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Deadpool Corps
In General
Deadpool Corps
'First Appearance: Prelude to Deadpool Corps'' #4 (May, 2010)
"Deadpools Assemble! No. Wait. That's been done. Huh. What could we call ourselves? What could a corps of Deadpools call a bunch of Deadpools that are all Deadpool at our core? Hmmmmmmmm."
A team of alternate Deadpool's assembled to save the multiverse.— Deadpool, Prelude to Deadpool Corps #5
- Alliance of Alternates: The Deadpool Corps is an entire team of Deadpools from alternate universes with differing ages, genders, species, and states of living, making each an Alternate Self of the others.
- Back for the Dead: Dogpool, Headpool, and Kidpool return after an absence just to be killed by Dreadpool, an evil version of Deadpool who hunts down and kills alternate Deadpools.
- The Chosen Many: The multiverse needs saving from the Awareness, and only the Deadpools with their unstable minds and healing factors can stop him. They were all operating as super-beings of varying levels before recruitment to the Deadpool Corps.
Members of the original Deadpool Corps:
Deadpool
Dogpool
Dogpool
Alter Ego: Wade Wilson
Known Aliases: Cujo, Deadpool the Death Defying Hound, Merc with a Bark
Species: Dog Mutate
First Appearance: Prelude to Deadpool Corps #3 (May 2010)
"Attention, circus patrons! I have come from another dimension to take your daredevil pooch. He is needed to save many worlds. I know his adventurous spirit is up for this task. Also, I have a crapload of liver treats in my pocket."
A version of Deadpool who is... a dog. He acquired his healing factor as an animal test subject for regenerating mascara which instead mutated him and gave him the power to regenerate himself. No quips, though. After all, he's a dog.— Deadpool, Prelude to Deadpool Corps #3
- Animal Superhero: Dogpool wears a dog adaptation of the Deadpool costume, and he uses fighting skills like biting, using his head for groin attacks, and flying kicks to take down their enemies.
- Bungled Suicide: Played for Laughs. Dogpool, who is a dog, is despondent after being used as a test subject, thrown away in a dumpster, and rejected by every human he encountered. He can't bear it any longer and leaps in front of a car. Thankfully, the circus folk who witness the apparent hit-and-run stop to check on him, are awed when he regenerates thanks to his healing factor; they adopt him into their circus as The Freakshow.
- The Freakshow: Dogpool's healing factor wows circus crowds as he survives high dives into kiddie pools, being shot out of a cannon, and getting burnt to a crisp with flamethrowers.
- I'm Taking Him Home with Me!: Parodied when Dogpool meets circus folk; they see him regenerate from getting hit by a car and just have to adopt him into the circus on the spot, even though Dogpool's fur is rotting off, he's surrounded by flies, he has an eye bugging out...
- Playing with Syringes: Wilson becomes Dogpool when he's used as an animal test subject because he's not a good doggy for barking all night and chewing shoes. Scientists lower him into Mutagenic Goo and zap him with electricity; it's supposed to be a one-time application process for a Mascara-X, a mascara that regenerates forever. It leaves him a scrawny, bug-eyed wreck missing patches of fur and skin— and unbeknownst to the scientists, possessed of regenerative healing powers.
- Team Pet: Lampshaded when Kidpool introduces Dogpool's debut issue by guessing Deadpool "figures the team needs a mascot or something."
- The Unintelligible: He's a dog without the power to talk like people and nobody around him speaks his language, so he can't be understood. He even gets Deadpool-style yellow speech bubbles and little white and yellow caption boxes— but they just contain variations on "grr" and "woof".
Headpool
Headpool
Alter Ego: Wade Winston Wilson
Known Aliases: Merc with only a Mouth, Shorty/Shorty No Pants, Z-Pool
Species: Zombie (Formarly Human Mutate)
First Appearance: Marvel Zombies #3 (April 2006) note ; ' Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth'' #1 (September 2009) note
"This looks like a job for... The Merc with only a Mouth! No guns! No healing factor! No limbs! NO PROBLEM!"
