Deadpool Just Proved He Deserves to Be on Marvel's Next X-Men Team
Warning: Contains spoilers for Wolverine #20
After a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, Deadpool is finally getting his ticket to Krakoa, setting him up as a potential member of the X-Men. Marvel is explaining how and why Deadpool will be able to become a citizen of Krakoa starting with Wolverine #20.
Deadpool was actually born human. He acquired his powers, including his iconic (and often disgusting) healing factor through experimentation by the secret US/Canadian project Weapon X, where scientists grafted Wolverine's DNA into that of mercenary Wade Wilson. Due to this, Deadpool often claims to be a mutant and an X-Man, much to the chagrin of the rest of the mutant community. Deadpool also claims to be "practically a founding member of X-Force", due to his long-standing relationship with the founder of the team, Cable, who has sometimes been Wade's ally and, more often, his enemy. After the mutants of Earth founded the nation of Krakoa, their kind has been enjoying an unprecedented era of prosperity. To use Wade's own words, the mutants dominate politics, revitalize medicine, conquered Mars, and "live on a sick-ass tropical resort." Obviously, Deadpool tried to be accepted into the new mutant utopia, with hilarious results.
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His attempts began with the Hellfire Gala, where the best he could get was to be part of a short reunion of X-Force, and continued in several ingenious and ridiculous ways that are shown in Wolverine #20, by the creative team of Benjamin Percy, Adam Kubert, Frank Martin, and Dijjo Lima. Wade tried to land on Krakoa with a parachute, get smuggled in a barrel of liquor, hijack a piggyback ride from Cyclops through a Krakoan
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