--- title: Ryan Reynolds Shares Tribute After Young Deadpool Fan Dies description: Ryan Reynolds shared a post on Facebook on Thursday honoring Connor McGrath, a young Deadpool fan who passed away on Tuesday night. canonical: https://time.com/4312300/ryan-reynolds-tribute-deadpool-fan-dies-cancer/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-29T16:09:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:57.870Z og:title: Ryan Reynolds Shares Tribute After Deadpool Fan Dies of Cancer og:description: "I'm grateful I got to orbit Connor's world for a brief time" og:url: https://time.com/4312300/ryan-reynolds-tribute-deadpool-fan-dies-cancer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ryan Reynolds Shares Tribute After Deadpool Fan Dies of Cancer twitter:description: "I'm grateful I got to orbit Connor's world for a brief time" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ryan Reynolds Shares Emotional Tribute After Young _Deadpool_ Fan Dies of Cancer > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 29, 2016 4:09 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 29, 2016 4:09 PM UTC [Ryan Reynolds](http://time.com/4307702/ryan-reynolds-deadpool-salt-lake-city-utah/?iid=sr-link4) shared a post on Facebook Thursday honoring 13-year-old Connor McGrath, a young [_Deadpool_](http://time.com/4274867/deadpool-box-office-record/?iid=sr-link4)fan who passed away on Tuesday night following a three-year battle with cancer. In the tribute, Reynolds explains that the duo met when the Make-A-Wish Foundation arranged for McGrath to be the first person to see _Deadpool_. Thanks to a shared sense of humor, they quickly became fast friends. “I’m grateful I got to orbit Connor’s world for a brief time,” the actor wrote. “Grateful for the pages and pages of hilarious texts between us. Grateful to his parents for allowing Connor to spend time with a foul-mouthed child in the body of a 39 year old.” **Read More:** [Listen to Ryan Reynolds Talk About His ‘First Date’ With Wife Blake Lively](http://time.com/4217505/ryan-reynolds-blake-lively-first-date/?iid=sr-link4) He closed the post by saying an emotional goodbye to his friend. “I called Connor, ‘Bubba.’ And he called me ‘Bubba2,'” he said. “We met because he loved _Deadpool_. In a certain sense he WAS Deadpool. Or, at least everything Deadpool aspires to be; balancing pain, fearlessness, love and a filthy (filthy!) sense of humor in one body. 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