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This Deadpool trivia quiz has 100 free questions with answers and covers Wade Wilson from his first comic appearance to the billion-dollar team-up with Wolverine: how Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza built him as a Deathstroke parody, the healing factor and the cancer, Blind Al and Weasel, the fourth wall, Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, his marriage to the Queen of the Undead, and then the films: the leaked test footage that forced Fox's hand, Tim Miller's 2016 movie and its record run, Vanessa, Ajax, Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, David Leitch's sequel with Cable, Domino and the doomed X-Force, the PG-13 Fred Savage cut, and Shawn Levy's Deadpool & Wolverine with the TVA, Cassandra Nova and the highest R-rated gross ever. It is written for comic fans, movie fans and anyone who owns a chimichanga t-shirt. Easy questions cover the character everyone knows; the hard ones ask about issue numbers, budgets and who created Cable. Every answer has been checked against a reliable source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Deadpool first appeared in which comic, cover-dated February 1991?
The New Mutants #98
The New Mutants #98 cast him as a hired gun sent after Cable, and the Domino in that issue was later revealed to be the shapeshifter Copycat in disguise.
Q 02Which artist and writer team created Deadpool?
Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza
Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza split the job: Liefeld plotted, drew and named the masked mercenary, while Nicieza wrote the dialogue and relished giving him a mouth with no filter.
Q 03Wade Wilson's name is a cheeky nod to Slade Wilson, the alter ego of which DC Comics mercenary?
Deathstroke
Deathstroke was already a masked mercenary with guns and a sword when Deadpool arrived looking much the same, so his writer owned up to the likeness with the name.
Q 04In the comics, which secret program, the one that made Wolverine, gave Wade Wilson his healing factor?
Weapon X
Weapon X wrote him off when his new powers misfired and sent him to die in a ward called the Hospice, where the patients bet on who would go first: the dead pool.
Q 05Which team created DC's Slade Wilson, Wade Wilson's namesake, in The New Teen Titans?
Marv Wolfman and George Pérez
Marv Wolfman and George Pérez made him the Teen Titans' great enemy, a mercenary whose vendetta began when he swore revenge for the death of his eldest son Grant.
Q 06Deadpool's healing factor was grafted onto cells already ridden with what?
Cancer
Cancer was the terminal diagnosis that drove the mercenary to volunteer for the experiment, which saved his life but left him scarred and unstable.
Q 07Deadpool's red and black costume and wisecracking personality were inspired by which other Marvel hero?
Spider-Man
Spider-Man's mask is just an oval and two big eyes, which fellow artists loved for being quick to draw, so Deadpool's creator borrowed the look and the wisecracks.
Q 08Which writer launched Deadpool's first ongoing series in 1997 and introduced his elderly housemate Blind Al?
Joe Kelly
Joe Kelly was untested on a monthly comic and Marvel expected the series to last about six issues; instead it defined Wade as a would-be hero who keeps failing.
Q 09Which habit, rare among Marvel characters, is Deadpool's trademark in comics and films alike?
Breaking the fourth wall
Breaking the fourth wall means he knows he is fictional; one 2012 comic ends with him bursting into the real world to confront Marvel's own writers.
Q 10Which former Superman actor cameos in Deadpool & Wolverine as a cigar-chomping Wolverine variant?
Henry Cavill
Henry Cavill turns round with a cigar, gets dubbed 'the Cavillrine' by Wade and punches him flat; fans had been casting him in Marvel roles since his Superman exit.
Q 11Wade's bride Shiklah was first promised to which Marvel monster, who had hired Wade to deliver her?
Dracula
Dracula wanted the monster queen's inheritance and paid Wade to fetch her coffin; she fell for the courier instead and married him.
Q 12Which Deadpool catchphrase did Ryan Reynolds borrow as the name of his production company?
Maximum Effort
Maximum Effort began as Wade's catchphrase in the 2016 film; in 2021 Reynolds sold the company's advertising arm to the ad-tech firm MNTN and became its chief creative officer.
