The second teaser for Deadpool & Wolverine confirms the return of two villains from the X-Men films who haven’t been seen in live-action in almost a decade.
The return of two mutant villains, Lady Deathstrike and Azazel, who appear to be Cassandra Nova’s bodyguards in the Void, is revealed in the second teaser for Deadpool & Wolverine.
Only in X-Men 2000 did Lady Deathstrike make an appearance; Wolverine used liquid adamantium to end her life. Only in X-Men: First Class did Azazel make an appearance. There, he helped Sebastian Shaw in the Hellfire Club.
Deadpool & Wolverine will also have minor cameos by Toad, Sabretooth, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Yukio, and Shatterstar, among other X-Men characters.
Several mutant characters from earlier X-Men films are teased in the second Deadpool & Wolverine trailer and will feature in the MCU Phase 5 film. The movie Deadpool & Wolverine is revealing more and more information as its July 2024 release date draws near. The second teaser for Deadpool & Wolverine is jam-packed with surprises and easter eggs, including a subtle hint at Rob Liefeld, the man who created Deadpool, and Hugh Jackman dressed as Wolverine. The narrative of Deadpool and Wolverine is now more apparent as well; Wolverine’s sad past raises the possibility that his entire universe was destroyed.
The primary adversary of Deadpool & Wolverine, Cassandra Nova, is a formidable telekinetic foe who has no desire to engage the title characters in direct combat, as the teaser for the film depicts. It appears that Nova’s headquarters are in the Void, specifically within the skull of a deceased Giant-Man counterpart of Ant-Man. She’s being protected outside by a small army of trimmed mutant variations. Although the first trailer for Deadpool and Wolverine revealed Pyro’s appearance and Toad was spotted on the set a few months earlier, the second video for Deadpool and Wolverine confirms two mutants who hadn’t been seen in live-action in thirteen and twenty-one years, respectively.
How Azazel And Lady Deathstrike Fit With Deadpool & Wolverine
Lady Deathstrike And Azazel Seem To Work For Cassandra Nova In Deadpool & Wolverine
In Deadpool & Wolverine, Lady Deathstrike and Azazel make a reappearance, presumably as Cassandra Nova’s bodyguards in the Void. It seems that Cassandra Nova hides inside the skull of a deceased Ant-Man version who passed away while in his Giant-Man form, protecting herself from the all-consuming Alioth. It appears that Cassandra Nova either recruited mutant versions she met in the Void or tore them from their universes to repel invaders like the TVA, Deadpool, and Wolverine. After all, Cassandra Nova is able to control weaker mutants thanks to her strong telepathic and telekinetic talents.
The fact that Lady Deathstrike and Azazel are serving Cassandra Nova despite coming from very different eras within Fox’s X-Men movie timeline suggests that they are variants who were sent to the Void by the TVA for disrupting the course of their home universes. However, it’s possible that their branches of the Sacred Timeline were destroyed altogether, either by a cataclysmic event or by Loki’s tampering with the multiverse in the Loki season 2 finale. Either way, Cassandra Nova’s minions don’t have many chances of survival, as Alioth, Deadpool, Wolverine, and Cassandra Nova herself can kill them without much effort.
Deadpool & Wolverine are the only confirmed returning X-Men characters.
Lady Deathstrike and Azazel make their long-awaited comebacks to the X-Men films, along with other returning mutants. A full eighteen years after his final appearance in X-Men: The Last Stand, Aaron Stanford reprises his role as Pyro in Deadpool & Wolverine. In a similar vein, Ray Park returns to the character of Toad an astounding twenty-four years after making his lone X-Men appearance. Since Toad was seen with Sabretooth on the Deadpool & Wolverine set, it seems likely that more trailers or promotional photos will confirm Sabretooth’s reappearance.
In Deadpool & Wolverine, nearly every character from Fox’s X-Men film series might make a fleeting appearance. Actors Vinnie Jones from Juggernaut and Famke Janssen from Jean Grey are the only ones who have officially denied being in the film thus far. The most likely characters to make an appearance—at least in a minor Deadpool & Wolverine role—are Ian McKellen’s Magneto, ten years after X-Men: Days of Future Past, Rebecca Romjin’s Mystique, eighteen years after X-Men: The Last Stand, and James Marsden, ten years after his cameo at the film’s conclusion.