Originally Posted by
Silver Fang
Finally home for a longish work day. Now
Deadpool.
I think the correct version is a dark gritty unhinged character with a quick wit. When he first came on the scene, he had the same mouth, but he was notable crazier and more sadistic. He had his moments, but he was a terrible person. He stalked & beat Vanessa, and later brags to Kane how she always comes back to him no matter how bad he treats her. Even when he fell for Siryn, he tried to do right by her, but was still a psycho. He also possessed genuine skills. He wrestled with his self loathing and didn't always treat his friends well. But again, he still had heart. I still recall him trying like Hell to save Ilaney, whom he didn't treat well at first, but felt guilty about later.
THAT"S Deadpool for me. The incorrect version is the one we started to get with Daniel Way, who took most of the layering off of the character & made him some Peter Griffin comedy relief character. He introduced Pool-O-Vision, and had Deadpool just randomly bursting into fantasy and not being able to tell fiction from reality. I think POV usually involved fantasies about women. Then he introduced those random and horrible voice boxes that Deadpool talked to in his head. Way admitting he did that so he wouldn't have to add more characters for Deadpool to play off of. So basically, he admits he's a lazy writer. Even these days, some writers still go back to Way's approach of making Deadpool an annoying goof rather than a legit serious, torched, unhinged, and dangerous individual. Duggan did well by Deadpool imo. But even he sometimes made Wade a bit too soft. I can't see Kelly's Deadpool from the 90's taking half the crap Duggan's Deadpool took off Shiklah.
Sabretooth:
Like Deadpool, he started off a serious character when Claremont brought him to the X-books. Sabretooth is tricky. If we go on correct, then he hasn't been correct since Claremont left. Because Claremont did not intend for Creed to be an irredeemable scumbag. The X-Men Forever version of him is what Claremont was gonna go for. But at the core, I believe Sabretooth should be dangerous, cunning, and effective. Clremont never showed him as a moron -least not to my knowledge. Then in the 90's, he was a serious & dangerous villain overall. He was treated as a high level threat that the X-Men locked up and tried to see to. When Xavier couldn't change him, he planned to have him shipped off and contained in permanent custody. When Creed escaped, all the X-Men went after him immediately, and he took them all out one by one -until he got to Jean. X-Factor outfitted him with a collar to keep his murdering in line. He escapes again and killed or critically injured the XF members. Then The Hound program found him useful but hard to control as well. He's made numerous enemies. Maverick went after him numerous times and lost every exchange except their last one. The girl whose mother he killed tried going after him, and destroying his mind by going into his head. Instead, she's the one who came out damn near a vegetable after being in there. Then there's him fooling Weapon X into thinking he was a loyal agent and outsmarting the organization at every turn.
That's Sabretooth for me. A dangerous man who is not taken lightly. Not only is he powerful, but he's smart.
The wrong Sabretooth is the one we've been getting the bulk of the last 15 years. The one who's a moron and sometimes lacks even common sense. The one who doesn't know how to hunt & can't make plans. The one Wolverine laughs in the face of, and treats like an annoyance, even asking Creed when he's ever been a threat to anyone. The Sabretooth who loses any fight he's ever in, and has had his ass kicked in 5 sec, by damn near every Wolverine we have. The Sabretooth we have now seems like a Mad Tv parody of the old one.