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Agent Allison Kemp

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First Appearance: Deadpool Vol. 2, #48 (February, 2012)

"My knowledge of your tactics is extensive, Deadpool. Exhaustive. Trust me when I tell you that I can identify your various bluffs and ploys from a mile away."

—Allison Kemp, Deadpool Vol. 2, #63

A former FBI agent who became tetraplegic due to Deadpool's actions. She's kind of crazy now and wants to take vengeance on him.

Bad Boss: T-Ray and Slayback, mercenaries for hire and old school Deadpool enemies, are very expendable in her worldview. One doesn't blame her for it.
Create Your Own Villain: It seems Deadpool accidentally left her tetraplegic her while she was on an undercover mission by setting off an explosion that dropped a building on her. Whoops.
Evil Cripple: Tetraplegic, meaning all limbs and her torso have been paralyzed. Unusually, her tetraplegic status is heavily Played for Drama as she embezzles billions and seeks vengeance on Deadpool, the man who caused this.
Freudian Excuse: She was a thriving, honest, and hardworking agent until she was permanently disabled in an explosion thanks to Deadpool.
Heel–Face Turn: At the end, she regrets her actions and forgets the vengeance path once and for all.
Machine Monotone: She talks in a Stephen Hawking-esque voice coming from her chair as she is unable to use her vocal cords.
Non-Action Big Bad: She's not exactly in shape for violence since Deadpool crippled her, so she uses other (expendable) people to inflict the hurt.
Not So Stoic: Eventually cries at the end.
Stoic Spectacles: Wears glasses and thanks to her paralysis, very stoic.

Ajax

Alter Ego: Francis Fanny

Notable Aliases: The Attending, Abyss Man, the A-Man,

First Appearance: Deadpool Vol. 3, #14 (January, 1998)

A crazy cyborg who used to be a guard for Dr. Killebrew. He's obsessed with killing Deadpool because he shot him when he escaped Weapon X, causing him to hold a serious grudge.

Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: Contrasting Deadpool's red and black suit, he wears a heavy armor completed with cybernetics.
Asshole Victim: From a narrative point of view, his death at the hands of Deadpool is used to prevent the latter from fully transitionning into a hero until much later. However, giving that Ajax is one of the most despicable character depicted in the comic, it's hard to find a reader who would miss him.
Batman Gambit: He knew that Killebrew wouldn't get rid of Wade unless Wade killed someone in the hospice, so he lobotomized his friend Worm, leaving him in such pain that Wade had to snap Worm's neck to put him out of his misery. Therefore, Francis got the "okay" to ice him.
Best Served Cold: When he catches up to Deadpool in the first ongoing series, Ajax has been tracking Deadpool down for ten years and killing every single member of the Workshop.
Blue Is Heroic: Averted. When he faces Deadpool 10 years after their deadly confrontation, he wears a silver and blue armor, but to say he is far from being a good guy would be an understatement. The narration even lampshades it.
The Bully: Took pleasure from demeaning and torturing people while working in the "Hospice".
The Bus Came Back: After his death in Deadpool #19, he makes a proper return in the Deadpool vs. Thanos miniseries, seventeen years later, where he has become a hellish enforcer.
Came Back Strong: He was already superhuman when he met Deadpool but after being rebuilt by Killebrew as a cyborg, he gained an armor and technological enhancements on top of the ones he already had. Happens a second time in Deadpool vs. Thanos, where he has been resurrected by Blackheart to stop the protagonists and now has pyrokinetic powers and the ability to flight.
Character Death: Killed by Deadpool in issue 19, although he came back.
The Dragon: He used to be the main enforcer for Dr. Killebrew.
Dragon-in-Chief: He has jumped to being the main threat in present day, tracking down and torturing Dr. Killebrew to get to Deadpool.
Evil Wears Black: He wore a black outfit with a big A on the torso when working for Weapon X, before ditching it for the armor seen on the image. He wears it again after his resurection, but with the A reverse.
Feel No Pain: Thanks to his modifications, he is barely fazed from being gutted.
Hate Sink: Out of all the characters featured in the Deadpool series, he is probably one of the most reprehensible. He is a bullying and sadistic monster who takes every opportunity he has to inflict pain on people and doesn't even has the benefit of having some sort of Freudian Excuse like T-Ray or an explanation for behaving like he does. He is simply an asshole whom the audience is made to hate from page one.
- This put him in contrast with Killebrew: while the doctor expresses remorses for what he has done in Weapon X and tries to atone for it, Ajax couldn't care less for regrets and unlike Wade or Killebrew, he hasn't changed at all in ten years.
Put on a Bus: After Wade kills him for real, Ajax is only seen in a few cameos, in flashbacks of his time as the Attendant. Happens to him a second time: as of May 2021, he hasn't been seen since his short appearence in Deadpool vs. Thanos in 2015. See The Bus Came Back.
Psycho for Hire: He was a guard in the Workshop of Weapon X and it's clear he enjoyed being an asshole towards all the prisoner. Blackheart even resurrects him in Deadpool vs. Thanos to fight Wade, and Ajax is all too happy to oblige.
Sadist: He was a bullying guard to the already miserables prisoners of the Hospice and takes great pleasure in torturing the survivors of the "Workshop" and Killebrew (his former boss) years later.
Super-Senses: He obtained optic sensors after Deadpool nearly killed him.
Super-Speed: He is shown to be much faster than an ordinary human, which he puts to deadly uses during his fights. Deadpool uses this against him during their final fight.
Super-Strength: Dude could pack a punch. According to Marvel handbooks, he could lift a ton as the Attending and as Ajax he could lift ten.

