Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Deadpool 2
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Deadpool 2 maybe on its way out of theaters, but that doesn’t mean the fun is over. This week, San Diego Comic-Con 2018 will include a special treat for attendees in the form of an extended cut of Deadpool 2, featuring alternate jokes and deleted scenes. But if you aren’t able to make it out to San Diego for the convention, don’t worry; the “Super Duper Cut” will also be available on Digital HD from August 7, and Blu-Ray from August 21.
The trailers for Deadpool 2 included plenty of jokes and lines that didn’t end up in the actual movie, with director David Leitch frequently filming several different versions of the same scene so that the movie’s humor could be showcased in marketing, without giving away all its best jokes. In particular, one of the best surprises kept secret by the marketing was the disastrous results of X-Force’s first mission, which saw Deadpool’s freshly-formed super-team almost completely wiped out in a sequence filled with horror and hilarity. There are sure to be more hidden gems on the Super-Duper Cut, so let’s break down the scenes that we know to expect, and our guesses as to what else the extended cut will include.
- This Page: Suicide, Soap Dispensers, and More Page 2: Yakuza Bathhouse, Baby Hitler, and Domino
The Suicide Montage
Fans who were expecting a light-hearted start to Deadpool 2 got a bit of a shock when the movie began with Wade Wilson attempting to commit suicide by lying down on several barrels of gasoline and blowing himself up. We then saw the events that had led up to this scene, with Deadpool going on an international bad guy-killing tour that eventually drew the ire of criminal Sergei Valishnikov. During an assassination attempt, Valashnikov ended up killing Wade’s fiancée, Vanessa, driving Deadpool into a state of grief, guilt and despair that was underscored by a special Celine Dion song. Answering fan questions in a Reddit AMA, screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick revealed that Leitch shot a “suicide montage” to elaborate on Deadpool’s efforts to overcome his super-healing:
The Kitchen Scene & The Soap Dispenser Joke
“One thing we really wanted to see (and actually shot!) was a Deadpool suicide montage, where DP is trying to kill himself over and over in increasingly violent ways (drinking Drano, jumping into a polar bear enclosure), etc. You should be able to see it on the DVD!”
When Deadpool makes his big speech at the Essex House For Mutant Rehabilitation (shortly before shooting an orderly and earning himself a ticket to the Icebox), he echoes Colossus’ “four or five moments” speech from the first movie, but puts his own spin on it: “People think you wake up a hero, brush your teeth a hero, ejaculate into a soap dispenser a hero…”
At that last part, Colossus sniffs his fingers in a moment of dreadful realization. But as Reese and Wernick explained to CinemaBlend, the movie’s deleted scenes include a scene in the X-Mansion kitchen that set up the soap dispenser joke:
Rhett Reese: We had a scene in the kitchen in the X-Mansion, which is one of our favorites… You see Deadpool say ’ejaculated into a soap dispenser a hero,’ and Colossus goes (smells fingers). There’s an earlier scene where they’re in the kitchen and Colossus is trying to get the soap dispenser to work. And he’s like, ‘This won’t work.’ And Deadpool’s like, ‘Just give it a few extra pumps. I just filled it.’
Paul Wernick: It would have made that joke so much funnier.
Rhett Reese: It would have been better. But it still works. People still get it because they see Colossus [sniff his fingers].
The same kitchen scene also includes an exchange between Deadpool and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, as Deadpool attempts to follow the house rules:
Alternate Jokes
Rhett Reese: The kitchen scene was fun. He’s labeling stuff in the refrigerator as he was told to do. And so he’s putting Velcro labels on, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead is not buying his go-straight routine. She’s like, ‘I see through you, you’re still full of shit.’ It was fun.
Paul Wernick: It was just playing around with this idea that Deadpool is just this little kid. He’s just a little kid at heart as we all are.
Speaking to Collider, director David Leitch said, in addition to around 20 minutes of deleted scenes, the Super Duper Cut will also include different takes of scenes, saying, “There’s a lot of alts that we want to play with.” Quicksilver actor Evan Peters has also said that he and his fellow X-Men stars filmed alternate versions of their very brief cameo (we see them quietly closing a door while Deadpool is complaining about never seeing any other X-Men). Peters said he was surprised that what ended up in the movie was so brief, and that some of the versions of the scene they filmed were “fun” and “dirty” - so it’s a fairly safe bet that we’ll see another take on that cameo.
Page 2: Yakuza Bathhouse, Baby Hitler and Domino
The Yakuza Bathhouse Scene
As previously mentioned, Deadpool 2 opens with a montage of our hero fighting bad guys all around the world - including a scene where he fights a bathhouse full of barely-clothed yakuza and gets a little bit too up close and personal with one of them. It’s quite an elaborate set for such a brief scene, and if you think there might have been more to it, you’d be right. Speaking in an interview with Bloody Disgusting, Leitch said that the bathhouse scene was one that he was eager to share more of:
Deadpool Kills Baby Hitler
“There’s a single shot in the bathhouse fight with the yakuza that’s part of the opening montage that was a seamless 360 shot that’s really fun. It’s sword fighting in a bathhouse full of yakuza that I think at some point we’ll share with the audience in someway. If not on the Blu-ray, somewhere else.”
In a mid-credits montage, Deadpool uses the newly-repaired time-traveling device that he pilfered from Cable to go back in time and change certain events - like rewriting history so that Vanessa doesn’t die, and killing off Ryan Reynolds’ first portrayal of Deadpool from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. That montage originally included a scene in which Deadpool goes back in time, finds baby Adolf Hitler in a maternity ward, and kills him off while telling another crying baby in the ward, “Shut up, Ira, you’ll thank me someday!” However, the sight of Deadpool killing a baby proved too much for test audiences to handle, and the scene was cut from the theatrical version of the movie. It’s possible that Deadpool 2’s dead baby Hitler scene will stay buried forever, but if the Super Duper Cut is more “extreme” than the theatrical cut, this definitely sounds like one of the deleted scenes that would be included. After all, it’s not like Fox has to worry about the box office any more.
More Domino Scenes
The only surviving member of the original X-Force lineup (besides Deadpool) is Domino - a mutant blessed with the superpower of luck, whose parachute defies the strong winds to give her a safe landing. Played by Zazie Beetz, Domino is a character whose powers are a lot of fun to play around with. For example, towards the end of the movie she casually expresses the need for a schoolbus to transport a group of kids to safety, and one conveniently appears. Among the various deleted scenes mentioned by Leitch is the promise of “more Domino stuff.” Intriguingly, Beetz told Digital Spy that one of the scenes that was cut from the movie was the scene that she auditioned with. “It’s just this sort of wonderful kind of back-and-forth between me and Ryan that everybody loved so much,” Beetz explained. “But then parts of the script got reworked, and so it just didn’t fit in anymore.” Let’s hope that we see some of that scene in the extended cut.
