Deadpool & Wolverine is a 2024 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Deadpool and Wolverine. Produced by Marvel Studios, Maximum Effort, and 21 Laps Entertainment, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 34th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018). The film was directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay he wrote with Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells. Reynolds and Hugh Jackman respectively star as Wade Wilson / Deadpool and Logan / Wolverine, alongside Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Aaron Stanford, and Matthew Macfadyen. In the film, Deadpool learns that the Time Variance Authority is set to destroy his universe and works with a reluctant Wolverine from another universe to stop them.
In 2018, after Wade Wilson uses Cable's time-travel device to prevent the death of his girlfriend Vanessa Carlysle,[a] he travels from his universe, Earth-10005,[b] to Earth-616 / the "Sacred Timeline"[c] hoping to join the Avengers and give his life added meaning. He is rejected by Happy Hogan and returns to his own universe. Six years later, Wade has broken up with Vanessa and retired from being the masked mercenary Deadpool. He works as a used-car salesman with his friend Peter Wisdom.
During Wade's birthday party, the Time Variance Authority (TVA) captures him and brings him to Mr. Paradox, who explains that they are an organization outside of time that monitors the Sacred Timeline and wider multiverse. Paradox reveals that Wade's timeline is deteriorating as a result of the death of its stabilizing "anchor being", Logan.[d] Paradox plans to use a device called a "Time Ripper" to speed up this process rather than spend thousands of years waiting for the timeline to die naturally. He offers to spare Wade by sending him to the Sacred Timeline where he is expected to play an important role in future events. Wade steals Paradox's TemPad and uses it to travel to Logan's grave, hoping to resurrect him and save their timeline. When this fails, Wade uses the TemPad to travel the multiverse in search of an alternate universe "variant" of Logan that can replace his own.
Wade returns to the TVA with a variant of Logan but is told by Paradox that an anchor being cannot be replaced, least of all by this variant who is considered to be the worst Wolverine in the multiverse. When Wade deduces that Paradox is acting without the knowledge of his superiors, Paradox sends Wade and Logan to the Void where all things are consumed by the creature Alioth. Wade and Logan are captured with Johnny Storm and taken to Cassandra Nova, the powerful and sadistic twin sister of X-Men leader Charles Xavier. Cassandra, who made a deal with the TVA to remain in the Void, kills Johnny for insulting her and leaves Wade and Logan to be consumed by Alioth. The pair manage to escape.
Logan and Wade meet a variant of Deadpool called "Nicepool" who gives them a car and directs them towards a resistance group who have been fighting against Cassandra. Logan agrees to work with Wade in exchange for the TVA fixing his timeline, but when he realizes that this may not be possible the pair fight and are both left unconscious. They are found by the resistance group, consisting of Laura, Elektra, Blade, and Gambit. Wade proposes an alliance to fight Cassandra, and Logan is convinced to join them by Laura—the daughter of Earth-10005's Logan. The resistance members distract Cassandra's henchmen while Wade and Logan block her powers by placing Juggernaut's helmet on her head. Cassandra is betrayed by her follower Pyro on behalf of Paradox and almost dies until Logan convinces Wade to remove the helmet. Cassandra heals herself and opens a portal to Earth-10005 where Wade and Logan learn that Paradox has completed the Time Ripper.
Cassandra learns about Paradox's plan from Pyro and travels to Earth-10005. She learns how to use the Time Ripper from Paradox's mind and plans to destroy all timelines, leaving only the Void. Cassandra summons an army of Deadpool variants who kill Nicepool and battle Wade and Logan until Peter arrives and convinces them to relent. Paradox tells Wade and Logan that one of them could destroy the Time Ripper by disrupting its power flow, but this would kill them. Wade and Logan destroy the Time Ripper, killing Cassandra in the process, and are able to survive by sharing the burden. Paradox is arrested by Hunter B-15 of the TVA, who reveals that the actions of Wade and Logan have saved Earth-10005 from deteriorating. Wade asks Hunter B-15 to save the resistance group from the Void and change the history of Logan's world. She explains that the latter is not possible because Logan's history is what led to him being a hero now. Later, Wade invites Logan to meet his friends. During a gathering that includes Laura, Logan encourages Wade to reconcile with Vanessa.