A zombie Deadpool from Marvel Zombies. Before the zombie apocalypse, he was a typical Deadpool; after, he was a full-bodied zombie until his decapitation— but a mere zombie transformation and decapitation aren't enough to stop him.— Headpool, Marvel Zombies 4 #1
- Ascended Extra: Originally he was just an extra in Marvel Zombies, then he returned as a major character (minus his body) for the limited series Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth, returning again for further series.
- Handicapped Badass: Thanks to no longer having a body, he isn't ambulatory unless he wears his small helicopter helmet or is carried around by other characters. He bites ankles, tears limbs off, infects with the zombie virus, and otherwise demonstrates he's still dangerous even as an undead 'Pool.
- Losing Your Head: Headpool is a zombie head who still has his Motor Mouth even minus vocal cords and lungs.
- Off with His Head!: Courtesy of the A.R.M.O.R. Agency, zombie Deadpool's head was separated from his neck with a riverboat propeller. His still-conscious, still-undead head came to the main Marvel universe through an interdimensional portal in the swamps of Citrusville, Florida.
- Revenant Zombie: Sure, he is only a head now, but this zombie version of Deadpool still retains that wonderful personality and sense of humor all Deadpools share.
Kidpool
Kidpool
Alter Ego: Wade Winston Wilson
Known Aliases: Tito, Wadey
Species: Human Mutate
First Appearance: Prelude to Deadpool Corps #2 (May 2010)
"Let's see... stabilizers... stealth cloaking... weapons systems... Seems pretty standard to me. And everybody says video games are good for nothing!"
A mouthy kid version of Deadpool who was a student in an alternate universe Xavier's School for Gifted known as Xavier Orphanage for Troubled Boys.— Kidpool, Deadpool Family
- BFG: When Kidpool uses an alien gun, it's not just bigger than Lady Deadpool's— the gun is bigger than Kidpool.
- Bratty Half-Pint: Take one part Deadpool, who is already obnoxious and immature as an adult, add "being an actual kid", and you get Kidpool. He talks back, wants lots of attention, has trouble paying attention, and greatly enjoys violence. In the special issue Deadpool Family, he's so jealous when other kids decide robots are cooler than his martial arts that he breaks into an army base to steal their "super-robot", Jet Falchion. This successfully but temporarily wins their attention and admiration. Soon after, the kids decide lizards are cooler than robots, so what's a Kidpool to do? Set off for the Savage Land, which happens to have Living Dinosaurs...
- The Bully: Downplayed; before joining Deadpool Corps, he was unpopular and constantly causing trouble at his school. He liked to pick on Scott Summers specifically with wedgies and insults, though Scott also pushed back verbally.
- Laser Blade: Unlike Deadpool's preference for katanas, Kidpool has a pair of green-bladed lightsaber knockoffs generated by a simulator, though they remained physical when he took them out.
Lady Deadpool
Lady Deadpool
Alter Ego: Wanda Wilson
Known Aliases: Boobs, Hot Pants, Lady-D
Species: Human Mutate
First Appearance: Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth #7 (March 2010)
"Yeeeah, right there Daddy. Don't not give it to me 'cause I'm a girl. 'Cause you know what? I love giving it to you."
A female version of Deadpool who's just as crazy as the one from the main universe, wearing an almost-identical costume except for her long ponytail, with the same love of Dual Wielding.— Lady Deadpool to Captain America, Lady Deadpool #1
- Action Girl: As a female version of Deadpool, she's as capable of kicking copious amounts of ass as every other Deadpool.
- Actually Pretty Funny: Lady Deadpool calls Deadpool out for temporarily having the so-called Champion of the Universe join the team, but she admits putting the ridiculous, blue-skinned, overly-muscled alien in a Deadpool costume was rather funny.
- Butter Face: Hot bod, but her face is as ugly as Deadpool's.
