10 Best 2016 Movie Fan Theories

Everybody’s favourite foul-mouthed superhero Deadpool is well known for his tendency for all things meta. In the film, there’s his constant breaking of the fourth wall, his frequent in-jokes and references to Ryan Reynolds previous superhero movie, the doomed Green Lantern. This isn’t something that’s just emerged since his movie appearance either. Back in a 2004 issue of the Cable & Deadpool comic book series, Deadpool stated he looked like ‘Ryan Reynolds crossed with a shar-pei’ and we all know that it wasn’t a cute, wrinkly dog that went on to portray Deadpool in the movie. More recently, the Deadpool video game released in 2013 features another fourth wall-breaking, meta element in which he writes the script to the video game himself.

With all this super-meta-narrative stuff going on in the wider Deadpool universe, some fans have suggested that Deadpool actually wrote the Deadpool movie himself. Wait, what?! Is that even possible? Does it even make any sense? Well, if the makers of the movie were going for the most meta reference in the history of all things meta it would, kind of. According to the folk behind this theory there are certain moments in the movie that support it. Namely that Colossus is much bigger than in his previous film appearances, which makes him kicking Deadpool’s arse less bad, and that he gets the girl at the end of the film despite looking like ‘Freddy Krueger face f*cked a topographical map of Utah’ – all things that an egomaniacal superhero might include in a movie about himself to paint him in a better light. Maybe the sequel, due out in 2018, might shed a bit more light on the Deadpool super-meta theory.