The last person readers would expect to be able to lecture the living legend, Captain AmericaEast Dead Pool. However, that’s exactly what happened and Wade Wilson was able to call out Cap’s hypocrisy like no one else had before.
Approaching the Empire secret event, Deadpool is invited by the evil double of Steve Rogers created by the Red Skull to kill Phil Coulson. He does so, allowing the Hydra-controlled Cap to rise to power and take over the United States. Because Wade has always idolized Steve, he follows his orders blindly, even joining the Hydra version of the Avengers. It costs Deadpool the lives of two of his friends, the love of his daughter, all the respect the world had for him, and what little life and stability he had built up until then. When the real Steve Rogers returns and Hydra Cap is defeated, he tracks down Wade to arrest him for Coulson’s murder. Deadpool is obviously enraged, because the fake Steve (whom he nicknames “Stevil”) cost him everything, and now the real Captain America wants to blame him. A clash ensues in Dead Pool #296 – by Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli and Ruth Redmond – and Wade’s words should hurt Steve far more than his katana. He rightly points out that Deadpool’s adoration of Captain America has made his life terrible (again).
Facing Deadpool’s frustration, Steve refuses to blame himself. He thinks Wade shouldn’t have followed “Stevil’s” orders, because that’s not something the real Cap would ever ask. Deadpool responds that assassination is a common occurrence when someone works for high profile government agencies such as SHIELD. In fact, that’s what he, Wade, was always used for. It’s a disposable tool for reporting issues when other so-called heroes don’t want to get their hands dirty. Captain America, despite his judgmental attitude, did the exact same thing when he asked Deadpool to join the Avengers Unity division. Wolverine was dead and Cap needed a replacement, another”obedient torpedo.Steve’s response to these accusations brings out his hypocrisy even more. He says Wade is “better and happierwhen he’s a soldier, working inside a regimented system, and only trying to give structure to Deadpool’s chaotic world.
Captain America’s words reveal a complete inability to empathize and relate to anyone else’s point of view. It’s true that Deadpool is chaotic by definition, but what made him so were the experiments that Weapon X – a military organization – performed on him. Wade is an effective killing machine but, like Wolverine, he doesn’t like being one, or being a “soldier”. He does it because he has nothing else. However, this nuanced view doesn’t match Cap’s black-and-white morality: Wade has killed people, and so he needs to go to jail, regardless of Steve’s role in his downfall. Cap’s arrogance is especially evident when he says “Usually when I ask someone to be an Avenger it’s one of the best days of their life.” Captain America enjoyed Deadpool’s adoration and respect for him, and the allure of being an Avenger, just as much as Hydra Cap.
Steve’s hypocrisy is exposed when Wade argues that if Black Widow had killed Coulson on what she thought were Cap’s orders, she would get a pass – a point to which Cap has no answer, replying that he doesn’t want to process. hypothetical. Dead Pool exposé Captain AmericaThe inherent hypocrisy in making a pretty indisputable case that Steve enlisted him to be a killer, something he does in most of his Avengers rosters, and now punishes him for being one.
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