'Deadpool and Wolverine's foul-mouthed end-credit scene, explained
The end-credit scene for "Deadpool & Wolverine" sees a beloved MCU actor go off on a comically nasty tirade. Here's why.
Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) is no stranger to the art of the end-credit scene. Take his Ferris Bueller cosplay in Deadpool, or his time-travel rampage in Deadpool 2. Yeah, he's already a pro at this.
For the Merc with a Mouth's first end-credit scene as an official part of the MCU, Deadpool & Wolverine doesn't tease any upcoming Marvel movies or unveil wild new cameos. Instead, it pays off a gag from earlier in the movie — complete with some next-level foul-mouthed language.
What happens in the Deadpool & Wolverine post-credits scene?
After the credits roll on Deadpool & Wolverine — accompanied by behind-the-scenes footage from prior Fox Marvel projects — we rejoin Deadpool at the Time Variance Authority's headquarters. He tells us he's had it with the accusations that he got Johnny Storm (Chris Evans) killed in an encounter with Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin).
Remember, in that first meeting, Deadpool told Cassandra that Johnny went off on a nasty tirade about her. The insults sound like something straight out of the Deadpool playbook, so of course it seems like Deadpool is throwing Johnny under the bus.
Turns out, Deadpool did not utter a single lie.
In the post-credit scene, Deadpool uses TVA technology to revisit his journey to Cassandra's lair with Johnny and Wolverine. We see Johnny deliver the anti-Cassandra rant word for word, including a bit at the end about how she could rip his skin off and reduce him to a pile of organs. Looks like he got his wish!
Even though Evans is playing Johnny Storm in this moment, Deadpool & Wolverine is banking on audiences primarily associating him with the role of Captain America to get the biggest laugh here. Remember the guy who called out Tony Stark's (Robert Downey Jr.) language? Now he's saying someone can "lick [his] cinnamon ring." What a difference several years and a billion-dollar acquisition makes.
But wait, what happened to Thor in Deadpool & Wolverine?
This is a fairly straightforward end-credit scene, but it is somewhat confusing that Deadpool & Wolverine chooses to revisit this moment instead of paying off a gag from the first half-hour of the movie.
When Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen) first shows Deadpool scenes from the MCU at the TVA, we get a glimpse of a crying Thor (Chris Hemsworth) holding a fallen Deadpool in his arms. Deadpool asks about it, but Paradox orders him not to get ahead of himself. Surely that means we'll get a Thor scene later, right? Right?
Wrong! Thor is nowhere else to be found in the rest of Deadpool & Wolverine, not even in the end-credits scene. Is there a deleted scene out there? Is this 4D chess, teasing what's to come in a future Avengers movie? Or did Deadpool & Wolverine just forget to give one of its many jokes a punchline? For now, we're going to guess the latter.