Hello and welcome to Comic Drake, where I talk about comics and my name is Drake.
I have a lot of friends in the YouTube community that make awesome comic book videos, but should
have a few more eyeballs put on their stuff.
So I reached out to my friend, Jay over at Fancy Teeth, to make a video on this channel
so you guys can get a little bit of a taste of what he has going on and what better way
to utalize a guest video than to have them cover a video subject that I don't want to
talk about?
People like Deadpool.
I don't.
So take it away, Jay!
So Drake really does not want to do another Dealpool video.
He is not a fan.
Why does that sound familiar?
However due to popular demand, someone's gotta do it.
And why not me?
I like Deadpool… in… in small doses.
Deadpool (or Wade Winston Wilson) was created by artist and internet punching bag Rob Liefeld,
along with writer Fabian Neciaza.
This red suit wearing, disfigured, mentally unstable mercenary has an accelerated healing
factor (surviving total incineration and decapitation more than once) and he’s known as the "Merc
with a Mouth" because he literally never shuts up, except that one time, you know, in the
movie, where he didn’t have a mouth.
So Deadpool has a second reason for his inability to die, Thanos cursed him with eternal life
to keep him away from his love interest, the physical embodiment of Death, you know, because
comics, but everyone knows that Deadpool can't die... right?
This is 4 Times Deadpool Managed to JUST DIE ALREADY.
Why 4?
Because I wrote 5 and the script was too long.
So spoilers ahead and with all that out of the way, insert witty remark, transition goes
here.
I don’t think I was supposed to read that.
Number Four, Deadpool from Earth-80521
Messiah War was a Marvel Comics event and crossover storyline that began in it's own
one shot called X-Force/Cable: Messiah War.
It wrapped up in subsequent issues of Cable and X-Force in 2008.
As writer Craig Kyle put it, Messiah War was a follow-up to Messiah Complex and "the middle
chapter of… a major three-part saga.
The final chapter was called X-Men: Second Coming.
In this event, Deadpool ended up trapped in a basement below a collapsed skyscraper for
800 years.
So X-Force travels to the future in order to help Cable protect the Messiah child from
former ally Bishop and Cable's evil clone, Stryfe, who was later revealed to have been
inside this future version of Deadpool's head, telepathically speaking (can’t have a Deadpool
without voices, now can we?)
So Stryfe was seemingly defeated but returned and literally ripped Wade in half.
Deadpool apparently dies right after making a joke about "severance" pay.
At least he died doing what he loved.
Now it’s true that Deadpool has survived worse, it’s not even the only time he’s
been ripped in half (2013 Deadpool video game… anybody?).
He’s grown parts back before too (including his head).
However, in this story, his healing factor had slowed significantly over the years (much
like Logan in the 2017 movie).
The cannon is inconsistent as to how Deadpool’s powers work and it often depends on the writer,
and in this case, I’m going off what I believe to be the writer's intent.
Number three, Ultimate Deadpool from Earth 1610
Some people have described Deadpool as an anti-hero, like me earlier in this video...
for example.
It's true that Earth 616 Deadpool has some really heroic moments and the bad things he
does are often played for comedic effect.
However, Earth 1610 (or the Ultimate Universe) was quite different.
Ultimate Deadpool was a villain in every sense of the word.
He first appeared in Ultimate Spider-Man #91 in 2006 where he was depicted as sadistic
and, well, downright evil.
He kidnaped, hunted and killed mutants on live television for the high crime of existing
and referred to them as non-human animals drawing parallels to real life discrimination
and racism.
He was a bad guy.
I’m saying he was bad guy.
Ultimate Deadpool was revealed to have survived his run in with Spidey and the X-Men and eventually
got a bit of a makeover when he later appeared in the video game Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions
in 2010.
There, he was depicted as more like his 616 counterpart but still very much a villian,
just like a funnier one.
He was killed off in Deadpool Kills Deadpool in 2013 when he was stabbed through the back
and chest by Earth-616’s Deadpool.
This isn’t something that would normally kill a character with a healing factor but
this title features TONS of pool-on-pool violence and it’s pretty clear that all Deadpools
are not created equal and some are clearly easier to kill than others.
Just look at this guy!
You’re a Deadpool buddy!
Stop dying!
Get up and walk it off!
Ultimate Deadpool does have a healing factor but how it works is never really explained
and it doesn't completely heal his heavily disfigured face.
So it could (and most likely does) work differently than that of Deadpool from Earth 616.
Seriously though, this was intended to be Ultimate Deadpool’s ultimate death.
