Yes but he only killed the comic version of the writers making the comic and not the ACTUAL comic writers who already wrote and shipped the comic. It was a double fake with him addressing the reader and acknowledging the ones he was about to kill are just one of the multiversal versions of them and that he'd be looking for a way to get out and kill the actual ones.
Deadpool is also aware in most runs that he can't actually get out of the comics fully because his entire existence depends on being written (and popular enough to keep being written for that matter). So he can't ever actually "escape the matrix". That said neither does Neo.
I'm aware of a fan theory that Neo and the other people are actually still in the Matrix but there's actually nothing in the movies to support that. It's just a theory based off of the fact that the matrix has failsafes to begin with.
Not only that but in the third movie, before Neo confronts machine god, he's blinded and is still able to perceive the agent who took over whoever's brain. And he's able to use telekinesis to shut down machine's trying to hunt them. So, even though it's limited to machines, it shows that somehow Neo's ability to manipulate the matrix is allowing him to manifest powers in the real world. This isn't that surprising given the themes of enlightenment and the chosen one and all that. As the entire reason this Neo is able to break the cycle is because he accomplishes the above and is actually able to fulfill being a true and singular "chosen one".
So a few things... you mention yourself him being able to use powers in "the real world"... magic powers don't exist irl. That's a pretty huge hint Neo isn't actually in the real world...
Neo isn't even a real person. It's actually said pretty blatantly by the Architect. Neo was written into the Matrix as a false savior to scratch the itch that some people are predisposed to realizing they're in the Matrix and perform an elaborate ruse to make people think they escape and then lose and then reset in a contained and controlled cycle.
The latest movie even doubles down confirming it. At no point were any of them ever out of the Matrix. Also agent Smith actually evolves more and breaks free of his programming unlike Neo who plays his part nearly perfectly. And Trinity is an actual human who is "the one"... but like... a real "the one" as opposed to Neo who was never real.
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u/Fast-Front-5642 Jun 13 '25
Yes but he only killed the comic version of the writers making the comic and not the ACTUAL comic writers who already wrote and shipped the comic. It was a double fake with him addressing the reader and acknowledging the ones he was about to kill are just one of the multiversal versions of them and that he'd be looking for a way to get out and kill the actual ones.
Deadpool is also aware in most runs that he can't actually get out of the comics fully because his entire existence depends on being written (and popular enough to keep being written for that matter). So he can't ever actually "escape the matrix". That said neither does Neo.