Character Profile: Wade Wilson – DEADPOOL

With the confirmation of the upcoming Deadpool movie in 2016, we thought it only fitting to highlight the “Merc with a Mouth” this week. Name: Wade Winston Wilson

Gender    Male

Height    6′ 2″

Weight    210 lbs (95 kg)

Eyes        Brown

Hair    Bald (formerly brown)

Unusual Features    Horribly scarred skin.

Place of Birth: Canada

Creators: Fabian Nicieza, Rob Liefeld

First Appearance: New Mutants #98

Relatives:

Mickey Wilson (father, deceased)

Hailey Wilson (mother, deceased)

Wade Wilson’s early life is mostly unknown. His mother died of cancer while he was young and his father, who was in the military, was physically abusive.

Following a brief stint of military service, Wade began his mercenary career while still in his late teens. Accepting assassination jobs only against those whom he felt deserved death, he made a habit of using plastic surgery and technology to take on a new identity whenever he failed an assignment.

Little is known of Wilson’s subsequent mercenary activities. At one point he was active in Tangier, Morocco, where he romanced a woman named Francie. When this relationship soured, he traveled throughout Asia, and was hired in Japan by a crimelord, the Boss, to infiltrate a sumo-wrestling ring owned by a rival criminal, the Oyakata. When the Boss finally ordered the Oyakata’s murder, Wilson refused to complete his assignment, allegedly the first time he had ever done so, and relocated to the United States.

Learning that he had contracted cancer, he accepted an offer of hope, from a group known as Department K, a special weapons development branch of the Canadian government. Wilson became a test subject in Department K’s branch of the joint U.S./Canadian superhuman enhancement project, the Weapon X Program. His cancer was temporarily arrested via the implantation of a healing factor derived from another Department K agent, the mutant adventurer Wolverine. After the experiment’s apparant success Wilson was active in the X program, a covert field unit, alongside the near-invulnerable Sluggo and the cyborgs Kane and Slayback. One of the team members, Copycat, a previous girl friend, Venessa, whom he jilted due to his cancer discovery, was later affiliated with the team after having manifested mutant shapeshifting abilities.

During one of the teams missions, Wilson killed his teammate Slayback. As a result, he was rejected from the Weapon X Program and sent to the Hospice, a government facility where failed superhuman operatives were treated. However, unknown to the Canadian government, the Hospice’s patients served as experimental subjects for Doctor Killebrew and his sadistic assistant Ajax, with the patients placing bets in a “deadpool” as to how long each subject would live.

Killebrew subjected Wilson to various torturous experiments for his own deranged satisfaction. In due course, Wilson formed a semi-romantic relationship with the cosmic entity Death, who regarded him as a kindred spirit. Wilson’s emotional strength during his trials earned him the respect of his fellow Hospice patients. Ajax, angered by Wilson’s taunts, lobotomized one of Wilson’s friends. At Death’s prompting, Wilson killed his friend to end his suffering. Under Killebrew’s rules, however, any patient who killed another was to be executed. Ajax subsequently tore out Wilson’s heart and left him for dead, but Wilson’s thirst for vengeance was so strong that it jumpstarted his healing factor, regenerating his heart, although not curing his scarred body. Wilson then attacked Ajax, leaving him for dead in turn, and, taking the name Deadpool, escaped from the Hospice with his fellow patients.

Following his escape, Deadpool served for a time as an enforcer alongside the surgically altered criminal Hammerhead. He soon returned to his freelance mercenary activities, donning a costume in keeping with his new identity.

Deadpool’s personality is best described by this quote.

“I always forget (or just black out to spare myself the agony) what Wilson’s most lethal weapon is… his mouth! He’ll talk nonsense until you surrender or commit suicide. ”

– Domino –

If you’re interested in learning more about Deadpool (Wade Wilson), click the link below.

More on Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/universe/Deadpool_(Wade_Wilson)#ixzz3JeiDnUKz

And, here’s the link to the “test trailer”. CLICK the image of Deadpool below. I do believe it will be far tamer than the Deadpool we’re used to.