Green Day caught fans off guard at a recent show in New York, when they came onto the stage dressed as Deadpool and Wolverine. Check out footage of the moment below.
The moment took place during the trio’s recent show at Citi Field in Queens, N.Y. on Monday (August 5).
It comes as the band, comprised of Tré Cool, Mike Dirnt and Billie Joe Armstrong, are currently on the road celebrating two of their classic albums. These are 1994’s ‘Dookie’, which is turning 30 this year, and ‘American Idiot’, which is turning 20.
At the shows, the band have been playing both fan favourites in full, and support is coming from Rancid, The Linda Lindas and The Smashing Pumpkins. Now, footage has emerged from the show at the start of the week, which sees Dirnt and Cool catch the frontman off-guard by appearing at the end of the set in the costumes.
At the end of their 37-song set, the band closed out the night with an acoustic rendition of ‘Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)’, which Armstrong performed alone with an acoustic guitar.
While this was happening, however, the two got dressed backstage, with the drummer cosplaying as the Ryan Reynolds character Deadpool, and Dirnt taking on Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine.
In the last verse, the two Marvel characters came out and wreaked havoc on the stage, leading to the frontman laughing so much he was unable to finish the song. Check out the moment and some fan responses below.
You were Marvelous New York! pic.twitter.com/HDsDz3touY
— Green Day (@GreenDay) August 6, 2024
In other Green Day news, while on tour in the States, Billie Joe Armstrong divided opinions after he held up a Donald Trump mask at the band’s show in Washington, DC.
The mask had the word “idiot” written across its forehead, and it was reportedly thrown onto the stage by a fan in the front row. The singer also switched up a line in the ‘American Idiot’ title track to reference the former POTUS singing: “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda” instead of the original line, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda“, as he has done at previous shows.
Before kicking off the US leg of the tour, the punk-pop icons embarked on the UK and European leg of their ‘Saviors’ stadium tour earlier this summer.
Their show in Manchester was given the full five stars in an NME review, with Rishi Shah writing: “With Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins and Weezer all playing UK shows over the month, it’s an understatement to say rock fans are spoilt for choice.
“The pick of the bunch, however, might just be Green Day’s ‘Saviors’ tour: combining class, youthfulness and scruffy punk anthems into a trademark stadium-rock event.”
As for Deadpool, Deadpool & Wolverine was released worldwide on July 26, and saw both characters finally integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It serves as the latest entry in Phase Five of the saga, following on from November’s The Marvels.
The movie has already broken the record for the highest opening weekend for an R-rated film, bringing in approximately $205million in North America, surpassing the previous record, held by the first Deadpool film. Its global total after one weekend stands at $438million, the eighth largest opening of all time.
In a three-star review of the film, NME wrote: “Despite the A-list distractions (no spoilers here), Deadpool & Wolverine is really all about Reynolds and Jackman. In fact, it’s really all about Reynolds – with Jackman doing a heroic job of playing the surly straight man trying to keep up with Reynolds’ sweary killer clown.
“The first two Deadpool films were funny and violent and original, but this one shows Marvel’s most gloriously inappropriate superhero at his very best and worst.”