Why doesn't his face heal ? - Deadpool (2016) Discussion

[–] Xaeden 8 years ago

It's not just his face. His whole body is like that and his healing ability is the cause of his appearance. The concept, in a nutshell, is that his healing ability not only works on his normal cells but his cancerous cells as well. As a result, his healing allowed his cancer to spread throughout his whole body and it rapidly heals any damage done to it while also working on his normal cells so, despite that, the super healing cancer doesn't kill him.

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[–] MyDarkStar 8 years ago

Thanks for the response. I'm still a little confused as to why the normal cells in his face don't heal.

It sounds like you're saying the cancer spread to his face and so the healing process was able to kill those cells but his face now is permanently like that because it's all dead cancer cells...?

I dunno. I'm probably totally wrong.

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[–] Asteri-Atypical 8 years ago

No, the point is that the cancer cells, are super-regenerating, just as his normal cells are. So they're in a tug-of-war, so to speak, to take over his body. The cancer spread throughout his body, but because he has super-healing, the function of his healthy cells still keeps him alive.

It's a little tricky to explain just how it would work, EXACTLY, but the notion just boils down to his cancer cells being as accelerated as his healthy cells, so whenever his face heals from damage, for instance, BOTH the healthy and cancerous cells rebuild it.

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[–] billysimons-17148 8 years ago

Also, what makes Deadpool ultimately unique, he cannot be cloned (Kree war).

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[–] haxemon 8 years ago

There's no in-film answer given to us (yet), but I think the general theory is that the combination of the procedure to force his powers to "activate" and the powers themselves have put his body into a state of eternal flux. It's almost like his cancer is in overdrive but his healing power is still "winning". So that his body looks like the cancer has ravaged him but he's still alive.

Often with characters that are immortal (vampires) or have healing etc., the rationale is that they're constantly getting rebooted to their ideal DNA or to the stage they were at when they got the power. Hence why in comics or books they typically look mid-20s or so maybe with the odd exception (grey hairs, some crows feet etc). They've avoided that trope here and got for a much more "be careful what you wish for" sort of approach. So he's alive and (essentially) immortal but he doesn't get some ideal Greek god appearance.

It's partly to make the character a little unique and also sort of more realistic. Despite the fact that he looks like a rotten avocado, his skin isn't really "unhealthy". A normal person would consider it an issue of course as it would likely be a symptom of a more worrisome issue, but he's essentially just a pruney and gross - but otherwise healthy - person.

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[–] J_Howlett1886 8 years ago

Because the procedure made his cancer heal as fast as anything else so his healing factor attacks the damaging effects, but because the cancer was also affected it's spread all over him and can't be defeated

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[–] DocOfTheDead 8 years ago

I think also, that the reason it didn't "cure" the cancer is because he had it previously, before he was injected with the serum. His body only heals/regenerates what happens after the injection

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