The Other Blue Shape-shifting Mutant: Copycat Appreciation

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X-Force #11 Jun 1992
"Friendly Reminders"
Deadpool invades the X-Force complex to confront "Domino"..

..really his old shapeshifting girlfriend Vanessa who has been spying on Cable and crew.


Script by Rob Liefeld (Plot) by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Mark Pacella, inks by Dan Panosian

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Love that there is even a thread for her!

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X-Force #15 Oct 1992
After seemingly killing Vanessa Carlysle aka Copycat, Wade Wilson aka Deadpool..

..is ordered by the mysterious Mr. Tolliver to kill Cable as well;

Deadpool fails and it turns out that not only is Vanessa not dead, she also gets away.

Script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Greg Capullo, inks by Al Milgrom

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Shiklah and Wade's marriage will most likely crumble, as shown in Deadpool 2099. Vanessa acting as the catalyst would be great. As much as I love Shiklah, Wade and Vanessa make a better, more evenly matched couple. It took the movie to remind me how fun they are together.

Looking forward for the fun to continue in Deadpool 2 come 2018!

[JudicatorPrime]

Wow, for a Copycat appreciation thread, there sure are lots of posts about Deadpool.

Anyway, my question: If Copycat can turn herself into an exact match of someone down to the genetic level, what would happen if she spent the day shopping with Hela or Isis or Hera? (Yes, goddesses shop.)

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Without the comicbook character Deadpool there would be no comicbook character Copycat.

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X-Force #20 Mar 1993
"Assault on Graymalkin"
Earth Orbit
A new Stark Enterprise satellite is about to be launched and turned online.
As the shuttle sends the satellite into orbit, it suddenly hits an unseen object in space and ricochets into space.
The shuttle team is astonished to see a gigantic ship uncloak in front of them.

Washington, D.C.
Henry Gyrich meets with Val Cooper and asks for her help in dealing with the appearance of this new ship.
She tells him that this is way out of the jurisdiction of X-Factor.
He tells her that it is believed to be Cable's ship and she immediately tells him to get SHIELD involved.

SHIELD Helicarrier
Bridge demands to be brought back in now that this ship of Cable's has appeared. Fury wonders why he left SHIELD in the first place.
He also makes a deal to give SHIELD something for allowing him to be brought onto the team. Fury contacts James Rhodes at Stark Enterprises.
He tries to demand that SHIELD be allowed to enter the ship but Rhodey tells him that the ship was discovered by talking out his satellite in space.
This allows him the salvage rights and he wants to tag along to enter the ship along with SHIELD.

Camp Verde
X-Force tries to get adjusted to their new base. Lila Cheney has brought them a communication array and they are working on fixing it.
When they finally do they hear a report of the discovery of this ship.
They immediately believe it is Graymalkin, Cable's ship and want to get to it quickly to try to salvage what they can from it. Lila teleports them onto the ship.

Graymalkin
X-Force arrives and Sam is greeted immediately by the Professor, who he recognizes as "Ship".
He tries to find out what he can but learns that Ship is now called Professor and seems to not know of any of the occurrences while they knew it as Ship.
They also learn that it was created years into the future.

Norwell, Massachusetts
Tina tries to convince Vanessa to finally leave her room. She tells her that her hiding has gone on for too long and she needs to come out.
Vanessa finally agrees, but tells her that she will not like what she sees. Vanessa walks out the door and Tina is surprised to see that Vanessa has morphed into an image of her.

Australian Outback
In an Australian bar, Domino enters and finds Grizzly drinking alone. She tells him that he needs to help her find Cable's "brat-pack".
Grizzly tries to tell her no, but Domino persuades him to change his mind and he finally agrees.

Graymalkin
A SHIELD team is assembled and about to dock with Graymalkin. They suit up and step out of the ship. Bridge immediately gets to work on getting them aboard Graymalkin.
Inside, X-Force is looking around the ship for weapons and resources. Suddenly, there is a security breach and the team learns quickly that it is SHIELD.
They confront them and take each of them out. They try to get what they can before reinforcements arrive. They turn to find that War Machine already is there...

Script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Greg Capullo http://facts.be/guest-archive/greg-capullo/, inks by Harry Candelario.

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X-Force #21 Apr 1993
"War Machines"
Graymalkin
War Machine confronts X-Force and tells them to surrender. X-Force, doing what they know how, refuses and this leads to a large all out battle.
War Machine quickly picks his targets and takes out Sam by dropping the roof on him.
Rictor and Sunspot team up and knock War Machine temporarily down.
Lila Cheney bolts out as soon as the fighting gets going and Feral runs into a ticked off, Nick Fury.
All the damage that is being inflicted on Graymalkin is overriding the security systems and the base begins to lose power and defenses.
When the battle gets too destructive, Professor announces to everyone on board that emergency measures are being taken and a destruct sequence has begun.

