21 Perfect Superhero Movie Casting Choices That Nailed Their Characters

3. Ryan Reynolds As Deadpool

20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox

No Marvel character has been as monumentally mistreated in cinema as poor Wade Wilson has, even if he's now currently riding on a wave of popularity untraversed since he entered the pages of The New Mutants in 1991.If you can cast your mind back to 2009, you'll probably hold traumatic memories of how Fox made Deadpool - the merc' with a mouth - speechless.

They literally sewed his mouth shut.Ryan Reynolds did however show how much fun Wade could be in the brief five minutes of screen time he was entitled to, and thankfully it all paid off in the long run, as this year's film featuring the eponymous antihero demonstrates so beautifully.

Reynolds simply owns the quirks, the violence, and the fourth-wall break-y nature of the character immaculately, and as audiences (and Fox) have learnt to fall in love with him all over again, expect to see a plethora of sequels in the future.

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