History Comicbook / Deadpool

Deadpool fights the dead United States' former presidents, brought back to life to fix the current world's problems - [[CameBackWrong only they didn't want that]].

Continued by ''Mrs. Deadpool & The Howling Commandos'' during ''Secret Wars''.
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* AndIMustScream: Played for laughs with throwaway villain The White Man. The White Man has Mandarin tech that allows his cane to turn people into stone; a fate he is subjected to when Deadpool, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist fight him in the 70's. He is unfrozen in the present day (Deadpool loves to mock comic book time) where it's revealed he was conscious and fully aware of his surroundings the entire time. He attempts to freeze Cage and Iron Fist and dump them in the ocean, but Iron Fist's students kick him in the balls, freeze him in a pose holding his crotch, and accidentally knock him overboard. The heroes assume he's dead while the White Man sinks to the bottom of the ocean and sinks into mud. He's not only still conscious, it's implied he's also constantly feeling the pain of having been freshly kicked in the nuts. He is eventually rescued... ''one million years later'', where an alien race picks him up on a long abandoned desolate Earth. By this point the White Man has long since gone gibbering insane and the aliens throw him in a zoo, assuming humans were an unintelligent species.
* AssholeVictim: Vetis is a demon who barters with souls and is an all round piece of garbage. No sympathy for him when Mephisto punished him for screwing up. Or when Michael cut a deal with Mephisto and Vetis was DraggedOffToHell.
* AttractiveBentGender: In issue #4, Deadpool dons the infamous Marilyn Monroe dress to kill zombie JFK. Suprisingly, he manages to rock the dress, with even Agent Preston agreeing.
* BackFromTheDead:
** Agent Preston's mind ends up stuck in Deadpool's body after her death for many issues until she could be placed into a life-model decoy.
** Deadpool kills Michael to send him to Hell so he can recruit ComicBook/{{Mephisto}} to [[SummonBiggerFish help take down Vetis]]. As part of the deal with Mephisto, he's brought back to life after years in Hell.
* BadBoss: The resurrected George Washington doesn't treat his men as equals.
* BadassBoast: "There is nothing to fear--'''BUT ME'''!" says Franklin Roosevelt.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: In issue #26, A [[StupidJetpackHitler time-travelling Hitler]] is killed by Deadpool, Cable, and Nick Fury. They then [[TrickedOutTime trick out time]] by taking the body back in time to the bunker and staging it to look like a suicide.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' mention John Wilkes Booth near Abe.
* BigBadWannabe: While Vetis is by no means harmless, Mephisto himself notes that in the larger spectrum of things, he's just a low-level demon with delusions of grandeur.
* ButForMeItWasTuesday: ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' has yet another hero-to-villain example in the case of "The White Man". In the seventies, the Heroes for Hire and Deadpool took down this unfortunately-named pimp slash mob boss by turning his [[TakenForGranite petrification]] powers back on him. Needless to say, when he's finally unfrozen forty [[ComicBookTime "years"]] later, he's a bit pissed. He's even ''more'' pissed when he finds out that none of them remember who is or have any idea why he's so mad at them.
* CallForward: In issue #7, a fake "inventory story", supposedly written in TheSeventies, [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] chides Flash Thompson (still firmly in his {{Jerkass}} persona) for StealingTheHandicappedSpot. Future HandicappedBadass Flash is callously dismissive of "legless people."
* CameBackWrong: Though some of them are implied to have been evil in life as well, The resurrected presidents are all evil now.
* ChekhovsGunman: Deadpool previously hooked up with a hot Spanish chick named Carmelita Camacho in a flashback story. Unbeknownst to Deadpool for years and to the readers for several issues, Carmelita became the mother of his beloved daughter, Ellie.
* CloseOnTitle: The name of issue #7, "Drinking Game",appears on alcohol bottles scattered on the ground in the last panel.
* CoolSword: Washington had a straight-up pimpin' sword. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Which was used by Deadpool.]]
* CurbStompBattle: After Vetis receives the souls of a bunch of unlucky humans he had made deals with, he was too strong for Deadpool.
* DealWithTheDevil: Via RetCon, Deadpool is contracted by a demon named Vetis, who wanted to overthrow Mephisto, to "get Iron Man drunk", with the promise of a laser disc factory in return. However, Deadpool invokes ExactWords when he finds Tony Stark so drunk it wasn't funny -- [[LoopholeAbuse he steals the Iron Man armor and gets himself plastered]]. The demon's not happy with this and neither is Mephisto when he gets word of what the demon was doing. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Deadpool never received his laser disc factory]].
* DirtyOldMan: Being dead hasn't stopped Franklin's love for the ladies; he uses his ghost form to spy on attractive (usually older) women and people having sex. Over time, he's grown bored with just watching.
* DraggedOffToHell: After Deadpool OutGambitted Vetis the first time, Mephisto [[YouHaveFailedMe dragged him to Hell for his incompetence.]] This was his final fate when Deadpool worked out a plan with Michael to cut a deal with Mephisto to swap Vetis' soul in exchange for breaking the contract he held everyone in.
* DyingAsYourself: Washington reverted back to his former self when Deadpool beheaded him.
* EvilCripple: FDR still can't stand up and now he's evil.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Michael probably should've realized using a magic book he got from a DealWithTheDevil to resurrect dead presidents would end badly no matter what his intentions.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Vetis went from [[http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/deadpool7-vetis.png this]] to [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/7/7b/Vetis_(Earth-616)_from_Deadpool_Vol_3_9_001.jpg this]], due to Mephisto's torture. Don't [[SymbolSwearing @#&*$]] with Mephisto, people.
* EvilSorcerer: Washington gains some nasty magic stuff near the end of the resurrected presidents arc.
** Averted with Michael the Necromancer, who was only trying to fix the current world's problems.
* ExactWords: In issue 7, Deadpool makes a DealWithTheDevil (or rather, a demon connected to Mephisto) to get Iron Man drunk in order to empower the demon. However, Deadpool has a change of heart when he sees how horribly plastered Tony is (as it was set during the "Demon in a Bottle" storyline), so he ends up knocking Tony out, hijacking the armor and getting ''himself'' plastered. When the demon appears calling him out for failing, Deadpool points out that the contract specifically stated ''Iron Man'', not ''Tony Stark''.
