Assuming Vanessa will be in the next movie and still Deadpool’s girlfriend, it might be unlikely that anything happens between Cable and Deadpool unless the movie goes along the lines of a polyamorous relationship or at least a threesome. There are a lot of moments between them that makes things seem like the two could be interested in each other. Deadpool and Cable ran across each other a lot in the comics and eventually the two were given their own comic book. Anyway, Cable is also a time traveler who knows how shitty the future turns out and is constantly trying to fix things in the past to make a better future. If you don’t know who Cable, aka Nathan Summers, is, he is the son of Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Jean Grey-well, a clone of Jean Grey, it’s kind of complicated story.
If you stayed until after the credits there was no teaser for the next Deadpool film, but rather Deadpool himself appears and tells the audience that Cable will be in the next movie. There is some hope for the next movie, however. We’ll have to see if the next movie explores his sexuality or continues to leave things ambiguous. So sadly, everything could be easily brushed off as just “silly Deadpool” if the studio wanted. Add to this things like his RENT t-shirt, Bernadette Peters coin purse, and discussion of Robin being in love with Batman, and we have evidence that he likes some stereotypically queer things-but because all these things are just stereotypically “gay”, it doesn’t mean that a character is queer. However, he doesn’t necessarily seem to enjoy it-later in the movie he refers to the prostate as the on button, so perhaps the previous scene was just his first attempt with anal sex? Whatever the case, the movie leaves things unclear. Deadpool also is on the receiving end when he engages in anal sex with Vanessa in the movie (to celebrate International Women’s Day! Yay!) and while hetero couples can and do like anal sex, it at least shows that Deadpool is open to it.
However, while there was nothing overt, the movie did seem to code Deadpool as queer.ĭeadpool often makes sexual comments about the men in the movie (and even some not in the movie, like Hugh Jackman). I was extremely worried that no attempt at showing Deadpool’s pansexuality would be seen at all. But I hoped against hope that we would still see Deadpool making interested comments about men and women and maybe even a reference to a past male relationship. The Deadpool movie wasn’t going to give me Deadpool in a homosexual relationship, because Vanessa, aka Copycat, was going to be featured in the movie as his girlfriend. All it really takes is referencing a past love interest or showing the character flirting with people of various genders. I’m sorry, but I’m not buying this theory, especially not after watching shows like Shadowhunters, which had no issue establishing Magnus Bane as bisexual right away.
This is especially hard to fulfill in comic book movies, where our usually male hero almost always starts off with a female love interest that fans expect to be in the movie.
I have heard some people claim that it is especially difficult for bi/pansexual people to be represented in movies and TV shows because they have to be shown with more than one partner in order to truly represent that. I was extremely dubious that any hint of Deadpool being queer would make it into the movie, but to my pleasant surprise, his sexuality was at least hinted at-though I wouldn’t exactly call this movie a win for queer comic book fans. Probably the biggest thing I have been stressing in my past reviews of Deadpool is the character’s pansexuality and whether or not the movie would portray him accurately.