Deadpool & Wolverine: Blade Joke Gets Better With Time
That throwaway "only one Blade" gag in Deadpool & Wolverine from 2024 keeps aging like fine wine. To longtime fans, Wesley Snipes will always be the definitive Blade—the man who basically invented the modern superhero action-film template back in the day. Director Shawn Levy's script nodded to this reverence with a scripted joke that apparently has only gotten funnier (or more pointed) as time passes. The joke works on multiple levels: nostalgia, the MCU's complicated relationship with legacy properties, and pure comedic timing.
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Marvel's finally figured out that self-aware humor about their own casting decisions lands better than pretending the Snipes era never happened—expect more of this meta-acknowledgment going forward.
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