In the last 10 years, Deadpool has become one of the most popular Marvel heroes. He’s consistently produced successful movies at the box office, with his last outing, Deadpool & Wolverine, holding the title as the highest-rated R-movie of all time with over $1.3 billion in total box office earnings. The future for Deadpool has been murky for a while now — Ryan Reynolds has confirmed that he would like to do more with the character, but he admits that he sees Deadpool being used as more of an accessory than a main feature. After leading three movies, it’s totally fair that Reynolds would like to focus more on cameo work than spending months shooting another Marvel movie, but one thing remains true: the demand for more Deadpool has never been greater than it is right now.
It seems almost obvious that Deadpool is going to have some role to play in Avengers: Doomsday later this year, even if he wasn’t given a chair at the initial casting announcement. Chris Evans wasn’t given a chair, either, and he had an entire trailer dedicated to his return as Steve Rogers, so we’ve learned by now that the chair announcement wasn’t an end all be all. This afternoon, Marvel unleashed the first official trailer for X-Men ‘97 Season 2, and fans were taken aback to see Deadpool cameo in the trailer for a few seconds, even if it was only Morph taking on the form of the mutant. It was thought that fans wouldn’t get any more Deadpool content until Avengers: Doomsday comes out on December 18, but the Merc with a Mouth will ravage TV screens worldwide this summer when X-Men ‘97 premieres on July 1.
What Else Do We Know About ‘X-Men ’97’ Season 2?
X-Men ‘97 will show the team left scrambling across time and space, picking up the pieces after the Season 1 finale as they work to get back to the 90s together. In X-Men ‘97 Season 2, the team will face off against a much more dangerous villain, Apocalypse, who is surely going to be out for blood. X-Men ‘97 star Ross Marquand, who voices a number of characters in the show such as Apocalypse and Professor X, previously told Collider that Season 2 is so violent he’s surprised it was greenlit.
Check out the new trailer for X-Men ‘97 Season 2.
via Collider