100 Fun Facts About Deadpool

Deadpool first appeared in which comic, cover-dated February 1991?

He debuted as a villain, and the same issue introduced Domino, or rather the shapeshifter Copycat impersonating her.

Which artist and writer team created Deadpool?

Liefeld took the name from 'the dead pool', a phrase he heard from his parents, and Nicieza wrote the dialogue.

Deadpool was originally conceived as a parody of which DC Comics villain?

DC's mercenary is Slade Wilson, so Nicieza named Marvel's Wade Wilson as an in-joke.

What is Deadpool's full civilian name?

He is a disfigured Canadian mercenary, and the surname is a nod to a DC villain's alter ego, Slade Wilson.

The DC mercenary Slade Wilson, whom Deadpool parodies, was created in 1980 by which writer-artist team?

He debuted in The New Teen Titans #2 wearing the black-and-orange mask that hides his missing right eye.

Deadpool's healing factor was grafted onto cells already ridden with what?

The experiment saved his life but left him permanently disfigured, and the healing works better or worse depending on his mental state.

Deadpool's red and black costume and wisecracking personality were inspired by which other Marvel hero?

Liefeld was a big fan, and the two share a fondness for talking through fights.

Which writer took over Deadpool in 1997 and made him the manic, fourth-wall-breaking character fans know?

Kelly's run also introduced Blind Al, the elderly woman who lives with Wade.

What is Deadpool famous for doing that almost no other Marvel character does?

He knows he is a comic book character, and in the films he knows he is in a movie.

In which 2012 storyline does Wade murder every hero and villain in the entire comic-book world?

It was successful enough to get a sequel where he goes after classic literature.

In Deadpool #27 (2014), Wade married which character?

The issue set a Guinness record for most characters on a comic cover; writer Gerry Duggan had confirmed Deadpool as pansexual the previous December.

Which of these languages is Deadpool NOT listed as speaking fluently in the comics?

He is also an expert swordsman and marksman, and has survived being incinerated and decapitated more than once.

In 2004 Fabian Nicieza paired Wade with his former enemy Nathan Summers in which team-up series?

The odd-couple dynamic became the basis for Deadpool 2.

Cable is the son of Cyclops and which character, a clone of Jean Grey?

As a baby he was infected with a techno-organic virus and sent to the future, which is where the metal arm comes from.

What is Domino's mutant power?

Her real name is Neena Thurman and the black patch around her left eye was inspired by domino tiles.

Ryan Reynolds first played Wade Wilson in which 2009 film?

That version had his mouth sewn shut, which fans hated and Reynolds later called frustrating.

What finally persuaded 20th Century Fox to greenlight the 2016 Deadpool film?

The footage hit the internet in July 2014 and the reaction was so loud that Fox approved the film within weeks.

Who directed the 2016 Deadpool film, his feature directorial debut?

He came from visual effects and left the sequel over creative differences.

The 2016 Deadpool film was made for how much?

It grossed $782.6 million, which made it the highest-grossing R-rated film ever at the time.

Which two writers scripted the 2016 Deadpool film?

They had previously written Zombieland, and the opening credits list them as 'the real heroes here'.

Who plays Wade's girlfriend Vanessa in the films?

In the comics Vanessa Carlysle is the shapeshifting mutant Copycat.

Ed Skrein's villain in the first film goes by Ajax, but what real first name does Wade insist on using?

Skrein had just left Game of Thrones, where he was the first Daario Naharis.

Which two X-Men accompany Deadpool in the 2016 film?

Stefan Kapicic voiced the metal giant and Brianna Hildebrand played the sullen teenager.

Which comedian plays Wade's bartender friend Weasel in the first two films?

Karan Soni plays Dopinder the taxi driver, and Leslie Uggams plays Blind Al.

The post-credits scene of the 2016 film parodies which 1980s comedy?

Stan Lee cameos earlier as the emcee at a strip club.

In which city was the 2016 Deadpool film shot?

It is also Ryan Reynolds's home town.

