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What is it with Deadpool and chimichangas?

Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked by Machavity on December 30, 2020

So the recent turning of Captain America into a Hydra agent prompted some interesting Internet commentary

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So I get the first four, but… Deadpool and chimichangas? I’m not an avid comic reader but I feel like I’m in the dark there. What’s the connection?

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3 Answers

In light of the meme you provided, the goal of the meme was to show characters in diametric opposition to to ideals they previously espoused.

As such, the other images lampoon the idea further by having each hero espouse something equally contradictory.

  • Batman shoots his parents - instead of his parents being shot by a criminal

  • Spider-Man chooses to ignore responsibility - instead of his trademark statement taught to him by his uncle Ben - with great power comes great responsibility.

  • Daredevil, famed blind superhero - reveals he can see the whole time. This is not quite the subversion of the meme the writer was trying to make but okay, we'll allow it.

  • Deadpool reveals he hates chimichangas - this is problematic because we already know he hates chimichangas, he has already admitted this. He loves the sound, the way it feels in his sanity-challenged mentality.

    Deadpool leaves Barat's loft and heads for a restaurant/cafe; he sits down and orders an enchilada from the waiter; he says to himself that he doesn't really like eating chimichangas but likes saying it chimichangas

    from Cable and Deadpool #13

  • But we do know Deadpool does love certain foods and perhaps this meme would have worked better if he said, for example how much he loathes pancakes. This image reveals an absolute love of them...

    Deadpool wears an apron and chef hat, he has a spatula in his right hand and a plate in his left, pancakes are falling off of the plate onto a pile of thousands of them, he says "I love the smell of 372,844 pancakes in the morning. Smells like victory."

  • His love of tacos is also well known if not as abundantly drawn:

    Deadpool asks what can make the night even more awesome, "Tacos?" "YES!!", four fists punch in the air, one firing a pistol, they all shout "TACOS!"

What we can learn from this is that often people make memes without a true understanding of the underlying themes being represented. Make responsible memes, m'kay?

Correct answer by Thaddeus Howze on December 30, 2020

Out-of-canon, mentioning chimichangas has been an occasional running joke (although he's also generally more focused on food than a lot of other heroes, in keeping with his personality type which seems to be focused more on visceral experiences than brooding angst or intellectual pursuits, or a more even balance of all of these, like some heroes).

Canonically? It's mostly about the sound of the word.

Deadpool leaves Barat's loft and heads for a restaurant/cafe; he sits down and orders an enchilada from the waiter; he says to himself that he doesn't really like eating chimichangas but likes saying it chimichangas

Which makes that meme joke in the question somewhat out of place.

Answered by starpilotsix on December 30, 2020

What hasn't yet been addressed is that chimichanga is featured in the recent Deadpool film, and in that canon there's no concept of him not liking them. It's obvious that the references in the movie were built on the running joke from the comics, but it's a fair guess that only a small percentage of the people who've spent 3/4 of a billion USD would be familiar with the panels provided in other answers.

Due to the enormous popularity of the film, and the chimichanga references throughout, I would guess that it was meant to appeal to not only Deadpool comic fans, but to fans of the movie (or just the movie).

See this exclusive postcard included in the special red-cased Blu-ray of the film, that people like myself received:

Postcard with a yellows border with red chillis going around it; a star comes from the top left corner with the words "Greetings from Mexico", Deadpool stands over the background blocking most of it holding a chimichanga in his left hand on a plate and makes an OK sign with his right; the words say "How do you say Chimichanga" in Spanish?" Picture included so that my answer isn't the only one without them.

And finally, accurate or not, I think most people still don't give a damn.

Answered by user31178 on December 30, 2020

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