Famous Familial Ties
Deadpool 2 introduces a couple of new additions who, as well as being great characters themselves, have familial ties to some X-Men icons. Though these connections aren’t elaborated on in the film itself, it’s possible that they will be in future movies.
The big one, of course, is Cable. As fans will know, his real name is Nathan Summers. Yup, he’s the son of Scott Summers AKA Cyclops. In the comics, his mother is Madeline Pryor, a clone of Jean Grey. Just to simplify things a little, though, it would be easy to make the actual Jean Grey his mom in the movie universe.
Seeing as Josh Brolin’s set to appear in at least three more films as Cable, we feel pretty confident that the reveal of his true parentage will come out at some point. No doubt Deadpool will have some great jokes to say about it, too.
Juggernaut also appears here and is a much more faithful version of the villain from the comics than Vinnie Jones’ terrible take on the character in X-Men: The Last Stand. His odd backstory is even alluded to at one point, as there’s a scene that begins with him and Russell discussing that Juggernaut wears his stone helmet to keep his brother from reading his thoughts. The big mutant, real name Cain Marko, then mentions that his brother’s in a wheelchair.
Marko is indeed referencing the most famous wheelchair-user in the X-Men universe. In the comics, he’s Charles Xavier’s step-brother, as their parents married each other when they were kids. Literally brains versus brawn, the pair never got on. Now that Juggernaut’s a part of continuity again, it would be interesting to see this sibling rivalry explored a little in one of the mainline X-Men movies.
