Recently, a wave of interest in comic book characters is inevitably increasing. Just a few years ago, only the most popular superheroes like Superman or Spider-Man were known to the general public. Today, those who were previously heard only by comic book fans began to emerge from the shadows. Now almost anyone will answer the question of who is Deadpool. His character has already managed to expand the scope of graphic stories and appear on the wide screen in several animated stories, as well as video games.
Name and character
Known as the talkative mercenary Wade Wilson was once an ordinary person. The past antihero from the Marvel universe is very vague, and sometimes he himself admits that he can’t say for sure who his parents were, what he was really called, and who he was.
Deadpool is the nickname Wade appropriated for himself after escaping from the hospice, where patients were tortured with torture called the Dead Pool . He is distinguished from other heroes not only by a daring pseudonym, but also by a particularly talkative language and black humor. He is one of the few to break the so-called fourth wall in comics. This means that he communicates with readers and realizes himself as a character in a graphic work. It is thanks to these features that he has become so popular, even though he works on the side of evil.
Childhood and youth
His mother died of cancer when the boy was 5 years old, and his father was distinguished by an unbalanced psyche, which was the result of a military past and the death of his wife. One day, one of Wilson's friends shot an angry dad when he tried to force his son out of the bar. Following in the footsteps of the deceased parent, the hero is undergoing combat training, but instead of becoming a military man, he begins the career of an assassin. It differs from other mercenaries in that it takes lives only from those who, in his opinion, deserve it. In the following years, he associates with many criminal gangs and reputable criminal bosses until he discovers cancer in himself, which pushes him to a desperate step.
Mutation and abilities
He decides to participate in an experiment led by Department K, an organization that develops a superweapon. Specialists promised Wade that they would cure him of cancer if he became part of the Weapon X project. His goal was to create a superman, thanks to the introduction of a special drug derived from Wolverine DNA. The cancer was cured, but the experiment did not go as planned, and as a result, Wilson's whole body was disfigured. In addition to a severe mutilation, he acquired the ability to regenerate. In the following months, he becomes more violent and uncontrollable than before. This leads him to the aforementioned hospice. After the escape, he becomes an extremely respected person in criminal circles, where now everyone knows who Deadpool is and what he is capable of. In addition to the wonderful ability to heal itself, it is also resistant to almost all viruses and infections, and life expectancy has increased tenfold. In addition to this, he can overload his own muscles, which gives him tremendous strength.
Costume
After Wade got superpowers, he managed to get involved in many alterations, working for different bosses. For some time, he is serving as an ordinary thug at the Dagger. Since then, the hero began to wear his famous red-black suit, thanks to which he became such a recognizable character.
Many netizens often discuss the fact that it is easy to confuse it with Spider-Man due to some similarities in their clothes. Because of this, the Deadpool-Spider duo has become a constant reason for ridicule, sometimes even obscene.
It is noteworthy that there were times when the pseudonym Talkative Mercenary wore Peter Parker. Deadpool also appears in one of the episodes of the animated series Perfect Spider-Man.
Further fate
Now, not only crime bosses, but superheroes know who Deadpool is. He meets Kingpin and even works for him for a while. Also among his employers can be called the Sorcerer and the arms dealer Tolliver, who give him all kinds of tasks. Among the most fascinating, one can single out the case when Wade had to impersonate Hobgoblin.
Over the many years of its activity, the anti-hero of the Marvel universe has managed to make many enemies, the most memorable of which are Cable, Slaybek and Juggernaut. Once he even came across Dardeville and, of course, with other goodies who do not accept the methods of a mercenary. It is difficult to list all the alterations that Deadpool managed to visit in such a long time. Comics about him have been published for over 20 years and have become one of the most popular in the world.
In the cinema
The first appearance of the hero on the big screen happened in the movie "X-Men: The Beginning. Wolverine". There, he was one of the members of Weapon X along with the main character, and in the end he became a victim of the experiment, as a result of which he was disfigured. It was played by actor Ryan Reynolds, but his character was very different from the original. After that, it was decided to shoot a separate picture about the mercenary, whose name is Deadpool. The film was for a long time under discussion and development, in the end it was decided that Reynolds again had to realize this image, with which he coped brilliantly. In a large rental tape comes out in February 2016. If she collects a large box office, then, most likely, in the future the world will see a sequel.