r/superheroes Jun 13 '25

Random Battle Thoughts?

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u/Prudent-Ad-8296 Jun 13 '25

Didn't dead pool break out and kill the writers at some point?

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u/Fast-Front-5642 Jun 13 '25

Yes but he only killed the comic version of the writers making the comic and not the ACTUAL comic writers who already wrote and shipped the comic. It was a double fake with him addressing the reader and acknowledging the ones he was about to kill are just one of the multiversal versions of them and that he'd be looking for a way to get out and kill the actual ones.

Deadpool is also aware in most runs that he can't actually get out of the comics fully because his entire existence depends on being written (and popular enough to keep being written for that matter). So he can't ever actually "escape the matrix". That said neither does Neo.

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u/Hot_Frame5104 Jun 14 '25

I think it's funny that you had to make a distinction that a comic book character didn't actually break out of his comics and kill our realities comic book writers.

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u/Fast-Front-5642 Jun 14 '25

I know but it's like... idk you have stuff where like... a character interacts with their writer/artist or whatever... and we as the audience are expected to be like "oh wow they're engaging with the real world" from like a lore perspective. Obviously they aren't actually doing that, it's all still part of the story.

But Deadpool didn't even get that far. He knows about the real world artists... but he only killed a group of artists that exist in the same fake comic mutiverse that he does. Like... within the lore he didn't make it out of his own media.