How ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’s’ R-Rated Trailer Leaves PG-13 MCU In The Dust

Deadpool & Wolverine fans got a taste of an R-rated Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Monday with a new red band trailer that leaves more than 30 MCU PG-13 films in its filthy yet funny wake.

The teaser trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine debuted February 12 as a Super Bowl spot with a hint of what Walt Disney Pictures — the owner of Deadpool studio 20th Century Films — could expect in star Ryan Reynolds’ provocative superhero world. Deadpool & Wolverine — the only MCU release on Disney’s slate this year — is set for a July 26 debut in theaters.

The shift from the PG-13 MCU was evident throughout Deadpool & Wolverine teaser’s dialogue, as Reynolds’ Wade Wilson/Deadpool says at one point, “Your little cinematic universe is about to change forever … I’m the Messiah. I … am … Marvel Jesus.”

The teaser also featured two partially dampened F-bombs and two partially obscured shots of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine/Logan. In the new official trailer, Wolverine and a half-dozen F-bombs are seen and heard in their full glory.

It takes a mere six seconds for the first F-bomb to be uttered by a bartender to Wolverine in the new Deadpool & Wolverine trailer — and Deadpool and Wolverine gleefully cite the remaining five.

In addition to its F-bombs, other R-rated elements in the official Deadpool & Wolverine trailer include some not-so-subtle sexual references, bloody mayhem and talk of cocaine between Wilson and his close friend Blind Al (Leslie Uggams).

Among the slang names the two use for cocaine in the trailer is “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” — which refers to one of the memorable songs in Disney’s 2013 animated blockbuster Frozen.

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Of course, the R rating for Deadpool & Wolverine is a big deal to fans of Ryan Reynolds’ crimson-suited Merc with a Mouth, since the first two Deadpool movies — released by 20th Century Fox in 2016 and 2018 — carried the restricted MPAA rating.

The studio also owned the X-Men movie universe — which includes Wolverine and his fellow mutants — but all of the films in that saga were rated PG-13 until Hugh Jackman’s Logan was released with an R rating in 2017.

When Disney officially completed its acquisition of 20th Century – dropping the “Fox” name from the company name — in 2019, Marvel fans were left wondering how Deadpool’s adult-humor world would fit into the family-friendly MCU. Now, as the new trailer shows, Deadpool is continuing to do his own thing with Wolverine in tow.

Deadpool & Wolverine transports the title characters into the MCU’s multiverse where they come into contact with the Time Variance Authority, which was introduced in the MCU in the Disney+ series Loki in 2021.

Among the new characters Deadpool and Wolverine encounter are a TVA agent named Paradox (Succession star Matthew Macfayden) and the film’s main villain, Cassandra Nova, played by Emma Corwin (the young adult version of Princess Diana in The Crown).

In addition, director Shawn Levy and Reynolds commemorate Deadpool’s and the X-Men’s old studio with a brief shot in the trailer of a huge 20th Century Fox logo structure sunken halfway into the ground — a la the Statue of Liberty in Fox’s 1968 sci-fi classic Planet of the Apes.