While Wade Wilson might be many things, Deadpool is not really one to keep a secret. With his motor-mouth, Deadpool has joked endlessly about a wide range of topics, including his own body and the numerous traumas he's put it through,

On his adventures as a mercenary and during his more heroic stints with X-Force, Deadpool has suffered and healed from virtually every injury in the book. And as the decades have gone on, his body has just kept getting weirder and weirder. Now, we're taking a closer look at Deadpool's body, which has evolved into one of the most unique bodies in the Marvel Universe.

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Though he's often associated with the band of mutant superheroes the X-Men, it's important to keep in mind when dealing with Deadpool that is not technically a mutant himself. I The origin to Deadpool's powers date back to the hazy days of his service with the Canadian special services. Though he did not have any superpowers, his unusually sharp skills as an expert assassin made him a favorite among the upper brass despite his obedience issues. When he was diagnosed with a deadly form of cancer, he proved eligible for a highly experimental procedure.

With Department K drawing from the research conducted by the Weapon X Program, the government managed to extract and replicate Wolverine's healing factor and place it into Deadpool. The result was that he developed his miraculous healing abilities that would kick off his career as a costumed adventurer. This means that Deadpool is a mutate and not technically a mutant, but he's sometimes identified as one because of the DNA he shares with Wolverine.

The healing factor that Deadpool inherited is oftentimes portrayed as being even better than Logan's own considerable abilities. While both Wolverine and Deadpool's healing factors can be inconsistent over the years -- with both going from recovering from atomic explosions without much trouble to being taken down by machine gun fire at other times -- there's really no doubting that the ceiling of Deadpool's healing factor is much higher than Wolverine's mutant power.

Without any special upgrades, Deadpool has had his entire body reduced to ash and still recovered. Perhaps even more notable is that his recovery seemed to begin immediately, with his consciousness forming thoughts even before the ash itself coalesced back into a body. The cartoonish extents to which Deadpool's body has suffered violence and still came back may be tied in with his complicated relationship with the embodiment of Death, but there's no doubting it makes for some strange showings.

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The history between Deadpool and Cable goes all the way back to Wade's creation in New Mutants #98, by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza. Even after the two stopped trying to kill each other, Cable's self-serious and dramatic nature makes him the proverbial straight man to Deadpool's wacky antics. While this exceptionally odd couple might not seem like they have much in common, the pair found themselves fused together during a teleportation accident near the beginning of 2004's Cable and Deadpool.

With their atoms connected on a quantum level, there was a repeated problem the two experienced with their separate teleportation devices where whenever one activated the device the two would teleport to the same location. No matter how far apart they were, they would always be yanked back together whenever they teleported, and sometimes they'd be put back together quite literally. Cable's own hardy constitution helped him survive their particularly close encounters, but for Deadpool, it meant practically ripping himself in half and growing huge chunks of himself back.

Although the pair were eventually untangled, Deadpool also found himself fused with another one of Marvel's zaniest characters, Madcap, a few years later.

That strange body of Deadpool's has an even stranger mind, and that has helped him out on more than one occasion. It turns out that the constant deluge of pop culture references. inane dialogue and self-aware addresses to readers aren't just an affectation, but they're the result of his totally unique mind, which is in a somewhat constant state of flux to the point that his brain is completely indecipherable to telepaths.

Occasionally, this condition has been attributed to Deadpool's healing factor, which keeps his brain's neurons regrowing and firing off and burning out such a frenetic pace that it's impossible to form a coherent consciousness from the mess. The unique nature of his mind may also have something to do with his brief exposure to the foundation of reality in Cullen Bunn, Matteo Lolli and Matteo Buffagni's Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #4, the event that made him self-aware in the first palce.

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Deadpool has a habit of turning his flaws into strengths, and the unique nature of his mind isn't the only example. The same cancer that necessitated his involvement int the Weapon X Program was never actually cured by the development of Wade's healing factor. Instead, the cancer itself was fueled by the same healing factor even as it killed him. His healthy cells were unable to die from the cancer-killing him, and the cancer was unable to die from the healing factor. The result is that his body condensed into a grotesque walking tumor.

While this unique set of circumstances caused Deadpool's looks and makes his body give off a repugnant odor, there are some upsides to his current condition. One of them is that Deadpool's blood is poisonous to vampires like Dracula, who are utterly repulsed by it. It also means that any attempts to copy Deadpool's powers go awry, as the alien Skrulls learned when they tried to make an army with Deadpool's healing factor without factoring in the role his cancer plays. The result was a shambling mess of an army utterly useless to the alien empire, which gave Deadpool the last laugh yet again.

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