8) It’s Not Much Of A Superhero Movie At All
Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool, is a superhero, living in a comic book universe shared by other superheroes (two X-Men characters make cameos). But his first film doesn’t always feel like much of a superhero movie at all. If anything, the genre Deadpool‘s most resembles is the romantic comedy.
Just look at the basic storyline. Deadpool doesn’t involve the superhero character trying to save the world; he instead spends the entire film trying to get the girl.
It begins with a meet-cute, throws in some conflict to break the central couple apart, then the male hero fights to win back her heart. So while fans will class it as a superhero movie, Deadpool is fundamentally more like an R-rated rom-com, only with superhero trappings.
7) The Jumbled Narrative
Though comic book cinema is increasingly trying new things and going in evermore bizarre directions (see: quasi-comedic space opera Guardians of the Galaxy, or all-supervillain team-up movie Suicide Squad), it rarely attempts to shake up the conventional three-act story told in chronological order. Deadpool, however, mixes things up.
Beginning in the middle before cutting back and forth between the beginning and the middle leading up to the end, Deadpool is structured more like a Tarantino movie than a typical comic book story. The origins tale at the heart of the film is familiar to the genre, but the way the story’s actually told is really anything but.
