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“Deadpool 2” starts by showing that Wade Wilson has killed a Wolverine figurine.

I thought this was Deadpool merely doing his thing, not an actual commentary on what, I now know, happened a whole year ago in “Logan.” (And actually, Wade’s duplication of how the murder occurred in “Logan.”

I realize now that I was way off in thinking that if I was just a “Star Wars” fan, I was in touch with modern mythology. It’s a pretty big deal that Wolverine died, and I was as in the dark on that as THX was on the outside world, in “THX 1138.”

By that point, I’d yet been out of an institution for two years that, teaching to avoid “the world,” encourages an inward life.

So, I have no excuse.

If you think I’m worrying too much about it, understand that I find it important to be connected with the most influential modern mythologies of our time. That’s because they are a commentary on who we are as humankind.

By no means am I giving myself or anyone an excuse to become fanboys and shirk responsibility. I just think that you can’t understand the people around you unless you can understand the stories to which they gravitate, relate and love with all their heart.

I guess I was way behind the eight ball on “Deadpool” itself. And the only reason I was in the “Deadpool 2” theater was because watching the first one eight months after it came out made me sense that the movies was a game-changer at least for superhero films. (I learned, upon research, that that is exactly the case.)

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And kudos to 20th Century Fox for letting Wolverine’s death happen. “The Dark Knight Rises” is an incredible movie, but Warner Bros. certainly got creative in that film to preserve Batman’s life. (Bruce Wayne just happened to have fixed the autopilot for The Bat, which carried an atomic bomb.)

This commentary was originally published in The Good Men Project.

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