Deadpool is a 2024 ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The series is written by Cody Ziglar with art by Rogê Antônio.
The tenth volume of Deadpool, the series follows Deadpool and his symbiote dog Princess as he goes back to being a mercenary after the events of Deadpool (2022).
However, Deadpool’s life becomes complicated when his daughter Ellie comes back into his life, and a new villain named Death Grip sets his sights on him.
The first issue was published April 03, 2024.
Deadpool (2024) provides examples of:
- Ambiguous Situation: Whether Ellie's powers are a straigtforward healing factor like her dads or the Resurrective Immortality ability she has from Deadpool 2099, which reset her body back to the state in which her powers first emerged.
- Beautiful Condemned Building: The building Deadpool buys for his new headquarters is a rundown dump, with a rat swimming in the murky water of an abandoned water cooler. While Princess doesn't like the building, Deadpool thinks it's perfect.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall:
- In issue #1, Deadpool mentions how he wouldn't want to be the guy drawing the comic while him and Princess are chasing a target through portals that go through multiple panels.
- In issue #2, Deadpool states that he's not going to deal with Death's Grip until the third or fourth issue.
- The Bus Came Back:
- Ellie, who hasn't been seen in a Deadpool comic since 2019, barring a vision where someone pretends to be her.
- Doug Siravanta, who used to work for the Beyond Corp in Spider-Man Beyond, is brought in by Taskmaster to do the tech for the company.
- Crossbones appears at the end of issue #2, attacking a convention where Deadpool is doing a job to kill him.
- Continuity Nod: Taskmaster states that he's lying lowing until thing cool down in New York, which is due to the Cape Killers, which Taskmaster was apart of, being disbanded in Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #19.
- Cool Mask: Death Grip wears a white face cloth covered in mystical symbols.
- Fan Convention: Deadpool is hired to guard a micro-celebrity at a fan convention in issue #2.
- Feel No Pain: Preston burns one of her hands on the stove and doesn't even feel it due to being a LMD, just asking her husband to get her a new one.
- French Jerk: Deadpool and Princess take a job that takes them to Montreal, Quebec in the first issue to kill a Québécois mutant named Henry Leponte.
- Hands-Off Parenting: Ellie is intentionally trying to avert this, hacking the phone Deadpool gave her so she can find out where he is.Ellie: "No way am I gonna be a Damsel in Distress to my own dad! I'm not gonna be a daughter he can decide to father when it's convenient to him."
- Hollywood Skydiving: Wade and Princess jump out of a plan to airdrop onto their target.
- In the Hood: Death Grip wears a hood with his outfit.
- Kill Steal: Death Grip is introduced killing Leponte before Deadpool has a chance to.
- Married to the Job: Deadpool declares that him and Princess are this after breaking up offscreen with Valentine.
- Murder, Inc.: Deadpool is starting his own mercenary buisness, again.
- No Hero Discount: Deadpool hires Taskmaster to help him with his mercenary buisness at an expensive rate, which Taskmaster states is his friend discount.
- Note from Ed.: During Doug's reintroduction, the notes continously call out Doug's claims that he's good at his job.
- One Last Job: Deadpool and Princess take on a job in Eastern Europe killing a bunch of ex-Symkarian special forces so that they can quit working for other people and afford the lease on their new headquarters.
- Painting the Medium: In issue #1, Deadpool and Princess chase a target whose mutant ability is to make portals, following him through each, which is shown as navigating through the comic panels.
- Private Military Contractors: Deadpool hires Taskmaster to run his company for him.
- Puberty Superpower: Ellie's mutant powers finally emerge after she cuts herself, with the wound healing on its own.
- Put on a Bus: Deadpool's romantic partner Valentine Vuong apparently broke up with Wade between the end of the last series and the start of this one. So far, they don't appear in this series. Princess misses them and keeps asking Deadpool when they'll go back home, but Deadpool laments that romance just isn't in the cards for him.
- Randomly Gifted: After watching a couple of videos on New Toobe, Ellie is suddenly able to splice Agent Preston's LMD hand with the phone Deadpool gave her to track him down. Her step-brother states how it's not normal how she was able to just learn engineering after just watching videos.
- Religion of Evil: Death's Grip and his followers are a mystic cult of martial artists who literally worship Death.
- Shout-Out: The first issue references Chainsaw Man when Deadpool makes a kitsune hand-gesture, signalling Princess to eat a thug a la Makima and the Fox Devil.
- Start My Own: After the conflict with the Atelier, and being contacted by Agent Gao to join her team, Deadpool decides to start his own mercenary business.
- Thinking Up Portals: Henry Leponte is a mutant who can create portals.
- Villain Takes an Interest: Death Grip initially doesn’t take much notice of Deadpool, considering him beneath him. That changes, however, when he sees Deadpool come back from the dead thanks to his healing factor. That and the fact that Deadpool manages to injure him causes Death Grip to decide and focus on Deadpool.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Deadpool is trying to avert this, as he realizes how he's been a shitty dad who hasn't always been there for Ellie, so he gives her a phone that can contact him so that that they stay in touch.
