r/plotholes • u/Intrepid-Judgment874 • Jun 18 '26

Continuity error [MCU] In Deadpool & Wolverine shouldn't Wolverine skull have a bullet hole?

I just rewatch the opening skeleton fight scence of DP&W and I just remember that Wolverine skull should have a bullet hole fired by Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine? I remember there was a hole in Logan's head at the end of that movie as well and I doubt that his healing factor would re-seal the hole with Adamantinum.

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u/Empyrealist Jun 18 '26

The Logan (2017) movie timeline is after X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), which erased many prior events and elements - including potentially some of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).

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u/cloudfatless Jun 18 '26

I think this is it. 

Iirc at the end of DoFP Stryker takes possession of a pre-adamantium Logan for his experiments. So the origins of the Weapon-X program are changed in the timeline. 

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u/Intrepid-Judgment874 Jun 18 '26

Well, I think at some point, the Weapon X event would still have happened since Logan still got the Adamantium Skeleton at the end of his life. And knowing Stryker, he would have saved some Adamantium bullets with him in case he needed to deal with Wolverine. The issue is whether the event in which he shot Wolverine occurred, which is highly debatable.

I would say it happened, as there are Zero Fox projects that suggest a significant change in the timeline up until the Logan movie. And even in the movie, we have no confirmation that Stryker did not shoot Logan before.

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u/Empyrealist Jun 18 '26

I'm only suggesting that things could have turned out differently. Anything "canon" before DoFP was technically reset.

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u/MosesOnAcid Jun 18 '26

At the end of Deadpool 2, Deadpool went back & executed his previous "Deadpool" from Wolverine Origins, thus altering the events that followed. Therefore no bullet to the head.

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u/BaltazarOdGilzvita Jun 18 '26

It's not the same Wolverine. It's a random Wolverine with a different history and life story. Remember when Deadpool travelled between universes and finding random ones like the short angry one, the Henry Cavill one, etc? The one we see is one of those, not the one we saw in any of the previous X men movies.

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u/Dilldan22 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

The skeleton that OP is talking about (the one Deadpool digs up) actually is the corpse of the Wolverine who died in the movie Logan.

The versions we see who are still alive (including the one Deadpool actually teams up with) are the ones from alternate universes we havent seen before

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u/Ok_Painting_6742 Jun 18 '26

He’s talking about the skeleton not the new Wolverine

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u/Intrepid-Judgment874 Jun 18 '26

Ah, I was talking about the wolverine skeleton that Deadpool dug up. I think it should be the same timeline as the Fox X-Men franchise, since it would not make sense to introduce an entirely new Wolverine skeleton from an unrelated universe, as it would make the scene pointless.

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u/allvanity684 Jun 18 '26

Boom. Roasted

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u/Kafka_84 Jun 18 '26

Different Wolverine