The Atelier

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First Appearance: Deadpool Vol. 9, #1 (November, 2022)

An exclusive group of assassins led by the Horned Emperor. Deadpool initially tries to join them, but after he fails their initiation and "compromises" (read: hooks up with) member Valentine Vuong, they set out to kill him.

Agent Peacock: Last Bite is a former model and has appeared on the cover of Better House & Gardens, but he's still a competent assassin.
Barrage of Bats: Last Bite can turn into a swarm of bats.
Combat Tentacles: The Horned Emperor can attack others using shadowy tendrils.
Dark Is Evil: The Horned Emperor wears black clothes, appears to be made up of black smoke, and is the leader of an organization of assassins.
Demonic Possession: How the Horned Emperor works — once their current host is killed, they possess whoever killed them.
Elective Mute: 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.
Equal-Opportunity Evil: The members vary in both gender and race, the leader uses they/them pronouns, and two members are in a same-sex relationship.
Even Evil Has Standards: Drop is disgusted when it looks like Deadpool might be cheating on Valentine with Lady Deathstrike, calling Wade a "two-timing scumbag."
Flechette Storm: Alcaudón's main weapons of choice are her knives, which she can control telekinetically and launch at an opponent in this manner.
Gemstone Assault: Mirror can fire crystal projectiles from their armor. Some of them are also Trick Bullets that explode after a short time delay.
Gravity Master: Drop is initially shown fighting with a Laser Blade, 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.
Green Thumb: Ms. Ginkgo's main ability seems to be controlling hundreds of gingko leaves.
Humanoid Abomination:
- The Horned Emperor looks humanoid, but their body consists of nothing but black smoke and a pair of deer horns. 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.
- 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.
Murder, Inc.: The Atelier are a league of elite assassins and mercenaries.
Master of Illusion: Aster traps Deadpool in an illusory world where he's happily living with several of his friends as well as his daughter.
Our Fairies Are Different: 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.
Our Vampires Are Different: Last Bite is an ageless vampire whose abilities include turning into a swarm of bats and hypnosis.
Our Werebeasts Are Different: 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.
Unholy Matrimony: Alcaudón and Ms. Gingko are a pair of assassins who also happen to be Happily Married.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: 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.
Voice of the Legion: The Horned Emperor is said to have this.
You Kill It, You Bought It: 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.

Black Swan

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.

