey having sex and 2) prevent the future from being so goddamn shitty. Regardless, Cable makes it apparent that Deadpool’s generation screws up so royally that everything sucks in 50 years. His bitterness even seems to put some of the blame on Deadpool himself, though I suppose that might be more for his role in setting up Firefist’s path. Could this be part of the Logan future? Probably not, but maybe. The X-Men movies are pretty rank when it comes to keeping things coherent and Logan is likely just a one-off. Gavin Jasper hopes Fantomex shows up in the X-Force movie. Follow Gavin on Twitter!
