"Because meta is Deadpool’s whole shtick, issuing overt commentary on the tropes, texts, and genres..."

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Because meta is Deadpool’s whole shtick, issuing overt commentary on the tropes, texts, and genres of which he is a part is already solidly in his wheelhouse. Deadpool can ease audiences into his sexuality by directly commenting on how (sadly) groundbreaking it is, and then throwing people’s probable discomfort with it directly back in their faces. That’s what he does, that’s what he is supposed to do. That’s what makes him subversive, and it’s also exactly what makes him HIM. The joke isn’t...