So, not only does Deadpool’s power set vary depending on who’s writing, it also depends
on which Deadpool is being written about and judging from the title, author Cullen Bunn
clearly intended the Deadpools killed here to be dead, for realsies and Ultimate Deadpool
was (arguably) the 2nd most prominent Deadpool to die in Deadpool Kills Deadpool since the
Ultimate universe was such a big deal...but PandaPool will always be most prominent in
my heart.
Number Two, Evil Deadpool from Earth-12101
So we just discussed 2013’s Deadpool Kills Deadpool, the series where Earth 1610’s
Wadey Wilson met his ultimate fate.
I could make this whole video just by listing characters from that book but that would be
too easy.
Ultimate Deadpool’s death was only depicted in a single panel and Deadpool Kills Deadpool
is just one installment in a three part story, known as the The Deadpool Killology.
You uh…
See what they did there?
This story begins in 2012’s Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, continues through Deadpool
Killustrated and ends in 2013’s Deadpool Kills Deadpool.
Try saying that 10 times fast.
It all began on Earth-12101 when that universe’s Deadpool was admitted to an insane asylum
where a super villain called Psycho-Man was posing as a doctor.
Rather than treat Deadpool, he attempted to mentally condition Wade to follow his orders,
and in doing so, he silenced Deadpool's normal voices, leaving him with only one voice in
his head, illustrated by a red caption box.
So Deadpool and the red box decided to kill every single superhero in the Marvel Universe...
and boy did they ever try.
They then began to jump through the multiverse killing more and more versions of the Marvel
Universe heroes.
Eventually, they decide that it’s not enough to just kill the heroes, to end all of existence
they would need to kill the very idea of heroes.
This version of Deadpool (later named Dreadpool by writer Cullen Bunn) captures and enslaves
some scientists, and with their help, he travels to Earth-TRN388 (a place called the ideaverse
where the various literary characters that inspired the Marvel Comics heroes all reside).
Once there, Deadpool kills Don Quixote, Moby Dick, Tom Sawyer and many others from classic
literature.
He's eventually thwarted by a team lead by Sherlock Holmes but the damage had already
been done.
The very idea of many heroes and perhaps even the very idea of a superhero team had seemingly
been wiped from existence.
In the final installment, however, we find out that no matter how much damage is done,
continuity continues to reassert itself and Evil Deadpool finally realizes that in order
to end the multiverse, he must track down every version of Deadpool and kill them all.
Eventually Evil Deadpool recruits an army of like minded versions of Deadpool (the Evil
Deadpool Corps) and leads them on a suicide mission to rid the multiverse of all Deadpools.
They face off against the Deadpool Corps including the Wade from Earth 616 while the fate of
existence hangs in the balance.
In the end though, only two versions of Deadpool remain - Evil Deadpool and the Deadpool of
Earth 616.
Rest in peace, PandaPool.
You were too good for this multiverse.
In the final showdown, the main Deadpool decapitates the Evil Deadpool and douses him with an acid
that prevents regeneration.
Deadpool from Earth 616 was the last Deadpool standing.
Number One, Deadpool from Earth 616
So what can top the death of nearly every Deadpool in existence?
How about the death of the last Deadpool standing along with two entire universes?
Deadpool #45 was released in April of 2015 and was said to be the 250th issue.
It told the story of Deadpool's final showdown with Ultimatum but it was a much bigger story
that ended this version of Deadpool.
This issue saw Deadpool defeat Ultimatum once and for all, killing every single member and
giving up being Deadpool to be Wade Wilson instead, to spend time with his friends and
family and finally to be happy…
only to die in the final incursion just six days later.
Now this one is short because explaining the inclusions, secret wars, battle planet and
all that is well outside the scope of this video but in short, Earth 616's Deadpool (along
pretty much everyone else) died when two alternate universe Earths (616 and 1610) smashed together
- THAT is what it took to kill The Merc with the Mouth.
He went out like a boss too.
His last thoughts were:
I give myself over to this end.
I am safe in love.
I can live with this finale.
If I'm going out, at least I'm taking everyone with me.
So what do you guys think?
Do you miss this Marvel Now version of Deadpool?
What do you think of the current Deadpool run?
Let us know in the comment section below.
I want to give a big thank you to Jay for making this video possible so if you like
what you've seen then definitely go over to his channel, Fancy Teeth, and tell him that
Drake sent you, but if you liked this video then I actually do have some Deadpool content
on the channel still so if you want to watch those, go ahead, but definitely go give him
a look as well!
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed what you've seen and maybe I'll see you next time!