Pyro is back. In the most self-aware Marvel movie of all time, one X-Men character who defined a generation of angsty mutants has undergone a big transformation. Eighteen years after his final appearance as John “Pyro” Allerdyce in X-Men: The Last Stand, Aaron Stanford returns to the X-Men universe — and joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe, too — in Deadpool & Wolverine. But for Stanford, this return wasn’t exactly a homecoming. It was something new.
