How Deadpool Nearly Killed All Classic Literary Characters

Following the events of 2012.Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe.Our antihero finds slaying Marvel superheroes across the multiverse boring. Hopping between universes only to murder the same things repeatedly bores the Merc with the Mouth.

This is not the main Marvel universe's Deadpool; this is the one.Wade Wilson of Earth-12101.He is the main focus of Cullen Bunn's "Deadpool Killogy," which features.Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe.Deadpool Needs A Change After Taking Out All The Heroes In Multiple Marvel Universes.Deadpool Killustrated.Deadpool Needs A Change After Taking Out All The Heroes In Multiple Marvel Universes.Deadpool Kills.Deadpoo.lThis Deadpool starts the miniseries surrounded by slain heroes, moaning about his boredom. He says, "...it's never going to be over, is it? All the assassination... the slaughter..." Variety is the spice of life.

During his rampage, Deadpool spared villains to use them as a think tank. This army of mad scientists includes.classic Marvel villains.Doctor Octopus and Mole Man lead this group, led by the.Mad Thinker., suggests Deadpool must go to the Ideaverse to destroy classic literary characters to end the cycle of conflict and resurrection in Marvel Comics.

These classic characters—from the Three Musketeers to Sherlock Holmes to Frankenstein's Monster—are the building blocks for every hero and villain Deadpool wants to destroy. Destroying the inspiration means heroes cease to exist. So, the Regenerating Degenerate heads to the Ideaverse to slaughter every literary icon you read about in high school.

Deadpool's first target in the Ideaverse is Don Quixote, the lovable buffoon from the book. Miguel de Cervantes's character does not match Deadpool, even if he gets a solid stab with his lance. Deadpool seems sad Quixote is his first target because Wade likes him.

By the time Sancho Panza appears, Deadpool has shot Quixote's head after slashing his right eye. Deadpool then shoots Sancho because he is there and Deadpool likes killing. He quipped, "Consider the windmill tilted." With the two main characters of an influential novel gone, Marvel's bad boy moves on.

Next on Deadpool's list are the characters from Herman Melville's classic.Moby-Dick.Readers see the members of the.Pequod.Ahab spots the giant whale. Captain Ahab prepares his crew to attack the massive animal. Ahab sees the whale's large corpse floating in the ocean and feels horror: "No! He's my kill! He belongs to me!"

As Ahab mourns the whale, Deadpool pops out of the whale's blowhole in a graphic scene. The gentlemen of the sea, Ahab laments the whale's fate.PequodThe crew brings the mercenary aboard for hospitality. Deadpool repays this by killing the crew one by one with a blade. Deadpool acts like a rude guest.

Bunn hints at Deadpool's mental break by showing him hallucinations of dead Marvel heroes while he kills literary characters. When Pinocchio gets a blade to the head, he sees the Vision's bloodied face. When stabbing Captain Ahab, he sees Thunderbolt Ross's Red Hulk.Red HulkWhen Deadpool first finds the Headless Horseman, he sees Ghost Rider.

The list continues, moving from Black Widow and She-Hulk to Namor and Magneto.She-Hulk, toNamorand Magneto. Deadpool cannot get Marvel characters out of his mind. Seeing more Marvel characters than he can punch dead is odd for the Merc with a Mouth, even if they are not the characters he is currently slaying.

Deadpool's actions start wrecking the Ideaverse. Different literary characters' worlds begin to clash. The Nautilus is an example.Nautilus, from Jules Verne'sTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, saves Captain Ahab from Deadpool's grasp at the last second.

When the two captains talk on the Nautilus,Nautilus, Nemo states, "Somehow, the building blocks of time and space are crumbling. What was in several time periods now exists in one." Deadpool's plan to destroy the Ideaverse, and thus the inspiration for Marvel Comics characters, works well.

After killing Tom Sawyer and Count Dracula, Deadpool found the Headless Horseman from Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Deadpool did not fear the creepy character. He slashed the Horseman's horse down and found the specter was just a human in disguise.

Brom Bones, the rowdy trickster, begged Deadpool to spare his life, claiming he was only "joshing" and never expected a real monster. Deadpool, focused on wiping out all life in the Ideaverse, replied, "You wanted to be the Headless Horseman, right? Wish granted." Deadpool then beheaded Brom and stuffed three candles in his skull for show.

Even with Greta Gerwig's adaptation ofLittle WomenThe March sisters beat Deadpool in a 2019 commercial and critical success, showing protagonists could succeed with current audiences. Still, the sisters fight the Regenerating Degenerate using only a broom, a frying pan, a picnic basket, and skates.

Deadpool uses a grenade to blast the girls and their home sky high. Wade thinks, "Is it just me... or should I be having an easier time with these dusty old classics?"

