'Once Upon a Deadpool' Updates Stan Lee Cameo With Touching Tributes

Once Upon a Deadpool is slated to be one of Marvel's more light-hearted movies, as it will take out some of the harsher scenes from Deadpool 2 and feature the Merc with a Mouth narrate the events to an all-grown up Fred Savage.

Though the movie has not garnered as much hype as other Marvel releases, it is the first live-action movie released since Stan Lee's death. And despite the movie being on the more silly side, it will provide two incredibly touching tributes to the comic book maverick.

First, Once Upon A Deadpool features the same mural of Lee plastered on the side of a building during the scene Domino leaps from the X-Force helicopter, but this time around, the mural has "RIP" written beside Lee's face.

And to make things even more heartwarming—but heartbreaking at the same time— the infamous Marvel post-credits scene features another Lee tribute rather than a teaser for a new MCU movie.

With A-Ha's "Take On Me" playing, Lee himself appears in the post-credits sequence to explain how he hopes the world will remember him once he passes away.

"He wrote some really good stories," Lee says in the scene. "I don't think about that much. When I'm gone, I really don't care. It doesn't do you any good when you're gone."

Those closing remarks will certainly make any fan break down and cry, but Stan ends it with his enthusiastic and classic tagline: "Excelsior!"

We're beyond happy that Marvel Studios had the opportunity to update the film with the new tributes. And we know Stan would be grateful for it also.