Deadpool 2 & Infinity War Repeated The Same Character Trick

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Although Deadpool is yet to make an official live-action MCU appearance, both Deadpool 2 and Avengers: Infinity War actually repeated the same character trick. Each movie focused on different aspects of the Marvel comic stable, with radically different stakes involved. Yet, by subtly twisting key characters' motivations, the films actually established a surprising connection.

In many ways, Deadpool 2 and Infinity War could not be more different, as comic book movies go. Deadpool 2 continued the tongue-in-cheek R-rated humor that made the first film such a success, seeing the titular protagonist team up with long-time collaborator Cable and bring together the first live-action iteration of the iconic X-Force team. By contrast, Infinity War was an epic ensemble piece depicting the Mad Titan Thanos' struggle to unify the six Infinity Stones against the Avengers and immediately wipe out half of all life in the universe. Despite sharing a star in Josh Brolin, the movies struck a fundamentally different tone at opposite ends of the comic spectrum.

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For all these differences, however, both films actually borrowed the same narrative trick by changing key characters' motivations from the source material. In the original comics, Thanos' actions are at least in part motivated by his obsessive love for the cosmic entity Death, sometimes known as Lady Death. In fact, Thanos' mission to obtain the Infinity Gauntlet was originally born out of his desire to impress Death, rather than achieve the "balance" of which he speaks in the MCU. Likewise, Deadpool's comic history is littered with various interactions with Death, leading to an extremely