Marvel fans’ most requested team is a disaster

According to Chris Snellgrove
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For longtime comic book nerds, half the fun of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is seeing some of our favorite teams from our favorite themes on the big screen. With release Deadpool and Wolverineboth of our titular characters are now part of the MCU, and fans can’t stop speculating about who the Merc With the Mouth will team up with next on screen. The most popular request was to get a movie that paired Spider-Man and Deadpool, but despite their long history as comic book team-ups, such a combination would be a no-brainer. catastrophe.

Spider-Man and Deadpool

Even if you’ve never cracked a Marvel comic, you can probably guess why the writers like to pair Spider-Man and Deadpool so much. Both are very funny characters who are known for cracking weird jokes in the middle of even the most dangerous battles. Their big personalities bounce off each other in fun and unexpected ways, and the vast differences in their morals (Deadpool kills and Spider-Man doesn’t) often gives them things to argue about when they’re not busy saving the world.

Long (boxed) story, Spider-Man and Deadpool have had countless comic book team-ups that bring serious entertainment value, so why am I arguing that they shouldn’t get their own MCU team? For starters, the stark age difference between the characters would make for a weird on-screen collaboration, with Ryan Reynolds being a full two decades older than Tom Holland (48 vs. 28), which would inevitably make it feel less like a team of equals and more like a really weird hero/sidekick story in the vein of Batman and Robin.

Plus, one of the strange luxuries of comics is that while time passes, most characters are frozen at a certain age. Peter Parker was a teenage crime fighter who now permanently exists as a man in his early 20s. Over decades of publishing history, Spider-Man still has a lifetime of experience that helps him work with, and even bond with, Deadpool on occasion. While Holland is in his early 20s in real life, the MCU still has Spider-Man coded so young that it wouldn’t make sense for him to be hanging around a middle-aged mercenary mass murderer.

A problem of morality

This brings us to the vexing problem of morality. It’s a great running gag in Deadpool’s solo movies that he has no qualms about killing, and our titular hero leaves a small graveyard after every big action scene. That’s why he teams up on screen with other characters who don’t exactly have a problem with killing, including Cable and Wolverine. After the misadventure with those merciless mutants, it would be straightforward bizarre for Deadpool to provide the ultimate killing effort alongside Peter Parker, the moral core of the MCU.

At this point one might say Miracle he could change either Spider-Man or Deadpool; make the latter less violent, perhaps, or somehow make the former cool (perhaps via a variant) with chaos and carnage. However, this would likely cheapen these characters and ultimately fail to give audiences what they want: an authentic version of the characters they know and love to come together on screen. Anything less would betray the audience and anything more would betray the characters.

The solution is simple: because the fans say they want it, a Spider-Man/Deadpool MCU team-up should be taken off the table. At least with this version of these characters. Since Marvel will probably reboot the entire universe after that Secret Warswe may end up seeing a very different Spider-Man and a very different Deadpool team up. However, whether anyone will want to see it after years of painful superhero fatigue is another question entirely.