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6 Reasons That Deadpool Is Better Than Any Marvel Movie

Deadpool may be a Marvel creation, but director Tim Miller and producer/star Ryan Reynolds' movie version is about as distant as a super-character can get from the usual Marvel Studios hero. Through 20th Century Fox - the studio having the cinematic rights to the character after introducing him in X-Men Origins - Deadpool has been allowed to become very much the anti-Marvel crusader.

1) It’s Not All About Saving The World

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Every Marvel movie has something unique about it, whether it’s the irreverent humor of Guardians or the retro stylings of Captain America. Just about all the Marvel movies also have something in common: the plot almost always revolves around saving the world, whether the threat comes from villains from the sky (The Avengers, Thor), the Earth (Iron Man 1-3, Ant-Man), or from the heroes themselves (Age of Ultron, Winter Soldier).

Taken as a whole, the MCU is weaker, more predictable because of the insistence on always making the movies about saving all humanity. Deadpool is different – very different. In Deadpool, the hero’s objective is simple: get the villain to fix his disfigured form so his fiance might consider getting back together with him. It’s a plot that both ridicules the overblown Marvel norm and recognizes that superheroes can be at their most compelling when being, well, simply human.