Editing Marvel Comics (section)

===Deadpool===
A terminal cancer patient subjected to an experimental treatment that gave the subject Wolverine's regeneration ability. Unfortunately for him, the rapid destruction and reconstruction of both body and mind has caused him to go crazy, and has left him horribly disfigured to the point he looks like Freddy Kruger and Brundlefly's horribly mutated lovechild. Possibly the oddest character to get popular; among other things, referred to as "The Regenerating Degenerate" "The Merc with the Mouth", and various other, less printable things, Deadpool started out as one of Rob Liefeld's '''many''' pointlessly edgy villains, but was eventually adopted into a much more interesting character by later writers. Deadpool's popularity is built on a few major pillars:

# Ultraviolence. The character came of age in an era when ultraviolence was popular, and between his regeneration and the fact that he's usually fighting generic criminal mooks, he's very much a "as much violence, blood, and guts as the rating allows" character.
# He's a pathetic loser. He's usually depicted as living in a dingy apartment, hated by just about everybody who knows him, and in general, is frequently portrayed as lower class. And the same experiment that gave him powers also resulted in him becoming completely insane, and in constant pain (the only reason he survived it is because his terminal cancer interacted with the induced regeneration factor in such a way that he could survive, unlike all the other subjects of said experiment).<ref>Why would this make him popular? Well, because it makes him very relatable, sympathetic, and grounded. And it feeds into the "grungy and ugly" side of the character, which is part of the whole "ultraviolence" thing.</ref>
# Wisecracks and random humor, especially weird pop culture references. Again, insane.
# He breaks the fourth wall. A lot. And he occasionally actually directly interacts with it in very odd ways. Most other characters write it off as him being insane, so he can do so in mostly serious works. Tends to get really played up in non-comics appearances; for example, in the Marvel vs Capcom games, he hits his opponent with their '''own health bar''' from the game's GUI.

Despite his huge fanbase in real life, Deadpool is very much a love-him-or-hate-him character, and has an almost equally vocal hatedom who despise him for being too "goofy"<ref>Although some of the more interesting Deadpool comics lean into that kind of goofy--for example, "Deadpool Killustrated" features an evil Deadpool killing off characters from classic literature, or "Choose Your Own Deadpool", which is a gamebook/comic that does a few interesting things with that scenario.</ref>
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====Gwen Pool(e)====
Originally a dumb attempt to milk the mild success of Spider-Gwen and actual success of Deadpool, Gwenpool is, in-fact, related to neither. After Marvel made the name and costume, they handed it off to freelancer Christopher Hastings (Yes, the guy behind Dr. McNinja.) and told to make an ongoing series despite the character ''literally'' being nothing but a name and costume. He took this opportunity make Gwen an interesting, well-rounded, original character that underwent actual character development and can truly be said to be an entirely different person at the end of her series while boasting a well rounded supporting cast of characters both new (Mega Tony, The Terrible Eye) and old (C-List supervillain Batroc the Leaper as her mentor). Naturally his run wasn't renewed and the character was tossed to various less-talented (and presumably cheaper) authors who gave so few damns they couldn't keep her personality consistent, let alone live up the brief history of the character.

Gwen Poole was a high school drop-out in the "real" world who dreamed of becoming a comic book artist. While making easy money volunteering for sleep monitoring studies, she was somehow (the event is only mentioned in past-tense rather than fully detailed, so what ''exactly'' happened is unclear) is transported to Earth-616. There, she acts as a dark reflection of the kid from ''Last Action Hero'': Using her deep knowledge of comics to get by despite a lack of superpowers or extraordinary "mundane" ability, but also showing no concern to nameless characters she endangers or outright kills because (in her mind) nameless background characters don't matter. As mentioned above, that's just the ''start'' of her character.

Her first wakeup call comes when she is approached to work for M.O.D.O.K. Now M.O.D.O.K is a very silly looking late-Silver/early Bronze Age villain; a former grunt from the mad scientist's guild called Advanced Idea Mechanics who was mutated into a biological supercomputer, which warped him into an ''enormous'' and disfigured head atop a useless body, sealed into a cybernetic antigravity-propelled chair to get around. He's a very silly-looking villain, and so like any normie, Gwen laughs at him when he starts getting threatening. This is a '''big mistake'''. See, "M.O.D.O.K" stands for "Mechanized Organism Designed Only For '''Killing'''", and he is not only a super-genius, but also a psychopath, a sadist, and possessed of enough [[psionics|telekinetic energy]] to make an A-bomb look like a cap-gun. So he promptly ''vaporizes'' Gwen's only friend in the Marvel universe so far with a literal stray thought, and then gives her a "join me or die" ultimatum. Gwen, still clutching the charred skull of her buddy, promptly has a breakdown as she realizes that, yes, she really can die here, and she meekly submits to him.

Highlights from there include a portrayal of Batroc the Leaper that focuses on the fact he's actually always been presented as a skilled, highly professional badass, despite the silly name, ridiculous French accent, and a failed attempt to beat Deadpool where he brutally establishes the efficacy of 4th wall breaking, meme-work, and invoking popularity power by showing her just how badly she lacks in these fields compared to him.

Was teased with being killed off for real, but was ultimately "canonized" into the wider Marvel universe as a crazy mutant whose 4th wall breaking is insanity, as her mind tries and partially fails to cope with her mutant ability, which manages to warp reality.
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