10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About Deadpool
9. The Time He Lost His Powers
It seems like every superhero has to go through the rigmarole of losing their superpowers for a bit, so writers can interrogate what makes them tick when they're literally weak and vulnerable. The Grounded storyline had Superman walking across America to meet the common man in the post-9/11 world, Storm of the X-Men felt disconnected from the natural world when she was once cured, that sort of thing. In some cases, it can lead to some truly classic stories, like the Spider-Man No More saga that was adapted fairly faithfully with Sam Raimi's second web head movie. Then there are the...less good stories which take the de-powered angle. Such as the brief period recently when Deadpool was cured of his healing factor which, much like Wolverine's, made him effectively not only indestructible but also immortal. His cells just kept regenerating forever and ever. So, technically, he could never die. Being cured also meant that the horrible scarring the Weapon X experiments that gave him the healing factor in the first place went away, and thus all the angst that underpinned the goofiness of Deadpool went away in favour of a weird Zen thing where he was readily accepting death. That's not fun. Ryan Reynolds just did his serious face film. Kind of.
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