Ryan Reynolds Ruins Deadpool By Being Ryan Reynolds

In the original Marvel Comics, Deadpool mostly functioned as a kind of agent of chaos. He certainly had some of the funny tendencies that we see on screen, including a strange sense of humor and a weird tendency to break the fourth wall. But he also had a much darker side that the movies not only ignore but, via the innate charm of Ryan Reynolds, actually transform altogether.

A great example of this is the character Blind Al: in 2016’s Deadpool, she is an unconventional roommate of our titular hero who helps by offering him advice, but she’s mostly there to either serve jokes or serve as the punchline. In the comics, however, this is a woman that the psychopathic Deadpool has kidnapped and keeps as a hostage, punishing her with bizarre torments that included being thrown in “the Box,” a dark room filled with sharp objects. He murders anyone who tries to help her escape, which is a wildly different dynamic than what we saw the onscreen Al share with Ryan Reynold’s Deadpool.