10 Most R Rated Moments In Deadpool & Wolverine

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine

Deadpool & Wolverine certainly gets the most out of its R rating, with plenty of scenes that easily scare off the faint of heart with their squeamish content. Just like its predecessors, Deadpool & Wolverine breaks the mold of the typical PG-13 superhero movie by going all out with its gore and adult comedy, being only the second R-rated film to feature Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. By the time the end credits of Deadpool & Wolverine roll, the audience has endured a staggering number of particularly edgy moments.

A great deal of these can be accounted for by the film’s excellent action choreography, allowing for adamantium claws, swords and knives to tear through bodies to their full, glorious effect. Of course, some of the jokes the movie gets away with are only possible with an R-rating as well, included among them Deadpool & Wolverine‘s countless Marvel references. Whether its crude humor or brilliantly bloody action viscera, the third installment of the Deadpool franchise hasn’t been sanitized by Disney’s new ownership of the IP.

10 Deadpool Gets His Claws Stuck In Two TVA Guards

Wolverine-ing isn’t as easy as it looks

Deadpool & Wolverine is quick to grab fans’ attention right away with a gratuitous action scene that literally defiles the corpse of Logan‘s legacy. Digging up the body of the Fox universe’s Wolverine to make sure he’s really dead, Wade Wilson is quickly assaulted by TVA enforcers, but he doesn’t go down without a fight. Using pieces of Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton as weapons, Deadpool fights off his assailants to the tune of NSYNC’s Bye Bye Bye.

Strapping Logan’s claws to his own arms, Deadpool gets a brief taste of what it’s like to wield some of the most iconic weapons in comic book history. Unfortunately, Wolverine’s claws aren’t as easy to use as he makes them seem, as Deadpool quickly gets them stuck stabbing TVA agents where the sun doesn’t shine. With one set of claws stuck in a hapless TVA agent’s crotch and another in a rear end, Deadpool tries to free himself by rocking back and forth, making for a wince-inducing, but hilarious image.

9 Johnny Storm Gets Flayed By Cassandra

Cassandra Nova’s powers are no joke

Of the many cameos featured in Deadpool & Wolverine, Chris Evans’ Johnny Storm is among the most unexpected. Being captured and sent to Nova’s stronghold alongside Deadpool and Wolverine, Johnny Storm has no choice but try to talk his way out of his situation. Unfortunately, Deadpool quickly starts putting words in Johnny’s mouth, alleging some pretty serious insults made against Cassandra Nova that quickly draws the telekinetic Omega-level mutant’s ire.

Cassandra Nova repays Johnny Storm’s fictional disses by using her telekinesis to rend all the skin from his body in an instant, leaving him briefly standing as a horrifying muscly corpse. The Human Torch can only blink a couple of times before what’s left of him falls into tiny pieces, ending his brief tenure of screentime in Deadpool & Wolverine. This exceedingly painful and nauseating death is by far one of, if not the most brutal moments of the entire film.

8 Gambit Hits A Delayed Detonation

Never has the card-slinging mutant’s powers been so bloody

The appearance of Channing Tatum’s Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine was a welcome surprise, finally fulfilling the promise of a fan-favorite mutant portrayal that never came to fruition. Even better, Gambit got to see a surprising amount of action in the assault on Cassandra Nova’s compound, fighting off hordes of forgotten X-Men villains with his unique powers. Gambit’s ability to charge and release kinetic energy in objects is usually able to be made kid-friendly pretty easily, but Deadpool & Wolverine explores how powerful his explosions really are.

One of the coolest beats in his fight scenes happens when Gambit is able to tag an opponent with his charged staff, allowing the kinetic energy of his power to slowly grow. Of course, he looks away as his power eventually detonates, turning the torso of one of Cassandra Nova’s goons into a red shower of blood and guts. This small moment just goes to show how much cinematic potential Gambit’s powers have, especially in an R-rated project.

7 Deadpool Sticks A Femur Where The Sun Don’t Shine

Deadpool & Wolverine takes bone jokes to the next level

Once again, the sequence in which Deadpool fights off TVA agents with pieces of Wolverine’s dead body is a standout example of Deadpool & Wolverine’s macabre sensibilities. The properties of Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton seem to do whatever Deadpool needs them to do, easily brittle when he breaks off pieces of ribcage to throw, but invulnerable when smashing into the TVA’s armor. These inconsistencies are pushed to their limit when Deadpool manages to stab a TVA agent in the crotch with one of Wolverine’s femurs.

This visual gag has the rare honor of being R-rated both for the blood it generates and its crude humor, with most scenes usually being one or the other. The implications of Deadpool gently gliding his hand along the shaft of the femur as it sits lodged in a shower of blood emanating from the TVA soldier’s codpiece speaks for itself, and is deeply disturbing and hilarious at the same time. Of all the low-hanging fruit “bone” jokes Deadpool could have opted for, this one is easy to appreciate.

6 Nicepool Gets Used As A Human Shield

Poor Nicepool gets taken advantage of

One of the funniest variants of Deadpool introduced with the multiverse is Nice Deadpool, also known as “Nicepool” for short, named after his unflinching kindness even in the face of Deadpool’s rudeness. After allowing Deadpool and Wolverine to borrow his Honda Odyssey, Nicepool finds himself in the middle of a fight with dozens of other Deadpool variants. For the crime of owning a dog that Deadpool finds cute, Nicepool gets used as a human shield, riddled with bullets of all calibers as Deadpool goes in and out of cover.

