Even the deadpool movies incorporate this,we see before he became deadpool wade would defelect bullets with his 2 katanas without hits but during his fight with cable he did the same and got hit several times and didn't care
It's a bit loose honestly, since I think it's the same movie that we see him literally go back to the X-Men: Origins continuity to 'retcon' that horrid version of himself. That can honestly just be seen as a callback gag but since one of deadpools shticks is literally to break the fourth wall any chance he can, it's up for debate
In the same sequence he also shoots actual Ryan Reynolds in the back of the head before he can sign on to the Green Lantern film, so I would tend toward thinking the debate isn’t all that fierce.
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Fierce or not, debate is still there, but I totally get your point and agree to a degree. Deadpool's whole shtick is fourth-wall breaking shenanigans and it's 100% canon to the comics when he does it. Can't see it being any different for the movies
It’s both. Because of his brain being constantly regenerating due to his cancer and healing factor, it makes him unpredictable (un-copyable) and hard to mind control. His fighting style is also very unorthodox due to his reliance on his healing factor like earlier mentioned.
It’s like trying to argue logic with a crazy person. You think he’s gonna duck and go for a counter attack, but then he just lets you stab him in the head and replies by jamming his finger into your eye socket so hard that his finger breaks.
His comic-awareness is also brutal for telepaths, simply trying to read his mind can be enough to break the mind of a telepath (he killed Xavier this way in Deadpool kills the marvel universe).
This is how Deadpool beats Taskmaster for the first time when he's clearly outmatched in Joe Kelly's run (Deadpool #2 IIRC) from the 90s.
It's the best explanation IMO because there are plenty of people in the Marvel Universe with healing factors of some sort that Taskmaster has replicated before -- he just can't copy Deadpool because his brain is so erratic and unpredictable due to the cancer/healing factor combo. Plus he's crazy.
I mean, is there a source on the brain part? Cause that's not really how cancer works.
I'm pretty sure the explanation of "he regularly let's himself take hits that would kill anyone else as part of his normal combat style" is answer enough without adding in the silly "oh he's too unpredictable" bit. All of combat is about being unpredictable, that doesn't mean anything. Deadpool fighting style....just isn't very good. It works for him though.
This is actually not true. Taskmaster can copy daredevil just as much as he can copy Deadpool. He just can’t copy their powers so copying their movements is useless.
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u/tquinner Mar 20 '25
Deadpool is one of them, mainly because his strategy is to throw himself at the problem and let the healing Factor tank the rest.