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Trivia: While being interviewed by his fiancée, Zoe Kravitz, Channing Tatum revealed that he wanted to keep the Gambit costume after filming wrapped, as he traditionally keeps an outfit from every film he makes, but was too scared to ask.

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Trivia: Ryan Reynolds posted a deleted scene on his social media in late August 2024, showing that Gambit survived Alioth's attack. While walking around Cassandra Nova's lair and the bodies of her defeated minions, Gambit turned around to see a portal opening, presumably to take him to his own universe or to allow him to enter the Sacred Timeline. Some of this can be seen blurrily in the background of the TVA at the end of the movie.

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Trivia: Happy's signature golf swing has been used by real-life professional golfers, who attest that it can indeed provide extra driving distance, though at the cost of accuracy.

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Trivia: Before the battle at Cassandra Nova's lair begins, Gambit says "Whoo, I'm about to make a name for myself." A.J. LoCascio, who voices Gambit in X-Men '97, posted a video on his social media of him doing an impression of Channing Tatum's line delivery.

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Trivia: This is the first X-Men-centric film to gross over $1 billion.

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Trivia: Gambit's brother Bobby is voiced by Tony Daniels. Daniels would go on to voice Gambit for the final 6 episodes of the series after Gambit's original voice actor, Chris Potter, had left.

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Trivia: Rob McElhenney, who co-owns Wrexham A.F.C. with Ryan Reynolds, filmed a cameo scene as one of the TVA's Minutemen. He said on his social media that he traveled 6 thousand miles to film his cameo, only to learn upon watching the film that his cameo had been cut. Reynolds would later clarify that his cameo was cut because the sequence wasn't working the way they had constructed it.

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Trivia: The character in Cassandra Nova's forces wearing the red-and-white-striped shirt is The Russian, who was portrayed by Kevin Nash in 2004's The Punisher. Nash said he was fine with another actor playing the role in this film, as he isn't as interested in appearing in movies anymore because of his age. Tyler Mane, who plays Sabretooth, was actually a professional wrestling tag team partner of Kevin Nash. Nash himself was offered the role of Sabretooth in X-Men, but couldn't accept it.

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Trivia: Ryan Reynolds offered Nicolas Cage a cameo role in this film as Ghost Rider. Reynolds offered no explanation as to why Cage turned it down, but since Cage is known for accepting almost any role he is offered, it may have just been a scheduling issue.

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Trivia: Director Shawn Levy was one of the finalists to direct the Channing Tatum-starring Gambit movie that never came to be.

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Trivia: Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy personally went to Madonna's house to convince her to let them use "Like a Prayer" in the film, which she otherwise never licenses out for films.

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Trivia: SPOILER: On its opening weekend alone, this became the highest grossing film of Wesley Snipes' career. Prior to its release, he had never appeared in a movie that made at least $100 million at the domestic box office.

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Trivia: SPOILER: Following his appearance in this film, Guinness World Records recognized Wesley Snipes as having the longest career for playing a Marvel character in live action at 25 years and 340 days, surpassing the record previously held by Patrick Stewart. He also had the longest gap between appearances, at 19 years and 231 days, surpassing the record previously held by Alfred Molina.

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Trivia: The lead role was originally intended for Mike Mizanin's fellow WWE wrestler, Randy Orton. Orton was replaced when WWE realised that casting him in the lead role would be bad optics, given that Orton was a former Marine who was once court-martialed for going AWOL.

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Trivia: When Deadpool is looking for a Wolverine variant, he comes upon one that is crucified on an X above a hill of skulls. This is a recreation of the cover of Uncanny X-Men #251.

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Trivia: This film set the record for the highest opening weekend box office for an R-rated film, with $211 million domestically, shattering the $132 million record set by the first Deadpool film. This also gave it the 6th largest opening weekend in history, regardless of MPAA rating. It is also the second R-rated film, after Joker, to gross $1 billion globally, as well as the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.

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Trivia: The gray-haired Wolverine variant on the porch that shoots Deadpool is a reference to Old Man Logan, on which the film Logan was loosely based.

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Trivia: In addition to being short in stature accurate to his comic book counterpart, the first Wolverine variant that Deadpool encounters has very hairy arms. Wolverine in the comics is likewise hirsute.

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Trivia: SPOILER: When the Henry Cavill version of Wolverine attacks Deadpool, the way he pops out his claws is similar to how Henry Cavill "reloaded" his arms during the bathroom fight scene of Mission: Impossible Fallout.

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Trivia: Following the screening of this film in Hall H at the 2024 San Diego Comic Con, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said it was the best movie experience of his life.

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