- Distaff Counterpart: There's also a female Deadpool in another universe. Named Wanda Wilson, her official name in her timeline is Deadpool as well. But she's also called Lady Deadpool, in the same way that "Zombie Deadpool's Head" is called Headpool.
- Dumb Blonde: Averted; sure, she is crazy, but then again, she's in a team of Deadpools.
- The Lancer: Lady Deadpool acts as one to Deadpool in the team. She usually is the one who discusses leadership with him or takes charge of a splinter team when they disagree.
- Ms. Fanservice: When she keeps her mask on, she provides fanservice in Painted-On Pants with the Most Common Super Power. After her scars are randomly healed, she infiltrates a Lunatic Larry's— a "miserable hive of villainous activity"— in a stripperiffic outfit. It's a color-swapped homage to Leia Organa's Go-Go Enslavement outfit in Return of the Jedi and used for Distracted by the Sexy.
- Screw Yourself: Lady Deadpool and non-lady Deadpool just have to see what making out with each other is like. It's weird, even for them. Then to address supposed sexual tension with Headpool in a therapy session, she and Headpool share a sloppy open-mouthed kiss. The therapist and Lady Deadpool herself are immediately squicked and vomit.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Has a long, blond ponytail that comes out the back of her mask.
- Women Are Wiser: Somewhat. Technically she is just as nuts as any other Deadpool, but she usually is the closest thing to an Only Sane Man in the team.
Members of the expanded Deadpool Corps:
Golden Age Deadpool
Alter Ego: Frederick "Wheezy" Wilson
First Appearance: Captain America: Who Won't Wield the Shield? #1
An old-school alternate universe version of Deadpool.
- Shout-Out: Visually, to DC's Sandman
. - We Hardly Knew Ye: In Deadpool Kills Deadpool. Although, that's actually his second appearance. He first appeared in a humor one-shot comic about Captain America.
Pandapool
Pandapool
Species: Giant panda
First Appearance: Deadpool Kills Deadpool #2 (August, 2013)
"Indeed! He is your ally. But he is no mere panda! He is— PANDAPOOL! —The species that endangers you!"
An anthropomorphic panda that joins the Deadpool Corps during Deadpool Kills Deadpool.— Watcher
- Animal Superheroes: Sort of. He's a Deadpool, so Pandapool is an Animal Anti-Hero.
- Bears Are Bad News: He's a panda with all the powers of Deadpool, so he's bad news for the Evil Deadpool Corps.
- Russian Reversal: As said so by a Watcher, this endangered species endangers you.
Ronin Deadpool
The Fool
Alter Ego: Watari
Known Aliases: Ronin Deadpool (editorial name)
First Appearance: 5 Ronin #1 (March, 2011)
- Back for the Dead: Reappears at the end of Deadpool Kills Deadpool and dies during the final battle between the Deadpools.
- Rōnin: He's one in his home universe.
Evil Deadpool Corps
In General
Evil Deadpool Corps
Core members: Dreadpool, Evil Deadpool, Ultimate Deadpool, Venompool
First Appearance: Deadpool Kills Deadpool #2 (October, 2013)
An evil version of the Deadpool Corps convinced by Dreadpool into joining his task to eliminate every Deadpool from the Multiverse.
Tropes that apply to multiple members of Deadpool Corps:
- Alliance of Alternates: The Evil Deadpool Corps is an entire team of Deadpools from alternate universes with differing ages, genders, species, and states of living, making each an Alternate Self of the others.
Dreadpool
Dreadpool
Alter Ego: Wade Winston Wilson
Known Aliases: Deadpool
Species: Human Mutate
Universe: Earth-12101
First Appearance: Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe #1 (October, 2012)
The version of Deadpool from the Deadpool Killogy.
Evil Deadpool
Evil Deadpool
Alter Ego: Wade Wilson
Known Aliases: Deadpool
Species: Pieced together duplicate of Deadpool
Universe: Earth-616
First Appearance: Deadpool Vol. 2, #44 (December, 2011)
An evil Frankenstein-style clone of Deadpool made from body parts that got cut off over the years.
