Damn it: Reynolds and Jackman brought out all the Deadpool & Wolverine cameo actors at Comic-Con, but our screening isn't for another hour

[This article (probably) contains spoilers for Deadpool & Wolverine.]

Look, we’re going to be 100 percent, serious-as-a-heart-attack honest with you for a second, folks. We’re about to break one of our major Newswire rules, and embed a video in this post that we, your humble Newswire writers, have not actually watched.

Bad form! A serious abnegation of our duties. “I really hope someone got fired for that blunder,” etc. But here’s the thing: Variety, taking video of the panel, posted the big climax of Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool & Wolverine panel at Hall H at Comic-Con tonight, in which the titular duo brought out all, or at least most, of the actors who played cameos in the just-released superhero film. Which was probably enormously exciting to the crowd in the hall, who’d just been treated to a full surprise screening of the movie, and all the cameo-based secrets hidden therein. But, uh… Our screening of Deadpool & Wolverine isn’t for another hour, right after our news shift ends. So we’re… Not going to watch the video. But you can! You’ve probably already seen the movie. Stupid late-night Newswire shifts.

(In fact, we literally held a hand over our screen as we scrolled down to get the gist of Variety‘s write-up, lest we accidentally catch sight of one of the Precious, Sacred Names. Never let anyone tell you this job isn’t fundamentally ridiculous.)

As serious consumers of superhero art, we try not to let the spoiler cycle around films like Shawn Levy’s latest offering overtake our brains. But the marketing around Deadpool & Wolverine has been so focused on that aspect of the movie—including, we’d argue, the above panel, which serves as a major milestone in its huge advertising push—that the need for secrecy has infiltrated our brains, lest knowledge steal some enjoyment from the viewing process. We have it on authority that most of the performers who made small appearances in the movie—of which there are several, presumably!—took the stage at Comic-Con, where they expressed [joy/anger/confusion, remember to come back and edit this appropriately once we’ve actually watched the damn movie] at being part of the proceedings. Meanwhile, in the parts of the Variety write-up of the panel that felt safe to read, Reynolds and Jackman waxed nostalgic about showing their first footage from Deadpool at Comic-Con several years back, and Reynolds got genuinely heartfelt about being up on stage with the X-Men. Also, they did all this in front of an entire room full of people holding those highly sexual Wolverine popcorn buckets for the movie, because they handed those out to attendees, which must have been a hell of a visual.

Comic-Con: It really is better in real life! We assume.

Update, roughly three hours later: Okay, yup. pretty much all there. No Jon Favreau, but other than that, pretty much the complete set. Never doubt Ryan Reynolds’ ability to get famous people to show up and do him favors (which could also be a suitable tagline for Deadpool & Wolverine, now that we think about it.)