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The whole world expected a Taylor Swift appearance in Deadpool & Wolverine
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00:00Spoiler culture is more rampant than ever, so much so that audiences can end up going into movies expecting to
00:06see very specific reveals and scenes that just seem nailed on to happen.
00:12And sometimes they're bang on the money, and an anticipated moment does end up in the eventual film, but other
00:18times the things that we expected to see end up not appearing at all.
00:23With this in mind, today we're talking about the recent movie moments everyone was waiting for.
00:28First up, an appearance by Taylor Swift, Deadpool, and Wolverine.
00:34Everyone knew that Deadpool and Wolverine was going to be stacked with huge cameos from start to finish.
00:40Even before entering the MCU, Deadpool 2 managed to bring the entire X-Men team together, even if it was
00:47just for a split second.
00:49And with the Fox Universe and the MCU to draw from, the third in the trilogy had an embarrassment of
00:55riches at its fingertips.
00:57That being said, however, there was one rumoured appearance that everyone was waiting for that ultimately didn't happen, namely, the
01:07appearance of one Taylor Swift.
01:09This was a theory that the internet grabbed onto and just ran with, until it felt almost certain that the
01:15biggest pop star in the world would show her face in this flick.
01:20There have been rumours for a long time surrounding Taylor Swift joining a Marvel film in some capacity, in particular
01:27to play Dazzler.
01:29And with her being real life friends with Ryan Reynolds and wife Blake Lively, paired with the shirt that Wade
01:36wore in Deadpool 2 that actually featured Swift's cats, it seemed like a sure thing.
01:41Add to the equation the first footage of Ladypool from the trailers and there could be no question, right?
01:48Well, the female Deadpool was ultimately portrayed by Lively herself, and director Shawn Levy has since confirmed that there was
01:55never even a single conversation had about bringing the megastar on board.
02:01Well, there's always next time.
02:03Next up, the death of Ethan Hunt, Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning.
02:08Now, as soon as you put the word final into the title of a film in a franchise that has
02:13run for as long as Mission Impossible has, it's hard to not think about a permanent end.
02:19Particularly with someone like Ethan Hunt, who has been dicing with death from the very beginning of this franchise.
02:26The marketing for the latest Mission Impossible backed this up as well, really driving home that this was the end
02:33of Hunt's story.
02:34And with the character himself asking to be trusted one last time in the trailer, it was hard to not
02:41picture this as the end of Tom Cruise's legendary IMF agent.
02:46Relatively early on in the film, the decision was made to kill off Fing Rhames' Luthor, but even this didn't
02:52mean necessarily that Ethan wouldn't also suffer the same fate as well.
02:57Again, it must have been called The Final Reckoning for a reason, right?
03:01And if no time to die can kill off James Bond in an onslaught of missiles, why not Ethan Hunt?
03:08So, when Hunt was flying through the sky fighting with Gabriel and when he soared through the air on a
03:13parachute that ultimately set on fire, it seemed as though there would be no way that this character would survive.
03:20But there he was after landing, walking across the field like he had just travelled by car rather than literally
03:27falling through the sky.
03:28And hey, if this means the door is still open for more Mission Impossibles at some time in the future,
03:33I'm a fan of it.
03:34Next up, Batman's cameo, Superman.
03:37James Gunn's Superman was a real statement of intent for the new wave of DC films to come.
03:43Despite worries that it was biting off a little more than it could chew by reintroducing not just the likes
03:49of Superman, Lex Luthor and Lois Lane,
03:52but also introducing an assortment of other heroes like the Lanterns, Mr Terrific and Hawkgirl, at least on the big
04:00screen anyway.
04:01It effortlessly weaved in the wider DC world without losing focus on the Man of Steel himself.
04:07One character who was missing, however, was the Dark Knight.
04:12Expectation that we'd get our first glimpse of Batman in this movie started to reach a fever pitch in the
04:19weeks leading up to release,
04:20with some corners of the internet expecting a nod to Andy Muschietti's upcoming DCU Batman film, The Brave and the
04:28Bold,
04:29while others even hypothesized and started to be convinced that Superman would instead roll Matt Reeves' and Robert Pattinson's The
04:38Batman Universe into guns' directly.
04:41That latter theory reached new highs of confirmation bias as well, with the release of the official soundtrack extremely close
04:49to launch,
04:50and one track in particular that did admittedly have more than a few similarities to the main theme in The
04:56Batman.
