Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

"Welcome to the MCU. You're joining at a bit of a low point." - Deadpool, 2024.

How will we know when MCU have jumped the shark? Is it when MCU has it's own acronym? Is it when MCU characters start making references and jokes that only avid watchers of the MCU will pick up on? Is it when MCU stops adding interesting new characters, and simply has existing characters tag team against increasingly powerful enemies? Is it when only way to kill these increasingly powerful enemies become increasingly absurd? Like by holding hands and singing Kumbaya? Ooops. Spoiler alert. Yeah. I am an asshole. But you like assholes, don't you, or you wouldn't be reading a review about Deadpool.

I don't know when MCU jumped the shark. I know that MCU has jumped the shark. They have jumped it multiple times. When the main character breaks the fourth wall, and says the entire universe of movies he inhabits is at a low point, they haven't just jumped the shark. They have jumped the shark so many times, that MCU is now a bloody pulpy mass in the churning water.

I know people still love MCU. People love lots of things. People love wrestling. Until they grow up. Which, lets be honest, is entirely overrated. People also love politicians. Not that politician. This new guy. Except somehow everyone agrees things are only getting worse. But this new guy will surely turn things around?

When Disney took over MCU, they gave up trying to create compelling new characters. Disney instead simply started having the existing characters team up in different combinations with each other. Of course, the more characters you have teaming up, the more impossibly powerful the villain must be. And therefore the more absurd it becomes that a rag tag team of hero’s continually seem to kill the impossibly powerful villain.

At one point, it looked like MCU had reached its zenith when half the hero universe committed hari-kari to kill a bad guy. But then Disney discovered the multi-verse, and that opened up an infinite universe of weird hero variations, that create an infinite number of increasingly weird number tag teams. But if a hero is never really dead, do we even care? If there are an infinite number of universes out there, do we even care if one of them ends?

Which is why now in the MCU the bad guy has to threaten to end all infinite universes. It is the end of the multi-verse. And still I don't care. Because I never really cared about the good guys to begin with. In the move to create ever increasing threats to the multi-verse, by increasingly powerful bad guys to actually pose a threat to the increasing number of hero’s that are part of the hero tag team, someone forgot a couple of very important points.

The number of people who want to see more MCU movies is getting smaller each year. Some of us are actually hoping that the bad guy actually kills off the multi-verse, just so we wont see another cherished character stained by a crappy tag team-up. And the more hero’s you throw into a movie, the less the movie becomes about an individual hero, so the less we care as an audience about the individual characters.

Why should I even care about these characters? They don't come from my universe. They don't even come from the same alternate universe. One of them is even dead in my universe, but now he is alive again because he exists in another multiverse? I can't even get sad by a character dying, because I know he isn't really dead. I's simply a question of how much does Disney want to pay them to return, versus how much do they loathe acting in this crappy MCU?

When your own actors realize how crappy MCU is, when your own writers actually write in the script that this is "a bit of a low point." Then you know you have jumped the shark. It has happened. But when did it actually happen?

We wont really know when MCU jumped the shark, until the entire universe is dead, and at this point, I am not sure which universe is going to die first, the MCU, our literal universe. Because they keep churning out crap. And the core fan base still love watching it.

Eventually you would expect the core fan base to dwindle to the point where churning out more crap is unprofitable. And only after they have stopped churning out crap will the core fan base truly be able to tell us when MCU jumped the shark.

Or maybe, lets just listen to the writers of the show.

"Welcome to the MCU. You're joining at a bit of a low point." - Deadpool, 2024.




You should not watch Deadpool 3 if...

• You don't appreciate meta humor or the breaking of the fourth wall.
• You are not a fan of the MCU or don't like its current direction.
• You do not enjoy crude humor, violence and explicit content.
• You only want a serious superhero movie, avoiding comedy elements.
• You are below the age of 17, as the film is rated R.
• You are not ready for mature themes and languages.
• The overuse or misuse of multiverse concepts bothers you.

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