Deadpool Once Became The Most Hilarious Spider-Man Ever

Deadpool and Spider-Man’s friendship is one of the more enjoyable aspects of the pair’s frequent team-ups, even if the two quip-loving superheroes don’t always see eye-to-eye. But, when Spider-Man is taken out of commission by the Chameleon, the Merc with the Mouth tries to outsmart him by taking Peter Parker’s costume and fighting him as the web-slinger in disguise.

Deadpool/Spider-Man originally by Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness is a fantastic series that forces a team-up between the beloved characters. Naturally, the two don’t always get along thanks to their different mantras when it comes to being a superhero, and for the fact that spending a lot of time with Wade Wilson can be a lot to handle. But, despite their disagreements, the two make quite the team. One of the best stories, ‘Spideypool,’ by Christopher Hastings, Jacopo Camagni, Matt Milla, Joe Sabina, and David Nakayama in Deadpool Annual #2 features Deadpool fighting Chameleon with some of his own medicine, as he becomes Spider-Man in an effort to trick the supervillain.

In the issue, Spider-Man explains to Deadpool that his encounters with the Chameleon often involve getting stabbed by the shapeshifter in disguise. Once the pair track down the villain, Chameleon injects him with a serum that severely weakens him. Seeking revenge, Deadpool concocts the plan to become a chameleon himself, as he switches costumes with Peter and becomes Spider-Man.

Deadpool does things his own way. While looking for Chameleon, he encounters a woman getting mugged in an alley. Once he takes down the mugger, he realizes that he has to turn him into police (since usually, he doesn’t need to turn in dead bodies). Deadpool decides instead of going to a police station, to string the mugger up in webbing and tie him to the back of a moving police car. He later fights against The Massster, as he lunges at the snake-controlling baddy, by calling Spider-Man proclaiming he is “champion against dumb.” After inadvertently releasing energy that turns the Massster into a giant mouse, Spideypool is left to clean up the mess. After getting shot at, and taking out The Massster by swinging a helicopter at the giant mouse, the Chameleon shows up and injects Spideypool with the same serum. That’s when Peter Parker, dressed as Deadpool shows up and the Chameleon shapeshifts into Deadpool, leaving a woozy Deadpool to choose who the actual villain is – thankfully, he chooses correctly.

The issue ends with Spider-Man and Deadpool agreeing their team-up was amazing before the actual Spidey reads the paper and learns that Deadpool’s version of the web-slinger got praise in the Daily Bugle, as a headline reads “Hope for Spider-Man.” So while Deadpool marched by the beat of his own drum during his hilarious misadventure, it’s the time when J. Jonah Jameson finally saw the wall-crawler in a positive light. Peter can’t help but cringe at the headline. Peter couldn’t have been thrilled to see someone impersonate him in a more violent, less thoughtful manner and now he has to live with the fact the press thought he finally did a good job the one time he wasn’t actually wearing the suit. It’s safe to assume Deadpool is going to hold that one over him for a long time.

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