WATCH: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ leans even deeper into homoerotica—with a little help from Madonna
Deadpool & Wolverine seems to be: “Wait, are these two going to explore each other’s bodies?”Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.From the bromantic BFF necklace teaser poster sporting the cheeky tagline “COME TOGETHER” (get it???), to the intentionally suggestive, Dune 2-riffing popcorn buckets, it’s clear they’re embracing the homoeroticism.the deadpool popcorn buckets are not it pic.twitter.com/q5sx7sp6D1And… we guess that’s a good thing?
For those of us old enough to remember a time when entire movies were built around “gay panic” jokes, we suppose it’s a relief to see a blockbuster so gung-ho about spotlighting intimate male bonds.Anyway, Deadpool & Wolverine‘s latest trailer continues to lean in, giving us little in terms of plot details but plenty of will-they-won’t-they kiss/kill each other moments between its titular stars.Sleeveless wolverine and deadpool.
This movie was made for the gays #DeadpoolAndWolverine pic.twitter.com/X1edDgDn79Best we can tell, the story concerns itself with “The Merc With The Mouth” Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) being tapped by the timeline-maintaining Time Variance Authority (first introduced in Disney+’s Loki series) to recruit X-Men bad boy Wolverine (Hugh Jackman, in his new single daddy era) for a mission to save time and space as we know it.Again, the new footage here is mostly focused on the touchy (in more ways than one) relationship between these two, who appear to begrudgingly find some common ground—including their regenerative healing powers, which means their brutal, bloody brawls could go on and on and on.Hugh Jackman is enjoying the life of a divorcee –– and the gay community is right there with him.And even said fights are homoerotic!
Gratuitous crotch shots, suggestive chokeholds, tension-filled staring contests—Deadpool and Wolverine are never not seconds away from either punching each other in the face, or ripping one another’s.
