Making a movie is hard work, no one would try and argue otherwise. Given that hundreds of people's work and literal tens of millions of dollars are put into it, and it could be assumed that there would be little to no mistakes. However, that’s rarely the case.
Cars in the background of Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings, Stormtroopers banging their heads in A New Hope, or bullet holes appearing in the wall before a gun is fired in Pulp Fiction. Movie mistakes, or goofs, are nothing new to Hollywood and one would be hard-pressed to find a movie without at least one.
Deadpool was unfortunately awarded the title of having the most mistakes of any movie released in 2016 by Radio Times. Continuity, crew/equipment visible, plot holes, factual errors, unsynchronized audio; so many avenues for mistakes. When a film has so many people on it, it’s bound that someone will mess up and the error will make it into the final cut.
Some mistakes are never noticed; some are but the cost to fix them outweighs the chance/outrage over them. You can always count on cinephiles to catch those mistakes the filmmakers were praying no one would bring to light, and scream them from the rooftops.
Between Deadpool and Deadpool 2, there’s 227 minutes’ worth of film that can be dissected and scrutinized till every blemish is revealed.
Join as we look at some of those tiny imperfections with 20 Mistakes Fans Completely Missed In The Deadpool Movies.
20 Forgetting to Scar Wade’s Hand
Wade and his sidekick Weasel have some of the best banter in the film. In the bar after hours, when Wade first reveals his side-effect of the mutation to his friend, Weasel has some not so kind analogies to describe Wade’s new appearance, ending with, “You’re haunting, truly.”
When the two chums cheers a shot to the newfound superhero, Wade’s hand looks awfully like Weasel's.
The filmmakers seemingly forgot to add the special effects to Deadpool’s hand, despite having already gone through the mutation. Fans sure are thankful that’s the mistake, and not that the writers decided to name him “Captain Deadpool” like the protagonist wanted.
19 Francis Shouldn’t Heal so fast
Ajax, or as many Deadpool fans like to call him, Francis, has his own form of mutation. The English supervillain, played by Ed Skrein, does not feel pain.
Francis is the antithesis of Deadpool, who can heal quickly but feels pain. Francis can’t heal abnormally fast yet doesn’t feel any sort of agony. This is tremendously contradicted when Francis survives numerous events that should have taken out a man without accelerated healing powers.
Hee falls from what looks to be nearly 50 meters, gets stabbed by Deadpool’s sword, and explodes in a building, only to recover in nearly no time at all. He’s not the only mutant in the film who’s defined powers are pretty unreliably treated.
18 Deadpool’s Inconsistent Healing Speeds
Deadpool goes through some pretty gnarly injuries throughout the course of the two film. Severed limbs, getting torn in half, multiple gunshot wounds, and being quite literally blown to smithereens. Never do we get to know, though, just how quickly he’s able to regenerate.
When he’s shot or stabbed, he seems to heal pretty instantaneously, but after his oil drum experiment at the beginning of Deadpool 2 (more on that in a bit) he seems to be a normal, intact person soon after.
When a hand or half his body is missing, it takes a good while for the healing process to complete.
Spelling out someone’s powers on the screen isn’t always the best idea, but giving a bit more info will leave the viewers a lot less puzzled and less likely to count the confusion as error.
17 The Wrong Oil Drum Goes Boom
Editing is hard, but when you spend so much of your time examining every frame of a film, it’s pretty difficult to forgive such egregious errors.
Deadpool is laying on a collection of oil drums, smoking a cigarette in the early parts of the second film. He throws the tobacco in the air, then we cut to an oil drum opening and the cigarette falls in, then we cut to the oil drums exploding. When we see the cigarette fall in the opening, the drum in attention is on the right side of Deadpool, we can see his right shoulder and profile out of focus. When we cut to an aerial view of the drums with Deadpool on top of them, we see the one right behind his head explode first.
16 Wade Reveals Himself To Francis, Twice
After Wade slams Francis into a truck, he gives a bit of dramatic preamble before his next attack. Wade lines up a kick, much like a soccer player would during a free kick, with Francis’ head as the ball.
Wade jokes to Francis about how the new rookie, “Wade Wilson, from Regina, Saskatchewan,” lines up his shot.
After a few kicks and a sword through the shoulder later, Wade jogs Francis’ memory by revealing himself to be Wade Wilson, to the surprise of Francis. Sure, Francis was being beaten and may not have heard DP’s monologue about the free kick, but the man doesn’t feel pain, so he shouldn’t have been preoccupied with the pounding.
