One of his mutant abilities is regeneration. Ajax manages to hold Wade off by promising that he can fix his face then he impales Wade on a post in the burning building and leaves him to die. After Ajax leaves, Wade sets the building on fire in order to escape and pursues Ajax. Ajax decides to torture Wade further, just because he can. It cures his cancer and mutant abilities…but also leaves him horribly disfigured.

As Ajax tortures Wade, it becomes clear that Ajax is a sadist and his motives are uh, murky.Īfter several days of torture, Wade's mutant DNA is triggered. Ajax is in charge, and he explains that he's going to stress Wade until it either kills him or activates his dormant mutant DNA, which will bring any extraordinary abilities Wade might have to the forefront, as well as cure his cancer. Wade is rolled into a grimy workshop on a gurney, home to a project known as Weapon X. Wade initially declines on the grounds that heroism isn't his cup of tea, but later changes his mind. The recruiter says that the people he works for will not only cure Wade's cancer, but also turn him into a superhero. That night at Sister Margaret's, Wade's friend (and bartender) Weasel tells Wade that there's a mysterious recruiter waiting for him. He leaves Vanessa in the middle of the night, claiming that it's to spare her from the pain of his cancer battle. Shortly after Wade and Vanessa get engaged, Wade is diagnosed with late-stage cancer. At his favorite bar, Sister Margaret's School for Wayward Girls, he meets a prostitute named Vanessa and they strike up a relationship. he roughs up bad guys for a quick and relatively easy buck.

Wade Wilson is a New York City mercenary-a.k.a.

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