With a promotional campaign positioning it as the ultimate Valentine’s movie, you might think Deadpool is all warm and fuzzy under the spandex – well, don’t always believe what you read! This red-costumed “super anti-hero” has to be the first masked crusader to count sarcasm as his main superpower. Yes, Deadpool is one acerbic avenger and if he’s about to burst from relative obscurity to true R-rated superstardom, it’s thanks in large part to the 10-year effort by Ryan Reynolds. With the help of a die-hard fan base the actor, himself a fan, overcame studio skeptics to create a character whose irreverence may well upend the Marvel universe. After this “crowd funded” pop-cultural super-dude is done, superheroes may never be the same. Don’t take our word for it – listen to what Ryan Reynolds has to say.

Luca Celada