Deadpool

Mercenary and Anti-Hero

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Not much is known about Deadpool's childhood. Sometime after his mother died of cancer, his father was killed by a drunken friend, and he was discharged from the U.S. Army Special Forces, so "Wade" joined Project X.

Little is known of his subsequent activities as a mercenary. At one point, he was active in Tangier, Morocco, where he had a romance with a woman named Francie. When this relationship soured, he traveled throughout Asia and was hired in Japan by a crime lord, the Boss, to infiltrate a sumo ring owned by rival criminals, the Oyakata. Wilson spent three years as a wrestler under the Oyakata's tutelage and had a romantic relationship with his mentor's daughter, Sazae. When the Boss finally ordered the Oyakata's assassination, Wilson refused to complete the mission—apparently the first time he had done so—and moved to the United States. Wilson was later hired by Middle Eastern interests to assassinate a blind British government agent named Althea, also known as Blind Al, but upon arriving at the Zaire base where she was stationed, Wilson killed everyone except Al, who had fled.

Wilson's employers sought revenge for his failure by targeting Vanessa, who was rescued by Zoe Culloden, an employee of the interdimensional firm Landau, Luckman, Lake & LeQuare. Culloden kept Wilson under surveillance, believing he was destined to play a vital role in a potential threat to the world. Upon learning he had cancer, Wilson broke up with his girlfriend Vanessa rather than force her to stay with a terminally ill man. He even forfeited his chemotherapy treatments, as he did not wish to prolong things.