'Deadpool' has two end-credits scenes — here's what they mean for the sequel
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"Deadpool" is now in theaters.
If you head you to see the film starring Ryan Reynolds as the kooky, foul-mouthed antihero, don't leave the theater once the film's done. The film will have not one, but two end-credits scenes.
The first one, which played in front of early screenings, doesn't contain any important information, but it's that second coda which you'll want to catch.
Missed both of them?
Here's what happened.
Turn back now! Spoilers ahead!
The first end-credits sequence
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Deadpool greets us in a Ferris Bueller-like bathrobe. He takes a jab at other movie end-credits scenes, including those in Disney's Marvel movies, by asking the audience why we're still here.
"You're still here? It's over. Go home," he says as he gets closer to the camera. "OH you're expecting a teaser for Deadpool 2? Well, we don't have that kind of money."
He then turns away from the camera and starts to walk away while saying, "What are you expecting Sam Jackson to to show up in a eye patch?"
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Jackson, of course, plays the Avengers recruiter Nick Fury in Disney's Marvel Cinematic Universe. He showed up at the end of 2008's "Iron Man" to start recruiting superheroes for the Avengers team.
The second end-credits sequence
Deadpool returns in his bathrobe to tell us a new character, Cable, will be in the sequel.
"We have no idea who we're gonna cast yet, but it could be anyone," Deadpool teases. "We just need a big guy with a flat top. Mel Gibson, Dolph Lundgren, Keira Knightley — she's got range."
Deadpool then tells the audience to not leak the end-credits scene online. "It's a total d--- move." (That hasn't stopped people from doing it.)
A "Deadpool" sequel?
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Yup. You heard right.
According to "The Hollywood Reporter," 20th Century Fox has already given the go on "Deadpool 2" with Ryan Reynolds reprising his role and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick returning to write the screenplay. There's no word yet on director Tim Miller.
The R-rated antihero film is expected to have a huge debut this weekend. Analysts are calling for the film to make anywhere from $55 milion to $70 million.
Who is Cable?
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Known as Nathan Summers, the X-Men character was introduced in 1990 and is the son of Cyclops and a Jean Grey clone named Madelyne Pryor. (Yeah, we're starting to go down the comic-book superhero rabbit hole, kids.)
Cable was created as the leader of the New Mutants, a group of X-Men teens. Think of him as a Charles Xavier-type character. You know, the leader of the X-Men.
The big thing with Cable is that in addition to telekinesis, he can time travel. That's pretty big since time travel just changed the entire course of the X-Men franchise in 2014's "Days of Future Past."
At one point, Cable traveled back in time to prevent the creation of Apocalypse, the X-Men's big bad villain in this summer's movie "X-Men: Apocalypse."
If you're thinking the pairing of Cable in a Deadpool sequel seems odd, it isn't. Cable also had a comic series with Deadpool, which was canceled after 50 issues. The series followed Cable as he set out to create a better world, you know, since he's a time traveler who has seen how the world winds up.
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What does this mean for the "Deadpool" sequel? Maybe we'll see Cable's origin along with a bunch of other X-Men characters.
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