- Deadpool & Wolverine introduces a new Wolverine with his classic costume, diving into time travel adventures.
- Deadpool marked a shift in comic-accurate adaptations with their unconventional marketing and fourth-wall breaks.
- Wolverine now joins a limited group of MCU characters breaking the fourth wall for marketing purposes, a new approach for the character.
One of the most-anticipated Marvel releases of 2024, Deadpool & Wolverine reunites the Canadian mutants after they first crossed paths in X-Men: Origins Wolverine. While the 2009 film reduced Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool to a Merc “without” a Mouth, 2016’s Deadpool and its sequels have reinvented the antihero in comic-accurate fashion. R-rated violence aside, the Deadpool movies allowed the character to break the fourth wall with plenty of Easter Eggs and deadpan humor. Even when Deadpool wasn’t MCU canon, his legacy continued with fourth wall breaks in Marvel movies and shows. Now, it seems like Wolverine has also caught on the trend.
Related Every Actor Cast In Deadpool 3 (So Far) Ryan Reynolds is joining the MCU as the Merc with a Mouth in Phase 6's Deadpool 3, and some of his supporting cast has already been revealed. Wolverine's Fourth Wall Break Explained Hugh Jackman's Character Will Break The Fourth Wall For Marketing Purposes 
While it is common for Deadpool to talk to the audience in not just his movies but also promotional material like TV spots and trailers, it has been confirmed that Wolverine will also be breaking the fourth wall for marketing in cinemas. The decision to make Wolverine address the audience can be traced back to the 2023 video announcing a third Deadpool movie. The video found Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds directly talking to the camera and explaining the movie’s timeline. However, Wolverine’s fourth wall breaking wouldn’t actually feature within the movie and is reserved only for the marketing material. Even if for promotional purposes, Wolverine breaking the fourth wall would be a first for the character, as he has never done so in the comics before. While Deadpool made fourth-wall-breaking mainstream in comics, the first Marvel Comics character to consistently break the fourth wall was She-Hulk, a trend that was followed by Howard the Duck, Squirrel Girl, Loki, Gwenpool, Rick Jones, and occasionally Spider-Man. Wolverine’s fourth-wall breaking is on point for Deadpool and Wolverine’s unconventional marketing gimmicks that range from last year’s announcement videos to Kevin Feige’s CinemaCon announcement of an “intentionally crude” popcorn bucket designed by Deadpool himself.
The MCU Heroes Who've Broken The Fourth Wall WandaVision and She-Hulk Have Heavily Relied On Fourth Wall Breaks Close Every MCU Character Who's Broken The Fourth Wall
Movie/TV Show
Deadpool/Wade Wilson
Deadpool/Deadpool2
Groot
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff
WandaVision/Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Vision
WandaVision
Agatha Harkness
WandaVision
William "Billy" Maximoff/Tommy Maximoff
WandaVision
Pizza Poppa
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
The success of Deadpool in 2016 gave way to many Marvel Cinematic Universe heroes following his fourth-wall-breaking steps. The first example in the MCU was Baby Groot in the opening scene of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. As he dances to “Mr. Blue Sky” in the middle of a battle, he momentarily gets disrupted by an Orloni creature and looks at the camera while also crashing into it. All the sitcom-inspired episodes of WandaVision, similarly had Scarlet Witch, Vision, and their twin children often addressing the audience or just looking into the camera like a character from The Office.
Related Deadpool & Wolverine Is Finally Allowed To Canonize The 8 Year Old Cameo Deadpool Couldn't Deadpool & Wolverine has the chance to reveal the MCU origin of a minor character who made a sneaky cameo in Wade Wilson's first solo movie. A darker variant of Wanda also looked intensely at the camera and said, "It's probably just a case of the Mondays, am I right?" in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. The movie even ended on a meta note with Bruce Campbell’s Pizza Poppa looking right into the camera and yelling, “It’s over!”. However, the non-Deadpool MCU entry with the most fourth-wall breaks is She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, with the titular lawyer-superheroine constantly communicating her inner thoughts with the audience. With Wolverine following suit for the marketing of Deadpool & Wolverine, he has joined a limited group of MCU characters.
