
During this time, he was also recruited by the CIA to join a team of assassins, again being told that his targets deserved death. Whenever Wade failed an assignment, he would get plastic surgery and use various technological means to build a new identity and start acting as a "new" assassin. In this version, Wade ran away from home so that his mother wouldn't lose what little money she had left on him.Īfterwards, while still in his late teens, Wade began to take assassination jobs accepting only those where in he felt the target deserved to die. In this back story, things got even worse for Wade when his drunken friend murdered Wade's father and Wade was ejected from the US Special Forces.Īnother account had Deadpool claiming that his father was a teller of bad jokes who had abandoned his family and that his mother turned to alcohol, humor and the home shopping network to cope. It had been claimed that he was raised by his physically abusive father, a member of the Canadian military, after his mother died of cancer. The true story of the childhood of Wade Wilson is largely unknown, as there have been conflicting accounts. However, the trauma drove Wade mad (or perhaps madder) and he left to become a mercenary with a warped sense of humor.

Experimented on by Weapon X in the attempt to create a powerful soldier, assassin Wade Wilson (known for targeting only those he felt "deserved to die") was somewhat cured of his cancer by being given a power healing factor.
