Ryan Reynolds is the winner at last, following years of campaigning. He will reunite with Hugh Jackman to portray Wolverine and Deadpool in a movie. Indeed, the once-dead X-Man turned superhero Wolverine/Logan/James Howlett is returned. Even though Jackman formally said goodbye to the character in 2015 and the character bravely passed away in 2017’s Logan, he has been persuaded to return as the beloved mutant.

Wolverine’s existence in the MCU had been teased in the She-Hulk: Attorney at Law credits sequence, and he will make his big screen reappearance in Deadpool 3, the first Deadpool film that takes place within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This will be the first time that Deadpool and Wolverine will be together since X-Men: Origins – Wolverine. Deadpool joining the MCU means the trilogy enters a franchise that has already established numerous concepts, chief among them the multiverse, the idea that an infinite number of universes exist featuring endless possibilities, characters, and timelines.

More importantly, the MCU multiverse has established that its characters can be played by the same or different actors, at different ages and times of their lives.