Deadpool’s ‘Brother’ Has the Best Version of His Powers

While Deadpool may be a powerful figure in Marvel Comics, there is actually a tinier version of him that is even stronger. This version of him was nicknamed Widdle Wade, and while he didn’t appear in the comics for very long, he made a big impact on his larger counterpart. Both on a physical and emotional level.

Deadpool is the alias of Wade Wilson, a mercenary who acquired superpowers after being experimented on by the governmental program Weapon X. While he had already possessed excellent physical abilities, these powers enhance his strength and agility and give him a healing factor on par with Wolverine’s. His powers also give him an awareness of the Fourth Wall, but this power is generally more finicky and less useful than his physical powers. In addition to his superpowers, Deadpool is also a deadly fighter, possessing mastery of a myriad of weapons and martial arts. All these abilities were vital in surviving an encounter with one of his most dangerous foes: himself.

A Deadpool Team-Up comic from 1998 written by James Felder and penciled by Pete Woods introduced a new version of the Merc with a Mouth named Widdle Wade. Widdle Wade is a clone of Deadpool created by the Japanese Yakuza to serve as their personal assassin. While he may only be the size of a child, the scientists who create him remark that he has greater strength, reflexes, and stamina than the original Deadpool. Deadpool even admits this himself when they fight, saying that Widdle Wade’s genetic advantages even allow him to wield any weapon better than the original. However, despite having better natural powers Widdle Wade lacks one key advantage that causes him to lose in the end.

Although Widdle Wade has had a lot of practice killing people, he hasn’t had the formal martial arts training that Deadpool has. This allows Deadpool to get the upper hand on him by utilizing deadly techniques he had learned when training to be a Sumo wrestler. This attack fatally wounds Widdle Wade, impaling him on a sword. On his deathbed, the clone confesses that the Yakuza kept him on a very short leash in fear that he would search out Deadpool to get answers about his own existence. The Mini Merc lived in a state of constant painful anger that murder could not appease, and he desperately wanted to know if all the people his “brother” Deadpool had killed had made him any happier. While Widdle Wade states that he is finally at peace before he dies, this clearly has an emotional effect on Deadpool, who takes the time to give him a somewhat proper burial before murdering the Yakuza Boss responsible for creating him.

Despite being in each other’s lives for such a short time and spending most of that time as enemies, Big Wade and Widdle Wade clearly felt a deep connection to each other, truly becoming brothers by the end. And while Deadpool’s experience may have allowed him to triumph over his tinier counterpart, if Widdle Wade had received the training that his brother had, his superior powers might have changed the outcome of their fight. If he had been given the time to learn and grow Widdle Wade could have potentially surpassed the original Deadpool in every way.