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Who is Deadpool? What is a dead pool? A swimming pool full of blood and corpses? No. Deadpool, otherwise known as “Wade Wilson” is the permanently scarred, but witty antihero from Marvel who would break the fourth wall in many amazing ways [29] [34] [35] [44] [74]. In late 2019, I was motivated into writing a short story about him meeting Crystal Angel, my own Marvel character who has the powers of flight, telekinesis and enhanced senses [69] [70] [72]. Other than that, part of my motivation for writing about him is that Ryan Reynolds, the man who played the role of him in his two live-action movies has announced that Deadpool 3 is in development about a month ago [24] [73]. Another part of my motivation for writing about Deadpool was a dream I had about him giving me a shoulder massage after the Christmas season. I am not joking. Please do not laugh. Before we begin our quest through Deadpool’s evolution into the fierce fourth wall wrecker we love today, I would like to wish you all a brand new decade full of hope and ambition. Okay, now we can begin…with the merc himself strutting his speech after some agreements between us.
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“Whose shoulders did I have to massage to have an article written about me? Hint: Rhymes with “Dora Billiams”. You bet your asses that’s not all I gave her.” [75]“By the way, she begged me not to use any profanity or sexual innuendo in the captions at first. But then she was like, “You’re Deadpool. What would they expect?”. Isn’t she precious?” [75]
Along with Domino, the merc with a mouth made his comic debut back in 1991 as a Canadian supervillain in the ninety-eighth issue of New Mutants from Marvel [29] [34] [36]. In 1993, his own comic book miniseries was first established [29]. Despite how ruthless he was in his early years, we eventually learned that he was diagnosed with cancer and yearned for a cure. The method he went under may have cured his cancer, but caused his flesh to become horribly deformed [67], which made him chose to often wear his iconic red suit we recognise him for at first [13] [29] [44]. Nevertheless, he gained a surreal healing factor [34] [35], meaning that he can heal efficiently from serious injury. Many have considered him to be a knock off of Deathstroke from Teen Titans, a comic book series from DC due to how Deathstroke was established earlier [44] [59]. I guess it could be quite amusing of Deadpool 3 featured the masked merc making an easter egg regarding his comic debut and the comparisons between him and Deathstroke to simply pull the legs of DC fans. We all had to start from somewhere back in the day, right Deadpool?
“Totally! Like Laura said, it all began back in 1991. Same year as a certain little blue speedster [57]. But guess what, Sonic? Laura is MY fangirl now!” [34] [36]As the comic series progressed, there have been a few alternative interpretations of the manly mutate, including:
Ultimate Deadpool, the one with a slightly different mask [38] [64]
Lady Deadpool, Wade’s female counterpart [25] [44] [63]
Gwenpool, a modern female counterpart of the real deal [64]
Kidpool, an adorable child version of him [44] [63]
Evil Deadpool, who does not sound like good news at all [44] [63]
Deadpool the Duck, basically a fusion of Deadpool and Howard the Duck [37] [64]
Deathwish, a guy in a green edition of Deadpool’s suit [64]
Dreadpool, Deadpool’s evil counterpart who was eventually killed [64] [66]
Thank goodness there is hopefully no Cowpool [44]. If you have watched Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, you would have witnessed a few alternate versions of Spider-Man, including Spider-Gwen and Spider-Ham [60]. Something tells me that it could receive a Deadpool counterpart someday after its sequel. Perhaps that would happen by the time I get grey hair. But since we are now in a time when the 2020s have only just began, any of those alternatives could be briefly referenced in a joke in Deadpool 3. While many alternate interpretations of Deadpool were quite approved throughout history, there is one that many loathed.
“See? I’m not so bad once you become a fan of me, no matter which version of me you think you can get off to…except for Kidpool and Dogpool. Don’t go there.” [44]
Many fans and critics hated Deadpool’s cinematic debut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was quite like how many Littlest Pet Shop collectors loathed the designs of the pets within the third generation of the toy line by Hasbro [5] [30] [52] [58] [62] [67]. The fact that his mouth was sewn shut highly contradicted his popular nickname, “The Merwith a Mouth” [30] [74]. As for the way he had a long metal claw on each hand, I can say he at least looked quite as menacing as Wolverine [22] [67]. Aside from that, how was he supposed to comfortably hold two pistols with those claws? The Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine that marked Ryan Reynolds’ first time playing the role of the character was absolutely nothing like his mainstream counterpart, from his pure and pale skin to his mouth being completely sewn shut [5] [22] [74]. At least I can say that the Ultimate Deadpool in the comics that featured an alternative timeline and so on made up for how disturbingly unconvincing the X-Men Origins Deadpool was [5] [30] [38]. I would not be surprised if Deadpool 3 would feature a scene with an image of the “fake” Deadpool on a dartboard in the real deal’s room.
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