10 Things You Need To Know About X-Men's Domino

Ever since that fantastic Ferris Bueller reference at the end of the first Deadpool movie, we've all been desperate for details on the sequel.

Along with a trickle of details, the two biggest bits of info is that fellow mutants and X-Force members Cable and Domino will be showing up. We're still waiting to find out who'll be playing Cable, with a new actor rumoured on a near weekly basis, but we do know who'll be playing Domino.

Thanks to an appropriately silly tweet from Ryan Reynolds (really that's how all news should be delivered), it was revealed that Atlanta actress Zazie Beetz will be bringing Neena Thurman to the big screen.

A lot of people though, might not necessarily know all that much about Domino. She's been a close ally to the X-Men and a long-standing member of X-Force, but she hasn't necessarily had as much exposure as some of Marvel's other mutants, spending most of her time out of the limelight.

Well, in a very thematically appropriate bit of good luck, this list is here to fill you in on all the facts you need to know on the X-Men's top mercenary and Wade Wilson's newest co-star.

Domino was born as part of Project: Armageddon, a top-secret government breeding program involved in the surprisingly competitive creating the ultimate weapon game.

Neena was the only subject to survive the process but her mutant powers were an anomaly and she was deemed a failure. Before she could be disposed of though, her biological mother broke her out and left her in the care of Father Rudolpho Boschelli in the Church of the Sacred Heart in Chicago.

When she was older, Neena took a pretty lateral career move, leaving the church to become a mercenary. One of her first missions was to protect the scientist, Doctor Milo Thurman. The two fell in love and they eventually married. Milo even gave her the nickname "Domino", for her pale white skin and the black spot over one of her eyes.

The Thurman's were separated when A.I.M members raided Milo's facilities. He was whisked off to an unknown safe location and Neena seemingly died fighting the evil beekeepers.

Domino obviously survived though, otherwise this would be a pretty short article. Whilst initially pretty distraught with the way her husband seemingly abandoned her, she eventually got over it and returned to life as a mercenary.