This blog idea came to me while watching the Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse movie for the first time. It was a great movie, but all I could think about was the similarities in plot that it shared with Deadpool & Wolverine. Now, I’m definitely gonna be reaching for like most of this blog, but I just need you to walk with me.
The plot of Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse as summarized as possible is that Miles is fighting this spot guy who makes portals. Gwen is in his dimension to stop this spot guy but gets distracted by Miles. He learns that she’s in this group of Spider-people who stop anomalies. He wants to be a part of it, but he can’t be because Miguel does not like him, and I do not like Miguel…. but we find out that Miles is an anomaly. The spider that bit him wasn’t meant to bite him, also he stops this other Spider-Man’s canon event, which is something that happens to every Spider or their word will like fade from existence. That’s the main bit of the plot at least. So, Deadpool.
So, the plot of Deadpool & Wolverine is that Wade Wilson quits being Deadpool after he and Vanessa break up. He works as a car salesman, but he’s really bad at it, but while at home at a surprise party that all his friends threw for him, these random time cop guys show up and take him away. He meets this guy named Mr. Paradox. Paradox is telling Wade that he wants him to be Deadpool again, and work with him. Wade sees a video of he and Thor together and immediately agrees. He wants to prove to Vanessa that he can be something important, so they get together again. We soon learn that Wade’s timeline is being erased because the anchor being is done. The anchor being is Wolverine, who died, but Wade was convinced he could find him, so he dug up his grave, but nothing was there but adamantium bones. He goes back to Paradox, insisting that it can be fixed, so he steals his little dimension transporter thing to find a new Wolverine to take with him, and after many failures, he finds the Worst Wolverine. They get sent to like this trash dimension pretty much where they meet Johnny Storm, who Deadpool gets killed by Cassandra Nova. Whatever, the main point is that Wade’s dimension is being destroyed slowly because it lost its anchor being, but he replaces the dead Wolverine with the Worst Wolverine and they live happily ever after, and I think he and Vanessa get back together.
Okay, so you should be hearing me out by now. Something I didn’t mention was that in the Spider-Man movie, Miguel loses his family, and finds another dimension where he died, but his family is still alive. He replaces that version of him to live happily, but it ends up destroying his world, which is almost exactly like what happened to Wade, but it actually works and nothing bad happens.
Wade is spending the whole movie going dimension to dimension to fix this problem, eventually getting stuck in one where he meets this version of himself that’s the complete opposite of him, which happens in the Spider-Man movie. Miles meets the version of himself that was meant to get bit by the spider that bit him, that version of himself becomes the Prowler. Wade meets Nicepool, who he also gets killed because Nicepool didn’t have regenerative powers.
So, I think by now you could probably see the similarities I saw in this movie. Now that I’m actually elaborating on it, it makes a lot more sense of similar the plots are. Thank you for walking with me and hearing me out! Anyways, both of these movies are so good, so you should watch them both, and if you have, watch it again…
Very nice summary of both movies and this is going to make me watch deadpool and Wolverine.
I love Miles Morales! Although I’m not as familiar with Deadpool and Wolverine, you make interesting connections between the three movies!