History Characters / MarvelComicsDeadpool

* HeroWithAnFInGood: DependingOnTheWriter, Deadpool can be this when he tries to be a good guy. He's too violent and psychotic to really pull off being a hero, too conflicted and silly to really be a villain, and tends to swing between AntiHero and AntiVillain like a pendulum. Most of the heroes of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse can't stand working with him (Cable and Siryn being rare exceptions), and considering it's a CrapsackWorld where even guys like ComicBook/ThePunisher and the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] are afforded some respect and trust, that's saying something. F in Good or in evil, depending on your side: during the ComicBook/CivilWar storyline, he becomes a registration enforcer... then he attacks superhero groups because he doesn't check they ''had'' registered!

** During ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', 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''.

** Wade's relations with [[ComicBook/Wolverine Logan]] 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 team up under circumstances, most notably X-Force and they come to have mutual respect for each other.

* AlliterativeName: Wade Winston Wilson[=/=]Deadpool'', with the last name copied from DC's Deathstroke, aka Slade Wilson. In films and in animation, he's played by and voiced by respectively [[Creator/RyanReynolds Ryan Rodney Reynolds]] and Creator/NolanNorth. Everyone's getting in on the alliteration.

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Deadpool wavers between mercenary, good guy, or doing merc work for the bad guy of the week. In recent years, Deadpool has been trying very hard to be more of a hero, especially after his long-lost daughter, Ellie, comes back into his life. This put him at odds with his wife, Shiklah, who wants him to stay the killer she married. He has fallen off hard again by accidentally siding with Hydra in Secret Empire. ''The Despicable Deadpool'' has him ostracized for his mistakes in Secret Empire, and receiving no credit for the things he did to help rectify the situation. He thus decides to finally give up on being a hero, and return to his roots as a mercenary.

* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: The Beyonder's power cured Deadpool of his cancer for the duration of the Secret Wars, at which point he spontaneously sprouted a thick PornStache and a CarpetOfVirility.

** He gets one delivered to him in chapter 34, the ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' tie-in. [[spoiler: After Preston finds out he killed Coulson, she [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him mercilessly]], telling him he's weak-minded and because of it, she'd been thinking of a way to kill him for a while since nothing is scarier than being attacked by an unkillable puppet. Hearing this, Deadpool concludes that he made [[HeroicBSOD a mistake ever trying to be good]] because people only want him for DirtyBusiness.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Deadpool is this in a very large way in ''{{ComicBook/Secret Empire}}'': [[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.]]

* AnythingThatMoves: [[invoked]] 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.

** In another comic, he's revealed to have existed back in the seventies, wearing a ridiculous afro and "[[UnwantedAssistance teaming up]]" with the Comicbook/HeroesForHire, while also having fathered a daughter - who back in the present day (the comic was published in 2013) was still a child.

* DeathSeeker: Deadpool wants to die. Death is in love with him and vice versa, so a jealous Thanos cursed him with [[WhoWantsToLiveForever eternal life]]. In the "Age of Stryfe", an alternate future timeline Deadpool is still alive because of the curse and not his healing factor. The voices in Deadpool confirm his deathwish among other things: the only reason he desperately wants to be accepted is so his friends will care and put him out of his misery. If that doesn't work out he antagonizes them so they can exact their revenge on him. The later "Dead" storyline finally gives this to him via Franchise/SpiderMan villain Tombstone. However, it doesn't stick - he comes back, but [[spoiler:he loses his healing factor, but his body is totally healed and he's regained his true face.]] More importantly, [[spoiler:he doesn't want to die anymore.]] Sadly, this has come back for poor Wade. After the events of ''ComicBook/SecretEmpire'' and the villain Stryfe forcing him to try to kill his friends, he'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.

* {{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 [[Franchise/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.

* FourthWallObserver: Deadpool is known for being able to see through the fourth wall and snap it in two if he wants to. The reasoning is because he's a very special kind of insane, which occasionally allows him to perceive things others cannot. From being able to see the yellow boxes that he thinks in, to referring to the last time he showed up by issue number, Deadpool's odd observations are even occasionally plot points; for example, Deadpool is unaffected by Marvel's recent massive {{retcon}} of the past twenty years of Franchise/SpiderMan's history, leaving some fans to speculate it was put there as an editorial escape plan if necessary.

