Rob Delaney Says His Deadpool Character Peter Is Not Pete Wisdom
“Peter Wisdom is a guy from the comics. My character is not Peter Wisdom.”
That is according to actor Rob Delaney, who confirmed in a red carpet interview with ScreenRant that his character Peter from Deadpool 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine is not the Marvel Comics character Pete Wisdom.
The presence of Delaney’s character in David Leitch’s 2018 action comedy Deadpool 2 started as a joke. Deadpool assembles a team called X-Force for a skydiving rescue mission, recruiting ordinary middle-aged man Peter alongside heroes like Shatterstar, Domino, and Bedlam.
When the initial trailer dropped, /Film theorized that Delaney could be playing Peter Wisdom. That comic book character debuted in an issue of the Britain-set X-Men comic Excalibur dated February 1995. Pete Wisdom can absorb heat from his environment and channel it into magical hot knives protruding from his fingers.
Confusion over the character’s identity persisted partly due to listings on Wikipedia, which listed Delaney as playing Pete Wisdom in both Deadpool 2 and the 2024 follow-up Deadpool & Wolverine. On IMDb, however, the proper credit of just “Peter” is retained.
Delaney was unambiguous during his red carpet interview with ScreenRant. “My character is not Peter Wisdom. He’s just a guy named Peter,” Delaney said. He added that the character may have been arbitrarily given the last initial W, explaining the mix-up, but confirmed he was created from whole cloth by the writers.
Following his introduction in Deadpool 2, Peter meets a grisly fate before time travel saves him. He returns in Deadpool & Wolverine during a climax where hundreds of parallel-universe Deadpools pour through an interdimensional portal, pausing to marvel at Peter and embrace him.
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