10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Deadpool

10. He's Always Been An Anti-Hero

A pretty basic one to kick us off.

He straddles the line of reluctant hero/anti hero most often these days, and that’s certainly the route Ryan Reynolds has taken him down in the two solo movies. However, there never used to be a grey area about the issue: Deadpool was a villain.

He’s tasked with killing the New Mutants in his first appearance, hitting the ground running with his villainous edge. Following this he was a recurring X-Force character, serving as an antagonist once more.

In fact Mark Waid, who wrote Deadpool’s second miniseries in 1994 when the character was still being established, has spoken about his regret in taking the role. “Frankly, if I’d known Deadpool was such a creep when I agreed to write the miniseries, I wouldn’t have done it,” Waid would later say in an interview with Wizard.

Deadpool’s failure to answer for his crimes was Waid’s biggest sticking point, and it wasn’t really until 1997 that Deadpool started his path to redemption with Joe Kelly’s run. Christopher Priest took over and kept the anti-hero vibe Kelly had cultivated, and it’s stuck ever since.