Ryan Reynolds received a Golden Globe nomination for Deadpool in which category?

The film itself was also nominated for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

Who directed Deadpool 2 after the first film's director walked away over creative differences?

Leitch had co-directed John Wick and directed Atomic Blonde.

Which actor plays the time-travelling soldier Cable in Deadpool 2?

Brolin was simultaneously playing Thanos in the Avengers films.

What happens to most of the X-Force team Deadpool assembles in Deadpool 2?

Brad Pitt's cameo as the invisible Vanisher lasts about a second, ending on a power line.

Which villain in Deadpool 2 is voiced by Ryan Reynolds himself?

The young mutant Russell, played by Julian Dennison, is the one Cable travels back in time to kill.

What was the PG-13 re-cut of Deadpool 2, with Fred Savage in a framing device, titled?

Savage was reprising his role from The Princess Bride, thirty-one years on.

Which singer recorded the original song 'Ashes' for Deadpool 2?

The video features Deadpool dancing in heels around her.

Deadpool 2 was made for what budget?

It took about $786 million worldwide, edging past the first film as the top R-rated earner.

Who directed Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)?

Levy had made Free Guy and The Adam Project with Reynolds; it was the first R-rated film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Deadpool & Wolverine grossed roughly how much worldwide, a record for an R-rated film?

That made it the second-biggest film of 2024, behind only Inside Out 2.

Which actress plays the villain Cassandra Nova in Deadpool & Wolverine?

In the comics Cassandra Nova is Charles Xavier's evil twin; Matthew Macfadyen plays TVA agent Mr. Paradox.

In Deadpool & Wolverine, Hugh Jackman finally wears what?

Fans had waited since 2000 to see it on screen.

Which organisation from the series Loki plays a central role in Deadpool & Wolverine?

Much of the film takes place in the Void, the dumping ground at the end of time.

Which actor cameos in Deadpool & Wolverine as Johnny Storm rather than his more famous Marvel role?

Wesley Snipes returned as Blade, Jennifer Garner as Elektra and Channing Tatum finally got to play Gambit.

Which Welsh football club does Ryan Reynolds co-own with Rob McElhenney?

They bought it in 2020, and the documentary Welcome to Wrexham won Emmys.

Which DC superhero did Ryan Reynolds play in a 2011 film that Deadpool later mocks relentlessly?

He met his wife Blake Lively on that set, so it was not a total loss.

Roughly how many copies did The New Mutants #98, Deadpool's debut, sell?

The issue drew three to four hundred letters, about 75% asking for the character's return, versus the usual fifty.

Who pencilled Deadpool: The Circle Chase, the character's first solo miniseries in 1993?

Nicieza wrote it and cited his mother-in-law's cancer as an influence, describing the hook as Bugs Bunny meets Frankenstein.

Which writer's 2008 relaunch, tied to Secret Invasion, revived Deadpool from having 'flatlined'?

Its debut sold out at 17th on the charts, and Way's twin caption-box inner voices became official continuity in 2014.

How many Deadpool ongoing or limited series ran between 2009 and 2012, a Marvel record for one character?

They included Merc with a Mouth, Deadpool Team-Up, Deadpool Corps and the adult-imprint Deadpool MAX.

In Kelly Thompson's 2019 run, Deadpool becomes king of Marvel's monsters, who have relocated where?

A redesigned Kraven the Hunter came hunting them, and Elsa Bloodstone became a love interest alongside Jeff the Land Shark.

Which Japanese horror mangaka did Alyssa Wong cite as a key influence on her body-horror Deadpool run?

Her assassins' collective the Atelier dressed 'like the Hellfire Gala every day', and new love interest Valentine Vuong debuted.

In Deadpool Killustrated, Deadpool travels to the 'Ideaverse' to murder which kind of characters?

He kills the Headless Horseman, Captain Ahab and Dracula while Sherlock Holmes recruits Beowulf and Mulan to stop him.

In the Marvel 2099 future, who is the new Deadpool, Warda Wilson?

