Deadpoolis an incredibly weird character with tons of ridiculous quirks about him, and one of the strangest has always been his obsession with chimichangas. This obsession is so great that it’s not only featured heavily in the live actionDeadpoolmovies, but it even has toys dedicated to it, and it’s entirely due toSaturday Night Live.
The origins of Deadpool’s obsession with chimichangas were revealed byCBR,who tracked down the urban legend. The legend goes thatDeadpool’s obsession was inspired by a joke onSaturday Night Live- and to the surprise of everyone, it was. During an old skit on the iconic television program, Jimmy Smits was over-pronouncing Spanish words, which inspired the then-Deadpoolwriter Fabian Nicieza and Mark Gruenwald to do the same at the Marvel office.
This new joke proved to amuse the two so much thatNicieza decided to add it to theDeadpoolcomic he was working on, which started the trend ofDeadpool’s absolute love of chimichangas. Ironically, at the start, Deadpool didn’t even particularly prefer chimichangas; he just enjoyed saying the word. But it eventually became one of his favorite meals and has been consistently referenced over the years, especially in the latest live action trilogy.
Deadpool’s Chimichangas Obsession Originates with aSaturday Night LiveReference
Panels fromCable and Deadpool#13 by Fabian Nicieza, Patrick Zircher, Crystal Reid, Frank D’Armata, and Cory Petit
Saturday Night Liveis one of the longest running comedy shows on American television and some of the biggest names in acting and comedy have been on it at one point or another, including Adam Sandler, Norm McDonald, Robert Downey Jr., and more. The sketch show has been a huge aspect of American pop culture for decades, andit’s no surprise that comedic characters like Deadpool would eventually pull material from the program. It’s especially funny that a throw-awaySNLjoke became a staple of Deadpool’s personality moving forward.
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Deadpool is a character who is meant to be funny, and he’s been around for a long time, meaning that Deadpool has to constantly evolve with society to remain funny. What was funny forty years ago may not be considered socially acceptable today. With this in mind, it honestly makes a lot of sense that one ofDeadpool’s longest-running jokeswould be pulled directly fromSaturday Night Live.The show is a decent barometer for what most Americans find funny, and at the time, over-pronouncing foreign words was an easy laugh for most people.
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Deadpool is one of the longest running comedic characters in comics, with hundreds of comics under his name and three major movies. It’s hardly surprising that Deadpool would eventually pull from other major sources of humor. WhileSaturday Night Liveisn’t as well-regarded as it used to be, there’s no denying the legacy and lasting impact the show has had. Without this comedy show,Deadpoolwouldn’t have one of the most iconic and longest-running jokes in comic books.
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The merc with the mouth first appeared in an issue ofNew Mutantsin 1990, and since then has gone on to get his own series and a massive cult following. With his incredible powers of healing and regeneration, Deadpool was initially depicted as an X-Men villain but went on to become an anti-hero. After getting his own movie series starting in 2016, the third Deadpool movie finally brings the wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
