Warning: This article will extensively discuss all sorts of spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine, including cameos and its ending. You've been warned.

After Spider-Man: No Way Home ended up being one of the biggest movies ever while also paying tribute to past Peter Parkers, it only made sense to do something similar with Fox's Marvel properties now that everything is being rounded up into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Enter Deadpool & Wolverine.

This attempt at closure isn't nearly so clean as No Way Home's, though, because there's just too much stuff and they drew from all over--and, very conspicuously, we don't get any appearances by any members of the X-Men other than Wolverine himself. So it's not really much of a bow for the old X-Men franchise overall. But, as we'll discuss below, it sort of enables the possibility for one to happen later, and the pieces have already been put in place for that after The Marvels last year.