Once again, these are still Marvel's characters. Let's also not pretend that Fox is like some benevolent entity delivering us the best in quality entertainment. Look, I love Deadpool. Logan was a very good film. But News Corp. is a for profit, publicly traded company. They aren't in it for the art. They aren't in it for offering diversity in entertainment.
Did Deadpool being different help work in that movie's favor? Most definitely. But Fox put Deadpool on the shelf for over six years. People may have forgotten, but I haven't how much of a joke it became that the movie was languishing in development hell for that long. The talk of this awesome script being around lasted for years, and the awesome test reel. Yet Fox still wouldn't pull the trigger.
And also once again, look how long it took for us just to get a movie like Deadpool after so many false starts and after they've held the rights for years. I guess my point is that we shouldn't automatically credit Fox just because they made Deadpool and Logan. It took a lot of struggling and hand-wringing for those types of projects to happen as well as a lot of failures.
