10 Most Heartbreaking Deadpool Moments
5. Finding Out He Killed His 'Wife'
As a rule, Deadpool comics generally contain some pretty hectic shenanigans - everything from fighting ghost presidents to befriending sentient plants are fair game - and so it comes as a complete curveball when something happens that still manages to be shocking in all the general madness.
The 1997 Deadpool run contains perhaps the most effective of these, as - in a plot twist that proves a wild ride even for Deadpool standards - the woman who we believe to be Wilson's reanimated wife is revealed to actually have been one of his victims, making the romance that had been building between them not only stone cold dead, but also very tragic. This also more or less totally evaporates all of what Wade thought was his life prior to his time as a mercenary, which is a solid chunk of history to have to throw into the trash.
The only thing that stops this story from being Titanic levels of heartwrenching is Deadpool's outright refusal to concede his emotions, as pages after we find out this genuinely miserable news, Deadpool does what Deadpool does best, and laughs the whole thing off.