Japan Has A Giant Deadpool Statue

Deadpool‘s bizarre and clever viral marketing campaign has officially gone global.

In spite of being a worldwide phenomenon and available on streaming digital services in North America right now, Deadpool is finally making its way to Japan in June — and to celebrate, a giant statue of the Merc With a Mouth is touring the country.

The giant Deadpool was unveiled today in Osaka, per various social media reports collected by Kotaku East. Former sumo champ Akebono introduced the statue.

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After Osaka, the giant Deadpool tour Nagoya and Tokyo ahead of the film’s June 1 release in Japan.

Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.