Deadpool
At this point, Deadpool is far too cringe of a character for me to take anyone cosplaying as him seriously. Ryan Reynolds has quipped him to death, and there’s no amount of weird, alternate versions of Deadpool costumes that can change that. If you’re wearing a Deadpool outfit in 2023, I am concerned you are living in a perpetual state of 2016, whereby Trump was never elected, covid-19 never happened, and the aggressive push for edgier superhero movies spearheaded by Deadpool didn’t result in dozens of lines of egregious dialogue added into dozens of projects in an attempt to recreate Reynold’s very specific brand of humor that he does in literally every movie he’s ever been in.
If I see a Deadpool cosplay coming down the hallway, I avert my eyes. Please don’t ham it up for the phone I’m holding in my hand, I’m Face-Timing my sister to tell her I just ran into Frankie Grande.
