PREVIOUSLY: Marvel Knights #1 - (Script)
"My Best Friend, Deadpool" - Rated M
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Page 1
1/ A sign that reads “NEW YORK STATE LINE”, standing in a relatively unused path to NY.
2/ The road in front of the sign.
3/ The road in front of the sign, GHOST RIDER visibly driving down.
4/ The sign.
SFX: VRRRRRRRRMMMM
5/ The sign melting as Ghost Rider drives past it.
Page 2
1/ Hybrid gliding between a few buildings using his black wings.
CAPTION: TYLER: Where could they have possibly gone?
2/ Hybrid pulling his arms back, gaining some wind resistance so he can land on an incoming wall easier.
CAPTION: SCOTT: Do we have to find them?
CAPTION: MIKE: Of COURSE we have to find them!
CAPTION: SCOTT: Don’t get mad! I’m just saying—there are other, more qualified people who can--
CAPTION: TYLER: We saw it happen, and we couldn’t stop it.
3/ Hybrid’s black wings fading away as he returns to his regular form, sticking to the wall.
CAPTION: MIKE: Because you hesitated, and I had to take over.
CAPTION: TYLER: And that won’t happen again.
CAPTION: SCOTT: Fine, fine. Just sayin’.
4/ Hybrid with his back to the wall, resting and looking down.
HYBRID: Sigh.
DEADPOOL: OFF PANEL: WELL EXCUUUSE ME, PRINCESS!
5/ Hybrid questioning what he just heard.
HYBRID: Uhh…
DEADPOOL: OFF PANEL: Look, I’m sorry, that WAS an act of incredibly d-baggery, but hey, just--
Page 3
1/ Hybrid crawling down the wall and looking toward DEADPOOL, who’s sitting on a scooter parked in an alley, holding a cell phone to his ear.
All talking with Weasel is done over comm link.
DEADPOOL: …
DEADPOOL: S-she hung up.
WEASEL: How could you POSSIBLY mess up ordering Chinese?
2/ Deadpool sitting on his scooter, looking distraught, pocketing his cell phone.
DEADPOOL: Look, it’s not MY fault she didn’t get my order right when she read it back to me.
WEASEL: Y’know Wade, I heard about this new word: courtesy. Want me to read to you about it?
DEADPOOL: Only if you tuck me in first.
WEASEL: Don’t bring me into your disturbing fetishes.
DEADPOOL: That’s not what your mom said.
WEASEL: Hold on, I gotta go burn your Spidey plushie collection.
3/ Deadpool aiming a pistol up at Hybrid.
DEADPOOL: Take your time, Weas. Got a guest.
DEADPOOL: (But seriously, if you burn them, I’ll kill you.)
HYBRID: Uh oh.
DEADPOOL: UH-TO-THE-OH INDEED, MY MYSTERIOUS SIR!!
4/ Hybrid dropping down to Deadpool’s level.
HYBRID: Wait! Don’t shoot yet! Just--
DEADPOOL: That’s what she said!
5/ Hybrid looking at Deadpool.
HYBRID: …
DEADPOOL: What?
DEADPOOL: (She didn’t say it to ME.)
6/ Hybrid covering his mouth, snickering.
HYBRID: Pfft—n-nothing, just, yknow.
HYBRID: That’s what she said. Pffffft-HAHAHAA!!
Page 4
1/ Deadpool, wide eyed, with a trippy background behind him, as if he’s achieved spiritual enlightenment and gotten high on shrooms at the same time.
DEADPOOL: I-I-I…
2/ Deadpool putting his gun away and pointing his other hand at Hybrid.
DEADPOOL: YOU LAUGHED!!!
3/ Hybrid, kinda stunned.
HYBRID: Uh… yeah. It was funny, dude.
4/ Deadpool grabbing Hybrid by his shoulder and making him stand up.
DEADPOOL: Wanna be friends?
HYBRID: Uhh…
DEADPOOL: Please?
DEADPOOL: (Pleasepleaseplease?)
5/ Hybrid looking at Deadpool.
CAPTION: TYLER: This is uh… weird.
CAPTION: SCOTT: The guy seems a bit…desperate.
CAPTION: MIKE: That and he was just pointing a gun at us.
CAPTION: SCOTT: Aw, come on! We WERE sorta eavesdropping. Give him a chance!
HYBRID: Okay, sure! Friends!
Page 5
1/ Deadpool stepping back from Hybrid.
DEADPOOL: Cool. We should hang out now.
2/ Hybrid looking around the alley.
HYBRID: So, uh… whatcha wanna do?
3/ Deadpool holding up a 6 pack.
