'Deadpool 2' Set Photos Could Hint At The Juggernaut
One of the X-Men’s oldest foes may be making a return to the big screen in Deadpool [...]
Black Tom Cassidy
Jack Kesy was cast as a villain in Deadpool 2 in May 2017. While his role has not officially been disclosed, rumors suggest that he will be playing Black Tom Cassidy, a relative of Banshee of the X-Men and a criminal and mercenary.
In the Marvel Comics Universe, during a time when Cain Marko was imprisoned, he met and befriended Black Tom, who was also an inmate. Black Tom has the power to fire powerful energy blasts channeled through wood, usually a shillelagh, and used that power to help himself and Juggernaut escape.
Since this meeting, Black Tom and Juggernaut have been nearly inseparable friends and partners. The easiest way to defeat the Juggernaut is often to put Black Tom in fatal peril since Juggernaut will usually break off from whatever he's currently doing to save his friend.
Black Tom and Juggernaut were some of the earliest foes to challenge the new team of X-Men when Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Banshee first joined the team. The duo even formed a short-lived incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. They most recently re-teamed in the debut issue of X-Men Blue earlier this year, but they've also challenged Deadpool...
Versus Deadpool
Black Tom Cassidy's partnership and friendship with the Juggernaut makes it seem very plausible that if one of them is in Deadpool 2, then the other will be as well.
Black Tom Cassidy and Juggernaut have crossed paths with Deadpool on more than one occasion, meaning there are plenty of narrative threads that the film could take from the characters' shared comic book history.
In Deadpool: The Circle Chase, Deadpool's very first solo miniseries, it was revealed that Black Tom's mutant power had gone out of control and was changing his own physiology to be more plantlike. Tom and Juggernaut tried to capture Deadpool so that they could steal his healing factor and hopefully fix Tom.
That same story also involved Deadpool attempting to kill a telepathic mutant who would later be called Black Box. Black Box would slater eek revenge, first hiring Deadpool to kill Cable, who will also appear in Deadpool 2, and later hiring Black Tom and others to kill Deadpool.
Deadpool would later battle Black Tom again when he came to the assistance Siryn, Banshee's daughter and Tom's niece, who was a member of X-Force at the time. This would lead to Deadpool's romantic infatuation with Siryn.
Juggernaut Versus Colossus
A fan-favorite aspect of the first Deadpool movie was the new take on Colossus, and Colossus is a mutant with a long rivalry with the Juggernaut.
The Juggernaut and Colossus first battled when Juggernaut and Black Tom were hired to kill the X-Men. Tom and Juggernaut laid a trap for the X-Men at Cassidy Keep, where Juggernaut and Colossus first battled. Juggernaut managed to easily defeat not only Juggernaut but all of the X-Men, who were only saved by tossing Black Tom into the ocean so that Juggernaut would dive in after him.
Later, in the classic Uncanny X-Men #183, Wolverine and Nightcrawler purposely baited Colossus into a drunken bar brawl with the Juggernaut as payback for Colossus' poor treatment of Kitty Pryde.
But that's hardly the most epic part of Colossus and Juggernaut's rivalry...
Colossus Becomes The Juggernaut
Colossus and Juggernaut's rivalry truly came to a head during Marvel's Fear Itself event.
The Juggernaut became empowered by the Asgardian hammer of Kuurth, making him even more unstoppable than before, and began marching towards the mutant island sanctuary of Utopia.
At a loss for solutions, Colossus's sister, the sorceress Magik, transported them both to the realm of Cytorrak and played on the demon-gods' jealousy to convince him to strip Cain Marko of the Crimson Bands and make Colossus the new Juggernaut.
Using this new power, Colossus defeated Cain Marko and continued acting as the Juggernaut for some time, up until he became possessed by the Phoenix Force during the Avengers vs. X-Men event.
Interestingly, once Colossus was no longer empowered by either Cytorrak or the Phoenix Force, he left the X-Men and joined up with Cable as a member of X-Force. During his time with the team, Colossus became romantically involved with Domino. These both are stories that the Deadpool and X-Force movies could draw from.
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Deadpool 2 opens in theaters on June 1, 2018.
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