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6 Reasons That Deadpool Is Better Than Any Marvel Movie

Deadpool may be a Marvel creation, but director Tim Miller and producer/star Ryan Reynolds' movie version is about as distant as a super-character can get from the usual Marvel Studios hero. Through 20th Century Fox - the studio having the cinematic rights to the character after introducing him in X-Men Origins - Deadpool has been allowed to become very much the anti-Marvel crusader.

6) The R-Rating Lifts Any Restrictions

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It’s impossible to imagine a profane, sex-obsessed, puntastic killer like Reynolds’ Deadpool ever getting a Deadpool movie like the one we got this month from Marvel Studios.

The MCU has a character that calls people out whenever they curse; Deadpool, meanwhile, features a hardcore sex montage, scenes of prolonged torture and a ‘hero’ that drops F-bombs and teabags his enemies after he’s killed them.

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An R-rating doesn’t necessarily make a movie better, but with Tim Miller’s Deadpool the removal of any usual PG-13 restrictions has allowed the character to flourish, and behave as he does on the page.

The movie can do what it wants and does, basically, which is refreshing in a world where you sense MCU movies are at times having to hold back in order to remain family-friendly.