Arc Villain: For the "Healing Factor" six-issue arc that ended the first Deadpool ongoing series, and later in Agent X.
Bad Boss: Killed one of his mooks for bothering him in the middle of a phone call. And unceremoniously killed off Nijo once he realized he outlived his usefulness.
The Bad Guy Wins: His first appearance ends with Deadpool dead, Nijo disposed, and him none worse for the wear.
Black Eyes of Evil: Oddly enough, he seems to have those permanently in his post-volume 1 appearances rather than just while using his mind powers.
Combat Pragmatist: Is he ever. For instance: Instead of facing Deadpool headfront, he just hired him and injected him with a deadly mental virus while he was busy thinking it was another hit. Second meeting? Pulled out a gun on Deadpool while he was on the toilet.
Establishing Character Moment: Beats Deadpool to a bloody pulp while calmly discussing why the job Deadpool ruined was supposed to be his ninth symphony.
Foil: He is essentially Deadpool's polar opposite: Both of them are ruthless, implacable men who live by killing people. However, while Deadpool is a sarcastic, uneducated, and sloppy mercenary, Swan is a dead serious, cultured, and efficient mercenary. Swan even mentions the precise reason he hates him so much is because of how "uncivilized" he is.
Killed Off for Real: Dismembered and taxidermized. Doesn't get any more dead than that. Never mind, he's back in the Black List arc.
Mind Virus: His M.O. is injecting brain bugs into 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.
Noble Demon: Surprisingly, he kept his promise to save Deadpool after Deadpool saved his life.
Obviously Evil: Not so bad in his first appearances, but now he basically looks like Satan in human form, complete with horn-shaped hair and black eyes.
One Last Job: He was going to retire, then Deadpool messed up his last job. He didn't take it that well.
One-Steve Limit: Shares alias with the member of the Black Order of the same name.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Just "Black Swan".
Red Baron: Everyone calls him Black Swan.
Revenge: He hates Deadpool because he ruined his "ninth symphony", eventually he killed him and stuffed him on a wall.
Unexplained Recovery: Nobody explained how he came back from being dismembered and taxidermied.
Villainous Breakdown: He is usually calm and cool-headed. Not so much after Deadpool started playing country music non-stop in his mansion audiospeakers. Then he was... greatly annoyed.
Villainous Lineage: He is an assassin whose family has been killing people since medieval times.
Wicked Cultured: This guy really likes classical music. This is part of the tip-off that Alex Hayden has a connection to him.
Wild Card: He seems to have no allegiance whatsoever, even trying to recruit Deadpool to his cause.

Black Talon

Alter Ego: Samuel Barone

First Appearance: The Avengers #152 (October, 1976)

Black Talon derives his power from the mystic Voodoo arts. He can raise zombies and control them at will.

Animal-Themed Superbeing: Talon refers to the large claws that birds of prey have. Not so much chickens...
Animate Dead: He can reanimate a dead individual into a zombie.
Color Character: Black Talon.
Fashion-Victim Villain: In-universe; Deadpool honestly thinks his costume makes him look like a chicken. His more recent costume is more serious and intimidating.
Hollywood Voodoo: He has the ability to create zombies and control zombies of his creation, either vocally or telepathically.

Black Box

Alter Ego: Garabed Bashur

Notable Aliases Commcast

First Appearance: Deadpool: The Circle Chase #2 (September, 1993)

"You will die as you lived: Stupidly."

A mutant technopathic criminal who's basically a living computer.

Combo Platter Powers: He's a mutant Technopath who either uses a flying platform or Powered Armor, is a Human Hard Drive, and has Sinister-level cloning abilities.
Hollywood Hacking: 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.
Human Hard Drive: 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.
Joker Immunity: Deadpool and Sabretooth have both killed him but he reappeared and it was revealed the killed Bashurs were actually just clones.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: How he is disposed of: Black Swan wipes his memory so he won't ever remember Deadpool losing his healing factor, and does the same to Black Tom Cassidy. Checkmate.
Man in the Machine: Always locked in some sort of computer room and connected to a billion wires that feed worldwide information to him.
Non-Action Guy: Bashur has never been a very effective presence on the field, and is most memorable for flying around on a glorified Segway.
Out-Gambitted: By Deadpool, of all people. It's probably because he's just so unpredictable.
Real Life Writes the Plot: 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.
Refused by the Call: When his mutant power first manifested he was approached by Professor X, but after learning of his self-interested character Chuck reconsidered.
Send in the Clones: Used as a Hand Wave 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.
Smug Snake: A constant throughout his various appearances is him underestimating Deadpool at every turn while simultaneously overestimating his own intelligence. You'd think the guy would learn after the first couple of times, but apparently pattern recognition isn't in his mutant repertoire.
Villainous Breakdown: He flips his shit as Deadpool grow closer to defeating him and his thugs.
Voice with an Internet Connection: Can often be found hiring himself out to fill this role for anyone who wants his services.

