8 Ways That Deadpool 2 Sets Up Future X-Men Movies

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Much was made before Deadpool 2 of the fact that it was setting up the incoming X-Force spinoff movie. To play the team, Fox got hold of a bunch of awesome actors. Including Terry Crews as Bedlam, Bill Skarsgard as Zeitgeist and even, for the briefest second, Brad Pitt as The Vanisher! Surprisingly, though, the group’s actually treated as a bit of a joke in the film itself.

As they head out on their first mission after being recruited by DP, the various X-Forcers die in hilarious Final Destination-y ways as they parachute from their plane and end up in front of trucks, get caught in trash compactors or fly right into the blades of a helicopter. Ah, well. R.I.P. X-Force. We hardly knew you.

So, what does this mean for the team’s standalone? Interestingly, the time-traveling post-credits scenes don’t resurrect all of the members, which suggests that most of them really are dead. As such, we can presumably rule these characters out from appearing in the spinoff movie. Not that we expected Pitt to sign up as a supporting player in the X-Men franchise, mind you.