The WGA grants Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman writing credit on Avengers: Doomsday

If you click over to the WGA page for Avengers: Doomsday, you may notice Jackman and Reynolds’ names among the many, many writers listed in the film’s Additional Literary Material credits. The duo, known for their ad-libbing monkeyshines in Deadpool & Wolverine, join Stephen McFeely and Michael Waldron (the film’s main credited screenwriters), Eric Pearson (The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Thunderbolts*), Chris McKenna (Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame), Erik Sommers (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Jeff Loveness (Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania), Andrew Lanham (Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings), and Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi, Spider-Man: Brand New Day). Why? How? Huh? All valid questions.

Even if much of the actors’ contributions to the final screenplay amount to little more than improvisational berserker rages and/or ball-jokes, it’s clearly enough to warrant a WGA credit. (While Reynolds has previous writing credits for Deadpool 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine, it doesn’t appear Jackman has WGA membership–though we guess he soon will!) We’ll just have to wait until the December 18 release of Avengers: Doomsday to see whether Deadpool’s patented irreverence will disrupt the apparent severity of its multiverse-ending storyline, or whether the Merc With The Mouth will be put on a leash. (Not a real leash! This is still a Disney movie!)