* FanDisservice: [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/that-time-deadpool-dressed-as-marilyn-monroe-to-ki#.ue4AyLWp2 Deadpool dressing as Marilyn Monroe]] in order to lure zombie JFK. The undead ex-president is suitably squicked out when he gets a closer look, especially when Deadpool jumps up to reveal that he isn't wearing any pants.
* FatBastard: William Howard Taft, naturally. He's still got that big old gut.
* FusionDance: Preston involuntarily bunks in Deadpool's mind after zombie George Washington kills her body. Unlike Deadpool's fusion with Mad Cap, Deadpool and the readers know it's her inside his mind. She does this again with Warda's brain at the end of the 2099 arc to keep her in line.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: In the first issue, a necromancer brings back all the former Presidents of the United States from the dead in a misguided attempt to restore the country.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: FDR throws his chair away when the fight gets real.
* IncomingHam: "Who '''DARES''' to disturb '''HARRY TRUMAN'''?"
* KnightOfCerebus: The moment Washington takes matters in his own hands, ''shit gets real''.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Demon, actually. Vetis is revealed to be the one who the Necromancer-that-brought-the-presidents-back got his powers from.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Vetis in the 70's. When he returns in the present, he seems to have fallen on some bad times since then. Mostly because of the torture in Hell.
* MeaningfulName: Vetis is apparently the demon of corruption, if demonology is to be believed.
* OmnicidalManiac: The resurrected presidents want to destroy America and rebuild it anew.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: And freaking zombies, to boot.
* OutGambitted: Deadpool manages to do this to Vetis twicw, once in the 70's, and again in the present, after he killed Michael before him.
* PowerIncontinence: In "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" arc, a North Korean man had been artificially implanted with Wolverine's {{healing factor}}. However, not only was it so incomplete that he couldn't heal brain damage, but his body kept ''[[BodyHorror trying to heal every orifice he had!]]''
* PresidentEvil: Technically the resurrected presidents are not presidents anymore, but they are, ah that american political stuff stuff is confusing.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: The resurrected presidents, even within their own ranks too, as Washington is one tough son of a gun.
* {{Retraux}}: Issue #7 is supposedly an inventory story from 1979, {{RetCon}}ning Deadpool (who, of course, didn't exist at the time to ''write'' inventory stories about) into the ''ComicBook/IronMan'' "Demon in a Bottle" storyline, with 70s Spidey and the Power Pack also making appearances. The art and writing style both reflect this, and it even has oversaturated [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] colouring. Later issues in that run follow on from this, having Deadpool show up in what are claimed to be inventory stories from other eras, with the writing and art in the style of those periods. Including one from Deadpool's [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks actual early days]], with a Creator/RobLiefeld in-joke as the characters have everything possible hiding their feet.
* RunningGag: Deadpool being repeatedly told "You're not a mutant! ...and you're not an X-Man!"
** Finally climaxes in issue #36, when after the death of Wolverine, Storm offered Deadpool membership with the X-Men, and Deadpool surprisingly refused.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Deadpool kills Michael as part of the plan to defeat Vetis, Franklin decides Deadpool has gone too far and can deal with Vetis solo.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Deadpool finds Carmelita's body in a mass grave in North Korea. Knowing Carmelita previously gave birth to their daughter, he fears their child is likewise dead and can't bear to investigate what happened to Ellie. Preston takes up the mission and Preston finds Ellie alive. Deadpool is happy for that, but sad that Carmelita died because she was involved with him.
* SpannerInTheWorks: By killing Michael and sending him to Hell prematurely, Deadpool ruins Vetis's EvilPlan to accumulate all the souls he's made deals with and use their power to overthrow Mephisto; in Hell, Michael notifies Mephisto of the plan.
* SpiritAdvisor: When Agent Preston's mind ends up stuck in Deadpool's body, she advises him and provides emotional support during an event he later calls the ''worst'' in his life.
* TakeThat:
** In issue #9, while collecting souls for Vetis, one of the people Deadpool had to kill is pretty much a discount ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}. Downplayed since he is the only soul Deadpool had to collect who used his powers for good.
** In issue #34, when Creator/DCComics made a bunch of [[RatingsStunt 3D motion varient covers]], Marvel shot back by [[http://comicsalliance.com/deadpool-3d-motion-cover-variant-marvel-dc-new-52/ do the same]].
* TheStarscream: Vetis seeks to overthrow Mephisto.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Zombie Abe Lincoln gives Deadpool one of the these summing up why everyone in the Marvel Universe hates him. Deadpool gives the appropriate answer.
--->'''Zombie Abe''': [After giving Deadpool a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown] You're a vapid, unfunny, pale shade of a hero! You're unintelligent, uncreative and unremarkable in every way! You don't seem to do anything well except heal yourself and [[WolverinePublicity appear EVERYWHERE!]] [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall I don't understand your APPEAL!]] I HATE you, these PEOPLE hate you! Tell me, what is that you are good at? What do you do?
--->'''Deadpool:''' [[ShutUpHannibal I DON'T GIVE UP!]]'''
* RedShirt: The D-list Presidents, i.e the ones people aren't that familiar with.
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In issue #4, when taken prisoner by a man who plans to use the regenerating Merc With A Mouth as an infinite source of food for his [[OurZombiesAreDifferent intelligent zombies]], said zombies quickly find him to be completely unappetizing. Could be because he [[TastesLikePurple tastes like cancer]]. (Or more specifically, "rancid tofurky that's been marinated in formaldehyde".)
* TookALevelInBadass: After Mephisto released Vetis from his torture, Vetis stepped up his game and trapped Deadpool in a loophole where he had to do his dirty work, or he would find someone else. Then when he got the powers from his victims he inflicted a CurbStompBattle on Deadpool.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Michael hopes all the undead presidents will unite to return America to its former glory; instead, every single undead president turns evil and starts killing everybody.
* WhatTheHellHero: Deadpool calls out Captain America and Wolverine for not taking him seriously when he approached them about someone chasing after him with an interest in Weapon X.
* WorthyOpponent: Washington started to admire Deadpool near the end.

