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* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: The Ajax moniker isn't just a Greek strongman reference. Francis genuinely finds it funny that it's a cleaning agent since he's a bit of a "cleaner" himself.

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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Deadpool'' Vol. 1, #65 (May, 2002)

-> ''"This is a game of gentlemen, Mr. Wilson, not buffoons."''

A snob of a hitman who wants to kill Deadpool for stealing credit for some kills he made.

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-> ''"This is a game
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of gentlemen, Mr. Wilson, not buffoons."''

A snob of a hitman who wants to kill
assassins led by the Horned Emperor. Deadpool for stealing credit for some kills initially tries to join them, but after he made.fails their initiation and "compromises" (read: hooks up with) member Valentine Vuong, they set out to kill him.


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* AgentPeacock: Last Bite is a former model and has appeared on the cover of ''Better House & Gardens'', but he's still a competent assassin.
* BarrageOfBats: Last Bite can turn into a swarm of bats.
* CombatTentacles: The Horned Emperor can attack others using shadowy tendrils.
* DarkIsEvil: The Horned Emperor wears black clothes, appears to be made up of black smoke, and is the leader of an organization of assassins.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:How the Horned Emperor works -- once their current host is killed, they possess whoever killed them.]]
* ElectiveMute: Lord Deathstrike is positively chatty when talking to his sister, noting that he refuses to speak in front of others because he'll only talk to people worth his time. When they're at the same table but other Atelier members are in the room, he texts her rather than speaking.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: The members vary in both gender and race, the leader uses they/them pronouns, and two members are in a same-sex relationship.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Drop is disgusted when it looks like Deadpool might be cheating on Valentine with Lady Deathstrike, calling Wade a "two-timing scumbag."
* FlechetteStorm: Alcaudón's main weapons of choice are her knives, which she can control telekinetically and launch at an opponent in this manner.
* GemstoneAssault: Mirror can fire crystal projectiles from their armor. Some of them are also {{Trick Bullet}}s that explode after a short time delay.
* GravityMaster: Drop is initially shown fighting with a LaserBlade, but then he reveals that he actually specializes in controlling gravity, using his powers to sink Deadpool to the bottom of a twelve story building while fighting him, Lady Deathstrike, and Princess.
* GreenThumb: Ms. Ginkgo's main ability seems to be controlling hundreds of gingko leaves.
* HumanoidAbomination:
** The Horned Emperor looks humanoid, but their body consists of nothing but black smoke and a pair of deer horns. [[spoiler:While Valentine gets the horns upon assuming the position, they don't end up with the full shadowy body, implying that this only happens once they've possessed a host for a while.]]
** [[spoiler:Ms. Gingko is an ancient entity from another dimension. She normally manifests in the form of an Asian woman wearing a traditional Korean hanbok.]] Data pages and dialogue suggest she's an eldritch horror that's not remotely human.
* MurderInc: The Atelier are a league of elite assassins and mercenaries.
* MasterOfIllusion: Aster traps Deadpool in an illusory world where he's happily living with several of his friends as well as his daughter.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Aster is said to be an "exiled Fae" and resembles the "tiny winged humanoid" variant of this trope. She's also incredibly weak to salt.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Last Bite is an ageless vampire whose abilities include turning into a swarm of bats and hypnosis.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Rävhona appears to be a werefox who transforms at night.
* {{Sleepyhead}}: Ms. Gingko seems to be perpetually asleep, though this doesn't limit her effectiveness.
* UnholyMatrimony: Alcaudón and Ms. Gingko are a pair of assassins who also happen to be HappilyMarried.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[spoiler:Ms. Gingko ends up trying to kill Deadpool and the possessed Valentine when the former seriously wounds her wife. Deadpool stops her by pointing out she should get to a hospital instead, but she still swears vengeance.]]
* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Horned Emperor is said to have this.
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler:The reason why it looks like the Horned Emperor has led the Atelier for centuries is because whoever kills the Horned Emperor becomes the new Horned Emperor. Unfortunately, Valentine only finds this out after they kill them.]]
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!!Black Swan
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Deadpool'' Vol. 1, #65 (May, 2002)

-> ''"This is a game of gentlemen, Mr. Wilson, not buffoons."''

A snob of a hitman who wants to kill Deadpool for stealing credit for some kills he made.
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* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Introduced as a Captain America villain.


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** His creator Mark Gruenwald stated, "Madcap represents purposelessness, the disaffected youth of today who thinks 'What's the reason for doing anything?' "
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%%* MindVirus: His M.O. is injecting brain bugs into people.

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%%* * MindVirus: His M.O. is injecting brain bugs into people.people, described like computer viruses in function. He can implant a virus that slowly wipes memories and skills from victims' minds, ultimately leaving them brain-dead if not invalid.
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-> See Characters/SpiderManClonesCharacters/SpiderManRoguesGalleryIToZ
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* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: In his original appearances he was played as a very serious KnightofCerebus, but since then T-Ray's reappeared a handful of times and each time Deadpool has an easier and easier time with him.

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* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: In his original appearances he was played as a very serious KnightofCerebus, Knight of Cerebus, but since then T-Ray's reappeared a handful of times and each time Deadpool has an easier and easier time with him.
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* DreamTeam: Assembles one (of the villainous variation) to take on Deadpool, the "Blacklist", who all have the word "Black" in their alias-- Black Box, Black Swan, Black Tom.[[note]]What, no Black Talon?[[/note]]
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* AlbinosAreFreaks: A giant albino who became such after trading away his soul to Japanese entities he calls 'Dark Masters'.
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[[Music/TheRollingStones Please allow me to introduce Vetis, he's a man of wealth and taste. He's been around for a long long year, stole many a man's soul and faith!]] In case the Stones allusion didn't hit: A crossroads demon Deadpool's messed with, and is now seeking to seal some unfinished deals.

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[[Music/TheRollingStones [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Please allow me to introduce Vetis, he's a man of wealth and taste. He's been around for a long long year, stole many a man's soul and faith!]] In case the Stones allusion didn't hit: A crossroads demon Deadpool's messed with, and is now seeking to seal some unfinished deals.
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* SpikesOfVillainy: Combines this trope with the always-unfashionable ShoulderpadsOfDoom.

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* SpikesOfVillainy: Combines this trope with the always-unfashionable ShoulderpadsOfDoom.ShoulderOfDoom.

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[[WesternAnimation/HitMonkey Now has his own animated series.]]



* BadassInANiceSuit: No primate assassin would be complete without a suit.
* CoolShades: He also has a nice pair of shades.
* GunsAkimbo: He uses dual guns, sometimes wielding it with on one of his [[HandyFeet feet]].
* HitmanWithAHeart: He gets all mopey if bystanders get hurt during fights.
* ImplacableMan: He wouldn't die no matter how many times Deadpool kill him, nor will he leave him alone. Given Wade's own difficulties with dying, this makes their fights to the death [[SealedEvilInADuel a rather long-winded affair]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: ...Okay so he's not ''that'' big of a dick.
* UpliftedAnimal: He's a monkey smart enough for merc work.

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* BadassInANiceSuit: No primate assassin would be complete without a suit.
* CoolShades: He also has a nice pair of shades.
* GunsAkimbo: He uses dual guns, sometimes wielding it with on one of his [[HandyFeet feet]].
* HitmanWithAHeart: He gets all mopey if bystanders get hurt during fights.
* ImplacableMan: He wouldn't die no matter how many times Deadpool kill him, nor will he leave him alone. Given Wade's own difficulties with dying, this makes their fights to the death [[SealedEvilInADuel a rather long-winded affair]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: ...Okay so he's not ''that'' big of a dick.
* UpliftedAnimal: He's a monkey smart enough for merc work.
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* ComboPlatterPowers: He's a mutant {{Technopath}} who either uses [[NotQuiteFlight a flying platform]] or PoweredArmor, is a HumanHardDrive, and has Sinister-level cloning abilities.



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%%* HollywoodHacking* HollywoodHacking: Via the "Dominus Objective", a viral router program Bashur uses in concert with his mutant power to remotely access any system's data without alerting said system.
* HumanHardDrive: He apparently has a good portion of the Internet backed up in his head, as he permanently retains every byte of data he has ever processed or even just been exposed to.
* JokerImmunity: Deadpool and Sabretooth have both killed him but he reappeared and it was revealed the killed Bashurs were actually just clones.



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%%* NonActionBigBad* NonActionGuy: Bashur has never been a very effective presence on the field, and is most memorable for flying around on a glorified Segway.



* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Originally he was known as Commcast, but after the rise of a certain much-loathed cable company Marvel slavishly changed his name to Black Box.
* RefusedByTheCall: When his mutant power first manifested he was approached by Professor X, but after learning of his self-interested character Chuck reconsidered.
* SendInTheClones: Used as a HandWave to explain how he died twice but kept reappearing. He's also produced clones of his two associates in the Executive Elite, Makeshift and Rive.



