10 Movie Sequels That Totally Insulted Great Characters

6. Vanessa - Deadpool 2

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Vanessa Carlysle of Deadpool fame is the second Vanessa in a row on this list to be fridged before the opening credits of a parody sequel. Maybe the name is cursed.

In her first scene, Vanessa, played by Morena Baccarin, proposes having a child with Wade. Since "I want to start a family" is superhero girlfriend for "please kill me now," she doesn't make it out of the scene alive.

However, getting rid of Vanessa so easily and so early is unfair to the character from the last film, whose chemistry with Deadpool made the dark comedy surprisingly sweet. Plus, the first Deadpool ends with Wade's saving Vanessa's life, so killing her so quickly in the second undermines that climax.

Though Wade eventually reverses Vanessa's death via time travel, it's in a post-credit scene, so all the non-die hard Marvel fans have no idea it happened. To quote the merc with a mouth himself, "that's just lazy writing."

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