Q 13Which 2004 team-up series paired Wade with his former enemy Nathan Summers?
Cable & Deadpool
Q 21Who plays Wade's girlfriend Vanessa in the films?
Morena Baccarin
Morena Baccarin's Vanessa has no powers on screen, but in the comics she is the shapeshifting mutant Copycat; the writers chose to de-power her.
Q 22Ed Skrein's villain in the 2016 Deadpool film goes by Ajax, but what real first name does Wade insist on using?
Francis
Francis is the name Ajax hates: when Wade learns it and mocks him, Ajax locks him in the airtight chamber that finally triggers his mutation.
Q 23Which two X-Men accompany Deadpool in the 2016 film?
Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Cable & Deadpool ran for 50 issues, teaming the grim time-traveller with the wisecracking mercenary who had once been hired to kill him.
Q 14Cable is the son of Cyclops and which character, a clone of Jean Grey?
Madelyne Pryor
Madelyne Pryor's baby was infected with a techno-organic virus and sent to the far future, where it could be held in check; he came back as the soldier Cable.
Q 15What is Domino's mutant power?
Probability control
Probability control fits the name: her co-creator reasoned that dominoes is a game of chance, so luck simply breaks her way.
Q 16Ryan Reynolds first played Wade Wilson in which 2009 film?
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine sewed the Merc with a Mouth's mouth shut; Deadpool 2 takes revenge in its credits, sending Wade back in time to shoot that version.
Q 17What finally persuaded 20th Century Fox to greenlight the 2016 Deadpool film?
Leaked test footage
Leaked test footage ended two years of stalling: the studio had sat on the CGI reel since 2012, then greenlit the film about a month after fans cheered it online.
Q 18Who directed the 2016 Deadpool film, his feature directorial debut?
Tim Miller
Tim Miller co-founded the effects studio Blur, which animated the film's joke opening titles; he left the sequel over creative differences with its star.
Q 19Deadpool beat which 2003 sequel's worldwide R-rated box-office record?
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix Reloaded's $742 million had stood since 2003; Deadpool beat it on a budget cut so late that the writers had Wade forget his guns to avoid filming a shoot-out.
Q 20Which writing duo, fresh from Zombieland, scripted the 2016 Deadpool film?
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick spent years pushing the script past a wary studio, and the film's joke opening credits bill them as 'The Real Heroes Here'.
Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead are the only two around, so Reynolds ad-libbed that the studio couldn't afford another X-Man, which was true.
Q 24Which comedian plays Wade's bartender friend Weasel in the first two films?
T.J. Miller
T.J. Miller's Weasel runs the mercenaries' bar and bets on Wade in its 'dead pool', the wager on who will die next that gives the hero his name.
Q 25The post-credits scene of the 2016 Deadpool film parodies which 1980s comedy?
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off ends with Ferris telling the audience to go home; Wade copies the scene in a bathrobe, then announces Cable for the sequel.
Q 26In which city was the 2016 Deadpool film shot?
Vancouver
Vancouver is also Ryan Reynolds's home town, and the city lent the production its Georgia Viaduct for two weeks, where the crew shot rain or shine.
Q 27Ryan Reynolds received a Golden Globe nomination for Deadpool in which category?
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy went instead to Ryan Gosling, as La La Land swept a record seven Globes; Deadpool was also up for best comedy or musical film.
Q 28Who directed Deadpool 2 after the first film's director walked away over creative differences?
David Leitch
David Leitch got the job because Reynolds admired how his John Wick, co-directed without credit, made a tight budget look many times more expensive.
Q 29Which actor plays the time-travelling soldier Cable in Deadpool 2?
Josh Brolin
Josh Brolin won the role as a surprise contender after scheduling ruled out Brad Pitt, and signed a four-film deal to play the time-travelling soldier.
Q 30What happens to most of the X-Force team Deadpool assembles in Deadpool 2?
They die skydiving
They die skydiving: every recruit but Domino is killed on landing, and the invisible Vanisher is revealed as Brad Pitt at the instant he dies.