We are less than five days away from Deadpool & Wolverine! Though, based on how much marketing has been coming at us, if you didn’t know that already, you may be living under a rock. As we so often say with the MCU these days, a lot is riding on this movie. The expectations for the box office, despite it being a Rated R film, have gone sky high. With Marvel/Disney scaling back and slowing down its offerings on the big and small screen, critics are left wondering if this film will impact the recent trajectory of the MCU or stand alone as an anomaly.

In this episode of The Long Take Review, Greg and I take a look at the cinematic histories of both Deadpool and Wolverine as a way to get hyped for Jen’s hype draft pick. We give shoutouts to our favorites, shake our heads at some misses, dissect both the characters and the actors who play them, and speculate about what we might see in the upcoming film.

While there are light spoilers for any movie in which Deadpool or Wolverine has appeared, we discuss major plot points for X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). The very end of the episode also contains a discussion of Internet rumors about Deadpool & Wolverine.

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