- Artificial Human: He was assembled out of prime-Wade's dismembered limbs. Including, evidently, parts of his head.
- Body Horror: Even moreso than most Deadpools, as this one has two right arms due to a lack of matching body parts available in his creation
- Clone Degeneration: Arguably what he suffers from. Being made from dismembered limbs has caused him to lose a lot of prime-Wade's superior qualities.
- Evil Counterpart: An evil version of Deadpool made from his various cast-off body parts.
- Flesh Golem: Effectively what he is. Assembled out of dismembered limbs cast off from prime-Wade, it's somehow made him even less stable
- Kick the Dog: Comes back at the end of Daniel Way's run to a) reveal to Wade that the serum used to kill him didn't work, b) stress that because of that, the serum won't work on Wade either if ever feels like dying for real, and c) to shoot him in the head while he's tied up just for fun since it won't actually cause his death. He succeeds at all three.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Essentially answers the question of "Does Wade grow limbs back or do limbs grow Wade back?" with Yes
- Scary Stitches: In keeping with his Frankenstein appearance
- Shadow Archetype: Like Madcap, he what would happen if Deadpool lost what little morals he has.
Ultimate Deadpool
Ultimate Deadpool
Alter Ego: Sgt. Wadey Wilson
Known Aliases: Deadpool
Species: Human Cyborg
Universe: Earth-1610
First Appearance: Ultimate Spider-Man #91 (April, 2006)
A Fantastic Racist Psycho for Hire who is hired by Mojo to deal with the X-Men after Arcade's defeat. He leads the Reavers, a band of Psycho for Hire cyborgs. Later on he joins the Evil Deadpool Corps.
- Adaptation Name Change: A small but significant one; he's Wadey Wilson, not Wade Wilson.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: Appears while Peter is in high school instead of after he married MJ.
- Adaptational Nationality: The regular Deadpool is Canadian, while this Deadpool is American.
- Adaptational Ugliness: Yes, it's possible, as this version of Deadpool lacks skin on his head and his brain exposed, with the only covering being a plastic casing.
- Adaptational Villainy: The original Deadpool is a Cloud Cuckoolander Anti-Hero who, while having no qualms in killing, is more likely to choose the heroes' side than the villains'. This one, while still funny in a Deadpan Snarker way, forgoes any moral ambiguity and dives straight into full-on evil.
- Ax-Crazy: He's just as insane as the regular Deadpool but much more evil. This isn't a good combination.
- Composite Character: Despite having the name and abilities of Deadpool, his attitude, affiliation, powers and backstory are much more reminiscent of the X-Men villain Donald Pierce, who is also a mutant-hating cyborg that leads the Reavers.
- Blatant Lies: Insists (in a pre-recorded clip) that they brought the X-Men to Krakaoa after they caught them breaking international law, because they couldn't do anything illegal like kidnap the X-Men while they're still in their beds. Of course, in reality that's exactly what he did — break the law by kidnapping the X-Men while they were at home (and then Spider-Man, when he came to investigate).
- Cyborg: He and his team were outfitted with cybernetics so they could hunt down and destroy mutants like the X-Men. Deadpool actually brags about how they volunteered to give up their humanity and any chance of a normal life in order to better kill mutants. Wadey himself has "taken it as far as a man can" — while he's still humanoid in shape, under that full-body costume it's heavily implied there's almost nothing left of the original man.
- Deadpan Snarker: Despite being much more evil than regular flavor Deadpool, he's every bit the loudmouth Wade is.
- Facial Horror: As noted above, his face is missing its skin and his brain is exposed.
- Fantastic Racism: And not even an ironic example of it like you might expect a Deadpool adaptation to be, but rather a full-on, foaming-at-the-mouth anti-mutant racist played completely straight.
