Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War



""You know, sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who can see the truth. That life is just an absurdist comedy. And the only appropriate response is to laugh.""

- Deadpool, the man himself.

A 2011 Marvel Knights miniseries that stars a different version of Deadpool, as well as Domino, Bullseye, and Silver Sable. Written by Duane Swierczynski.

It starts with a Senate hearing about the recent massacre of a drug cartel and a load of civilians in the town of Sinaloa, Mexico. The Senate has an expert witness, however: not just a witness, he claims that he was one of the mercenaries that took down the drug cartel, a man named Wade Wilson, but who prefers the name 'Deadpool'.

Deadpool then proceeds to spin out a story about a black-ops team so secret it didn't even have a name, just a letter: X. The members of this team (the aforementioned Domino, Bullseye, Silver Sable, and, of course, Deadpool) did things for the US Government that it didn't want official records on.

Or did they? Is Deadpool really lying? What really went down in Sinaloa? And where is Domino now? And what is the truth?


 * Action Girl: Domino, Silver Sable.
 * Alternate Continuity: Which is why they put it is Marvel Knights imprint.
 * As You Know: See the example on the trope page.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: Even more so then in his regular series. At one point, he stops time (or comic book time) and at another point, he makes everything except himself fade to white. (And then explains that he only included that part in the comic so .)
 * Bittersweet Ending/Downer Ending:
 * Mind Screw: Yep. For one thing
 * Most Common Superpower: Even though Silver Sable had this before, this book...exaggerates it.
 * Schrödinger's Butterfly:
 * Through the Eyes of Madness: There are a few parts where we see things from Deadpool's perspective and we know are lies - where he hits two soldiers and grabs their guns, but then in the next panel no longer has them and still has handcuffs on.
 * Xanatos Gambit: If, then Domino's plan to kill the Senators: