This cinematic tour de force, where two antiheroes carve up baddies while exchanging black-humored quips sharper than their weapons, would undoubtedly face the wrath of a hyper-sensitive public, leading to a box office flop and all those involved to be canceled.
  • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    The thing that makes me cackle about this movie, as a Fandom!Old, is that it’s basically written as the crackiest crack-ship you could ever find on AO3.

    And yet…it’s had one of the biggest box-offices ever.

    This brings me no end of glee.

    • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.mlEnglish
      82·
      2 months ago

      Fandom!Old = one who has been in a certain fandom for a long time.

      Crack-ship = Shipping is a romantic and/or sexual pairing of two fictional characters. A crack-ship is a ship that makes no logical sense, as if it was conceived with heavy drug use, or made “on crack”.

      AO3 = Archive of Our Own, a website for fanfictions, fan art, fan videos, and other fan-produced content for various different fandoms. One may find many crack-ships here.

      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        I think a ship between deadpool and Wolverine makes a lot of sense though. At least from the perspective of it being a piece of entertainment media. They have experiences they share exclusively, as well as personal, natural ones. They have a lot in common, in terms of interest, history, social circles. They also have very divergent personalities. It is perfect ship material.

          • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Not exactly.

            Deadpool doesn’t have the claws, or the heightened senses, and he seems to “heal” somewhat faster (though that’s probably due to Wolverine’s heavy metal poisoning due to the adamantium skeleton; he heals faster if he doesn’t have it, but also becomes more animalistic).

            Also, Wolverine’s healing factor would probably be able to deal with the cancer (he’s been alive for over two hundred years without developing a single tumour), while Deadpool’s barely manages to keep the cancer from killing him, because it also sort of makes it super cancer; he exists in a constant balancing act between the cancer and a runaway healing factor killing him. If he were to be cured of the cancer without also removing the healing factor, it wouldn’t be pretty:

            Super Cancer Skrulls

            SPLORCH!

            And, of course, as much trauma as he has, Wolverine isn’t insane enough to break the fourth wall.