Ryan Reynolds’s Wade Wilson aka Deadpool breaks into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and promises to change it forever in the first trailer of Deadpool and Wolverine, dropped by Marvel Entertainment on Monday.

Initially shown at the 2024 Superbowl on Sunday, the two-minute-25-second-long trailer begins with Matthew Macfadyen’s TVA bureaucrat gatecrashing Deadpool’s birthday party and taking him to the headquarters of multiverse monitoring organisation Time Variance Authority (as seen in Loki).

Deadpool is told that the Marvel superheroes’ team needs his help, which leads to a series of R-rated jokes laced with dark humour from the antihero mutant. In one of the scenes, Deadpool refers to himself as “Marvel Jesus” — a “messiah” who would change MCU’s multiverse forever.

Pride and Prejudice star Matthew Macfadyen plays Paradox, a TVA bureaucrat, who introduces Deadpool to the world of the Marvel heroes. “This is your chance to be a hero among heroes,” he tells Deadpool as the latter stares in wonder at the screen showing iconic moments from the MCU.

Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, who died in the 2017 X-Men movie Logan, is teased in the trailer. However, the trailer does not reveal his look in the film. We only get to see him in two scenes — one from behind and the other as a shadow.

The first Deadpool film, released in 2016, showed Wade seeking revenge against Ajax, the person who turned him into a mutant after undergoing an experimental procedure for curing cancer. Ending up with an accelerated healing factor at the cost of severe disfigurement, the 2018 Deadpool movie showed the antihero forming a team of mutants to stop a time-travelling mercenary from killing a young mutant.

Directed by Shawn Levy, Deadpool & Wolverine is slated to hit theatres worldwide on July 26.