10 Movie Characters Destroyed By The Fourth Wall

2. "Barakapool" - Deadpool 2

Deadpool 2 Credits
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The Deadpool movies of course pride themselves on peeling back the fourth wall at every errant opportunity, and this was elevated to a level of mastery in Deadpool 2's legendary mid-credits scenes.

After the day is saved, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) borrows Cable's (Josh Brolin) newly repaired time travel trinket to go back in time and "fix the timeline."

This involves him saving his fiancee Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) and X-Force member Peter (Rob Delaney), and quite brilliantly, re-visiting the events of the much-loathed movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where he murders the crude "Barakapool" version of himself.

Even though Origins: Wolverine was effectively wiped from the X-Men continuity by Days of Future Past, it sure was satisfying to see the movie's wretched approximation of Deadpool finally taken out for good.

And if we want to go one level deeper, let's also not forget that Deadpool then goes on to murder a circa-2010 Ryan Reynolds in the next mid-credits scene, just before he can sign on for Green Lantern.

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