She holds an older Wade prisoner while his other daughter Ellie, wearing a Zenpool-style costume, fights to reclaim the name.

Peggy, the Dogpool of Deadpool & Wolverine, first found fame by winning which unflattering title?

Britain's ugliest dog was the 2023 title that put Peggy, a pug and Chinese crested cross, on television. Ryan Reynolds said she trained for the film longer than his co-star did.

In Deadpool (2016), Wade takes his alias from a board at Weasel's bar where mercenaries bet on what?

Who dies next is the bet, a game known as a dead pool, and Weasel puts his money on Wade. The scarred mercenary simply takes the name as his own.

In Deadpool 2, which arcade keepsake from Vanessa stops the bullet Wade takes for young Russell?

A Skee-Ball token was Vanessa's anniversary gift and the last thing Wade has of her. Cable jumps back a few minutes in time and straps it over his heart.

Ryan Reynolds wanted Deadpool after a comic likened Wade's face to the actor crossed with which dog?

A Shar-Pei is the wrinkled breed Wade names in the comics when he describes his scarred looks. The joke had hooked Reynolds by 2004, twelve years before the film finally opened.

Which star, once considered for Cable, flashes up as the invisible Vanisher in Deadpool 2?

Brad Pitt filmed the blink-and-miss cameo in two hours for the union minimum, plus a Starbucks coffee that Ryan Reynolds had to hand over in person.

The makers of Deadpool & Wolverine asked Madonna for which of her hits, and got notes on the scene?

Like a Prayer scores a key action sequence that Ryan Reynolds first pictured in 2020 or 2021. Madonna gave her notes, yet declined to let the song onto the soundtrack album.

Stan Lee's cameo in Deadpool (2016) casts the Marvel legend as the announcer at which kind of venue?

A strip club is where he works as the emcee. He could not film a cameo for Deadpool 2, so his likeness appears there as a bust in the X-Mansion and as graffiti on a wall.

A Deadpool guest spot in a Marvel cartoon is credited with coining which piece of online slang?

Unalive was Deadpool's stand-in for the word kill when he guest-starred in an animated series. Mainstream social media adopted it over the 2020s.

The crude popcorn bucket sold for Deadpool & Wolverine spoofed a viral bucket from which other film?

Dune: Part Two had a popcorn bucket that went viral earlier in 2024. Marvel answered with a clawed hero's head and a comically oversized mouth, which Kevin Feige promised would be intentionally crude.

Deadpool (2016) overtook which 2003 sequel as the highest-grossing R-rated film worldwide?

The Matrix Reloaded had held the record for thirteen years. Joker raised the bar again in 2019, becoming the first R-rated film to gross a billion dollars.

Whose 1981 hit version of Angel of the Morning plays over the opening credits of Deadpool (2016)?

Juice Newton took the ballad into the American top ten. In the film it plays while the camera drifts through a single suspended moment inside a crashing car.

Which mixed martial artist turned actress plays the super-strong Angel Dust in Deadpool (2016)?

Gina Carano took the part after a personal phone call from the director. She wanted coloured contact lenses to match the printed character, but the makeup designer said they belonged in a Twilight film.

Which Tony winner, once Kizzy in Roots, plays Wade's roommate Blind Al in the Deadpool films?

Leslie Uggams played Blind Al in each of the first three films. She described the character as old but feisty, with a past in British Intelligence and a love-hate bond with her housemate.

The final battle of Deadpool (2016) rages across the wreck of which craft, lying in a scrapyard?

A helicarrier wreck let the film nod to the wider Marvel world. To avoid a rights clash with Marvel Studios, it was designed to look as unlike the one in The Avengers as possible.

Deadpool (2016) has Wade Wilson dishonourably discharged from which country's special forces?

Canada gave the world both Wade Wilson and the actor who plays him. The comics also make the character a mercenary from that country.

Deadpool 2 locks Wade and young Russell inside which remote prison built for mutant criminals?

The Ice Box fits its inmates with collars that suppress their powers. Early scripts had a break-in make every collar fail at once, an idea dropped as too costly to film.