The Merc With a Mouth is back from the dead in this new series, written by Gerry Duggan with art by Mike Hawthorne.
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* BackFromTheDead: Deadpool, obviously, both literally and figuratively. The series deals with the ramifications of deciding Deadpool was dead.
* BatFamilyCrossover: The event ''Til Death Do Us'', which weaves through ''Deadpool'', ''Deadpool And the Mercs for Money'', and ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool''.
* BigBad: '''Til Death Do Us Part'': A crossover between ''Deadpool'', ''Deadpool & the Mercs for Money'', and ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool'', the BigBad is Deadpool's own wife [[MonsterLord Shiklah]], who leads a war on New York City after one her subjects is killed and no justice is rendered by human authorities.
* ChestBurster: In issue #30, Deadpool is implanted with a Brood egg. Instead of turning into a Brood like what usually happens, because of Deadpool healing factor, a small Brood burst out of his body. Deadpool subsequently named it "Deadpal", giving it a mini Deadpool mask and everything. Eventually though, after killing alot of aliens, Deadpool cut it off his body after starting to care about it.
* CorporateSponsoredSuperhero: Thanks to Deadpool's ''insane popularity'', he is now funding ''ComicBook/TheAvengers''.
* {{Expy}}: Massacre is an Mexican knock-off of Deadpool, complete with crappy costume and parchment for glorious gory violence that only a foreign superhero movie can bring. He's still a BadassNormal though, to the point of ''turning an ocolot to his side just by staring into his eyes''.
* LegacyCharacter: Deadpool's leasing out his name to everyone and anyone who can pay.
* SpaceEpisode: Issue 30 involves Deadpool taking a vacation/causing chaos in space. He first goes to the moon to loot the Watcher's belongings, interupts a space war, terrorizes the Nova Corps with a fake Ultimate Nullifier, heads to Knowhere, fights some other aliens, fights Lady Sif and some other Asgardians, fights a Brood, grows a Brood out of his stomach, cuts said Brood off of himself, fight another alien, is nearly sold to the Collector, sells Madcap to the Collector, then steals a flying saucer, "claims" Ego the living planet, then heads back to Earth.
* LaserSword: While out in space, Deadpool uses a laser sword instead of his regular katana.
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Issue #20 sees Deadpool doing this in the only way that he can. He stops a young woman from jumping off his apartment building, [[BlackComedy suggesting she jump from the Parker Industries building instead]], before reassuring that he's joking and insisting she join him for a night on the town, involving ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' and beating up some crooks together. In the end, however, Wade takes her to the hospital and gently informs her that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome there isn't anything he can realistically do to fix her problems overnight]], and that the best he can offer is get her in touch with actual medical professionals who are better-equipped to get her the long-term help she needs. [[BittersweetEnding After some gentle coercion, she takes up the offer]].

Tired of being crapped on for trying to be a hero, the Merc with a Mouth resumes his merc ways. His first target? The Man Called Cable! Written by Gerry Duggan and drawn by Scott Koblish; legacy numbering starts at #287.
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* TheAdjectivalSuperhero: Deadpool gains the title of ''Despicable'' Deadpool.
* BitingTheHandHumor: In issue #298, Deadpool sarcastically tells ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} and a wheelchair-bound man that they should make a play for the time slot of the cancelled Marvel TV show ''Series/{{Inhumans}}''.
* DeathSeeker: After the events of ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' and the villain Stryfe forcing him to try to kill his friends, Deadpool's put a $20 million bounty on his own head with the hopes that someone will finally murder him as he feels he's not worth it anymore with all of his credibility shattered.
* FaceHeelTurn: Of the {{Blackmail}}-induced variety. Stryfe holds Deadpool's loved ones hostage, forcing the Merc with a Mouth to kill for him.
* GrandFinale: For Duggan's Deadpool run.
* IgnoranceIsBliss: At the end of the series, Deadpool decides the best thing to do after ruining his reputation as an Avenger and alienating himself from everyone he knows is to wipe away all his memories of from since the beginning of Duggan's run with Butler's amnesia drugs.
* MythologyGag: The title rename hails from the ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel'' relaunch issue #25, where Preston tells Deadpool 2099 that he was "despicable after the Avengers".
* ResetButton: The series ends with Deadpool erasing his memory of everything that happened in his previous writer's run (and practically everything else), resetting himself back to the Merc with a Mouth. Though a brief cut to 2099 does show that he will eventually regain his memories.
* TakeThat: In issue #298, Deadpool sarcastically tells ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} and a wheelchair-bound man that they should make a play for the cancelled ''Series/{{Inhumans}}'' TV show's time slot.

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* BladeBreak: In issue #2, Hawkeye has temporary super-strength and gets knocked off the edge of the building. He slows his path by jamming two arrows into the wall and sliding down, gouging furrows in the wall till he stops.

* BitingTheHandHumor: The ComicBook/SquirrelGirl subplot in ''Deadpool/GLI Summer Special'' is a massive jab at the trend of making all comics DarkerAndEdgier, especially Marvel's own ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006''. Squirrel Girl says she misses when comic book worlds were "places to escape to, not from", then she tries to convince formerly light-hearted [[ComicBook/NewWarriors Speedball]] to stop being [[ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}} Penance]]. Penance is self-blaming and self-punishing, so he repeatedly smashes his head against the wall and yells about doing "deep stuff" because he's "''deep'' now" and it's "too ''deep''" for Squirrel Girl. She responds by {{backing away slowly}} to leave and tells Tippy-Toe, her squirrel partner, that Penance is a [[{{Pun}} nut]].

This page is about plot tropes in the ''Deadpool'' comic books. For the character and his personality traits or those of his supporting characters, see the [[Characters/{{Deadpool}} character sheet]].

!!''Deadpool'' comic books

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[[folder:''Deadpool'' original and ongoing series]]
Due to the ComicBook/MarvelLegacy renumbering, Marvel's tendency to cancel then relaunch books with the same title, and retroactively regarding the first two miniseries as first two ''Deadpool'' volumes, there is considerable disagreement between the publisher, collectors, and fans about identifying the various ''Deadpool''-named comics by volume number, year of release, Marvel Legacy renumbering, or something else. Further confusion comes from the comic industry tradition of using actual publication dates versus the cover dates.\\\

