Fans react to one Deadpool & Wolverine controversial decision, feeling robbed of a crucial scene and comparing it to a missed opportunity.

After a long, long wait, Deadpool & Wolverine finally hit the screens and it has truly been doing wonders ever since. But while the Merc with a Mouth isn’t hesitating to steal the spotlight with his yellow-spandex-clad aggressive mutant superhero partner, there have also been some controversial decisions related to the movie that aren’t sitting well with fans.

For instance, the decision to include the fact that Wolverine’s world “went to sh-t” but not actually visualize it wasn’t the best of the decisions taken by Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds. If anything, this one choice from the mastermind duo deprived fans of an iconic scene that could have been crafted in Star Wars style, leaving them with a sour taste of the movie.

This Controversial Decision Shouldn’t Have Been Taken for Deadpool & Wolverine

While the rest of the movie is a true masterpiece, some things about it have been bugging fans nonetheless. Like, in the film, it has been shown that Hugh Jackman‘s mutant world faced a devastating end and he couldn’t save it. But while this point is emphasized throughout the movie through words, there is no visual emphasis on it.

As it turns out, they not only talked about this but even actually “ended up doing it with the soundscape and the sound design,” as filmmaker Shawn Levy confessed in an interview with Collider. However, as was seen in the movie, these specifics never quite made their way into the movie, and it was all thanks to Levy and Ryan Reynolds’ final decision about it.

In the Collider interview, Levy tried to defend this decision (via Collider Interviews on YouTube):

Ultimately, it felt like the specifics of those characters’ deaths don’t matter to this story as much as they haunt Logan. And so, we chose to keep the focus on him.

Backing up his defending this decision was Ryan Reynolds himself, who tried to further explain by saying:

It’s a little bit of what you don’t see is more, I think, more haunting than what you do see. I don’t know, Shawn and I felt like it would cheapen it if you’re seeing all these people, these kids, these grown-ups.

While their decision is rather understandable, it doesn’t change the fact that fans were still robbed of this incredibly crucial scene.

At the very least, they could have shown the X-Men being killed or at least their dead bodies. Instead, what they did was a whole lot of exposition rather than showing actual imagery of the tragic killing of the mutants.

That being said, fans aren’t happy with them for taking away such a crucial moment from them.

Fans Aren’t Happy With Deadpool & Wolverine Robbing Them This Way

Had they chosen the alternate approach — the one showing at least the dead X-Men’s bodies, if not the actual imagery of their killings — it could have resulted in something along the likes of a Star Wars-style scene: The way the Order 66 scene was styled most exceptionally in George Lucas‘ saga. If anything, it would have given fans the closure they needed.

But since both Levy and Reynolds, along with all the others, decided otherwise, fans can’t help but complain now about the same. Taking to the comment section of the YouTube interview, here’s what those fans have to say:

They definitely should have done it. He already told Laura what happened. By the time we get to Cassandra learning what happened instead of seeing what happened, I think it made the movie drag. Showing us what happened would’ve made that scene interesting instead of exposition of what we already heard.” ~ @Theblackout292

“I think they should have shown them, only because they slightly did the same thing in Logan with Xavier accidentally killing the X-men and the realization coming slowly throughout the film.” ~ @bdubberz

“it is probably prudence on the budget thing, but what they used for the film works well enough. i would boost the sounds / voices though in lieu of not seeing the other XMen characters onscreen. I dunno if that means more cost for Disney, but heck certainly that less expensive than getting a handful of the XMen cast to shoot their scenes.” ~ @steelsheen

“missed opportunity to do a order 66 style scene at the xavior school” ~ @hubbs7097

“We don’t have to see the killing montage, but him standing over the deaths he caused would have brought the trauma to life a bit more, I honestly didn’t feel much different about why this is the worst Wolverine because I never quite grasped the sins he committed show don’t tell” ~ @zzzzzz69

Of course, all of these fan reactions are as valid as ever. At least even trying to visualize it to land that deeper and more traumatic take on Wolverine to actually make his “disappointing” variant seem that way would have been better than just emphasizing it all through words. To say the least, this might as well go down as one of the most upsetting parts of this Marvel blockbuster.

Deadpool & Wolverine is out in theatres now.