Deadpool's Popularity Breaks Marvel's Unofficial Vigilante Formula

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Almost all of Marvel's vigilantes follow a certain pattern and formula in their depictions, but Wade Wilson's Deadpool bucks the trend (a likely reason why he's so popular in the comics and films.) Typically, solo vigilante heroes such as Spider-Man and Daredevil are depicted with a particular correlation: the brighter or more humorous their personalities, the less violent they are. While this isn't all that surprising, the Merc with the Mouth does not meet that criteria in the slightest.

While Marvel has teams of heroes such as the Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four who fight all sorts of world-ending and cosmic threats, there are also more grounded heroes on the streets who frequently work alone. Typically classified as vigilantes, a pattern lies in their various dispositions. In an imaginary graph measuring the brightness of their personalities against their baseline levels of brutality, Spider-Man naturally has one of the more positive and humorous temperaments while having the lowest levels of aggression, almost always pulling punches, never resorting to lethal forms of justice, and often not even drawing blood in his own comics. The graph would subsequently scale upwards with a hero like Daredevil who's more intense but still given to quips while breaking bones. At the end of the scale is Punisher, a grim and gritty character who mows down hundreds without cracking a smile.

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While other vigilantes can be positioned on this graph as well, following the same presented pattern, the correlation does not apply to Deadpool at all. One of the funniest Marvel vigilantes, he's also one of the deadliest men on Earth, operating as a mercenary armed