The team most wanted by Marvel fans is a disaster in the making

The author Chris Snelgrove
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For longtime comic book nerds, half the fun of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is seeing some of our favorite teams from our favorite issues brought to life on the big screen. With release from Deadpool & Wolverineboth of our titular characters are now part of the MCU, and fans can't stop speculating about who the Merc With the Mouth will be teaming up with next on screen. The most popular request has been to make a movie combining Spider-Man and Deadpool, but despite their long history of working together in the comics, such a combination would be limitless cinematically. disaster.

Spider-Man and Deadpool

Even if you've never opened a Marvel comic, you can probably guess why the writers like to put Spider-Man and Deadpool together. Both of these are very funny characters who are famous for cracking weird jokes even in the middle of the most dangerous fights. Their big personalities bounce off each other in amusing and unexpected ways, and the big differences in their morals (Deadpool kills and Spider-Man doesn't) often gives them things to argue about when they're not busy saving the world.

In short, Spider-Man and Deadpool have had countless comic book team-ups that provide serious entertainment value, so why would I argue that they shouldn't get their own. MCU team composition? For starters, the main difference in the characters' ages would make an on-screen collaboration odd, Ryan Reynolds is a full two decades older than Tom Holland (48 vs. 28 respectively), which would inevitably make this look less like a team of equals and more like a really weird character/lineup story in the vein of Batman and Robin.

Also, one of the weird luxuries of comics is that as time goes on, most of the characters are frozen in time. Peter Parker was a teenage crime fighter who now constantly exists as a man in his early 20s. With decades of publishing history, Spider-Man still has a lifetime of experience that helps him work with Deadpool and sometimes even bond with him. While Holland is in his mid-20s in real life, Spider-Man is still so young in the MCU that it wouldn't make sense for him to hang around a middle-aged mercenary mass murderer.

A moral problem

This brings us to the vexed problem of morality. It's a great thrill in Deadpool's solo movies that he doesn't feel pointless about killing, and our title character leaves a small graveyard behind after every big action scene. So his on-screen teams team up with other characters who don't really have a problem with killing, including Cable and Wolverine. After the setbacks with these cruel mutants, it would be a no-brainer strange for Deadpool to provide maximum killing effort alongside Peter Parker, the moral core of the MCU.

At this point some might say Marvel could change either Spider-Man or Deadpool; maybe make the latter less violent or somehow make the former cool (perhaps via a variant) with mayhem and carnage. Doing so, however, could make these characters cheaper, but ultimately fall short of giving audiences what they want: an authentic version of the characters they know and love interacting on screen. Anything less would betray the audience, and anything more would betray the characters.

The solution is simple: as much as fans want it, a Spider-Man/Deadpool MCU team-up should be off the table. At least with this version of these characters. Considering Marvel will likely reboot the entire universe after this Secret Warswe will end up seeing a very different Spider-Man and a very different Deadpool come together. However, whether anyone will want to see it after years of painful superhero fatigue is another matter entirely.