# So when Francis was turning Wade into Deadpool ...

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**Created:** [January 28, 2019, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-francis-was-turning-wade-into-deadpool/828528 "2019-01-28T04:56:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-francis-was-turning-wade-into-deadpool/828528/1 "2019-01-28T04:56:08Z")

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… who was Wade’s roommate in the next bed and why was he in the torture chamber himself?

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-francis-was-turning-wade-into-deadpool/828528/2 "2019-01-28T05:48:32Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-francis-was-turning-wade-into-deadpool/828528/3 "2019-01-28T06:01:16Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-francis-was-turning-wade-into-deadpool/828528/4 "2019-01-28T06:06:00Z")

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> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#):
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> … who was Wade’s roommate in the next bed and why was he in the torture chamber himself?

[This guy?](https://xmenmovies.fandom.com/wiki/David_Cunningham)

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**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-francis-was-turning-wade-into-deadpool/828528/5 "2019-01-28T06:12:00Z")

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> [@DPRK](#):
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> [This guy?](https://xmenmovies.fandom.com/wiki/David_Cunningham)

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.

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**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-when-francis-was-turning-wade-into-deadpool/828528/6 "2019-01-28T23:51:37Z")

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> [@DPRK](#):
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> [This guy?](https://xmenmovies.fandom.com/wiki/David_Cunningham)

We have a winner!

Thanks DPRK.