Marvel's Midnight Suns hints at Deadpool joining the team

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Wade Wilson has taken over the Midnight Suns Twitter account.

Deadpool in Marvel's Midnight Suns
(Image credit: 2K Games)

An awful lot of hero-types have passed through the roster of Midnight Sons, the original spelling of the super-team that's now known as Midnight Suns, and which will soon be brought to the world of videogames as Marvel's Midnight Suns. Most of them are C-listers at best, like Iron Fist, Man-Thing, Morbius, Werewolf By Night, and Wong, but there are a few names that have been brought to popular acclaim by the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Wolverine, Doctor Strange, maybe Blade if you're into that sort of thing. One name that is definitely not on the Midnight Sons list, however, is Deadpool.

That may be changing at some point in the relatively near future. The Midnight Suns Twitter account has been 'taken over' by Deadpool, who has renamed the channel to #DeadpoolSuns and says he won't relinquish control "until these nerds put me in their Midnight Suns game." Naturally, there is also a very Deadpool-esque video.

It's quite possible that Firaxis and 2K are simply leaning into the popularity of Deadpool as the launch of Marvel's Midnight Suns grows nearer. But there is a chance that the merc with a mouth is in the game.

YouTuber TonyBingGaming saw a hint at Deadpool back in July in the form of Bob Dobalina, aka Hydra Bob, who joined Hydra because he thought it had a good dental plan (he confused it with AIM) and ultimately became Deadpool's friend and sidekick. Bob also appeared in the first Deadpool film, although as one of Ajax's hired guns rather than a member of Hydra.

Anyway, Hydra Bob is an enemy character in Midnight Suns, and he's such a niche character—and so closely associated with Deadpool—that it would be kind of odd to have one without the other.

This is a bit more of a stretch—and, much like the Deadpool tweet itself, might just be 2K having some fun with the fans—but Deadpool's crack about Moon Knight could be meaningful too. A reference to Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the moon, can be seen in a Midnight Suns teaser, leading some fans to suspect that Moon Knight may also be added to the game at some point.

2K Games has not commented on the video, but it did retweet it, asking, "How did Deadpool get in here?"

It wouldn't be too difficult to squeeze one or two (or more) additional heroes into the game—the confirmed roster of Marvel's Midnight Suns is already pretty beefy, after all:

  • Captain America
  • Blade
  • Magik
  • Iron Man
  • Wolverine (voiced, as always, by Steve Blum)
  • Doctor Strange
  • Captain Marvel
  • Nico Minoru
  • Ghost Rider (the Robbie Reyes incarnation—he has a car)
  • Spider-Man
  • Scarlet Witch

It also seems awfully unlikely to me that 2K would use a very high-profile character like Deadpool to promote Midnight Suns with a faux-demand for inclusion if it wasn't actually going to use the character in the game—that's just a fast way to annoy people who'd like to see him in it. 

We'll find out what's going on soon enough: Marvel's Midnight Suns is slated to launch on December 2.

Andy Chalk
Andy Chalk
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Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.