In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Deadpool this month, we're doing a countdown of your favorite Deadpool stories of all-time.

You all voted, now here are the results of what you chose as the 25 Greatest Deadpool Stories!

Enjoy!

20. "Bosom Buddies" Cable and Deadpool #20-23

Perhaps more so than any other arc of Cable and Deadpool, Bosom Buddies accurately captured the sort of complex and thoughtful while goofy and action-packed approach that Fabian Nicieza brought to Cable and Deadpool. This arc, drawn by Patrick Zircher and David Ross, was basically a caper plot, as someone hires Deadpool to steal some powerful device, but there are other mercenaries who are also trying to steal it and heroes trying to keep it from being stolen and Cable is in there, playing all sides against the middle. It's just a wonderfully well-thought and hilarious story arc. I also love how the first issue of the story opens up, including the recap page...









19. "Head Trip" Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth #1-13

I figure it's fair enough to count this series as one big story. Anyhow, it all started when Deadpool was sent to the Savage Land to recover a bio-weapon. He met his contact, AIM scientist Dr. Betty, in the Savage Land. The bioweapon turns out to be a zombiefied Deadpool head from another dimension. Hydra agents show up, also looking for the bioweapon and all heck breaks loose...









Victor Gischler and Bong Dazo delivered thirteen issues of bizarre, madcap adventures involving a man and his zombified head.

18. "Payback" Deadpool #18-19

Joe Kelly, Walter McDaniel and Livesay delivered this action-packed resolution of a long-running subplot, where an old nemesis of Deadpool has become the killer known as Ajax and had been hunting Deadpool for a number of issues. In the 1998 Deadpool Annual, he succeeds in killing Deadpool, but then Deadpool came back from the dead and he wants, well, you know. The thing is, once Ajax figured out he was alive, Ajax went right back to hunting him and this time, Deadpool might be getting innocents involved in his mess...









Go to the next page for #17-14!

17. "Hawkeye vs. Deadpool" Hawkeye vs. Deadpool #0-4

Gerry Duggan got to play in Matt Fraction's Hawkeye world for a little bit with this fun mini-series with artwork by

Matteo Lolli, Jacopo Camagni and Cristiane Peter. Duggan clearly got a kick out of playing in this world and he does well by Clint and Kate...









16. "The Wedding of Deadpool" Deadpool (Volume 3) #27

Gerry Duggan, Brian Posehn and Mike Hawthorne surprised the comics world by actually having Deadpool get married to Shiklah, a vampire. The main event was a clever, endearing affair with just the right amount of edge to it - sort of like Duggan and Posehn's run in general...









15. "The Burnt Offering" Cable and Deadpool #7-10

In this story arc, Cable has taken on an almost messianic state as he has set up his own floating island sanctuary and has warned the world that he is prepared to get rid of all of the world's weapons. Things start to get really frazzled and the X-Men decide to get involved, enlisting Deadpool to help them...in his own odd way...









However, Deadpool might not be as closely aligned with the X-Men as he suggests. But does Cable even WANT his help? In a story filled with twists and great usages of minor characters like the Constricter, Solo and Anaconda (working as part of a new Six Pack), Fabian Nicieza, Patrick Zircher (and a bunch of inkers) put together a very compelling story with a lot of laughs as well as a lot of heart

14. "Madcapped!" Deadpool 2013 Annual #1

For a while there, Deadpool had a voice in his head that he would have a dialogue with. It was a pretty effective tool to break the fourth wall without literally breaking the fourth wall. When Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn rebooted Deadpool in 2013, however, they got rid of this other voice. And in the annual from that year, writers Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, along with artist Doc Shaner, explained just WHO that other voice was - it was Madcap, who had been merged with Deadpool for all this time!









This was a surreal but fun story with great artwork.

Go to the next page for #13-11!

13. "The Drowning Man"/"Fallout" Deadpool (Volume 1) #12-14

All throughout the first year of Joe Kelly's run on Deadpool, Deadpool had had the nemesis known as T-Ray, who has a real mad on for ol' Deadpool. Well, in The Drowning Man, T-Ray finally reveals his plan and it is a twisted one. He uses Typhoid Mary to trick Deadpool into thinking that Siryn, who Deadpool has sort of placed on a pedestal as his ideal woman, has slept with Deadpool. He then has Mary reveal that nope, it was her all along. He then challenges Deadpool to a duel later that day. Deadpool heads home in a rage, and this is where Joe Kelly's Deadpool really stood out - he was not afraid to get daaaaaaaaaaaark. Throughout the series, we knew that Deadpool had Blind Al as his "prisoner," but in this issue, we actually see that side of the relationship, only now Deadpool's friend, Weasel, is sucked in as well...









T-Ray nearly kills Deadpool, but being sent to his lowest point allows Deadpool to finally show some sign of being a hero for the first time just because he wants to be a better man and not because it is easy. The art was by Shannon Denton, Pete Woods, Walter McDaniel, Nathan Massengill and Anibal Rodriguez.

12. "Bullseye" Deadpool (Volume 2) #10-12

Deadpool believes that Norman Obsorn has screwed him over from some stuff from early in the series, so he causes some trouble for Osborn, leading to Osborn sending Bullseye (then known as the Dark Avenger Hawkeye) to kill Deadpool. What follows is essentially a three-parter (with great Paco Medina/Juan Vlasco art) that takes the whole Coyote/Roadrunner/Spy vs. Spy approach to a comic book grudge match between Deadpool and Bullseye. It is likely the highlight of Daniel Way's run on Deadpool.









That's EVERY issue! It gets even MORE over the top than that!!

11. "Sins of the Past" Deadpool #1-4 (1994 mini-series)

Mark Waid, Ian Churchill, Ken Lashley and about four dozen inkers combined to tell this story that first established Siryn as a love interest for Deadpool (which was so out of left field when it happened but ended up really kind of working) and had Black Tom and Juggernaut as the villains.

Waid being Waid, he couldn't help but do some excellent work in humanizing Deadpool through Siryn, including this awesome scene where he loses his mask in battle...









Waid put a lot here that Joe Kelly picked up on for his epic ongoing run on Deadpool a few years later.