Some things are too unfunny for even Deadpool to make jokes about

[salinea]

I once mentioned in the comments about Deadpool having been raped, and I had a couple of puzzled reactions in answer by people who didn't remember it. So I thought I could do a post about it:

(3 pages from Deadpool issue #12, 5 pages from Deadpool issue #13)

That was back in Joe Kelly's glorious run, and Deadpool was going through a rough time with trying to help Typhoid Mary which didn't really turn out how he wanted and then turned out a little bit ugly, fighting T-Ray who had a big grudge against him, and LL&L expecting him to be the heroic Mithra who will protect a prophesied Messiah, which he thought was pretty absurd; so he did something he was prone to do back then: going to Siryn, with whom he had a weird romantic friendship and a very big crush, for comfort. Instead of finding Siryn, he found Warpath, and a fight ensued, with the result that when Siryn actually arrived on the scene she was not really in the mood of hearing Wade talk about his issues and they had a pretty bad argument (including Wade being overbearing and aggressive) and Siryn walked away.

So Deadpool got drunk.

Spoiler alert : this isn't really Siryn.

And that was pretty much the last time the whole event was mentioned. Soon after, Deadpool found out that his friend Weasel and his prisoner/vitriolic mother figure were actually spending time together at his flat unbeknownst to him and reacted by putting them into the torture room. I believe that was also the last we saw Typhoid Mary on Deadpool.

(also this is my first post, hi *waves*)

Comments

[silverzeo]

It was okay for the Nerds...

[shadowpsykie]

so this trope was actually played straight forward? no "Rape is okay if it's girl on guy" or "Rape is funny if it happens to a guy?" (i admit i might be mixing my tropes here)

[q99]

Surprisingly mature treatment.

[salinea]

Yeah, I thought it was interesting. It was treated seriously, in terms of Wade having real emotional distress. Although at the same time there were no follow through and no one actually goes out and call it rape (though the idea that it was is definitely there in the Wade's reaction as well as in the situation).

[espanolbot]

Wow, I never thought that Wade would have anything in common with Tom Strong, but there you go.

[janegray]

Nope, the movie just pretended it was.

[likeaminx]

I always liked this story, but I hate how they never followed up on it. He hasn't seen Typhoid since. It's like with Sabertooth. The guy killed his girlfriend and pretty much got a free pass.

Poor Deadpool has gotten his fair share of dropped plot threads, but this is one that I really wished they had followed up on.

[sigmund_droid]

(also this is my first post, hi *waves*)

What? :p I've seen you post here before!

Unless you mean your first post with scans in that case thank you!


I suppose the night before was Typhoid's "lustful" personality and the next day was the "sadistic" personality.

As someone said before, I'm surprised at the maturity.

*Sigh* at least Deadpool and Siryn actually did get together for awhile.

[salinea]

What? :p I've seen you post here before!
I've commented before! But yeah, I mean post with scans and stuff ^_^

I suppose the night before was Typhoid's "lustful" personality and the next day was the "sadistic" personality.
I... think it was all sadistic.

*Sigh* at least Deadpool and Siryn actually did get together for awhile.
They did? The only time I know of was in X-Factor back when Siryn was... going through issues after she lost her child? And that... was hardly the most romantic sex Wade ever got.

[sigmund_droid]

Possibly, though Mary's sadistic side usually doesn't include pretending to be nice, it's usually just "burn everything".

Yup! Deadpool and Siryn had a one-night stand after that pregnancy arc. What I'm referring to is waaayyyy back in the early deadpool stories when they had somewhat of a relationship. Siryn couldn't handle the stress but promised to rethink the relationship if Deadpool continued down a good path.

[salinea]

Yeah, I agree it's a shame they never followed up on this.

The guy killed his girlfriend and pretty much got a free pass.
Well, Wade did got to shoot Sabertooth a whole lot back when Providence fell. Though there was a dearth of Nessa mentioning then :(

[salinea]

Possibly, though Mary's sadistic side usually doesn't include pretending to be nice, it's usually just "burn everything".
Oh. Then you're probably right, I guess. I don't know much about Mary.

What I'm referring to is waaayyyy back in the early deadpool stories when they had somewhat of a relationship. Siryn couldn't handle the stress but promised to rethink the relationship if Deadpool continued down a good path.
Ah, that. They did have some sweet moments, but I don't think they were ever together as such. S'why I called it a romantic friendship.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm really impressed with how seriously they took that. Nice change.

On a totally different topic... I clearly know nothing about Deadpool, as I can no idea that he was made of... rocks? scales? What's going on with that?

[likeaminx]

Scars related to his healing factor.

He tends to get drawn anywhere between 'A few spots' to 'hey is that The Thing?'

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Those are scar? Wow, weird. Thanks for the info! :)

[salinea]

Scar tissue mixed up with cancer.

Deadpool's origin story is that he got cancer, got into the Weapon X program in hope of being cured, got an artificial copy of Wolverine's healing factor, except apparently the cancer also got the healing factor, so his body is perpetually fighting against it. Oh, there were also a time when he was experimented on / tortured in the reject experiment side of the program; that didn't help his appearance either.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Constantly healing and re-effecting cancer is rather fridge horror, huh?

Thanks for the backstory info! It had never even crossed my mind what he looked like under there, but I really wasn't expecting him to look like that!

[likeaminx]

Yeah! Like I said, it changes depending on the artist.

Here's an example of the scars by another artist and here's another.

[salinea]

Constantly healing and re-effecting cancer is rather fridge horror, huh?
Oh, totally! (seriously, the issue that deals with his past in details are horrifyingly awesome)

Deadpool's appeal is half that he's a comedic sociopath and half that he's such a woobie (who sometimes tries doing good but is very, very bad at it). It can be a strange mix. Sadly in recent years, he's mostly only been characterised as the latter - except for in Uncanny X-Force just lately :)

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's quite a difference! The later one especially looks nothing like the one in this post... which kinda looks like a golem to me.

I take it it's not just the artist, but also that he scars/deformities are meant to be constantly changing?

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

I'll have to look up that issue at some point!

And yeah, I've only ever really seen the comedy sociopath side. Didn't know there was so much more to him!

[salinea]

The original run of Deadpool by Joe Kelly is really awesome and worth checking yeah :)

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Your icon compels me to. XD

[salinea]

yay!

[likeaminx]

But Providence wasn't for Nessa. That was Deadpool helping out his boyfri- I mean bro. And he actually worked WITH the guy in the Identity Disk mini. He never actually paid Sabertooth back for it in any real way.