Butler

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Alter Ego: Bartol Utler

First Appearance: Deadpool Vol 3 #14 (October, 2013)

Introduced in the Duggan/Posehn era, a former member of Weapon X, Butler spent years drugging Deadpool and messing with his memories, stealing his DNA and making him do unspeakable things all so he could use his Healing Factor to heal his sister.

Big Bad: He was responsible for the whole "Good, the bad and the ugly" story arc.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He wanted to use Deadpool's Healing Factor to cure his dying sister. He also had a brother who took care of Deadpool's daughter.
For Science!: He used mind control to get Deadpool to kill both of his parents, just to see if he could.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Wears glasses and is completely ruthless.
Greater-Scope Villain: Deadpool's longtime memory issues and backstory inconsistencies are attributed to Butler's experiments and frequently wiping his memories. The guy messed with Deadpool until it drove him crazy and made him miss out on a good part of his daughter's childhood.
Steven Ulysses Perhero: Bartol Utler, and he goes by Butler.

Ella Whitby

Notable Aliases Doctor Ella Whitby

First Appearance: Deadpool Vol. 2, #40 (September, 2011)

A crazy psychiatrist who became obsessed with Deadpool while he was staying in a mental hospital. She's a complete wacko who made Evil Deadpool to try and kidnap him.

Hollywood Homely: In-universe, from Deadpool's point of view. He is convinced she is fat.
Psycho Psychologist: She's crazier than the criminally insane inmates she's supposed to be helping.
Stalking is Love: She really takes this to heart. As in, Deadpool's heart. She collects Deadpool's organs and other body parts left over from his adventures and keeps them in her freezer.

Emrys Killebrew

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Notable Aliases: Doctor Emrys Killebrew, Dr. Killebrew

First Appearance: Deadpool: Sins of the Past #1 (August, 1994)

The Mad Scientist who's responsible for making Deadpool what he is today.

Alas, Poor Villain: 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.
The Atoner: He eventually came to regret his vile behavior and attempted to make it up to Deadpool in the last weeks of his life.
Cold-Blooded Torture: 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.
Evil Genius: The brains behind Weapon X.
Evil Makes You Ugly: When he's an antagonist he's depicted as a Lean and Mean Mad Scientist, but when he is depicted as The Atoner he's depicted looking like someone's chubby grandfather.
Evil Old Folks: He's of advanced age and was notoriously sadistic while working for Weapon X, though he eventually did come to regret his actions.
For Science!: His primary motivation is exploiting desperate folks for experimentation.
Heel–Face Turn: He says he left all the madness behind. but nobody buys it.
Heroic Sacrifice: Died so Deadpool could get an opening against Ajax.
Killed Off for Real: By Ajax/Francis, and he's never been revived since his death.
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: A brilliant man with doctorates in genetics, cybernetics, and pedatrics who went to work for the likes of Weapon X.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Killebrew 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.
Starter Villain: Along with Ajax, he was Deadpool's first foe.

Hit-Monkey

First Appearance: Hit-Monkey Vol. 1, #1 (April 2010)

A hitman who's also a monkey. He only takes hits on other mercs and criminals. He's also got healing powers so he keeps coming no matter how many times he gets put down.

See Hit-Monkey

Itsy Bitsy

Notable Aliases: Susan Mary

First Appearance: Spider-Man/Deadpool #8

A woman who was a test-subject of Patient Zero. She received DNA from both Spider-Man and Deadpool, which caused her to turn into a spider-like psychotic creature.

