12 Massive Changes In Comic Book Movies From The Source Material

7. Deadpool Being A Frankenstein Of Sorts

Deadpool In Marvel's comics, Deadpool is the merc with a mouth - an anti-hero mercenary known for his second-to-none witty banter and light-hearted tomfoolery. His only superpower is the ability to heal (very much like Wolverine), while he sometimes has a device that enables him to teleport. He is a skilled combatant and marksman to boot. In the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, he starts off as Wade Wilson, just like in the comics, and has a sharp tongue just like we expected, but then everything changes. Wade is used in an experiment to turn him in to a mutant killer - being granted the powers of several other mutants, and none of their weaknesses, in order to achieve this aim. He has healing and teleportation, but also swords that come out of his hands in the same way that Wolverine's claws do and, most bizarrely, optic blasts like Cyclops. He was under the complete control of William Stryker too. Most frustrating, however, was the fact that his mouth was sewn shut, meaning none of his witty banter was possible - thus taking away the most essential and likeable part of the Deadpool character.
 
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