Which New Zealand star of Hunt for the Wilderpeople plays the teenage mutant Russell in Deadpool 2?

Julian Dennison was the only actor considered. Ryan Reynolds insisted on him after seeing that earlier film, and the part was tailor-made for him.

Which NSYNC hit soundtracks the dance-and-fight opening credits of Deadpool & Wolverine?

Bye Bye Bye plays as Wade copies moves from the song's music video in mid-fight. NSYNC later retitled the official video to name the film.

Which actor returned as Blade in Deadpool & Wolverine, two decades after his last film in the role?

Wesley Snipes earned two Guinness World Records for the comeback, including the longest career as a live-action Marvel character. He had assumed the part was gone for good.

Which actress, who married Ryan Reynolds in 2012, voices Ladypool in Deadpool & Wolverine?

Blake Lively also changed the ending: she suggested hiding the heroes' fate for a moment to add suspense. Two of the couple's children voice other Deadpool variants.

Channing Tatum plays which mutant in Deadpool & Wolverine, years after his own solo film collapsed?

Gambit was to be his solo film from 2014, but the project sat in development limbo until its cancellation in 2019. A scene showing the character surviving the new story was shot as well.

Which actress plays Elektra again in Deadpool & Wolverine, nineteen years after her own spin-off?

Jennifer Garner first played the sai-wielding fighter opposite Ben Affleck in 2003's Daredevil. The new film's joke about the couple's divorce was cleared with her before it went in.

Which former Superman star makes a surprise cameo as a variant of Wolverine in Deadpool & Wolverine?

Henry Cavill appears for a moment as a clawed variant nicknamed the Cavillrine. He is one of the alternate versions the film cycles through while Wade hunts for a replacement hero.

When Deadpool & Wolverine begins, a retired Wade Wilson is working in which everyday job?

Used-car salesman is the job he shares with an old X-Force teammate. He has retired from the mask and split from Vanessa by the time agents seize him at his birthday party.

In Deadpool & Wolverine, which Iron Man ally interviews Wade for the Avengers and turns him down?

Happy Hogan is played once more by Jon Favreau. The writers wanted Tony Stark himself in the scene as well, but his actor declined after reading it.

Which Succession star plays Mr. Paradox, the scheming time bureaucrat of Deadpool & Wolverine?

Matthew Macfadyen saw the character as untrustworthy rather than villainous: a man who would love to be a supervillain but is stuck with the mundane job of monitoring timelines.

A running gag in Deadpool 2 has Wade insist that a song from which Disney hit copies one from Yentl?

Frozen is the butt of the gag. After Disney agreed to buy Fox, the studio made the producers cut a different joke that mentioned the deal itself.

Which disguised star plays a redneck in Deadpool 2 and is credited under the alias Dickie Greenleaf?

Matt Damon borrowed the alias from his 1999 thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley. He and Alan Tudyk play two men debating a toilet-paper manifesto when Cable arrives from the future.

Which star of the series Atlanta plays Domino, the mercenary recruited to X-Force, in Deadpool 2?

Zazie Beetz played her as an only child who falls into a sibling-style sparring match with Wade. Ryan Reynolds announced the casting himself in March 2017.

Which dish, a running Deadpool joke, did Ryan Reynolds serve from a truck before Super Bowl 50?

Chimichangas came out of a taco truck that the star ran on the Friday before the game. The next day a site near the stadium was dressed up as the bar from the film.

A late budget cut made the writers of Deadpool (2016) have Wade forget what before the final battle?

His bag of guns stays behind, which spared the production a costly third-act gunfight. The same trim removed a motorcycle chase and about nine pages of script.

Which major film market refused Deadpool (2016) a release over its violence and nudity?

China often takes cleaned-up versions of R-rated American films, but this one was judged impossible to trim without harming the plot. It finally screened there uncut at a Beijing festival in 2018.

Rights issues stopped Deadpool (2016) tying Wade's comic sidekick Bob to which villainous group?

