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. Wade was a deliquent in his teenage years, possibly to spite his
father. However one night while drinking with his friends his father attempt to take him out of the club one of his
friends stole Wade's Fathers handgun and killed him. 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. Many years later Deadpool's nemesis T-Ray accused Deadpool of killing his wife and
stealing his identity after a failed mission, but Deadpool's restored memories revealed this to be a lie; in T-Ray's
account Wade was wearing his Deadpool costume, which he didn't have in till after he joined Weapon X.
Little is known of Wilsons 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. Wilson spent three years as a wrestler under the Oyakatas tutelage and became romantically
involved with his mentors daughter, Sazae. When the Boss finally ordered the Oyakatas murder, Wilson refused
to complete his assignment, allegedly the first time he had ever done so, and relocated to the United States.
In America, Wilson met and fell in love with teenage prostitute Vanessa Carlysle, with whom he shared dreams of
a better life. Wilson was subsequently hired by Middle Eastern interests to assassinate a blind British government
operative named Althea, also known as Blind Al, but upon arrival at the Zaire base where she was stationed, he
killed everyone except for Al who had fled. Wilsons employers sought vengeance for his failure by targeting
Vanessa, who was rescued by Zoe Culloden, an employee of the interdimensional firm Landau, Luckman, Lake,
and LeQuare. Culloden was keeping Wilson under surveillance, believing he was destined to play a vital part in a
potential threat to the world.
Learning that he had contracted cancer, Wilson broke up with Vanessa rather than force her to remain with a
terminally ill man. In Canada, he was offered hope in the form of Department K, a special weapons development
branch of the Canadian government. Wilson became a test subject in Department Ks 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. Wilson was active in a covert field unit alongside the near-invulnerable Sluggo and the
cyborgs Kane and Slayback. Vanessa herself was later affiliated with the team after having manifested mutant
shapeshifting abilities, calling herself Copycat.
During one mission, Wilson killed his teammate Slayback. As a result, he was rejected from the Weapon X
Program and sent to the Hospice, allegedly a government facility where failed superhuman operatives were
treated. However, unknown to the Canadian government, the Hospices 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. Wilsons emotional strength during his trials earned him the respect of his fellow
Hospice patients. Then Ajax, angered by Wilsons taunts, lobotomized one of Wilsons friends. At Deaths
prompting, Wilson killed his friend to end his suffering. However, under Killebrews rules any patient who killed
another was to be executed; Ajax subsequently tore out Wilsons heart and left him for dead, but Wilsons 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. At some point during his mercenary career he was employed as an assassin by Wilson Fisk,
the Kingpin of crime. He also clashed with Wolverine, at that time a spy for the Canadian government. Also, at
some point during these years, Deadpool caught up with Blind Al and kept her a prisoner in his home. Als
attempts to escape only resulted in death for those whose help she sought, leaving her no choice but to resign
herself to captivity.
Some years after escaping the Hospice, Deadpool, perhaps seeking compensation for the injuries inflicted upon
him by Killebrew, returned to the Canadian government and was treated by Doctor Walter Langkowski, the
bestial Sasquatch of Canadas super-team Alpha Flight. Deadpool soon found government work unsuited to his
temperament, and he abandoned this endeavor. Hired by the criminal genius known as the Wizard, Deadpool at
first went to the wrong address and received a job impersonating the criminal Hobgoblin. When again contacted
by the Wizard, he joined with fellow criminals the Taskmaster and the Constrictor in a short-lived version of
the Frightful Four. When this plan also failed, Deadpool sought to reclaim his position as the Kingpins assassin,

only to be challenged by fellow assassin Bullseye. Deadpool began frequenting the mercenary hangout called
the Hellhouse, where the diminutive Patch issued assignments. There he clashed with T-Ray, a sorcerer and
assassin to whom he took an immediate dislike. He subsequently found employment with the time-traveling arms
merchant Tolliver, in whose service he was reunited with Sluggo and Copycat. Unbeknownst to Deadpool, Tolliver
subsequently sent Copycat to impersonate another mutant mercenary, Domino. Deadpool also recruited a man
named Weasel to act as his weapon supplier, and the two became fast friends.
After some time in Tollivers service, Deadpool was sent to kill Cable, the mutant soldier from the future who was
in fact Tollivers father and in whose company Copycat was impersonating Domino. However, Deadpool met
defeat at the hands of Cable and his new charges, the young mutants in training known as the New Mutants.
When Cable reorganized the New Mutants as X-Force, Tolliver was seemingly slain in battle with them, setting off
a search by his various mercenaries for the advanced technology he had left behind. Deadpools participation in
the search was interrupted by the surprising interference of Slayback, who had cybernetically reconstituted
himself after being slain by Deadpool and was eager for revenge. In the course of the ensuing battle, Copycat
was gravely injured, and Deadpool sacrificed part of his healing ability to save her life.
Deadpool subsequently helped X-Force member Siryn against the unstoppable Juggernaut and her uncle, Black
Tom Cassidy, who had forced Killebrew into their service. Deadpool developed a strong attachment to Siryn, who
only partially returned his feelings. Unsure of his worthiness, Deadpool sought out Copycat, only to find she was
now dating Kane. Deadpool fought both Kane and Wolverine, who had been sent to check on Kane by a mutual
friend. Deadpool was subsequently abducted by information brokers seeking a cure for the Legacy Virus but was
rescued by Wolverine and the mutant mercenary Maverick.
Soon afterward, Deadpool was approached by Zoe Culloden of the rechristened Landau, Luckman, and Lake
who believed he was destined to be the Mithras, one who would help usher in a golden age for Earth. Skeptical,
Deadpool turned her away, only to be hit with a string of personal failures, including the alienation of Weasel and
Blind Al. Hoping to turn over a new leaf, he found that killing was not so easily left behind when, at the behest of
the ghosts of his former Weapon X inmates, he killed Ajax. He hoped to move forward by accepting Cullodens
offer, only to be dismayed when he learned that his destined role was to kill Tiamat, a potential threat to the
arriving Messiah. Deadpool instead killed the Messiah when he learned that it brought not true peace but
mindless bliss instead.

