Deadpool and Wolverine director Shawn Levy on whether the movies will ever openly explore Wade's pansexuality: "His heart belongs to Vanessa"

"There's nothing like coming together," the official trailer for Deadpool and Wolverine states, giving the titular team-up a lewd twist that the Merc with a Mouth himself would be proud of. That, combined with the poster that sees Wade gently caressing Logan's claws, makes it impossible to deny the marketing's erotic undertones. According to director Shawn Levy, though, who co-wrote the Marvel movie with Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells, and Ryan Reynolds, this story is explicitly "one of friendship, one of brotherhood, and really a redemptive connection".

He tells GamesRadar+ and Inside Total Film : "[It] doesn't bring sexual tension onto the table...

or the bed, or any other surface one could use." Sad news for those who are already shipping Poolverine..

. Throughout the superhero flick's promotional run, some fans have voiced frustration over the queering of its heroes' relationship online, accusing it of reducing Wade's canon pansexuality from the comics to a gimmicky sales tactic. With that in mind, we ask Levy whether there's space for the character's fluidity to be explored in a less-jokey manner in the future.

In this movie, perhaps even, given that he and Morena Baccarin's Vanessa aren't together anymore? "Wade is a flirt, Wade is, indeed, open to attraction anywhere [but] what I think is clear is that Wade's heart belongs to Vanessa," he notes. "Wade's heart will likely always belong to Vanessa, and even though we meet Wade and Vanessa at a different point in the.