History
Wade Wilson was a mercenary born in Canada, and at some point was married to Vanessa Carlysle. Diagnosed with inoperable cancer, he underwent an experimental treatment that gave him superhuman regenerative abilities but caused the cancer to consume his entire body. Wade took on the costumed identity Deadpool, but when Vanessa was killed he was unable to save her and went insane from grief. For a time, Deadpool was an infamously ruthless assassin, but mellowed into a still-violent but wisecracking antihero who used fourth-wall breaking humor as an outlet for his grief. At some point, Deadpool used a time machine to travel to feudal Japan, where he fought a samurai. read more
