The long-awaited new trailer for Fox's Deadpool 2 has a little something for everyone: action, humor, plot details, a 1980 love song. That, of course, means there's also a lot to unpack in this two and a half minutes, give or take.

Filled with plenty of new footage, it establishes the mission of Josh Brolin's Cable isn't to protect the mysterious kid played by Julian Dennison of Hunt for the Wilderpeople but instead to kill him. That means it's up to Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool and his newly formed X-Force to save him. To what end still isn't clear, but the journey will no doubt be fun (if a bit gory at times).

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Follow along as we call out some of the trailer’s key moments, rethink some theories about the plot of Deadpool 2, and wonder where the Merc With the Mouth gets those wonderful crop tops.

Dopinder Is All Out of Love ...

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The trailer's opening song, the 1980 hit "I'm All Out of Love," by Australian soft-rock duo Air Supply, is fitting, not only that it stands in stark contrast to Deadpool being pursued down an alley by an angry mob, but because it appears to provide Dopinder with some solace. Played by Karan Soni, the lovelorn taxi driver was perhaps the breakout star of the 2016 original, in which he befriended Deadpool and then took his advice, resulting Dopinder's his cousin and romantic rival Bandhu being kidnapped and stuffed into the trunk of the cab. Which ... was then crashed into a truck.

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Perhaps demonstrating that he's just too darned trusting, and forgiving, Dopinder is back behind the wheel in the sequel, once again serving as Wade Wilson's chauffeur. His payment is a shattered window, bullet holes, and a possible smelly stain in the back seat. To paraphrase Air Supply, oh, Dopinder what were you thinking of?

Over-the-Top Violence -- Now With International Flair!

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For all of its big set pieces, the events of 2016's Deadpool unfolded in a relatively limited geographical area: New York City, or, rather, Vancouver, standing in for New York City. For the sequel, the production returned to that location, but this trailer certainly suggests the Merc With a Mouth will broaden his scope. Between this violent scene in the opening moments, and the fight in the upscale communal bathhouse depicted later on, it would seem Wade Wilson's job may take him overseas.

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'I'm Here For the Kid'

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We previously suspected that Julian Dennison of Hunt for the Wilderpeople plays Deadpool 2's take on Hope Summers, who in Marvel comics is the mutant messiah Cable travels into the past to protect. However, this trailer states outright at Josh Brolin's cybernetically enhanced mercenary is out to kill this kid, who still hasn't been named.

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Presumably Cable's vendetta has nothing to do with the boy delivering a double dose of the one-finger salute, and everything to do with his mutant abilities (note the telltale power-suppression collar, as well as his glowing hands in the later scene, amid the debris and overturned police car).

Back to the Future

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We had theorized that the first trailer didn't depict Wade Wilson infiltrating some kind of mutant detention center but instead hinted we would see the character in two time periods: the present, and in the dystopian future from which Cable originates. We're guessing it's a very near-future, and that Cable believes the mysterious kid played by Julian Dennison is somehow responsible for creating that grim-dark world.

From there it undoubtedly gets a little fuzzy and a lot more complicated -- it's time travel, after all! -- as we try to untangle how future-Wade might have hidden the kid, and why present-Wade gets involved. So, we'll just ... walk away.

'I Can't Do This Alone'

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On the rare occasion when Dopinder just isn't enough, sometimes you have to form your own team of misfit mutants. Not Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Colossus from the X-Men -- your own team of mutants. In fairness, Marvel Comics' X-Force started as a re-branding of the New Mutants, effectively the X-Men junior team, so perhaps it's to be expected that Deadpool would start his recruitment drive and Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. (Yes, Domino, it is a little derivative.)

Although Negasonic Teenage and the pink-haired character whom we think is Surge accompany, or at least cross paths with, Deadpool in the field, it's unclear from the trailer whether they actually join his motley crew.

X Marx the Spot

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The shot of Wade Wilson's tender embrace of Colossus actually debuted in the international trailer released in February. What may have escaped notice is the portrait on the stairway of what we can presume is Charles Xavier's mansion. That's German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital.

Either Professor X is more radical that any of us previously realized, or that's a nod to the Soviet-era upbringing of Piotr Rasputin, aka Colossus. Or, hey, both.

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To Me, My X-Men!

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If you squint, you might mistake the pink ankle sock-wearing Wade Wilson for Charles Xavier as he makes himself at home in the X-Men founder's signature wheelchair. However, we're still not sure what to make of Xavier's decorating choices: portraits of Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama?

No, That's Not the X-Mansion

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The presence of the X-Men's iconic Blackbird might lead you to conclude that's the poor man's version of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngster. Don't worry, it's not; Deadpool 2 filmed at Hatley Castle in British Columbia, which served for the stand-in for the X-Mansion in X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool and X-Men: Apocalypse.

Instead, this appears to be part of an institution that we can presume is connected to the cult that was central to the action of the first trailer, but is sidelined in this one. We see this same location through this trailer, when Julian Dennison's character stands among debris, Deadpool hits a guard in the head with a brick, Surge springs into action, and Domino takes down a guard in a burning building.

'Isn't It a Little Derivative?'

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Deadpool is nothing if not self-aware, as this trailer once again demonstrates. In assembling his new team, he has one eye on brand longevity, saying, "We need them tough, morally flexible, and young enough to carry their own franchise for 10 to 12 years." When he arrives at a name for this group, X-Force, Zazie Beetz's Domino observes, "Isn't that a little derivative?"

Wade Wilson returns to that theme at the end of the trailer, when he tells T.J. Miller's Weasel, "It lives up to the hype, plus-plus." "Fuck it, they probably won't even make a three," Weasel replies. "Why would they?" Deadpool concludes. "If you stop at two, you've killed it."

ANY Time Is the Right Time For a Crop Top

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While it's possible this yellow-and-black crop top is Deadpool's aborted attempt to create and X-Force team uniform, we desperately hope it's a souvenir from his visit to the X-Mansion. In between copping a feel of Colossus and taking Professor Xavier's wheelchair for a joyride, Wade somehow found time to raid the mansion's closets or laundry room for decades-old, musty sportswear. It just seems right.

A Reminder: Deadpool 2 Is Funny AND Violent

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In case all the jokes made you forget about the decapitated head in the opening moments of the trailer, Deadpool 2 brings everything full circle, and gruesomely up-close, with this shot of a gun-sized hole made in Wade Wilson's hand, and the barrel that's stuck into it. You're welcome for the screenshot.

Coupled with the sequence in which Deadpool pops back up after being plowed down by a speeding truck, it's also a good reminder that, with his accelerated healing factor, the Merc With a Mouth is virtually impossible to kill. Horribly disfigure, yes; kill, no.


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, T.J. Miller as Weasel and Karan Soni as Dopinder, with newcomers Zazie Beetz as Domino, Josh Brolin as Cable, Julian Dennison in an unknown role, and Jack Kesy. The film hits theaters on May 18.