Deadpool

Biodata

Appearance

Deadpool wears a patched red-and-black bodysuit and a mask with expressive white eye patches. His exposed face and mouth are pockmarked 117 119 221 272.

• He carries his twin swords in sheaths on his back 125.
• He has worn a rabbit mask while recovering in hospital 270.

Personality

Deadpool is talkative, theatrical and quick to make jokes even while fighting or severely injured. He frequently addresses the author, director or readers as though aware of an audience 117 125 264 396.

As a mercenary, he initially says he will work for anyone who pays enough. He is also drawn to stable employment and benefits, volunteering to haul bricks in exchange for insurance and housing contributions 118 120. His enthusiasm for missions and evaluations coexists with poor discipline: he steals valuables, abandons his post and incurs deductions to his pay and assessment 393 405.

Abilities & Skills

Healing Factor

Deadpool rapidly repairs injuries and can survive extreme dismemberment 125 264.

• After the shrine explosion reduced him to a head, he began regrowing his body while held by Omega Red 264.
• His severed arm began regenerating during a fight with a monster 218.
• Sing Sing temporarily incapacitated him by blocking neural transmission with internal energy, despite his healing factor remaining active 125.

Combat

Deadpool fights with paired katanas and Desert Eagles, often combining attacks with taunts to distract opponents 117 218.

• He drew gunfire during the rescue of Christopher Muse 395.
• He knocked Anise unconscious with an electric stunner after she injured Ma Jun and Colossus 426.

Psychic Resistance

When the Game Master attacked Deadpool’s mind and tried to read his memories, their psychic connection reversed. The Game Master was overwhelmed by the chaotic comments and memes crowding Deadpool’s mind 427.

Cancer Cells

Deadpool carries cancer cells that proved dangerous to Omega Red. After drawing Deadpool’s blood in an attempt to replenish himself, Omega Red developed tumors and became severely weakened 264.

Equipment

• Adamantium katanas — A pair of swords carried on his back 117 125.
• Golden Desert Eagles — Two pistols Sing Sing returned to him in hospital 270.
• Teleportation belt — A damaged, secondhand device that can transport Deadpool and others, but activates unreliably and has sent him to unintended locations 154 218 219 221.
• Rocket-powered toilet — Moon-Boy’s autonomous, explosive device, given to Deadpool for the mission against the Yasukuni Divine Toilet 255.
• Ten-Thousand-Volt Electric Fish Stunner — Used to incapacitate Anise 426.

Relationships

• Sing Sing / Stephen Chow — Initially Deadpool’s target under a contract from Stryker; later his recruiter and frequent mission partner. Sing Sing also rescues him from Omega Red and oversees his assignments and assessments 118 264 270 393.
• Beast / Hank — Acquainted with Deadpool but furious that he accepted work from Stryker, who experimented on Mutants 118.
• Wolverine / Logan — Knows Deadpool, who is excited to see him again in Japan and proposes making a movie together 121 255.
• William Stryker — Paid Deadpool a deposit to capture Sing Sing alive 118 125.
• Christopher Muse — A healer Deadpool learned about through black-market work and helped rescue from a slave-catching squad 393 395.
• Omega Red — Captured Deadpool to use him as a source of healing, but was poisoned by his cancer cells 264.
• Professor Jiang Si — Tried to obtain Deadpool’s bone marrow for research into his cancer cells and healing factor 352.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Encounter with Sing Sing

Deadpool ambushes Sing Sing with twin katanas, but Beast interrupts their fight. Deadpool reveals that Stryker hired him to capture Sing Sing alive; after another failed ambush, Sing Sing disables him and takes his hidden cash 117 118 125.

Silver Peak raid

Sing Sing recruits Deadpool for a raid on Deep Blue Bioremediation, a Silver Peak facility. Deadpool shares what he knows about its layout and is assigned to draw fire, although his damaged belt teleports him away during the briefing. He later helps restrain the captive Mark Mueller as Sing Sing and Wandering Girl evacuate eight rescued Mutants to X Academy 154 159.

Deadpool guards Mueller, but Vanisher seizes the prisoner. Deadpool later shows Sing Sing surveillance footage of Agent Zero executing Mueller 170 219.

Japan and the 749 Bureau

After fighting a regenerating monster alongside Sing Sing, Deadpool accidentally teleports them to Mount Fuji 218 219. Sing Sing later sends him to distract Japan’s official forces with a rocket-powered toilet. The device destroys the shrine toilet, leaving Deadpool reduced to a head; Omega Red recovers and imprisons him until Sing Sing intervenes 255 264.

The bureau commends Deadpool’s actions in Japan but cannot openly recruit him. He accepts work as an unofficial operative, including a mission against Silver Peak’s remaining laboratories 270 273.

Later missions and activities

• New Year Cup: Deadpool referees the football match, imposes arbitrary rules and scatters banana peels and antipersonnel mines across the field 346 347.
• Detroit rescue: He identifies Christopher Muse as a potential healer and accompanies Sing Sing to rescue him. Deadpool later livestreams Christopher’s successful reconstruction of Jacob’s body 393 395 397.
• Return to the bureau: He helps examine evidence of Mutant trafficking and returns with the rescued group through Magik’s portal. Hu Yingying confiscates a gold watch he took during fieldwork 402 404 405.
• Church battle: Fighting alongside Ma Jun and Colossus, Deadpool stuns Anise and then survives the Game Master’s psychic attack 426 427.

Notable Quotes

“Surprise! The Marvel Universe’s number one wisecracking swordsman, Wade Wilson, makes his dazzling entrance!” 125

“Great heroes often can’t stand in the spotlight! Because true powerhouses are used to protecting the world from the shadows! I’m Batman!” 270