Remember that time when Deadpool killed a whale? Well, the story goes something like this…
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<p>Deadpool, having realised the fictional nature of his world’s existence, decides to eliminate the problem at the source in the graphic novel Deadpool Killustrated. For him to erase the problem(s) he faces, Deadpool travels through the Nexus of All Realities to the Ideaverse, to the realm of the Classics, to kill the ideas that in time give birth to the Marvel Universe. As stories beget stories, by eliminating the source materials, specifically the source characters, Deadpool is in a way ensuring the elimination of the multiverse as well as his own fictional existence. Among source materials such as Don Quixote, Sherlock Holmes, Tom Sawyer, Dracula,</p><p>Frankenstein, is of course Moby Dick. This presentation, therefore, aims to explore the representation of Melville’s Moby Dick in Deadpool Killustrated, attempting to comprehend how the image of the white whale provides inspiration as source material for the Marvel Multiverse.</p>