10 Comics You Loved As A Teen (But Should Never Return To)

8. Deadpool... Like, A Lot Of Deadpool

Deadpool's a great character, but like the best of things, he's best enjoyed in small amounts, and when his worst excesses can be inhibited. Sadly, for a good while now, poor Wade Wilson has effectively been Flanderised by multiple, successive series and spin-offs; he's rarely ever compelling and, when he is, it tends to be a genuine surprise.

The problem with Deadpool is that the character is inherently interesting. There's something to enjoy about a fourth-wall-breaking anti-hero who, more often than not, ends up being the reluctant protagonist sent in to save the day. He's a Deathstroke parody and a fine outlet for satire in the right hands, but in the wrong hands, Wilson's stories quickly devolve into a convoluted hodgepodge of self-referential meta-humour, monotonous violence and outdated gimmicks, and it's made all the worse by the fact that - at the height of the character's popularity - he was showing up in pretty much everything Marvel published.

If that wasn't all though, the cherry on chop is that the character effectively has the 'bazinga!' of the superhero genre in 'chimichanga!', which he utters all the time as if the word itself is inherently funny. It isn't! And every time it comes back it feels as though the writer responsible is sat mashing 'XD lol' into their script in some outdated attempt at getting a laugh out of the reader. It's 2019! Get a different joke.

The worst thing about this is that Wade Wilson is tremendous when handled correctly. So why is he just an immature edgelord in most of his books?