** Comicbook/{{Cable}} and Deadpool are extremely close despite Deadpool's personality being obnoxious even at the best of times. Despite Deadpool's general lack of allegiances, he genuinely believes in what Cable attempts with Providence, and Deadpool was the first person Cable pictured/made psychic contact with while trying to decide whether to blow himself up. They were genetically commingled, so that "{{one phone call}}" would have happened even without intent....And Cable needed to make that contact to manipulate Deadpool into Doing The Right Thing.

* TheLancer: Deadpool would probably be horrified if he realised, but he ends up being this when he teams up with Comicbook/{{Cable}}. Sure, he wouldn't be anyone's first choice for a [[TalkativeLoon voice]] [[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud of]] [[MediumAwareness reason]], but no-one else can actually stand up to Cable when he's getting [[WellIntentionedExtremist way too into]] the [[CrystalDragonJesus future mutant messiah thing]].

** During ''Comicbook/CivilWar'', 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''.

** ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} delivers a short, yet effective one before [[spoiler: offing Comicbook/ThePunisher by making him shoot himself in the head with one of Puppet Master's dolls]] in ''ComicBook/DeadpoolKillsTheMarvelUniverse''.

** In Comicbook/CableAndDeadpool #50 (the final issue of the series) the Savage Land mutate Brainchild is countering the moves of every other hero in their attack on his base, but none of his predictions of where Deadpool is are accurate; turns out DP took the "{{Franchise/Super Mario|Bros}} strategy" and went through the sewer pipes.

** But all this pales in comparison to [[Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-Man's]] unsolicited and unwanted "friendship" with The Merc With A Mouth. Deadpool just ''loooooooves'' pressing Spidey's buttons, but will never hesitate to help clean up the messes he starts in Peter's life, and seems genuinely fond of the wall-crawler, sometimes even going out of his way just to hang out with him. While the webhead has repeatedly been annoyed with Wade's antics and isn't very keen on his murderous psychopathy, he admits that he can be a true hero despite all his problems and is grateful for all the time he's helped them.

** In 2010, there was a ''Marvel Team-Up'' between Deadpool and It the Living Colossus. For all that Deadpool actually did to help, it was basically an It one-shot. It seems Deadpool's role in this team-up was just to get people to buy the book. Sorry, did we say ''Marvel Team-Up''? Our mistake -- the book's called ''Deadpool Team-Up''. Yes, Deadpool was the star of a ''Marvel Team-Up'' book -- meaning Marvel editorial already considered Deadpool a flagship character. Oh, and ''Deadpool Team-Up'' started with issue ''900'' and counts down from there. Granted, this was a joke about the then-current release of ''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Action Comics]]'' 900 -- the series got canned after a little over a year.

** Deadpool has appeared multiple times in the Marvel Legends toy line, sometimes getting two figures in a single wave. Even the 2020 Venom wave, which was ostensibly released to cash in on the ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'' movie sequel, had Venompool (the symbiote-infused Deadpool from the ''VideoGame/MarvelContestOfChampions'' game) as the Build-a-Figure. Additionally, ''Deadpool 2'' was the most heavily featured film in the aforementioned series of X-Men movie Legends, with Deadpool, ComicBook/{{Cable}}, ComicBook/{{Domino|Marvel Comics}} and [[Characters/DeadpoolSupportingCharacters Negasonic Teenage Warhead]] all getting figures. By comparison, a number of major characters from the earlier films like Cyclops, Jean Grey and ComicBook/{{Storm}} were excluded entirely.

** Deadpool is a fan of ''VideoGame/StreetFighter''. He's even used a {{Shoryuken}} on a few occasions.

* IKnowMortalKombat: Deadpool is an avid gamer and learned from ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'' how to sock Kitty Pride with a {{Shoryuken}}.

* BerserkButton: If talking to Deadpool, ''never'' mention Weapon X. Particularly not "the Workshop." You ''might'' get away with it if you were one of the other participants, but this is not a guarantee.

--> '''Wrecker''': Buncha minor league wannabes, yer kidding right?\\
'''Deadpool ''': Wannabes?\\
'''Deadpool's Thought Box''': Yeah, we got two books out right now.\\
'''Deadpool's Other Thought Box''': [[ShamelessSelfPromoter And another one coming out next month]].

-->'''Deadpool''': (Peering around the panel he's in, looking at the artwork and lettering) Let's see...Kirby/Sinnott...this is 1967, right?
-->'''Reed Richards''': I have no idea what you're talking about.