See Spider-Man: Rogues Gallery, I to Z

Macho Gomez

First Appearance: Deadpool Vol. 2, #32 (March, 2011)

One of the baddest, stinkiest bounty hunters in the galaxy. He came to Earth to pick up a bounty and now wants Deadpool dead because he stole his kill by accident.

Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Don't let that fat fool you. He really is a bounty hunter.
Extra Digits: His hands have six fingers.
Fat Bastard: The guy is very fat and a very dangerous bounty hunter.
Green and Mean: He's got green skin and he's an alien bounty hunter.
Villain Team-Up: He led one against Deadpool. Though it was less Villain Team-Up and more "People Deadpool had Pissed Off" Team-Up.

Madcap

Notable Aliases: Deadpool

First Appearance: Captain America Vol. 1, #307 (July, 1985)

Madcap was originally a deeply religious young man. On the way to a picnic with his family and church community, their bus collides with a tanker truck full of Compound X07 (an experimental nerve agent developed by A.I.M.). Everyone aboard the bus, including his parents and sister Katy, are killed, leaving him as the only survivor, his body mixing with the Compound. When being told of the deaths of all his friends and family, his mind shatters, his belief in a rational universe swept away. During an encounter with Deadpool, Daredevil, and Thor, Thor's lightning reduces the two to a large pile of ash. Though it initially seems that only Deadpool regenerates and survives, he eventually realizes the two actually regenerated as one being, with Madcap becoming one of the "voices" (specifically, the one in the white box with the typewriter-like font) within Deadpool's head (explaining the appearance of a new, "extra" voice in Deadpool's appearances in Wolverine: Origins and Deadpool vol. 2). After Madcap's personality asserts itself sufficiently to use his own powers in a later altercation with Thor and Luke Cage, Deadpool convinces Madcap to manipulate the two affected heroes into tearing Deadpool's body in half, with one half regenerating fully as Deadpool, and the other as Madcap. Madcap was revealed to have been psychologically damaged even further by his fusion with and separation from Deadpool. When Deadpool founded the Mercs for Money, Madcap infiltrated the team, feigning benevolence and incompetence. Madcap afterward began impersonating Deadpool, attacking the anti-hero's allies and using his powers to incite violence throughout New York City in Deadpool's name.

Arch-Enemy: Considering he is Deadpool's Enemy Without who is hell-bent on ruining his life and has nearly done so a few times, yeah, he qualifies. Madcap gets a rise out of Deadpool like few others do because he actively hurts the people he love. You know how Spidey whines about not saving his girl every now and then? This guy wants to deal that to Deadpool a few times over.
Ax-Crazy: He was already bad enough when Deadpool and him got merged together, but being separated made him a hundred times worse.
Back from the Dead: Thought he atomized himself with a laser weapon since that's the only thing that can really kill anyone with a healing factor. Turns out he became a parasite and attached to Hyrda Bob of all people.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: After Secret Empire, Deadpool and him had another encounter where Deadpool gave him over to the Collector to add to his intergalactic zoo. Instead of being horrified, he was practically giddy at the thought. Since currently at the time Deadpool had pretty much screwed over his own life after killing Phil Coulson and gained the entire ire of a good chuck of Marvel superheroes, he was more then happy with the knowledge he was already miserable.
Enemy Without: Used to be the wacky voice in Deadpool's head. But then he got out and it turned out that living in his mind made him crazier.
Freak Lab Accident: The source of his power is a truck with dangerous chemicals crashed into a church bus. He survived with powers, but everyone else died.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Just some D-Lister villain back in the day, then he got merged with Deadpool in an accident, then he split off from him and now wants to ruin his life.
Healing Factor: Has the same healing factor as Deadpool.
Hypnotic Eyes: Should anyone look into them, they are Driven to Madness.
Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Introduced as a Captain America villain.
Shadow Archetype: Basically take Deadpool, what little morals he does have, chuck all of that out the window, and be all looney tunes 24-7.
Straw Nihilist: After his accident. Spreading this worldview was initially his entire motivation, as evidenced by his lengthy monologues in his first fight with Captain America, but ever since meeting the Merc With A Mouth, his attention seems to have shifted purely to making Wade's life miserable.
- His creator Mark Gruenwald stated, "Madcap represents purposelessness, the disaffected youth of today who thinks 'What's the reason for doing anything?' "

The Resurrected Presidents

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First Appearance: Deadpool Vol. 3, #1

American presidents resurrected by a Necromancer. Came Back Wrong doesn't even begin to describe it.

