Warning: contains spoilers for Deadpool #6!There are tons of Marvel heroes who don’t mind using lethal force, and one of the deadliest among them is Wade Wilson’sDeadpool. Deadpool has mowed down hundreds if not thousands of his enemies, using a truly impossible variety of weapons from everyday firearms to grenades that unleash man-eating cockroaches. However, asWade Wilson’s successor takes over, he’s demanding they hold back their lethal potential.
AsDeadpool passes the mantle to his daughter, he decides to give her a surprising new rule to live by. While Deadpool has never had any issues killing people, he makes it clear to both his daughter Ellie and her trainer Taskmaster that he doesn’t want her using lethal force under any circumstances.
Stories likeDeadpool Kills the Marvel UniverseandDeadpool Kills Deadpoolmake it clear how tied Deadpool is to lethality, and yetyears of taking lives have left Wade Wilson truly miserable. It’s clear that despite allowing her to use his name, he doesn’t want Ellie to go down the same path. His desire for Ellie to avoid using lethal force goes so far that Wade even has Ellie start using and training with blunted shock knives, making it so that Ellie isn’t equipped to take lives. As Wade is killed soon after making this decision, it becomes his last wish, meaning thatif the new Deadpool takes a life, she’ll be betraying her father.
Ellie’s Deadpool suit includes kevlar armor and fireproof material, giving her added protection that will hopefully make up for her ‘no killing’ restriction.
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Deadpool #6by Cody Ziglar, Roge Antonio, Guru-eFX, and Joe Sabino
Ellie recently manifested her mutant powers,developing a healing factor of her own. However, her power has a unique application - her healing overclocks her mind and body, allowing her to develop new skills at a far faster rate than normal humans. With Deadpool still injured from his previous fight with the mystically-empowered Death Grip, he agrees to allow Ellie to go on his booked mercenary missions along with Taskmaster and his symbiote ‘daughter’ Princess. However, on Ellie’s first mission, Death Grip returns to finish off Deadpool, leaving her the Marvel Universe’s one and only Merc with a Mouth.
One of the most consistent parts of Deadpool’s character has always been his care for his daughter and his desire for her to be better than him. Deadpool killed people with ease and by the hundreds, because the truth is, he’s just not the best person. This is something he willingly admits himself. ButDeadpool doesn’t want that for his daughter- it’s one of the reasons he stayed out of her life for so long, protecting her from afar. Now that she is taking over the mantle, Wade only wants her to be better than him.
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Ellie Is on the Path to Being a Better Deadpool
By Avoiding Killing, She Could Be a True Hero
The wish of every parent is for their child to have a better life than they did. Wade is a character who has had immense amounts of self-hatred over his actions, and he’s been vilified by the superhero community because of them in the past. Because of this, Wade tried to walk the tightrope of giving his daughter the training to use her powers without becoming the same kind of deadly mercenary he is.
Sadly, it’s possible that Deadpool’s death will fill Ellie with enough rage to ignore her promise, and while Taskmaster is a great trainer, he’s not exactly a moral paragon any more than Deadpool himself. Wade Wilson wanted his daughter to resist taking lives with her new powers, setting the newDeadpoola challenge she may struggle to meet.
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Deadpool
The merc with the mouth first appeared in an issue ofNew Mutantsin 1990, and since then has gone on to get his own series and a massive cult following. With his incredible powers of healing and regeneration, Deadpool was initially depicted as an X-Men villain but went on to become an anti-hero. After getting his own movie series starting in 2016, the third Deadpool movie finally brings the wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