15 Deadpool’s Unscarred Baby Legs
One of the biggest laughs in Deadpool 2 came from a more exaggerated gag from the first film. After trying to save Russell, Deadpool goes against Juggernaut, who literally rips the Merc with a Mouth in half. Deadpool’s regenerating powers come in, and begin to grow his bottom half back, little by little. Thus, Deadpool is left with “baby legs” for a bit of time, of course just as everyone and their brother barges into his apartment.
The only issue with the scene, other than not being able to hear the dialogue because of the audience laughter, is that Deadpool’s legs aren’t scarred like the rest of his body. Maybe the scarring only occurs after a body part is fully grown, but until it’s explained, many think the filmmakers just thought the smooth legs were funnier.
14 Two Very Different Drawings
During the freeze frame at the beginning of the film, we see a picture of Deadpool cutting off Francis’ head with a speech bubble coming from the Merc reading, “Hi! I’m Deadpool.” Yet when we see Deadpool drawing this image later in the film on the bridge, it’s a completely different rendition.
We see Deadpool shooting Francis, with the speech bubble switching to Francis, who is saying “Hi! I’m Francis.”
The drawing was a very important part of the test footage that was leaked (potentially voluntarily), which was an integral part in making the film happen. There’s not much reason for the change, especially since both drawings seem to be CGI and could have been fixed in post-production, meaning no extra money to film another scene.
13 Disappearing Debris
We see Deadpool toss Francis into the underpart of a car that has been turned on its side. Francis slides into the truck, along with his bike beside him and a few pieces of metal that land right in front of him. Then we see Deadpool walking towards the injured Francis-- even though Francis shouldn’t feel injured-- and the debris is nowhere to be found.
It’s a simultaneous cut, meaning no time was missed between the edits, yet two pieces of metal have curiously vanished. More than likely it was a mistake on the crew’s part, or they removed the debris for a better vantage point of Francis and hoped no one would notice the error.
12 Wade Heals, His Suit Doesn’t
Early in the film, we see Deadpool get stabbed in the side of the head by Francis. After, Deadpool takes out the knife and we see a hole in the suit as well as the wound. Then in the next shot, there’s no hole, and then the hole appears again.
This can probably once again be chalked up to bad editing.
More than likely, they had a shot of Deadpool pre-stabbing and accidentally placed it in the wrong spot-- not an uncommon occurrence. In the new age of computer graphics, mistakes like this are more often covered up digitally, but sometimes they sneak by.
11 Wade and Colossus Teleport
Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead are more or less responsible for Francis’ escape from Deadpool’s bondage. They distract the Merc, and thus let the bad guy get away. Deadpool has issue with this, and starts a losing battle with the metal giant, and has to go to drastic measures to escape. The way he escapes has its own flaw, which we’ll discuss shortly, but the blocking of the scene already doesn’t make sense.
Wade severs his arm and launches himself off of Colossus. In the shot when Wade flies from the bridge, the big guy is standing right next to the edge of the bridge, though when they’re walking, they’re a good five to ten feet from it. The cut, again, is simultaneous. Poor blocking is hard to catch, but sticks out like a sore thumb when noticed.
10 Vanessa’s Tattoo Moves
During Wade and Vanessa’s (Morena Baccarin) year of physicality (to put it mildly) we see a good portion of both of their bodies, including Vanessa’s various tattoos. During their first date to the arcade we see that Vanessa has a tattoo of a rose on the left side of her chest.
The tattoo stays in place throughout the beginning of their relationship montage, but then moves.
When we see their relations (to put it mildly, again) during Halloween, the ink has moved to the other side of her chest, and the left side is now bare. It's a pretty flagrant error.
9 The Magic Staple
The first film comes to a close: the bad guy’s defeated, the good guy wins, and his girl stays with him forever. This is supposed to be what happens for Wade, until he remembers that he’s still quite deformed by his mutation. Before he lets Vanessa see what’s under his mask, he warns her of his new condition. She lifts his Deadpool mask, only to find one of Hugh Jackman. She removes that one, which is stapled on, to reveal his true face.
We see a staple hanging from Wade’s chin. The staple is vertical, hanging by one end. Then we see Vanessa, then cut back to Wade, and the staple is now horizontal with both sides intact. The staple went from falling off, to perfectly in place, just like that. The magic of movie-making!
8 Deadpool's exploding oxygen chamber
Quick science lesson: there’s something called a fire-triangle which consists of heat, fuel, and oxygen. No combustion can take place when missing any three of these substances.
