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This Deadpool trivia quiz has 100 free questions with answers and covers Wade Wilson from his first comic appearance to the billion-dollar team-up with Wolverine: how Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza built him as a Deathstroke parody, the healing factor and the cancer, Blind Al and Weasel, the fourth wall, Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, his marriage to the Queen of the Undead, and then the films: the leaked test footage that forced Fox's hand, Tim Miller's 2016 movie and its record run, Vanessa, Ajax, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, David Leitch's sequel with Cable, Domino and the doomed X-Force, the PG-13 Fred Savage cut, and Shawn Levy's Deadpool & Wolverine with the TVA, Cassandra Nova and the highest R-rated gross ever. It is written for comic fans, movie fans and anyone who owns a chimichanga t-shirt. Easy questions cover the character everyone knows; the hard ones ask about issue numbers, budgets and who created Cable. Every answer has been checked against a reliable source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Deadpool first appeared in which comic, cover-dated February 1991?
The New Mutants #98
He debuted as a villain, and the same issue introduced Domino, or rather the shapeshifter Copycat impersonating her.
Q 02Which artist and writer team created Deadpool?
Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza
Liefeld took the name from 'the dead pool', a phrase he heard from his parents, and Nicieza wrote the dialogue.
Q 03Deadpool was originally conceived as a parody of which DC Comics villain?
Deathstroke
DC's mercenary is Slade Wilson, so Nicieza named Marvel's Wade Wilson as an in-joke.
Q 04What is Deadpool's full civilian name?
Wade Winston Wilson
He is a disfigured Canadian mercenary, and the surname is a nod to a DC villain's alter ego, Slade Wilson.
Q 05The DC mercenary Slade Wilson, whom Deadpool parodies, was created in 1980 by which writer-artist team?
Marv Wolfman and George Pérez
He debuted in The New Teen Titans #2 wearing the black-and-orange mask that hides his missing right eye.
Q 06Deadpool's healing factor was grafted onto cells already ridden with what?
Cancer
The experiment saved his life but left him permanently disfigured, and the healing works better or worse depending on his mental state.
Q 07Deadpool's red and black costume and wisecracking personality were inspired by which other Marvel hero?
Spider-Man
Liefeld was a big fan, and the two share a fondness for talking through fights.
Q 08Which writer took over Deadpool in 1997 and made him the manic, fourth-wall-breaking character fans know?
Joe Kelly
Kelly's run also introduced Blind Al, the elderly woman who lives with Wade.
Q 09What is Deadpool famous for doing that almost no other Marvel character does?
Breaking the fourth wall
He knows he is a comic book character, and in the films he knows he is in a movie.
Q 10In which 2012 storyline does Wade murder every hero and villain in the entire comic-book world?
Kills the Marvel Universe
It was successful enough to get a sequel where he goes after classic literature.
Q 11In Deadpool #27 (2014), Wade married which character?
Shiklah, the undead queen
The issue set a Guinness record for most characters on a comic cover; writer Gerry Duggan had confirmed Deadpool as pansexual the previous December.
Q 12Which of these languages is Deadpool NOT listed as speaking fluently in the comics?
Russian
He is also an expert swordsman and marksman, and has survived being incinerated and decapitated more than once.
Q 13In 2004 Fabian Nicieza paired Wade with his former enemy Nathan Summers in which team-up series?
Cable & Deadpool
The odd-couple dynamic became the basis for Deadpool 2.
Q 21Who plays Wade's girlfriend Vanessa in the films?
Morena Baccarin
In the comics Vanessa Carlysle is the shapeshifting mutant Copycat.
Q 22Ed Skrein's villain in the first film goes by Ajax, but what real first name does Wade insist on using?
Francis
Skrein had just left Game of Thrones, where he was the first Daario Naharis.
Q 23Which two X-Men accompany Deadpool in the 2016 film?
Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Stefan Kapicic voiced the metal giant and Brianna Hildebrand played the sullen teenager.
Q 14Cable is the son of Cyclops and which character, a clone of Jean Grey?
Madelyne Pryor
As a baby he was infected with a techno-organic virus and sent to the future, which is where the metal arm comes from.
Q 15What is Domino's mutant power?
Probability control
Her real name is Neena Thurman and the black patch around her left eye was inspired by domino tiles.
Q 16Ryan Reynolds first played Wade Wilson in which 2009 film?
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
That version had his mouth sewn shut, which fans hated and Reynolds later called frustrating.
Q 17What finally persuaded 20th Century Fox to greenlight the 2016 Deadpool film?
Leaked test footage
The footage hit the internet in July 2014 and the reaction was so loud that Fox approved the film within weeks.
Q 18Who directed the 2016 Deadpool film, his feature directorial debut?
Tim Miller
He came from visual effects and left the sequel over creative differences.
Q 19The 2016 Deadpool film was made for how much?
$58 million
It grossed $782.6 million, which made it the highest-grossing R-rated film ever at the time.
Q 20Which two writers scripted the 2016 Deadpool film?
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick
They had previously written Zombieland, and the opening credits list them as 'the real heroes here'.
Q 24Which comedian plays Wade's bartender friend Weasel in the first two films?
T.J. Miller
Karan Soni plays Dopinder the taxi driver, and Leslie Uggams plays Blind Al.
Q 25The post-credits scene of the 2016 film parodies which 1980s comedy?
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Stan Lee cameos earlier as the emcee at a strip club.
Q 26In which city was the 2016 Deadpool film shot?
Vancouver
It is also Ryan Reynolds's home town.
Q 27Ryan Reynolds received a Golden Globe nomination for Deadpool in which category?
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy
The film itself was also nominated for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.
Q 28Who directed Deadpool 2 after the first film's director walked away over creative differences?
David Leitch
Leitch had co-directed John Wick and directed Atomic Blonde.
Q 29Which actor plays the time-travelling soldier Cable in Deadpool 2?
Josh Brolin
Brolin was simultaneously playing Thanos in the Avengers films.
Q 30What happens to most of the X-Force team Deadpool assembles in Deadpool 2?
They die skydiving
Brad Pitt's cameo as the invisible Vanisher lasts about a second, ending on a power line.