Deadpool & Wolverine Color Grading Discourse

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Deadpool & Wolverine Color Grading Discourse refers to memes and jokes about the color grading in trailer of the upcoming Marvel film Deadpool & Wolverine. After the trailer for the movie was released in April 2024, some fans took issue with the color grading of the film, saying that it looked washed out or not colorful enough. After some attempts to rectify the coloring of the film were shared to X / Twitter, other fans posted parody oversaturated images from the trailer claiming to have "fixed" the film's color grading issue.

Origin

A trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine released on Marvel Entertainment's official YouTube^[1] channel on April 22nd, 2024, gathering over 12 million views in a week (seen below).

On April 26th, X^[2] user @un_dead_exe posted a side-by-side comparison of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine as seen in an older Wolverine film and in the new Deadpool & Wolverine trailer. The post was captioned, "whatever happened to colour grading," and gathered over 67,000 likes in three days (seen below).

Spread

Some internet users mocked @un_dead_exe's post, with X^[5] user @grnformicatable quoting the post on April 26th, 2024, with the caption, "whatever happened to oiling up hugh jackman and lightly toasting him," gathering over 100,000 likes in three days (seen below).

Various other internet users tried their hand at "fixing" the color grading in Deadpool & Wolverine, as seen in posts by @StopTweetingMia^[3] and @imPatrickT^[4] that were made on April 27th and April 28th respectively (seen below).

On April 27th, 2024, X^[6] user @jere7my posted images of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine with the saturation turned all the way up, with the caption reading, "If I, an amateur, can fix the color grading in two minutes on my phone, why can’t Disney with all their billions do it?" The post gathered over 40,000 likes in two days (seen below, left).

Also on April 27th, X^[7] user @TheRealTCU posted an image of Deadpool with the saturation turned up, gathering over 8,000 likes in two days (seen below, right).

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