10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About Deadpool

3. Anything About His Origins

If you think that Wolverine's back story is complicated, he hasn't got anything on Wade Wilson. The early years of Deadpool have mostly remained a mystery, to both readers and the man himself, with a recent revelation in Marvel's Original Sin crossover (where a load of characters learned some hitherto-secret things about their life, like Tony Stark having an involement in the accident that turned Bruce Banner in the Hulk) being particularly shocking. Deadpool is a silly character. There's a little gallows humour in his jokes, but mostly he's meant to be light and drama-free. Which made it a little jarring when Original Sin revealed that a younger, more confused Wade Wilson was tricked into killing his own parents, and he has not memory of it. That's not really what you want with Deadpool. Especially when, again, he's the guy about to front a major Hollywood movie. Which may be violent in its own way, if the test footage is anything to go by, but killing your parents is pretty dark for a superhero movie. The rest of his origin is disputed, with conflicting stories having him as a crazy person who killed Wade Wilson and took his identity or a son of a Canadian war hero drawn into the mercenary life. Confusing.