Remember “The Dress”? Back in 2015, one washed-out photo briefly split the internet between people who saw a blue-and-black dress and those convinced it was white and gold. Eleven years later, Marvel fans have stumbled into a sort of sequel fit for a new superhero movie. The new question is whether Ryan Reynolds’ Comic-Con Deadpool suit is blue denim or grey. Depending on the photo, either answer feels perfectly reasonable. Thankfully, the Wade Wilson performer has now stepped in with an answer that is somehow definitive and completely unhelpful.
The Deadpool star shared a close-up of the costume on his Instagram Story with a fan-made fake Pantone-style card laid over the fabric. The color was labeled “9-1963 X-MEN” and, beneath that, “Jean Grey.” Reynolds added the hashtag “#JeanPool” and wrote, “Once you see it, you can’t just unsee it. It doesn’t work that way.” In the pic below, the invented color code appears to reference September 1963, when the first issue of X-Men was published.