Camp Verde
Siryn, Boomer and Warpath arrive back from their shopping errand only to find that the rest of the team is nowhere in sight.
They search around the camp for them and are met by a giant blast that takes them all out immediately.
A figure stands over them and laughs at how easy it was to defeat them and wonders why Gideon was afraid of them all in the first place.

South Stickney, Illinois
Domino and Grizzly arrive at the home of their old teammate, Hammer. His elderly mother greets them and they enter the home.
Hammer comes out in an electronic wheelchair and asks why they are there. They say they need his help in finding X-Force.
Hammer refuses at first after learning that they have anything to do with Cable.
He then eventually agrees when he learns that it will help keep Cable's legacy alive.

Graymalkin
The groups attempt to regroup while the ship begins to break up around them.
Cannonball takes out Bridge and blames him for the loss of Graymalkin and the last bit of Cable that was left to them all.
Professor announces that his self-preservation scan has completed and he teleports both Sunspot and Cannonball to another part of the ship.
X-Force and the SHIELD salvage team group together and Lila warns that they will need to teleport out soon -- with or without Sam and Roberto.
Meanwhile, Sunspot and Cannonball are both brought to the command center of the ship.
Professor tells them that they must begin jettisoning portions of the ship out to conserve power to the main core before the destruct sequence runs out.
He says that there is only one other than Cable that can turn off the sequence. This person turns out to be Sam.

Massachusetts
Vanessa finally leaves her room with her roommate, Tina. They head out for a night on the town together as "twins", since Vanessa has assumed Tina's form.

They head to a bar in Boston that turns out to be the famous Cheers. They both order a drink from Sam and drink with the rest of the gang.

New Delhi, India
Deadpool threatens a local at one of Tolliver's old townhouses. He wants to find information on Tolliver's operatives since Tolliver is now dead.

He receives the folder with the information and learns that Vanessa is in Massachusetts with her old roommate, Tina. He then says he is going to come hunt them both down.

Graymalkin
SHIELD continues to decide what they will do and if they should leave before the ship breaks apart or if they should try to salvage what they can.
They notice X-Force still staying and head over to them. Sam and Roberto continue to jettison portions of the ship to the Earth.
They send the weapons depot and the cargo bay to their base in Camp Verde.
They then learn that the time displacement core is taking up the largest power and they send it off to the deepest portion of the Pacific Ocean.
As soon as they send it off, the Professor announces an alert and the ship explodes.

Script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Greg Capullo, inks by Harry Candelario.

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X-Force #22 May 1993
"Ordnance Weighed in Blood"
Earth Orbit
Graymalkin begins to split apart and burn up on reentry into Earth's atmosphere. A larger piece flies past the SHIELD shuttle that is orbiting nearby.
On the shuttle, the SHIELD salvage team along with X-Force and Lila Cheney return from a quick, unexpected jaunt across the universe and have just arrived.
Bridge immediately grabs his weapon and tells X-Force to surrender. Lila scoffs and tells him good luck and then teleports X-Force off the shuttle.
Nearby, a piece of Graymalkin hits the atmosphere and contains both Sunspot and Cannonball.
They were teleported off Graymalkin into the escape pod by Professor.
He tells them that as soon as they hit the ground, he will no longer be able to guide them.
They reenter the atmosphere and wings pop out of the pod. They safely begin to glide to Earth.

Oregon Coastline
Boomer, Warpath and Siryn each are secured to a rock cliff near the ocean's water. The water splashes into their fatigued bodies.
The person that captured them stands on the rocks and tells them that he is Saul, an External and that he and Gideon have captured them to watch them die.

Camp Verde
X-Force teleports into the camp. They begin looking for Boomer, Warpath and Siryn, but to no avail.
Suddenly, they see a ship entering the atmosphere in flames.
They arrive at its landing only to find that inside both Cannonball and Sunspot are alive.
Sam immediately tells them that he has to save Professor as he is already beginning to lose power and shutoff. He tries, but fails and Professor is lost to him.
Then, the other portions of Graymalkin that they safely jettisoned and sent to Camp Verde begin to fall from the sky.

