Warning: Contains SPOILERS forDeadpool / Wolverine #1WhileDeadpoolmay not technically be a mutant himself, he has spent most of his comic book career hanging around his favorite X-Men pals. However, the Merc with a Mouth’s newest alliance threatens to eradicate the world’s remaining mutants. As hard as Wolverine may fight to save Deadpool from himself, a nefarious conspiracy and a surprise villain threaten to encompass both heroes before killing the last of mutantkind.
Deadpool / Wolverine- by Benjamin Percy and Joshua Cassara - is a new adventure that finds Deadpool enthralled by the mind-controlling powers of a mysterious nanotech implant.
After the mercenary tracks down Wolverine, the X-Man is met by an uncharacteristically stern and serious Deadpool. As Wade drags Wolverine on a sudden mission that leads to their literal graves,an AI recognizes Wade as an X-Cutioner.As hard asWolverine tries to stop Deadpool, the morally ambiguous anti-hero escapes to bend the knee to the last villain imaginable.
Stryfe Returns As Deadpool’s New Master
Deadpool / Wolverine #1 -Written by Benjamin Percy; Art by Joshua Cassara; Color by Guru-eFX; Lettering by VC’s Joe Sabino
Stryfe has endured several rough losses against the X-Men in recent years. His constant attempts to seek revenge against the X-Men and mutantkind have proved to be fruitless endeavors time and time again. As often as Stryfe dies and then comes back to life, it’s not necessarily his return that’s surprising but rather his control over Deadpool and their connection to X-Cutioner. The term X-Cutioner is one thateven Wolverine thought he’d never hear again.WhileX-Cutioner’s Songis one of Stryfe’s most well-known stories, this Deadpool comic is most likely referring to the character of the same name.
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The original X-Cutioner is an anti-mutant extremist who employs the use of alien weaponry to seek revenge against and completely exterminate mutantkind. While the character turned a new leaf for a while, he currently sits as a member of Homines Verendi, an anti-mutant organization led by formerleaders of the Hellfire Club. In addition to the complex arsenal of weaponry Wolverine and Deadpool uncovered in the X-Cutioner hideout, the bunker also held multiple samples of a new Legacy Virus and combat suits, seemingly for Cyclops and Jubilee. Whatever Stryfe is planning has taken a lot of effort to prepare.
Stryfe’s New Plans to Eradicate Mutantkind Are a Complex Conspiracy
Wolverine May Not Be Clever Enough to Solve it On His Own
The immediate theory is that through time-traveling shenanigans, Stryfe, and potentially the X-Cutioner, kidnapped a number of X-Men and had them implanted with artificial body parts. At the time of Stryfe’s return, he would activate the implants to release nanobots, granting him control over the heroes. With his greatest enemies now on his side, andequipped with alien tech and the Legacy Virus, the crumbling vestiges of modern mutantkind couldn’t stand against his destructive potential. If this is true thenthe X-Men have more to worryabout than their impending civil war.
The clone of Cable is an untamed man whose sole purpose in life has devolved into wiping out all mutants.
With Stryfe’s return, mutantkind is at risk.The clone of Cableis an untamed man whose sole purpose in life has devolved into wiping out all mutants. Willing to cross any line necessary, and using time at his disposal, Stryfe’s complicated new plan may just be enough of a conspiracy to delay Wolverine until it’s too late. Back in action and without his metallic Wolverine-like helmet, Stryfe is another step closer to eradicating all mutants withDeadpoolshockingly at his right hand.
Deadpool / Wolverine #1is now available from Marvel Comics.
Deadpool
The merc with the mouth first appeared in an issue ofNew Mutantsin 1990, and since then has gone on to get his own series and a massive cult following. With his incredible powers of healing and regeneration, Deadpool was initially depicted as an X-Men villain but went on to become an anti-hero. After getting his own movie series starting in 2016, the third Deadpool movie finally brings the wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
