What Does Cassandra Nova Mean for Deadpool & Wolverine?
Right now, given that we’ve seen so little of the film, it’s hard to say. In the latest trailer, Cassandra seems to appear in what has turned out to be a little haven of former Fox X-Men villains, including Azazel, Pyro, Lady Deathstrike, and potentially more—a post-apocalyptic little shanty town walled out by the corpse of a giant-sized Ant-Man. We don’t even know if she’s the primary threat of the movie, just that she’s part of it in that specific moment of Wade and Logan’s multiversal adventure. And given that we also see the duo in the trailer seemingly leaping away from where Cassandra has been hiding out in a sorcerer’s “sling ring” portal, she might just be a minor villain that they deal with and then move on from.
Funnily enough, Cassandra’s legacy is actually probably being more keenly felt elsewhere in X-Men adaptations right now. Although the show’s yet to reveal if she’s involved or not (so far the blame has been firmly laid at the feet of Mr. Sinister), X-Men ‘97 just recently delivered its own devastating interpretation of the Genoshan Genocide, which was pretty faithful to how it went down in the comics even without Cassandra’s presence just yet. Time will tell, but right now, it’s hard to say which X-adaptation will handle Cassandra’s villainous legacy better… or even if she’ll appear in both of those X-adaptations.
