Warning: Contains spoilers for Deadpool #7! Marvel Comics recently did the unthinkable: killed Wade Wilson aka Deadpool. Luckily, the Merc with a Mouth has a daughter named Ellie, who inherits his healing factor, and evidently, his bloodlust, as Marvel’s new Deadpool just showcases her healing factor with an extreme kill worth of her father’s iconic (and cruelly violent) legacy.
In a preview for Deadpool #7 by Cody Ziglar, Alexis Quasarano and Andrea Di Vito, readers are taken on a mission with the new Deadpool, witnessing her being chopped by a gang of low-level criminals like it’s nothing. During the violent escapade, Deadpool describes her mental state, as she mourns the recent loss of her father, and explains that she channels these emotions into her work. Rather than feeling sad, Ellie decided to be royally ticked off, and she takes it out on the targets with extreme brutality.
After taking a number of bullets to the arms, chest and face, Deadpool decides enough is enough. The bullets can’t kill her, but they sure hurt, so she comes up with a strategy to take down almost all the criminals in one fell swoop. Deadpool pulls out a hand grenade, shoves it into the abdomen of one of the targets, and detonates it in her hand inside him, killing every other person in the area. Deadpool is left with a bloody card where the hand was, satisfied with the outcome of the mad kill.
Deadpool would be so proud of his daughter for this insanely awesome kill
Deadpool #7 Proves Wade Wilson and Taskmaster trained Eli well
While Deadpool was initially afraid to allow Ali to join the ‘family business’, even after it was revealed that she inherited his healing factor, he decided that the best way for her to be safe was to make sure she was well trained. So, Deadpool and his business partner, Taskmaster, taught Ali everything they knew about being professional mercenaries. From hand-to-hand combat to weapons training, Ali became proficient in the art of killing by learning from the best. The kill she pulled off in the preview, however, she came up with herself.
Weaponizing his healing factor for the sake of pulling off spectacularly brutal kills isn’t really something that can be learned, it’s something that just happens to someone in the moment. Wade Wilson has allowed himself to be shot, blown, maimed, maimed, and otherwise mutilated just to get his aim numerous times throughout his Marvel Comics history, but it took him years to weaponize his healing factor in this Way. Here, it’s obvious that Eli picked it right up, and Deadpool would surely be so proud.
Marvel’s New Deadpool is already leagues ahead of where Wade Wilson was at the beginning
New mutants #98 by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza
Not only is it impressive that Ali learned how to weaponize her healing factor so quickly, but it also proves that she is leagues ahead of where her father was at the same time in his career. Deadpool debuted in New mutants #98Where he was defeated by Domino after being stabbed in the back with a number of knives, as they temporarily paralyzed him (which would be permanent without a healing factor). Deadpool completed his first mission, and more notably, he didn’t use his healing factor like he should have to get his goal – unlike Ali.
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It seems clear that Marvel’s new Deadpool is off to a pretty fantastic (and bloody) start to her career. Trained by Wade Wilson and Taskmaster, Kane worries about killing her targets, and inherently knows how to weaponize her healing factor – all this amounts to an insanely deadly DeadpoolOne worthy of Wade Wilson’s legacy.
Deadpool #7 by Marvel Comics is available October 2, 2024.