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Is Deadpool Finally Becoming A Mutant? (Spoilers)

Is Deadpool Finally Becoming A Mutant? Will He Join Franklin Richards? What About Squirrel Girl, Scarlet Witch or Quicksilver? (Spoilers)

Published Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:57:10 -0500

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:55:37 -0500

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Deadpool’s healing factor has always set him apart from Wolverine, but Marvel never treated Wade Wilson as a true mutant.
Past Deadpool injuries usually ended with stitched-together bodies, regrown parts, or grotesque fusions instead of full duplicate Wades.
Wade Wilson: Deadpool #6 changes that, introducing Badpools made from severed pieces that healed into warped new Deadpool variants.
The new twist hints Deadpool may finally be becoming a mutant, raising bigger questions for Franklin Richards and other Marvel outliers.

Deadpool has a healing factor. A really strong one. Wolverine already had his when he underwent the Weapon X programme, while it was that programme which gave a healing factor to Deadpool, but he was never actually a mutant.

X-Men Is To Empyre What Deadpool Is To X-Men — Deadpool #6 by Kelly Thompson and Kevin Libranda

But over the years, even when Deadpool and Wolverine have been split in half, it hasn't gone the way I'd have liked.

Either they have managed to stitch themselves together, have grown the other half (remember Deadpool's baby legs from the film)

..or most memorably Deadpool and Wolverine have healed together creating some kind of hideous gestalt being.

But until now we haven't had Earthworm Deadpool.

Deadpool#s Powers Now Work The Way They Always Should Have (Spoilers) — Wade Wilson: Deadpool #6 by Benjamin Percy, Alex Lins

That is until yesterday's Wade Wilson: Deadpool #6 by Benjamin Percy and Alex Lins, when Wade Wilson met the Badpools.

Bits of Deadpool that had been cut off and, well, not exactly grown a new Deadpool…

But not far off. Maybe they don't have enbough of the stem cells to make that work.

Looks like it may be down to Wade Wilson finally becoming…a mutant?

I dunno. I quite like it when there are loads of Deadpools everywhere…. But with Franklin Richards also going through the change, what about Squirrel Girl, Scarlet Witch or Quicksilver? And might we spared the following kind of rants?

Deadpool #6 [XH] — Deadpool #6 by Kelly Thompson and Kevin Libranda

Wade Wilson: Deadpool #6 by Benjamin Percy, Alex Lins
BADPOOLS! Who's that knockin' at the door? Sounds like Wade. SMELLS like Wade. But it's not Wade…OR IS IT?! The BADPOOLS enter the scene, and DEADPOOL's life will never be the same! $4.99

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