WARNING: The following article contains major spoilers for Deadpool 2, in theaters now.


In 2016, 20th Century Fox hit a much-needed turning point with its comic book movies. Deadpool started the franchise's upward trajectory thanks its blend of humor and action, then James Mangold maintained the momentum with the critically acclaimed last Wolverine story Logan a year later. Now, Deadpool 2 director David Leitch has done his best to live up to the standard Tim Miller set with the Merc with a Mouth's debut.

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Leitch pulls no punches in his follow-up to the surprise hit movie, spinning a story of revenge and family, intertwining Wade Wilson's (Ryan Reynolds) life with Cable's (Josh Brolin), a superpowered liability named Russell (Julian Dennison) and a bunch of other mutant misfits. In the process, Deadpool 2 brings the violence, bloodshed and, as expected, a lot of death to the table as Wade tries to save the world.

So without further ado, let's look at who died in the movie.

Vanessa

In the movie's opening sequence, we see Wade trying to kill some New York gangsters. After botching the hit, Dopinder hustles the Merc home in his cab, all so he and Vanessa can get intimate. But just as the couple starts talking about having a family, tragedy strikes. The gangsters track Wade to his apartment, and armed with knives and guns, they attack. Wade slaughters everyone -- except the leader who shoots Vanessa in the heart, murdering her. It's a dark turn of events no one anticipated, especially so early on in the film.

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Most of X-Force

Clearly outmatched, Deadpool recruits X-Force to get to Russell before Cable is able to kill the young mutant. However, as they jump out a plane to Russell's prison transport, things go haywire because Deadpool ignored the warning of high winds. As they parachute down, Bedlam slams into a bus; Shatterstar gets shredded by helicopter blades; Vanisher's electrocuted in some power lines; Zeitgeist gets sucked into a wood chipper, and as he dies, he also kills Peter (albeit temporarily). Only Deadpool and Domino survive, painting this first version of X-Force as an abject failure.

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Cable's Family

We all knew Cable would be coming from the future to kill Russell, but we didn't know why. When Wade finally gets the time-traveler to divulge the reason, it's very tragic. It turns out Russell, after his first kill, became bloodthirsty and turned into the villain known as Firefist in the future Cable's from. Cable was one of the men trying to stop him, but on a night the soldier wasn't home, Firefist came over and incinerated his wife and daughter, Hope, sparking Cable's mission to kill the boy.

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Black Tom Cassidy

Black Tom Cassidy (Jack Kesy) antagonizes young Russell when they're incarcerated in the mutant prison called the Ice Box. After Cable's initial assassination on Russell there fails, all the inmates are transported to somewhere more secure. Mid-transit, Cable comes back for Russell, only to end up fighting Domino and Deadpool. While scrapping with Wade in the transport truck, one of Cable's guns goes off, and a bullet goes through Black Tom's head for a swift yet brutal fatality.

The Juggernaut

Deadpool-2-Juggernaut

The Juggernaut is a surprise villain in this flick, partnering with Russell to kill the headmaster of the Essex Orphanage. However, as Deadpool, Domino and Cable struggle with him, the X-Men appear. Colossus, Negasonic Teenage Warhead and her girlfriend, Yukio, arrive on the scene to stop the giant also known as Cain Marko. The battle ends with Colossus sticking some electric cables up Juggernaut's backside, and Negasonic blasting him into a big fountain, thus leading to Juggernaut being electrocuted to death underwater.

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Headmaster of the Essex School

The sinister headmaster (Eddie Marsan) of the Essex School is found to be experimenting on young mutants. This torturous treatment is what causes Russell to hate him so much, acting as the catalyst for his dark turn into Firefist. In the movie's finale though, Deadpool helps stop Russell from murdering the administrator, thereby preventing him from turning evil. However, the headmaster's eventually killed moments later by Dopinder's speeding cab, proving karma does indeed exist.

Deadpool

In the finale, just when it seems Russell is about to kill the headmaster and fulfill his villainous destiny, Cable fires at the youngster. However, Deadpool leaps in front the teenage mutant, taking a bullet to the chest and sacrificing himself for the boy. With a power-dampening collar inhibiting his healing factor, Wade slowly dies, going off to meet Vanessa in the afterlife. However, she informs him his job in the land of the living isn't quite done yet, and he's revived thanks to Cable using his time-slider to prevent the bullet from killing the Merc.

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Deadpool... Again

In the movie's popular mid-credits montage, Deadpool uses Cable's time-sliding device to fix Fox's superhero film continuity. He has one particular target in mind: The highly-despised version of Deadpool seen in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Wade travels back to the scene where that movie's Deadpool was about to fight Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, and pumps bullets into the abomination. He makes it clear there's no coming back from this one, leaving him as the only legit Deadpool in official X-Men movie continuity.

Ryan Reynolds

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This is probably the most meta aspect of the mid-credits sequence. The scene focuses on someone the audience can't see as they're reading a manuscript. When the person puts it down, we see it's the Green Lantern script, and the reader is Ryan Reynolds himself. But just as he expresses excitement at the prospect of making the DC film, he's shot through the back of the head by Deadpool.

That's right folks, Wade travels back in time to stop Green Lantern from getting made, proving not all heroes wear capes... or CGI suits.


Directed by David Leitch, Deadpool 2 stars Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Stefan Kapičić as the voice of Colossus, and Karan Soni as Dopinder, with newcomers Zazie Beetz as Domino, Josh Brolin as Cable and Julian Dennison as Russell. The film is playing in theaters everywhere.