The Merc with a Mouth, Deadpool has had a rocky history throughout Marvel Comics in terms of where he stands between good and evil, but there was one defining moment that solidified his transition from antihero to full-on hero. When Deadpool was first introduced, he didn’t have a shred of heroism in him. Once his character became more fleshed out and he began to play a bigger role in the Marvel world, Deadpool started becoming more of a hero, and a terrible costume is what made this transition possible.
Deadpool Vol. 3 #25, written by Joe Kelly with art by Walter McDaniel, Andy Lanning, and Matt Hicks, is the final installment of the three-issue event Dead Reckoning. In the storyline, Deadpool is up against a world-ending villain known as the Messiah who is threatening to lock the world in a state of eternal happiness that would effectively wipe out all of life. To stop the villain, Deadpool has to become what’s known as the Mithras, a ‘chosen one’ type role that offers the warrior the power necessary to defeat the Messiah. When Deadpool takes on the mystical moniker, he is granted an all-new super suit, which is easily his worst one yet.
The suit Deadpool has to wear when fighting the Messiah is absolutely ridiculous, and the root of its silliness lies with the Messiah itself. The Messiah looks like a Lovecraftian Elder God with many tentacles and eyes covering its spherical body, and when one becomes the Mithras, they take on a similarly alien-serpent-like form. The suit Deadpool gains upon becoming the Mithras looks as though it is a winged eel wrapped around his normal tattered suit, giving him extra bulk and prominent green spikes. While the costume is rather odd, and definitely the character’s worst, it is the one he earns when becoming a true hero, ending an enormous threat, and saving the world which is truly a far cry from his origins.
Deadpool made his first appearance in New Mutants #98 by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza where he was hired to kill Cable. Deadpool explodes onto the comic panel as he blasts his way into the underground area of the X-Mansion where the New Mutants operated under Cable’s leadership. Deadpool battled Cable and Domino as he worked to kill the time-traveling mutant, all the while spitting out his usual dark-humored wit. In the end, Domino is able to incapacitate the villain and he is sent back to his boss to answer for his failure. But this moment marks his shift from antagonist to protagonist.
After Deadpool’s stint as a New Mutants/X-Force villain, the character was re-worked to be more of an antihero, still a gun-for-hire, but good in his core, mostly just killing bad guys as opposed to X-Men. Deadpool remained an antihero for years before he was finally put to the test and succeeded in saving the world from a godlike alien threat and became a hero once and for all, unfortunately in the process, he was forced into the absolute worst costume Deadpool has ever worn in his Marvel Comics’ history.
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