Deadpool 2 manages to succeed in ways where the first film failed since it not only has a bigger budget but it also had a more unpredictable story that mostly didn't follow the usual tropes of a superhero movie. One reason why the story is good is due to the lack of a proper villain, which no one expected to be honest.
According to Deadpool 2 screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, they felt that not having a standard bad guy would help make the film more challenging. Sure, there are antagonistic forces like Juggernaut and the headmaster but they aren't major characters, even if the former is also played by Reynolds.
Speaking with the LA Times, Reese and Wernick liked that most of the conflict wasn't just a basic good vs evil debate. Instead, the film had all of these characters opposing each other because they thought they were doing the right thing, which is almost poetic. It definitely made for an engaging watch.
"We decided we had enough people with differing motives butting heads that we didn't really need a traditional mustache-twirling villain. We had the evil headmaster, we had Juggernaut, we had Firefist himself as an adult in the future, we had Cable --- and sometimes Deadpool is his own worst enemy in some ways. So we thought, 'Why feel trapped into the trope of a villain who wants to conquer the world? Why not just have the particular goals of these characters come into conflict?'"
Having the conflict come from the characters instead of the villain does give the film a more intimate feeling. While the first film suffered from falling into the superhero cliches, the sequel does a better job at trying to subvert them, even if it still goes back to the tropes from time to time.
Deadpool 2 is now showing in theaters.
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