Is this true?

[ang_hulk]

I was looking at wiki for info on ultimate deadpool and found a line that states rob liefield created deadpool.Is this true?

 

[Doc Destruction]

Oh, it most certainly is.

 

[Artistsean]

I think it is, he first appeared in X-Force number 2 right? In a fight between him and Kane right?
But I think when he was first created he was just an assassin soldier guy with incredible fighting skills. He wasn't the character he is now, with the scarred face, the joking and sarcastic nature, and the healing.
I think he was, in the begginning, more like a Wolverine type. Dangerous and almost unstoppable.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Yeah, Liefield created Deadpool. Liefield's Deadpool was a blatant rip-off of DC's Deathstroke. Now he's a completely different character.

 

[venom892]

Yea a very big rig rip off.Even their real names.Deathstroke is Slade and Deadpool is Wade.I'm just glad other writers picked him up and Now he is one of my favorite charaters.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

One could argue that although Liefield created the iconography and basic premise of the character, Joe Kelly created his personality. It wasn't until Deadpool's own series started--with Kelly writing--that Deadpool developed into the bouncy, goofy, hyperactive jackass we know and love today.

 

[Darthphere]

Man, I need to bump the stupid question thread.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Trop already did. In fact, he answered this question over there. He's a passive-aggressive little Spanishanian, isn't he?

 

[Tropico]

My Spanishian Sense was tingling.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Please... no need to tell us about your personal hygiene problems here, Trop. Come on. Seriously, now.

 

[Artistsean]

liefield didn't make up Cable did he, I mean since this thread is open.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I believe he did, actually. Cable's first appearance was in New Mutants #87 (at least, before he was retconned into being the same character as Nathan Summers, who'd appeared years earlier). Guess who drew that issue.

 

[Tropico]

I think there's some controversy in regards to Cable, he takes credit for him but a bunch of people in the industry say it was the writer of the series at the time.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Wikipedia gives credit to Claremont, Louise Simonson, and Liefeld.

 

[Tropico]

"There you go, there you go!"