Summary

• Deadpool's healing factor is iconic and powerful, allowing him to survive extreme wounds like decapitation and regrow entire limbs.
• Deadpool's strength is underrated, with an official level of 4 allowing him to lift around 800 pounds - far above average.
• Deadpool's ability to break the fourth wall is his strongest power, granting him a unique advantage in both comics and movies.

Deadpool started out as just another mercenary, someone who would show up as a fairly generic villain with little else to his personality or skills. Over time, this was vastly changed and Deadpool became a master of blades, guns, and breaking the fourth wall. This has resulted in Deadpool's abilities becoming more absurd and far cooler over the years as they've been shown off in both comics and movies.

While general moviegoers know that Deadpool is capable of killing just about anyone as long as he has a sword or gun in his hand, he's capable of so much more than just that. While the movies do an excellent job of showing off his lethal combat skills, the comics have a wealth of abilities that have yet to be shown off in the movies. These are the 10 strongest abilities that Deadpool has, which have appeared across his time in both movies and comics.

10 Deadpool's Healing Factor Is His Most Iconic Ability

Deadpool Can Heal At An Absurd Rate

Deadpool's healing factor was derived from the mutant Wolverine, and it's every bit as strong as Logan's. Deadpool's healing factor has allowed Wade to survive extreme wounds, like decapitation. Even with his head or limbs cut off, they can simply be reattached, and his body will heal the wound. He's also capable of regenerating entire limbs if they're lost.

Not only this, but anyone who uses Deadpool's blood also gains a lower level of this healing factor and can even extend their life spans beyond their natural length, making his blood unbelievably valuable. This trait was first seen in All-New Wolverine #21. Only recently has Deadpool lost his healing factor, and now readers will get to see Deadpool rely on the other dangerous abilities he's learned over the years.

9 Deadpool Is A Lot Stronger Than He Looks

Deadpool's Strength Lets Him Lift Far Above The Average

One of the powers that Deadpool rarely gets to show off is how strong he actually is. It's been inconsistent over the years and is usually up to the current writer to decide how strong Deadpool actually is. Officially, Deadpool is stated as having a strength level of 4, which means he's capable of lifting around 800 pounds. Which is far above what a normal human being would be capable of doing.

Considering the absurd feats of athleticism that Deadpool has displayed and his ability to stab intensely dense characters like The Hulk, which was seen in Deadpool #4 where Deadpool had to cut Hulk to harvest his blood, it makes sense that Deadpool would have some muscle behind his actions. Deadpool has also regularly fought against characters like Wolverine and Spider-Man, who both have super strength in their own rights, and he's never had an issue keeping up with them.

8 Superhuman Speed And Reflexes

Deadpool's Speed Is Far Above The Average Human

Deadpool's agility is also on the next level compared to any regular human. His reflexes have reached a point where he almost has a borderline spider-sense, capable of avoiding attacks and even gunfire automatically before he's even consciously aware of what's happening. In different universes where Deadpool has decided to kill every hero on Earth, his surprising agility has allowed him to catch characters like Spider-Man by surprise, pulling out a gun and aiming it before Spider-Man's spider-sense can go off, as seen in Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe.

When combined with his preference for melee weapons, this makes Deadpool an absurdly deadly combatant. He's capable of reacting and moving faster than people would expect, able to easily close the distance to a target and cut through them before they've even noticed he's started moving. While not exactly as outright fast as characters like Spider-Man, Deadpool is still shockingly quick. In the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Deadpool's speed was so great that he was able to reflect bullets from several different shooters by blocking them with his katanas.

7 Deadpool's Swordsmanship Lets Him Match The Deadliest Characters In Marvel

Katanas Are Deadpools Iconic Weapon

The Katanas are Deadpool's go-to weapons. While he'll happily use things like knives or any other bladed objects he can get his hands on, the katana is his tried and true blade that he's used to fighting dozens of powerful characters over the years. With these trusty blades, Deadpool has taken on the likes of Wolverine and Taskmaster and defeated both of them.

Not only that, but in Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe Again, he was able to use his blade skills to slaughter just about every hero he came across, including the Uncanny Avengers, who he was able to cut down with absolute ease. While this might be due to the fact Deadpool took them by surprise, he continues to show his ability to defeat highly dangerous characters, like Moon Knight, even when they're expecting him.

6 Deadpool Is Just As Good With Guns As He Is With Blades

Deadpool's Marksmanship Is Almost As Good As Hawkeye's

While Deadpool certainly seems to prefer bladed weapons as his main mode of attack, it's not the only one he's proficient with. Deadpool also has a major favoritism towards guns. Specifically, his dual handguns that he uses to take down his enemies, but he's proficient with any gun he can get his hands on. His marksmanship has often been stated to be on the level of Hawkeye, which is no small claim considering Hawkeye's feats.