Having lost his optimism about bettering himself, Deadpool returned to his mercenary life. Troubled by recent
events, he sought the counsel of deranged psychiatrist Doctor Bong, who advised him to work out his difficulties
in a fight with Wolverine. The fight indeed cleared Deadpools mind, but his psyche was dealt a stunning blow by
the resurrection of Mercedes Wilson whom Deadpool still believed to be his wife. T-Ray revealed himself not only
as the one responsible for her resurrection, but also as the true Wade Wilson. The revelation did not break
Deadpools spirit as T-Ray had hoped, for the mercenary still harbored hopes of bettering himself. Swearing
vengeance, T-Ray departed with Mercedes Wilson.

Later, in the course of an assassination assignment against author Duncan Vess, Deadpool again clashed with
Wolverine who had sensed something strange about Vess. The pair found themselves battling Vesss vengeful
kinsmen after the author was revealed to be a werewolf, and they parted on good terms. Weeks later, Deadpool
sought medical treatment for Siryn, who had been injured in a mission with X-Force. Allying himself with the
mysterious Watchtower group, Deadpool captured Wolverine in exchange for Siryns treatment. Siryn was cured,
while Wolverine easily outfought his captors.
Seeking a new place for himself, Deadpool briefly shared an apartment with fellow mercenaries Titania and the
Constrictor. However, Titania proved to be Copycat in disguise, and the apartment was destroyed by the Wizard
and the Taskmaster, both seeking revenge on Deadpool. He next established a secret warehouse headquarters
and took on a young sidekick who called himself Kid Deadpool, but the youth, also seeking vengeance for
Deadpools part in his fathers death, blew up the warehouse.
Deadpool was then tracked down by the feral mutant Sabretooth and invited to join the new Weapon X Program.
Impressed by Weapon Xs upgrade of his healing factor, he agreed to join, but soon found the organizations
methods to be too bloody even for him. After the death of Copycat at the hands of Sabretooth, he confronted the
Director, only to have his healing factor reversed to the point where he again lost physical cohesion and died.
The lingering effects of Deadpools healing factor upgrade resurrected him, leaving him amnesiac. A chance
encounter with Weasel restored his memory, and he discovered that four other individuals had laid claim to the
Deadpool name. These impostors were aspects of his own personality given form by a device called the Gemini
Star, wielded by his nemesis T-Ray who had been hired by the intergalactic villain Thanos, himself enamored
of Death and jealous of Deadpools relationship with her. T-Ray intended to manifest and extinguish every aspect
of Deadpools personality, leaving him an empty shell; however Deadpool damaged the Gemini Star, causing his
personality fragments to be absorbed into T-Ray, rendering him comatose. The better to confuse his enemy,
Deadpool mocked him by claiming to be the true Wade Wilson after all.
Following an assignment against the Four Winds crime family, Deadpool gained great status as a mercenary and
formed a company called DP, Inc., aided by business partner Sandi Brandenberg. His success was short-lived,
however, when the Black Swan, a fellow assassin who had actually slain the Four Winds himself, and sought
vengeance for Deadpools wrongful claim. Both men were believed dead after an explosive confrontation in the
Swans German castle, but the Swan used his telepathic powers to merge the memories and skills of both
himself and Deadpool and he merged their skills into the corpse of his underling Nijo. Deadpools healing factor
resurrected Nijo, who arose badly injured and amnesiac. Nijo found his way to Sandis apartment. Sandi believing
Nijo to be Deadpool nursed him back to health. Having no knowledge of his past Nijo took the name of Alex
Hayden, and joined Sandi and the Taskmaster in a new mercenary endeavor, Agency X.

The Black Swan soon resurfaced, with Deadpool in tow, intending to restore all three men to their previous
states. During the transfer, the Swan betrayed both Deadpool and Nijo, absorbing all of their abilities and
achieving great power. With the help of his friends, Nijo broke through the Swans telepathic shield and defeated
him, reversing the transfer. Deadpool declined an offer to join Agency X, returning to his solo career.

Deadpool was then hired by the One World Church to steal the Faade Virus from Sunic Pharmacopeia in
Germany. The Church sought to use the virus to transform everyone into blue-skinned beings like themselves,
but their plans were foiled by Cable. Deadpool ultimately worked alongside Cable in this endeavor, but it seems
certain that the two adventurers will again find themselves at odds.
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