Spider-Man: Far From Home - What Does The Multiverse Mean For MCU?

2. Deadpool Can Exist

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It's one thing to bring X-Men and the Fantastic Four into the MCU, but Deadpool, while also a Fox character, is something of a special case. With his penchant for extreme, well, everything, he's a little harder to work into the MCU's family-friendly brand.

Again, the multiverse can provide an easy answer for this, because they can simply allow Deadpool to exist in one of the many alternate versions of Earth. It means you can have a movie that's at odds with the rest of the product while still delivering the Deadpool action people want to see (even if they do have to keep it PG-13).

Because of Deadpool's ability to break the fourth wall, they can even have him directly reference the fact that he's in the multiverse and kept in a separate dimension from the rest of the MCU. They could even have him interact with alternate versions of MCU characters, so it stays separate but we still get to see him involved with other heroes, and if they really wanted to be ballsy (though it'd be tricky to pull off) they could do their own spin on Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe.

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