Deadpool is known for being one of the kookiest characters in comic books so he’s bound
to spawn a plethora of alternate universe counterparts. My question is, who are these
guys? And how do they stack up to the Deadpool of Earth-616 that we all know and love? Let’s
find out!
Hello and welcome to the Show With Issues, I’m Auram, and it’s time for another Parallels,
the segment on this show where we talk about alternate universe versions of a character.
Let’s get started!
So we can’t talk about alternate versions of the Merc With a Mouth without talking about
his family, the Deadpool Corps! The Deadpool Corps were formed by the Elders of the Universe
as a last-ditch effort to save the Multiverse from the Awareness. The Awareness was the
last survivor of a race of beings that lived in an ancient universe that existed before
Earth-616. Speaking of 616, the Big Bang that created it was actually the reason for wiping
out the Awareness’ species without somehow killing the being himself. The point is the
Big Bang ALSO gave the Awareness the cosmic power to “absorb” consciousnesses. He
decided to act revenge against this newly formed universe by stealing the consciousnesses
of planets across the galaxy.
The reason the Elders tasked 616’s Deadpool with forming the Deadpool Corps is because
Wade Wilson’s brain is so off its rocker that the Awareness theoretically wouldn’t
be able to absorb his consciousness. This would allow Deadpool and his corps to fight
him. So, who did Wade recruit to said cause?
He took a road trip across the Multiverse first stopping at the home of one Wanda Wilson,
Lady Deadpool! Hailing from Earth-3010, a reality where apparently a rebellious group
in America was formed because of fascists...or something…Wanda Wilson decided to join the
rebels out of a need to feel wanted and during a fight with “General America,” the Captain
America of this universe, Lady Deadpool was recruited by Deadpool and joined up with the
rest of the Corps. Unfortunately, Ms. Wilson died during the Deadpool Corps war, which
we’ll get back to later! Basically she crashed the Corps’ spaceship into the head of Galactipool,
a Deadpool version of Galactus, because that’s a normal thing apparently.
Anyway, time to move on to the next member of the Corps, Wade Wilson of Earth-10330,
Kidpool! Kidpool’s universe is fairly similar to Earth-616 except that most of the X-Men
are kids, including (obviously) Kidpool. Baby Wade attended and lived at the Xavier Orphanage
for Troubled Boys where he was a pretty obnoxious kid. One day during class he was making a
huge ruckus and was sent to detention with Scott Summers because of this. Knowing that
Scott wanted to go to the school’s prom that was happening at the same time as their
detention, Kidpool convinced him to break out! They eventually made it to the prom,
but because Kidpool is Kidpool he ended up picking a fight with pretty much the whole
school. After, being mocked by his peers, Wadey decided to leave the orphanage for good
and right as he said this, 616’s Deadpool popped in to recruit him for the fight against
the Awareness. I guess it’s also worth mentioning that Kidpool has two lightsabers that he stole
from the Danger Room, so that’s pretty neat.
Let’s do a recap; roll call so far is Deadpool with boobs, and Deadpool, but, like, an 8-year
old. Who else is in this corps of nutcases? Dazzle me writers! “How about we make Deadpool
a zombie and then cut his head off and just continue to have him around as a character??”
Yeah, this is actually a thing. Wade Wilson of Earth-2149, the Zombiverse, was infected
by the zombie plague at some point after the outbreak. After an encounter with the Silver
Surfer, Wade decided to transport to Earth-616 where he was captured by ARMOR, which is basically
SHIELD, but for interdimensional travel. At some point before his escape with Simon Garth,
also known as “Zombie,” he lost the rest of his body, now only a head. Later, after
Headpool got on Hydra’s radar, Dr. Betty Swanson, an AIM operative, and 616-Deadpool
tracked the head down to rescue him. They succeeded and all traveled back to the point
where Headpool entered 616 and the two Wades jumped through a portal in an attempt to return
to Earth-2149. This portal instead started their journey onto recruiting the rest of
the Corps. Later on, during the Deadpool War of sorts that I keep alluding to, Headpool
was killed by Dreadpool (who, again, we’ll get into later).
Last of the Deadpool Corps is the Wade Wilson of Earth-103173, Dogpool! As the name implies,
this Wade is a dog. Yeah, he’s just a straight up dog. He was used in testing facilities
for an experimental lipstick called Mascara X; not Lipstick X, Mascara X. Y’know, because
Weapon X. Anyway, the makeup was designed to be a self-replenishing lipstick, but when
it was used on Dogpool, it caused him to develop the ability to heal from any wound. Basically
it gave him the normal power set of Deadpool. So this unnamed shitty company decided that,
because the makeup had weird effects, they would just toss the mutt in the dumpster.
Dogpool wandered around until he found a local circus of which he quickly became the star!
This is where puppy-Wade stayed until 616’s Deadpool showed up and recruited him for the
cause. Dogpool died defending Deadpool at the start of the Deadpool War.
So now that we’re done with the Deadpool Corps and I’ve sufficiently teased you with
the war between Deadpools across the multiverse we’re…gonna take a quick break and talk
about a very interesting pair of alternate Wades!
These next two are interesting, because they kinda go hand in hand. They’re both from
Earth-11638, also known as the “Perfect World” where everything went, well, perfectly
for that world’s Peter Parker. If you wanna know more about the Perfect World, check out
an older episode of the show on alternate Hulks, I talk about it in greater detail over
there. So who is the Deadpool of this world? Well, that’s kinda complicated, because
there really isn’t one here. Wade Wilson here is actually a supergenius. At some point
he decided to don a flamboyantly red Doctor Doom-esque outfit and take on the name Death
Mask, for some reason that’s not really explained.
