Wade Winston Wilson, also known as Deadpool, is a fictional character portrayed by Ryan Reynolds in 20th Century Fox's X-Men film series and later the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise produced by Marvel Studios. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, he was heavily adapted for his first appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) by writers Skip Woods and David Benioff. In the film, he is depicted as a mercenary who initially joins Col. William Stryker's mutant ops group "Team X". Upon leaving the group over disagreeing with Stryker's moral stance against mutants, he is captured and transformed into a genetically altered mutant killer known as Weapon XI, who proceeds to fight and be killed by former teammate James Howlett / Wolverine.