DEADPOOL: I’ve got an idea. And none of them involve a one-night stand. Don’t worry. I totes don’t swing that way.
4/ Scream sits on a rooftop crouched, glaring down.
CAPTION: ELSEWHERE
SCREAM: Killhimkillhimkillhimkillhim.
SCREAM: Gonnaripouthisheartandfeedittohim.
SCREAM: Papapapapapapapadaddydaddydaddy.
5/ Behind Scream, Anti-Venom slowly walks toward her.
CAPTION: ANTI-VENOM: Don’t worry, Jenna. I’ll make everything alright again.
Page 6
1/ Hybrid and Deadpool hanging out in the alley (Hybrid crouched on a wall and defying gravity, Deadpool just sitting on his scooter). There are empty bottles around.
DEADPOOL: You aren’t drunk.
HYBRID: Neither are you.
DEADPOOL: Yeah, I get that, that’s due to my HEALING FACTOR. As in, that thing that keeps my perfectly sculpted ass alive. You got one?
2/ Hybrid contemplating.
HYBRID: Huh…
HYBRID: Guess so.
DEADPOOL: OFF PANEL: Nice costume, by-the-by. Very “Spider-man in the deep south”. No offense.
HYBRID: None taken. Just like looking like a white ninja.
HYBRID: And, well…
3/ Hybrid dropping down to the ground.
HYBRID: It isn’t JUST a costume. It’s uh-…
4/ The Hybrid symbiote peeling back and morphing into street clothes.
TYLER: It’s a symbiote. A combination of four symbiotes.
5/ Deadpool looking slightly alarmed.
DEADPOOL: Killer.
DEADPOOL: How uh... how’s that work?
DEADPOOL: Because I’ve dealt with those things before. They were part dinosaur. Mephisto references were made. It was an insane day. That and the whole giant thing where symbiote-ish monsters turned the whole big apple into a warzone. But they were kinda cyborg-ish, more than dinosaur.
6/ Tyler looking awkwardly at Deadpool.
TYLER: …Good question.
7/ Deadpool wrapping his arm around Tyler.
DEADPOOL: Aww, screw it, new-bud! I got an idea!
TYLER: What?
DEADPOOL: Since apparently neither of us can get drunk, I got a bar nearby—we can win a few bets and gets some cash-ola! You in?
TYLER: Sure! Why not?
CAPTION: SCOTT: I dunno… it feels… wrong.
CAPTION: TYLER: But you were right about this guy. He seemed a bit off, but he’s okay, actually!
CAPTION: SCOTT: Just be careful.
Page 7
1/ The inside of a bar, Deadpool kicking the door open with Hybrid standing behind him.
CAPTION: THE BAR WITH NO NAME #45
DEADPOOL: PRESTO-OPEN-O!
HYBRID: Uh…
DEADPOOL: (Be cool, be cool.)
2/ The bartender, a thin man in a trenchcoat, giving no visible features, with no one else in the bar, looking over.
BARTENDER: THE HELL YOU WANT?
3/ Deadpool leaning against the doorway, pretending that he also has an overcoat, doing his best Noir Detective pose.
DEADPOOL: Booze.
DEADPOOL: Duh.
4/ The Bartender.
BARTENDER: …
BARTENDER: Fine
BARTENDER: Come on in
5/ Deadpool strutting in, Hybrid awkwardly following behind.
DEADPOOL: Gracias!
HYBRID: Just realized…
Page 8
1/ Hybrid and Deadpool sitting on the stools in front of the bar while the Bartender awkwardly fumbles around the massive collection of booze that’s displayed.
HYBRID: This is a bar.
DEADPOOL: Your point?
HYBRID: Never been in one.
2/ Two mugs slam down on the bar in front of them.
HYBRID: It’s just weird. Haven’t been outside for a wh-…
DEADPOOL: What?
HYBRID: We’re talking too much.
3/ The mugs get filled with beer.
DEADPOOL: Heh. We’re. I like that. That’s my favorite voice gimmick.
DEADPOOL: (Yellow boxes aside).
HYBRID: What? Oh… right. Sorry, we forgot.
4/ The Bartender’s point of view. Deadpool sipping from the mug.
DEADPOOL: Dude, no worries! I’m apparently batsh*t insane--
DEADPOOL: (Mother always said I had talent).
DEADPOOL: -- So whatev!
5/ Hybrid looking at the mug.
HYBRID: You’re unstable, too?
DEADPOOL: EVER so unstable!
DEADPOOL: But live day by day, that’s my philosophy. It helps.
6/ The Bartender.
BARTENDER: Do whatcha want when ya want right?
DEADPOOL: See? HE gets it!
