Deadpool

No established characters are identity-swapped; characters are adapted faithfully from comics.

Vanessa is a capable love interest and Negasonic is a strong young hero, but men are not diminished as a message; the lead is male.

• Negasonic Teenage Warhead is a tough mutant ally
• Vanessa holds her own with Wade

Deadpool's pansexual nature is hinted via raunchy jokes but not a storyline; Negasonic's girlfriend appears in the sequel, not here.

• Crude jokes about Wade's sexual flexibility

Cast is somewhat diverse (Negasonic, Blind Al) but fits the modern comic-book setting naturally.

• Blind Al as comic-relief roommate
• Diverse minor mutant cast

The film is raunchy comedy with zero sermonizing; its fourth-wall breaks mock everything including itself.

• Constant self-aware jabs at superhero tropes

Hyper-masculine, violent, sex-and-guns tone; no anti-masculine or anti-West framing.

• Wade's macho mercenary persona played straight and for laughs

Highly faithful to the comic character's irreverent tone; deviations are creative, not agenda-driven.

• Faithful fourth-wall-breaking, mercenary anti-hero portrayal