- Holographic Disguise: Has an image distortion cloaking device he can use to appear to be different people.
- In Name Only: Has very little in common with the mainstream Deadpool; instead of a mutant-affiliated Fourth-Wall breaking Anti-Hero with a notable healing factor, this version is an ani-mutant cyborg killer who doesn't tell jokes and has no knowledge of the fourth wall.
- Killed Off for Real: By his mainstream counterpart during the 2013 Deadpool Kills Deadpool miniseries.
- No Face Under the Mask: Or rather, not much of one, due to his extensive surgery to make him a cyborg.
- Psycho for Hire: Like Arcade before him, except that he's even more evil.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: Boy howdy is he! Regular Deadpool is no saint, but this counterpart makes him look like a boy scout.
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: While his debut arc does involve his traditional enemies the X-Men and is a sequel of sorts to Ultimate!Longshot's debut, this Deadpool debuts in Ultimate Spider-Man.
- Secret Identity Apathy: He stops one of his men from unmasking Spider-Man while transporting him and the X-Men to Krakoa.Deadpool: Hey. I told you... respect the mask. Masks mean something. Respect that.
- Skull for a Head: A skull with the top missing, exposing his brain, and covered in a plastic dome.
- Sociopathic Soldier: At the very least, he was a soldier who became a sociopath, though it's more likely he was this all along.
- Sorting Algorithm of Evil: He's essentially a meaner and more evil version of Ultimate Arcade, and is hired by Mojo after the failure of the latter.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: In keeping with his being a Composite Character with Donald Pierce, this Deadpool leads the Ultimate version of the Reavers.
- Truer to the Text: Defied. Even though he is a full-on villain like Deadpool was in his earliest appearance, he is also a frothing Fantastic Racist, something the regular Deadpool has never been even in his most evil moments.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: He was last seen in the pages of Ultimate Spider-Man having somehow survived exploding, watching the plane carrying Spidey and the X-Men fly away. Despite the obvious Sequel Hook, Ultimate Deadpool never comes back for the rest of the Ultimate Comics run, only appearing in the Deadpool kills Deadpool mini-series where he's, well, killed by Deadpool.
Venompool
Venompool
Alter Ego: Wade Wilson
Known Aliases: Deadpool
Species: Human Mutate and Cyborg
Universe: Earth-90211 note
First Appearance: What If? Iron Man: Demon in an Armor #1 (December, 2010) - reprinted as What if the Venom Symbiote Possessed Deadpool?
In the 1980's, Deadpool was assigned to assassinate the Beyonder for fusing MODOK to Galactus' butt, but instead befriended the Jheri curled deity. When Spider-Man crashed the party trying to get rid of his symbiote costume and got iced in the process, Deadpool took the orphaned alien in and became Venompool. When the Beyonder ditched him, Venompool decided to start over and rid himself of his Jheri curls when he realized they were no longer in style. Wanting to boost his popularity, he took part in the Secret Wars, but was dissed by the Sentry. Deciding to fulfill his contract, Venompool acquired the Retcon Expungifier, the only weapon powerful enough to kill the Beyonder, and lured him to a game-show. Beyonder showed up with his girlfriend, Carnage Curl, who'd been spawned from Venompool's lopped off hair and become his archenemy. Galactus showed up, revealing he was the baby-daddy and sparking a fight that destroyed the Earth, which Venompool undid with the Retcon Expungifier.
Finally popular and the star of his own movie, Venompool realized that people aside from himself were popular and went on a year-long rampage, killing all but a few superpowered individuals. In the midst of an existential crisis, Venompool realized that the Beyonder's rejection had left him with an inferiority complex and that to grow as a person he needed to embrace his true self. Believing his true self to be an irredeemable asshole and not wanting to learn from his mistakes, Venompool used the Retcon Expungifier to destroy the universe, and seemingly himself along with it.
He was later shown to have survived and been recruited by Dreadpool, but was killed for reals during the multiversal Deadpool war.
