40 Fun Facts About Deadpool 2

Which Hollywood star filmed a secret two-hour cameo as the X-Force member Vanisher in Deadpool 2?

Brad Pitt agreed to do it for the union minimum, which one of the writers compared to the price of a Starbucks coffee. He had earlier been considered for Cable.

Which Canadian superstar recorded the original song Ashes for Deadpool 2 after Ryan Reynolds asked her to?

Céline Dion performs it in a video shot at Caesars Palace, where a dancer dressed as Deadpool performs in high heels beside her.

A Deadpool 2 mid-credits gag has Ryan Reynolds shot just after the actor reads the script for which film?

Green Lantern, the 2011 film Reynolds starred in, is treated as a real-world mistake to be erased. The writers called fixing it with time travel the funniest idea ever.

Deadpool 2 teases its future owner Disney with a running gag about which animated hit?

Frozen became a target after Disney announced its plan to buy Fox in December 2017. Fox still made the producers remove one joke that mentioned the deal directly.

Ryan Reynolds also voices which towering villain who tears Deadpool in half in Deadpool 2?

Juggernaut speaks with Reynolds' voice digitally deepened, and the credits say the character plays himself. The face was modelled on the film's director.

The first footage of Deadpool 2 arrived at the end of a spoof of which television host?

Bob Ross and his show The Joy of Painting were parodied by Reynolds in character as Deadpool. Only a few seconds of the actual film appeared at the end.

Which Marvel legend could not film a cameo for Deadpool 2, so appears as a bust and in graffiti?

Stan Lee had appeared in person in the first film and in the short No Good Deed. Here his likeness is a bust in the X-Mansion and art on a wall.

Deadpool 2 was the highest-grossing R-rated film ever until which 2019 release overtook it?

Joker passed it by taking more than a billion dollars worldwide. Deadpool 2 had taken the record from the first Deadpool film.

Which actor trained three hours a day and gave up sugar to play the soldier Cable in Deadpool 2?

Josh Brolin signed a four-film deal and called this appearance only an introduction to the character. He was a surprise late contender after a long casting search.

A scene dropped from Deadpool 2 after test screenings sent Deadpool back in time to kill which infant?

Adolf Hitler as a baby made test audiences too squeamish, so the post-credits scene was removed. A version of it later appeared in the extended edition.

Which anniversary gift that Wade Wilson gave Vanessa ends up shielding his heart from a bullet in Deadpool 2?

A Skee-Ball token is all Wade has left of Vanessa, and Cable spends his last time jump strapping it over Wade's chest before the shot is fired.

Deadpool 2 sends Wade Wilson and young Russell to which isolated prison built for mutant criminals?

The Ice Box is where Cable makes his first attempt on the boy's life, storming the prison alone. Every inmate there has their powers switched off.

Which taxi-driving friend of Wade Wilson runs over the orphanage headmaster at the end of Deadpool 2?

Dopinder, played again by Karan Soni, acts as Deadpool's unofficial chauffeur. The headmaster he hits had been abusing the young mutants in his care.

Which young New Zealand star of Hunt for the Wilderpeople plays the mutant Russell in Deadpool 2?

Julian Dennison was the only actor considered for the part, because Ryan Reynolds insisted on him after seeing that earlier film.

Which star of the series Atlanta joined Deadpool 2 as Domino, a mercenary recruited to X-Force?

Zazie Beetz played Domino as an only child who treats Deadpool like a bickering sibling. Reynolds announced her casting himself.

Which former stunt coordinator, a co-director of John Wick, took over as director of Deadpool 2?

David Leitch impressed Reynolds, who said he could make a tightly budgeted film look as if it had cost many times more.

Which quality does the mercenary Domino claim as her mutant superpower when she joins X-Force in Deadpool 2?

Luck keeps Domino alive when nearly every other recruit dies in the parachute landing. The filmmakers pictured her power as a Rube Goldberg contraption on steroids.

Which disguised A-list star plays a redneck in Deadpool 2 under the credit Dickie Greenleaf?

Matt Damon took the alias from his 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley. He shares the scene, a debate about toilet paper, with Alan Tudyk.

Which X-Man recovers Wade Wilson's body and takes him to the X-Mansion to recruit him in Deadpool 2?

Colossus keeps trying to make Deadpool a better person, as he did in the first film. He later walks away over Wade's killing, then returns for the final fight.

The PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 frames its story as a bedtime-tale parody of which fantasy film?

The Princess Bride gag brings back Fred Savage, now an adult, to hear the tale from Deadpool as he once heard one from Peter Falk.

Which Marvel Cinematic Universe villain is played by the same actor who portrays Cable in Deadpool 2?

Thanos and Cable went to one actor, who won the second role as a surprise contender after a long search that had favoured other names.

Deadpool 2 was the first film to knock which Marvel blockbuster off the top of the box office?

Avengers: Infinity War lost the top spot when Deadpool 2 opened to $125.5 million. One week later, Solo: A Star Wars Story pushed Deadpool 2 down to second.

Which director of the first Deadpool film left Deadpool 2 over creative differences with Ryan Reynolds?

Tim Miller reportedly wanted a more stylised sequel and a different actor as Cable. The studio backed its star, though Miller denied the report.

Which former NFL player and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star plays the X-Force recruit Bedlam in Deadpool 2?

Terry Crews was unveiled as Bedlam in the first full trailer. Extra footage of the team was shot for the marketing to hide how quickly most recruits die.

Which actor, best known as the clown Pennywise in It, plays X-Force member Zeitgeist in Deadpool 2?

Bill Skarsgård was confirmed for the cast by the first full trailer, but which mutant he played stayed under wraps until later.

Which X-Man is introduced in Deadpool 2 as the girlfriend of Negasonic Teenage Warhead?

Yukio and Negasonic share what was called the first openly LGBTQ relationship in a Marvel film, which the president of GLAAD praised as a milestone.

The fire-wielding young mutant Russell Collins in Deadpool 2 goes by which superhero name?

Firefist grows up to be a killer in Cable's timeline, where the older version of the character is played by Sala Baker.

Inmates of the mutant prison in Deadpool 2 are fitted with which device to suppress their powers?

A collar strips each inmate of their abilities. Wade's breaks during the fight with Cable, and wearing one again later means a bullet can kill him.

In the mid-credits scenes of Deadpool 2, Wade Wilson kills his own earlier self from which film?

X-Men Origins: Wolverine featured Reynolds as an earlier version of the character in 2009. The gag re-edits real footage from that film, including raw takes.

Rather than buy an advert, Deadpool 2's Twitter account live-tweeted in character during which sporting event?

The Super Bowl commentary spared the studio an expensive advertising slot, and a new trailer introducing Cable followed later that week.

The X-Men glimpsed through a doorway in Deadpool 2 were filmed on the set of which other film?

Dark Phoenix was shooting in Montreal at the same time, so its director filmed the cast for a brief shot that was added in afterwards.

Which Stranger Things star screen-tested to play Cable in Deadpool 2 before the part went elsewhere?

David Harbour sat on a shortlist behind Michael Shannon, the frontrunner, before a surprise late contender took the part.

The first teaser poster for Deadpool 2 restaged the 1943 painting Freedom from Want by which American artist?

Norman Rockwell's picture was an oddly fitting choice, one reviewer wrote, given how much of Deadpool's humour depends on references.

The Deadpool 2 score by Tyler Bates became the first score album ever to carry which label?

Parental advisory stickers were earned by the choir, whose explicit lines were written with the director during a 20-minute break in recording.

Cable travels back in time in Deadpool 2 because the grown-up Russell will kill which people?

His wife and daughter are saved once Russell spares the headmaster. Cable then spends his only trip home on rescuing Wade, and stays in the present.

A promotional Twitter account for Peter, the X-Force recruit in Deadpool 2, showed him enjoying which hobby?

Beekeeping photos filled the feed from March 2018, alongside posts about Peter getting ready for his place on the team.

Which working title disguised Deadpool 2 when principal photography began in Vancouver in 2017?

Love Machine was the cover name for the main shoot, and the reshoots the following year used a second alias, Daisy.

Deadpool 2 took the record for 20th Century Fox's biggest opening day from which Star Wars film?

Revenge of the Sith lost the studio record when Deadpool 2 took $53.3 million on its first day, also a new high for any R-rated film.

Vanessa's early death in Deadpool 2 has been described as an example of which storytelling trope?

Fridging means killing a female character to drive a male character's story. The director and writers said they had never heard the term.

Ryan Reynolds agreed to back the PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 only if part of the takings went where?

A cancer charity received one dollar from Fox for every ticket sold, and its blunt name was softened to Fudge Cancer for the tie-in.