Department K Bunker
Domino and Grizzly pose as both Val Cooper and General Clarke. They get past the Department K security easily and enter the operations maintenance room.
They break in just as their holographic image inducers fail and they quickly get on the computer.
They begin to download all the info that Department K has on Cable and they are forced to just download all the information to look at it remotely.
They are then confronted by Weapon: P.R.I.M.E..

Boston
Tina and Vanessa are hitting the town as "twins". They stop in front of a jewelry store and Vanessa plots to steal the jewels.

Deadpool uses this moment to attack and misses. The couple then head off down the street.

Just then, a shot rings out and blows a giant hole in Tina's stomach.

The shooter is Sluggo and Deadpool arrives only to tell him that he better have gotten the right one or he's dead.

Camp Verde
The team examines all the new equipment that they have salvaged from Graymalkin. Lila looks for Sam before she leaves and finds him on the hillside.
He is thinking about how Cable only left them so little though he took so much. She tells him that's all they asked for and she teleports away.
Then, a message is heard on their communications array that Saul and Gideon are holding their teammates prisoners and demand that Cannonball give himself to them or their friends die.

Script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Greg Capullo, inks by Kevin Conrad and Harry Candelario.

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X-Force #23 Jun 1993
"Compromising Positions"
St. Anthony's Hospital, Portland
X-Force gathers at the rear entrance to the hospital. They sneak inside and are looking for a certain individual.
Feral sniffs him out and it is a person in a full body cast. They carry him outside and load him on their IPAC unit.
After ripping off his facial bandages and revealing it as Crule, they bargain with him that they promise to take care of the Externals for information on where Gideon is located.

Camp Verde
Cannonball makes a late night call to Professor X. He is trying to get information on the Externals.
Professor X only knows of them as superstition. Cannonball tells him that they are real and they kidnapped some of the team.
He is asking Xavier if he should break his promise he made to not attack Gideon -- to save his friends.
Xavier tells him that that is a choice he will have to make and that depending on his decision, Xavier will help him if Cannonball asks for him to.

Department K Bunker
Domino and Grizzly fight off Weapon: P.R.I.M.E.. They call Hammer to try to assist from his RV that is sitting outside the bunker.
He tells them that there is an air conditioning vent topside and it should lead them out of the complex.
They head upstairs through the floor and learn that the vent is really a sewage tunnel. After treading through the sewer,
they arrive outside the RV. They jump inside and then speed off. Weapon: P.R.I.M.E. vows to hunt them down.

Saul's Oregon Home
Saul and Gideon discuss the legacy of the Externals. They are concerned what will become of them
now that Nicodemus died unexpectedly and was believed to be an immortal External.
They pride themselves on their plan to use some of the X-Force members to bait Sam into coming to them.

Meanwhile, the other X-Force members fly toward Oregon to confront Saul and Gideon.
They plan their attack and Crule and Shatterstar agree that they should come in fast and hard through the front door.
After debating, they decide to do just that and land their ship. They pile into their assault tank and use it to crash through the front doors as planned.
They knock Gideon and Saul off their feet by the attack and X-Force quickly surround them.

Norwell, Massachusetts
Vanessa quickly packs her bags with as much stuff as she can.

Then, Deadpool and Sluggo arrive and threaten her. She begs Deadpool not to kill her and he says that he has to have a talk with her before he kills her.

Suddenly, both Sluggo and Deadpool are blasted and Domino enters along with Grizzly and Hammer.

Domino asks why she should not kill Vanessa for stealing her identity for the past year. Vanessa tells her that she knows where X-Force is located.

Saul's Oregon Home
X-Force saves their teammates from Gideon and Saul. After making sure they are all right,
Sunspot tells their captors that they have been beaten and they should leave them alone.
Gideon is amazed that Cannonball broke his promise. Sunspot then gives him a letter from Sam telling Gideon
that he did not break his promise because he did not personally get in the External's matters, the rest of X-Force did.
Saul then pleads that Sam is the External's last hope for salvation from the possible death of the Externals.
Saul is reassured that if the Externals mess with X-Force again, that their fate will be sealed.

Script by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Greg Capullo, inks by Harry Candelario

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I am here for this thread! Return the Princess!

Hear! Hear!

[LordAllMIghty]

I don't remember her being blue...lol

[Hall]

What a strange character, maybe it was the ...pretending to be Domino thing. Thanks to the Deadpoool movies that made her very tolerable even extremely likeable.

[theoneandonly]

no more strange than blind al weasel hydra Bob and other cast of characters in Deadpool. if a character is associated with him you are guaranteed to find yourself wondering about the character.

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To me, the character's supporting cast is what made a reader come back each month as well as the character himself of course.