04:57However, not only did this universe colliding merger not happen, but Batman wasn't directly referenced at all in the finished
05:04product.
05:05We'll have to wait a little longer before we get that glimpse.
05:08Next up, Caesar's Descendant, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
05:12Did anyone really expect the Planet of the Apes franchise to continue after Caesar's death in war for the Planet
05:19of the Apes?
05:19The trilogy was stronger than anyone could have ever hoped for, and it was unequivocally the story of Andy Serkis'
05:26simian character.
05:27However, even after his death the series carried on with the still good Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,
05:33with a 300 year gap between this chapter and the rest of the story.
05:38Naturally, Caesar was never going to appear himself, but it seemed nailed on that the new protagonist, Noah, would be
05:45a descendant of his.
05:47As said, this was Caesar's story, and it would have felt remiss not to have some sort of presence of
05:53his within the fall film.
05:55That, plus the striking similarities between the two characters, certainly suggested a connection, though ultimately this was not something that
06:04came to fruition.
06:06Caesar's presence was indeed felt, certainly, though more as a sort of messiah than anything else.
06:12There were no direct links explored between the franchise's two lead protagonists, and though it wasn't explicitly stated that they
06:19weren't related in the film,
06:21the filmmakers have since come out and quashed any lingering theories on the subject.
06:26Next up, another big twist, Trap.
06:29M. Night Shyamalan has made a career for himself out of big movie twists.
06:33Could anyone have known that Malcolm Crowe had been dead the whole time in the sixth sense, that Mr. Glass
06:39was truly the villain in Unbreakable,
06:41or that Split was a secret sequel to Unbreakable 16 years later?
06:46These were all shocking when they came, but to say that his latest effort trap fell on the other end
06:52of the twist spectrum would be a wild understatement.
06:56Thanks to the film's marketing and how the film itself played out, absolutely nobody was surprised that Josh Hartnett Cooper
07:03was revealed to be the butcher, the film's villain.
07:06But since this was a Shyamalan film, there had to be more, right?
07:11I mean, this couldn't be the only twist, seeing as how it wasn't even really a twist, it's just set
07:17up for the whole movie, and it was the most expected direction that the plot could have taken.
07:22Well, as for further surprises, there was nothing that you can consider a big subversion.
07:27Was it surprising that Cooper's wife planted evidence to get him caught in the first place?
07:33Yeah, kinda, but this was more a relatively straightforward plot development than a game-changing twist that we were expecting.
07:40Trap was a pretty good movie, but it was missing that extra gear to make it truly great.
07:46Next up, Ellen Ripley's daughter, Alien Romulus.
07:49When Alien Romulus released 45 years after the original Alien, like with many chapters in a franchise coming so long
07:57after the original, it would have been the easiest thing in the world to connect the two with a familiar
08:02link.
08:03Given the specific timeframe of the film being set in between the events of Alien and Aliens, and with Ellen
08:10Ripley's daughter Amanda already having led the Alien Isolation video game, it made sense to think that this was exactly
08:18who Kaylee Spenny would have been portraying.
08:21Such a tieback to the original is probably the easiest way for a film to try and evoke and take
08:27advantage of nostalgia.
08:28But Romulus avoided such a tactic, introducing this new character instead as Rain Carradine, a person with absolutely no prior
08:37connections to the Alien franchise.
08:40And it was refreshing.
08:42The film wasn't completely free of fanservice of course, as it arguably went too far in this regard with the
08:48posthumous inclusion of Ian Holm as Rook.
08:52However, at the very least it was led by an original character that needed no ties to anyone else to
08:58make her relevant and compelling.
08:59Speaking tying back to other movies though, next up we have Adam Scott as Ben Parker, Madam Web.
09:07Now for something that everyone was expecting that actually happened.
09:11What Sony tried to do with its own shared universe based on its Spider-Man characters was something that was
09:16kinda doomed from the beginning.
09:18I mean, there's the simple fact that you just cannot have a Spider-Man universe, you know, without a Spider
09:25-Man.
09:25Though in fairness, it didn't help that the likes of Morbius and Madam Web were genuinely just terrible films regardless.
09:33At least the latter though, the fourth entry in this franchise, tried to tie back to Peter Parker in some
09:39way, but it just didn't work.
09:41And this came largely in the form of Adam Scott's mystery role.
09:46The internet had pretty much figured out that Scott would be playing Ben Parker, Peter's uncle, long before the movie
09:52ever came out.
