Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4548390-20160209183748/@comment-61022-20160229213638

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Kind of like Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars? Well, the only things that would truly confuse me is all the temporal counterparts (Kang the Conqueror will be the death of me in that sense), and all the similar but not quite identical alternate realities.

Well it's not really conclusive if Deadpool's Secret Wars was an alternate reality or not. It's pretty open ended and a matter of interpretation. They were very ambiguous about it. Given the history of Deadpool as a character this doesn't come as much of a surprise. His memory is quite lucid and his recollection of events could have been entirely made up. However the way they wrote it could be accepted as actually having happened. The fact that the others gathered on Battleworld collectively decide to forget that Deadpool was there mucking things up explains how he could have been there, but nobody remembers him being there.

There is certainly precedence for Deadpool being around during periods prior to his first appearance in. They did a Secret Wars II cross-over with Deadpool in so the idea that he was involved in the first Secret Wars isn't really that outlandish. He's also "Gumped" himself into other events, has him travel back in time and interrupt the events of  (although this created a divergent reality) other stories, like  also weave him into Marvel's past tying him with the Frightful Four. There are other stories (the exact issues escape me at the moment) that show him associated various assassins. At the end of the day, he was basically active behind the scenes during the 80's era of Marvel history.

Him mixing up details, embellishing, making stuff up, or even having faulty memories because of the Weapon X program are very well documented (his past life, particularly his childhood, is full of various contradictory stories.)

Personally, I think that because Deadpool's Secret Wars can fit into continuity and I suspect that when the new handbook comes out Marvel is going to either (a) implicitly state that or (b) intentionally keep it vague. With Deadpool it's a "like or hate" scenario so fans of the character can interpret it as actually happening, non-fans could interpret it as happening all in his head (as opposed to another reality).