BARTENDER: S’matter a fact…
Page 9
1/ SPLASH PAGE/ The Bartender’s clothing turns blood red and black, revealing CARNAGE, who slashes his arm (now transformed into a blade) through Deadpool’s neck, decapitating him. Hybrid jumping back in shock.
CARNAGE: I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE!
CARNAGE: AND YKNOW MY PHILOSOPHY?
CARNAGE: MAKE—MINE—MURDER!!!
Page 10
1/ Hybrid’s backed up against the wall, there are green tendrils slithering out from his back.
HYBRID: YOU!!!!
2/ Carnage perched on the bar, looking down at Deadpool’s body.
CARNAGE: MAN I needed that
HYBRID: H-HE WAS MY FRIEND!!
3/ Carnage looking at Hybrid.
CARNAGE: Awwwww
CARNAGE: Poor baby
4/ Hybrid standing still, his green tendrils lashing out toward Carnage.
HYBRID: WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING IN HERE?!
5/ Carnage diving off the bar and off panel, avoiding a tendril that snaps the bar in two.
SFX: BRRSSHKKT
CARNAGE: I was THIRSTY!!!
CARNAGE: So I had a drink and killed everyone in this bar
Page 11
1/ Carnage on the ceiling, glaring down. Hybrid looking up angrily.
HYBRID: YOU MONSTER!!!!!
CARNAGE: Then YOU TWO idiots showed up, so I thought “Hell with it” and played along till I got BORED and the urge to SKIN THINGS ALIVE came back
CARNAGE: PUPPY ate the bodies, yknow?
CARNAGE: HERE BOY, YOU CAN COME OUT NOW!!!
2/ Hybrid looking over.
HYBRID: WH--
3/ The outside of the bar, DOPPLEGANGER (wearing his spiked collar, but with no leash) tackling Hybrid through the wall.
SFX: BRRRKKKSHHH
HYBRID: GGHH
DOPPLEGANGER: GRRAWWRRRRR!!!
CAPTION: MIKE: Scott! Tyler! We need to work together again, just like that first day!
4/ Carnage after jumping down from the ceiling, looking over at Deadpool.
CARNAGE: Heh heh, hide the bodies in doggie’s stomach, no one’ll ever find em
5/ Carnage looking outside the giant hole in the bar.
DEADPOOL: OFF PANEL: REACH FOR THE SKY.
Page 12
1/ Deadpool with his head and neck barely sticking together, but clearly healing, holding up katanas to Carnage’s throat.
CARNAGE: WHOA
CARNAGE: How’d you even DO that?
DEADPOOL: I trained my muscles to instinctively reach for my head anytime it gets cut off.
DEADPOOL: It took a LOT of practice.
DEADPOOL: A LOT.
CARNAGE: That is SO cool
DEADPOOL: I KNOW, RIGHT?!
2/ Carnage tackling Deadpool into the floor, tendrils tossing the katanas aside.
CARNAGE: BUT CAN YOU DO IT WITH EVERYTHING ELSE?
3/ Hybrid in his standard form, jumping up to avoid Doppleganger’s razor-wire webbing.
SFX: THWRISSH
CAPTION: TYLER: But if we work together, we ALL have to work together.
4/ Hybrid using his green tendrils to stand tall (like Doc Ock), and lashing down a tendril at Doppleganger.
CAPTION: TYLER: And I don’t want to let Brad out!
CAPTION: LASHER: He’s right. Brad’s connection to Riot would let him out as well. And we’re all connected at this point—merged. We would have simply banished Riot, but we might become unstable and simply fall apart.
Page 13
1/ Doppleganger dodging the green tendril.
SFX: WHASH
DOPPLEGANGER: GRRR!!
2/ Doppleganger firing razor-wire webbing.
DOPPLEGANGER: HRRAWWRR!!
SFX: THWRISHH
3/ Hybrid ducking under the webbing, his green tendrils pulling back into his body.
CAPTION: MIKE: Dammit!
CAPTION: SCOTT: Let me in! I was the one who put the hurt on this guy last time, remember?
4/ Hybrid’s standard form, but his fists are now purple.
CAPTION: MIKE: Thought you hated fighting?
CAPTION: SCOTT: I DESPISE fighting. And this is the quickest way to end the fight.
CAPTION: AGONY: With our ACIDIC TOUCH!
5/ Hybrid reaching his arm out as Doppleganger runs toward him.
HYBRID: COME ON!!
DOPPLEGANGER: HSSSRRRR!!!
Page 14
1/ Anti-Venom webslinging after Scream.
ANTI-VENOM: PLEASE! FIGHT IT!
SCREAM: LEAVE US ALONE!!!
