Why is Deadpool called Merc with a mouth?

Deadpool, whose real name is Wade Winston Wilson, is a disfigured mercenary with the superhuman ability of regeneration and physical prowess. The character is known as the "Merc with a Mouth" because of his tendency to talk and joke constantly, including breaking the fourth wall for humorous effect and running gags.
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Is the Merc with no mouth Deadpool?

Deadpool might have been mute in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but they're overlooking one small part of his history as a comic book character. Deadpool became the Merc Without A Mouth after having it sewn shut so the writers weren't forced to derail their movie on his account.
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Why does Deadpool have a mouth?

The first forgettable, unforgivable, failure of a film featuring the Merc With a Mouth was 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, A movie so inexplicably stupid it decided that a character with that nickname should have its mouth sewn shut. They cast Ryan Reynolds to play Deadpool AND THEY SEWED HIS MOUTH SHUT.
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Why does Deadpool not have a mouth in Wolverine?

Reynolds actually popped up in the climactic scene at the end of 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine as the merc with no mouth. Literally: He wears a surgically sealed fleshy mess over the lower half of his face.
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Why is Deadpool's face the way it is?

Once Deadpool and Sabretooth arrive at the lab that administers the tests to physically enhance individuals, Deadpool meets the man in charge of the Weapon X program who just so happens to have a scarred face of his own - thanks to being scratched by Wolverine's claws.
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Does Deadpool's skin ever heal?

In the Deadpool movie when Wade his mutant cells get activated, his skin changes so he looks like Freddy Krueger (As Weasel referred too). But he obtains healing abilities and his cancer gets cured because of it. He's become an immortal person which can heal any wound super fast.
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Why was Deadpool's skin deformed in the oxygen tank?

In the comic book world, though, the scarring is actually linked to Deadpool's cancer. "Wade had cancer when he was given the healing powers, and so his cancer cells regenerate as quickly as his normal cells, accounting for the scarred appearance of his skin under his uniform," ComicsAlliance explains in a video.
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Why is there 2 different Deadpools?

Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool.
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Why did Deadpool have laser eyes?

The bandages suggest a biopsy or surgery of the eyes that need to heal. The reason Deadpool can use the optic blasts without the glasses is because he lacks the trauma that Scott received.
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How is Deadpool alive after Wolverine?

Regeneration Healing Factor: During his transformation, Weapon XI, was given Wolverine's regenerative healing factor which allows his body to almost instantly heals wounds just like Wolverine can.
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Did Deadpool get his powers from Wolverine?

Wilson is approached to take part in an experiment that is supposedly going to cure his cancer with a mysterious serum, which is made from Wolverine's genes and aims to awaken other dormant mutant genes in the body. Thanks to the serum, he gains a superhuman healing ability just like Wolverine.
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How did Weapon 11 became Deadpool?

Weapon XI is also referred to by Col. William Stryker as "Deadpool", due to having powers "pooled" from many other mutants killed and/or kidnapped in the film, including Wolverine's healing factor, Cyclops' optic blasts, Wraith's teleportation ability, and Chris Bradley's technopathy.
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Who is a Class 5 mutant?

Jean Grey was the only Class Five mutant ever met by Charles Xavier (which implies Magneto and Pyro are Class Four), and her potential was stated to be limitless. It is unknown if Callisto counted herself and the Omega Gang as Class Three or less, or among the Class Four.
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How does Deadpool know he's in a comic?

Deadpool found out he's in a comic thanks to Loki, beginning his own search for the Infinity Stones and the truth they could reveal.
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What was Deadpool before he was Deadpool?

Deadpool originally started off as a supervillain to the New Mutants, a team of teenaged X-Men, but eventually became an antihero who fought alongside Wolverine, the X-Men and even several Avengers. On the big screen, Deadpool showed up as the chatty mercenary Wade Wilson before he gains his regenerative powers.
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Is cable Deadpool's son?

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Deadpool eventually realizes the infant is indeed his version of Cable, de-aged. Returning the child to their home universe, Deadpool cares for Nathan until an injection of Deadpool's DNA allows him to rapidly grow back into adulthood.
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Is Stryker's son a mutant?

Actor. Jason Stryker was a mutant who possessed telepathic powers. He was also the son of William Stryker. His father extracts a fluid from his spinal cord that allows him to control people's minds.
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Who is Silver Fox sister?

Emma Frost is a mutant who can transform her body into diamond, bullet proof skin. She was apart of the captured mutants held by William Stryker at Three Mile Island whose goal was to combine mutant abilities. She is also the younger sister of Kayla Silverfox.
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Is Sabertooth and Wolverine brothers?

Sabretooth (born Victor Creed) is a mutant who, like his younger half-brother Wolverine, has a number of animal-like abilities, such as retractable claws, enhanced senses, and a regenerative healing factor.
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How are Wolverine and Deadpool connected?

Deadpool, AKA Wade Wilson, was a wisecracking mercenary in a red suit who loved breaking the fourth wall, and his backstory was later filled in to reveal that he gained his human powers not from being a mutant (which he's not, btw), but by experiments done on him by the Weapon X program, the same program that bonded ...
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Is Wade from Wolverine Deadpool?

Longer answer: Wade Wilson in Deadpool is not the same person that was portrayed in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and will have nothing in common beyond happening to be played by the same actor. In fact, the primarily motivation for the movie being made was Reynold's desire to "do Deadpool right".
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Is Deadpool's healing better than Wolverines?

However, Deadpool's healing factor goes a fair bit beyond Wolverine's, in that Deadpool's healing factor essentially prevents him from dying unless it is something catastrophic. Typically speaking, if Wolverine had an arm chopped off, he would not re-grow a new arm. Deadpool's powers do, in fact, do that.
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What is Deadpool's real power?

Deadpool's primary power is an accelerated healing factor, depicted by various writers at differing levels of efficiency. The speed of his healing factor depends on the severity of the wound and Deadpool's mental state. It works most efficiently when he is awake, alert, and in good spirits.
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Why does Deadpool heal slow in the movie?

So why wouldn't Deadpool's healing factor cure his cancer? In the movie, it's because Wade was born with mutant genes, so every cell in his body would inherit regenerative powers – including tumor cells. The explanation is similar for comics: a mutagenic serum wouldn't distinguish between normal and abnormal tissues.
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