Gunshots are pretty tame as far as R-rated injuries usually go, though it’s hard not to feel bad for Nicepool, who didn’t do anything wrong, as he is gunned down by his fellow selves. The truly R-rated portion comes in when a particularly large caliber of gunshot explodes Nicepool’s head, drenching Deadpool in a fine red mist. If only Nicepool wasn’t the only Deadpool variant who seemingly doesn’t have the power to regenerate.

5 Cassandra Nova Massages Paradox’s Brain

Nova’s powers are hard to stomach

Sometimes, the most R-rated moments in movies aren’t technically bloody, but nonetheless present some terrifying and nauseating imagery certainly not meant for younger audiences. Such is the case when Deadpool & Wolverine‘s two villains, Paradox and Cassandra Nova, finally meet in person. As Cassandra explains, while her brother, Professor X, can read minds with a thought, she has to get her hands dirty.

Cassandra reads minds by literally plunging her hands into the heads of her victims, passing her fingers through their skulls like a thick bowl of jelly. This image is terrifying enough, but Cassandra Nova takes it to a whole new level with Paradox, fondling his mind for far longer than necessary. As her fingers poke through his eyes, nose, and mouth, casting gut-wrenching impressions through his skin, it’s hard not to feel like this technically bloodless moment isn’t the most R-rated of the entire film.

4 Sabretooth Is Decapitated In One Smooth Cut

The long-awaited showdown goes by pretty quickly

The return of Tyler Mane’s Sabretooth was a welcome inclusion among a litany of X-Men movie cameos. Wolverine’s brother and arch-enemy, Sabretooth is an infamous X-Men villain that hasn’t been on screen since X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in which he was played by Liev Schriber instead. While Deadpool & Wolverine walked back the Sabretooth recast, they at least finally allowed Wolverine and Sabretooth to face off against one another for a long-awaited rematch.

Surprisngly, this fight wound up being shockingly short-lived, as Wolverine and Sabretooth only make a single pass at each other. The clash ends with Sabretooth’s head slowly falling off his body and slumping to the floor, Underworld style. The shock of this moment and brutal decapitation lends itself to being one of Deadpool & Wolverine‘s most violent R-rated scenes, even if the supposedly long-awaited fight preceeding it was literally cut short.

3 Laura Stops The Juggernaut

Going for the ankles arrests his movement

While Deadpool 2 featured its own take on the Juggernaut, Deadpool & Wolverine brought back the leather-clad version of the character from the third X-Men movie, X-Men: The Last Stand, the infamous ending of the original Fox trilogy. Juggernaut suddenly becomes quite important when the heroes realize that his helmet is the only thing that could hamper Cassandra Nova’s powers, making him the primary target of Deadpool, Wolverine, and their motley band of cameos. In the assault on Nova’s compound, Laura is the one to face off against him.

At first, the admittedly ferocious, but pint-sized Laura might seem like a mismatch against the musclebound brute that is the Juggernaut. However, Laura is able to use her adamantium claws to deadly effect, slicing through Juggernaut’s Achilles’ tendons to immobilize him and prevent him from building up momentum. This injury might be more minor than Deadpool & Wolverine‘s most gruesome moments, but it somehow ends up being one of the most painful-looking, making good use of the R-rating.

2 Johnny Storm Goes On A Profanity-Laden Rant

Turns out, he really was guilty

One of the most hilarious comedic beats in Deadpool & Wolverine preceded one of the most graphic, but was incredibly R-rated for a different reason. While Johnny Storm’s death would’ve never flown in a PG-13 movie, the words Deadpool puts in his mouth are foul enough to warrant bleeping in any other context. While in a tense standoff with Cassandra, Deadpool tells her that Johnny Storm called her a “megalomaniac, psychotic ***hole” among many, many other things.

At first, it seems as though Deadpool is merely making up such accusations, getting The Human Torch killed in retaliation for no reason at all. But hilariously enough, the post-credits sequence reveals that Johnny really did say everything Deadpool claimed, however unbelievable it may be. In either case, hearing the rant not once, but twice was easily one of the most R-rated moments in the entire script, earning such a position through foul language alone.

1 Deadpool & Wolverine Tear Through An Army Of Deadpool Variants

The climactic final fight is jutifiably bloody

The penultimate action sequence prior to the end of Deadpool & Wolverine sums up everything great about the irreverent third installment in the Deadpool series. As Wolverine and Deadpool join forces to take down Cassandra Nova and the rogue Time Ripper, they first must face off against a legion of Deadpool variants. Other than the innocent Nicepool, every other version of Deadpool seems to be on Cassandra Nova’s side, even if they are easily distracted by puppies and the presence of Peter.

The single take of Deadpool and Wolverine slowly slicing their way through the hordes of other Deadpools is one of the most incredibly choreographed action sequences in the MCU, let alone in Deadpool & Wolverine. Taking full advantage of the film’s R-rating, the final battle is sufficiently bloody, full of creative stabs, gunshots, and evictions even as the weak-willed Deadpools plead for mercy. Even if the damage isn’t lasting, as shown when the Deadpools regenerate, the scene is one of the bloodiest of Deadpool & Wolverine.