In 2018, Wade Wilson or Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) travels in time from Earth 10005 to Earth 616, which is called the Sacred Timeline, and meets Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) to ask if he can join the Avengers. The answer is no.
Six years later, he is a used car salesman and has broken up with his girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). The Time Variance Authority crashes his birthday party and take him to Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen), who wants him to join Earth-616. But the timeline is deteriorating because of the death of Logan or Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), its anchor-being. Deadpool travels the multiverse looking for a variant of Logan to help him save the timeline.
He meets all kinds of different Logans, but the one he chooses had destroyed his own universe. They are thrown by Mr. Paradox into the Void, where Deadpool and Logan fight. They and Johnny Storm or the Human Torch (Chris Evans) are captured and sent to Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin), who is Charles Xavier’s evil twin sister, ruler of the Void. She uses her powers to kill Johnny Storm and threatens Deadpool until the monster Alioth attacks them and our heroes escape.
A variant of Deadpool sends them to the borderlands of the Void to fight Nova along with Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), X-23 (Dafne Kean), Blade (Wesley Snipes), and others, but Logan refuses to join in until X-23 and he speak about his destruction of the X-Men. They confront Nova, who incapacitates Logan until Deadpool blocks her powers with Juggernaut’s helmet. Pyro ( Aaron Stanford) shoots Nova and is revealed as Paradox’s sleeper agent. Deadpool convinces Wolverine to remove the helmet so Nova can heal and the use a sling ring from one Doctor Strange or another to travel to Logan’s timeline.
On Earth-10005, they find Paradox using the Time Ripper. Nova arrives through a portal and kidnaps Paradox. Wolverine and Deadpool battle an army of Deadpool variants coming through the portal until Nova seizes the Time Ripper to destroy all timelines to avenge Paradox’s betrayal. One can disrupt the Time Ripper at the cost of one’s own life. Deadpool and Wolverine do that, destroying both the Time Ripper and Nova. Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosamu) arrests Paradox.
Everyone goes back to their timelines but Logan stays in Wade’s timeline, which is no longer deteriorating. Logan would like to change his past, but that is what makes Logan the anchor that save’s Wade’s timeline. Logan retires to a peaceful life. At a party for Wade, Logan convinces Wade to reconcile with Vanessa.
Got that? It doesn’t matter, frankly, if you lose track of the characters, the variant characters, or the alternate timelines. The movie is as mad as a Deadpool movie and as exciting as a Wolverine movie, and as always with Marvel it’s better to just go along for the ride. It’s definitely made for Marvel fans. It starts over the top and goes up from there.
It was directed by Shawn Levy, written by him and Ryan Reynolds, Phett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells. Reynolds breaks the fourth wall often and cracks wise throughout, contrasting with Hugh Jackman’s dour anger. He is the perfect straight man. Emma Corrin based Cassandra Nova on Christolph Waltz’s Hans Landa from Inglourious Basterds, with a bizarre touch of Gene Wilder. Leslie Uggams as Wade’s blind roommate may be the funniest character in the movie. Friends of Deadpool like Dopinder (Karan Soni) and Megasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) show up. Also, Thor, Gambit, Juggernaut, Callisto, Toad, Pyro, and the Hulk, not to mention Sabretooth, Elektra, the Human Torch, and Blade. Also, Blake Lively, Matthew McConnaughey, Nathan Fillion, Henry Cavill as one of the Wolverines, and literally dozens of variant Deadpools. There are even scenes from other Marvel movies behind the credits.