Meet the Deadpool Corps

In all the Marvel Multiverse, there’s really no one else quite like Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool, AKA the Merc with a Mouth. But while the main Wade we know and love lives on Marvel’s Earth-616, he’s not the only merc in the Multiverse — for better or for worse. When the world needs more ‘Pool power, it’s up to the dangerous Deadpool Corps to save the day.

Wade Wilson once went on a team-building extravaganza across several dimensions, collecting alternate reality versions of himself like Dogpool and Lady Deadpool. In the MCU film Deadpool & Wolverine, Wade teams up with Wolverine to travel across the Multiverse on the same mission. In honor of this cinematic convergence, here are some notable members of the team he assembled in the comics and some of their biggest accomplishments.

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Deadpool

The original Wade Wilson leads the Deadpool Corps from their ultra-awesome secret headquarters located in his Earth-616 apartment. Talk about high security. As is to be expected, this ragtag team of regenerating degenerates is absolutely unhinged most of the time. But actually, it turns out this can be a plus!

When Wade Wilson of Earth-616 is recruited by the Elder Gods to take down a primordial force that’s terrorizing the universe, Wade recruits multiversal versions of himself. This might sound like a recipe for disaster and most of the time it would be. However, up against The Awareness, a force that devours the consciences of living beings, the uniquely unstable mental state of all Deadpools helps the Corps defeat this great evil. And Wade Wilson’s first recruit for the Corps? None other than a disembodied version of himself, of course: Headpool.

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Headpool

Known as the Merc with Only a Mouth, Headpool is a floating, zombified, disembodied head from the Marvel Zombies universe, Earth-2149. He became a zombie when a virus affected many superhumans that gave them a craving for flesh. These ravenous zombie beings even gobbled up the Galactus of their universe!

Not having a body doesn’t stop Zombie Deadpool from talking up a storm, though. He and Deadpool assemble the Deadpool Corps while trying to return the floating head to his home dimension. Headpool’s lack of brain waves were a vital asset in depowering the consciousness-eating Awareness. Plus, he gets around by a mind-controlled propeller hat. Now that’s traveling in style.

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Lady Deadpool

Wanda Wilson from Earth-3010 shares all the powers of her 616 counterpart Wade, with an attitude to boot. When unmasked, Lady Deadpool even has the same scars as Wade. In her alternate reality, she fought alongside a group of rebels working to take down robotic Sentinels from S.H.I.E.L.D., controlled by her nemesis General America. Lady Deadpool first meets Deadpool and Headpool while they are dimension-hopping, and after they help her avoid capture by her enemies, she joins the Deadpool Corps.

In addition to her Deadpool abilities, Lady Deadpool also has a bottomless satchel — super handy when she needs to pull out a larger-than-life weapon in the heat of battle. She was also instrumental in taking down Galactipool, a combination of Deadpool and Galactus. When all else fails against this monster, she launches the Corp’s spaceship, the Bea Arthur, into Galactipool’s face. Her sacrifice is now Deadpool Corps legend. Not to worry, a Deadpool never stays dead for long.

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Kidpool

Born on Earth-10330, Wade Wilson the young mutant was accepted into the Xavier Orphanage for Troubled Boys. Like his older self, he had a hard time following the rules and caused a lot of trouble. Seriously, if you think adult Wade Wilson is a lot to handle, imagine him in preteen form. Truthfully Galactipool might be a safer bet.

At a school dance, Kidpool manages to wreak havoc among younger, alternate versions of the X-Men mutants. Before he is expelled, though, Deadpool and the rest of the Corps appear to take Kidpool from the orphanage so he can help them save the world. Kidpool enjoys Guitar Hero and fighting with energy blades that look suspiciously like they’re from a galaxy that’s pretty far away.

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Dogpool

From Earth-103173, Dogpool was once used as a test subject for a cosmetics project called Mascara X, a program similar to Weapon X that hoped to give its customers regenerative powers. He was abandoned from the project and taken in by a circus where they called him Deadpool the Daredevil Dog.

What Dogpool lacks in traditional doggo cuteness, he makes up for with the ability to trick his enemies like a true expert. He’s also a pretty talented fighter considering he’s a dog. Deadpool, Headpool, Kidpool, and Lady Deadpool take him from the circus to join their team. The Merc with a Bark is loyal to the very end when it comes to his Deadpool Family.

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Since forming the Deadpool Corps, Deadpool has amassed several different teams of mercs who need money, doing questionably good deeds for reward. These heroes come from all over the universe, but they all have one thing in common: They’re regenerating degenerates with attitude. Plus, they look really good in red, which we hear hides bloodstains pretty well…

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