Sherlock Holmes must stop Deadpool to save the Ideaverse worlds. He makes changes to H.G. Well's Time Machine.Sherlock Holmes gathers classic heroes to stop Deadpool in 'Elsewhere In The Ideaverse, Sherlock Holmes Gathers A Team Of Classic Heroes To Stop Deadpool' within the list 'How Deadpool Nearly Killed All Classic Literary Characters'.Holmes gathers a team of literary icons to hunt the mercenary and save their universe.

Teaming with Holmes and Watson, the Deadpool-hunting crew includes Beowulf, Hua Mulan, and Natty Bumppo from The Leatherstocking Tales.The Leatherstocking Tales appear in 'Elsewhere In The Ideaverse, Sherlock Holmes Gathers A Team Of Classic Heroes To Stop Deadpool' in the list 'How Deadpool Nearly Killed All Classic Literary Characters'.Holmes tells his team, "It's a murderer we must apprehend, my friends, and nothing less than the whole of existence hangs in the balance."

Deadpool finds slaying every literary character too much for his mind. To help him, Deadpool has Dr. Frankenstein put some of the Merc's brain—scooped from his head with a spork—inside his monster without the doctor knowing.

The monster grabs a horrified Dr. Frankenstein and breaks his neck. Deadpool's new monster smirks and says, "So... that's what it feels like... doing the dirty work yourself. How liberating."

Deadpool and his new monster buddy travel between dimensions with Sherlock's team pursuing them. Classic protagonists always miss the dangerous duo, arriving after the damage is done.

The team travels from the Island of Dr. Moreau to Ancient Rome to an island from.Sherlock and his team fall one step behind Deadpool as he eliminates other classics in 'How Deadpool Nearly Killed All Classic Literary Characters'.Deadpool and the monster destroy classic locations. Holmes's crew cannot stop the carnage but watches the damage. Holmes yells, "We must make haste... or there will be nothing remaining for us to save."

This might challenge Disney fans. These are not animated versions, but they come from Rudyard Kipling's eternal.Deadpool and the monster take out Mowgli, Baloo, and Bagheera in 'How Deadpool Nearly Killed All Classic Literary Characters'.The film is based on this. Mowgli, Baloo, and Bagheera have Deadpool and his monster friend pinned down, with a chance to fight before another villain shows up.

Shere Khan fights Deadpool; the Merc with a Mouth learned to outsource. Deadpool's monster slays Baloo, and Shere Khan takes out Mowgli, leaving Bagheera grieving. Deadpool ends Bagheera's suffering quickly.

Deadpool and the monster pretend to be shipwreck survivors to board the Nautilus.Deadpool takes out the Nautilus and straps Captain Nemo to a torpedo aimed at the Little Mermaid.Aboard, the pair drop the act. They start slicing the underwater vessel's crew. They leave a special surprise for Captain Nemo.

Deadpool uses his twisted violence. He straps Nemo to a torpedo and fires it at the Little Mermaid swimming nearby. The collision causes a huge explosion; Deadpool laughs wildly.

Deadpool slays his way through the worlds ofDeadpool slays the Three Musketeers to eliminate the idea of super teams., Macbeth., Deadpool slays The Raven., Deadpool slays The Picture of Dorian Grey., and Deadpool slays The Metamorphosis., Deadpool faces the Musketeers ofDeadpool slays The Three Musketeers.These classic heroes fight well. They cannot match the two Deadpools, who quickly defeat them.

Deadpool enjoys this butchering; it destroys the idea of a super team. Celebrating, he yells, "I didn't just kill the Musketeers. I killed the concept of a team. The Avengers. The X-Men. The Defenders. The Spice Girls." He thinks the Spice Girls are safe, but you never know...

Sherlock's team catches the two Deadpools to stop his rampage across the Ideaverse and start a fight for survival. For a moment, things go Holmes's way as the team takes out Deadpool's monster, returning that part of his brain to his body. Mulan slices off Deadpool's hand, which holds his teleporter.

Alone and hurt, Deadpool rushes the group's time machine and teleports away. Sherlock gets aboard just in time. Sherlock places Deadpool exactly where he wants him as they teleport through space and time while reality collapses.

Holmes and Deadpool fight on the time machine, arguing about the Ideaverse. Deadpool insists he killed the Ideaverse, but tearful Holmes believes the Ideaverse can heal if ideas do not fade. Before Deadpool drifts into spacetime, he mocks Holmes, "If I can come here to where ideas are born and burn it down, they will never heal right..."

Holmes refuses to believe Deadpool ended literature because he fights the idea that ideas can die. As Sherlock travels through spacetime, fighting the despair inside, he quotes lines from classic fiction like.Great ExpectationsandThe IliadBunn ends the miniseries with "End?", making readers decide if Deadpool succeeded or if Sherlock rebuilt the Ideaverse with memory.