* ''Deadpool: The Circle Chase'' [[labelnote:aka]]''Deadpool'' volume 1, Marvel Legacy ''Deadpool'' #1-4[[/labelnote]]: August to November 1993, 4 issues by writer Creator/FabianNicieza and penciler Creator/JoeMadureira. This miniseries introduces Deadpool's sidekick and tech supplier, Weasel, as they hunt for the prize from Tolliver's will. Previously only shown ''taking'' lives, Deadpool ''saves'' a life by helping heal Vanessa.
* ''Deadpool: Sins of the Past'' [[labelnote:aka]]''Deadpool'' volume 2, Marvel Legacy ''Deadpool'' #5-8[[/labelnote]]: August to November 1994, 4 issues by writer Creator/MarkWaid and penciler Creator/IanChurchill. First look at what's under Deadpool's mask, much to Deadpool's dismay; he takes an instant liking to Theresa Cassidy (Siryn) and doesn't want to repulse her.
* ''Deadpool'' volume 1 [[labelnote:aka]]volume 3, if the prior ''Deadpool'' miniseries are 1 and 2. Marvel Legacy ''Deadpool'' #9-77[[/labelnote]]: January 1997 to September 2002, issues #1-[[LOL69 69]] plus specials and annuals. This is Deadpool's first ongoing series. It had multiple writer/artist teams, including:
** #1-10: Writer Creator/JoeKelly and penciler Ed [=McGuinness=]. Supporting cast includes Blind Al, a prisoner in Deadpool's San Francisco "Deadhut" lair who trades insults and pranks with him between fearing for her life; Weasel, his previously-introduced sidekick; and members of Landau, Luckman, and Lake ([=LLL=]) who are trying to follow prophecy and shape Deadpool into their heroic "Mithras" instead of TheChosenZero. His crush, Siryn, acts as a MoralityPet, but his interest in [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Typhoid Mary]] complicates matters. Deadpool breaks the fourth wall a few times.
** #11-25: Writer Joe Kelly and multiple pencilers, mostly Walter [=McDaniel=] and Pete Wood. Deadpool tries to help Typhoid Mary until she {{bed trick}}s him posing as Siryn. Weasel flees the country after Deadpool puts him and Al in [[TortureCellar the Box]]. ArchEnemy T-Ray nearly kills Deadpool, bruising his ego and his mental stability. Al sticks around out of mixed StockholmSyndrome and fear that Deadpool would be even more dangerous without her calling him out. The Deadpool-as-world-savior "[[TheChosenOne Mithras]]" story arc and other plot threads since issue #1 are wrapped up in issue #25 due to an expected cancellation.
** #26-33: Kelly continues writing when the book lives after all, but Blind Al is gone and Deadpool gets a new supporting cast of former minor characters. Issue #28 has the moment credited as Deadpool breaking the fourth wall for good when he tells [[Characters/DaredevilCentralRoguesGallery Bullseye]] that they last saw each other in issue #16. T-Ray does another whammy on Deadpool in a TwistEnding, then Deadpool gets a month-long vacation with Death before his new writer comes onboard.
** #34-45: Writer Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}} with pencilers Paco Diaz and Creator/JimCalafiore, ramping up the fourth wall breaking with his run opening and closing on characters reacting to Priest as the writer. When Deadpool refuses to believe ComicBook/{{Loki}} is his father, Loki curses Deadpool to have his life fall into ruin via looking like Creator/TomCruise-- er, "[[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Thom Cruz]]"-- "until thou dost seek thy father's forgiveness". Deadpool decides he's a villain again and briefly sublets an apartment with The Constrictor and Titania.
** #46-56: Co-writers Creator/JimmyPalmiotti and Creator/BuddyScalera with varying pencilers, bricking over the fourth wall as Deadpool takes on mercenary jobs, including a conflict with ComicBook/ThePunisher. Vanessa returns to his life (and bed) with her shapeshifting powers running amuck.
** #57-64: Writer Creator/FrankTieri with pencilers Creator/GeorgesJeanty and Jim Calafiore. Subtitled "Deadpool: Agent of Weapon X" and "Deadpool: Funeral for a Freak" for each of its two story arcs. Deadpool is dragged back into Weapon X by ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}, then goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against them when Kane kills a child and his girlfriend is killed off by Sabretooth. After Deadpool is "killed" by Weapon X, he attends his own funeral, gets resurrected, and temporarily splits into alternative selves.