Authority Equals Asskicking: PRESIDENTS! Within their own ranks too, as Washington is one tough son of a gun.
Affably Evil: Reagan was a fairly nice fellow for someone wanting to unleash atomic holocaust on America.
Badass Boast: "There is nothing to fear—BUT ME!" says Franklin Roosevelt.
Bad Boss: Ol' George doesn't treat his men as equals.
Berserk Button: Do not mention John Wilkes Booth near Abe.
Came Back Wrong: Though some of them are implied to have been evil in life as well, they're all evil now.
Cool Sword: Washington had a straight-up pimpin' sword. Which was used by Deadpool.
Dying as Yourself: Washington reverted back to his former self when I beheaded him.
Evil Cripple: FDR still can't stand up and now he's evil.
Evil Sorcerer: Washington gains some nasty magic stuff near the end.
Fat Bastard: William Howard Taft, naturally. He's still got that big old gut.
Foreshadowing: Captain Britain wanted to kill Deadpool back in Uncanny X-Force but didn't cause they needed him to deal with these guys.
I Am Not Left-Handed: FDR throws his chair away when the fight gets real.
Incoming Ham: "Who DARES to disturb HARRY TRUMAN?"
Knight of Cerebus: The moment Washington takes matters in his own hands, shit gets real.
Let's Get Dangerous!: FDR is much tougher than he seems...
Omnicidal Maniac: They want to destroy America and rebuild it anew.
Our Presidents Are Different: And freaking zombies, to boot.
Person of Mass Destruction: These presidents are tough.
President Evil: Technically they're not president anymore, but they are, ah that american political stuff stuff is confusing.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Abraham Lincoln dished out some verbal smackdown:
Honest Abe: 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 appear EVERYWHERE! 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: I DON'T GIVE UP!
Red Shirt: The D-list Presidents, i.e the ones people aren't that familiar with.
Worthy Opponent: Washington started to admire Deadpool near the end.

Slayback

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Alter Ego: Gregory Terraerton

First Appearance: Deadpool: The Circle Chase #1 (August 1993)

Claiming to have come from a wealthy and loving home, Australian-born Gregory Terraerton was at some point turned into a cyborg dubbed "Slayback" by the Weapon X Program. Slayback afterward became a mercenary and worked alongside fellow Weapon X members Deadpool, Garrison Kane, and Sluggo, as well as the mutant shapeshifter Copycat. Over time, Deadpool grew disgusted by Slayback's sociopathy and sadism and attempted to kill him by blowing him up, unaware that Slayback had regenerative abilities that, over a period of ten years, allowed him to recover from Deadpool's attack.

Always Someone Better: 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.
Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is snot-yellow for some reason.
Arc Villain: Of Deadpool: The Circle Chase.
Ax-Crazy: He's so murderously insane that even his co-workers who kill people for a living can't stand him.
Combo Platter Powers: He's a Hollywood Cyborg, can turn his hands into Wolverine Claws, has a Healing Factor, and is a Rubber Man who can stretch and contort his arms at will.
Death Is Cheap: He's got a Healing Factor, and while it might not be fast, it's pretty damn efficient.
The Dreaded: 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.
Evil Counterpart: He's basically Deadpool's version of Sabretooth, being a Fully-Embraced Fiend who embraces his psychosis rather than trying to fight it.
Evil Is Petty: The only goals he's ever had have been hurting people and killing Deadpool.
The Friend Nobody Likes: 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.
Fully-Embraced Fiend: Like Sabretooth, he openly admits to be an irredeemable monster, and unlike Sabes he doesn't even have a Freudian Excuse motivating his behavior.
Healing Factor: Not as fast as most healing factors, taking him over 10 years to heal from being blown up.
It's Personal: With Deadpool, who he wants to kill in Revenge for Wade's attempt on his life.
Joker Immunity: Also like Sabretooth, he was shown at one point as being in hell, only to show up alive again with no explanation given.
Long-Range Fighter: He fights like an evil Dhalsim with Wolverine Claws, and just like Dhalsim he's usually boned if anyone manages to get in close and start wailing on him.
Minor Major Character: 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.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Has a maw that Venom and Baraka could be comfortable with.
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: 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.
No One Could Survive That!: At the end of The Circle Chase he was disintegrated into dust by the ZERO unit. Somehow he came back from this.
Nothing Personal: 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.
Obviously Evil: Between his snot-yellow skin, Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness, and Deathstrike-esque Wolverine Claws, Slayback couldn't look more obviously evil if he tried.
Psycho for Hire: Once went to work for a Canadian think tank and then worked as muscle for another Deadpool villain, Agent Kemp.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Hasn't even appeared a dozen times since his 1993 debut.

