The first four issues of the “Deadpool Killogy” falls under the title “Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe”, which is the main focus of this rhetorical analysis. This title is, for the most part, self explanatory in the basics of what happens in those four issues; Deadpool moves through the marvel universe killing every hero, villain and antihero. Deadpool’s psychotic break is caused by his realization that he is a comic book character with no true control over his actions. In absolute defiance of the fourth wall he rampages across the marvel universe in attempts to find the progenitors, aka the creators of the comic, and kill them making it possible for him to find freedom. The methods of displaying the havoc wreaked by deadpool was created
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Like the reference to batman’s movie The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2008), finding that reference in a Marvel comic is like getting the last cookie out of the package. But without knowing that Marvel doesn't own Batman, someone might look over that tid bit, and lose out on a bit of dark humor. Or recognising Deadpool’s many play of words. Similarly knowledge surrounding the major comic books produced by Marvel also helps with identifying the referenced directly correlating to Marvel comics. Notably when he had one of the X-Men known as “Kitty" whose real name is Katherine Anne Pryde, trapped in his murder house he made a joke; “Ah! The pryde and joy of the X-Men!” without knowledge of the character this could have been overlooked. Other references can also be glanced over and/or ignored. In the fourth issue Deadpool references Frank Castle and his comic The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe. He even goes as far as admitting it was Frank’s thing originally “I know, I know. Killing all the Marvels of the world is supposed to be your gig.” …show more content…
The death of a character is written to evoke an emotional response, which could be why many of the most popular Marvel characters were dealt very gruesome death scenes. For example the first time Wade kills spiderman in this comic the panels leading up to his death depict him with his usual bravado and shows his no kill policy very clearly, spiderman even says “you’re lucky I’m not like you. You’re lucky I don’t kill you for what you’ve done.” (Parker). Those frames show readers who spiderman is, and how he normally acts, it exemplifies his character. But this “boasting” on spiderman’s part allows Wade to pull one of his guns, and level it with spiderman’s chin in just one frame. That can be seen as a very dramatic move, and is the beginning of the shock response of the crowd/reader. The following frame is about a quarter of the next page and shows spiderman’s head being blown up, and then it cuts to a nearly full page spread. That page shows the full body of spiderman laying on the street with a good portion of his head splattered on the pavement and Deadpool standing over his body. This scene was meant to give the reader a strong emotional response of shock and sadness, which is also how the crowd is depicted reaction. The comic (Bunn, 2016) uses the crowd to mimic how people should and do respond to
Like the reference to batman’s movie The Dark Knight (Nolan, 2008), finding that reference in a Marvel comic is like getting the last cookie out of the package. But without knowing that Marvel doesn't own Batman, someone might look over that tid bit, and lose out on a bit of dark humor. Or recognising Deadpool’s many play of words. Similarly knowledge surrounding the major comic books produced by Marvel also helps with identifying the referenced directly correlating to Marvel comics. Notably when he had one of the X-Men known as “Kitty" whose real name is Katherine Anne Pryde, trapped in his murder house he made a joke; “Ah! The pryde and joy of the X-Men!” without knowledge of the character this could have been overlooked. Other references can also be glanced over and/or ignored. In the fourth issue Deadpool references Frank Castle and his comic The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe. He even goes as far as admitting it was Frank’s thing originally “I know, I know. Killing all the Marvels of the world is supposed to be your gig.” …show more content…
The death of a character is written to evoke an emotional response, which could be why many of the most popular Marvel characters were dealt very gruesome death scenes. For example the first time Wade kills spiderman in this comic the panels leading up to his death depict him with his usual bravado and shows his no kill policy very clearly, spiderman even says “you’re lucky I’m not like you. You’re lucky I don’t kill you for what you’ve done.” (Parker). Those frames show readers who spiderman is, and how he normally acts, it exemplifies his character. But this “boasting” on spiderman’s part allows Wade to pull one of his guns, and level it with spiderman’s chin in just one frame. That can be seen as a very dramatic move, and is the beginning of the shock response of the crowd/reader. The following frame is about a quarter of the next page and shows spiderman’s head being blown up, and then it cuts to a nearly full page spread. That page shows the full body of spiderman laying on the street with a good portion of his head splattered on the pavement and Deadpool standing over his body. This scene was meant to give the reader a strong emotional response of shock and sadness, which is also how the crowd is depicted reaction. The comic (Bunn, 2016) uses the crowd to mimic how people should and do respond to