** #65-69: Writer Creator/GailSimone and artist collective UDON, increasing the frequency of "little yellow boxes" to become a defining characteristic as Deadpool narrates his life to himself and addresses his readers. Deadpool clashes with the Black Swan, a more refined assassin whose retirement was spoiled by Deadpool and seeks revenge by tampering with Deadpool's mind. Deadpool ends his first ongoing series [[TakingYouWithMe explosively]].
* ''Agent X'' [[labelnote:aka]]Marvel Legacy ''Deadpool'' #78-92[[/labelnote]]: September 2002 to December 2003, issues #1-15. ComicBook/{{Cable}} was relaunched as ''Soldier X'' to more obviously tie-in to the [[ComicBook/{{XMen}} X-Men]], and Deadpool as a series similarly relaunched as ''Agent X'', but the identity of the titular character is initially ambiguous as to whether it's actually Deadpool with amnesia, in disguise, or an {{Expy}}. The final issues post-cancellation reveals who Agent X is and reintroduce the real Deadpool in preparation for his next ongoing series, which pairs him with Cable. [[index]]
* ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'' [[labelnote:aka]]Marvel Legacy #93-142[[/labelnote]]: May 2004 to April 2008, issues #1-50. Writer and Deadpool co-creator Fabian Nicieza returned for the series. After cancelling ''Soldier X'' and ''Agent X'', Cable and Deadpool shared this ongoing series and formed an OddFriendship.[[/index]]
* ''Deadpool'' volume 2 [[labelnote:aka]]volume 4, Marvel Legacy ''Deadpool'' #143-205[[/labelnote]]: November 2008 to December 2012, issues #1-63 plus specials and annual. The second solo ''Deadpool'' ongoing series, but third ongoing series with him starring. Writer Creator/DanielWay carries over elements introduced in a ''[[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Wolverine: Origins]]'' story arc [[note]](not to be confused with ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'')[[/note]] where Deadpool views the world through "Pool-O-Vision" (hallucinations and delusions) and develops white caption boxes that clash with his little yellow boxes. Deadpool tries to die, but he never stays dead.
* ''Deadpool'' volume 3 [[labelnote:aka]]volume 5, Marvel Legacy ''Deadpool'' #206-250[[/labelnote]]: January 2013 to June 2015, issues #1-45 plus annuals. Part of the ComicBook/{{Marvel NOW}} relaunch (but not a reboot). Co-writers Creator/BrianPosehn and Creator/GerryDuggan start the series with a job from SHIELD Agent Emily Preston to kill zombified dead American presidents; it ends with everyone dying for the [[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 Secret Wars]] {{crisis crossover}}. In the middle, Deadpool faces horrors from his past, marries the succubus Shiklah, builds friendships, and contemplates what happens to people in his life.
* ''Deadpool'' volume 4 [[labelnote:aka]]volume 6, Marvel Legacy ''Deadpool'' #251-286[[/labelnote]]: January 2016 to November 2017, issues #1-36 plus special. Writer Gerry Duggan returns. Part of ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel, with Deadpool {{back from the dead}} post-''Secret Wars''. After issue #36, the series was retitled and renumbered to become ''Despicable Deadpool'', reflecting his status after ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire''.
* ''Despicable Deadpool'': December 2017 to July 2018. Issues numbered #287-300 due to the start of Marvel Legacy renumbering, but continuing from the prior ''Deadpool'' volume. Writer Creator/GerryDuggan.
* ''Deadpool'' volume 5 [[labelnote:aka]]volume 7. Relaunched from ''Despicable Deadpool'' and dropped the Marvel Legacy renumbering[[/labelnote]]: August 2018 to September 2019, issues #1-15. Writer Creator/SkottieYoung.[[index]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool|2019}}'' volume 6 [[labelnote:aka]]volume 8. Relaunched from ''Deadpool'' vol. 5 after a 3-month replacement with ''Absolute Carnage vs. Deadpool''[[/labelnote]]: Began November 2019 with issue #1 post-''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage'' tie-in. Writer Creator/KellyThompson.
* ''Deadpool: Black, White, and Blood (2021)'': Anthology of one-shots.
* ''Manga/DeadpoolSamurai'' (2018-2021): A manga running in Creator/ShonenJump. Writer Sanshiro Kasama.
* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool|2022}}'' volume 7 [[labelnote:aka]]volume 9[[/labelnote]]. Launched in November 2022, initially written by Creator/AlyssaWong and illustrated by Martin Coccolo.

