The Deadpool Corps explained: The comic book origins of Lady Deadpool, Dogpool, and the rest of the Deadpool and Wolverine team
Jul. 22, 2024Meet Lady Deadpool, Dogpool, and some even weirder Deadpool variants who make up the Deadpool Corps
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What’s better than one Deadpool? How about a whole team of Deadpools! That’s the premise behind the Deadpool Corps, who have shown up in themost recent trailersforDeadpool and Wolverine. Led by the main Wade Wilson and shored up by variant characters such as Lady Deadpool and Dogpool, the Deadpool Corps comes straight out of comics, and their origins are quite similar to the apparent plot of the movie.
Deadpool, being immune to the power of the Awareness thanks to hisuniquely fractured mind, is chosen to assemble a team of his own variants to venture into the Multiverse and save basically all of reality from a massive cosmic threat.
Sounds pretty similar to what we’ve seen from Deadpool and Wolverine, right? All the way down to the presence of the reality-devouring Alioth in some of the trailers. And with psychic villainCassandra Novaserving as the movie’s apparent main antagonist, the idea of Deadpool having a uniquely resistant mind is also potentially in play for the film.
Along with the original Wade Wilson, these are the Deadpool variants who make up the original Deadpool Corps in comics, several of whom are confirmed to appear in Deadpool and Wolverine:
Lady Deadpool
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Headpool is the zombified head of Wade Wilson from Earth-2149, the home of theMarvel Zombies, who will soon have their own animated streaming series onDisneyPlus.
Over the course of their appearances, the team goes on to add more variant Deadpools such as Championpool, the cosmic being known as the Champion of the Universe taking on Deadpool’s identity, and the hilariously self-explanatory Squirrelpool, and more.
So far, trailers have definitely confirmed at least Lady Deadpool and Dogpool, so we have every reason to believe there will be at least a few more variants thrown in there too - and maybe even some Wolverine variants likeLaura Kinney/X-23for good measure.
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