ranting about the Merc with a Mouth
8:25 AM 3/31/07 · Most people know Deadpool as yet a number of people that give various members of the X·Teams a hard time and is a general, if highly amusing, pest. There's more to him than that but unless you've been reading him since he first popped up in X·Force years ago you probably don't know the full score. Even his name (Wade Wilson) isn't actually his. The man doesn't know his actual birth name but the one he uses...well...
...shortly after escaping from the Weapon·X Program he stumbed across a married couple in the woods. He tortured and slaughtered them, half out of his mind with pain being no real excuse, and took the man's name. Interestingly enough something happened just after causing the man to survive and seek vengeance. For years he was a constant thorn in Deadpool's side, and adversary in the merc game, though DP couldn't remember who he was for the life of him. Eventually it came out and the guy and his wife, also supernaturally reanimated, left this existance for the Next, telling Deadpool he could keep the name if he wanted to.
Wasn't that nice?
A common misconception, probably from years of his beating on various members of the X·Men and their extended families, is that Deadpool is a mutant. This isn't the case. He's certainly gifted in a number of ways and has been made immortal from the weirdest love triangle in all Creation...but he's not a mutant. He was an unbelievably deadly mercenary dying of cancer. Weapon·X grafted Wolverine's healing factor to the man which not only cured him but made him really difficult to put down. Not too many years back it was revealed that Wolverine's healing factor is much more powerful than it usually appears, being that it's contantly trying to reject the adamantium skeleton keeps it from its true potential. Not having that problem, even with just a fraction of the ability, DP has always healed faster than Wolvie does.
Cute little random fact, no?
The reason Deadpool is immortal comes from two rather bizarre twists of fate. In the first, back from the days he was dying, he kept passing in and out of the Realm of Death and while there he caught the attention of Death herself. She became so enamored with him that she fell hopelessly head over heels in love and he figured he was gonna die anyway, back then, that he might as well embrace the experience. Getting the healing factor staved this off but each time he's been close to death he and Death have continued their bizarre affair. Eventually it got to the point where he literally did die, all that was left of him was a hand, but his healing factor was given a massive jolt of energy and he regenerated back into the land of the living.
Seems that Thanos, the immortal and mad titan, is a very jealous lover and did not like that Death loved Deadpool more than himself. The simplest way to keep them apart was to make DP immortal. Given the recent and apparant death of Thanos during the Annihilation Wave it remains to be seen if Deadpool's immortality is intact...
...but he may still have a shot at being around for a few centuries.
A stretch back it was revealed, to Spidey, that the Norse God of Mischief has sired numerous children through the centuries. When asked the why of this, Loki simply said "I'm a Norse God, it's what we do". The children have a degree of the magicks of the Norse Gods within them, though given the fact that Ragnarok (End of Days for the Asgardians) has finally come to pass this might all be moot, though most of them are unaware of this. Deadpool is not one of them, as he did meet and Loki and his unknown parentage was revealed to him. This enabled Loki to once empower Deadpool and give him his own mystic hammer in one of his many plays to drive Thor nuts, possibly the weirdest God of Thunder variation anyone's ever seen, but even though naught came of that...Loki has kept an eye on Deadpool and periodically dropped back into his life to visit his favorite son.
Oddly, my one and only disappointment regarding Deadpool happened when he finally mixed it up with Spidey. You'd think the fact that both of them are such wise·asses that would've been more fun but the Webhead was going through a grim patch and didn't keep up his end of the snappy patter. Pity. It would've been so much more fun otherwise.
In recent years Deadpool and Cable, longtime adversaries, have seemed to become friends of a sort. Don't know much about this as I've really not followed the Cable & Deadpool series but I'm more curious if this union has maintained itself after the massive Civil War series...
...mainly cuz they were on opposite sides of that conflict.
Guess time will tell.
...shortly after escaping from the Weapon·X Program he stumbed across a married couple in the woods. He tortured and slaughtered them, half out of his mind with pain being no real excuse, and took the man's name. Interestingly enough something happened just after causing the man to survive and seek vengeance. For years he was a constant thorn in Deadpool's side, and adversary in the merc game, though DP couldn't remember who he was for the life of him. Eventually it came out and the guy and his wife, also supernaturally reanimated, left this existance for the Next, telling Deadpool he could keep the name if he wanted to.
Wasn't that nice?
A common misconception, probably from years of his beating on various members of the X·Men and their extended families, is that Deadpool is a mutant. This isn't the case. He's certainly gifted in a number of ways and has been made immortal from the weirdest love triangle in all Creation...but he's not a mutant. He was an unbelievably deadly mercenary dying of cancer. Weapon·X grafted Wolverine's healing factor to the man which not only cured him but made him really difficult to put down. Not too many years back it was revealed that Wolverine's healing factor is much more powerful than it usually appears, being that it's contantly trying to reject the adamantium skeleton keeps it from its true potential. Not having that problem, even with just a fraction of the ability, DP has always healed faster than Wolvie does.
Cute little random fact, no?
The reason Deadpool is immortal comes from two rather bizarre twists of fate. In the first, back from the days he was dying, he kept passing in and out of the Realm of Death and while there he caught the attention of Death herself. She became so enamored with him that she fell hopelessly head over heels in love and he figured he was gonna die anyway, back then, that he might as well embrace the experience. Getting the healing factor staved this off but each time he's been close to death he and Death have continued their bizarre affair. Eventually it got to the point where he literally did die, all that was left of him was a hand, but his healing factor was given a massive jolt of energy and he regenerated back into the land of the living.
Seems that Thanos, the immortal and mad titan, is a very jealous lover and did not like that Death loved Deadpool more than himself. The simplest way to keep them apart was to make DP immortal. Given the recent and apparant death of Thanos during the Annihilation Wave it remains to be seen if Deadpool's immortality is intact...
...but he may still have a shot at being around for a few centuries.
A stretch back it was revealed, to Spidey, that the Norse God of Mischief has sired numerous children through the centuries. When asked the why of this, Loki simply said "I'm a Norse God, it's what we do". The children have a degree of the magicks of the Norse Gods within them, though given the fact that Ragnarok (End of Days for the Asgardians) has finally come to pass this might all be moot, though most of them are unaware of this. Deadpool is not one of them, as he did meet and Loki and his unknown parentage was revealed to him. This enabled Loki to once empower Deadpool and give him his own mystic hammer in one of his many plays to drive Thor nuts, possibly the weirdest God of Thunder variation anyone's ever seen, but even though naught came of that...Loki has kept an eye on Deadpool and periodically dropped back into his life to visit his favorite son.
Oddly, my one and only disappointment regarding Deadpool happened when he finally mixed it up with Spidey. You'd think the fact that both of them are such wise·asses that would've been more fun but the Webhead was going through a grim patch and didn't keep up his end of the snappy patter. Pity. It would've been so much more fun otherwise.
In recent years Deadpool and Cable, longtime adversaries, have seemed to become friends of a sort. Don't know much about this as I've really not followed the Cable & Deadpool series but I'm more curious if this union has maintained itself after the massive Civil War series...
...mainly cuz they were on opposite sides of that conflict.
Guess time will tell.