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Warning : Spoilers for Weapon X - Men ( 2025 ) # 1 ahead!Deadpoolhas been one of Marvel ’s shining stars for so long that it ’s soft to forget that he has n’t always been the wisecracking , 4th - bulwark - breaking , loveable meme simple machine he is today . However , it is clear that Marvel has n’t forgotten about the fictional character ’s darker origins , as the launch of 2025’sWeapon 10 - Menseries takes Deadpool straight back to his roots , in a shocking twist .
weapon system X - Men#1 – drop a line by Joe Casey , with art by ChrisCross – begins when an face-off between Deadpool and Wolverine after a botched assassination try leads the pair to join up with other noted profound - hitters , include Cable and Chamber . Yet when Deadpool is left alone with Wolverine in the domain , the Merc With a Mouth brutally turn against Logan .
drop his jokey persona , Deadpool in cold blood shoots and incapacitates Wolverine in a scene that bearsfar more resemblance to his unpitying original incarnationthan the slapstick figure with which more contemporary audiences may be conversant .
Dropping The Comedy Act, Deadpool Returns To His Deadly Roots In A Shocking Turn
Weapon X-Men#1 – Written By Joe Casey; Art By ChrisCross; Ink By Mark Morales; Color By Yen Nitro; Lettering By Clayton Cowles
Weapon X - Men#1 place upright out because it manages to cede on both versions of Deadpool . When the Good Book open up , Deadpool squander no meter snarking about how he ’s being marketed with Wolverine or throwing tincture on his previous writers , but he ’s all business again when the time comes for ferocity , and he does n’t hold back . His squelcher of Wolverine harken back to Liefeld - era levels of efficiency and forethought , and there ’s nothing comical about it . weapon system X - Men#1 shows that there ’s room in Marvel for Deadpool to be both the snarky renegade and the deadly assassinwithout compromising on either vision for the character .
weapon system X - Men#1 is proof that there ’s ample room for the grapheme to be a scarily competent assassin while still cracking judicious and play the buffoon when it suits him .
Liefeld ’s departure left it ambiguous if there would ever be elbow room for a more serious incarnation of Deadpool again , but now Marvel has made it clear that Deadpool ’s action - paladin past times is n’t block . Weapon X - Men#1 is validation that there ’s plenteous elbow room for the reference to be a frighteningly competent assassin while still crack knowing and play the buffoon when it become him , and after having play the punchline for so long , this is a admonisher that he ’s not someone to take lightly . Deadpool ’s key ingredient are finally back together again , and the Merc with a Mouth in conclusion feels complete once more .
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Deadpool has become so omnipresent among Marvel ’s properties that it ’s easy to overlook the character ’s root . When Deadpool first debuted in Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza’sNew Mutants ( 1983)#98 , the theatrical role was much more the stereotypical ninja or assassinator , using his stupendous acquirement to keep Cable and the intact team of New Mutants on their toe . If anything , the grapheme who would become Liefeld ’s most notable founding stand out at the time for having a relatively understated figure in comparison to the rest of Liefeld ’s creations , who tended to be knock down out withoversized guns , chrome , and gratuitous sac .
Deadpool ’s getting his own ' Council of Reeds ' in a Modern series : Pooluminati - which will send Wade and his girl , Ellie , on a multiversal adventure !
Deadpool ’s defining snark and his trait of breaking the 4th rampart also did n’t amount from Liefeld . The 1997 run ofDeadpoolnot only established Deadpool ’s more comedic bent grass , but it also holds the first time the fictitious character is seenbreaking the fourth rampart : inDeadpool#28 by Joe Kelly and Pete Woods , Deadpool dryly remarks that he has n’t seen the assassin Bullseye since " upshot 16 . “The bombastic humor of this series quick took off , elevating Deadpool from the rest of Marvel ’s current fare and becoming the grapheme ’s hallmarktrait as future news report expanded his snark and meta - commentary inclination even further .
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Contemporary Deadpool stories often finger like particularly gory episodes ofTom & Jerryin their slapstick , cartoonish nature . As of Cody Ziglar and Roge Antonio’sDeadpool ( 2024 ) , Deadpool has two daughter ( one of whom is a Symbiote ) and a run out business with Taskmaster ; Deadpool ’s killing tally is largely attributed tohis healing major power making him nigh immortal , with the cockeyed breadth of his combat injury add to the humor . Additionally , the succeeder of theDeadpoolfilm franchise has inextricably yoke contemporary interview ' expectations of the character with his comedic portrayal by Ryan Reynolds , further cementing Deadpool ’s piazza as a laughable anti - hero .
Marvel is gearing up to unloosen " Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time , " and the serial ' author promise the character ’s most epic arc .
But there ’s another variation of Deadpool waiting in the wings . AlthoughRob Liefeld is no longer compose on Deadpool , there ’s a marked difference in the narrative Deadpool ’s creator differentiate about the persona : in Liefeld titles likeDeadpool : Badder Blood ( 2023)andDeadpool : Team - Up ( 2024),Deadpool is much more in line with his original incarnation as a guns - blazing assassin and is nowhere close to the buffoonish mercenary most consultation get laid . This version ofDeadpoolis less commonly seen but still demonstrate up from metre to metre in radical - violent books like Cullen Bunn and Dalibor Talajic’sDeadpool Kills The Marvel Universeseries .
Weapon X - Men#1is available now from Marvel Comics .
