For years, comic book fans everywhere begged and pleaded with 20th Century Fox to make a Deadpool movie that did the character justice.
It looked like the studio was going to do just that initially with the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 and the casting of Ryan Reynolds as the beloved character.
An R-rated, laugh-out-loud comedy action movie the likes of which the superhero genre had never seen before, it was everything fans had waited for and more.