Weasel (comics)
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Weasel is a fictional character who appears in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Mark Waid and Ian Churchill, he first appeared in Deadpool Ltd. Series 1, #1 (August 1994). Weasel is a friend, sidekick, and arms dealer for Deadpool. Although Weasel is perhaps Deadpool's best friend, Deadpool, because of his frequent mood swings and tenuous mental state, still often abuses or mistreats Weasel.
[edit] Fictional character biography
Weasel was once a bright young lad attending the same high school as Peter Parker. Weasel, then known by his birth name of Jack Hammer, was competing with Parker for a prestigious job under the wing of Norman Osborn. Meanwhile, in the future, Deadpool accidentally teleported into the past during a fight with the Great Lakes Avengers. There, he found Jack Hammer and, disguised as Peter Parker, related to Norman Osborn false information about Jack Hammer being a drug user. His employment opportunity thus ruined, Hammer was manipulated by the disguised Deadpool into fixing his teleportation belt. With the gadget fixed, Deadpool returned to the future, leaving a depressed and drunken young Hammer with a new career option - crime.[1]
From that point on, Hammer adopted the name of Weasel and turned to a life consisting of providing weapons and other technological devices to mercenaries and criminals, sometimes partaking in mercenary activities himself. It is during this period that Weasel first met Deadpool, who was working for a crime lord named Tolliver. Weasel was hired to supply arms to Deadpool and eventually came to an uneasy friendship with him. After Tolliver's apparent death, the two stayed together[2], and came to work at the Hellhouse[3], a hotbed of mercenary activity in Chicago where jobs were dispensed to those willing to take them. Deadpool, due to his prowess and cold heart, came to be feared and respected there, but often butted heads with another powerful mercenary, T-Ray. T-Ray decided to organize a showdown with Deadpool and told Weasel to relay that information to Deadpool.[4] In an effort to get in touch with his friend before the appointed showdown time, Weasel teleported to Deadpool's San Francisco home - a definite no-no. He was shooed out by Deadpool's friend/prisoner Blind Al, but when Weasel later returned, Deadpool discovered him there and locked both him and Blind Al in the Box, a dark room so filled with sharp objects and instruments of torture that movement is almost impossible. This latest abuse was the breaking point - Weasel decided to move on and left Deadpool after escaping from the Box, hoping to define his life outside of his association with Deadpool.
Fate had other designs, however. After Deadpool's death and subsequent resurrection, Weasel runs into an amnesiac Deadpool. He helps to restore Deadpool's memory and thus restores their friendship before leaving once more. An on-again off-again association between the two occurs after this point, with Deadpool sometimes asking for goods or working with Weasel. However, another breaking point comes when Deadpool stands up for Weasel when he is found hacking into a computer. When Deadpool finds out that Weasel has lied, he refuses to help Weasel and he goes to jail. Weasel decides to atone for this crime by faithfully serving his time, and when he gets out, coincidentally works a job with Deadpool in Rumekistan. With Weasel having served time to appease Deadpool's anger and with Deadpool having Tivo'd all the episodes of Battlestar Galactica during Weasel's stay in jail to make up for his past abuses, the two become fast friends once more.
[edit] Appearances in Other Media
Weasel appears as a non-playable character in the game Marvel Ultimate Alliance, affiliated once again with Deadpool. He is part of a subplot to discover if someone from SHIELD is a traitor. He has special dialogue with Deadpool.
