Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Unnamed drug dealers
Other Characters:
- Unnamed cabbie (First appearance)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Avengers
- Iron Man (Tony Stark)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers)
- Nick Fury (Mentioned)
- Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) (Mentioned)
- Tange Danpei (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-346
- Japan
- Tokyo
- Kodansha Comics (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Drug dealers' lair
- Tokyo
- United States of America
- Japan
- Prime Marvel Universe (Referenced)
Items:
- Deadpool's Suit and Katanas
- Nintendo Switch
- Jump+ manga (Mentioned)
- Marvel × Shōnen Jump+ Super Collaboration (Mentioned)
Events:
- World War III (Referenced)
Synopsis for 1st story
Driving down a busy Tokyo street, a cabbie strikes up a conversation with his passenger, who is playing a Spider-Man video-game on a Nintendo Switch, asking what brings him to Japan and why he's so outlandishly dressed. The passenger states that where he's from everyone dresses like him, and the cabbie curiously asks where he's from. Stating that he's from Marvel Comics, the passenger - Deadpool cheerfully states to the reader that he's got a brand new crossover publication in Jump+. Getting out of the cab, Deadpool tells the cabbie to bill Kodansha Comics - a rival publisher to Shueisha, the publisher of the Jump manga serialization.
Inside a nearby building, a group of men synthesize a mysterious drug as part of a plot for world domination. The leader's cellphone rings and Deadpool mocks their plans as being clichéd before telling them to look out the window. Falling for his trick, they are caught off-guard as Deadpool exits the elevator. Mockingly asking why good little boys like them are working for an evil orgaization, Deadpool opens fire on them but is impaled through the heart by a thug wielding a large knife. As Deadpool collapses, the thug gloats only for Deadpool to get up and kill him with his own knife, mocking them for not having read the Marvel × Shōnen Jump+ Super Collaboration, which he shamelessly advertises.
Watching security footage of the battle, Iron Man asks Captain America if he's sure recruiting Deadpool was a good idea, Captain America replying that he warned Deadpool not to take things too far but that the Avengers alone can't handle the rise in villainy on their own.
Having accidentally killed all the thugs during the cutaway, Deadpool confronts the scientist responsible for the drug. Injecting himself, the scientist turns into a muscular giant, Deadpool calling the writer out on ripping off the Hulk's powerset when he proves immune to bullets. As the scientist slams him around, Deadpool says he has an ace up his sleeve and reaches into a pouch on his belt... only to pull out a to-be-continued sign.
Looking at his smartphone, Deadpool complains that the digital version of Deadpool Samurai #1 is a scanned copy of the print edition. Catching him off-guard, the hulked-out scientist punches through his chest, Deadpool making a Bon Jovi reference. As the scientist asks if he has any last words, Deadpool says that heroes are often forced to make difficult choices and now he's going to feel bad -- clarifying that he meant he'll feel bad for the artist as he pulls out a detonator. Pressing the button, Deadpool blows up the top half of the building and then calls the readers out on skipping over the artwork, saying it took the artist's assistant three days to draw the explosion. As Deadpool picks himself up, Iron Man arrives; Deadpool mistaking his voice for that of Piotr Rasputin from the Deadpool movies. As Iron Man wryly calls him out on the massive amount of collateral damage, Deadpool urges the editor to include a disclaimer saying no innocent civilians were hurt by falling debris. As Deadpool asks what he's doing in Tokyo, Iron Man asks if Deadpool wants to join the Avengers -- specifically a Japanese offshoot they're calling the Samurai Squad. Deadpool refuses, saying it'd hurt his chances of joining the main team in the official Marvel comics, and walks away telling Iron Man to give his regards to Nick Fury. Exasperated, Iron Man bribes Deadpool with a community college tuition's worth of money, leading to him immediately changing his mind.