Please pardon my cluelessness, but here's the deal:

My roommate is in a tournament thing which involves cooking and loads of culture references and such. For the current round, one of the things he has to do is a decent portrayal of Deadpool. Unfortunately, neither of us know a great deal about him - barely even basics, to be honest. And, while it's easy to find pictures and some can prolly be learned from Wikipedia and such, it's a little harder to find good sources if info or example comics (I'm not sure there's even a comic store around here :/ ).

So, I figured I'd ask around here, if anyone can offer a good overview of what makes Deadpool who he is, or point us in the right direction for research. Right now, all we have to go on is how he was portrayed in the Wolverine movie, and I doubt that's a very good thing to go by.

Link to Deadpool on marvel.com

..And you're right, it's not a good way to go by what is showed in the wolverine movie.

Hmm. It's like I was destined to respond to this thread. Luckily my friend, I am one of the biggest Deadpool fans.

Deadpool is a Marvel character born of the Weapon X program which spawned wolverine. He volunteered to be experimented on because he had inoperable brain cancer. They tried to give him Wolverine's healing factor, but unsuccessfully until he met the personification of Death (who is female) and fell in love with her. Sadly, this is when the healing factor kicked in. He escaped and became a mercenary who is most well known for his fast talking antics and penchant for breaking the fourth wall. He is fully aware that he is in a comic book, and in other media, is aware he is in there (i.e. If you're putting him on a cake, he knows he's on a cake.) He makes many pop-culture references and is also in love with Bea Arthur (yeah the old actress. So if you make a Deadpool cake, a reference to the cake eater meme would be fitting). He always speaks in yellow balloons and the narraton for his comics is yellow too. He is fully aware of these boxes and comments on them repeatedly. He is a martial arts master capable of going toe to toe with Cap'n America, and is generally a very angry and insane person.

Any other questions?

He's still planning on doing some research himself, but what's been mentioned helped clarify and stuff a bit, so thanks.

Uhm, I thought that when Ajax removed his heart, the healing factor kicked in. He later on met death, fell in love with her. But then some god made him immortal, so that he never could be with death.

Well he met Death because Ajax removed his heart when his healing factor wasn't working. Thanos making him immortal out of jealousy came later.

Aaah, now I remember.

I'm a little late to the game here, but I can't resist. I'm a Deadpool fangirl like woah.

Wade actually met Death before having his heart removed. After flunking out of, well, life - he was trying to kill himself in the Hospice. Another inmate/patient Worm had a popular death pool going on - one that Wade rose to the top of simply because Ajax kept foiling his attempts at suicide... which is how he got the nickname Deadpool, but I digress...

What with being in constant pain because of crazy-cancer-skin, being tortured by Dr. Killbrew, and being pretty freakin' upset over what his life had come to, Wade was 100% ready to die - which was why and when he started seeing Death. She, in turn, was fascinated by him as she'd never met anyone quite so... erm... dead and not-dead at the same time.

Long story short, they got along well which led Wade to more and more suicide attempts in order to see her again. He started making jokes at Ajax's expense, annoying the hell out of the big guy so he would be less tempted to save his life/more inclined to end it. This had the unintentional side-effect of raising morale at the hospice - which pushed Ajax over the edge.

To spite Wade, Ajax had Worm lobotomized. Wade was upset. Death suggested killing Worm out of mercy and he did. Of course, killing another inmate was a big no-no, and Ajax was finally able to convince Killbrew that Wade needed to be put down.

Death was pleased with this. Wade would have been pleased, but he was just too angry at Ajax for what he had done. He wanted revenge so much that, after he was executed, it kick-started his healing factor. Death was not pleased. Wade definitely wasn't pleased once he realized he couldn't die and, likewise, couldn't see Death anymore.

Later on down the line, he did actually manage to die. But, because Thanos is one jealous SOB, he went ahead and cursed Deadpool with immortality for good measure.

Coincidentally, I made an MV about these two once:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JFV5UcmqHo

Is my nerd showing yet?

On a related note, I'm quite pleased that Way's been incorporating some Death into recent Pool-O-Visions.

Edit: Being nit-picky here, but I'm not sure Death is technically female either. Death is just the personification of death. She/he/it is whatever someone wants she/he/it to be. At least, I think that's the cannon... But, I dunno, Marvel's confusing like that.

I know right? That whole last issue with the sharks and how it was mostly inner mono(well okay more like trio)logue. They're doing wonders to develop him as a full fledged character and not some semi-canon comic relief guy. Plus, spin-off movie is being written, so bitchin'.

And yeah, I can't really find any of the comics concerning his beginnings, I only get started around the time he met the juggernaut and black tom cassidy.

That was his first limited series so, technically, you have the beginning there. The whole Deadpool/Death/Hospice thing was from the Deadpool & Death Annual 1998. It came somewhere in the Deadpool Vol. 1 storyline, but I forget which issue. I'd have to go upstairs and check, and I'm far too lazy for that. At any rate, it was right after Ajax turned up alive and started killing off Deadpool's old Hospice buddies.



He was already developed. They've actually regressed him in terms of character development. I far prefer vol. 1 and Cable and Deadpool to Way's series. I prefer Way to Merc With a Mouth, though. Suicide Kings was quite awesome though.

If I could have things my way (girl can dream.) they would have kept running with Agency X... *sigh* I love Agency X... and Agent X... and Outlaw and Sandi and Taskmaster and Bob. But, no, everyone wants loner!Deadpool. No Deadpool and Friends. So lame.

I did enjoy Deadpool and sidekicks. But Bob has shown up more than once...plus now he's touting around with his zombified severed head as a sidekick, so who knows if that counts or not.

Hmm, well sadly my collection isn't complete, I'll look for Deadpool and Death annual then.

I too enjoy Way over Merc With a Mouth, and Suicide Kings was a nice run. Frankly I'd never expect Outlaw to do that.

Well, she did have a thing with Hayden. Since Alex and Wade are very similar people, (Alex is, literally, 1/3 Deadpool) I can believe her not having a problem with that - Though, I am a little bummed that she doesn't seem to be with Alex anymore.

Plus, she did have some good times with Wade while he was miniaturized.

Oh, but if it's not too late - just remembered I have seen quite a few Deadpool baked goods out there already. This one is my favorite:

http://www.deadpoolbugle.com/2009/05/fan-l...09-deadpie.html

Yummy.

Usually people just take the easy route and use the Deadpool symbol. I have seen one gal make cookies that were actually Deadpool-shaped, though.

I never liked the original, buy-a-paperback-copy-at-a-comic-store type of comic....




...until I read this topic.

Congratulations folks, you've made me want to start reading Deadpool.

In case anyone wanted to see the outcome of the research and thing my roommate was doing, here you go.

And if you want to know wtf that's all about, try looking here and/or here.

And thanks to everyone who gave some input.

That may be some of the best fan-done Deadpool dialogue I've seen in awhile.

I give it ten star.

Deadpool is my shit.