User blog comment:Deadpool fan11/dont hate deadpool/@comment-3486187-20111129025342/@comment-3317214-20111130013247

All of what you said might be true (except the lamepool bit), but it is a bit harsh. Anyway, pretty much all characters draw inspiration from other characters. Look at the X-Men and Doom Patrol. Batman and Iron Man. Namor and Aquaman. Sentry and Superman. They're all characters, and so portray many qualities, some of which are drawn from other characters. So going by your logic there, every character is a ripoff... If we're talking about powers, looking at Marvel alone, there's thousands of characters, so surely some of them share similar powers. How often do you bump into someone in the Marvel Universe with super strength? There's Hulk, Thor, Thing, Colossus, Abomination, Wolverine, Captain America, Spider-Man, Ms Marvel, all the other Hulks. The list goes on and on... Even powers as specific as Spider-Man's are replicated with the Scarlet Spider, Spider-Woman, Spider-Girl, Venom, etc. And if we're talking Humour, heaps of other characters have their one-liners during battle. You get the point. Every character draws inspiration from other characters (in your terms: every character is unoriginal, and can insert "lame" into their name). And it's no secret that Marvel and DC copy things from each other. It's how they try to get one up on the other. But all of this is kind of missing the point. Deadpool is mainly a copy of Deathstroke. Noone has tried to hide that fact. That's the joke. He is a walking (and talking... a lot) joke (not joke in a bad way, by the way). So, in a (twisted kind of) way, he's the most original character. Noone else is openly that much of a copy of someone else, and so there's noone that's quite like Deadpool.