by Chris Snelgrove
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For longtime comic book nerds, half the fun of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is seeing some of our favorite teams from our favorite issues brought to life on the big screen. With the release Deadpool Wolverineboth of our main characters are now part of the MCU, and fans can't stop speculating about who the Merc With the Mouth will team up with next on screen. The most common request has been for a movie that combines Spider-Man and Deadpool, but despite their long history as comic team-ups, such a combination would make for a flawless cinematic experience. disaster.
Spider-Man and Deadpool
Even if you've never opened a Marvel comic, you can probably make a wild guess about why the writers love pairing Spider-Man and Deadpool. They are both very funny characters and are known for telling weird jokes in the middle of the most serious fights. Their big personalities bounce off each other in amusing and unexpected ways, and the differences in their morals are huge (dead pool Kills and Spider-Man doesn't) often gives them things to argue about when they're not busy saving the world.
Long story short (square), Spider-Man and Deadpool have had countless comic team-ups that provide some serious entertainment value, so why would I argue that they shouldn't get a team-up of their own MCU Form a team? For starters, the major difference in the characters' ages would make the on-screen collaboration awkward, as Ryan Reynolds is a full two decades older than he is. Tom Holland (48 vs. 28, respectively), which will inevitably make this seem less like a team of equals and more like a truly bizarre hero/sidekick story in the vein of Batman & Robin.
Additionally, one of the strange luxuries of comic books is that over time, most characters freeze at a certain age. Peter Parker was a teenage crime fighter and now exists permanently as a man in his late twenties. Across decades of publishing history, Spider-Man still has a lifetime of experience that helps him work with, and, at times, even bond with, Deadpool. While Holland is in his late 20s in real life, the MCU still has Spider-Man so coded for youth that it wouldn't make sense for him to be hanging around a middle-aged mercenary mass murderer.
The problem of ethics
This brings us to the troubling problem of ethics. In the solo Deadpool films, his lack of remorse about killing is remarkable, and the main character leaves a small graveyard in the wake of each major action scene. That's why his on-screen teams are with other characters who have no problem killing, including Cable and… Wolverine. After the misadventures with these ruthless mutants, it will be clear strange To have Deadpool deliver the ultimate killing effort alongside Peter Parker, the moral core of the MCU.
At this point, some might say marvel It can transform into either Spider-Man or Deadpool; Maybe make the latter less violent, or make the former somehow cool (perhaps via a variant) with chaos and carnage. However, it could be argued that doing so would cheapen these characters while ultimately failing to give the audience what they want: an authentic version of the characters they know and love teaming up on screen. Anything less would betray the audience, and anything more would betray the characters.
The solution is simple: as much as fans claim they want it, a Spider-Man/Deadpool MCU team-up should be off the table. At least, with this version of these characters. Considering that Marvel will likely reboot the entire universe next Secret Warswe may eventually see a completely different Spider-Man and a completely different Deadpool team up. However, whether or not anyone will still want to see it after years of painful superhero fatigue is another question entirely.
