So what timeline is this, exactly? Colossus survived the changes Wolverine made to the original, as he’s seen teaching a class at the end of “Days of Future Past” in human skin, played by Daniel Cudmore. The Kapicic version in Deadpool stays metallized the entire time, so it could conceivably be the same version, even if the actor sounds very different.
“Deadpool 2” features a brief cameo by the “First Class” cast, implying it’s that canon, even though they’d be aged up to the Patrick Stewart timeline if truly accurate. As we know from the MCU’s Multiverse Saga, variants from other universes can look exactly like the ones we know, so that doesn’t prove anything.
Wade’s ability to break the fourth wall complicates matters. The fact that he knows both James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart have played Professor X doesn’t mean he’s not in the same universe as either. However, the fact that he has a cardboard cut-out mask of Hugh Jackman, and action figures of both Wolverine and the mouthless Deadpool from “X-Men Origins,” suggests he is indeed in another timeline, where Jackman is an actor. Then again, X-Men comics exist in the “Logan” universe, but Wade knows about the existence of “Logan” as a movie. What’s the deal here?
“Deadpool 2” director David Leitch answers the issue with a handwave: “…because it’s its own entity, we’re flexible with the timeline, per se. But we’ve never had a lot of conversations about that.”
A new timeline, then?