All right, these might not be Avengers references, but we can’t help but talk about some of the more amusing references that unfold when Deadpool and Wolverine meet the superheroes from the Fox Marvel movies who have been banished to the Void.

When Wesley Snipes appears as Blade, Ryan Reynolds does his best impression of the actor when questioning whether he was retired. After a hilariously inappropriate exchange where Deadpool is worried about being canceled, Blade tells Deadpool, “I don’t like you,” to which Wade responds, “You never did.” In case you didn’t know, this is alluding to the infamously contentious working relationship that Snipes and Reynolds had on the set of “Blade: Trinity,” which you can read more about right here.

Once the conversation between our heroes comes around to some of the other characters who were in The Void, only to have been killed, Wade apologizes to Elektra (Jennifer Garner) when he learns that Daredevil is among the deceased (along with Quicksilver, Punisher, and Magneto). But in a hilarious reference to Garner’s real-life marriage and divorce from “Daredevil” star Ben Affleck, she flippantly responds, “It’s fine.”

But perhaps the best dialogue in this scene comes from Gambit (Channing Tatum), who constantly references the fact that he never got a chance to get his own movie and people may not even know about him. At one point, he even acknowledges that maybe he was just born in The Void, alluding to the X-Men Origins movie Tatum was supposed to star in before the poor reception of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” got the movie canceled. 

X-23 (Dafne Keen) also gets a nice callback beyond the obvious need for her experience from “Logan” to help convince the alternate Wolverine that he should be fighting with them. During the final fight sequence at Cassandra Nova’s lair, she puts on the same sunglasses she wore as a kid in “Logan.”

Finally, just when you thought we were done with “Blade” references, in that same fight, after killing some henchman, the daywalker says, “Some motherf**kers still tryin’ to ice skate uphill,” repeating one of the character’s silliest lines from the “Blade” movies.

(The photo above comes from the cast’s appearance during a “Deadpool & Wolverine” celebration at screening at San Diego Comic-Con 2024)