Fans Are Just Now Noticing A Big Easter Egg In Deadpool And Wolverine, But We Spotted It In The Trailer Months Ago

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We told you so.

Deadpool & Wolverine is the biggest live-action movie of the year so far, so it’s not surprising that after being a box office hit, the movie is making a huge splash as a video-on-demand title. The fact that it can now be watched at home means a lot of people are getting a chance to rewatch it or watch it for the first time, taking more time to check out all the various references and easter eggs that might have been missed the first time around.

One of those random easter eggs has recently gone viral, as a lot of people apparently hadn’t noticed it the first time around. Not to toot our own horn or anything but we, or at least CinemaBlend’s own Sean O’Connell, absolutely noticed it in the trailers alone. Yes, the ship from Master & Commander is among the wrecks found in The Void when Deadpool and Wolverine have their first big fight.

Deadpool & Wolverine wasn’t just full of random jokes and references about the MCU or other superhero movies, it was a film that was almost entirely about the movie business, and whose actual plot was based in the fact that Disney had purchased 20th Century Fox.

This resulted in several of the film’s big jokes referencing Fox directly. During the big battle in The Void between Deadpool and Wolverine the most obvious reference to this is obvious, a half smashed 20th Century Fox logo, but that’s not the only thing worth seeing, as one eagle-eyed viewer recently noticed.

The tweet has gone viral as it appears that a lot of people had not noticed the smashed ship in the background, or at least not recognized it as being the HMS Surprise from Master & Commander.

The Master & Commander Reference Was Part Of The Film’s Larger Joke At The Expense Of Fox

Back when the first full trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine dropped our own Sean O’Connell put forth a theory about the film and how the Fox logo and the HMS Surprise would fit into the story. While he got some of the details wrong, the broader concept, that Deadpool’s universe, and by extension the Fox movie universe, was coming to an end, turned out to be largely on point.

While recent MCU teases have indicated some elements of the Fox/Marvel universe may carry over into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, at least short term, most of those franchises are dead. Deadpool & Wolverine acted as a surprisingly heartfelt send-off. However, apparently, the Marvel franchises aren’t the only ones that died.

Master & Commander was always meant to be a franchise of its own. While the movie is broadly praised today as being an exceptional movie, at the time, the film wasn’t the hit it needed to be to justify sequels, largely due to the movie being an incredibly expensive production.

While some Fox franchises, like Alien and Predator, have continued under Disney, Master & Commander certainly belongs in The Void. If there was ever a chance of it returning under Fox, that almost certainly died following the Disney purchase. But at least we know where to find it.

Dirk Libbey
Dirk Libbey
Content Producer/Theme Park Beat

CinemaBlend’s resident theme park junkie and amateur Disney historian, Dirk began writing for CinemaBlend as a freelancer in 2015 before joining the site full-time in 2018. He has previously held positions as a Staff Writer and Games Editor, but has more recently transformed his true passion into his job as the head of the site's Theme Park section. He has previously done freelance work for various gaming and technology sites. Prior to starting his second career as a writer he worked for 12 years in sales for various companies within the consumer electronics industry. He has a degree in political science from the University of California, Davis.  Is an armchair Imagineer, Epcot Stan, Future Club 33 Member.