2/ Scream webslinging higher, Anti-Venom following.
SCREAM: We HATE you, Eddie! SO MUCH!
ANTI-VENOM: That’s not YOU talking!
3/ Scream’s hair firing off a dozen white darts, similar to how Carnage can fire red darts from his symbiote.
SCREAM: You don’t KNOW us!
4/ Anti-Venom’s face, he’s stabbed by the white darts.
ANTI-VENOM: GHH
5/ Scream’s hair formed like a bladed tendril, slicing Anti-Venom’s webline.
SFX: CHK
SCREAM: Bye, Eddie! Don’t worry!
6/ Anti-Venom falling down and firing another webline.
SFX: THWIP
ANTI-VENOM: NO!
SCREAM: We’ll see each other again SOON, don’t worry!
Page 15
1/ Scream’s hair covering her entire body like a cocoon.
2/ Camouflage kicking in for Scream, making her virtually invisible.
3/ Anti-Venom swinging by where she was.
ANTI-VENOM: JENNA!!!!
4/ An alley. Scream appearing through a flurry of her own hair.
SCREAM: Didn’t know we could fire little daggers out of the hair…
CAPTION: SCREAM: Neither did we. Our old host never FED us the things you do.
CAPTION: SCREAM: Never had a body filled with narcotics, chemicals.
CAPTION: SCREAM: Never sucked up toxins off of cyborg symbiotes.
SCREAM: Interesting…
5/ A small explosion throwing Scream forward.
SFX: BOOM
SCREAM: GRAGH!
Page 16
1/ Scream on her knees, looking behind her, the high tech Moon Knight (Grant) holding his fist over his head.
MOON KNIGHT GRANT: Jenna Cole, born in Queens.
2/ Scream starting to stand.
SCREAM: Whatever this is, you’re gonna--
3/ Scream shouting in agony as four crescent darts impale her back.
SCREAM: GGNNAAGHH!!
4/ The lower tech Moon Knight (Lockley) walking out from the other end of the alley, his belt covered in crescent darts, and he’s wearing extra belts over his shoulders in an X shape, filled with crescent darts.
MOON KNIGHT LOCKLEY: Adamantium crescent darts, blessed by Khonshu.
MOON KNIGHT LOCKLEY: They will pass through your symbiote.
Page 17
1/ Scream on her hands and knees, looking at the two Moon Knights.
MOON KNIGHT GRANT: Jenna Cole, abandoned home years ago.
MOON KNIGHT LOCKLEY: Where you fell in love with heroin.
2/ Moon Knight Lockley with crescent darts in each hand.
MOON KNIGHT LOCKLEY: You were cured by Anti-Venom. But you rejected his cure, and accepted this symbiote.
3/ Scream standing up, tendrils throwing the crescent darts out of her back.
MOON KNIGHT LOCKLEY: You’re like a fallen angel.
MOON KNIGHT GRANT: Pure, perfect sin.
MOON KNIGHT GRANT: Khonshu will be pleased that we thought of you. That we saw your killings as Scream. That we researched you.
4/ Scream looking down at the crescent darts that have fallen out of her back.
SCREAM: Ngh… something… on the darts…
5/ Scream looking over.
MOON KNIGHT GRANT: Taken from samples of Anti-Venom’s webbing, covering all our weapons. They’re spread thin, but they work. And not for much longer. We got that sample about half an hour ago.
MOON KNIGHT GRANT: Not that it’ll matter.
Page 18
1/ Splash Page/ Moon Knight Grant holding an AXE with a crescent symbol carved into the head.
MOON KNIGHT GRANT: We’ll just kill you quickly, once you’re weak enough.
MOON KNIGHT GRANT: Then the crisis will be averted, and Khonshu will be pleased.
Page 19
1/ The Bar With No Name #45, from the point of view of binoculars.
CAPTION: PUNISHER: Carnage. The Doppleganger. Deadpool. And a new one.
2/ Black panel.
SFX: CH-CHK
CAPTION: PUNISHER: No matter how hard I try to look for intel, I keep getting dragged back into these big fights.
3/ Black panel.
SFX: RREEEEEEEEEEEE
CAPTION: PUNISHER: Oh well.
Page 20
1/ Splash Page/ Punisher, standing on top of his van, holding a ridiculously high tech looking gun, like something out of “Men In Black”, aiming.
CAPTION: PUNISHER: Raided one of Underboss’s caches. Knew it’d yield something. A sonic microwave emitter. Both dials turned up to 11.
CAPTION: PUNISHER: This should give results.
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NEXT TIME: "CARNAGE RULES"
TO BE CONTINUED: Marvel Knights #3 - (Script)
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