In Venom War: Deadpool #2 by Cullen Bunn and Rob Di Salvo, Deadpool and Princess are fighting hordes of undead symbiotes (called zombiotes) alongside a small strike-force consisting entirely of monsters. In a previous story arc, Deadpool was made the King of Monsters in their underground city of Monster Metropolis. And now, Deadpool has called upon his former allies to battle the zombiotes that are threatening New York City - and the entire world. However, Deadpool quickly learns that the zombiotes don’t pose as much of a threat as one of his monster-recruits: Poison.

Poison aka Jimmy Hudson is Wolverine’s son from the original Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610), and after he jumped over into Earth-616, he was infected by an alien parasite similar to a symbiote (called Poison), which turned him into a monster - and this issue shows his breaking point. Poison loses his mind while fighting the zombiotes, and decides that every monster around him deserves to die. Poison lashes out at his allies, including Princess, landing a potentially fatal blow. So, in order to save herself, Princess bonds with her father, Deadpool, turning them both into an all-new hero: Princess Deadpool.

Princess Deadpool has the appearance of a classic ‘Venomized’ character, but with one key difference: wolf-like features. Princess takes the form of a dog when she’s without a host, and those features remain when she’s bonded with Deadpool, making Princess Deadpool look much more vicious and deadly.

Who Is Princess? Deadpool’s Dog-Like Symbiote Daughter, Explained

Princess was ‘Born’ in Deadpool Vol. 9 #1

While the fact that Deadpool has gotten an all-new symbiote alter ego - complete with an official name and costume - is extremely exciting, it’s important to know about the symbiote Wade Wilson bonded with herself. As previously mentioned, Princess is the ‘child’ of Deadpool and Carnage. When Harrower took a dying piece of symbiote from the corpse of Carnage following the events of Absolute Carnage, she implanted it within Deadpool. That piece of the Carnage symbiote gestated inside Wade, and when it was fully formed, it burst from his chest like a Xenomorph from Alien.

While Harrower was trying to resurrect a new version of Carnage that was loyal to only her (and not the King in Black), she greatly underestimated Deadpool’s influence on the symbiote. It didn’t just use Wade’s healing factor to grow into a new, independent life form, it also incorporated aspects of Deadpool himself, making the symbiote fiercely loyal to her ‘father’. And what made the symbiote’s loyalty to Deadpool even stronger was Deadpool’s immediate and complete acceptance of her. Deadpool didn’t view the symbiote as a horrific alien parasite, he saw her as his legitimate daughter.

Soon afterward, Deadpool’s ‘Carnage’ symbiote adopted the name Princess, and took the form of a giant red dog. During the events of Deadpool Vol. 10 (the current Deadpool comic run), Princess becomes an official member of Deadpool’s team alongside his other daughter, Ellie, and Taskmaster. Readers see that in this issue of Venom War: Deadpool, as Princess is fighting right alongside her father against hordes of zombiotes. And Deadpool proves his love for her once again by bonding with Princess to save her life, and getting a pretty sweet upgrade as a result.

‘Princess Deadpool’ isn’t the Merc with a Mouth’s First Symbiote Alter Ego

Deadpool also Wore the Venom Symbiote to Become Venompool

Princess Deadpool is a brand-new symbiote alter ego for Deadpool, one that pushes the boundaries of how badass a ‘Venomized’ character can be with the incorporation of wolf-like characteristics and the immensely strong bond that’s been established between symbiote and host. However, while this might be Deadpool’s latest ‘Venomized’ form, it’s certainly not his first. In fact, Deadpool once wore the Venom symbiote itself to become the iconic Venompool, whose appearance incorporated Deadpool’s costume (including and especially the red color) with the classic Venom design.

Venompool was first introduced in a What If…? comic, but has since become his own character who exists in a separate universe. That means Venompool isn’t just a hypothetical mashup, he’s an actual Deadpool variant. Because of that, Venompool has made a number of appearances throughout Marvel Comics - most notably, any story that involves the multiversal Deadpool Corps. Does that mean it’s possible that Venompool and Princess Deadpool could meet in a future storyline, and even battle? While it might be a long shot, it’s definitely possible, and it would make Deadpool’s latest symbiote upgrade even cooler.

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Regardless of whether Princess Deadpool will get the chance to fight their other ‘Venomized’ alter ego, Venompool, this new amalgam hero stands on their own as being truly awesome. Even with just the brief appearance fans got in Venom War: Deadpool #2, that much has been made abundantly clear with just the codename and costume of this badass Deadpool/Carnage hero.

Venom War: Deadpool #2 by Marvel Comics is available now.

Deadpool

Alias

Wade Wilson

Created By

Fabian Nicieza, Rob Liefeld

POWERS

Healing factor, regeneration, superhuman strength and agility,

Franchise

Marvel

Birthday

November 22

Height

6'2”

The merc with the mouth first appeared in an issue of New Mutants in 1990, and since then has gone on to get his own series and a massive cult following. With his incredible powers of healing and regeneration, Deadpool was initially depicted as an X-Men villain but went on to become an anti-hero. After getting his own movie series starting in 2016, the third Deadpool movie finally brings the wisecracking, fourth-wall-breaking character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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