Since Nicezia said it's up to the current writer of whatever series Deadpool is in, i'm curious as to which Deadpool origin people prefer:
 
Wade Wilson, schoolteacher, married man, victim of T-Ray's evil and then loses his mind and goes merc?
 
Or Jack/Wade Wilson army washout turned so-so merc, who commits manslaughter and loses his marbles?

I think the second one was always his origin, the first one apparently never happened. See in Cable & Deadpool, while fighting T-Ray, he realized a glaring hole in T-Ray's story... he never became "Deadpool" until after he left Weapon-X, but T-Ray's story happened before Weapon-X.
 
Still a pretty big mystery between them though...
 
P.S. I think #2 is over simplified, lol.

Whichever one that has the least variants.

I like the Ulitmate Alliance origin, in which he gets persecuted for being bombarded with radioactive spiders.

I prefer the whole Wade Wilson was a Merc extraordinaire, who gets hit with cancer and Weapon X promises to cure his cancer with Wolverines Healing Factor as well for payment for his services....the experiment goes messed up disfigures wade, messed up his brain as well and thus he is put into "THE DEADPOOL" where he eventually escapes and becomes the DEADPOOL we all know and love....preferably the deadpool in his first and second mini series and Kellys deadpool ;)

" @DEADPOOL: They're both simplified.  The only thing that I didn't care for (besides over-complicating the origin) was that he chalked it all up to magic.   But it still doesn't make sense because "Wade Wilson" was the name used by a guy who was a schoolteacher, got married and Mercedes Wilson was his wife and was killed by someone else. Whether it was really Deadpool or not *shrug*.  If Nicezia had addressed what the deal was with Mercedes and the whole Cabin deal.  Supposedly though, Deadpool didn't have that costume, but whether he did or not, he was there, and he remembered parts of Mercedes life, but that, the whole cabin situation/murder/etc was left up in the air because...well I dunno why it was ignored.  Personally I think origin #2 would be more dramatic/story worthy: washout/merc does something heinous, and it would explain why he tries so hard to do the good guy thing sometimes. "

There was already a thread about this but who cares?
 
Here's what I said there.
 
  I recently have been having this great debate on Deadpoolbugle.com (great site) about the whole Wade Wilson issue.

Obviously Joe Kelly intended Deadpool to have stolen the identity. But Fabian kinda came in in completely negated that. It could always be negated back if another writer felt it was appropriate "it's depends on who's writing" after all.

But my question is this: Which history do you like better?

Wade Wilson escaping his violent life and upbringing from a violent father, going to college and falling in love with the girl of his dreams only to have it torn away from him by a nut job losing his mind and going back to his roots and becoming a mercenary. Eventually only to run into the man who took everything from him and that man keeps reappearing in his life.


Or

Jack comes from the same violent upbringing but instead doesn't get away from it with his father's death. He joins the military but gets court marshaled due to unknown reasons. He goes into hiding taking on new personas every now and then. Eventually finding Wade Wilson and his beautiful wife and kills them both (the wife on accident). Due to this he decides to take that name and stick with it. Only to be tormented by his sins of the past when the man he killed returns from the dead to seek vengance.

Both can explaine certain parts of his personality.

If we go the Wade Wilson route he becomes more sympathetic. He need to belong and his heroic tendancies are more obvious. But if we go the Jack route his almost inabaility to trust thoughs around him and his killer instinct and weaposn training is more easily explained.

Also with the Jack route his whole Japan history makes a lot more sense but then again other parts of his history is more easily explained with the Wade Wilson route.

Any inconsistencies either way can be explained due to his brain being messed up but also by the psychological phenomenon of the false information effect. Have you ever heard the concept of someone telling a lie so many times they forget it's not true?

I don't know, I really liked this debate and wanted to open it up to more people. What do you think? And I rather not have flame fest s here I just thought it might be fun to share our thoughts on this issue. If someone doesn't agree however you don't need to make it an attack.

I liked it better when he stole the identity, it added more mystery to his character's background. Thanks to Cable and Deadpool and Fabian, we're not sure who is right and what to believe. 
 
Here's how I think it went though...
 
1) He was born in Canada by his mom and the dad he met in the bar.
2) His mom and dad were separated when he was at a young age. 
3) Him and his mom moved to the USA where his mom met the dad that was shot in a barfight.  
4) His mom died from cancer
5) He was stuck with his abusive US military dad. 
6) His dad was shot in a bar fight.  
7) He joined the military
8) Gets court marshaled 
9) He goes into hiding and starts taking on new personas every time in order to stay hidden. 
10)  Finds Wade Wilson and his wife and kills them both, and takes that name and stick with it
 
That's how I think it went, how I want it to go, and I'm sticking to it.

All the daniel way s***t doesnt count, so only the stuff that was written by Kelly, Gail Simon and nicieza counts.
 
screw danile **** way,.

You know, something I didn't consider until just now: What if T-Ray *is* somewhat insane and imagined just the Wade Wilson bit, and Deadpool always was Wade Wilson, but he *did* kill murder a married couple in the woods?

None.

" @Capo_Del_Bandito: In Cable Deadpool 19 he says "I'm  boy from Ohio". And That definitely was an American uniform with the medals he had unless he was a Canadian officer who was decorated with honors for helping the U.S... does it work that way? I don't know.
 
@Suigetsu: Hey, don't pull a Daniel Way and just refuse to acknowledge cannon. His stuff really hasn't changed any origin stuff anyway. "

Yes but we do see his father in unifrom in Cable and Deadpool .

@rey said:

"I prefer the whole Wade Wilson was a Merc extraordinaire, who gets hit with cancer and Weapon X promises to cure his cancer with Wolverines Healing Factor as well for payment for his services....the experiment goes messed up disfigures wade, messed up his brain as well and thus he is put into "THE DEADPOOL" where he eventually escapes and becomes the DEADPOOL we all know and love....preferably the deadpool in his first and second mini series and Kellys deadpool ;) "

well honestly I think that Patric zircher drew Wades dad like that because he had no idea how a canadian general dressedlike.
 
To me wades story was the one told by nicieza, Daniel way doesnt count. He sucks at telling stories and I dont buy he's BS.
Ill will write some comics for marvel one day, and I think Ill do a deadpool origins one shot one day. Using the stuff by Nicieza and Joe kelly and screwing daniel way.

Who is Deadpool?