WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Deadpool: The End #1, by Joe Kelly, Mike Hawthorne, Victor Olazaba, Ruth Redmond and VC's Joe Sabino, on sale now.
Deadpool is no stranger to playing both sides of the fence. Just like he could be a hero as easily as a villain, in his dating life, he goes for anyone -- regardless of their sex or gender identity -- and, apparently, regardless of whether they're an Avenger or X-Man. In Deadpool: The End, the Merc with a Mouth gives new meaning to the name as he wakes up with Captain Marvel one morning... and Iceman another!
For those not familiar, Marvel's The End stories take place in an alternate timeline where even the most immortal of heroes can receive a fitting death. For Deadpool: The End, there could never be one end that was quite good enough, and so the title instead shifts through several possible sendoffs for the mouthy mercenary. In one, he dies fighting at Wolverine's side, both of their healing factors overtaxed, and in another, he saves Miami from an apocalyptic disaster before partying the rest of his life away.
But in two of the best timelines, Deadpool wakes up with a silhouetted figure. His skin condition is completely gone (he even looks handsome) and it's clear from the dialogue he's living in blissful happiness. But an alarm goes off alerting both Deadpool and his lover to an emergency, and they both costume up as they exchange banter. The twist the first time the scene takes place is that the silhouette was actually Carol Danvers, and when the scene plays out a second time (with different dialogue) it turns out to be Iceman.
In both instances, Deadpool can't help but make a joke out of the word "assemble" as he exclaims the Avengers' rallying cry, but what's so great about both scenes is just how happy Deadpool seems. For such a comic character, he most often has a tragic sense of sadness.
And of course, it's a definite win for normalizing diverse relationships as Deadpool proves himself equally happy living with either a man or a woman. The character's canonical pansexuality in the comics is something the Deadpool movies have yet to feature, though Deadpool 2 did receive praise for becoming the first major superhero movie to include a prominent same-sex couple.
Although neither relationship shown in Deadpool: The End seems all that likely to occur in the main 616 timelines -- given that neither Carol Danvers or Bobby Drake is particularly fond of Wade Wilson -- it's still nice to know that there are worlds out there where all these characters can keep fighting the good fight and actually be happy while they do it.