It began with a teaser on Monday, in which Ryan Reynolds — bedecked head to toe in red skivvies as mouthy mercenary Deadpool— self-deprecatingly poked fun at his previous, panned take on the meta Marvel antihero in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
And then on Tuesday night, the cultish army of cosplayers who worship the wise-cracking super assassin were rewarded with the ridiculously gory red band trailer.
