Dogpool

(X-)Man's best friend. Dogpool, A.K.A. Mary Puppins, might be the ugliest dog on the planet, but she's also pretty hard to look at. (Oh, and Deadpool's here too). Imagine you adopt a dog out of pity because she was the runt of the litter and the last one wanted, and then six years later she becomes a major part of one of the biggest movies of the year. It's all very "Paul Harvey," isn't it? Dogpool, in the comics, was some indeterminate breed of dog (because it's easier to ask an artist to just draw "brown dog" than anything more specific), not even particularly scrungly after his first appearance - his "ugliness" was more of an informed attribute than anything else. Peggy, who plays MCU Dogpool, is a cross between a pug and a Chinese Crested, which means her face is flat and weird, and her body is mostly hairless, save for a big tuft on her head. Her tongue hangs permanently out the side of her mouth. Mary Puppins is wearing her tiny, custom Dogpool uniform, with a sculpted texture on the red areas and smooth surfaces on the black. She's wearing little boots and has her Deadpool logo dog tag sculpted on her collar. She's sculpted in a sitting (or peeing?) pose, and the only articulation is a swivel at the neck, which is less than the comic Dogpool figure had - and he didn't even get top billing on his packaging! Just like Headpool needed a pack-in Logan to help justify his cost, Dogpool graciously shares packaging space with Deadpool. Regular Deadpool, not Nicepool (though that really would have made this a must-buy). This Deadpool was already released once, back in 2024 when the movie came out, when the entire tie-in line was him, Wolverine with sleeves, and the Headpool two-pack. As with No Way Home, the small initial line was obviously done to avoid spoilers, but did it really take two years to get around to making the characters people wanted to see? Anyway, the 2024 Deadpool had his own bio: Having hung up the Deadpool suit after a midlife crisis, Wade Wilson is forced to wield the katanas once again to save his universe and finally find a higher purpose. There's an entire scene in Deadpool 3 where Wade gets a new costume, but its design is basically identical to what he wore in the first two movies - a little brighter (red vs. burgundy), a little thinner (spandex vs. leather), but not a major change by any stretch of the imagination. Regarless, Hasbro has done a new mold for the new movie, and thus this figure uses it. You have to wonder if the figure was based off the existing digital sculpt at all, because instead of balljoint/ring shoulders like most of the other figures are getting, he's got more traditional pectoral hinges. As far as actual, noticable, on-screen differences go, the MCU suit has black panels on the throat and chest that the Fox suit didn't, the white eyes on the mask are smaller, and there are... buckles(?) between the red and black sections on the torso. His belt buckle is now the actual logo, rather than just suggesting it, and the black outlines on his boots are more prominent. The sculpt does a great job capturing the new, slimmer look of the costume, and gives him a fine texture all over to sell this as a movie toy and not just a comic one. We will say, though: he doesn't have either the butt or the bulge he did in the movie. It's the accessories that really make this one. He's got hands for holding things, hands with the trigger fingers out, and a pair of thwipping hands so he can pretend to be Spider-Man? (Oh, also the metal plates on the backs of his hands are gold this time, that's another "big" change in the design.) He has a knife that fits in his boot, the adamantium katanas the TVA gave him, plus the golden Desert Eagles he took from Nicepool. And is it not just the Deadpooliest thing ever that he let his alternate universe version die just so he could get the guns, used them for less than 90 seconds, and then threw them away as soon as they were empty? Then there's a pair of accessories that don't actually appear in the film, but do get referenced. While meeting with Happy Hogan, Wade explains the concept of "smashturbating," where you "get those toy Hulk hands, and then you just look down, and you just brace yourself, and you ravage the midsection." In reference to that, the set includes a pair of in-scale Hulk hands that are hollow inside, meaning you can give them to any figure you want. They're hidden behind one of the solid sections of the packaging - presumably in case anybody remembered what they were for - but still, this is a mass market toy available on the shelf at major retailers that prominently features a self-love accessory. What a world! And we're still not done yet! We come now to the parts that I, personally, am declaring make this a three-pack instead of just a two-pack. The big question before Deadpool 3 opened was how they were going to bring Wolverine back while still honoring his sacrifice in Logan. And the answer was "by immediately digging up and desecrating his corpse." When the TVA came after Wade, he promised not to use his swords against them, but said nothing about improvised weapons - and handily, Wolverine's body provided 212 ready-made items he could use. This set includes both Wolverine's legs, with their lingering tendons allowing him to use them like nunchucks; one is straight, and one is bent. Then there's Logan's skull and spine, used like a club and explaining why one tooth is missing; there's a bit of skin - and hair - still sticking to the head, but they did not bother to mold the "24601" onto the roof of his mouth. How dare! And finally, we get one more pair of Deadpool hands, these with Wolverine's claws and all the muscle fibers and tendons Wade used to make them functional/strap them on molded as part of them. Fit those into the figure's wrists, and he's ready to slice and dice up to 34 TVA operatives. They have a hinge joint like all the other hands do, but the design of the tendons and whatnot makes that kind of pointless. For anyone who bought the Deadpool figure in 2024, this is really a hard release to justify - the Deadpool himself is the same, other than the color of his guns, so you're being asked to pay $40 for Dogpool and Wolverine's bones. And the Hulk hands. Anyone who did not get that figure, however, may really appreciate this release offering so much more than average. I got mine on sale because Target had a discount on Marvel toys that weekend, and if the number of him that I've seen on the shelf since is any indication, you have a good chance of being able to pick him up at a very good price sometime in the future. -- 07/29/26 What Deadpool do you want them to make next? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.