Deadpool & Wolverine: 23 Easter Eggs & References Explained

6. Ice-Skating Uphill

Blade Wesley Snipes
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As the epic battle kicks off between Cassandra Nova's mutant squad and Deadpool, Wolverine, Elektra, Gambit, X-23 (Dafne Keen), and Blade, Blade can't help but return to one of the most iconic one-liners in superhero movie history.

Blade says, "Some motherf**kers are still trying to ice-skate uphill," circling back to the near-identical line he says in the original 1998 Blade film - "Some motherf**kers are always trying to ice-skate uphill."

The sheer idiosyncrasy of the line, which was apparently ad-libbed by Snipes during production of the original Blade, has kept it popular for over an entire quarter-century, and now it's been unexpectedly re-immortalised in the MCU of all things.

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