In the first film, when Deadpool steals Angel’s match and lights it in his pod (which is pumping oxygen) an explosion occurs. Now remembering our previous lecture, we know that one substance is missing: fuel.
No explosion would occur without some type of fuel.
The chamber is only meant to withdraw and then add oxygen, so there’s no reason any fuel of any sort would be in there with him. If anything, the flow of oxygen would more likely put the match out then cause a blast.
7 Angel Can Take Colossus Punches' But Not A Head-Butt From Wade
Angel's powers are never clearly defined in the first film, but in the comics she’s able to increase her adrenaline levels, thus gaining super strength and increased speed. We see the character (played by American Gladiator veteran Gina Carano) take numerous hits from the man of metal, Colossus, and barely flinch.
Her strength allows her to go toe-to-toe with Colossus, but when she receives a shot from a newly mutated Wade, she flies backwards.
Varying degrees of powers is a constant issue for mutants in the film, but to see Angel take on Colossus after such a simple defeat by Deadpool is a pretty silly sight to witness.
6 The Sun Jumps Around in the sky
After Deadpool pins Francis to the side of the bridge and Colossus comes into the picture, the Sun seems to be in a different spot in the sky every time the camera cuts to a new shot.
Of course, different shots are filmed at different times in the day, but making sure the sun isn’t seen, or that shadows are relatively similar is an important thing to notice and to make sure and not have a continuity error. For those who are scientific-minded, it's obvious, but perhaps only so much time can be put towards fixing such a minute issue that many viewers won’t notice.
5 Blind Al Draws The Same Gun Twice
It’s so hard to criticize Blind Al. She’s sweet, despite the fact that she swears like a sailor, has a substance problem, and packs firearms. When Cable comes into Al's apartment, everyone draws their weapons, including Al, Wade, Dopinder, Domino, and Weasel.
First we see Wade and Al draw, then the three sidekicks, then Al draws the same weapon again as if she hadn’t.
Again, this an issue with editing; but the question remains as to why not just cut the first shot of Al and Wade drawing, and just keep the second? It looks like we will never know.
4 Deadpool's Infinite Swords
Remember how Deadpool pinned Ajax to the side of the bridge with one of his swords? Well, he never got that sword back, even going as far as to sever his arm with a smaller knife. He then launches off Colossus and lands in the garbage truck. While in the garbage truck, we see him lying there, swordless. Then, miraculously, his swords reappear immediately after leaving the truck and getting into the conversation with Blind Al about the Kullen.
Odds are that it was necessary for the plot that Wade have his blades back, but necessity will never be an excuse for lazy writing, regardless of the level of absurdity of the film.
3 The impossible brake fluid
After the unfortunate demise that plagued most of X-Force, Domino and Deadpool still try and save Russell from Cable’s wrath. Domino is driving the convoy, which is holding the young man as well as many other prisoners. Cable shoots at it, disconnecting the tube that is holding the hydraulic fluid, more commonly known as brake fluid.
A truck of that size wouldn’t have a brake fluid line, because it shouldn’t have any brake fluid.
A truck that large (let’s say it’s similar to a garbage truck) would weigh about 50,000 lbs. Any truck that weighs more than 26,000-33,000 would use air brakes, not hydraulic brakes. Leaking air isn’t as aesthetically pleasing as leaking hydraulic fluid, understandably, so the change was made.
2 Blind Al Finishes The Furniture With Pieces Missing
No one talks about Swedish furniture quite like the Merc with a Mouth. After swapping out their Hurdal for the Kullen, Blind Al is tasked with building it. She asks for a screw, to which Deadpool makes a crude joke, of course. Then, after not receiving the screw from Wade, she declares the piece finished. It’s obviously not, since it falls to pieces, but there’s no reason for Al to believe it to be done having not received the screw from Wade.
Still, the Kullen is nice; an improvement over the Hurdal. Take it from the man himself: “Please. Anything is an improvement over the Hurdal. I’d have taken a Hemnes or a Trysil over the Hurdal. No, I didn’t get excited till I saw the Kullen.”
1 Wade's disappearing hand
Don’t you hate when you cut off an arm, then it magically reappears and the other one’s missing? Happens to everyone, right? Let's go back to the bridge scene, when Deadpool cuts off his left hand to escape.
When the camera cuts and we see Wade falling to the truck, it’s now his right hand that’s missing.
This is arguably the most blatant continuity error in the film, as the FX team had to CGI an image of Deadpool missing his left hand, and then immediately did the same effect, on his right; and no one caught it. It's possible they mirrored one of the shots, but did they think viewers wouldn't notice?
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