Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Deadpool #7!Marvel Comics recently did the unthinkable: killed Wade Wilson akaDeadpool. Luckily,the Merc with a Mouth had a daughter named Elliewho inherited his healing factor, and evidently, his bloodlust, asMarvel’s new Deadpooljust showcased her healing factor with an extreme kill worthy of her father’s iconic (and gruesomely violent) legacy.
In a preview forDeadpool#7 by Cody Ziglar, Alexis Quasarano, and Andrea Di Vito, readers are taken on a mission with the new Deadpool, witnessing her chopping through a gang of low-level criminals like it’s nothing. During the violent escapade, Deadpool describes her mental state, how she’s grieving the recent loss of her father, and explains that she’s channeling those emotions into her work. Rather than feeling sad, Ellie has decided to be royally ticked off, and she’s taking it out on these targets with extreme brutality.
After taking a number of bullets to the arms, chest, and face, Deadpool decides enough is enough. The bullets can’t kill her, but they certainly hurt, so she comes up with a strategy to take down pretty much all of these criminals with one move. Deadpool pulls out a hand grenade, punches it into the stomach of one of the targets, and lets it explode in her hand inside of him, killing every other person within the vicinity. Deadpool is left with a bloody stump where that hand used to be, satisfied by the outcome of this insane kill.
Deadpool Would Be So Proud of His Daughter for This Insanely Awesome Kill
Deadpool#7 Proves Wade Wilson & Taskmaster Trained Ellie Well
While Deadpool was initially apprehensive about allowing Ellie to join the ‘family business’, even after it was revealed that she inherited his healing factor, he decided the best way for her to be safe was to make sure she was well-trained. So,Deadpool and his business partner, Taskmaster, taught Ellie everything they knewabout being professional mercenaries. From hand-to-hand combat to weapons training, Ellie became proficient in the art of the kill by learning from the best. The kill she pulled off in this preview, however, she came up with herself.
Weaponizing one’s healing factor for the sake of pulling off spectacularly gruesome kills isn’t really something that can be taught, it’s something that just comes to someone in the moment. Wade Wilson himself has allowed himself to get shot, blown up, maimed, mauled, and otherwise mutilated just to get his target on numerous occasions throughout his Marvel Comics history, but it took him years to weaponize his healing factor in that way. Here, it’s obvious that Ellie picked it up right away, and Deadpool would assuredly be so proud.
New Mutants#98 by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza
Not only is it impressive that Ellie learned how to weaponize her healing factor so quickly, but it also proves that she is leagues ahead of where her father was at around the same time in his career.Deadpool debuted inNew Mutants#98, where he was defeated by Domino after getting stabbed with a number of knives in his back, as they temporarily paralyzed him (which would have been permanent without a healing factor). Deadpool failed his first mission, and more notably, he didn’t utilize his healing factor the way he should have to get his target - unlike Ellie.
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It seems clear that Marvel’s new Deadpool is off to a pretty fantastic (and bloody) start to her career. Trained by Wade Wilson and Taskmaster, no qualms about murdering her targets, and inherently knows how to weaponize her healing factor - all of that amounts to an insanely deadlyDeadpool, one worthy of Wade Wilson’s legacy.
Deadpool #7by Marvel Comics is available July 22, 2025.
Deadpool
The merc with the mouth first appeared in an issue ofNew Mutantsin 1990, and since then has gone on to get his own series and a massive cult following. With his incredible powers of healing and regeneration, Deadpool was initially depicted as an X-Men villain but went on to become an anti-hero. After getting his own movie series starting in 2016, the third Deadpool movie finally brings the wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
