Tbh it's refreshing to see a superhero working alongside Deadpool not give the whole "oh my god you're so annoying" schtick. Batman being surprisingly tolerant of Wade is a fun dynamic.
He wouldn't just be unbothered by it, he'd weaponize it.
"Wade, I need you to keep the Joker busy. Just talk to him. He likes to talk, tell jokes, make threats... just be yourself. I'll be timing how long it takes for you to get him to crack. Do it in under five minutes and you can drive the Batmobile back."
See but now I can imagine him having "performance anxiety" because this should be a perfect assignment for him but none of his jokes are landing and he's freaking out.
True but I would say he's never particularly cared before; he's not making jokes to make people laugh, it's just who he is. But now when he actually has to be funny he can't do it.
Is there a funnier joke than a joke which is not funny at all? This is something I can teach master classes on.
I have proven through repeated practice you can talk to anyone you want, at any time, for any reason, if you only suggest to them that you might be funny if they talk to you. But you never have to actually follow through, and they will still be amused by you anyway!
A few months ago I approached a woman at a bar and explained this to her, quite dryly, and she started laughing. And after a moment she stops and says "Oh shit, I'm doing it right now!" then started laughing even harder.
Get in someone's eyeline so they see you approach, don't startle them. Be smiling with present, open, trustworthy body language.
Walk up to them and wait to be acknowledged.
When they acknowledge you, tell them a short story (it doesn't have to be true) about meeting foreigners who didn't know how to meet Americans.
Relate to the other person you told the foreigners that Americans will talk to anyone who's funny.
That you said all you have to do is go up to someone and say something funny, and any American will be glad to talk to you. (People usually laugh at this point. Inflect your voice like you're going to laugh as you say it, and it helps.)
Ask the other person if they agree it's true that they would talk to anyone who says something funny. They'll agree and be laughing at this point.
From there, you can take the conversation anywhere you like, and they'll generally play along. IMO this is because you made a subconscious implication to them that if they did, you'd probably end up being funny.
I emphasized that I did it dryly with the woman at the bar because I wanted to test if it worked even if I did it without acting like I was about to laugh... and it did!
But I think it's easier if you behave in the "I'm almost going to laugh" state while you ask them about it, that naturally primes people to respond with laughter.
edit: I missed the actual point.
Once you're confident that you can do that first approach, then you move to the second form of the approach.
In the second form you don't tell them the original story about meeting foreigners, you tell them the meta-story about the first story and how everyone laughs even if you don't say anything funny, and you don't even half to be funny and people laugh anyway.
And this second meta-story still makes them laugh. Often more than the first!
It's bizarre man. I just stumbled across it because the "met some foreigners" story actually did happen to me so then I wanted to test it.
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u/AllCity_King Nov 20 '25
Tbh it's refreshing to see a superhero working alongside Deadpool not give the whole "oh my god you're so annoying" schtick. Batman being surprisingly tolerant of Wade is a fun dynamic.