[[folder:''Deadpool'' mini-series and limited series]]
Some of these series have their own pages for information and tropes in them:
* ''ComicBook/DeadpoolWadeWilsonsWar'': August to November 2010, 4 issues. Alternate universe.
* ''Deadpool Killogy'' and spinoffs:
** ''ComicBook/DeadpoolKillsTheMarvelUniverse'': October 2012, 4 issues. Psycho Man messes up Deadpool's brain trying to make him into a more effective killer. [[GoneHorriblyRight It works]]... too well. This version of Deadpool is nicknamed "Dreadpool". [[/index]]
** ''Deadpool: Killustrated'': March to June 2013, 4 issues. Continuing from ''Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe,'' [[OmnicidalManiac Dreadpool tries to kill fiction itself]] by targeting characters from classic literature.
** ''Deadpool Kills Deadpool'': September to December 2013, 4 issues. Dreadpool targets multiple previous and newly introduced versions of himself for death, such as Deadpool Pulp, Lady Deadpool, Kidpool, Dogpool, and Headpool.
** ''Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again'': July to September 2017, 5 issues.
* ''Deadpool: Suicide Kings'': June to October 2009, 5 issues. Deadpool is framed for burning an occupied building, and tangles with The Punisher, Daredevil, and Spider-Man.
* ''Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth'': September 2009 to September 2010, issues #1-13. A.I.M. sends Deadpool to the Savage Land to retrieve a bioweapon-- the decapitated but still sentient head of Deadpool from ComicBook/MarvelZombies. HYDRA wants "Headpool" and its zombie virus for themselves. Deadpool realizes a zombie apocalypse would suck and goes dimension-hopping to get Headpool home.
* ''Deadpool Team-Up'': December 2009 to May 2011, issues #900-883 (numbered in reverse). Though it was billed as Deadpool's third ongoing series, it wasn't a solo title, has a separate name, and wasn't included in the legacy renumbering. [[index]]
* ''ComicBook/DeadpoolCorps'': Preceded by the 5-issue ''Prelude to Deadpool Corps'' in May 2010. June 2010 to May 2011, issues #1-12. Featuring {{distaff counterpart}} Lady Deadpool, Headpool, Kidpool, and Dogpool in an all-Deadpool team to save the multiverse. [[/index]]
* ''Deadpool: Pulp'': November 2010 to February 2011, 4 issues. Similar to the ''ComicBook/MarvelNoir'' line, but in the 50s. Featuring GovernmentConspiracy and a conflict with a FemmeFatale against a backdrop of communist paranoia.
* ''Deadpool [[Creator/MarvelMAX MAX]]'': December 2010 to September 2011, issues #1-12. Part of the Marvel MAX imprint and alternate universe.
* ''Deadpool MAX II'': October 2011 to March 2012, 6 issues.
* ''ComicBook/FearItself: Deadpool'': August to October 2011, 3 issue tie-in to the ''Fear Itself'' event. Written by Chris Hastings (creator of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'').[[index]]
* ''ComicBook/NightOfTheLivingDeadpool'': March to May 2014, 4 issues. Alternate universe zombie story. [[/index]]
** ''Return of the Living Deadpool'': April to July 2015, 4 issues.
* ''Deadpool's Art of War'': December 2014 to March 2015, 4 issues.
* ''Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars'': July to October 2015, 4 issues, tie-in to the original ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984'' during the 2015 event.
* ''Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos'': August to November 2015, 4 issues, tie-in to ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015''.[[index]]
* ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool'': March 2016 to May 2019, issues #1-50. As the title says, Deadpool is paired with ComicBook/SpiderMan. Published concurrently with ''Deadpool'' volumes 4 and 5 and ''Despicable Deadpool'', but not counted towards the ''Deadpool'' Marvel Legacy renumbering.[[/index]]
* ''Deadpool & The Mercs for Money'' volume 1: April to August 2016, 5 issues.
* ''Deadpool & The Mercs for Money'' volume 2: September 2016 to June 2017, 10 issues.[[index]]
* ''ComicBook/DeadpoolBackInBlack'': December 2016 to February 2017, 5 issues.[[/index]]
* ''Deadpool: Too Soon?'': December 2016 to March 2017, 4 issues.
* ''Deadpool the Duck'': March to May 2017, 5 issues
* ''Deadpool: Bad Blood'': May 2017, graphic novel. Republished as a 5 issue miniseries (under the same title) in 2022.
* ''You Are Deadpool'': July 2018, 5 issues/
* ''Deadpool: Assassin'': August to October 2018, 6 issues.
* ''Deadpool: Secret Agent Deadpool'': November 2018 to January 2019, 6 issues.
* ''Deadpool: The End'': March 2020, 1 issue.
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[[folder:''Deadpool'' versus series]]
* ''ComicBook/DeadpoolVsCarnage'': June to August 2014, 4 issues. When [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarnage Carnage]] goes on another killing spree, Deadpool is the only one who can track his "random" trail.
* ''Hawkeye vs. Deadpool'': November 2014 to March 2015, 5 issues beginning with #0. ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}s and Deadpool butt heads over Halloween candy before teaming up to fight bad guys using Halloween as a cover for their evil schemes.
* ''Deadpool vs. Thanos'': November to December 2015, 4 issues. Trying to prove he loves Death the most, ComicBook/{{Thanos}} takes it out on Deadpool, but the universe has stopped dying.
* ''Deadpool v Gambit'': August to November 2016, 5 issues. ComicBook/{{Gambit}} and Deadpool have run cons together in the past, and team up for another in the present. It doesn't go well. [[index]]
* ''ComicBook/DeadpoolVsThePunisher'': June to August 2017, 5 issues. It's Deadpool versus ComicBook/ThePunisher. [[/index]]
* ''Deadpool vs. Old Man Logan'': December 2017 to April 2018, 5 issues. A young mutant needs help understanding her powers, but Deadpool and Old Man Logan can't get along.
* ''Black Panther vs. Deadpool'': December 2018 to April 2019. When Deadpool hunts for vibranium, Black Panther hunts for Deadpool, in a [[LetsYouAndHimFight misunderstanding turned team-up]].
* ''ComicBook/AbsoluteCarnage vs. Deadpool'': October to December 2019, 3 issues tying-in to the ''Absolute Carnage'' event, temporarily interrupting the ongoing ''Deadpool'' series.
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[[folder:''Deadpool'' team series]]
* ''ComicBook/UncannyXForce'' volume 1: December 2010 to February 2013, appearing in most of the 35-issue ongoing series concurrently with ''Deadpool'' volumes 2 and 3. Writer Creator/RickRemender puts Deadpool on a team led by Wolverine that does black ops work to protect mutants.
* ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' volume 2: February 2013 to December 2014, a 32-issue series; concurrent with ''Deadpool'' volume 3. Part of a black- and red-themed team with [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Agent Venom]], ComicBook/{{Elektra}}, ComicBook/ThePunisher, ComicBook/RedHulk, and later ComicBook/GhostRider.
* ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'' volume 3: December 2015 to February 2018, appearing in most of the 30-issue ongoing series concurrently with other ongoing series.
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!!!''Deadpool'' original and ongoing series

