This past summer’s Deadpool & Wolverine cleaned up at the box office, becoming one of the biggest Marvel Studios hits in years. Back when Marvel was developing the film, many fans believed they’d tone down the signature raunchy aspects of Deadpool’s humor. Especially as this was the first Deadpool film from Disney. And for the most part, that wasn’t the case. The first trailer made a pretty R-rated joke, letting the fans know that Ryan Reynolds was still giving us a foul-mouthed Wade Wilson. But according to Variety, at least one joke proved to be too much for the Walt Disney Company. Now we know what that joke was.
While doing press for the movie, Ryan Reynolds confirmed Disney deemed one joke as too much. But he never specified what the joke was. However, since then, Disney’s FYC online portal has released the official script, where the original lines remain. After learning that Magneto is dead, Deadpool angrily breaks the fourth wall, saying: “FUCK! What, we can’t even afford one more X-Man? Disney is so cheap. I can barely breathe with all this Mickey Mouse cock in my throat.” I guess the suggestion of the company mascot of nearly a century even jokingly having sexuality of any kind was a big no-no for Disney.
Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy previously confirmed that Disney asked for that one cut as well. At the time though, he wouldn’t say what the line actually was. Levy stated “We have made a pact, Ryan and I, to go to our grave with that line, but I will say that it was replaced with an equally dirty line of dialogue about Pinocchio shoving his face up Deadpool’s ass and starting to lie like crazy.” Look, we get it. Pop culture may strongly identify Pinocchio with Disney, but he’s not the company mascot. It’s “The House of Mouse,” not “The House of Geppetto.” In the final analysis, it’s still shocking that as many raunchy jokes made it into the theatrical cut as they did.
