📖 About
Wade Wilson is the comic-book character who knows he's in a comic book. Ryan Reynolds spent over a decade trying to get the character on screen properly — leaked test footage in 2014 forced Fox's hand, and the resulting trilogy redefined what an R-rated superhero film could be commercially.
🎭 Every Actor Who Played Deadpool
Across 17 years and 4 films, these are the performers who brought Deadpool to life on screen.
🎬 Every Film Appearance
All 4 appearances of Deadpool on the big screen, in chronological order.
The first cinematic Deadpool — wrong, mouthless, controversial. The film's Deadpool became a famous "what not to do" example. Reynolds spent years undoing this.
The redo. R-rated, fourth-wall-breaking, profane, romantic. Made on a $58M budget, grossed $782M. Genre-defining.
Cable, Domino, X-Force. Wade time-travels back to assassinate Origins-Deadpool — canonical retcon by movie. Ends with the time-travel device intact.
TVA recruits Wade. Resurrects Variant-Wolverine. Travels to the Void. Cameos with Channing Tatum's Gambit, Jennifer Garner's Elektra, Wesley Snipes' Blade. Officially merges Fox-X-Men with MCU.
📚 Comic Storylines That Inspired the Films
The original published stories that screen versions have drawn from.
Wade's first solo storyline. Establishes the Wade-vs-T-Ray rivalry that defines his core mythology.
The buddy-cop dynamic adapted into Deadpool 2. The film's Cable casting was widely praised as faithful.
A Wade given god-tier awareness assassinates every Marvel hero. Influences Deadpool 2's post-credits gag.
Wade contracts to assassinate Cable. The arc that closes Wade's Marvel-NOW! era and sets up Deadpool's long-form character arc.