So if the Wade Wilson of this “perfect” world is pretty much Doctor Doom, then what’s
the Victor von Doom up to here? And where is this world’s Deadpool? Well, we can actually
kill two birds with one stone here since Earth-11638’s Victor von Doom is known as Deathwish, who
is pretty much a green Deadpool. He was actually pretty good friends with 616’s Deadpool
for a while until his death wish was fulfilled and he was killed by Death Mask.
Now it’s time to take a trip back to the 90’s to Earth-295 where Age of Apocalypse
takes place! Wade Wilson, also known as Dead Man Wade, was one of Apocalypse’s chief
assassins. The catch with this guy is that he has an extreme fascination with pain, in
fact, one of his fellow assassin buddies, Danielle Moonstar, indulged in this quirk
by just torturing him all the time. So, yeah, that’s neat. Because of this, he’s also
not the fun-loving maniac that 616’s Deadpool is, he’s normally pretty serious and borderline
depressed all the time. There really isn’t much else to this guy; he never became a “Deadpool”
and died in the Deadpool Corps War after joining the bad guys. I guess it’s also worth mentioning
that his healing factor was granted to him by Apocalypse, not unlike Keeper Murdock’s
powers, who I talked about in another older episode of the Show back in Season 1.
Now you can’t talk about alternate takes on Marvel characters without mentioning their
Ultimate counterparts so...! Deadpool’s Ultimate Universe version takes the form of
Wadey Wilson who is one of the lead Reavers. The Reavers, at least in the Ultimate Universe,
are a group of technically-enhanced humans with the sole mission of hunting mutants on
a TV show. This show, ran by Mojo Adams, takes place on Krakoa island and is exactly what
it sounds like; a disgusting ‘reality’ show designed to kill mutants. The one time
we saw an actual episode of the show was when Deadpool and some lackeys infiltrated the
X-Mansion and captured the current X-Men along with Spider-Man, who was visiting at the time.
They were brought to Krakoa and spread out amongst the island with the Reavers tracking
them down throughout the episode. Eventually everyone escaped, but not until after unmasking
Wilson. What the X-Men saw was pretty much a fish bowl with a naked head inside. See,
Earth-1610’s Deadpool doesn’t exactly have cancer, but he is majorly disfigured
as a result of his time in the Wakandan Wars. Wadey is also slightly less insane than his
616-counterpart, not unlike Dead Man Wade. He does break the fourth wall, but only to
the camera during Mojo’s show, he’s not aware of himself being in a comic book or
anything. Remember that Deadpool War I kept mentioning earlier? No, we’re not gonna
talk about it quite yet, but Wadey over here was killed during it. Moving on!
Next up is Wade Wilson of Earth-6466, a reality where at some point the United States and
Canada merged to form the United States of North America. Here Wade is known as “Major
Deadpool,” and is extremely well put-together for a version of the Merc With a Mouth. His
skin is completely clear, he’s a Major, as the name implies, in SHIELD, and is totally
devoted to his cause! At some point after Headpool and 616-Deadpool met up, they traveled
to this Earth and encountered the Major himself. He arrested the two and began the interrogation
process since he had lost a few of his soldiers to a similar dimensional portal days before.
Major got so fed up during 616’s interrogation that he decided to “punish” him by having
a hand-to-hand duel. The Major initially had the upper hand, but soon Deadpool overtook
him and started beating on him hard, claiming that he wanted to destroy something beautiful.
Eventually the Major woke up and ordered his soldiers to shoot the two Wades, but it was
too late. They escaped through another portal and seemingly continued their recruiting missions
for the Corps. Major Deadpool was also killed in the Deadpool War. Speaking of which...
Have you ever heard of a certain comic book called Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe?
For those that haven’t, it details the story of a version of Deadpool that was in the process
of being cured of his insanity. This didn’t work; however, and only replaced the voices
in his head with one singular mission: kill everything. Wade took it upon himself to track
down every superhero and supervillain in Earth-12101 and brutally murder them. And for those of
you that are thinking, “Oh, no big deal he couldn’t possibly kill every single character,
someone has to stop him!,” you’re wrong. Deadpool went above and beyond here even killing
the very writers of the book he was in and vowing to take down anyone who was reading
at the time. Now, he may have gotten a little overzealous with that last part, but still
this guy is a pretty accomplished serial killer.
So how does he fit into the Deadpool War I kept teasing? Well, he started it! At some
point after killing everyone in the Ideaverse, where all the literary characters that certain
Marvel characters are based on reside, Deadpool decided that his new mission was to track
down every single one of his doppelgangers and murder them. And you can tell as evidenced
by some of the Wades I’ve talked about on this list so far, he was pretty successful
at it. He formed an “Evil Deadpool Corps,” with Dead Man Wade and Ultimate Deadpool being
among its ranks. They traversed the multiverse killing versions of themselves along the way
until they ran into the original Deadpool Corps, of which they successfully defeated
most of its members. In one final battle between himself and 616-Deadpool, Dreadpool was killed
after realizing the pain he had caused the multiverse.
One last Deadpool I wanted to mention is Gwenpool, who was just recently created. All we really
know about her so far is that she got to 616 somehow and is working as a contract assassin
of sorts. Also her name is literally Gwen Poole, like Gwenpool but with a space and
an ‘e.’ Check out her ongoing that she’s getting soon, they’ll probably detail her
origin there! Oh and she also has super rad hair.
But, that’s all the Deadpool-ery I’ve got for this time. Who’s your favorite that
I talked about and did I miss any super important ones? Let me know in the comments! Before
you head out make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out on all my new stuff! That
all being said, thank you so much for watching. Next time someone tries to cure my insanity
and then I come to kill all of you.