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

Deadpool With Time Travel?

So Deadpool can time travel now? That could have serious repercussions for all of reality.

As the post-credits scenes make clear, Cable’s time-spinner allowed Wade to do whatever he liked, even revisiting previous X-Men timelines and movies as well as encountering that Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds. Clearly, giving Deadpool the ability to traverse through history allowed the writers a completely blank canvas to do whatever they wanted and it provided a hilarious, inventive coda to the movie.

But was this just a one-off gag to end Deadpool 2 on a high? As far as we know, Wade could just keep on hopping around time. Imagine the Merc with a Mouth as a kind of crazed, murderous Doctor Who. Knowing Deadpool, though, the next film could easily ignore continuity and not even reference the fact that Wade got the time-spinner working again.

Alternatively, maybe it’ll take that concept and run with it, and make time travel an important plot point. It might be difficult to use it without removing all jeopardy and tension from the film, but it could also lead to a lot of great jokes and creative sequences.