Welp, I'm back from the Deadpool movie, it was pretty good from the eyes of a fanboy of the character for 8-9 years.  Not sure about everyone else, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

However, it has come to my attention that there is a point of contention that comics are occasionally referenced in game, and I'm not sure why.  It's not hurting anything, and I'm inclined to agree with the side that Marvel and DC could exist in some capacity.  The only heroes that really existed and were public up until a few years ago were in WWII, and even at that point it's a one time incident.  Not only that, comics did not get their origins from heroes anyway.  Up until Superman it was cowboys, soldiers, or supernatural horrors that starred in comics, superheroes came later.  The idea that these markets stop because actual metas exist does not add up, that's like saying movies and books involving murder mysteries would not have a market because murderers exist.

I don't know, I don't see the harm in the occasional referential humor, it keeps the world grounded in a reality we can connect to.  Having these characters have references to things that exist in our world gives the CaH world something that we can equate things to, one that a fictional publisher or fictional heroes within the fictional world wouldn't match up to.  Many of our characters seem to be slightly nerdy or understand pop-culture references, having parts of pop-culture removed can take parts of a character away.  

Again, I'm not seeing the issue in the references, but that's just my two cents on the matter.