>>89682163Deadpool was also looking like a ridiculously niche appeal movie.
R-rated comedy capeshit.
First, only children and manchildren actually enjoy capeshit, then you have that it's a comedy, which if you look at DC""chads""" comedy makes them break out into hives and bouts of extreme rage. And then you make it r-rated, so children are now booted out, and some of the manchildren who's moms get offended by the idea of a swear word.
Also keep in mind that it wasn't even part of the MCU, it was from Fox, who gave us such works as X-Men Apocalypse and Tranktastic 4, starring Ryan Reynolds who's recent known work was fucking Green Lantern.
Deadpool had the deck stacked against it from the word go and it broke the fucking bank.