%%* SmugSnake: Underestimated Deadpool at every turn, and overestimated his own intelligence.

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%%* * SmugSnake: Underestimated A constant throughout his various appearances is him underestimating Deadpool at every turn, and overestimated turn while simultaneously overestimating his own intelligence.intelligence. You'd think the guy would learn after the first couple of times, but apparently pattern recognition isn't in his mutant repertoire.



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%%* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Can often be found hiring himself out to fill this role for anyone who wants his services.



* ComboPlatterPowers: He's a HollywoodCyborg, can turn his hands into WolverineClaws, and is a RubberMan who can stretch and contort his arms at will.

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* ComboPlatterPowers: He's a HollywoodCyborg, can turn his hands into WolverineClaws, has a HealingFactor, and is a RubberMan who can stretch and contort his arms at will.



* MinorMajorCharacter: The entire reason Deadpool is Deadpool is because of Slayback. Killing him was what got Wade thrown out of Weapon X and into the hospice run by Dr. Killebrew and Francis/Ajax.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Has a maw that Venom and Baraka could be comfortable with.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: It's not clear exactly ''what'' Slayback is, since while he's identified as just being a human cyborg between his yellow skin, fangy teeth, and glowing eyes that are all non-mechanical he's clearly got something else thrown into the mix.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: At the end of ''The Circle Chase'' he was disintegrated into dust by the ZERO unit. Somehow he came back from this.



* PsychoForHire: Once went to work for a Canadian think tank and then worked as muscle for another Deadpool villain, Agent Kemp.



* AlbinosAreFreaks: A giant albino who became such after trading away his soul to Japanese entities he calls 'Dark Masters'.
* ArcVillain: He was used as Deadpool's BigBad throughout the late nineties, though Ajax/Francis has since supplanted him.



%%%* BigBad: Probably the closet one for my series at least.
* CriminalMindGames: Except we're ''both'' criminals.

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%%%* BigBad: Probably the closet one for my series at least.
* TheBigGuy: At 6'9 and 361 lbs of muscle, he always towers over Wade.
* CriminalMindGames: Except we're they're ''both'' criminals.criminals.
* CultureChopSuey: He's Canadian by birth and an OccidentalOtaku by choice, though he also bizarrely calls his paper scraps hieroglyphs when they're clearly calligraphy, and to mix even more flavor into the suey, he often uses inverted pentagrams and other 'occult' symbols traditionally used by anti-Christian beliefs such as Satanism.



* FightsLikeANormal: For all his fancy 'hieroglyphs', he can usually be found just using a sword and his sheer bulk to hack it out with Deadpool.



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* HollywoodVoodoo: His main power is the ability to harness mystic energy through "hieroglyphic" (actually calligraphic) paper scraps, in effect a more convoulted form of this trope.
* ItsAllAboutMe: T-Ray cares about exactly two things: himself and Deadpool, in that order.
* KaleidoscopeHair: His hair color constantly shifts between red and blonde DependingOnTheArtist.


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* PointlessBandAid: Always wears one across his nose for some reason.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Combines this trope with the always-unfashionable ShoulderpadsOfDoom.
* UnreliableNarrator: Believes himself to be the real Wade Wilson and has an elaborate backstory involving taking 'Jack' (who he claims Deadpool actually is) and getting hit with a stock TheFarmerAndTheViper scenario. Deadpool claims this is BS, but then, he would. The truth has never and probably will never be revealed.
* WouldHurtAChild: Infamous in the mercenary scene for taking child-killing jobs that most other mercs wouldn't touch.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: In his original appearances he was played as a very serious KnightofCerebus, but since then T-Ray's reappeared a handful of times and each time Deadpool has an easier and easier time with him.
* VillainTeamUp: Once went to work for Thanos as his minion, since their goals aligned perfectly (T-Ray wanting to make Deadpool suffer and Thanos wanting Deadpool incapacitated but not dead so he wouldn't get in the way of his long-running (and completely one-sided) courtship of Death).
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* StarterVillain: Deadpool's first foe.

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* StarterVillain: Along with Ajax, he was Deadpool's first foe.



* LongRangeFighter: He fights like an evil [Characters/StreetFighterII[ Dhalsim]] with WolverineClaws, and just like Dhalsim he's usually boned if anyone manages to get in close and start wailing on him.

