Fails the Bechdel test
Deadpool
2016. Directed by Tim Miller, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
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Yes
1. At least two women
17 women characters. 6 of them speak. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 1 out of 3.
The film
This is the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
- Released
- 12 Feb 2016
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 8 / 10
- Metascore
- 65 / 100
- Awards
- 30 wins & 79 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Deadpool 214 lines, man
- Wade 162 lines, man
- Vanessa 73 lines, woman
- Ajax 67 lines, man
- Weasel 34 lines, man
- Blind Al 26 lines, woman
- Dopinder 20 lines, man
- Colossus 18 lines, man
- Angel Dust 14 lines, woman
- Doctor 14 lines
Full cast, 52 people
- Ryan Reynolds as Wade / Deadpool
- Morena Baccarin as Vanessa
- Ed Skrein as Ajax
- T.J. Miller as Weasel
- Gina Carano as Angel Dust
- Leslie Uggams as Blind Al
- Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead
- Stefan Kapičić as Colossus (voice)
- Karan Soni as Dopinder
- Randal Reeder as Buck
- Michael Benyaer as Warlord
- Style Dayne as Jeremy (Pizza Guy)
- Kyle Cassie as Gavin Merchant
- Taylor Hickson as Meghan Orlovsky
- Ayzee as Teen Girl #1
- Naika Toussaint as Teen Girl #2
- Isaac C. Singleton, Jr. as Boothe
- Justyn Shippelt as Arcade Ticket Taker
- Donna Yamamoto as Oncologist
- Jed Rees as Recruiter
- Hugh Scott as David Cunningham
- Cindy Piper as Chinatown Merchant
- Em Haine as Whisper Girlfriend
- Aatash Amir as Whisper Boyfriend
- Chad Riley as Pool Hall Goon
- Paul Belsito as Fight Club Boss
- Darcey Johnson as Garbage Truck Driver
- Kyle Rideout as Super Soldier #1
- Jason William Day as Super Soldier #2
- Stan Lee as Strip Club DJ
- Benjamin Wilkinson as No5 Orange Manager
- Rachel Sheen as Strip Club Worker
- Paul Lazenby as Flight Deck Guard
- Rob Hayter as Bob
- Andre Tricoteux as On-Set Colossus (uncredited)
- Victoria De Mare as Stripper (uncredited)
- Heather Ashley Chase as Stripclub Pole Performer (uncredited)
- Kayla Adams as Waitress Kelly (uncredited)
- Olesia Shewchuk as Guadalajaran Mother (uncredited)
- Fabiola Colmenero as Guadalajaran Nurse (uncredited)
- Colleen Bradford as Bar Patron (uncredited)
- John Dryden as Thug #2 (uncredited)
- David Hardware as Strip Club Spectator (uncredited)
- Tony Chris Kazoleas as Fight Club Spectator (uncredited)
- Rob Liefeld as Liefeld (uncredited)
- David Longworth as Elderly Man (uncredited)
- Michael Neumeyer as Soldier #1 (uncredited)
- Sean Quan as Ten-year-old Boy (uncredited)
- Anthony J. Sacco as Thug #3 (uncredited)
- David Santana as Biker in Strip Club (uncredited)
- Bronwyne Sloley as Fight Club Spectator (uncredited)
- Dan Zachary as Biker (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 2 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 6% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 70
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Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 2 | 0 | 16 |
| 3 to 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 to 6 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 to 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 9 to 10 | 2 | 27 |
| 11 to 12 | 5 | 41 |
| 13 to 14 | 13 | 41 |
| 15 to 16 | 9 | 12 |
| 17 to 18 | 7 | 5 |
| 19 to 20 | 14 | 24 |
| 21 to 22 | 11 | 14 |
| 23 to 24 | 0 | 11 |
| 25 to 26 | 3 | 25 |
| 27 to 28 | 0 | 4 |
| 29 to 30 | 0 | 1 |
| 31 to 32 | 3 | 25 |
| 33 to 34 | 0 | 26 |
| 35 to 36 | 3 | 21 |
| 37 to 38 | 1 | 3 |
| 39 to 40 | 14 | 30 |
| 41 to 42 | 2 | 55 |
| 43 to 44 | 1 | 4 |
| 45 to 46 | 10 | 22 |
| 47 to 48 | 0 | 7 |
| 49 to 50 | 0 | 3 |
| 51 to 52 | 3 | 4 |
| 53 to 54 | 3 | 8 |
| 55 to 56 | 8 | 34 |
| 57 to 58 | 1 | 4 |
| 59 to 60 | 4 | 9 |
| 61 to 62 | 2 | 14 |
| 63 to 64 | 2 | 10 |
| 65 to 66 | 1 | 4 |
| 67 to 68 | 15 | 43 |
| 69 to 70 | 0 | 8 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
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Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 19 are women's.
137 lines from women, 573 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
17 women and 34 men in the cast. 6 women and 18 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 47 of 758.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 55 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 12% of the words (912), men 88% (6,614). Women have 19% of the lines, so their lines run shorter than men's.
Exhibit D: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
0
Two men
50
Exhibit E: behind the camera
4 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 24% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Tim Miller (man)
- Written by
- Rhett Reese (man), Paul Wernick (man)
- Produced by
- Ryan Reynolds (man), Simon Kinberg (man), Lauren Shuler Donner (woman)
- Shot by
- Ken Seng (man)
- Edited by
- Julian Clarke (man)
- Music by
- Tom Holkenborg (man)
- Production design by
- Sean Haworth (man)
- Costumes by
- Angus Strathie (man)
- Cast by
- Ronna Kress (woman), Corinne Clark (woman), Jennifer Page (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Visual Effects
7 women, 16 men, 123 not listed
-
Other crew
8 women, 25 men, 35 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 14 men, 38 not listed
-
Sound
5 women, 26 men, 9 not listed
-
Art
6 women, 7 men, 22 not listed
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Production
8 women, 12 men, 13 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
4 women, 6 men, 22 not listed
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Lighting
2 women, 7 men, 18 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 40 on average. Men: 36 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
Brianna Hildebrand 19, Gina Carano 33, Morena Baccarin 36, Leslie Uggams 72
Men
Karan Soni 27, Ed Skrein 32, T.J. Miller 34, Stefan Kapičić 37, Ryan Reynolds 39, Randal Reeder 44
Exhibit G: the money
It made 13.5 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $58 million
- Box office
- $783 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 70 scenes and 758 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
