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Deadpool is a fictional comic book mercenary, anti-hero and occasional supervillain in Marvel Comics' universe. Deadpool (real name Wade Wilson) was created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza in New Mutants Volume 1, Issue 98, and went on to become a frequent antagonist of X-Force and Wolverine before receiving his own series. Deadpool has a superhuman rate of healing, carries a small arsenal of bladed weapons and firearms, and wears a personal teleportation device in his belt. Deadpool, like Wolverine, gained his superhuman powers from the Weapon X Project (though Deadpool was in a later iteration of the Project). Most recently, he was erroneously thought to be the man called Agent X. He is infatuated (sometimes to the point of obsession) with the former X-Force member Siryn. He is currently partnered with former X-Force leader Cable. Recently, Deadpool and Cable got involved with terrorists trying to unleash a shape-shifting virus upon the world. After both of them getting infected by the virus, the pair had to exchange bodily fluids. As a result of gaining Cable's techno-organic virus, Deadpool's scarred face changed to a more normal appearence.
Liefeld's critics point out the number of similarities between Deadpool and Deathstroke the Terminator, a character created for DC Comics' Teen Titans by George Perez in the 1970s. Both characters' costumes share similar themes, both are mercenaries who use similar weaponry, and (most tellingly) Deathstroke's real name is Slade Wilson, while Deadpool's is Wade Wilson. Deadpool's relationship with Siryn also mirrors Deathstroke's relationship with Terra. Additionally, Deadpool routinely clashes with X-Force, a group of teenage superheroes, which is not unlike Deathstroke clashing with the Teen Titans, a group of teenage superheroes.
While it is possible that the inspiration for Deadpool's name came from The Dead Pool, a Dirty Harry movie starring Clint Eastwood, Wilson's own motivation for selecting this nom de guerre stems from his traumatic experience with the Weapon X project, where rejects from the program placed bets in a "dead pool" on who would be the next to die.
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