Hydra goes unmentioned because Marvel Studios owned the rights to Bob and would not permit his use. The film gives his cameo a new past as a special-forces veteran like Wade.

Mr. Paradox banishes the heroes of Deadpool & Wolverine to which wasteland at the end of time?

The Void is overseen by Cassandra Nova, who struck a deal with the agency that banishes people there. A creature called Alioth consumes whoever she discards.

Cassandra Nova's arena in Deadpool & Wolverine is built from the giant corpse of which Avenger?

Ant-Man can grow to enormous size, which is why his remains are large enough to house her court. The arena set was extended so that it sat inside the corpse.

The actor cast as Cable in Deadpool 2 also plays which villain of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

Thanos had to share his actor, who signed a four-film deal as Cable. He trained three hours a day for weeks and gave up sugar to look the part.

In the opening of Deadpool & Wolverine, Wade kills a squad of agents using what, dug from a grave?

A hero's skeleton does the job: the bones belong to this world's dead clawed mutant and are still laced with adamantium. Wade had hoped to revive him and save their timeline.

Which actor-musician was hired with his brother to run an animated Deadpool series that FXX dropped?

Donald Glover and his brother Stephen had a full series order from 2017. Stephen later said the last straw for the network was an episode built around a famous pop star.

In the Deadpool comics, Wade's lover Vanessa Carlysle is a shape-shifter with which codename?

Copycat never appears in the films, whose writers wanted the focus kept on Wade. The makeup designer still slipped in nods to her blue skin on the printed page.

To alter a trainee's powers in Deadpool (2016), Fox handed Marvel Studios which character?

Ego the Living Planet was wanted by James Gunn for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. The swap let Fox turn the trainee's telepathy from the comics into explosive blasts.

Which actor was cut from Deadpool (2016), then voiced the floating Headpool in the third film?

Nathan Fillion filmed a scene as a bathroom attendant that survives only among the deleted scenes on the home release. Eight years later he returned as the voice of a bodiless head.

The X-Men's brief cameo behind a door in Deadpool 2 was filmed during the making of which film?

Dark Phoenix was shooting in Montreal at the same time. Its director filmed the team through an open door, and visual effects dropped the shot into the mansion.

The 2013 Deadpool video game opens with Wade bombing which studio, the game's real developer?

High Moon Studios rejects his pitch in the story, so he sets off explosives until it gives in. Later he burns through the budget and the game drops into 8-bit graphics.

Which sitcom star voices Wade Wilson in the 2025 virtual-reality game Marvel's Deadpool VR?

Neil Patrick Harris plays a Wade enlisted by the villain Mojo to kidnap other villains for a reality show. Lost limbs slowly grow back, and can be swung as weapons in the meantime.

Which composer, alias Junkie XL, built the score of Deadpool (2016) around 1980s synthesisers?

Tom Holkenborg noticed that Wade only ever refers to music from before 1990, so he reached for vintage instruments such as the Oberheim and the Synclavier.

The first poster for Deadpool 2 restaged Freedom from Want, a 1943 work by which American painter?

Norman Rockwell's picture of a family Thanksgiving dinner is one of his most famous works. The sequel's first teaser video followed the poster a week later.

Which Sin City director was asked to make Deadpool in 2010, read the script, then lost interest?

Robert Rodriguez called the script really good, but had lost interest within months. The job went the next year to a visual-effects artist who had never directed a feature.

An April Fools' video for Deadpool (2016) showed Wade apparently murdering which host of Extra?

Mario Lopez had just been told on air that the film would be family friendly. The stunt was the campaign's way of confirming that it would be rated R.

In Deadpool & Wolverine, the two heroes fight a bloody battle in the back of which family car?

Honda Odyssey is the minivan, and the fight is jokingly framed like a love scene. The camera finally settles on a Coexist bumper sticker.

Which voice actor, famous as the hero of the Uncharted games, plays Wade in the 2013 Deadpool game?

Nolan North is hired within the story itself, after Wade strong-arms the developers into making his game. He has also voiced the character in cartoons, pinball tables and fighting games.