Character Relationship Map: Deadpool 2

Characters

• Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut (played by Ryan Reynolds) — protagonist

  Mercenary with accelerated healing, fourth-wall-breaking antihero.

• Cable (played by Josh Brolin) — protagonist

  Time-traveling soldier from the future, advanced bionic arm, ally of Deadpool.

• Vanessa (played by Morena Baccarin) — supporting

  Deadpool's girlfriend and emotional anchor.

• Headmaster (played by Eddie Marsan) — supporting

  Generic title for a school administrator.

• Domino (played by Zazie Beetz) — supporting

  Mutant with probability-altering luck powers, member of X-Force.

• Blind Al (played by Leslie Uggams) — supporting

  Deadpool's elderly roommate and caretaker.

• Yukio (played by Shioli Kutsuna) — minor

  Negasonic's girlfriend and loyal ally.

• Peter (played by Rob Delaney) — minor

  X-Force member with parachute mishap.

• Dopinder (played by Karan Soni) — supporting

  Deadpool's loyal taxi driver.

• Negasonic Teenage Warhead (played by Brianna Hildebrand) — supporting

  X-Men mutant with explosive powers.

• Cable's Daughter (played by Islie Hirvonen) — cameo

  Child relative of time-traveling soldier.

• Cable's Wife (played by Hayley Sales) — cameo

  Civilian spouse of the time-traveling mutant Cable.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Cable's Daughter → Cable (daughter)
• Cable's Wife → Cable (wife)
• Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut → Dopinder (Professional Client And Driver) — Dopinder serves Wade and ultimately helps complete his revenge.

  Dopinder is described as Wade's loyal taxi driver, and he later kills the Headmaster by running him over.

• Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut → Vanessa (Romantic Girlfriend) — Vanessa is Wade's romantic partner and emotional anchor.

  Wade and Vanessa are identified as a couple who plan to start a family together before Vanessa is killed.

• Negasonic Teenage Warhead → Yukio (Romantic Girlfriend) — Their romantic partnership also functions as a practical alliance.

  Yukio is identified as Negasonic Teenage Warhead's girlfriend and helps her repair the time-traveling device.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Dopinder → Headmaster (Conflict Executioner) — Dopinder delivers the final punishment to Wade's enemy.

  After the final confrontation, Dopinder runs over and kills the Headmaster with his taxi.

• Cable → Domino (Alliance Mission Ally) — Domino becomes part of Cable's temporary coalition.

  Cable offers to work with Wade and Domino to prevent the Headmaster's death and stop the future catastrophe.

• Cable → Headmaster (Conflict Causal Adversary) — The Headmaster's abuse is a crucial cause in Cable's future timeline.

  Cable explains that the abused young mutant's future killing of the Headmaster leads to the later tragedy that destroys Cable's family.

• Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut → Headmaster (Conflict Moral Opponent) — The Headmaster represents the abuse Wade attempts to oppose.

  Wade sees the abuse at the mutant re-education center, later tries to stop the young mutant from killing the Headmaster, and witnesses Dopinder run hi...

• Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut → Yukio (Alliance Technical Ally) — Yukio helps enable Wade's final temporal intervention.

  Yukio works with Negasonic Teenage Warhead to repair Cable's time-traveling device for Wade.

• Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut → Peter (Alliance Teammate) — Peter is a short-lived teammate whose survival becomes part of Wade's later corrections.

  Peter joins Wade's X-Force team and is later saved when Wade changes events with the time-traveling device.

• Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut → Blind Al (Social Roommate) — Blind Al provides Wade with personal support during his grief.

  Wade visits Blind Al while grieving, and she unsuccessfully tries to convince him to move on.

• Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut → Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Alliance Teammate) — Negasonic supports Wade through both field operations and the resolution.

  Wade responds to the orphanage standoff alongside Negasonic Teenage Warhead and later relies on her to repair Cable's device.

• Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut → Cable (Conflict Adversary) — Wade and Cable begin as opposing forces with incompatible objectives.

  Cable attacks the prison to kill the young mutant, while Wade tries to protect him and fights Cable.

• Wade Wilson / Deadpool / Juggernaut → Domino (Alliance Teammate) — Domino becomes Wade's most reliable field partner.

  Wade recruits Domino for the team he calls X-Force, and she survives the failed parachute assault with him.

Story Analysis

Wade transforms grief into self-sacrifice while a time-traveling alliance prevents violence from destroying a future family.

Plot Progression

1. A Token Of Grief — Wade loses Vanessa after the couple decides to start a family. His revenge and repeated suicide attempts leave him trapped in self-hatred until Vanessa appears in an afterlife vision.
2. The Collar And The Future — Wade reluctantly joins the X-Men and is arrested after intervening at an abusive orphanage. Cable arrives from the future and attacks the Ice Box to eliminate the young mutant.
3. A Broken Rescue Team — Wade forms X-Force to protect the young mutant during a prison transfer. The parachute assault collapses, and Juggernaut's intervention leaves Wade severely injured.
4. The Future At Stake — Cable reveals that the young mutant's future violence destroys his family. Wade accepts a conditional alliance with Cable and Domino to prevent that future.
5. Sacrifice And Revision — At the orphanage, Wade sacrifices himself to stop the fatal shooting and change the young mutant's decision. Cable rewrites the moment, while later repairs let Wade correct additional deaths.