Wade angrily counters Logan’s rebuttal by asking him of it wasn’t his problem when “his world” went to shit, and it’s here that things get really interesting: is this actually the Logan of the Fox continuity?
We’ve known for a while that Deadpool & Wolverine wanted to respect that the events of Jackman’s past appearances would in some way matter to this movie—despite the fact when we last saw him in Logan he was extremely dead. Putting aside both the fact that the continuity of Fox’s X-Men saga is almost as convoluted as anything the source material could muster, and the fact that Logan’s recovered from dying before anyway, the way people talk about Logan in this trailer definitely frames him as a Wolverine, but maybe not the exact one we saw in those films.
After Matthew MacFadyen’s mysterious TVA manager tells Wade (who has dragged Logan back to their HQ) that this Wolverine failed his world, we get a little better picture of why he was so loathed in the opening scene of the trailer. But that reality is still standing, so it’s not like he failed and let it get completely destroyed at that point. And if it’s the reality of Logan and the other Fox X-Men movies—which is really confusing enough that it should be multiple timelines of continuity—what was the turning point on Logan given everything he went through there?
Maybe the question is not where this Wolverine is from, but when—did Wade manage to pluck him out of a time between the events of Logan’s back story, where in between some version of 2014 and 2028 mutantkind was nearly wiped out? Would that be enough to count as having “failed his world?” if most humans would see the near-eradication of mutants as a selfish, cruel benefit?
