30 greatest Deadpool moments in Marvel Comics
By Mark Lynch
10. Want you to want me
Cyclops not only said no, but he also said, “Hell no” to Wade joining the X-Men.
Deadpool was too much of a risk for the X-Men to take in. They were already having issues after their fight with Norman Osborn’s Dark X-Men and Dark Avengers (the series is called Utopia). The public already believed Deadpool was a traitor who worked with the Skrulls.
Adding Wade would have made the X-Men look worse than they already did. One of the younger X-Men called out Cyclops. She reminding him that the X-Men were full of people who needed second chances (Namor, Emma Frost, Magneto, etc).
Realizing that he sounded like a hypocrite, Cyclops sent Domino to talk to Deadpool. Deadpool told Domino he had the perfect idea to get the X-Men back in with the public. He was going to kill Mercury’s father for talking badly about the X-Men.
Domino let Deadpool escape after she thought Cyclops sent Wolverine to kill him. Wolverine planned on sending Deadpool away on a fake mission. Now, Deadpool had to be dealt with. Just as Deadpool is about to get the kill shot, the shot goes off and Mercury’s father was alive. Deadpool shot one of Osborn’s assassins.
Deadpool wasn’t trying to kill anyone, and his goal was to make the X-Men look good, which he succeeded in. A cameraman filmed Deadpool saying that he was on his own and Cyclops hitting him with an optic blast saying he wasn’t an X-Man.
Deadpool made the X-Men look like heroes again at his own expense. He may not have gotten a costume with the X-Men (except for the one he made for himself), but he did save the day. The X-Men were heroes again. Cyclops even admitted to Deadpool that he had moves.