The X-Men might cross over to the MCU – but does Marvel really need to bring them back?

As Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine returns for the MCU’s forthcoming Deadpool 3, other X-Men alumni are ripe for a comeback no one is asking forNobody knows quite how Deadpool ended up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Or rather Everyone knows how the merc with a mouth made it to Marvel on a corporate level – Disney bought 20th Century Fox – but we are yet to find out how the writing room crew are going to wrestle this one out in creative terms.

Does Ryan Reynolds’s mischievous hero simply arrive fully formed from an alternate reality where everyone swears a lot more than they did in Thor: Ragnarok, and there is considerably more nudity, breaking of the fourth wall and hardcore violence? Will our chimichanga-munching antihero be forced to tone it all down a bit in the forthcoming Deadpool 3 alongside the returning Hugh Jackman as Wolverine? Or will…

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