* DeadpanSnarker: Deadpool is prone to making sarcastic comments almost every chance he gets.

** During the time when Deadpool was working for the Butler, he was sent to go and kill a married couple, and was accompanied by Sabertooth. Once all was said and done, Deadpool would have his memory erased of the event. Deadpool pretty much blew up the house. Turns out, [[spoiler: that couple were Wade's parents. Wade pretty much blew up his childhood home, and doesn't know because his memory was erased afterwards.]] It is very obvious ''Sabertooth'' thought this was awful, and clearly felt bad for Deadpool.
* EveryoneHasStandards: 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.

-->'''Deadpool''': What you got today, Punisher. The Beetle's wings? Plant-Man's chloro-blaster gun? One of the Porcupine's quills?

---> DEADPOOL DEADPOOL DEADPOOL DEADPOOL DEADPOOL! WE HEARD THAT DEADPOOL RAISES SALES SO WE'RE DOING THIS EARLY ON.\\

*** However [[ShipSinking it doesn't last]] as Rogue goes back to Gambit when Kitty and Colossus are unable to go though with their wedding and Gambit proposes to her. They are HappilyMarried and Deadpool shows up on their honeymoon, being a bit [[GreenEyedMonster jealous of Gambit.]]

* AnythingThatMoves: 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.

*** WordOfGod states that the two seem very lonely, and admits that while the majority were rooting for Rogue and ComicBook/{{Gambit}}, he wanted to try something new and unexpected. Chapter 23's recap classifies Rogue and Deadpool's evening previous chapter as their first date.

* AnythingThatMoves: ''Deadpool'' is classified here by WordOfGod stating that he's "ready and willing to do anything with a pulse." when asked what Deadpool did on Valentine's day before he met his wife, WordOfGod says he did whoever was around. When Deadpool opens his valentine's day chapter, he says anyone without a valentine can claim him, and that he'll take all-comers. And at one point, he mentions how good it feels when a female gorilla is hugging him, and tells Vanessa to give the gorilla his number. Then there was Orksa, a giant alien bearing resemblance to a hypo.

** He's consistently depicted as [[InsaneEqualsViolent violent because of insanity]], but the intensity and type of insanity, how it manifests, and the terms other characters apply to him vary by writer as they choose different ways to {{avert|ed trope}} leaving it {{ambiguous|disorder}}. He's been called a "[[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopath]]" for lacking empathy, enjoying violence, and making jokes at inappropriate times. He's had "[[FunnySchizophrenia schizophrenia]]" in the form of hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and constantly [[TalkingToThemself talking to himself]]. These supposed diagnoses [[HollywoodPsych don't keep pace with real-world diagnostic criteria]].

* InterspeciesRomance: Deadpool was briefly married to an alien woman named Orksa who resembled an anthropomorphic yellow hippopotamus. They divorced on good terms so she could be with someone who loved her more than he did. Both her previous husband and her next one also appeared to be different species than her. He later got married to a [[HornyDevils Succubus]] named Shiklah, who though she can appear mostly human, is actually a huge purple demon. Deadpool met her when Dracula hired Deadpool to bring her to him for their arranged marriage.

Deadpool's fourth wall breaks began in his first ongoing series with writer Creator/JoeKelly. After repeated mental breakdowns, Deadpool became aware of, started acknowledging, or developed delusions about being a comic book character. Deadpool began communicating with caption boxes for his inner monologue, making {{aside comment}}s to his readers, and commenting on living in a comic book, much to the chagrin of non-medium aware characters. This became one of the defining traits of the character and his comics with writer [[Creator/ChristopherPriestComics Christopher Priest]]. DependingOnTheWriter, the [[SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness hardness of Deadpool's fourth wall]] varies and is sometimes completely solid. His fourth wall breaks are treated by [[FourthWallObserver other characters as part of his insanity]], and sometimes [[InsaneEqualsViolent his insanity]] includes in-universe hallucinations and delusions of being a comic book character; however, he does not have wall-breaking superpowers like ComicBook/SheHulk and [[ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwenpool]]. {{Flanderization}} in some appearances turns this into his primary trait.

** But all this pales in comparison to Spider-Man's unsolicited and unwanted "friendship" with Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}. Deadpool just ''loooooooves'' pressing Spidey's buttons, but will never hesitate to help clean up the messes he starts in Peter's life, and seems genuinely fond of the wall-crawler, sometimes even going out of his way just to hang out with him. Spidey, while forced to admit that Deadpool does have his moments, more often wishes he would just go away.

