Deadpool & Wolverine and Stray Kids? “Chk Chk Boom” turns Marvel’s chaos into K-pop carnage

In 2024, Marvel surprised fans by launching an unexpected crossover with Deadpool & Wolverine and the K-pop group Stray Kids, a bold collision of chaos and pop culture. Just a week before the official premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine, the studio released a wild, kinetic music video in collaboration with none other than Stray Kids, one of K-pop’s most boundary-pushing groups. The track Chk Chk Boom, dropped on July 19, 2024, didn’t just promote the movie, it detonated across fandoms like a stylish multiverse bomb, fusing superhero madness with the high-octane sound of K-pop’s noisiest visionaries.

Now, eight months later, the video still hits just as hard, not as a gimmick, but as a rare crossover that feels chaotic, yes, but weirdly right. It’s a meeting of two worlds that seem to understand each other better than expected: both messy, intense, unpredictable, and proud of it.

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Deadpool & Wolverine: Between sarcasm and the end of the world

Deadpool & Wolverine hit theaters on July 26, 2024, and marked a massive moment for Marvel fans. Directed by Shawn Levy, the film brings Ryan Reynolds back as Wade Wilson and sees Hugh Jackman return (finally) as Wolverine. But this time, their chaotic dynamic gets the full MCU treatment, timelines, variants, multiversal threats, and a whole lot of profanity-laced chemistry.

The plot kicks off when the Time Variance Authority (TVA) pulls Deadpool out of his reality and drops him into a bigger, messier mission. He drags along a reluctant, emotionally-burned-out Logan, and together they barrel through timelines and trouble. It’s a buddy road movie with swords, sarcasm, and some serious emotional undercurrents.

The cast also includes Emma Corrin as the unnerving villain Cassandra Nova, along with Matthew Macfadyen, Morena Baccarin, and Leslie Uggams. Behind the script are Levy, Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Zeb Wells, who clearly knew what fans wanted: self-aware anarchy with heart, and maybe a few cameos that nearly broke the internet.

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“Chk Chk Boom”: Music for a world in meltdown

Composed and produced by 3RACHA, the creative heart of Stray Kids made up of Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han, Chk Chk Boom is as intense as its name suggests. From the opening beat, it explodes forward, a sonic version of a car chase through a collapsing dimension. It’s noisy, unrelenting, and unapologetically bold, basically, the audio equivalent of Deadpool kicking in a multiverse door.

The music video, released just a week before the film, doesn’t hold back either. Stray Kids show up like multiverse soldiers, fierce, glitchy, and armed with energy that matches every frame of the movie’s chaos. The eight members, Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N, move like they’re part of a cinematic universe all on their own, slipping between timelines and dimensions, turning destruction into performance.

It’s more than a music video. It’s a visual battleground where K-pop precision meets superhero destruction, and somehow, it works.

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Deadpool and Stray Kids: A beautiful mess in sync

Deadpool has always existed on the edge. Since his 1991 comic book debut, created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, he’s been the guy who never quite fit in, not with the X-Men, not with the Avengers, not even with himself. He’s loud, unfiltered, tragic, and hilarious all at once. His world is messy, meta, and driven by contradiction.

Stray Kids? Pretty much the same. From their debut, they’ve been the outliers in K-pop, choosing distortion over polish, raw emotion over choreography-perfection, glitch aesthetics over glossy visuals. They’re bold enough to scream when others whisper. That intensity, both musically and visually, makes them a natural match for the unhinged world of Wade Wilson.

This wasn’t just clever synergy. It felt earned. Both Deadpool and Stray Kids thrive in the spaces between genres, between rules, misfits with momentum.

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The dominATE tour and the stage as apocalypse

When the video dropped, Stray Kids were gearing up for the launch of their massive dominATE world tour, which officially kicked off on August 24, 2024, and is set to run through July 30, 2025. With its dystopian aesthetic and bold concept of creative domination during turbulent times, the tour quickly became one of the group’s most visually striking and thematically layered projects.

As of March 30, 2025, Stray Kids are currently in Brazil, preparing for a major show in Rio de Janeiro on April 1, followed by two performances in São Paulo. The vibe of the tour, with futuristic armor-like costumes, shattered stage designs, and glitch-heavy visuals, perfectly mirrors the chaotic beauty of the Chk Chk Boom MV and the multiversal mayhem of Deadpool & Wolverine.

Each concert feels like a battle cry disguised as a performance, a declaration that even in chaos, there’s room for art, resistance, and explosive sound.

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Not just promotion it’s art

Sure, this was a promo tie-in. But let’s be honest, it was a smart one. And more than that, it felt genuine. The MV wasn’t slapped together with disconnected clips and half-hearted cameos. It was crafted, visually and sonically, to match the chaotic heart of both the movie and the group.

This is what pop culture does best when it’s brave: it mixes worlds, collapses genre walls, and lets us feel something we didn’t expect. Chk Chk Boom was loud, yes, but it also had weight, emotional, cultural, aesthetic.

Eight months later, fans are still talking about it. Still analyzing it. Still watching it like it just dropped yesterday. And that says something.

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Conclusion: The multiverse exploded, and we danced

The collision of Deadpool and Stray Kids in Chk Chk Boom was more than a promotional stunt , it was a loud, stylish reminder that chaos can be creative. It proved that noise can be deliberate. That art doesn’t always need structure to make sense. Sometimes it just needs impact.

And just when we think the MV has said everything it needed to, it hits us with one final moment of perfect Deadpool awkwardness: Ryan Reynolds, looking at Stray Kids and asking, “Are you looking for someone older, slower… perhaps Canadian?” It’s funny, sure, but also classic Deadpool, always the odd one out, always looking for a team, even if that team is made of sharp-dressed idols from South Korea.

It’s a joke, but it’s also a confession. Deadpool, like all of us, wants a place to belong, even if that place is falling apart. And maybe that’s why this collaboration still matters months later. Because we recognize ourselves in that question. In the chaos. In the search. And if that home is full of beats, blades, and a bit of Canadian sarcasm, all the better.