… who was Wade’s roommate in the next bed and why was he in the torture chamber himself?
My impression was they were all having experiments done to activate the Mutant X gene, then brainwashed into becoming slaves to the rich and powerful.
It’s been a while since I saw the movie, so I don’t remember if he was anyone specific, but that was a Weapon X lab, and the other guy would have been being modified the same way Wade was, for the same purposes.
That’s the guy.
In the movie, he was just in Francis’ mutant making factory, just like Wade - tortured to the point of having any latent mutant abilities activated, or not.
Presumably he’d volunteered, for whatever reason, just as Wade did. Other than that, movie-wise, he was just a sympathetic character for Wade to interact with.
Apparently, per DPRK’s cite above, he was meant to be the comic character Worm, but the movie went a different route, and just killed him.
We have a winner!
Thanks DPRK.