Summary
Even without the upcomingDeadpool & Wolverinemovie, these two anti-heroes have had their fates intertwine frequently in the comics. If Wolverine hadn’t become ‘Weapon X’, the Canadian government wouldn’t have tried to recreate his healing factor with the experiments that made Deadpool the mutated maniac he is today. He’s essentially the Wario to Wolverine’s Mario,the Bizarro to Wolverine’s Superman, etc.
As such, their paths have often crossed. Sometimes they’ve teamed up against a common foe,like inDeadpool & Wolverine.Other times they’ve crossed blades trying to kill each other, and occasionally succeeded. Whether it’s a comic, annual, or animated movie, these arethe best Deadpool and Wolverine fights.
7Wolverine Chucks Deadpool At The Hulk
Hulk Vs Wolverine
Wolverine has got a long list of rivals, with one of the first being the Incredible Hulk himself. His first appearance saw Wolverine interrupting a fight between the Emerald Giant and the Wendigo. So, it was only fair Marvel Studios put the two against each other inHulk Vs Wolverine. Hired by the Canadian government to incapacitate the Hulk , Wolverine hunts the Green Meanie, only to get captured by Team X, which consisted of his old ‘friends’, including Deadpool.
Deadpool certainly has the animated short’s best lines (“Weapon X just hasn’t been the same without you. Nobody calls me “bub” anymore. AndOmega Red’s a bed wetter”), though his fights with Wolverine are more like skirmishes, culminating with Wolverine chucking Deadpool towards the revived Hulk, who smashes him into a wall. To add insult to injury, just as Deadpool thinks he’s the last survivor, he gets goombah-stomped by the Hulk on his way out.
6Deadpool Shish-Kabobs Wolverine
Wolverine #88
Wolverine #88was the first time the two Canadians went mano-a-mano, and it didn’t initially go well for Wolverine. Deadpool was trying to get to his ex-girlfriend Vanessa, aka. Copycat, only to find she had moved on to be with Garrison Kane, the new Weapon X. Wolverine tried to stop him, but Deadpool’s own healing factor was stronger than he thought.
Deadpool impaled Wolverine on his twin katanas, then went off in search of Copycat and X. Wolverine would eventually recover and save the two, but he was only able to force Deadpool to retreat. As serious as it sounds, it still has some of Deadpool’s trademark wackiness, like the title card featuring Deadpool bursting out a drumLooney-Toons stylenext to the title “It’s D-D-Deadpool, Folks!”
5Wolverine’s Rematch Is Interrupted By Werewolves
Wolverine Annual 1999
The two would fight here and there for the rest of the 1990s, but they wouldn’t have their first team-up until just before the decade’s end inWolverine Annual 1999in a forced arrangement. As Wolverine was chaperoning Shadowcat at a book signing for author Duncan Vess, he spotted Deadpool stalking the unfortunate writer. So, Wolverine decided to follow the merc with a mouth himself to get the drop on him.
Intending to avenge Shadowcat for their last fight, he ambushes Deadpool with a metal pipe, and the two have a brief skirmish. Deadpool gets the advantage when he pins Wolverine to the wall with his sword. Then, suddenly, a werewolf grabs Deadpool and throws him around! It turns out Vess was a werewolf who fell afoul of the Council of Werewolves, forcing the old rivals to work together to protect Vess from his former canine companions.
4Wolverine Almost Kills Deadpool
Cable And Deadpool #43-44
Cable and Deadpool #44is subtitled ‘Head Games’ for a reason. With Cable gone, Deadpool goes on a solo mission to rescue his friend Weasel from a HYDRA base. Coincidentally, Wolverine is tasked with taking out the base’s Section Commander, who just so happens to be Weasel! So, Deadpool tries to save his friend from his frenemy, only for Wolverine to lop his head off with his claws.
That would usually be enough to kill anyone, but with Deadpool, he’ll be fine as long as his head is stuck back onto his neck. Ex-HYDRA agent-turned-sidekick Bob tries to grab his decapitated noggin, but it keeps getting kicked back and forth like a soccer ball between Wolverine and the other Hydra agents. He eventually succeeds, finds out why Weasel’s playing a double agent, and holds Wolverine off long enough for Weasel’s plot to take action.
3Deadpool “Shoryukens” Shadowcat
Deadpool #27
This is the incident Wolverine was trying to get revenge for inWolverine Annual 1999, and it’s also why Deadpool has his own “Shoryuken” move inMarvel Vs Capcom 3. InDeadpool #27, Deadpool has been undergoing therapy with Doctor Bong to figure out why he’s recently been hallucinating. The doctor suggests he needs to work off some aggression to relieve the issue, which requires fighting superpowered foes.
So, Deadpool heads to Japan, where he finds Wolverine walking around with Shadowcat. He tries to goad him into a fight, only for Wolverine to see through his ruse and tell him to get lost. While being taunted by Shadowcat, Deadpool gets an idea. He asks the girl if she’s ever playedStreet Fighter, and then gives her an uppercut. This gets him his fight with Wolverine, who pays him back for the shish-kabobing in their first fight.
2Deadpool Finally Kills Wolverine
Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe
Inspired by a similar story which saw the Punisher take out every Marvel hero and villain,Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universesees an attempt to fix Deadpool’s mental condition go horribly wrong. Instead of having multiple voices in his head, he now has just one which is compelling him to murder all the other heroes. Usually, Deadpool would eventually be overpowered, but if it worked for the Punisher, it could work for him!
He manages to kill off The Fantastic Four,The Incredible Hulk, then makes Professor X watch him kill off the X-Men one by one, but he takes Wolverine on personally, finally managing to cut his head off. Even if Wolverine’s healing factor was as good as Deadpool’s, the merc with a mouth used a carbonadium sword to neutralize it. Then, to make doubly sure, Deadpool kills the Marvel writing team to end the comics for good.
1Deadpool Uses Looney Toons Tactics
Wolverine: Origins #21-25
The duo’s ultimate encounter came inWolverine: Origins #21-25, where the two fought across multiple issues. Hired by an unknown individual, Deadpool tries to kill Wolverine using a variety of techniques that come straight froma Bugs Bunny cartoon. From trying to drop a piano on him, to making him try to save a baby from a burning car, only for him to discover it’s a doll rigged with another bomb, Deadpool busts out some wacky tricks to try and get to Wolverine.
All the while, Deadpool is hallucinating, seeing Wolverine as an Elmer Fudd-like cartoon. As cartoony as it gets, it’s a bloody affair, as Wolverine tries to slice the merc up to bits. The two even have a serious moment in #24, where Deadpool laments his fate and brings up Wolverine’s past. In the end, the person who hired Deadpool turns out to be Wolverine himself in a bid to lure his estranged son, Daken, out of hiding, meaning Logan has the last laugh.
