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A guide to every wild Marvel/X-Men cameos in Deadpool & Wolverine!

Deadpool & Wolverine is packed with some amazing and shocking cameos from past Marvel and X-Men movies so here are some of the biggest!

By Michael Weyer

(L-R): Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios' DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. Photo by Jay Maidment. © 2024 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2024 MARVEL.
(L-R): Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool/Wade Wilson and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios' DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. Photo by Jay Maidment. © 2024 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2024 MARVEL. /
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Deadpool & Wolverine is now in theaters and packed to the brim with some amazing cameos. Here's a quick guide to who's who!

Caution: This article contains SPOILERS for Deadpool & Wolverine

Deadpool & Wolverine was already expected to be a big movie. It links not just Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) to the MCU but also to the X-Men Universe, which was owned by 20th Century Fox when Disney bought them out. So fans expected a few Easter Eggs and such.

What they didn't expect was the stunning bevy of cameos involving past comic book projects. There are so many, it's hard to count, but here's a quick rundown of the biggies!

The Alternate Wolverines

As part of his journey to find the right Wolverine, Deadpool finds several variations abounding:

  • Accurate height: As great as Hugh Jackman is as Wolverine, fans have always been bugged he stands over six feet tall when the comic Wolverine is 5'3". Well, this movie answers that as, thanks to CGI, we see Jackman at that height, allowing at last Wolverine to stand shorter than most heroes.
  • Patch: At one point, Deadpool finds a version of Wolverine wearing an eyepatch with a white tux. This was an alternate identity Wolverine used in the criminal island nation of Madripoor. Of course, it soon became a joke that an eyepatch did nothing to fool anyone, as how many guys with razor-sharp claws are walking around?
  • A white-beared Logan in a coat references the classic tale "Old Man Logan," where a broken Wolverine survives a massacre of the heroes and wanders the land.
  • A Logan crucified to match the classic cover of Uncanny X-Men #251. 
  • Biggest of all is Henry Cavill making a surprise cameo as a Wolverine variant and showing how the Superman/Witcher star would have been great in the role. 

MCU cameos: 

Jon Favreau makes a brief appearance as Tony Stark's right-hand man, Happy Hogan, when Deadpool is "auditioning" to join the Avengers. It does not go well.

We also see video footage of Captain America, Thor and the Hulk, the latter fighting a Wolverine variant while Thor is shown holding Deadpool's body in what seems unused footage from a past Thor film. 

Johnny Storm

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Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) © 2011 - Paramount Pictures /

Chris Evans in a Marvel movie? It has to be another Captain America cameo, right? Wrong. Evans is actually reprising his role as Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch, from the 2005 Fantastic Four film. It's a great turn by Evans to bring back his other comic book role and a reminder of how he overcame so many doubters to be a fantastic cap.

Elektra

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Episode 2. Jennifer Garner in "The Last Thing He Told Me," premiering April 14, 2023 on Apple TV+. /

While the rumored Ben Affleck as Daredevil cameo doesn't happen, we do get Jennifer Garner reprising her role as Elektra aiding Deadpool. Naturally, there's a crack on Garner's former marriage to Affleck and Garner showing she still has the skills with the sais. 

Blade

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"Blade II" Premiere / Michael Caulfield Archive/GettyImages

Hands down the most shocking cameo is Wesley Snipes returning as the half-vampire vampire hunter whose 1998 film was the first successful Marvel movie. He gets a crack on "There's only one Blade," and with all respect to Mahershala Ali, many fans would agree the MCU would be better letting Snipes play the role again.

Gambit

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DF-09632_r - Channing Tatum stars in Twentieth Century Fox's "Kingsman: The Golden Circle," also starring Colin Firth, julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Elton John, Halle Berry and Jeff Bridges. Photo Credit: Giles Keyte. /

For decades, X-Men fans have wanted the feisty Cajun to appear on screen. Taylor Kitsch played him in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine and attempts at a film with Channing Tatum in the role have stalled. Welp, Tatum finally gets to play Gambit, complete with staff and playing cards to fulfill fan wishes. Here's hoping this means we finally get that solo film going. 

The Deadpool Corps

X-Men movie cameos

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His Dark Materials season 3. Photograph by Courtesy HBO /

Several characters from past X-Men movies pop in. Trailers have already shown Dafne Keen as X-23 and she's joined by Aaron Ashmore returning as the fire-wielding Pyro, Kelly Hu as Lady Deathstrike, Ray Park as Toad, Jason Flemyng as Azael and Tyler Mane as Wolverine's iconic archenemy Sabretooth.

We also get new actors as Callisto, Psylocke, the Juggernaut and a few other X-Men foes for some fun peeks.

Stan Lee

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Premiere Of Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War" - Arrivals / Frazer Harrison/GettyImages

The late great Marvel creator sadly left us in 2018, which seemed to end his streak of cameos in Marvel films. But the filmmakers couldn't let it go as at one point we see a bus billboard saying "Your Friendly Neighborhood Stanlee Cleaners."

There are a score of other Easter Eggs both Marvel and X-Men comic fans will appreciate but these huge cameos are among the reasons Deadpool & Wolverine is one of the wildest comic book films ever.

Deadpool & Wolverine now in theaters. 

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