🔴Deadpool 3 Just Caused Another Major MCU Timeline Confusion🔴
0Deadpool 3 Just Caused Another Major MCU Timeline Confusion
New Deadpool & Wolverine footage relased during CinemaCon raises questions about the movie's setting within the MCU's timeline. As Deadpool & Wolverine's July 2024 release date approaches, Marvel has started to release promotional material and footage. Not only has Wolverine's comic-accurate costume and mask been officially revealed, but nine full minutes of Deadpool & Wolverine have also been shown to CinemaCon attendees. While the footage doesn't reveal too much about Deadpool & Wolverine's plot beyond what the first full trailer already showed, it does include a few hints about Wade Wilson's multiversal mission with the TVA.
The Deadpool & Wolverine footage shown at CinemaCon begins with Wade Wilson as a car salesman, wishing to return to his superhero days. While celebrating his birthday, a group of TVA agents arrive to take him hostage. At the TVA's headquarters, agent Paradox explains the organization's goals to Deadpool, saying that they're tasked with protecting the Sacred Timeline, which is in need of some avenging. This explanation goes in line with everything Loki seasons 1 and 2 established about the TVA. However, the explicit mention of the Sacred Timeline may hide a secret implication.
In the Loki season 2 finale, Loki ultimately decided that the only way of saving the Sacred TImeline was to rearrange it. To achieve it, Loki grabs the disintegrating collection of timelines with his bare hands and rearranges them into a massive tree in the shape of his culture's Yggdrasil. Technically, if Paradox were to refer to the new collection of timelines, he should be calling it "the Tree" or "Yggdrasil" instead of the original "the Sacred Timeline". Most importantly, the TVA's timeline tree should no longer be in need of protection, as Loki's sacrifice is supposed to be effective.
If Paradox is actually referring to the original Sacred Timeline, then it's possible that he's asking Deadpool to stop them from being rearranged by Loki. Loki season 2 revealed that not all TVA workers are on the same page regarding the organization's handling of the multiverse, and time itself doesn't flow linearly outside the Sacred Timeline, especially when Loki uses his Time-Slipping abilities. It's possible that Paradox is opposed to Loki and his allies' last-minute intervention, so he reaches out to Deadpool to help him stop the Norse god from altering time-space even further.