Miller’s overall vision for Deadpool 2 was said to involve exploring the bigger facets and more unusual realms of Deadpool’s place in the X-Men universe, whereas Reynolds’ vision favored a focus on the first movie’s raunchy comedy and self-referential satirical sensibilities. While always a fast-talking character as envisioned by creator Rob Liefeld, Deadpool’s popularity in the original Marvel comics truly exploded only after subsequent creators re-aligned him as a fourth-wall breaking character, whose awareness of his comic book origins informed his strange behaviors.