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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each issue has the word "duck" in its title.
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[[RedBaron The Merc with a Mouth]]. [[GoodThingYouCanHeal The Regenerating Degenerate]] Creator/RyanReynolds. [[Franchise/MarvelComics Marvel's]] [[MetaGuy Meta]] JerkassWoobie.

[[RedBaron The Merc with a Mouth]]. Creator/RyanReynolds. [[Franchise/MarvelComics Marvel's]] [[MetaGuy Meta]] JerkassWoobie.

* {{Retraux}}: Issue #7 is supposedly an inventory story from 1979, {{RetCon}}ning Deadpool (who, of course, didn't exist at the time to ''write'' inventory stories about) into the ''ComicBook/IronMan'' "Demon in a Bottle" storyline, with 70s Spidey and the Power Pack also making appearances. The art and writing style both reflect this, and it even has oversaturated [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] colouring. Later issues in that run follow on from this, having Deadpool show up in what are claimed to be inventory stories from other eras, with the writing and art in the style of those periods. Including one from Deadpool's [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks actual early days]], with a Creator/RobLiefeld in-joke as the characters have everything possible hiding their feet.

* DownerEnding: The run ends with Evil Deadpool coming back in the last few pages that the cure to his healing factor that would allow him to finally die, the prize he's been pursuing for over a dozen issues since they last fought, doesn't work. He then shoots Wade in the head while assuring him that he'll just eventually come back to life to suffer more and cause more suffering for those around him.

* CurbStompBattle: After Vetis recieves the souls of a bunch of unlucky humans he had made deals with, he was too strong for Deadpool.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: After When Deadpool and Taskmaster visit Sandi after she is hospitalized when her boyfriend assaults her, she makes Deadpool promise he'll only scare the [[AssholeVictim abusive boyfriend]] off, not kill him. Deadpool follows through with a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Taskmaster [[KickTheSonOfABitch didn't make any promises]]. Cue GoryDiscretionShot.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Deadpool paid a visit to his assistant Sandi's [[AssholeVictim abusive boyfriend]] to give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, stopping short of killing him because he promised Sandi. Taskmaster, on the other hand, didn't promise her anything and [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork kills the guy anyway]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: A young woman named Tanya Patterson hires Deadpool via Craigslist for a $500 hit on a guy named Gavin, an ex-jock bastard who spread a heinous rumor in high school that continues to ruin her life nine years later. Since Gavin is now a pizza delivery guy, Deadpool breaks into a man's house and orders a pineapple and black olive with burnt crust to get his mark where he wants him (and get some food, too). [[TakeOurWordForIt Whatever the rumor was]], it's ''so bad'' that when Deadpool whispers it to the guy whose house he broke into, the guy flips from panicking about Deadpool to cussing Gavin out and agreeing he deserves to be killed. Gavin tries pleading and apologizing before saying Tanya needs to "get over" it. Gavin gets dead.

* TakeOurWordForIt: In issue #10, a young woman named Tanya Patterson hires Deadpool for a hit on Gavin, a pizza delivery guy who spread a rumor in high school so heinous that the readers never learn it and other characters agree Deadpool needs to KickTheSonOfABitch dead.

[[RedBaron The Merc with a Mouth.]] [[TheFriendNobodyLikes The Regenerating Degenerate.]] [[GoodThingYouCanHeal The Guy Who Won't Die.]] Ninja ComicBook/SpiderMan. Creator/RyanReynolds. [[Film/Deadpool2016 Captain Deadpool]]. [[Franchise/MarvelComics Marvel's]] [[MetaGuy Meta]] JerkassWoobie.

'''The''' FourthWallObserver. '''''[[TropeCodifier The]]''''' HeroicComedicSociopath.

The ''Deadpool'' {{comic books}}, published by Creator/MarvelComics, are eponymously named for the main character, Deadpool. [[Characters/DeadpoolWadeWilson Deadpool's character page is here]].

** #26-33: Kelly continues writing when the book lives after all, but Blind Al is gone and Deadpool gets a new supporting cast of former minor characters. Issue #28 has the moment credited as Deadpool breaking the fourth wall for good when he tells [[ComicBook/BullseyeMarvelComics Bullseye]] that they last saw each other in issue #16. T-Ray does another whammy on Deadpool in a TwistEnding, then Deadpool gets a month-long vacation with Death before his new writer comes onboard.

* ''ComicBook/DeadpoolVsCarnage'': June to August 2014, 4 issues. When [[Characters/CarnageCletusKasady Carnage]] goes on another killing spree, Deadpool is the only one who can track his "random" trail.

[[RedBaron The Merc with a Mouth.]] The Regenerating Degenerate. [[GoodThingYouCanHeal The Guy Who Won't Die.]] Ninja ComicBook/SpiderMan. Creator/RyanReynolds. [[Film/Deadpool2016 Captain Deadpool]]. [[Franchise/MarvelComics Marvel's]] [[MetaGuy Meta]] JerkassWoobie.

The Merc with a Mouth. The Regenerating Degenerate. The Guy Who Won't Die. Ninja ComicBook/SpiderMan. Creator/RyanReynolds. [[Film/Deadpool2016 Captain Deadpool]]. [[Franchise/MarvelComics Marvel's]] [[MetaGuy Meta]] JerkassWoobie.

* TranquilFury: One story in issue #900 has the Merc With The Mouth going to a psychiatrist. During the session Deadpool brings up his occasional "pro bono" work when something really catches his attention, and mentions a story about a therapist who took sexual advantage of a young girl who was his patient, eventually driving her to suicide. [[spoiler:Eventually it's revealed that he's speaking to that very same therapist. Deadpool then beheads the man and quietly walks away. The kicker? Deadpool's usual wisecracking internal dialogue was notably absent from the story until after the therapist was killed, showing that Deadpool was 100% not fucking around.]]

* {{Chupacabra}}: In ''Deadpool'' #1000, Deadpool fought a bunch of chupacapras who kidnapped a beloved goat named [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella]]. The owner, a prize-winning chef, thanked Deadpool by making him his prize-winning dish made with only the best ingredients-- ''goat tacos''.