DC's Deadpool??

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Poll DC's Deadpool?? (82 votes)

Harley Quinn 43%
Deathstroke 11%
Lobo 18%
Ambush Bug 6%
Other 5%
DC really doesn't have a Deadpool 17%

So, Deadpool is one of Marvel's most popular characters right now, and with the movie out, his popularity is only growing, which leads me to ask, which character is DC's Deadpool? Hmm? HMMMM????

Harley Quinn.

Harley has always been a popular character, however, in the past few years (thanks in part to the success of her current ongoing) her popularity has skyrocketed. She's probably the most cosplayed female at comic conventions and her wackiness seems to be contagious. She is in the same vein as Deadpool as they both were obscure characters who gained great popularity due to their humor and moral ambiguity.

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Deathstroke:

The "inspiration" behind Deadpool. There's no denying they have a lot in common, from rhyming names (Slade Wilson vs Wade Wilson), similar jobs as mercenaries and even similar costumes. DC has even poked fun at this by claiming Deadpool was Slade from an alternate dimension.

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Lobo:

The Main Man was created as a parody of a 90s character (particularly Wolverine) just as Deadpool was. Lobo was 90s incarnate, the overly brutal, violent, chain smoking badass, who loved three things, his motorcycle, women, and violence. Coupled with a healing factor that may be even greater than Deadpool's, just like Mr. Wilson, he's thought to me, unkillable. Lobo shares a bit in common.

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Ambush Bug:

A lesser known character, Ambush Bug is one of the few characters (along with Deadpool) who can break the Fourth Wall and acknowledge he's in a comic. Also like Deadpool...he's pretty nuts. His entire existence is also a parody, whether it comes down to his origins (a mash up of several other characters' origins) or his random nature, and ability to just kinda...show up places.

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#1  Edited By youknowwhattodo

I think if you were to put all four of those characters together you would get DC's version of Deadpool. Of the characters listed, I would say Ambush Bug is the closest because he acknowledges he's a comic book character.

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Harley Quinn

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I'm surprised Creeper isn't on your list.

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#4  Edited By the_stegman  Moderator

@kairan1979: I knew I'd forget people, it's why I added "other" lol.

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Depends on how and what you term it because all four, as you say, could be it on some level, though:

  • Deathstroke, is out because he's not a joke. Also Deadpool was basically a mistake in design that they noticed was so similar to Deathstroke they decided to roll with it, making Deadpool more akin to the 90'ties Lobo. Deadpool spoofed Deathstroke, Lobo spoofed Wolverine.
  • Harley has always been popular, ever since she was the breakout character of BTAS ahead of Renee Montoya and the revamped Mr. Freeze. And I kinda doubt her solo series has really changed much there, same as Deadpool, if you like her you love her, if not, you hate her. Jimmy and Amanda's series however is as Deadpool as you get within DC now a days. 10-20 years ago it would have been Lobo.
  • Has to be said Lobo was created in the 80'ties to be your typical alien bounty hunter tracking the Omega Men, but it was the 90'ties spoofed up revamp that gave us the version most people know and love... which surprised Keith Giffen who invented the original, the revamped version and Ambush Bug.
  • Ambush Bug... despite what and how he is... he is almost perpetually in limbo and only few really seem to care when he does show up... so Imma going to write him off.

The one you didn't mention, the one that literally is a cartoon character:

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I'd totally argue that current Midnighter fits that role pretty nicely, except more badass and a touch more serious.

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meh.

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I'd say Ambush Bug is the closest. They are all better characters than Deadpool IMHO. But IMHO, almost everyone is better than anyone created by Rob Liefield.

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Def. Harley Quinn

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All of them are better than Deadpool. None of them are "DC's Deadpool"

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#11  Edited By jumpstart55

Some characters just dont translate well from DC to marvel or vice versa. And Deadpool is one of those characters. Characters like him and Logan dont necessarily have DC double. Dont know why people think you can match every single character in the marvel and DC roaster with one another.

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Was Deadpool the movie that good? lol

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Lobo, Ambush Bug or Bat-Mite.

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Still Midnighter:

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Currently, I would say Harley Quinn.

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Current Harley is Deadpool with boobs.

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Harley is probably the closest. Like Deadpool, she's hugely popular, more than a little unhinged, comically violent and a cosplayer favorite.

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Deadpool has depth none of these other characters do. Add them all up and they are still less than DP. Harley is a female KO version of DP now. Lobo isn't even the same Lobo anymore. Deathstroke major problem is he's too one dimensional though he's one of my favorite DC villains, he doesn't make for a great protagonist. Ambush Bug? Lol he's irrelevant.

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lol

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Pre-New 52 Lobo would have been the closest DC ever had to a Deadpool counterpart.

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Dont know why people think you can match every single character in the marvel and DC roaster with one another.

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#26  Edited By mickey-mouse

It's Harley, but I doubt they would do a rated R Harley film, since SS is Pg-13. I could see a rated R Lobo film, but it would have to star someone pretty big who could help push it through.

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@jumpstart55 said:

Dont know why people think you can match every single character in the marvel and DC roaster with one another.

Because at the bottom line DC and Marvel are rivals, what one does the other will try and do better, especially because it's often the same people that move from one company to the other who's all read the same stories as kids. And this isn't a new thing, it's been going on ever since Marvel was founded and even before that when Fawcett Comics made the ill-fated choice to make a more kid-friendly superman.

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@theexile285 said:
@jumpstart55 said:

Dont know why people think you can match every single character in the marvel and DC roaster with one another.

Because at the bottom line DC and Marvel are rivals, what one does the other will try and do better, especially because it's often the same people that move from one company to the other who's all read the same stories as kids. And this isn't a new thing, it's been going on ever since Marvel was founded and even before that when Fawcett Comics made the ill-fated choice to make a more kid-friendly superman.

Yea i get what your saying. But you'd figure two companies that have both been around for 70 plus years have survived becuase of their own particular talents and specialties not similarities(Because we have all seen what happens when one company tries to copy the other tit for tat they usually go the way of the dodo fairly early).

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So...

Since Deadpool is Marvel's answer to Deathstroke and Harley Quinn is DC's answer to Deadpool.

Does that mean that Harley Quinn=Deathstroke?

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Lobo though. Lobo is a parody character like DP and both of them gain immortality, granted Lobo was banned from entering the afterlife, but so was DP in the sense. Both are hilarious, both have healing factors, both of them are badasses.

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harley Quinn.

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Why is Harley winning? How is Lobo losing? (+)

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So easy... i mean pretty easy >>> The Creeper !!!

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His name is Red-Tool

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Lobo. He's pretty much space Deadpool.

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DC dont have a Deadpool. Deadpools character is just too unique.