09:53And those few who actually got around to seeing the film, yours truly included, didn't have to wait long for
10:00it to be confirmed.
10:01Just a few minutes into proceedings, Scott's character was referred to directly as Ben Parker.
10:08Now it might not have been on the same level as Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire returning in Spider-Man
10:14No Way Home in terms of worst kept secrets,
10:17but it certainly would have come to the surprise of pretty much nobody in the audience.
10:22After a few more clunky references to Ben's nephew being born and some cringe-worthy teasers about the baby's name,
10:29it seems likely that the SSU will end without ever having properly the chance to build on Ben's inclusion.
10:37And having seen that film, I'm totally alright with that.
10:39Next up, Jim's return 28 years later.
10:43After 28 weeks later continued the story of the rage virus infected UK,
10:48without referencing any of the previous characters who appeared in 28 days later directly,
10:54the eventual news of a true sequel was welcome.
10:57When it was announced 28 years later was billed as the first of a new trilogy,
11:01and something that would see the return of Cillian Murphy as Jim.
11:06The entire world even thought that they spotted the Oscar winner as a zombie in the trailer,
11:11though it turned out literally every single person on this planet was mistaken.
11:16Director Danny Boyle soon began to downplay Murphy's role,
11:19saying that he wouldn't appear in 28 years later,
11:23but would rather make his return in the sequel, The Bone Temple,
11:26before enjoying a far chunkier role for the third in the trilogy, fingers crossed it gets made.
11:32However, Andrew Garfield has kinda made it impossible to believe anyone
11:36whenever an actor's appearance is denied, either by themselves or the director.
11:41And yet, despite our expectations, neither Jim nor Naomi Harris' Selena made an appearance in 28 years,
11:49true to Boyle's word.
11:50Back to the SSU now with the death of Eddie Brock, Venom, The Last Dance.
11:55In a similar way to Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning, Venom 3's title, The Last Dance,
12:01automatically conjured images of undeniable finality.
12:06It felt very much like this was the end for Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock.
12:11And this wasn't exactly a theory that was unfounded or baseless.
12:15The character's teased entry into the MCU to face off against Tom Holland's Spider-Man
12:20was ultimately relegated to a mere post-credits scene before being shipped back home.
12:25And with the SSU living on borrowed time, what else was there to do with the character?
12:31Well, the entire plot of the third film in the trilogy revolved around Eddie and Venom
12:35carrying a codex within themselves that could unlock Null from his prison and bring about the end of the world.
12:42The only way to stop this from happening was for either Eddie or Venom to die.
12:48Together then in the finale they ultimately made the sacrifice to save the world,
12:52but at the last moment Venom spit Eddie out and saved him, sacrificing himself in the process.
12:59Yes, one of them had to die and while everyone thought it would be Eddie Brock,
13:03expectations were subverted and it was instead Venom who danced his last dance.
13:09And finally we're gonna talk about the Fantastic Four First Steps, but consider this a spoiler warning
13:14considering it is still a very recent movie from this year.
13:18Okay, finally we need to talk about Doctor Doom with the Fantastic Four First Steps.
13:23Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom may be taking the reins from Thanos as the MCU's next big bad,
13:29but the character has typically been a villain of the Fantastic Four.
13:33He is synonymous with Marvel's first family, and in particular Reed Richards,
13:38and it felt as though he was always going to make an appearance in their first MCU movie First Steps.
13:44Just the association between the characters made this likely, as Doom has appeared in every Fantastic Four film to date,
13:51but this isn't the only reason that an appearance from the man felt essential.
13:56After all, big bad Thanos didn't just jump straight into Avengers Infinity War in 2018.
14:01He was teased throughout the Infinity Saga, and while Marvel Studios has left it late in the game with less
14:08than a year to go until Avengers Doomsday,
14:10there was always likely to be a little tease of him first, and naturally First Steps felt like the perfect
14:17choice.
14:17It was always likely going to be in the post-credits scene as well, as Galactus, the villain of First
14:23Steps,
14:23was commanding of his own story without being drowned out by Doom, and realistically, what else was the film going
14:30to tease so close to Doomsday?
14:32A quick shot of him speaking to Franklin Richards showing the iconic mask was arguably the most predictable route to
14:39go,
14:39but honestly, it kind of didn't need to be anything more than that.
14:43So that's our list, let me know if you were expecting any of these movie moments in the comments below,
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