‘Deadpool 2: The Super Duper Cut’ Features Controversial Baby Hitler Scene
In Deadpool 2, Wade Wilson briefly mentions that he’d totally kill Adolf Hitler as an infant if he had a time machine in a throwaway gag. Originally, this was set-up for an incredibly dark post-credits scene, but uncomfortable reactions from test audiences caused it to be axed from the theatrical cut… But now, the scene of Deadpool killing Baby Hitler will indeed be a thing.
Fans who got to catch a screening of Deadpool 2‘s extended cut got to see the shocking post-credits scene after watching all the others. Going back to 1889, Deadpool approaches a baby in a crib and makes a couple of cracks about how what he’s going to do will be a touchy subject, noting that he’ll probably go to Hell for what he’s about to do, at which point we see that the name on the crib is A. Hitler. To psyche himself up for the deed he’s about to do, Deadpool mockingly makes the baby do a Nazi salute and draws a toothbrush mustache on him with a sharpie. After this, we jump to the baby’s first-person perspective, hear Deadpool deliver his “Maximum Effort!” catchphrase, and see the mercenary’s arms grip the camera as he strangles Hitler to death. Cue the rest of the credits!
The scene itself, while funny in a pitch-black sense, is also sort of funny in the sense that it subverts the movie’s “killing people is bad” moral (which was already blown away by the sheer amount of violence that takes place over the course of the movie and was sort of subverted by Dopinder running over Russell’s abusive caretaker right after Russell decided not to become a killer). Given that Deadpool’s entire argument to Cable is that one person’s life can be completely different if they never kill anyone, it’s hilariously hypocritical to see him do exactly what Cable would have done to a child old enough to make that kind of a choice to an innocent baby. Even if the baby is, y’know, Hitler. Suffice to say, it’s not hard to see why this was cut from the theatrical version, but at least Deadpool 2‘s most transgressive gag will see the light of day for those who wanted to watch it.
Deadpool 2: The Super Duper Cut will be released digitally on August 7, 2018 and on Blu-Ray on August 21, 2018.
Grant Davis is a freelance writer who has covered entertainment news for more than seven years. His articles have frequently appeared in Star Wars News Net as well as as other entertainment-related websites. As someone who grew up on Star Wars and comic book movies, he’s completely thrilled with the current era of genre entertainment.