** In the ''ComicBook/IdentityWars'' miniseries Deadpool, ComicBook/SpiderMan and [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]] cross over into an alternate dimension. Spider-Man's alternate version is a WellIntentionedExtremist, which annoys Spidey. Deadpool gets along famously with his alternate until he discovers that alt-Deadpool isn't Wade Wilson, it's [[spoiler:Victor Von Doom]]. Alt-Wade Wilson is a BigBad who Deadpool takes down. Bruce Banner discovers that he can't turn into the Hulk in this dimension and is overjoyed, until that gets reversed. Then alt-Hulk and Hulk duke it out.

[[folder:A-H]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:I-Z]]

* DependingOnTheArtist:
** Underneath his mask, Wade's appearance has ranged from "slightly bad acne" to "humanoid wad of cancer" to "oddly enough resembles ComicBook/TheThing" to "mistaken for [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] cosplay". Justified in that his body is constantly in flux which can change his appearance from time to time.

** His eyes being normal or blank orbs even without the mask.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Numerous traits, such as:

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Though Deadpool is a mercenary and an assassin for hire, he has a firm line: "Kids. Are. Off. Limits!" Depending on his morality at the time, he sometimes extends this to other types of not-so-bad guys.

* FourthWallObserver: Fabian Nicieza usually makes a recap page that isn't in continuity, which means that blobs like the Blob can break the fourth wall at will during the recap page. One ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'' recap page had Cable hinting to Deadpool that he has infected Deadpool with subliminal messages. Since this recap page wasn't in continuity, Deadpool didn't know about the meeting, which didn't stop him from, in the story, saying these words:

* IJustWantToBeLoved: Deep down, Deadpool actually just wants to be acknowledged and accepted by the rest of the heroes in the Marvel Universe.
** ''In Uncanny X-Force'', he finally gets his wish after rescuing Evan Sabahnu, who thanks him and calls me a hero.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Deadpool is an avid gamer and learned from ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'' how to sock Kitty Pride with a {{Shoryuken}}.

* WolverinePublicity: Starting in 2008, Deadpool began rivaling good ol' Wolverine himself as Marvel's Poster Child with multiple simultaneous comic books of his own ''plus'' so-called guest appearances that are sometimes with characters he's never met or just for a single panel.

* AntiHero: Deadpool is a NobleDemon SociopathicHero. He easily eclipses even The Punisher, as he frequently finds it funny to casually torture, dismember, and murder people. Though in later years, Deadpool has become more heroic compared to his old status as a NominalHero. To the point where he was the OnlySaneMan and the conscience of the X-Men's Black Ops squad under Wolverine who thought that killing the kid who was Apocalypses' reincarnation is just wrong. Throughout the arc, he became more and more heroic too via CharacterDevelopment, and even convinced the kid to join the Jean School for the Gifted so he can use his powers for good instead of evil.

* ArchEnemy:

** Madcap and Deadpool are both unstable pranksters with regenerative powers. Madcap's mind accidentally gets fused into Deadpool's after Thor lightning-zaps them into ashes ({{it makes sense in context}}). Unbeknownst to Deadpool, the new "white caption box" voice in his mind is actually Madcap inside him. After they're literally separated from each other, Madcap is emotionally damaged and turns vengeful. He tries to ruin Deadpool's life and reputation by framing him for murders he didn't commit. The feud only stops when Deadpool ruins his own life.

* BerserkButton: Considering the incidents with the therapist and the pizza delivery guy, people who abuse their positions to ruin lives [[ItAmusedMe for pointless reasons]] ''really'' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness piss Deadpool off]].

* BlessedWithSuck: Deadpool is essentially a humanoid cancer. His HealingFactor cures the "Big C" -- then brings it right back again, leaving him disfigured and insane. He can heal from anything -- but being unable to stay dead puts a cramp on his romance with Death. You can cut his head off -- but he still won't shut up.

* BodyHorror: As a result of his powers, his cancer has spread throughout his body, disfiguring him.

** Deadpool responds to editorial captions that aren't his own little yellow boxes. From ''The Amazing [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Spider-Man]]'' vol. 1 #611:
--->'''Deadpool:''' For all you kids reading at home, make sure you ''wear a helmet'' whenever you steal a motorcycle, toss explosives into a coffee shop, or give someone a "special hug."*\\