One of the best showcases of Deadpool's skills with guns was back in the original Deadpool movie released in 2016. When up against several thugs with machine guns, Deadpool shows off his absurd mastery of handguns by doing incredible feats, such as shooting a grenade out of a man's hand or killing several criminals with a single bullet. Despite the frantic fight scene, aside from the grenade shot he takes, every single person Deadpool kills is with a headshot.

5 Deadpool's Madness Grants Him Psychic Resistance

Deadpool's Brain Can't Easily Be Controlled

While Deadpool has been mind-controlled in the past, it's usually due to months of covert brainwashing. It's rarely, if ever, done by an actual telepath. Because Deadpool's brain is constantly in a state of degeneration and regeneration, his thoughts and mental stability is constantly in flux, making it nearly impossible for him to be controlled by a telepath.

While a telepath could try to shut his brain down, actually reading his mind or taking control of it is another story. Powerful telepaths like Cable, Onslaught, Psylocke, and even Emma Frost have found Deadpool's mind far too chaotic and messy to reliably be able to read his thoughts. This only adds to just how unpredictable Deadpool is, since literally no one ever knows what he's thinking. While Deadpool's madness makes him an unreliable hero, it also certainly provides some invaluable benefits in a world full of telepaths.

4 He Isn't Afraid Of Anything

Deadpool Is Never Too Scared To Take Action In A Situation

One of the benefits of being practically immortal and believing oneself to be a comic book character is that there's never anything to really fear. Deadpool has gone up against some of the most terrifying villains in the Marvel Universe. Faced down beings like Thanos, and really has never once been scared of the consequences.

Due to Deadpool's absurd healing factor, he doesn't have to worry about things like bodily harm, as he'll simply regenerate from any wound that's dealt to him, no matter how grievous. On the off chance that someone does manage to kill him, it still doesn't really matter. As Deadpool believes himself to be a comic book character, that means no consequences ever actually matter to him. Even if he dies, he'll just come back in The Return of Deadpool or some other comic book.

3 Deadpool Has A Strategy For Every Enemy

Deadpool Has Killed The Marvel Universe Several Times

While it might not seem like it, due to just how mentally unstable Deadpool is, he's actually a brilliant planner. There have been several comic books about Deadpool losing his mind and going on a murder spree against the superhero community. During this time, he always has detailed plans to kill the people he gives up against, regardless of how much more powerful they are than him. He was able to crush Thor with his own hammer by using Pym particles to increase its size. All of this and more was seen in Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe.

Trapped Kitty Pryde in an endless mirror maze, took the Venom symbiote down with just some modified airhorns. While it really wouldn't seem like Deadpool was that great at planning things, he's surprisingly one of the most dangerous and methodical minds in the Marvel Universe, capable of long-term planning and manipulation.

2 At One Point, Deadpool Was Literally Unkillable

Deadpool Was Cursed With Immortality

Deadpool's healing factor makes him ageless and practically unkillable, but he can be killed. If he's attacked with Carbonadium, it would shut off his healing factor and allow him to be killed normally. If he was obliterated by someone, such as Galactus, he'd also die. But that wouldn't be so bad, as Deadpool is famously in love with Lady Death. Being killed just means he'd finally get to be with her. Unfortunately, there's another rival for Lady Death's affections, Thanos.

Not wanting the Merc with a Mouth to reach his beloved before him, Thanos had Deadpool cursed with immortality. This prevented Deadpool from dying by any means for as long as the curse lasted. While this was eventually undone, there was a period in comics where Deadpool simply could not be killed, no matter what someone did to him.

1 Only Deadpool Can Break The Fourth Wall So Consistently

It's His Strongest Power By Far

By far the most powerful ability in Deadpool's arsenal, stronger than his healing factor or his skills with weapons, is his ability to break the fourth wall. Deadpool knows he's a comic book character, and as such, he is sometimes free from the constraints of a story. In Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe, it was this knowledge of being a comic character that drove him insane.

He strongly implies that this knowledge is what lets him kill the heroes of the Marvel Universe because he's no longer bound by the rules of comics. He demonstrates this even further by going after the very writers of the comic at the end of the issue. He's broken the fourth wall both for jokes and for very lethal purposes in the past. It's part of what makes his character so endearing, that he knows exactly what he is. This makes DeadpoolI both hilarious and extremely dangerous.