Deadpool Unmasked: Who Voices Marvel Rivals’ Merc With a Mouth?
Deadpool crashed The Game Awards 2025 with a Marvel Rivals trailer that shredded the fourth wall and a museum to boot—landing just a day before Rogue powers up the Vanguard roster in the rolling Season 5.5 update.
Deadpool just hijacked The Game Awards with a Marvel Rivals trailer, blew up a museum, roasted the audience, and then vanished like a confetti grenade. One day later, Rogue officially landed on the Vanguard roster with the ongoing Season 5.5 update. And now everyone is asking the same thing: who is actually voicing him?
Short answer: NetEase won’t say. Long answer: fans think it’s Alejandro Saab.
NetEase Games hasn’t confirmed the voice actor yet. Meanwhile, the fandom has more or less locked in on Alejandro Saab as the guy under the mask. Saab says it isn’t him. Emphatically.
"I meant it as it’s not me guys"
He posted that right after the trailer lit up The Game Awards. Which, predictably, only made people more sure it’s him.
Why fans think it’s Saab
This isn’t random guesswork. Saab’s voice has some very specific tells — the way he leans into a punchline, his pacing when he switches from snark to sincerity, that clipped little button on a joke. The Deadpool performance in the new trailer hits those beats pretty cleanly.
His pinned showreel on X (posted Oct 30, 2025) doesn’t help his case either. Play that next to the new Deadpool footage and the overlap is hard to ignore. Longtime followers are basically calling it on sound alone.
Then there’s the timing: Saab was livestreaming during The Game Awards broadcast. The second Deadpool opened his mouth, his chat blew up accusing him of being the voice. He deflected by joking it was Ben Starr — which is a running gag on his channel. And shortly after the trailer, he dropped a zipper-mouth emoji on social, which fans took as a wink at an NDA.
To be fair, he’s played this game before. He has a pattern of denying roles until a publisher flips the green light on official credits. If that’s what’s happening here, it tracks.
Who it’s not
Nolan North is already in Marvel Rivals as Rocket Raccoon, and while he did voice Deadpool in the 2013 game (and a bunch of other Marvel projects), that’s not who you’re hearing. Ryan Reynolds obviously didn’t swing by the voice booth for this one. Neil Patrick Harris handled Deadpool in the recent VR game, but that voice doesn’t match here either.
About that Season 5.5 vs. Season 6 confusion
The timeline’s a little messy. The Deadpool reveal hit The Game Awards 2025. A day later, Rogue officially joined the Vanguard lineup as part of the now-underway Season 5.5 update. You might see people calling the new Deadpool footage a Season 6 trailer — that’s more fan shorthand than an official label. Marketing labels and season numbers aren’t exactly in sync right now.
Why Saab would be a smart fit anyway
Deadpool needs someone who can flip from chaotic bit to dead-serious threat without whiplash, and that’s a lane Saab lives in. On top of his anime and game cred, he streams as VTuber Cy Yu on Twitch and used to run the KaggyFilms YouTube channel, so his audience knows his voice inside and out — which might be why the fan confidence is this high.
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Where I land
I’ll wait for NetEase to stamp it in the credits, but if that’s not Alejandro Saab, then someone out there has a scarily precise impression locked down. Your call: is it him, or did the multiverse cook up a perfect soundalike? Drop your take below.