Funny, he doesn't look like a minotaur?
A rootin' tootin' Deadpool variant, Cowboypool works for Cassandra Nova and makes sure the bosslady don't get any disturbances as she tries to destroy the heck out of every timeline.
Calling this character "Cowboypool" is better and less confusing than his comic counterpart. In Merc With a Mouth #7 (the same issue that introduced Lady Deadpool), Wade found himself in a Western-themed alternate reality where Nick Fury was a sheriff, Wolverine was a bounty hunter, and Wade Wilson was wanted for bank robbery, arson, software piracy, and stampeding pygmy goats through an orphanage. Anyway, in the tradition of Marvel cowboys like Two-Gun Kid, Rawhide Kid, and numerous others, Earth-1108's variant was known as the Deadpool Kid. Which honestly is way too close to Earth-10330's Kid Deadpool.
Cowboypool was played in the movie by a stuntman - like The Mandalorian learned, when you've got a character who's covered head-to-toe, you don't need your star for anything but ADR and the few bare minimum moments. Ryan Reynolds did record all the dialogue himself, though, but that was only in case they couldn't get their first choice: Matthew McConnaughey! Alright alright alright!
The comic costume was definitely more "Deadpool-y," with
large black panels on the sides of a mostly red suit. The movie was slightly more grounded, with just a vest and jeans worn over his normal Deadpool costume, which absolutely does track for even an alternate reality Wade. The costume and human clothes are sculpted with different textures, so you can tell them apart. The hat is glued on, so it doesn't have to be oversized or sit weird on the head, and he gets separate pieces for the bandana around his neck and the belts of bullets. Fittingly, the buckle on his gunbelt is the traditional Deadpool "eyes" circle buckle, a nice way to tie this design in with the main guy.
The paint is... lacking. The colors are mainly done in large chunks, with no real detailing. Like, yes, the vest gets paint for its buttons, but it's the same flat red as the costume sleeves when, if you look
at on-set photos, you'll see that it's supposed to have a dark pattern in the fabric. The neckerchief is the same shade, when it should be darker. His pants are black, as they should be, but the hat is only a dark grey. He wears chaps and cowboy boots, which are supposed to be dark red leather (darker than the vest, but not as vibrant as the bandana), and Hasbro at least tried here, but the color they picked is too brown. And also the boots and chaps are the same color all the way down. At least they painted the soles of the boots a lighter tan, and the spurs golden, but ideally the boots would be this color (because they were dusty in the film) and the rest of the leg would be slightly brighter. And of course, while the bullets visible on his chest are all painted in their little loops, the ones on his back are just left the brown they're molded in.
Cowboypool has swivel/hinge ankles, double-hinged knees, swivel thighs, balljoint hips, swivel waist, balljoint chest, swivel/hinge wrists, double-hinged elbows, swivel biceps, swivel/hinge shoulders, and a barbell head. Yes, that means that unlike all the other Deadpool 3 figures we've reviewed, he doesn't have balljoints behind the hinge in the shoulder; maybe they couldn't figure out how to make the concealing rings work with the vest he's wearing? Plus, you have to be careful how far you bend his legs: like the saying goes, don't squat with your spurs on, cowboy! The joints in the wrists are red plastic, which looks pretty blatant next to the black of the gloves.
Any good Deadpool will use guns, and
when you're the Deadpool from the Wild West, those guns are revolvers. We get two, silver with ivory handles (ivory the color, not ivory the material), and they fit in the holsters on his legs or can be held in his hands. If you don't want him shootin', there's also a pair of fists, plus an open left hand. Then there's also a right hand with the fingers splayed and the index finger poking inward, designed to use his most fun accessory, a "twirling" gun. Honestly, the only bad thing about that is we only get one, not a set of them. Or at least a left hand that would allow him to twirl it on that side, too.
Putting Cowboypool in Cassandra Nova's army makes sense: in the comics, The Deadpool Kid ended up joining the Evil Deadpool Corps, so he's got a history of being on the wrong side. Heck, he even wears a black hat! I'd love to get a bunch of the different Deadpools the movie introduced, but if Hasbro wanted to do a comic-based version of the character, that'd be different enough to warrant getting, too.
-- 06/03/26
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