T-Ray

Alter Ego: Jack/Wade Winston Wilson?

First Appearance: Deadpool Vol. 1, #1 (January, 1997)

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.

Arc Villain: He was used as Deadpool's Big Bad throughout the late nineties, though Ajax/Francis has since supplanted him.
Arch-Enemy: Was one for Deadpool for a while because of the Who-is-the-real-Wade-Wilson thing.
The Big Guy: At 6'9 and 361 lbs of muscle, he always towers over Wade.
Criminal Mind Games: Except they're both criminals.
Culture Chop Suey: He's Canadian by birth and an Occidental Otaku 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.
Dark and Troubled Past: Says he is the real Wade Wilson and that Deadpool is a mercenary called Jack.
Fights Like a Normal: For all his fancy 'hieroglyphs', he can usually be found just using a sword and his sheer bulk to hack it out with Deadpool.
Gambit Roulette: His plans made about as much sense as Deadpool does.
Hollywood Voodoo: 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.
It's All About Me: T-Ray cares about exactly two things: himself and Deadpool, in that order.
Kaleidoscope Hair: His hair color constantly shifts between red and blonde Depending on the Artist.
Magic Knight: Had a sword and magic.
Mysterious Past: Claims to be the real Wade Wilson.
Pointless Band-Aid: Always wears one across his nose for some reason.
Spikes of Villainy: Combines this trope with the always-unfashionable Shoulder Of Doom.
Unreliable Narrator: 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 The Farmer and the Viper scenario. Deadpool claims this is BS, but then, he would. The truth has never and probably will never be revealed.
Would Hurt a Child: Infamous in the mercenary scene for taking child-killing jobs that most other mercs wouldn't touch.
Villain Forgot to Level Grind: In his original appearances he was played as a very serious 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.
Villain Team-Up: 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).

Vetis

Notable Aliases Vetis Esquire

First Appearance: Deadpool Vol. 3, #7 (June, 2013)

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.

Asshole Victim: He's 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 Dragged Off to Hell.
Big Bad Wannabe: While he 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.
Curb-Stomp Battle: He gave powers to a bunch of unlucky humans. After he got their souls, he was too strong for Deadpool.
Deal with the Devil: His M.O, being a demon from hell and all.
Dragged Off to Hell: After he was Out-Gambitted him the first time, Mephisto 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.
Evil Makes You Ugly: The man went from this◊ to this◊, due to Mephisto's torture. Don't @#&*$ with Mephisto, people.
The Man Behind the Man: Guess where the Necromancer-that-brought-the-presidents-back got his powers from.
Man of Wealth and Taste: In the 70's. He seems to have fallen on some bad times since then.
Meaningful Name: Vetis is apparently the demon of corruption, if demonology is to be believed.
Out-Gambitted: By Deadpool in the 70's. And again in the present, after he killed Michael before him.
The Starscream: He seeks to overthrow Mephisto.
Took a Level in Badass: After Mephisto released him 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 Curb-Stomp Battle on Deadpool.
Villainous Breakdown: He does not take kindly to Deadpool ruining his plan in the present.

Characters / Deadpool: Rogues Gallery

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