(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.)
Before modern comic book movies, Wesley Snipes' Blade set the stage with his 1998 film. Snipes returns, declaring, "There's only ever been one Blade. There only ever going to be one Blade
Deadpool encounters a Wolverine played by Henry Cavill, joking about how Disney will treat him better than Warner Bros. did with his infamous mustache removal in Justice League.
Chris Evans, known for playing Captain America, returns to the MCU in a twist where he shouts "Flame on!" instead of "Avengers, assemble!" igniting and then crashing after being extinguished by bad guys.
Channing Tatum's decade-long effort to make a Gambit movie faced multiple director changes and was ultimately halted by the Disney-Fox merger. In a twist, Tatum’s Gambit laments his unfulfilled movie dreams and short-lived adventures.
Deadpool hops through universes to find a Wolverine to help save the world, encountering various Logan variants, including one battling the Hulk, likely Edward Norton's version from the 2008 movie.
In the first X-Men movie, Tyler Mane’s Sabretooth battles Wolverine atop the Statue of Liberty but is defeated when Cyclops blasts him off with his laser vision.
Deadpool jokes about resurrecting Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, saying they won't respect his death in *Logan*. Instead, he exhumed Wolverine’s skeleton to use his bones in a brutal fight against enemies.
The villain Cassandra Nova recruits henchmen from past X-Men films, including Toad (Ray Park), Lady Deathstrike (Kelly Hu), Pyro (Aaron Stanford), and Colossus (Stefan Kapicic).
In the Void, Deadpool and Wolverine find Elektra, played by Jennifer Garner from Daredevil and her solo film.