Far from me the idea to defend this book, but just out of curiosity, do you have examples of cases where Deadpool kills characters in way that make no sense?
- Killing Spider-Man by shooting him. First, Spider-Man has a power specifically designed to warn him of incoming danger. Oh but because Deadpool is just that good, it doesn't trigger. Even if it is at point blank range, Spidey is literally ten times (And that's lowballing it) faster that Deadpool He never should have been able to pull that trigger.
- Killing Hulk by tiring hi out and incapacitating him as Banner. You would need to be at Thor's level to tire the Hulk out, and even if he was in his human form, he transforms whenever he is in danger. As in, when Deadstu woke him up with blades aimed at his neck.
- Killing Thor by redirecting Mjolnir and sizing it up until it crushed him. That hammer could grow to the size of fucking Jupiter and Thor should have still been able to handle its weight.
- Somehow melting Reed Richards, even though if it was that easy Doom would have done it decades ago.
I see. Thank you for answering. And yes, those death are indeed bullcrap. Especially Hulk's and Thor's. And I didn't notice it at first, but yeah, Spidey should have been able to avoid the shot.
No problem. It's a legit question, and I would have brought it up in the review if I had the room.
Sounds as bad as I though it was.
...You DO know that this wasn't mean to be taken seriously right?
I'm aware. It doesn't change how I feel about it.
Honestly I don't think it not being taken seriously justifies anything. Personnally, I could never graps the humor of seeing all your favourite and beloved characters getting slaughtered by an inexplicably invincible villain. In fact this is the very principle of a Hate Fic.
Here's something you fail to realize. Most of the characters Deadpool killed, he had to use strategy or indirectly kill them. Hulk, Thor, X-23, Kitty Pryde, that one bald black guy who apparently has indestructible skin (I have no idea who he is as you can tell) and most likely several others. Also, in universe, this was all created by writers who can quite literally do nearly anything they want with the characters of this story.
There's no indication that Asger has failed to realize anything, he just didn't like the story. The strategies Deadpool use make no sense and in my experience reading comic books, when writers do anything they want with characters in a story, regardless of canon and character traits, the result is more often than not, laughably horrible. Just because it's justified doesn't make it less bad.
Haven't read the comic because I thought it sounded a bit rubbish but I think the guy with indestructible skin is named Darwin.
The problem wasn't that the reader took it seriously. The problem was that the reader didn't take it seriously and it still wasn't funny.
Elmo: Darwin from the comics looks completely different
from the version of the character in X-Men First Class. The character Awesomekid is referring to is probably Luke Cage.
'The Black Dude with Indestructible Skin' is still a better codename than Power Man.
I always assumed this was an over-the-top attack on fanboys who frequent message boards saying how their favorite character could totally beat up everyone else. Also, an attack Darker and Edgier. There's simply no other way I could interpret it, especially with its ending.
"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"
Hmm... I can kind of see how this could work as an over-the-top attack on fanboys, but any fanboy it's attacking would just take it as proof that they were right, at least a Deadpool fanboy would. Still, I can't really blame the comic for that. I've actually read it now, and... yeah, no. The only things that could've still been entertaining were the fight scenes, but they're so obviously tailored to the story rather than the characters that it just didn't work. Still better than 'Marvel Universe VS Wolverine' though, if only because that story was literally just the events of 'Marvel Universe VS The Punisher', except from the point of view of Wolverine.
Also I feel dumb for failing to identify Luke Cage, especially because Luke Cage: Noir is the best story I've read in the the Marvel Noir series.
If they ever make a comic book or movie named 'The Black Dude with Indestructible Skin', I will rate it 5 stars on principle.
I personally enjoyed Deadpool kills the marvel universe for it's sick sense of humor that fits Deadpool so well, and the ending of it. I view it the same way as Linkara would view the Gameboy comics. I acknowledge it as a bad and stupid comic, but I still love it for that.
OR we could take the fact that DP is able to kill everybody because the writers say so is a demonstration on how his character, despite being able to go against the rules of every universe he jumps to ,he's just another slave to the pen
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All downhill from here...
I used to have a soft spot for Deadpool. He was a kind of funny b-list character with a neat gimmick of breaking the fourth wall. Then he became a popular joke, and then Marvel decided to run that joke into the ground and keep going until the Mole Man could see it. He's left now as a walking personification of 9gag/Family Guy and serves as the new Wolverine/Batman, a husk stripped of all interesting traits and left as a marketing tool.
Case in point... this piece of shit book that exists solely to milk money of the Deadpool fan horde. The plot, and that's being generous, is that Deadpool gets mentally tortured and this makes him turn evil. As torture tends to do, apparently. And from there the plot is kind of abandoned and the story descends into a gorefest with some hackneyed concept of Deadpool going on his spree to rebel against Marvel Comics.
It's pretty much a case of 'Exactly what it says on the tin' with Deadpool killing everyone from Spider-Man to the Avengers, usually in ways that make absolutely no sense. But really you shouldn't expect as much. Deadpool's just THAT AWESOME that his methods of killing gods and unstoppable rage machines don't NEED to make sense. It reminds me of those 'who would win in a fight' debates that involve Batman, which essentially devolve into Insane Troll Logic to prove that Batman by virtue of being Batman. Now just replace Batman with Deadpool in that last sentence and you get the idea.
If you're into that 'super grimdark hardcore bullshit' genre of comic books, then this might just be for you. To me, it's just mean-spirited fanboy tripe relying on Deadpool's popularity to draw in attention.
What I find most hilarious is that the idea and very title come from an exceptionally crap Garth Ennis book, and it manages to actually be worse than that. You have to be exceptionally bad to be worse than Ennis, I mean he's the sub-basement of the bottom of the barrel.