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* LongRangeFighter: He fights like an evil [Characters/StreetFighterII[ [[Characters/StreetFighterII Dhalsim]] with WolverineClaws, and just like Dhalsim he's usually boned if anyone manages to get in close and start wailing on him.

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%%* AlasPoorVillain:
%%* ColdBloodedTorture: His M.O.

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* AlasPoorVillain: His death at the hands of Ajax was portrayed sympathetically, though given Killebrew's past behavior exactly how 'sympathetic' it is will vary from reader to reader.
* TheAtoner: He eventually came to regret his vile behavior and attempted to make it up to Deadpool in the last weeks of his life.
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ColdBloodedTorture: His M.O. during his time with Weapon X. He notably lobotomized one of the future Deadpool's friends and then kept him alive purely as a way to make Wade suffer.



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%%* EvilOldFolks* EvilMakesYouUgly: When he's an antagonist he's depicted as a LeanAndMean MadScientist, but when he is depicted as TheAtoner he's depicted looking like someone's chubby grandfather.
* EvilOldFolks: He's of advanced age and was notoriously sadistic while working for Weapon X, though he eventually did come to regret his actions.



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%%* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate* KilledOffForReal: By Ajax/Francis, and he's never been revived since his death.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: A brilliant man with doctorates in genetics, cybernetics, and pedatrics who went to work for the likes of Weapon X.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: ''Kill''ebrew isn't a name to inspire confidence in parents, explaining why he passed up a lucrative pedatric career in favor of working for Weapon X.


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* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Technically, Deadpool has never actually beaten this guy. Wade fragged him in a sneak attack originally, then had to have his butt saved in ''The Circle Chase'' by the ZERO unit, and then in a Wolverine annual he only barely managed to hold Slayback off with both Wolverine and Maverick's help.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: His skin is snot-yellow for some reason.
* ArcVillain: Of ''Deadpool: The Circle Chase''.
* AxCrazy: He's so murderously insane that even his co-workers who kill people for a living can't stand him.
* ComboPlatterPowers: He's a HollywoodCyborg, can turn his hands into WolverineClaws, and is a RubberMan who can stretch and contort his arms at will.
* DeathIsCheap: He's got a HealingFactor, and while it might not be fast, it's pretty damn efficient.
* TheDreaded: Notable for being one of the few Deadpool villains who could make the Merc with a Mouth drop his wisecracks and fight like his life depended on it.
* EvilCounterpart: He's basically Deadpool's version of Sabretooth, being a FullyEmbracedFiend who embraces his psychosis rather than trying to fight it.
* EvilIsPetty: The only goals he's ever had have been hurting people and killing Deadpool.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: It's telling that Deadpool and Kane, who butt heads on almost everything else, agree that Slayback was a scumbag who was better off dead. Vanessa didn't like him much either. In fact, nobody ever does, not even Slayback himself.
* FullyEmbracedFiend: Like Sabretooth, he openly admits to be an irredeemable monster, and unlike Sabes he doesn't even have a FreudianExcuse motivating his behavior.


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* ItsPersonal: With Deadpool, who he wants to kill in {{Revenge}} for Wade's attempt on his life.
* JokerImmunity: Also like Sabretooth, he was shown at one point as being in hell, only to show up alive again with no explanation given.
* LongRangeFighter: He fights like an evil [Characters/StreetFighterII[ Dhalsim]] with WolverineClaws, and just like Dhalsim he's usually boned if anyone manages to get in close and start wailing on him.
* NothingPersonal: When he hunts down Kane and accosts him in his home, he makes it clear he has nothing against Kane and only wants information on Deadpool's whereabouts. Kane doesn't return the favor.
* ObviouslyEvil: Between his snot-yellow skin, YellowEyesOfSneakiness, and Deathstrike-esque WolverineClaws, Slayback couldn't look more obviously evil if he tried.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Hasn't even appeared a dozen times since his 1993 debut.
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One of Deadpools many archenemies. He's a crazy idiot who thinks he's the real Wade Wilson and that Deadpool stole his identity.

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One of Deadpools many archenemies. He's a crazy idiot who thinks he's the real Wade Wilson and that Deadpool stole his identity. He might be right; it's hard to tell since you can't trust either him ''or'' Deadpool.
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* BadassMustache: A thick mustache to go with his space bounty hunter look.
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* ImplacableMan: He wouldn't die no matter how many times Deadpool kill him, nor will he leave him alone.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: ...Okay so he's not ''that'' big of a dick.

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* ImplacableMan: He wouldn't die no matter how many times Deadpool kill him, nor will he leave him alone.
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