This year’s Deadpool feature movie was a fun mega-hit. Ryan Reynolds nailed it. What few fans realize is that the character Deadpool got his first bits of screen time on our series in 1993 and 1994 in cameo appearances in episodes #4 (“Deadly Reunions”), #16 (“Whatever it Takes”), and #30 (“The Phoenix Saga: Part 2”). Liefeld and Nicieza’s unique self-aware, dark-comic hero was created only months before we started working on X-MEN:TAS. Obviously his first books made quite an impression on producer-director Larry Houston. When, in episode #30, Charles Xavier was having hallucinations, one of the scariest had Wolverine being attacked in a subway train. Enjoy a panel from Larry’s storyboard, inked by Mark Lewis. 
