Deadpool All Good Things Sparknotes

First and foremost, Deadpool is a mercenary in the truest sense of the word, he’ll take money from anybody for anything…or at least he used to. In his earliest renditions, before he obtained his own comic, he was shown as a villain out to kill the mutant Cable for a mysterious benefactor named Mr. Tolliver (The New Mutants #98, 1990). Initially, the character is portrayed as an intelligent and sarcastic with a limited set of morals in that he doesn’t kill unnecessarily, but doesn’t look too closely into whether he’s going after good guys, bad guys, or just low level thugs. Not much is known about the character’s backstory until 1997 when he received his own comic series and we find out that Wade Wilson was a failed result of the Weapon X program with was supposed to infuse the mercenary with Wolverine’s healing factor, but backfired horrifically (Deadpool: The Circle Chase, 1993). Once he obtains his own series the character is fleshed out and his morality is explored more closely. In one of the earlier issues Deadpool returns to Weapon X, lured by the promise of an increased healing factor. Deadpool teams up with long term
In this series Deadpool takes a job for the company Roxxon. The job requires the character to wipe out a group of villagers who are refusing to leave their land which is sitting on an oil field. Deadpool is being offered a lot of money to go in and wipe out the villagers; however, instead he choices to switch sides to his own great detriment. During his efforts to save the outgunned villagers he is tortured and forced to rip off his own arm. He manages to do this by repeatedly reminding himself that his superpower is his ability to hurt himself. The theme of hurting himself is something that comes up repeatedly in his comic series with the character torturing himself both physically, mentally, and emotionally for a variety of