Deadpool Get Married—Except not to Vanessa
In the Deadpool movies, Vanesa Carlysle is Wade Wilson’s love interest. In the Comics, Deadpool’s interests are a little different.
When Ryan Reynolds plays the merc with the mouth, his love interest is Vanessa Carlysle who had an important role in Deadpool 2. Played by Morena Baccarin, Vanessa is reprising her role in Deadpool Wolverine and once again looks like she is playing an important role motivating Deadpool’s madcap violence.
In comics, Deadpool has had a much broader selection love life which even involves getting married to Dracula’s fiancé. Yes that would be Dracula the King of the Vampires. And yes, Deadpool did know that it was Dracula’s fiancé. It’s a good thing Deadpool has powers of regeneration, because he makes destructive decisions.
The first mistake might have been that Deadpool is hired by Dracula to collect his fiancé from a crypt. Being hired by Dracula might look like a red flag to just about anybody, but Deadpool is more than comfortable with the job.
Deadpool encounters a little opposition. Initially in the form of teleporting swordsmen. A great Nightcrawler vibe coming from the swordsmen. Deadpool finds that he has a little difficulty with them, but manages to anticipate their actions and chop them into pieces.
But his problems are only just beginning. The remaining swordsman detonates a monster bomb. Which sounds like a big bomb, but it is also a bomb attached to a monster.
Deadpool carries the coffin of Dracula’s fiancé out of the crypt and starts making his way back to New York where Dracula is waiting. Unfortunately, Deadpool runs into a little trouble in the form of a minotaur in Greek. In the process of being chased across Greece, Deadpool accidently releases Shiklah from her coffin.
As meet cutes go, Shiklah Queen of the Monsters using her succubus kiss on Deadpool to drain his life force appears an unusual start, but it is a Deadpool story. And events just get more unusual as the story progresses.
On a train ride, Deadpool and Shiklah encounter Blade who was to kill Shiklah. In the crypts underneath Paris, they encounter the ghost of a Knights Template. In a moon drenched forest in Europe, they are attacked by a werewolf. And that’s not even mentioning hitching a ride with HYDRA, being attacked by AIM and hijacked by MODOK.
When Deadpool and Shiklah make it back to New York, the full extent of Dracula’s plan becomes clear. Dracula isn’t interested in a romantic union with Shiklah or uniting vampires and monster in peace. Dracula want to seize power by controlling both monsters and vampires.
Who could have guessed Dracula would turn out to be a bad guy?
Deadpool and Shiklah are attacked on the streets of New York by vampires in furries costumes (it keeps the sun off them and allows them to fight in datlight-at least until Deadpool pulls down their pants).
When there are too many vampires, Deadpool and Shiklah hide in a church where they get the idea of marriage as a way of defeating Dracula. There is also a little chemistry between Deadpool and Shiklah. Remember that succubus kiss when she tried to drain his life force. How romantic.
It’s a different kind of love story and there is decidedly more violence than you might want from a romance, but it is what we could call a Deadpool romance. And it’s pretty heroic as well.
After getting married there is more fighting. Frankenstein appears. There is also a mummy (the Egyptian magical kind), the Red Thunderbolts appear along with dragons and Medusa (at least her head).
We can be pretty sure that Shiklah isn’t going to make an appearance in Deadpool and Wolverine. It would probably be a little embarrassing. But it might be interesting to notes that Deadpool and Shiklah do end up having a daughter. She is everything you would expect from a child of Deadpool and a demon.
Deadpool and Wolverine is arriving in cinemas 26th July 2024.
For more about Deadpool and Shiklah check out Deadpool: Dracula’s Gauntlet hardback or Deadpool: Dracula’s Gauntlet digital.
For more on Deadpool’s daughter, check out Deadpool 2099 by Gerry Duggan and Scott Koblish.
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You can’t just write this article and leave out the picture of vampires dressed as furries to avoid the sunlight you know.