Spoiler: The Unthinkable Thing Wolverine Did Solved
Wolverine and Deadpool has been a monumental success with crowds filling cinemas across the globe with excitement to see their favourite MCU characters Wolverine and Deadpool. But the one big question raised across many platforms and forums is around what it is that Wolverine did that was so bad that it had him hated in his own world.
Today we will spoil it for everyone because we have landed on a conclusion which is so obvious but as it covers multiple generations younger audiences might not actually be aware. It is actually to core story of the film. With many people believing the film didn’t have a story and was just a film created for fan service but it wasn’t. The entire film broke the 4th wall and focused on external cinematic universe things and is the ultimate Hugh Jackman Origins Story.
To understand this you need to be in your 40s because the series of events that led us here start with a ground breaking sitcom Seinfeld and Jerry is referenced throughout this movie the entire time which is the piece of the puzzle everyone is missing. So Today, hold onto your hats as we solve the number 1 mystery plaguing the MCU and showcase Ryan Reynolds brilliant mind!
Background, Context and Anchor Being
Wolverine and Deadpool bring up the concept of an Anchor being which many fans have been scratching their heads over as the TVA and all other films including comics don’t address this and is brought up for the first time by Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen) who states anchor beings are individuals who are crucial to stabilizing their home universes.
What this is, is a reference to the emergence of one core fan favourite character amongst a suite of super hero’s within the films of recent and when that hero dies off or leaves the franchise it ends.
Anchor beings being Tony Stark - Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth - Thor and for the X-Men universe that Anchor bring was Wolverine which is why he is referenced throughout the film as “THE” X-Man.
Fox called Hugh Many times as did his fellow team mates to rejoin the cast and he refused to reprise his role and not having Wolverine in the films killed the franchise. That is the effectively the unthinkable thing Hugh Jackman did. He walked away from his team when X-Men was having success at the box office leaving his team mates to “die”.
Jerry Seinfeld: The Missing Piece
If you grew up watching Seinfeld this is a no brainer as the sitcom had scenes of Jerry performing stand up at a bar throughout his series often….. breaking the 4th wall addressing real life concepts which then played out in his sitcom. It was the perfect blend of standup as onscreen characters.
Hugh met Jerry to ask when it was time to end a character. It was Jerry that put into a tired Hugh from a decade of relentless training to hang up the boots. Which is why Jerry Seinfeld is subtly referenced throughout the film.
It is all brought together in the credits outtakes. The post credits scene showing a young Wolverine uses Green Day - Good riddance (time of your life) the same song Jerry Seinfeld used to conclude Seinfeld at it’s peak. Jerry wanted to go out on top and not to dwindling fan numbers. The hare Wolverine receives in the bar when Deadpool locates him is fan’s disgruntled opinions of Hugh walking away from X-Men and rendering the franchise redundant and critics claiming it wasn’t as good without him. They are the human’s that came.
It has been referenced for a looooong time also. Hanging up the claws in his universe as Wade was cleaning up the timeline.
Wolverine was the Anchor being in the X-Men franchise and him hanging up the boots ended the careers of the X-Men and for Marvels next phase they need to bring back all the old school actors in order to be successful including Wesley Snipes as Blade which is even in the film when Snipes destroys the joint with a rocket launcher saying "There will only ever be one blade" a reference to the failed blade remake before it even got off the ground.
The film was not a fan service and it was a reset of sorts, where it will go now is up to Hugh but for Marvel to continue and include X-Men it couldn’t do it without Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.
The film in itself is a massive 4th wall break and an amazing expansion of the multiverse but, real world.