History Characters / MarvelComicsDeadpool

* CanadaEh: Deadpool [[https://imgur.com/gallery/LZV5V is from Canada]] but doesn't talk about it that much, though he did tell ComicBook/SpiderMan that he was such an expert figure-skater because figure-skating is every Canadian's superpower.

** In the early to mid 2000s, Deadpool expresses patriotic sentiments about America, calls himself a red-blooded American, addresses then-president George W. Bush as his own president, talks about growing up in Ohio, and more. The Canadian government that gave him his healing factor isn't his own. But then in 2008, as if Deadpool and his readers got kicked in the head by a {{retcon}}ning moose, he's [[CanadaEh Canadian-born, Canadian-bred, proud to be Canadian,]] is confused about historic American presidents but knows all of Canada's prime ministers, and is now included on lists of famous fictional Canadians and portrayed in live-action films by Canadian Creator/RyanReynolds.

* DarkAgeOfSupernames: Deadpool was originally an homage (or ripoff, depending on who you ask) of an 80s [[Franchise/TheDCU DC]] character with a [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] name, Deathstroke the Terminator (already mentioned, by the way), since you do the "Deathstroke" in the "Deadpool." Deadpool (or dead pool) is an actual word that technically fits the character, even if it does sound very 90s-ish. Deadpool himself lampshades how his own name is dark and gritty when he mocks the unfortunately-named Kraven for having a not-so-fearsome name:

** ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' vol 5 #7 (from the Duggan and Posehn run) is supposedly an inventory story from 1979, crossing 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.

* TakeThat: Deadpool's co-creator, Creator/RobLiefeld, is infamous for drawing characters like Deadpool with [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks dozens of pouches and enormous guns]]; Deadpool mocks this multiple times.

* ''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.

* {{Jerkass}}: Deadpool can be a huge jerkass at times. Especially when it comes to blind Al, Weasel and Bob.

** Deadpool's PantyShot. No, not as in a panty shot found in the ''Deadpool'' series, but as in the heavily mutilated Deadpool himself giving the readers a panty shot. You see, he borrowed the original Marvel Girl costume. Which has a ''very'' short skirt. And yes, everyone present was as disturbed by the [[[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/deadpool_msmarvel.jpg image]] as the reader.

** Wade's relations with [[ComicBook/Wolverine]] are also notable given how their backstories intertwine with each other. Wolverine initially found Deadpool to be a typical scumbag merc who couldn't take anything seriously and is notably at the receiving end of his claws. However, they usually team up under circumstances, most notably X-Force and over time they've come to have mutual respect for each other.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Deadpool is this in a very large way in ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'': [[spoiler: Steve Rogers has been cosmic-cube'd into a Hydra agent and Wade started working for him without knowing this. During that time, S.H.I.E.L.D agent Phil Coulson figures out what happened, but before he can warn anyone, he is assassinated by Wade on Cap's orders. With Steve's cover intact, Hydra's plans proceed unchallenged, and they take over America and trap Manhattan under a dark-force dome. Wade mentions in chapter 32, that he didn't know Cap went LawfulEvil until after he joined him. He tells Preston the same in a flashback in chapter 33, admitting he didn't know any of the following would happen -like the dome over Manhattan.]]

** ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'' naturally has some fun with this when Deadpool shows up: he ponders in yellow captions how bad the stop motion animation is and asks for a better editing software.

* NoGoodDeed: Deadpool's bad luck is compounded by his own insanity and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality off kilter morality]]. He might do good, but even if he's acknowledged by the other heroes, instead of acceptance he'll receive a swift boot out of the city. Acceptance is all the guy really wants, which makes Wade's case even more tragic. The ComicBook/FantasticFour eventually invited him to their weekly heroes-only poker game. He didn't go, but it's the thought that counts.

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Deadpool cracks jokes about his HoYay with people half the time, and spends the other half saying homoerotic stuff about Cable[=/=]Weasel[=/=]Spider-Man[=/=]Thor, only to immediately insist that he's straight. If this sounds contradictory, remember that this is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Deadpool.]] Possibly the best example came when the Black Mamba's powers made him picture his greatest fantasy -- rubbing suntan lotion on Cable's back at the beach. "That was ''not'' my fantasy! It was you -- that Darkforce stuff planted that image in my head!"

** Deadpool and ComicBook/SpiderMan seem to be heading into this territory in their recent 2016 series. Issue 12 has them spend Christmas together, and Deadpool mentions how much he appreciates Spider-Man's friendship. The feeling is mutual. They got each other gifts, and decide to open them at the same time. It turns out that got one another sweaters with their faces on them, but the faces are reversed on each sweater. They both go out wearing their sweaters, and say they ride and die together, and are "bad besties for life." Much like ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'', their relationship contains a bit of HoYay, if not more given Deadpool is genuinely trying to change his ways to gain and keep Spider-Man's respect. In addition to Itsy Bitsy, their "daughter" being created from their combined DNA. She refers to them both as "daddy."

* {{Flanderization}}: During the first ongoing Deadpool series and in ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'', Deadpool was a talkative loon full of bad jokes and other wackiness. However, he was also portrayed as a total psychotic with a loose, at best, grasp of sanity. All the wackiness was a cover to hide his immense mental problems and self-loathing and just the slightest nudge could send him over the edge in a violent, unsettling rage. Most subsequent writers pretty much ignore the latter part and play him up as little more than a goofy comedy character. His [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools popularity skyrocketed]] after his flanderization and his flanderized version became his more iconic and well-recognized version. It helps that Marvel already has characters to fill the [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Canadian with Rage Issues, Regenerating Healing Powers, and a convoluted backstory complicated by Swiss-Cheese Memory]], and [[ComicBook/SpiderMan a flamboyant joke-cracker in a red costume, whose snark covers up his inner angst]] roles. After Deadpool's flanderized "wacky all the time" shtick got stale with many fans, the Duggen[=/=]Posehn run achieved acclaim for its CharacterRerailment.

