Could Deadpool’s New Adamantium Swords Actually Kill Wolverine?

It’s been revealed that Deadpool & Wolverine will see Wade Wilson getting brand-new swords, and they may pose a problem for Wolverine himself. Thanks to exclusive new footage released at CinemaCon 2024, new details about Deadpool and his gear have come to light. This includes a special request the Merc With The Mouth makes following his recruitment by the TVA.

With Screen Rant having been in attendance at Cinema-Con, descriptions of the exclusive Deadpool & Wolverine footage confirm that Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) has retired from his life as a mercenary. However, the TVA picks up him during his birthday party, seeking his help to save the Sacred Timeline and offering him the chance to join “the greatest universe” (aka the MCU). Convinced to wear the red suit once again, Deadpool is also getting some new blades that could potentially do some real damage to Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine who will serve as Wade’s new partner.

Deadpool Gets Adamantium Katanas In Deadpool & Wolverine

Thanks to the TVA

According to the new Deadpool & Wolverine footage, Wade Wilson will be getting new adamantium katanas along with his new suit and gear. Provided by the TVA, Wade thanks Mister Paradox directly in the CinemaCon footage, the TVA agent seen recruiting Deadpool in the first trailer (played by Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen). As such, it seems as though Deadpool wants to be able to go toe to toe with Wolverine himself.

An indestructible metal, adamantium is the fictional alloy in Marvel Comics and in Fox’s various X-Men movies that was used during the Weapon X experiments that were done to Wolverine. Thanks to his mutant healing factor, only Wolverine could survive the bonding process that covered his bones and claws with the impressive metal. It’s what’s made Wolverine such an effective and dangerous hero both on the page and on-screen. However, one has to wonder if Deadpool’s new adamantium swords will be able to harm Logan in their upcoming MCU movie.

X-Men Movie History Proved Adamantium Can Hurt Wolverine

X-Men Origins and Logan

As seen in past X-Men movies from Fox, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine has been harmed by adamantium before with lasting effects. In 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Col. William Stryker shot Logan in the head with an adamantium bullet. This resulted in Logan losing several of his memories indefinitely. Although his brain healed, the memories were lost due to the lasting brain damage that had broken through his adamantium-covered skull.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

After Bryan Singer’s X-Men trilogy, Hugh Jackman returns as the titular clawed mutant in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The 2009 superhero movie explores Logan’s origins with a look back at Weapon X, the experiment that covered his skeleton with adamantium. It marks Ryan Reynolds’ first appearance as Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool, and it precedes James Mangold’s The Wolverine and Logan, which retroactively make Origins the first installment in a solo trilogy for Jackman’s iconic Marvel hero.

Director

Gavin Hood

Release Date

April 30, 2009

Studio(s)

20th Century

Distributor(s)

20th Century

Writers

Gavin Hood

Runtime

107minutes

Budget

$150 million

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Likewise, 2017’s Logan confirmed that Wolverine’s healing factor had gradually been slowing down and diminishing due to adamantium poisoning his body. This confirmed that the very thing that made him stronger was also killing him. However, this still begs the question as to what would happen if Wolverine were to lose a limb or was beheaded by adamantium swords, though X-Men Origins does imply that Wolverine could easily heal from any cuts, having received his fair share from Ryan Reynolds’ more controversial Weapon XI Deadpool who was given adamantium blades embedded in his arms by the movie’s end.

Logan

Logan sees the titular hero, AKA Wolverine, in his twilight years as his healing factor has begun to fail him, and he has begun to age more rapidly. Set several years in the future, Logan finds himself caring for an ailing Professor Xavier, whose mind has begun to succumb to dementia, making him an incredibly dangerous mutant that can cause widespread destruction accidentally. But when the preoccupied Logan is asked to meet with a woman that requests he transports a young girl to a mutant haven known as Eden, he learns that she may have his DNA and that the fate of mutant-kind may rest in her hands.

Release Date

March 3, 2017

Studio(s)

20th Century , Marvel

Distributor(s)

20th Century

Runtime

137 Minutes

Budget

$97–127 million

Marvel Comics Showed Adamantium Can Kill Wolverine

It’s Possible To A Certain Extent

Marvel’s Wolverine was killed by adamantium in the past as seen in the original comics. In 2014’s Death of Wolverine, Logan was killed by Weapon X director Dr. Cornelius, wanting to take Wolverine’s power and create more living weapons. Wolverine naturally resisted his efforts, though it resulted in Logan’s body being covered head to toe by a vat of molten adamantium, encasing his entire body as it hardened (though he was naturally brought back to life years later).

That being said, it doesn’t seem Wolverine will need to worry much about Deadpool’s new swords in Deadpool & Wolverine. He should be able to heal just fine from any cuts or lacerations and even lost limbs if Wade can get through the joints in Logan’s adamantium skeleton. If anything, having adamantium swords is likely a means for Deadpool to be on par with his new partner’s claws (considering he already has his own healing factor). Furthermore, one could imagine that the katanas might serve as the foundation for a fun reference to the more controversial Deadpool from X-Men Origins.

Deadpool & Wolverine

A sequel to the highly successful Deadpool and Deadpool 2 starring Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth. The third film will be the first film in the franchise to be developed under the Marvel Studios banner following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox. Ryan Reynolds is returning to play the character, alongside Hugh Jackman, reprising his Wolverine role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time. 

Director

Shawn Levy

Release Date

July 26, 2024

Studio(s)

Marvel , Maximum Effort

Writers

Rhett Reese , Paul Wernick