But for me one superhero (if he can be called that) stands out above all the others, and since he's getting so much publicity right now, I thought its a good time to do a post about him. Therefore without further ado, lets talk about Deadpool!
What you thought this was going to be a blog post about science? Well Surprise! This is a different kind of blog post.
In this I'm just going to talk about Deadpool, the character, the feasibility and hopefully make more bad jokes along the way. (Guys seriously if you haven't seen it watch the trailer first).
So who is he? Deadpool is awesome in its purest form. A by-product of the same government that created wolverine, Deadpool was formerly Wade Wilson, a cancer sufferer who was promised a cure. To be fair the government kept their promise, as a healing factor was implanted into him from a mutant, however he was later experimented on in an inhumane manner before being left for dead where his sheer anger kick-started his healing factor and so our hero was born.
Deadpool is scarred, both body and mind, as a result of the experiments performed on him, as a result this allows for an extremely interesting mindset for the writers to explore when writing his stories. However the most defining trait by far, is that he breaks the fourth wall!
Deadpool is in fact aware that he is a character in a comic book and often addresses his readers directly, allowing for even more interesting angles to take. Basically he is a character that you can do literally anything with, and a stroke of genius on the behalf of the creator.
Secondly, the feasibility. So what is it Deadpool can do? As previously mentioned, he has one hell of a healing factor, one of the most extensive ones in the marvel universe, to the level where he can survive stabbings, being blown up, being blown up by nukes, the vacuum of space and even the odd decapitation. Is this possible?
Nah.
It's highly likely that regeneration could be spiced into the human genome, especially as regenerative capabilities are demonstrated many people who have regrown small sections of fingers and toes and in each and every one of us in our livers and kidneys. But regrowing an arm? this would simply require an amount of energy and efficiency which our bodies can't achieve.
Deadpool also breaks the fourth wall, now for this to be possible, we would have to be living in an artificially created world and constantly observed by more intelligent beings for amusement. However this concept has reminded me of another interesting ideas.
Until recently it was accepted largely that it was possible that our entire universe could have been a hologram which we simply existed inside. However somehow they actually managed to test it recently and found no sign of us living in a hologram. Which is good I guess because that way nobody can accidentally turn off the universe.
http://www.iflscience.com/universe-probably-not-hologram
Also I should probably mention that Deadpool isn't actually intentionally breaking the fourth wall. He is insane and thinks that he is in a comic book, but as luck would have it he is actually right.
Anyway guys that's Deadpool, an inappropriate, crazy, violent merc with a mouth.
Sorry about the lack of posts but I'm swamped at the moment, see you all soon! :)
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