Heck, the raison raison d’être for Deadpool in the Marvel Universe was to be the antithesis of the costumed cadre of heroes. Anyhoo, the chimichanga-loving, fourth-wall-smashing Merc With a Mouth is headlining his own movie this weekend, so we wanted provide a little Deadpool 101 to prepare you for the mayhem. Beware, there are some mild spoilers below.
Who is Deadpool?
His real name is Wade Wilson, a young Canadian mercenary (targeting only those he feels deserve to die) who falls for a stripper/prostitute, gets diagnosed with terminal cancer, and joins the covert Weapons X program as a lab rat. Injections of Wolverine’s quick-healing genes halt the cancer — but mutate Wilson, leaving his body scarred and his brain unhinged. He eventually winds up in the Workshop of a facility called the Hospice, a torture chamber operated by a deranged doctor and his psycho assistant, Ajax. The “patients” have a dead pool, betting on which of them will survive the longest. Wilson and Ajax develop a mutual enmity, especially after Wilson discovers the latter’s name is Francis. Ajax eventually attacks Wilson, ripping out his heart and leaving him for dead. But Wilson’s healing factor kicks in, and he recovers, adopts the name Deadpool, and makes himself an awfully nice costume.
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