* FacialHorror: Deadpool's covered in tumors and his face is no exception, lacking hair and featuring bumpy, rough skin, though this also is BodyHorror as said condition is all over his body. ComicBook/UltimateMarvel [[AdaptationalUgliness made this worse]] as its version of Wade is a cyborg whose skull is on display and the top missing, exposing his brain with a dome covering his head. His ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' counterpart is currently the trope picture.

** In ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', Deadpool can fight his equivalent, [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]]. In other words Dante, a character made in Japan, will use his broadsword against Deadpool, a character made in America, who uses two katanas.

** This gag has extended to other media including Deadpool: in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', he can beat his opponent around the head with his own life bar, and his [[Film/{{Deadpool2016}} movie]] continues the tradition.

** The ''VideoGame/{{Deadpool}}'' video game repeats a comic book gag where he "loves the smell of 372,844 pancakes in the morning!"

** He's prominently displayed on most of the artwork for ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', and shown opposite [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]] in the intro. His eventual burst of popularity is lampshaded by ComicBook/SheHulk in the game, who annoyedly points out to Deadpool that in the 80s and early 90s she was very popular and even shared his signature fourth-wall-breaking powers.
** In 2013, Deadpool [[VideoGame/{{Deadpool}} got his own video game]]. The last line of the [[http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/07/14/comic-con-deadpool-video-game-announced-trailer teaser trailer]]? "[[LampshadeHanging Suck it, Wolverine!]]"
** He's also given a prominent position on [[http://cdn.cheatcc.com/Screenshots/guide/title_card.jpg the promo]] for the ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelSuperHeroes'' game, right up there with the cast of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' movie, Spider-Man, and you guessed it, Wolverine.

** Deadpool shows up in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k52z71ty28E#t=233 this]] ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' trailer, despite ''not being in the movie'', to promote his own film.

** To promote ''Film/Deadpool2'', Walmart and 20th Century Fox teamed up to sell blu-rays with variant slip-on covers featuring Deadpool, ranging from [[Film/XMenFilmSeries the other movies in the X-Men universe]] to ''Film/TheTerminator'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds''. The idea primarily seemed to be about making a memorably absurd store display that would promote the forthcoming movie, but collectors would probably buy the old movies for the new covers too.

* ExtremeOmnisexual: While he’s definitely attracted to women, Wade’s list of love interests is vast and quite unusual - from vampire queens to shapeshifters, to aliens both humanoid and the exact opposite, even up to and including ''the embodiment of Death itself.'' According to WordOfGod, Deadpool’s constantly-changing brain chemistry means his sexual preferences can change on the fly, and by this definition, he’s been confirmed as pan/omnisexual.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Deadpool could very easily fit into this category as, despite his blatant insanity, tendency to annoy others and, occasionally, sheer stupidity he is frequently hired as he's just too good at his job.
** Hilariously, unlike the description given above, he actually ''is'' AxCrazy...which makes him a whole lot of fun.
** He also strays into CrazyIsCool sometimes; for example, when he fights with absolutely no semblance of sense, not even deciding what an attack is going to be until it connects, to beat the Taskmaster.

** Deadpool thinks Bloody Mary is too crazy for his tastes. Let that sink in for a moment -- the guy who is the poster boy for CrazyIsCool has a limit on crazy.

* HandicappedBadass: After he was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Wade Wilson was given Wolverine's HealingFactor to save his life. Now he's a giant, self-repairing humanoid tumor. And one of the most [[CrazyIsCool insane]] and badass characters in the Marvel Universe.

** During ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'', he used the phrase "addled moron that I am (or pretend to be)". This being [[CrazyIsCool Deadpool]], it's entirely possible the "or" should be taken at face value, and he's ''genuinely too crazy to know how intelligent he is at any given moment''.

* BreakoutVillain: Deadpool is known as the famous Merc with the Mouth, one of Marvel's most popular characters, with his movie franchise being even more successful than the ''ComicBook/XMen'' themselves. With his massive following, merchandise, sales and surrounding culture, it might be hard to believe that when he was introduced, he was not the famous AntiHero we know him for, but rather a villain. Furthermore, Creator/RobLiefeld created him as nothing more than a CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}, being a run of the mill GunAndSword-wielding SuperSoldier mercenary who tangled with the ComicBook/NewMutants and had practically ''none'' of the personality we know him for now. It was when other writers like Joe Kelly began [[GrowingTheBeard diversifying his characterization]] that he became as popular as he is today. Back then, ''no one'' could've expected how popular Deadpool would've ended up being, considering he's now bigger than all the New Mutants put together. Even ComicBook/{{Cable}} himself, who was intended from the start to be a big deal to the ''X-Men'' franchise and ended up as an even bigger deal than Liefeld ever imagined, ultimately got eclipsed by Deadpool's popularity. The 2004 ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'' series started out with Cable as the lead character and Deadpool as his sidekick, but by 2008 it was Deadpool who was the undisputed main character, and the book was cancelled in favor of a new Deadpool solo book.