- Ax-Crazy: When he realizes that people aside from himself are the subjects of adoration, Venompool straight-up murdered all of the superheroes and villains (except for the attractive ladies).
- Denser and Wackier: As to be expected of a series where Deadpool takes the helm. The whole thing kicks off with Beyonder merging MODOK to Galactus' butt, and gets more bizarre from there on out.
- Ignored Epiphany: Rather than accept his flaws and become a better person, Venompool pitches a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Venompool realizes that Beyonder ditching him left him with a massive inferiority complex that was the source of his craving for popularity and acknowledgement.
- It's All About Me: Venompool was so self-absorbed he went on a killing spree when he learned he wasn't the only popular superhero in existence.
- Kavorka Man: The only superpowered people he left alive were the sexy ladies, who are shown fawning over him in skimpy clothes.
- Killed Off for Real: After surviving his own Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum, he's killed during the Deadpool Kills Deadpool crossover.
- Murder Is the Best Solution: New York's got gang problems? Kill them! There're people more popular then you? Kill them too! Realized you're an unlikable jerk? KILL THE UNIVERSE!
- Omnicidal Maniac: He destroys his home universe, Earth-90211, with the Retcon Expungifier.
- Prehensile Hair: During his time as a Beyonder fanboy, Wade grew a set of Jheri curls. When the hairdo became passé, he lopped them off and they became Carnage Curl.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: The Venom symbiote takes on the colors of Deadpool's costume.
- Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: After Doc Samson helps him realize just how much of an unlikable jerk he is, Venompool kills the psychiatrist and then destroys his home universe rather than accept his flaws and deal with them constructively.
- Traumatic Haircut: Getting rid of his Jheri curls was a traumatic experience... for the Jheri curls, which grew their own body, becoming Carnage Curl.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: Wade helped kill Spider-Man, and became the next host of the Venom symbiote.
- Villain Team-Up: He joined Dreadpool's army of evil Deadpools in Deadpool Kills Deadpool.
Counter-Earth Deadpool
Counter-Earth Swordsman/Deadpool
Alter Ego: Real name unknown
Known Aliases: Deadpool, Swordsman
Species: Human Mutate
Universe: Earth-616note
First Appearance: Heroes Reborn: The Avengers #1 (November, 1996, as Swordsman), Heroes Reborn: Remnants #1 (Novermber, 1999, as Deadpool)
One of the residents of the pocket universe created by Franklin Richards in the climax of Onslaught to save his family and the Avengers, the Swordsman started off as a member of the Avengers. However, he didn't have the best of luck, getting his arms broken by the Hulk and temporarily absorbed by that universe's Loki. After the Avengers and Fantastic Four returned to their own Earth, the Swordsman came to be called "the Last Avenger" and took up the name of "Deadpool". He also formed a new team of superheroes called the Remnants upon learning he contracted cancer. Then things got worse as he slipped on a banana peel and learn the truth about his Earth's origins. Going mad from this, he decided to destroy reality by stealing a helicarrier loaded with nukes and launching it at Uatu's moon base.
However, he was revealed to have survived and joined the Evil Deadpool Corps.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: He's got black hair instead of blond.
- Canon Character All Along: He started off as merely a new character taking up the "Swordsman" name. The Heroes Reborn Fifth Week Event revealed he was actually its version of Deadpool.
- Composite Character: Of the Swordsman (such as having black hair like Jacques Duquesne and Phillip Javert, as well as membership in the Avengers) and Deadpool.
- Face–Heel Turn: He started off as a hero, but then turned into a villain.
- Fallen Hero: He started as an Avenger before going off the deep end.
- Formerly Fit: Upon learning the origins of Counter-Earth, he let himself go and got fat.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Learning the fact that his Earth was literally created by a child caused him to snap.
- Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: Upon learning how his Earth was created, he tried to nuke Uatu's base to destroy reality.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: This version of Deadpool was originally an Avenger, something he wasn't at the time the series was made.
