What made Deadpool one of the most (if not the most) rapturously-received trailer at San Diego Comic-Con this year?
It wasn’t just the swearing, the Stan Lee cameo or the hyper-violence — instead, it was the fact that it looks like the first movie that talks to the fan audience in their own language.
The tone was set, admittedly, in a pre-discussion video that voiced many Deadpool fans’ frustrations by making fun of the decision to sew the character’s mouth shut for his big screen debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine; considering the comic book incarnation’s nickname is “the merc with the mouth,” with a reputation for being a wisecracking a-hole, it was a choice that seemed surprising at best, and downright contrary at worst.
