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The series itself does a really good job at explaining itself, particularly at the end. They basically chuck in a panel of Reed Richards explaining it all away. Throughout the course of the run they reinforce the fact that the characters are going to get what they desire if they will it enough -- hence why Deadpool becomes a weird blond Burt Reynolds part way through -- At the very end of the series the other heroes involved in Secret Wars collectively desire to forget Deadpool was even there.

This is not exactly a new concept either. - follows the adventures of the Thing after the original Secret Wars when he decided to stay on Battleworld because he could change back and forth between his human and Thing forms. That series explains that Battleworld took on the shape and form of the desires or wants of those on the planet. For the most part this was unconscious desires or needs.

Ergo, the fact that the heroes involved in Secret Wars desired to forget that Deadpool was even there makes it work in that the original Secret Wars miniseries is how the heroes have chosen to remember it, while Deadpool's Secret Wars is how Deadpool experienced it. It also goes a long way to explain why these characters would have no memory of Deadpool when they meet him years later (post )

You don't really need to stretch your imagination much if you focus on the facts surrounding the original Battleworld. Deadpool being there is certainly in the realm of possibility. The entire series was intended to be a throwback that didn't take place during the most recent Secret Wars event. The only "in-event" Deadpool story was Mrs. Deadpool and Her Howling Commandos, which featured Deadpool as a ghost who remembers the correct course of history (in Secret Wars events were altered that Dracula killed Deadpool)