Gail Simone took over from Priest after a year, where Deadpool became Agent X for a while (or did he?). Kelly’s comics are where Deadpool first starts breaking the fourth wall, although it was Kelly’s successor, Christopher J. Essentially, he’s a sociopath trying to do good with a questionable grasp on morality. He finally landed an ongoing title in 1997, written by Joe Kelly, where the shenanigans became more overtly parodic of superhero comic tropes, and Deadpool became less a villain and more an anti-hero. He kept popping up for the next couple of years as a pain in someone-or-other’s arse in the likes of Daredevil and The Avengers, and was popular enough that he eventually got his own miniseries: one in 1993 by Liefeld, and the next in 1994 by Mark Waid, who didn’t like him. Tolliver, and he’s Cable’s son, but we’re trying to keep this simple). In his first appearance he was an antagonist to the New Mutants: hired by evil mutant Genesis to take down X-Man Cable and his cohorts (it’s more complicated than that – Genesis at the time was a shadowy figure going by the name Mr. He might be insane.ĭeadpool was originally conceived as a parody of the DC character Deathstroke, which is why his real name, Wade Wilson, is so similar to Deathstroke’s Slade Wilson. He killed his parents but doesn’t know it. He is a fast-talker and piss-taker (hence “The Merc With A Mouth”).
He’s a mercenary, a preternatural martial artist, tactician, swordsman and marksman – his unkillable cancer doesn’t get in the way of that – and he’s aware he’s a character in a comic, so he’s been known to gain information by reading back-issues. His scarred appearance beneath the mask is the result of the cancer he was suffering when he underwent the treatment: his cancer cells regenerate in the same way his healthy ones do. However, unlike Wolverine, Deadpool’s healing power has been artificially grafted into his DNA by the Weapon-X programme.
He even re-grew his head after a decapitation at one point, and an X-Force story arc revealed he’s still alive 800 years in the future. First appearance: The New Mutants #98 (February, 1991)Ībilities: At base, he has an “accelerated healing factor” more or less the same as Wolverine’s, making him basically invincible.
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