Deadpool & Wolverine is a Toy Story movie

polygon.com:

Since acquiring 20th Century Fox, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has repeatedly used the multiverse to reference its Marvel franchises, with the versions of Spider-Man played by Toby Maguire and Andrew Garfield showing up in Spider-Man: No Way Home and Patrick Stewart’s version of Professor Charles Xavier making a cameo in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. But Deadpool & Wolverine moves the needle on cross-universe shenanigans: Its crossover cameos include entire cinematic realities.

In Deadpool & Wolverine, heroes and villains from non-MCU-canon Marvel movies are relegated to The Void, the Time Variance Authority’s wasteland at the end of time. There, they chafe under the tyranny of Professor X’s sister Cassandra Nova and the threat of the cloud-monster Alioth, while they hope for a chance to jump into action once again. Their meta narrative is meant to spark empathy with the viewers — anyone who’s seen these decanonized movies and has positive feelings for them will connect with the characters’ feelings of being forgotten and discarded. Which feels exactly like the way the Toy Story movies portray toys. But that isn’t all the new Deadpool movie has with Pixar’s flagship animated franchise.

[Ed. note: Spoilers ahead for both the Toy Story franchise and Deadpool & Wolverine.]

Deadpool and Wolverine in this movie effectively speedrun a lot of the beats of the relationship between Woody and Buzz Lightyear in the first Toy Story. Deadpool (and Woody) is used to being the center of his own universe, but he’s also anxious about their own irrelevance. His insecurity is magnified when he encounters a more beloved hero who’s going through his own existential crisis. (Buzz’s version: He struggles to acknowledge he’s actually a toy. Wolverine’s version: He struggles to acknowledge how, as the “worst Logan” in the multiverse, he let his home X-Men down.)

The unlikely duo have to team up, with Deadpool/Woody desperate to get back home to the people they love, and